Kansas Travel Author Releases, "Secret Kansas: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, Obscure"

"Secret Kansas: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure," Written by Roxie Yonkey
"Secret Kansas: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure," Written by Roxie Yonkey

Roxie Yonkey has written about Kansas for decades, and has won numerous awards for her work.  She loves to delve into the state's little-known stories, the ones you never heard in history class.

Among Kansas's many wheat fields lie secrets and hidden stories of heroes and villains that even a fiction author could never devise.

Yonkey's new book, "Secret Kansas: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure," will introduce you to a true cast of characters along with the little-known history of their inventions, deeds, and fame.  Countless biographies are chronicled here. 

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Yonkey says visitors and lifelong residents alike will find a surprise on every page, including discovering how Frank Bellamy from Cherryvale wrote the Pledge of Allegiance, only to lose his claim to its authorship. 

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Yonkey unearths the hidden roads and secret passages to unearth the state's buried treasures.

Copies of the book are available for purchase at her website.

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Yonkey is a travel blogger who combines her passions for travel, history, photography, writing, and design.