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Paperback Wichita's Lebanese Heritage Book

ISBN: 0738577170

ISBN13: 9780738577173

Wichita's Lebanese Heritage

(Part of the Images of America: Kansas Series)

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Wichita, a city of entrepreneurs, offered an ideal home for Middle Eastern Christians who started arriving in the 1890s. Initially identifying themselves as Syrians, they operated as peddlers across southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma. Peddling rapidly gave way to wholesale, grocery, and dry goods companies. Patriarchs such as N. F. Farha and E. G. Stevens established themselves in local business and civic circles. Primarily Eastern Orthodox, the...

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