"Topeka" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Missouri River, was on the site of the present town of Sibley, where the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa ...
— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman
... The proslavery towns were Atchison, Leavenworth, Lecompton, Kickapoo. The antislavery towns were Lawrence, Topeka, Manhattan, ...
— A School History of the United States • John Bach McMaster
... "Run up to Topeka and see Baker—he's the sales manager of the Holstein Breeders' Association. Let him take charge of it all—he's a straight fellow. He'll charge you enough—fifteen per cent of the gross receipts, but then he'll see to it that the people who want ...
— Dust • Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
... the setting of the sun, the caravan halted on the site of the present capital of the State, Topeka. The patient oxen, wearied with the twenty miles they had traveled, were permitted to graze. The ten baggage wagons or "ships of the plain," as they were sometimes called—came to anchor in a sea of verdure. They ...
— The Young Adventurer - or Tom's Trip Across the Plains • Horatio Alger
... began the "Great Wall," which he did not live to finish. It was finished 204 B.C., ten years after it was begun. When finished, it was not less than fifteen hundred miles in length. It would reach "from Philadelphia to Topeka, or from Portugal to Naples." The innovations and maxims of government of Che Hwang-te were offensive to the scholars and the conservative class, who pointed the people to the heroes of the feudal days and to the glories ...
— Outline of Universal History • George Park Fisher
... that one day when at my worst I could not work nor concentrate my mind on anything. I chanced to be in Topeka, Kansas, and passed a shooting gallery. I was a good rifle shot and I had been taking long walks and shooting Kansas jack rabbits. I went in, picked up one of the rifles, and started firing at the biggest target. I rang the bell twice on that target in succession, ...
— How to Eat - A Cure for "Nerves" • Thomas Clark Hinkle |
