City of El Dorado, Butler County, Kansas

"Last week a family of emigrants passed through town pulling a hand cart, in which was placed their portable earthly effects. They were all the way from North Carolina and were bound for Sun City, Barbour county."
El Dorado Press, June 26, 1879

Kansas Chautauqua, June 2008

Butler County KS Web Sites

• Brainerd (Kevin Roe)
• El Dorado Official Site
• Leon
• Prairie Winds Brownie Troop #152
• Towanda
• Butler County, BlueSkyways
• El Dorado Chamber of Commerce

Art and Theater

• Artists In Kansas Kansas Art Centers, Kansas Art Galleries, Kansas Art Museums
• Beats In Kansas The Beat Generation in the Heartland
• William Burroughs Photo Gallery
• Cooking In Kansas KS Recipes, cowboy, pioneer cooking, hamburger history
• E. B. White Gallery, Butler Community College, Eldorado

Events and Festivals

• Kansas Art Events
• Kansas Sampler Festival, Sat. 10 AM - 5 PM; Sun. 10 AM - 4 PM, May 3 & 4, 2008Concordia
• 47th Annual Art in the Park Lawrence Art Guide juried show features fine art/fine craft from more than 150 artists. The day is filled with live band performances, children's art activities; Sunday, May 4, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.; South Park, 12th and Mass. St., Lawrence

History Groups

• Kansas State Historical Society
• State and National

History Web Directories

• Kansas Heritage Group Web Sites
• Kansas History Web Sites Directory
• Kansas Official History Site

Humanities

• Kansas Humanities Council

Libraries

• Bradford Memorial Library, El Dorado
• L.W. Nixon Library, Butler Community College, El Dorado
• Kansas History Resources
  KS Genealogy, Groups, Libraries, Museums
• WWW-VL: Web Stacks: Electronic Research Library

WWW-VL: United States History

• Kansas History Gateway Lynn H. Nelson, Established 1993
• USA History Maps
• Kansas Timeline
• WWW-VL: History: American West History: The expansion of America's West; Old West history
• WWW-VL: History: Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo) History (for all the Bosnian Kansas friends)
• >WWW-VL: History: Internet & W3 History of the internet and the worldwideweb
• WWW-VL: History of Science & Technology

Museums

• Kansas Oil Museum, El Dorado
• Towanda Area Historical Museum, Towanda
• Southwest Pueblo Pottery Holmes Anthropology Museum, WSU, Wichita
• Kansas Museums
• WWW-VL: History US History Museums

Newspapers

• El Dorado Times

Website Tools

• WWW-VL: History: W3 Search Engines Internet search engines worldwide,
  search engine tips, website tools, virus and spyware protection

Government

• Butler County Official Site, El Dorado
• State and National

Schools and Colleges

• USD 490 El Dorado Public Schools
• El Dorado High School
• Butler Community College, El Dorado, KS

Virtual Colleges

• EduKan Western Kansas Community Colleges
• Fort Hays State University Virtual College
• Kansas State University Div. of Continuing Ed.

Genealogy

• Butler County KSGenWeb
• Kansas Genealogical Society
• Kansas Interactive Genealogy
• Source List for Genealogy Research, Kansas Heritage Group

Family History

• BEADLES [Butler]
• BEADLES (Articles from the Leon Indicator) [Butler]
• BEADLES Family History (Articles from the Leon Indicator) [Butler]
• BRUNER [Butler]
• PALMER [Butler]
• Family History (all with Kansas ties)
• Kansas Collection Voices from the Past

Local History

• El Dorado Historic Sites
• Butler County Bibliography, KSHS
• Historical Directory of Kansas Towns (HDKT)
• Augusta, Kansas
• Leon, Kansas
• Racing In Kansas Kansas Racers, Kansas Race Clubs, and Kansas Race Tracks
• Kansas Native Prairie

Maps

• Old Kansas Area Maps Kansas Collection
• Interactive Map of Kansas Kansas Community Network

Old West Kansas

• Old West Kansas, Native tribes to pioneer west, Kansas Heritage Group
• Old West Kansas Cowtowns KS cowboys, cattletowns, pioneers
• Old West Kansas Forts Ft. Leavenworth to Ft. Dodge, KS
• Old West Kansas Gunfighters KS lawmen, outlaws
• Old West Kansas Peoples Immigration to KS
• Old West Kansas Plains and Emigrant Tribes Native Americans (Indians)
• Old West Kansas Railroads
• Old West Kansas Trails

Books and Articles

• AmDocs: Documents for the Study of American History from 1400s to 2000s
• WWW-VL: History First site on the World Wide Web Virtual Library
• WWW-VL: Web Ethics
• Cutler's History of the State of Kansas (1883) (Kansas Collection)
• The Rath Trail (Kansas Collection)

One Room School Houses

• One Room School House Photograph Gallery