KS - a state in midwestern United StatesChisholm Trail - a former cattle trail from San Antonio in Texas to Abilene in Kansas; not used after the 1880s Middle West, Midwest - the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America) Dodge City - a town of southwestern Kansas on the Arkansas River; formerly a rowdy cow town Abilene - a town in central Kansas west of Topeka; home of Dwight D. Eisenhower Hays - a town in central Kansas Kansas City - a city of northeast Kansas on the Missouri River adjacent to Kansas City, Missouri Lawrence - a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856 Salina - a town in central Kansas Wichita - the largest city in Kansas; located in southern Kansas on the Arkansas River Arkansas River, Arkansas - a river that rises in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and flows southeast through Kansas and Oklahoma and through Arkansas to become a tributary of the Mississippi River Neosho, Neosho River - a river that rises in eastern Kansas and flows eastward into Oklahoma to become a tributary of the Arkansas River Republican River, Republican - a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas |