"Kaw" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a Kansan from away beyond the Kaw, and I reckon I'm a diamond pure without the slightest flaw! Sure! A genuine prairie-dog from the short-grass country couldn't chatter more like a Westerner than that. That would fool Badger himself. ...
— Frank Merriwell's Reward • Burt L. Standish
... landed about midnight. We came by train. Then there was nothing but little huts in the bottoms. The Santa Fe depot didn't amount to anything. The Armours' Packing house was even smaller than that. There was a swinging bridge over the river. The Kaw Valley was considered good-for-nothing, but to raise hemp. There was an awful lot of it grown there though, and there were also beavers in the Kaw River, and they used to cut down trees to build their dams. I worked several years and in 1880 I came ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - From Interviews with Former Slaves - Kansas Narratives • Works Projects Administration
... talsa stlay lam Ta ay-e lalam, osthayte kwawmkwum Owita 'kie osthayte kwawmkwum, Ta ay-e lalam lay hi 'kaw-'kie. ...
— Indian Methodist Hymn-book • Various
... pony and dashed off. We watched him ride away down the long slope. In a few moments another horseman joined him, and they took the trail toward the Kaw reservation. It was Father Le Claire riding with the Indian into the gathering shadows ...
— The Price of the Prairie - A Story of Kansas • Margaret Hill McCarter |
