Land Grants
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- Written by Blackmar
- Category: Kansas Reading Library
The first grants or concessions of land in the province of Louisiana were made soon after the Western company succeeded Antoine Crozat in the management of colonial affairs in 1717. These early grants were mostly along the Mississippi river below the present city of Natchez, Miss., and were generally made to wealthy and prominent citizens of France.
The Repeal Of The Missouri Compromise, And Formation Of The Territorial Governments Of Kansas And Nebraska
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- Written by F. G. De Fontaine
- Parent Category: Kansas State History Articles
- Category: Kansas Government
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The new danger came up in the shape of a proposition to establish a Territorial government in Nebraska (then embracing Kansas), a Territory which, with Missouri, originally constituted the upper part of the province of Louisiana, and was acquired from the French in 1803 by the payment of 60,000,000 francs.
The Hottest Chase On Record (1864)
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- Written by Edwin L. Sabin
- Parent Category: Kansas State History Articles
- Category: Kansas Military History
When in the eastern part of the United States the Civil War flamed up, another war broke out in the western part. The Indians of the Plains saw their chance. While the white men, who had been busy forcing peace upon the red men, were foolishly killing each other, the red men saw themselves free to strike, and clean the buffalo country.
C. J. (Buffalo) Jones
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- Written by Leola Howard Blanchard
- Parent Category: Kansas State History Articles
- Category: Kansas People
Charles Jesse Jones, more familiarly known as "Buffalo" Jones, was born in Tazewell county, Ill., in 1844. He was the second son of a family of twelve children, and from the time he was strong enough to pick up a bucket of chips at the woodpile until he had attained his majority, it was work, work. His fathenimals and seemed to have a power of subduing fractious beasts to his will.
Jayhawkers
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- Written by Blackmar
- Parent Category: Kansas State History Articles
- Category: Kansas People
The origin of the term "Jayhawker" appears to be veiled in uncertainty. During the Civil war the members of the Seventh Kansas regiment, commanded by Col. C. R. Jennison, became known as "Jayhawkers," and probably from this fact the jayhawker came to be regarded by many as purely a Kansas institution.
Indian Mythology
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- Written by Carrie de Voe
- Parent Category: Kansas State History Articles
- Category: Old West Kansas
The history of Kansas has been of peculiar interest to the world at large, by reason of the struggles of ante-bellum days. The adventures of John Brown of Osawatomie and the achievements of General Lane, Governor Robinson, and other heroes of that period have formed the nucleus of many a story and song.