KANSAS TROUBLES (left) by Nancy Page, employs exactly the same pattern, except that it rotates the four-patch into a pinwheel or whirlwind. Notice in her notes that Gutcheon makes reference to the "Wizard of Oz," for which she created a unique "crazy quilt" type pattern called ROAD TO OZ. As regard's this block's history, Gutcheon states the following (pp.72-74):

"DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS is named after a passage from Pilgrim's Progress [published in 1678] which was the only reading matter except the Bible in many Puritan households. Children generally learned the ABC's from it; it was considered light reading, though the Slough of Despond generally stops me cold. The "Delectable Mountains" pattern reappeared later set in a block in such a way that the jagged edges appeared to whirl around like a cyclone. In that form, the pattern is called KANSAS TROUBLES (shades of Dorothy and the Wizard)."

On Kansas troubles and cyclones, an article at Wikipedia states the following:

"Early settlers discovered that Kansas was not the "Great American Desert," but they also found that the very harsh climate—with tornadoes, blizzards, drought, hail, floods and grasshoppers—made for the high risk of a ruined crop. Many early settlers who were financially ruined, and especially in the early 1890s, either protested through the Populist movement or went back east."