The Center for Great Plains Studies welcomes friends and supporters for its Friends of the Plains 2018 Dinner on Friday evening in Emporia State University’s Webb Hall.
The featured speaker for the event and author of “The Last Wild Places of Kansas,” George Frazier, discussed the inspiration for the book and the topic of his speech.
Since 1977, the Center for Great Plains Studies has worked to research, inform, and promote appreciation for mid-continental grasslands. Frazier discussed how there are many layers folklore to different areas of Kansas he calls “wild places.”
Frazier noted many hold the misconception Kansas does not have “wild places,” largely because it is difficult to get to those places as 98 percent of land in Kansas is privately owned. Frazier points to the Red Hills, also know as Gypsum Hills, in south-central Kansas as one of the prime locations to demonstrate the wild places still to be explored in the state.
