Kansas - The US Explained

Kansas is peaceful, rural, an epitome of the American Heartland, sitting in fact, at the exact center of the country’s Lower 48 states. Its most famous export, The Wizard of Oz, made its very name synonymous with familiarity, comfort, home. It's hard to believe that this was a state born in bloodshed, forged in fire, its very creation deemed a dress rehearsal for the Civil War. This was frontier country, the Wild West. From the badlands of the west to the cities of the east, and the never-ending prairies that lie between, this is the US Explained, episode 35 - Kansas.