Less than a decade after the Wright Brothers, a man named Albin Longren built and flew his own airplane in Kansas.

The capital of Kansas, Topeka was given its name from a man named Joseph James, Jr. who was of Native American and European descent. Nobody knows for sure what Topeka means, but James Jr. told them it meant “a good place to grow potatoes”.

Susanna Salter was elected as the first female mayor of any town/city decades before women could even vote in 1887. As mayor of Argonia, Kansas she was met with some opposition to those who did not want “petticoat rule”. She did not seek re-election by the time her turn was over.

Kansas is named after the Kansas river which is named after the local Native American tribe of the Kansa people. The Kansa name is suppose to mean “people of the wind”.