John J. Ingalls on Kansas. I think he shot prairie chicken with a double so we can stay on topic
"Kansas has been the testing ground for every experiment in morals, politics, and social life. Doubt of all existing institutions has been respectable. Nothing has been venerated or revered merely because it exists or has endured. Prohibition, female suffrage, fiat money, free silver, every incoherent and fantastic dream of social improvement and reform, every economic delusion that has bewildered the foggy brain of fanatics, every political fallacy nurtured by misfortune, poverty, and failure, rejected elsewhere, has here found tolerance and advocacy."
More here
http://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1YeFat6AO8K_0g5fqQFQ1lLOabAQ9ZRP8RxdCmmQ3Ct0&pli=1 
