Click here for a guide, with references to the pages in the book that each feature is described on. 
The pages of the guide are formatted so that if they are printed front-to-back you can stack and fold them in half to create a handy-sized booklet.

Here is a version formatted for single-side printing.

Here is a special Google Map of the area
with some highlighted sites from the tour.

Jim was interviewed about Wichita's Riverside Parks
for the KPTS program ImpaCT shown on
Thursday evening, May 5, 2011. 
The interview may be seen online here. 
The interview begins at 6:15 on the timeline.

Jim was also featured in an ImpaCT interview on Thursday, April 18, 2013.  This time the subject was Wichita's railroads and street cars and the Arkansas Valley Interurban, an electric-powered passenger rail line that once connected Wichita with Newton and Hutchinson.  The interview may be seen online here.

• Sanborn Maps of Wichita, in color, for the following years:
  1884, 1889, 1887, 1892, 1897, 1903 & 1914

• Transcriptions of the Wichita City Directories for these years:
  1877, 1878, 1881, 1883, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1894, 1902 & 1904-05

• The Tihen Notes: Dr. Edward Tihen's personal summary of articles of local historical interest in the Wichita Eagle and Beacon from 1872- 1982

• Historic Photos of Wichita - from the collections of the Wichita Public Library, Wichita/Sedgwick County Historical Museum and Wichita State University Library Special Collections

• The Wichita Eagle online: Scans of the newspaper from 1872 - 1903, with word search capability.  Similar versions of several other Kansas newspapers may be found here also.

• Sedgwick County census documents for 1870, 1880, 1900 & 1910, as well as old photos and other historic images.

• Browse the remarkable book The Magic City. Wichita Picturesque and Descriptive, from 1889.

Upcoming Author Events

• Thursday, August 15, 6:30 PM – author event at
Riverview Neighborhood Association