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Lift Truck Chain Kansas - The US state of Kansas is located within the Midwestern part of the United States. Kansas got is name from the Kansas River, which flows through the state of Kansas. The Kansas River was named after the Native American tribe that inhabited the region, called the Kansa. The tribe's name is usually said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south wind," though this was probably not the term's original meaning. Inhabitants of the state of Kansas are called "Kansans."

The state of Kansas was home to many Native American tribes for thousands of years. The tribes living in the eastern area of the state of Kansas resided primarily along the valleys and banks of the river. The tribes living in the Western part of the state were more nomadic living off the herds of bison. Kansas was first settled by European Americans in the 1830s, but the pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the middle of political wars over the slavery issue. When officially opened to settlement by the United States government during the year 1854, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri hurried to the territory to determine if the state of Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Therefore, the region was a hotbed of violence and chaos during its early days since these forces collided, and was referred to as Bleeding Kansas. The abolitionists ultimately prevailed and on the 29th of January, 1861, the state of Kansas entered the Union as a free state. Following the Civil War, the residents of the state of Kansas grew rapidly, when waves of immigrants turned the prairie into farmland. At present, Kansas is among the most productive agricultural states, producing high yields of sorghum, sunflowers and wheat.

The main agricultural production of the state consists of sheep, wheat, cattle, soybeans, sorghum, cotton, hogs, salt and corn. The Grain Belt in Eastern Kansas, is a big grain production region. The industrial outputs are private and commercial aircrafts, transportation equipment, publishing, food processing, chemical products, machinery, petroleum, mining and apparel.

Kansas ranks 8th within the country in oil production. There has been a natural steady decline of oil production due to the difficulty to extract oil over time. Since oil prices bottomed in the year 1999, oil production within Kansas has remained fairly constant, with an average monthly rate of around 2.8 million barrels in 2004. The recent higher prices have made carbon dioxide sequestration and other oil recovery methods more economical.

Kansas ranks 8th in U.S. natural gas production. Production has increasingly declined ever since the mid-1990s with the steady depletion of the Hugoton Natural Gas Field, the state's largest field that extends into the states of Oklahoma and Texas. During 2004, increased coalbed methane production and slower declines in the Hugoton gas fields contributed to a smaller overall decline.

The economy of the state is dependent upon the aerospace trade, because the state has some large aircraft manufacturing facilities in Kansas City and Wichita, like for example Spirit AeroSystems, Boeing, Cessna, Learjet, and Hawker Beechcraft (previously Raytheon). Many of these major businesses have their headquarters in Kansas, including: the Sprint Nextel Corporation, Embarq, Garmin, YRC Worldwide, Koch Industries and Payless Shoes.



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