Articles:

• Kansas State Research and Extension, Kansas Profile, Now That's Rural, Explorer Research Voyage journey, August 2012 by Ron Wilson.
  
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• Kansas State Research and Extension, Kansas Profile, Now That's Rural, Big Rural Brainstorm, August 2012 by Ron Wilson.

• National Trust for Historic Preservation, Success Stories, Kansas Sampler:  Homegrown "Explorer" Tourism Bolsters Rural Kansas,  January 2009 by Edward M. Richstone

• Forum Journal Summer 2006, Vol.20, No.4
  Looking at Kansas with New Eyes through "Explorer Tourism"
  by Marci Penner

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