Because nothing says 'Kansas' like a buffalo.

Or is it "Nothing says 'buffalo' like 'Kansas'"?

I found my first Kansas quarter in my pocket this morning. When I showed it to my mother, who lived in Kansas (Wichita and KC, I think) briefly before she was married, she suggested a better design would have been the giant tarantulas that would jump out of her kitchen cabinets at her when she opened them.

I suggested a dust storm, with the phrase "All we are is dust in the wind."

Or maybe combining the two. All we are are giant tarantulas jumping in a dust storm.