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How to Write a History Narrative Essay: Step by Step Guide

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Written by Emily Johnson
Parent Category: Kansas State History Articles
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A narrative essay is used for describing an event in the form of a story. When such essays are composed in a historical context, a proper structure is followed that reflects the theme and signifies the era in which that particular event took place.

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Kansas As An Indian Country

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Written by Anna E. Arnold
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Category: Kansas People
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Kansas Belonged to the Indians 

During the years when the white men were traveling back and forth across Kansas they were not making settlements here. The country remained in the undisputed possession of the Indians. The white men did not want it as yet. They looked upon these vast prairies, not as a resource, but as so much land to be crossed in reaching places farther west. But changing conditions in the states east of the Mississippi River made people begin to look upon Kansas in a different light. The country there was becoming thickly settled and the people wanted the lands of the eastern Indians.

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The Kansas Spirit

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Written by Anna E. Arnold
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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.

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The Border Ruffians

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Written by John G. Nicolay and John Hay
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Category: Territorial Kansas
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The passage of the Nebraska bill and the hurried extinction of the Indian title opened nearly fifteen million acres of public lands to settlement and purchase. The whole of this vast area was yet practically tenantless.

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The Bogus Laws

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Written by John G. Nicolay and John Hay
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Category: Territorial Kansas
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As the event proved, the invasion of border ruffians to decide the first election in Kansas had been entirely unnecessary. Even without counting the illegal votes, the pro-slavery candidate for delegate was chosen by a plurality.

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Civil War In Kansas

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Written by John G. Nicolay and John Hay
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Out of the antagonistic and contending factions mentioned in the last two chapters, the bogus Legislature and its Border-Ruffian adherents on the one hand, and the framers and supporters of the Topeka Constitution on the other, grew the civil war in Kansas. The bogus Legislature numbered thirty-six members.

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