Editing Kansas River (section)

==In popular culture==
The river is featured prominently in the 2017 documentary ''When Kings Reigned''. The film talks about life along the Kansas River in the late 1800s, and the trials that the fishermen on the river faced.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6119488/reference|title=When Kings Reigned (2017)|access-date=10 April 2018|via=www.imdb.com}}</ref>

[[Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont|Étienne de Veniard Sieur de Bourgmont]]'s expedition into the Kansas River valley and the history of the [[Kaw people|Kanza people]] in their villages along the river is discussed in ''The Last Wild Places of Kansas'', a book by George Frazier.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Last Wild Places of Kansas|last=Frazier|first=George|publisher=University Press of Kansas|year=2016|isbn=9780700622207|location=Lawrence|pages=162–188}}</ref>

In [[Sara Paretsky]]'s 2017 detective novel "Fallout", in which Paretsky's Chicago-based private detective [[V.I. Warshawski]] carries out an investigation in [[Lawrence, Kansas]], a Lawrence resident tells her: "You should always say 'The Kaw' when you speak of our river. Only strangers and Google Maps call it 'The Kansas River'"(Ch. 32).

[[Johnny Kaw]] is a fictional Kansas settler created in a series of [[tall tale]] publications started in 1955 — one of his fictional feats was to have dug the Kansas River Valley.

The "Kaw River" is mentioned as a location in the western series [[Wagon Train]], in the opening scene of ''The Tom Tuckett Story'' episode (March 2, 1960).