Max
made new friends and visited with good friends when he kicked off the Pittsburg
Public Library adult summer reading program, "Laughing it up at the Library,"
June 2, 2003.
A
stately steer stares from the city park, Independence
Big
Brutus
was built on-site near West Mineral, KS, to dig coal. It is 160' tall and weighs
11,000,000 pounds. It is no longer in use, but is a tourist attraction. One
mighty scoop from Big Brutus once filled 3 railroad coal cars!
Map
of Ingalls' family travels and trail of stories written by Laura
Ingalls Wilder.
Ingalls'
home on the prairie, a reproduction built on the actual site. Above:
interior and exterior.
Located
between Caney and Independence, KS, about one and a half miles off of U.S.
Highway 75 is Wayside, KS