Seal of Kansas

Great Seal of the State of Kansas
Armiger	State of Kansas
Adopted	May 25, 1861
Motto	Ad Astra per Aspera

The Great Seal of the State of Kansas tells the history of the U.S. state of Kansas.^[1]

The seal contains:

• Landscape with a rising sun (the east)
• River and steamboat (commerce)
• Settler's cabin and a man plowing a field (agriculture) [foreground]
• Wagon train heading west (American expansion / pioneer life)
• Indians hunting American Bison (the buffalo are fleeing from the Indians)
• Cluster of 34 stars (top of the seal) – identifying Kansas as the 34th state to be accepted into the Union of the United States.
• State motto "Ad Astra per Aspera" (Latin: "To the Stars through Difficulties")

The seal is used on the Flag of the State of Kansas.^[2]