Today is Admission Day for Kansas, our 34th state, admitted to the Union on January 29th, 1861.

Kansas, a state that I’ve not yet visited, is smack dab in the middle of the country, and is, in fact, home to the geographical center of the contiguous United States.  Its capital city is Topeka, and its largest is Wichita.

Kansas was originally home to large numbers of Native Americans who hunted buffalo on the prairies.  After the Civil War, ...