Gift of The People of the United Stafa, Through the Victory Book Campaign CLA To the land forces and i ine KD13616 HARVAR LIBRARY Copyright A. C. McClurg & Co. 1916 Published November, 1916 New and revised edition W. F. HALL PRINTING COMPANY, CHICAGO Acknowledgments I am indebted to Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, and to Mitchell Kennerley of New York City for permission to use Lindsay's Kansas from The Forum and from Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. To Smart Set for Harry Kemp's Kansas and London, and for my poem, Manhood. To Harper's Weekly for my Sunflowers. To The Independent for my Carrie Nation. To Mr. A. G. Allerton of Hamlin, Kansas, I owe permission to use the poems of Ellen P. Allerton. Mr. Charles H. Manley of Junction City, Kansas, has allowed the use of the poems of Amanda T. Jones, all four of which originally appeared in the Century Magazine. I use Funston by James J. Montague as it originally appeared in the New York American. To C. L. Edson I am indebted for sixteen poems from The Kansas City Star and The New York Evening Mail; to the American Magazine for Edson's The Promise of Bread. My own Kansas verse has appeared in The University Kansan, The Graduate Magazine, The Journal-World, The Topeka Capital, and The Springfield Republican. W. W. |