Salina, fifteen miles north of Lindsborg and within shuttle flight distance from Kansas City, Missouri, and Denver, Colorado, was the last station for the homesteading Swedes who came by train, before they traveled the last stretch through two-yard tall prarie grass to the settlement that was their final destination. In Salina they could also purchase vital supplies, even though those supplies were not like the ones that can be made in the city that has grown up since, with its shopping centers, malls, movie theaters, art center, convention center, Vanderbilt boots and western clothing. Salina, with 46,729 inhabitants, can be regarded for good reason as being a center in central Kansas, even though we joke about Salina being a suburb of Lindsborg or the gateway to Lindsborg...