'Kingman County History: Kingman County, Kansas and Its People.' Kingman, KS: Kingman County Historical Society, 1984. Dinotopia is the kind of book that is so easy laugh at at the mere description: two travelers stumble on a hidden island where humans and dinosaurs live. The ethnicity of its settlers is unknown. His work has been featured in one-man exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution, the Norman Rockwell Museum, the Delaware Art Museum, and the U.S. Dinotopia is an isolated island inhabited by shipwrecked humans and sentient dinosaurs who have learned to coexist peacefully as a single symbiotic society. James Gurney's unique blending of fact and fantasy has won Hugo, Chesley, Spectrum, and World Fantasy Awards. It is the setting for the book series with which it shares its name. It is set in the titular Dinotopia, an isolated island. Dinotopia is a fictional utopia created by author and illustrator James Gurney. The people hung in there during these times, and the situation became much better in the early 1900's. Dinotopia is a series of illustrated fantasy books, created by author and illustrator James Gurney.

There was a period of hard times because of weather (drought) and an invasion of grasshoppers. After rock salt was discovered in 1887, the town grew to accommodate the new residents of the boom-town. The first railroad came through in June 1884. Rivalry between the two towns prompted many hard feelings, but after about a year of dealing with the unfavorable conditions, buildings were moved back to the north side. The Sherman Hotel was built in 1874, and a store, a school and some houses were also built in that time frame.īy 1878, a town had been started on the south side of the river, and many Kingman residents and the post had moved there.

Sherman was the name of the town that was started at that site, and it was later changed to Kingman. Fical, moved his house from there to the north side of the Ninnescah River in Kingman County. Religious Heritage of Kansas Counties and TownsĪ man from Reno County, J.

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