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unusual facts about Flint Hills


Flint Hills

William Least Heat-Moon wrote a tribute to the Flint Hills and the Kansans who live there in his book PrairyErth.


Joseph Denison

(See Bleeding Kansas.) Over the next several years Denison was part of a small group that settled and built the abolitionist town of Manhattan, Kansas, at the union of the Kansas River and the Big Blue River in the Flint Hills.


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Flint Hills Technical College

It is located at the intersection of I-35 and the Kansas Turnpike in Emporia, Kansas, a city in the heart of the beautiful rangeland known as the Flint Hills and just a short distance from the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve.

SG Biofuels

The funding was led by two privately held companies involved in the development of renewable energy, chemicals and biotechnology: Flint Hills Resources, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, and Life Technologies.