Cow and Windmill
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Cow and Windmill
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
Trying to decide: should I call this one “Cow and Windmill” or “Windmill and Cow.” These are decisions I have to make…
Kansas is named after the Kansas River, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native Americans who lived along its banks. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison.
The first Euro-American settlement in Kansas occurred in 1827 at Fort Leavenworth. The pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850’s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery debate. When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854 with the Kansas–Nebraska Act, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to determine whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Thus, the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided, and was known as Bleeding Kansas. The abolitionists prevailed, and on January 29, 1861 Kansas entered the Union as a free state, hence the unofficial nickname "The Free State".
Kansas Cow and windmill (or Windmill and Cow, you choose…) photographed along I-70 near Hays, Kansas.
Some digital effects were applied to the original image after the photograph was made. No electrons were harmed during the transition.
Image copyright 2023 Jon Burch Photography
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December 10th, 2023
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