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From the time of the town's founding in 1870 to the present,
the area in Wichita near the junction of the Arkansas and Little Arkansas Rivers
known as Riverside has been a focus of the city's social and recreational life.
Wichita's
Riverside Parks illuminates the history of
this area and shows the changes it has seen over the decades.
The history of
Wonderland Park, the
Riverside Park cannons
and the
Boy With a Boot Fountain are featured in the book!
Coming September 10, 2012!
Coming September 10, 2012!
Jim's new book on Wichita history,
illustrated with vintage picture postcards.
Take a driving tour of Wichita's
Historic
Downtown Parks!
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 the book 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. |
Cool Historical Links
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Sanborn Maps of Wichita, in color, for the following years:
1884, 1889, 1887, 1892, 1897, 1903 & 1914
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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
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The Tihen Notes: Dr. Edward Tihen's personal summary of articles of
local historical interest in the Wichita Eagle and Beacon from 1872- 1982
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Historic Photos of
Wichita - from the collections of the Wichita Public Library,
Wichita/Sedgwick County Historical Museum and Wichita State University
Library Special Collections
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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.
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Sedgwick County census documents for 1870, 1880, 1900 & 1910, as well
as old photos and other historic images.
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Browse the remarkable book
The Magic City. Wichita
Picturesque and Descriptive, from 1889.
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Wichita's Riverside Parks is
available at these local retailers:
Wichita's Riverside Parks
is also available as an iBook

Visit the Arcadia Publishing web page for the book
Email the author |