Author: Nelson CasePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 823
Book Description
History of Labette County, Kansas and Representative Citizens
Author: Nelson CaseHistory of Labette County, Kansas and Representative Citizens
Author: Nelson CaseHistory of Labette County, Kansas, and Representative Citizens (Classic Reprint)
Author: Nelson CasePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781396584015
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Excerpt from History of Labette County, Kansas, and Representative Citizens We have given special prominence to the portraits of representative citizens, which appear throughout this volume, and believe they will prove a most interesting feature of the work. We have sought to illustrate the different spheres of industrial and professional achievement as Conspicuously as possible. To those who have kindly interested themselves in the successful preparation of this work, and who have voluntarily contributed most useful information and data, we herewith tender our grateful acknowledgment. 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.
History of Cherokee County, Kansas and Representative Citizens
Author: Nathaniel Thompson AllisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cherokee County (Kan.)
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
History of Labette County and Representatives Citizens
Author: Nelson CasePublisher:
ISBN: 9780740428661
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 825
Book Description
History of Shawnee County, Kansas, and Representative Citizens
Author: James Levi KingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shawnee County (Kan.)
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Labette County
Author: Mike BrothertonPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738582924
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Labette County, located in the Neosho River Valley of southeast Kansas, is home to eight cities, each rich in history. The story of Labette County is the story of French fur traders, Indian treaties, Civil War veterans, homesteaders, and railroad magnates--the people and events that transformed a prairie wilderness and shaped the county's future. Mike Brotherton and Dave Mattox are board members of the Parsons Historical Society Museum and authors of Images of America: Parsons.
Historical and Genealogical Works
Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Bucking the Railroads on the Kansas Frontier
Author: John N. MackPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786470291
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
As the Civil War ended, thousands of Union veterans imagined Kansas as a place to make a new beginning. Many veterans settled in the southeastern part of the state. In their struggle to establish lawful, ordered communities the settlers came into conflict with railroads intent on building through southeast Kansas to reach warm-water ports in Texas. To the settlers the railroads represented both a promise and a threat. By linking farmers and businessmen with eastern markets, the railroads guaranteed the prospects of economic gain. However, when they claimed rights to the land that settlers had already claimed, railroad monopolies were identified as a new manifestation of the same threat to republican values they had fought against in the recently concluded War. This book tells the story of the settlers' opposition to and victory over railroads and the impact on the evolution of political thought in Kansas and the American west.
When the Wolf Came
Author: Mary Jane WardePublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610755308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Winner of the 2014 Oklahoma Book Award for nonfiction Winner of the 2014 Pate Award from the Fort Worth Civil War Round Table. When the peoples of the Indian Territory found themselves in the midst of the American Civil War, squeezed between Union Kansas and Confederate Texas and Arkansas, they had no way to escape a conflict not of their choosing--and no alternative but to suffer its consequences. When the Wolf Came explores how the war in the Indian Territory involved almost every resident, killed many civilians as well as soldiers, left the country stripped and devastated, and cost Indian nations millions of acres of land. Using a solid foundation of both published and unpublished sources, including the records of Cherokee, Choctaw, and Creek nations, Mary Jane Warde details how the coming of the war set off a wave of migration into neighboring Kansas, the Red River Valley, and Texas. She describes how Indian Territory troops in Unionist regiments or as Confederate allies battled enemies--some from their own nations--in the territory and in neighboring Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas. And she shows how post-war land cessions forced by the federal government on Indian nations formerly allied with the Confederacy allowed the removal of still more tribes to the Indian Territory, leaving millions of acres open for homesteads, railroads, and development in at least ten states. Enhanced by maps and photographs from the Oklahoma Historical Society's photographic archives, When the Wolf Came will be welcomed by both general readers and scholars interested in the signal public events that marked that tumultuous era and the consequences for the territory's tens of thousands of native peoples.