KANSAS

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Kate Koeckritz

Mrs. Hayward/ Mrs. LaFosse
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Nicknames: Wheat State, Sunflower State

Motto: Ad Astra per Aspera, Latin for To the Stars Through Difficulties

State Fish: Channel Catfish

State Bird: Western Meadowlark

State Mammal: American Buffalo

State Flower: Sunflower                      

State Tree: Cottonwood

State Gemstone: Sapphire

                                                    

 

The seal contains:

· Landscape with a rising sun (the east)

· River and steamboat (commerce)

· Settler's cabin and a man plowing a field (agriculture) [foreground]

· Wagon train heading west (American expansion / pioneer life)

· Indians hunting American buffalo(the buffalo are fleeing from the Indians)

· Cluster of 34 stars (top of the seal) – identifying Kansas as the 34th state to be accepted into the Union of the United States.

State motto "Ad Astra per Aspera" (Latin: "To the Stars through Difficulties")

 

Simple Facts

On a navy blue field is a sunflower, the state flower. Also, the state seal and the words "Kansas". In the picture of the state seal are thirty-four stars representing the order of statehood. Above the stars is the motto "To the Stars Through Difficulties". On the seal a sunrise overshadows a farmer plowing a field near his log cabin, a steamboat sailing the Kansas River, a wagon train heading west and Native Americans hunting bison.