Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Grandmother
2. “Is It Time to Pray Now, Mama?”
3. Centennial
4. “Rock Chalk, Jayhawk!”
5. A “Jerkwater Town”?
6. “Jesus Wept”
7. The Tragedies
8. “Fear Itself”—The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl
9. “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy”
10. The Postwar Period—Triumph and Travail
11. Life on Main Street
12. “Bringing in the Sheaves”
13. Shank’s Mare to Silicon Valley—The March of Technology
14. “Land of the Underground Rain”
15. Grass to Grass—The Buffalo
16. The Neighbors—Atwood and Colby
17. McDonald—“The Will of the People”
Index