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Course detail: The Small Town in Kansas: The Interminable Struggle for Survival
The historical geography of small towns in Kansas reveals that their struggles for economic viability are not of recent origin but began shortly after settlement. Climatic misconceptions, ineffectual land alienation laws, and the townsite activities of railroads led to over settlement and the creation of too many towns. The platting of new towns continued well into the twentieth century despite depopulation, the abandonment of rail lines and their towns, and transformative technologies in transportation and agricultural mechanization. Various survival strategies implemented recently have had only limited success leaving an increasingly conservative culture in their wake.
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Instructor Bio: Tom Schmiedeler, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of geography at Washburn University.
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