Chisholm 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)

American state - one of the 50 states of the United States

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

capital of Kansas, Topeka - the capital of the state of Kansas; located in eastern Kansas on the Kansas river

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

Kansas River, Kaw River, Kansas - a river in northeastern Kansas; flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri 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