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A standard history of Kansas and Kansans

William Elsey Connelley (Author)
Print Book, English, 1918
Lewis, Chicago, Ill., 1918
collective biographies
5 volumes (lvi, 2731 pages, [228] leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps (some folded), portraits ; 27 cm
3487917
[Vol. 1]. Quivira
Louisiana
Lewis and Clark
Upper Louisiana
Pike
Long
The great American desert
The Santa Fe Trail
The Oregon Trail
Indians
The buffalo
The Missouri compromise
The compromise of 1850
The provisional government
Repeal of the Missouri compromise
Kansas territory
Forming the battle-lines
First settlements
Governor reeder
Election of the legislature
The legislature
Lane
Robinson
The beginnings of disorder
The Big Springs convention
The Topeka movement
Wilson Shannon
The Wakarusa war
The first sacking of Lawrence
Old John Brown
[Vol. 2]. Lane's army of the north
Bleeding Kansas
The Republican party
John W. Geary
Robert J. Walker
Frederick P. Stanton
James William Denver
Samuel Medary
The state of Kansas
The political beginnings of the state
Prairie Grove
District of the border
Collapse of the military prison
The Lawrence massacre
The pursuit of Quantrill
The price paid
Thomas Carney
Governor Samuel J. Crawford
Nehemiah Greene
James Madison Harvey
Thomas A. Osborn
George T. Anthony
John Pierce St. John
Prohibition in Kansas
George W. Glick
John A. Martin
Lyman U. Humphrey
Lorenzo D. Lewelling
Edmund N. Morrill
John W. Leedy
William Eugene Stanley
Willis J. Bailey
Edward W. Hoch
Walter Roscoe Stubbs
George H. Hodges
Arthur Capper
Military history
Special articles
Includes index