Author: Stephen Jackson SpearPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 19
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Reminiscences of the Early Settlement of Dragoon Creek, Wabaunsee County
Author: Stephen Jackson SpearPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
Reminiscences of the Early Settlement of Dragoon Creek, Wabaunsee County (Classic Reprint)
Author: Stephen Jackson SpearPublisher:
ISBN: 9781332875535
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Excerpt from Reminiscences of the Early Settlement of Dragoon Creek, Wabaunsee County The passengers on board were a mixed lot. Many were very respectable people, but others were gamblers who plied their profession until long past midnight. These left the boat at St. Charles, and it was generally under stood that they had cleaned up a nice little pile on the trip. About noon of September 8 we reached the hamlet of Kansas City, Mo., at which point my two roommates left the boat. Resuming the journey we reached Leavenworth about 6 p. M. The same day. I stored my trunk at a warehouse, and feeling so miserable I could not eat, I hunted up a lodging house. At this time Leavenworth was an important outfitting point for travelers. A road running from there to the south and west joined the Santa Fe trail in what is now the southeast corner of Wabaunsee county, and was a feeder to that great highway. The old trail at this date was broad and lined with sun owers, many attaining a large growth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Reminiscences of the Early Settlement of Dragoon Creek, Wabaunsee County
Author: Stephen Jackson 1834- SpearPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781017862225
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society
Author: Kansas State Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Transactions
Author: Kansas State Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
1st-6th biennial reports of the society, 1875-88, included in v. 1-4.
The Darkest Period
Author: Ronald D. ParksPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806145765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Before their relocation to the Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma, the Kanza Indians spent twenty-seven years on a reservation near Council Grove, Kansas, on the Santa Fe Trail. In The Darkest Period, Ronald D. Parks tells the story of those years of decline in Kanza history following the loss of the tribe’s original homeland in northeastern and central Kansas. Parks makes use of accounts by agents, missionaries, journalists, and ethnographers in crafting this tale. He addresses both the big picture—the effects of Manifest Destiny—and local particulars such as the devastating impact on the tribe of the Santa Fe Trail. The result is a story of human beings rather than historical abstractions. The Kanzas confronted powerful Euro-American forces during their last years in Kansas. Government officials and their policies, Protestant educators, predatory economic interests, and a host of continent-wide events affected the tribe profoundly. As Anglo-Americans invaded the Kanza homeland, the prairie was plowed and game disappeared. The Kanzas’ holy sites were desecrated and the tribe was increasingly confined to the reservation. During this “darkest period,” as chief Allegawaho called it in 1871, the Kanzas’ Neosho reservation population diminished by more than 60 percent. As one survivor put it, “They died of a broken heart, they died of a broken spirit.” But despite this adversity, as Parks’s narrative portrays, the Kanza people continued their relationship with the land—its weather, plants, animals, water, and landforms. Parks does not reduce the Kanzas’ story to one of hapless Indian victims traduced by the American government. For, while encroachment, disease, and environmental deterioration exerted enormous pressure on tribal cohesion, the Kanzas persisted in their struggle to exercise political autonomy while maintaining traditional social customs up to the time of removal in 1873 and beyond.
Cheyennes and Horse Soldiers
Author: William Y. ChalfantPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806135007
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
In July 1857, the first major battle between the U.S. Army and the Cheyenne Indians took place in present-day northwest Kansas. The Cheyennes had formed a grand line of battle such as was never again seen in Plains Indians wars. But they had not seen sabres before, and when the cavalry charged, sabres drawn, they panicked. William Y. Chalfant re-creates the human dimensions of a battle that was as much a clash of cultures as it was a clash of the U.S. cavalry and Cheyenne warriors.
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