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Barbara Burgess, Ph. D.
Barbara MacPherson Burgess has studied and written about the
Oregon/California Trail through Kansas. She also presents programs
about different aspects of the trail including the trail route, the 92
people who wrote journals about their experiences on the trail in
Kansas, the history of the trail and the experience of travel on the
Oregon/California Trail in the mid 1800s.
She has written articles about the trail that were published in Kansas! magazine, in newspapers, in trail guides and in the Kansas Historical Markers book that was published by the Kansas State Historical Society.
She is a member of the Oregon/California Trail Association.
Barbara has also studied and grown the prairie potato, the Psoralea esculenta. Topeka was named for this plant. She has published a booklet about the Prairie Potato and photographed these plants where they grow in native grass meadows in Kansas. This booklet and note cards containing photographs of the prairie potato are available and can be ordered from her website. The booklet costs $5 and the note card $1.25.
Barbara earned a Ph. D. from the University of Kansas in Lawrence with a major in American Studies, a MS from Kansas State University in Manhattan with a major in Journalism/Mass Communication, and a BA from Colorado College in Colorado Springs with a major in English.
She taught journalism at Washburn University in Topeka for 17 years before she retired.
Click to email Barbara Burgess
barb@barbburgess.com
She has written articles about the trail that were published in Kansas! magazine, in newspapers, in trail guides and in the Kansas Historical Markers book that was published by the Kansas State Historical Society.
She is a member of the Oregon/California Trail Association.
Barbara has also studied and grown the prairie potato, the Psoralea esculenta. Topeka was named for this plant. She has published a booklet about the Prairie Potato and photographed these plants where they grow in native grass meadows in Kansas. This booklet and note cards containing photographs of the prairie potato are available and can be ordered from her website. The booklet costs $5 and the note card $1.25.
Barbara earned a Ph. D. from the University of Kansas in Lawrence with a major in American Studies, a MS from Kansas State University in Manhattan with a major in Journalism/Mass Communication, and a BA from Colorado College in Colorado Springs with a major in English.
She taught journalism at Washburn University in Topeka for 17 years before she retired.
Click to email Barbara Burgess
barb@barbburgess.com