Kansas is a Midwestern state in the central region of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the American "Heartland".
It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa tribe, who inhabited the area.
The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south wind".

Historically, the area was home to large numbers of nomadic Native Americans that hunted bison. It was first settled by European Americans in the 1830s,
but the pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s.

After the Civil War, many veterans constructed homesteads in Kansas. Many African Americans also looked to Kansas as the land of "John Brown," and led by men like Benjamin
"Pap" Singleton began establishing black colonies in the state. At the same time, the Chisholm Trail was opened and the Wild West era commenced in Kansas. Wild Bill Hickok was a deputy marshal at Fort Riley and a marshal at Hays and Abilene. Dodge City was another wild cowboy town, and both Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp worked as lawmen in the town.

Edward and his family, my hosts in Kansas, live in Andover a small town in the Wichita metropolitan area. Andover is well-known because of the tornado that hit the city in 1991, but luckily, during my whole stay, the weather was quite mild, so I didn't run any risk of flying away.... Edward took me to visit Wichita, which is a big town with many interesting things to discover.