Originally home to nomadic Native Americans who hunted the vast herds of Bison that roamed the prairies of western Kansas, it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. Government in 1854. As soon as that happened abolitionist Free Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed in to determine if Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. They entered the union as a free state but the violence that erupted between those factions gave it the nickname, "Bleeding Kansas". Those battles were the basis for the western shootouts in Dodge City and other frontier towns. The prairie has now been turned into productive farmland and it is one of our most productive agricultural states leading the nation in wheat, sorghum and sunflower production. This state is equidistant from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans which makes a Kansas retirement perfect if you have children living on both coasts.
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