Abstract

What goal would provide you with sufficient motivation to travel several hundred miles into unknown territory on foot, without the luxury of well-marked roads or motels and restaurants at predictable intervals along the way?

Keywords:

• Pioneer Bluffs,
• territory,
• immigrants,
• European,
• Kansas Territory,
• Charles Rogler,
• Henry Brandley,
• antislavery,
• proslavery,
• People of the South Wind,
• Chase County,
• Asch,
• Bazaar,
• Cottonwood River,
• Starving Kansas,
• Land of Famine,
• drought,
• Kansas State Agricultural College,
• Maud Sauble,
• family,
• farm,
• K-State,
• Flint Hills Scenic Byway,
• Matfield Green,
• Mary Satchell Rogler