Kansas and 

 Tobacco 



mong the early settlers in Kansas 

 territory were a large number of emigrant Germans who, 

 when they could not get cigars, smoked pipes; French- 

 men and Flemings accustomed to snuflF, and Americans 

 from the East and South who were tobacco chewers. 

 They did what log-cabin pioneers usually did on new 

 lands: planted tobacco along with staple food crops. 

 Pioneering was hard work— and tobacco brought relaxa- 

 tion and a degree of comfort. 



These settlers grew tobacco in patches on their farms 

 chiefly from seeds of Burley cultivated in nearby states. 

 The native type long used by the Kansa Indians— a small, 

 shrubby Nicotiana— was too harsh for the palates of men 

 accustomed to better leaf. This aboriginal type, which 

 was indigenous to the eastern part of the country as 



