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WICHITA , about 165 miles southwest
of Lawrence on I-35, is the largest city in Kansas, severed by
the Arkansas River, which forks just north of downtown into the
Big and Little Arkansas rivers (incidentally, Kansans take umbrage
if you pronounce it "Arkansaw"; pronounce it here the
way it is spelled). Originally settled by the Wichita Indians,
who by 1865 had been relocated to Oklahoman Indian Territory,
Wichita grew up as a stop on the Chisholm Trail, a Texas-to-Kansas
cattle route celebrated in frontier lore and cowboy ballads. Its
glory days were to be short-lived, however, as farmers, angry
about the damage done by stampeding cattle, erected fences which
forced the drives onto different trails further west, creating
new cowtowns such as Dodge City. Today three of the world's major
aircraft manufacturers (Cessna, Raytheon and Learjet) are based
here, and the city, already with a rich arts scene, has been invigorated
with a downtown revival.
The City
Downtown Wichita is enlivened mainly by the public art and sculpture
that pops up unexpectedly all over the place, in empty lots and
even in tree stumps. The exceptional Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical
Museum , 204 S Main St (Tues-Fri...
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