Railroads of Atchison County
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- Written by Sheffield Ingalls
- Parent Category: Kansas State History Articles
- Category: Kansas Commerce
Eight years before the last stage pulled out of Atchison the agitation for a railroad began. The first charter provided for the construction of a railroad from Atchison to St. Joseph. As appeared in an earlier chapter, the city council of Atchison at its first meeting called an election on March 15, 1858, to vote on a proposition to subscribe for $100,000 in stock.
Industrial And Commercial History of Atchison County
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- Written by Sheffield Ingalls
- Parent Category: Kansas State History Articles
- Category: Kansas Commerce
Industrial enterprises of Atchison county, so far as manufacturing and jobbing interests are concerned, are confined exclusively to the city of Atchison. There are no mills or factories or large manufacturing institutions in any of the smaller towns of the county. Outside of Atchison the labor and industry of the citizens are directed in agricultural pursuits; the tilling of the soil, the breeding of livestock and the development of all the other arts of husbandry, but in the city of Atchison there are a number of establishments which give employment to labor, and which in a number of instances ship their finished products to all parts of the United States and into the ports of foreign countries.
The Kansas Spirit
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- Written by Anna E. Arnold
- Parent Category: Kansas State History Articles
- Category: Kansas People
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
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- 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.