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1912 Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence, by Frank W. Blackma
1992 Folktales of the High Plains
2005 Oceans of Kansas: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea by Michael J. Everhart
Bureau of Land Management - land patents
Kansas Secretary of State
Maps of US - provides an interactive map of boundary changes
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National Register of Historic Places
Digital Library of KSGenWeb
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SUMNER COUNTY MUSEUMS

SUMNER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
P.O. Box 402
Wellington, KS 67152
Library/archives/museum collections: Library/archives, Chisholm Trail Museum, 502 North Washington, Wellington: newspaper clippings and publications. Yearly membership is $10 and covers April 1st through March 31st of each year.
Hours: 1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Monday - Sunday.
SUMNER COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
P.O. Box 402
Wellington, Kansas 67152

ARGONIA AND WESTERN SUMNER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
221 West Garfield
Argonia, Kansas 67004
620-435-6990 or 435-6606
Library/archives/museum collections: Salter Museum: 1884 home of America's first woman mayor, Susanna Medora Salter, miscellaneous Salter family artifacts, and community culture.
Hours: by appointment.

CHISHOLM TRAIL MUSEUM
502 North Washington Avenue
Wellington, Kansas 67152
620-326-3820
Library/archives/museum collections: Columbian mammoth skull (in Sumner County Courthouse), domestic life of pioneer Sumner County, family history, cattle trails, prehistoric artifacts, and period rooms.
Hours: 1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Monday - Sunday (summer), variable during winter.

MILAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Milan, Kansas 67105
620-435-6632 or 435-6423
Library/archives/museum collections: Park House Museum, Main Street: local history and original Milan artifacts.
Hours: by appointment.

MULVANE ART MUSEUM
17th and Jewell
Topeka, Kansas 66621 913-231-1010, Ext. 1324
Library/archives/museum collections: nineteenth and twentieth-century American art, seventeenth - twentieth- century European prints, eighteenth -nineteenth-century Japanese fine and decorative arts, contemporary Mountain- Plains regional painting, prints, sculpture and ceramics, and traveling exhibits.
Hours: variable.

MULVANE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
300 West Main
P.O. Box 117
Mulvane, Kansas 67110

Mulvane Public Library, 101 E Main St, Mulvane KS 67110, Phone: 316-777-1211
Mulvane Museum, PO Box 117, Mulvane KS 67110
Mulvane News & Bandwagon, 204 W Main St, Mulvane KS 67110
Senter-Smith Funeral Home, 501 SE Louis Blvd, Mulvane KS 67110

"The Sumner County Story"
by Gwendoline and Paul Sanders
The following names are referenced in "The Sumner County Story".

Alexander || Alley || Atkinson || Ayers
Bates || Beals || Beheiner || Bell || Boatright || Boyer || Burnett || Burrows || Bussard
Cease || Chestnut || Childs || Cleous || Clum || Cooper || Corn || Crewse || Crow || Crum
Dey || Dible || Dorsey || Doramus
Edrington || Ely
Farney || Ferguson
Garrity || Gee
Hackney || Hainsworth || Hembrow || Hess || Hill || Hunt || Hunter
Jackson || Jarboe
Kennedy || Kerley || Kraft
Lamb || Lange || Lawless || Lindsey || Lungren
McCort || McEachern || McManis || Miller || McMillan
Neff
Ordway || Orr || Osburn
Pedigo || Poovey || Pope || Popplewell || Post
Race || Reece || Reese || Rush
Sawyer || Shafer || Sharpsteen || Shetlar || Shoup || Skvor || Stephens || Stewart || Stocking || Strader || Subera || Swan
Tilson || Tompkins || Troutman || Turner
Warner || Wyckoff
Yost

Books Relating to Sumner County

Mayfield Then and Now. Elaine Clark and Sherry Kline. 540 pages of Mayfield and family history, stories, memories, and 752 one-of-a-kind photographs.

The Sumner County Story. (OUT OF PRINT) Sanders, Gwendoline & Sanders, Paul. North Newton: Mennonite Press, 1966. A historical account of the various communities, features, and some people in Sumner Co. It is a "comfortable" book to read--not too heady as some histories can be--but contains little in the way of strictly genealogical data. It does, however, give the reader a feel of life in the various communities and county in general. Click here for the table of contents.

The WPA Guide to 1930's Kansas. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1984 Reprint, p. 461.

Midnight and Noonday, or, The Incidental History of Southern Kansas and the Indian Territory, 1871-1890. G.D. Freeman ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Richard L. Lane, 1st ed. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1984.
Library of Congress Call No.: F687.S9 F73 1984
Dewey No.: 978.1/87 19
ISBN: 080611875X (alk. paper) : $24.95
Originally published: 1890. Includes index.

The History of Sumner County, Kansas (OUT OF PRINT). The Caldwell Messenger. Dallas, Tex. : Curtis Media Corp., 1987.
Library of Congress Call No.: F687.S9 H57 1987
Dewey No.: 978.1/8703 19
ISBN: 0881070963 (v. 1)
Includes index.

Portrait and biographical album of Sumner County, Kansas : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits & biographies of all the governors of the state and the presidents of the United States.
Publication info: Chicago : Chapman bros., 1890.