WARDEN Henry Hopkins resigned his position at the Kansas State Penitentiary in April, 1883, having served at the Lansing institution since it opened as a temporary wooden stockade in 1867. His departure ended an era of progress in penal development that had moved the Kansas penitentiary to a position of leadership among prisons of the Western states.

     One would like to push back the inevitable onward march of civilization, before which the shaggy buffalo and the brown hunter disappeared, and, with them, the last of the romance of the "Far West." [1]

Dr. Robert Taft, of Lawrence, is professor of chemistry at the University of Kansas and editor of the Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. He is author of Photography And the American Scene (New York, 1938), and Across the Years on Mount Oread (Lawrence, 1941).
     Previous articles in this pictorial series appeared in the February, May, August and November, 1946, and May, 1948, issues of The Kansas Historical Quarterly with the general introduction in the February, 1946, number.

1. The publications of many of the individuals mentioned above are listed in The Plains and the Rockies, rev. and ext. by Charles L. Camp (San Francisco, 1937).