Reproductions of a Series of Lithographs of the Smoky Valley in Kansas By Birger Sandzen An Introduction by Minna K. Powell CARL J. SMALLEY Kansas City, Missouri 1922 Copyright, 1922, by Carl J. Smalley Kansas City, Mo. Published December, 1922 Printed by the Republican Press, at McPherson, Kansas, in the United States of America...

When Birger Sandzen looks into the seamed face of a pioneer farmer of Kansas, he sees the conquest of a spirit. When he looks upon the face of the Kansas prairie, he sees the conquest of the Wilderness and he makes the World feel the courage of the Kansas spirit and the power of Kansas sinews. An artist who penetrates below the surface of his subject and sees the soul of it looking out, Birger Sandzen Was foreordained to celebrate in black and white and in color, the moods and the meaning of the