Indian History Of Atchison County, Kansas
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- Written by Sheffield Ingalls
- Parent Category: Kansas State History Articles
- Category: Kansas Local History
There is nothing definite to show that Coronado ever reached the confines of what is now Atchison county in 1541, as some historical writers have seen fit to state, but there is a probability that the Indian province of Harahey, which the natives thereof told him was just beyond Quivira, embraced our present county and most of the region of northeastern Kansas.
Towns, Past And Present of Atchison County
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- Written by Sheffield Ingalls
- Parent Category: Kansas State History Articles
- Category: Kansas Local History
One of the most interesting subjects for the local historian is the rise and fall of town companies and towns, within the confines of Atchison county. Perhaps no county in the State, or for that matter, no county in the United States, has been immune from the visitations of town boomers.
The Kansas Spirit
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- Written by Anna E. Arnold
- Parent Category: Kansas State History Articles
- Category: Kansas People
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Introduction
Kansas is a great State; great in size and wealth, great in industries and resources, and great in what it has accomplished. But there are states that are larger, others that are wealthier, and many that have larger cities, greater population, a longer history, and more splendid memorials, so it is not for these things that Kansas is especially noted among the states. The quality that is the mark of its distinction is the character of its history and of its people.
Some Prominent Kansans
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- Written by Anna E. Arnold
- Parent Category: Kansas State History Articles
- Category: Kansas People
Hundreds of Kansas men and women have served their State in a way worthy of note. To tell the story of the services rendered by all of them would require many volumes. In a book like the present one, mention can be made of only a few of those most widely known.
Kansas And The Indian Frontier
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- Written by Frederic L. (Frederic Logan) Paxson
- Parent Category: Kansas State History Articles
- Category: Territorial Kansas
The long line separating the Indian and agricultural frontiers was in 1850 but little farther west than the point which it had reached by 1820. Then it had arrived at the bend of the Missouri, where it remained for thirty years.
Congressional Ruffianism
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- Written by John G. Nicolay and John Hay
- Parent Category: Kansas State History Articles
- Category: Territorial Kansas
The official reports show that the proceedings of the American Congress, while in the main conducted with becoming propriety and decorum, have occasionally been dishonored by angry personal altercations and scenes of ruffianly violence. These disorders increased as the great political struggle over the slavery question grew in intensity, and reached their culmination in a series of startling incidents.