Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society
Author : Kansas State Historical Society
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Page : 636 pages
File Size : 36,81 MB
Release : 1902
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Author : Kansas State Historical Society
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Page : 636 pages
File Size : 36,81 MB
Release : 1902
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Page : 634 pages
File Size : 46,1 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Kansas
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Author : Kansas State Historical Society
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Page : 632 pages
File Size : 38,72 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Kansas
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1st-6th biennial reports of the society, 1875-88, included in v. 1-4.
Author : Richard Rogers Bowker
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Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 1899
Category : State government publications
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Author : Robert Smith Bader
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Page : 350 pages
File Size : 17,10 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
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Author : Kirke Mechem
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Page : 694 pages
File Size : 33,83 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Kansas
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Author : Marilyn S. Blackwell
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Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,59 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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This comprehensive portrait of nineteenth-century reformer Clarina Howard Nichols uncovers the fascinating story of a complex woman and reveals her important role in women's rights, antislavery, and westward expansion.
Author : American Historical Association
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Page : 1390 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Historiography
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Author : Todd Mildfelt
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 30,91 MB
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806193484
A controversial character largely known (as depicted in the movie Glory) as a Union colonel who led Black soldiers in the Civil War, James Montgomery (1814–71) waged a far more personal and radical war against slavery than popular history suggests. It is the true story of this militant abolitionist that Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer tell in Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind, summoning a life fiercely lived in struggle against the expansion of slavery into the West and during the Civil War. This book follows a harrowing path through the turbulent world of the 1850s and 1860s as Montgomery, with the fervor of an Old Testament prophet, inflicts destructive retribution on Southern slaveholders wherever he finds them, crossing paths with notable abolitionists John Brown and Harriet Tubman along the way. During the tumultuous years of “Bleeding Kansas,” he became a guerilla chieftain of the antislavery vigilantes known as Jayhawkers. When the war broke out in 1861, Montgomery led a regiment of white troops who helped hundreds of enslaved people in Missouri reach freedom in Kansas. Drawing on regimental records in the National Archives, the authors provide new insights into the experiences of African American men who served in Montgomery’s next regiment, the Thirty-Fourth United States Colored Troops (formerly Second South Carolina Infantry). Montgomery helped enslaved men and women escape via one of the least-explored underground railways in the nation, from Arkansas and Missouri through Kansas and Nebraska. With support of abolitionists in Massachusetts, he spearheaded resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act in Kansas. And, when war came, he led Black soldiers in striking at the very heart of the Confederacy. His full story thus illuminates the actions of both militant abolitionists and the enslaved people fighting to destroy the peculiar institution.
Author : Kevin G. W. Olson
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,61 MB
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0700621407
When Isaac Goodnow and five fellow New Englanders arrived at the junction of the Kansas and Big Blue rivers in March of 1855, they pitched a tent and launched a town. Harassment and homesickness almost drove them back east, but they held their ground to establish an anti-slavery and educational stronghold: the town of Manhattan, Kansas. Kevin Olson's lively history of Manhattan's founding illuminates the divisive forces that had to be overcome amidst the turbulence of the Civil War era and the sheer drama of building a town from scratch on the Great Plains frontier. With an eye for vivid detail and reflecting a native's deep knowledge of the city, Olson chronicles the first four decades of Manhattan as it grew from tent to town. Although spared much of the Bleeding Kansas violence, Manhattan saw its share of shootouts and lynchings in its Wild West days. Olson evocatively recaptures those rough-and-tumble times and effectively describes the town's key social and economic transformations. He also highlights the emergence of a college town and "New England village" by 1866, followed by Manhattan's growth and modernization in the 1890s. Drawing on town records as well as the personal papers of boosters, Olson mirrors the history of Kansas through the lens of this one community by interweaving ecology, relations with Native Americans, agriculture, literature, architecture, social mores, politics, economic issues, and university origins to recreate a vibrant cross-section of town life. His account of Kansa Indian settlement Blue Earth Village shines a light on a prehistory that until now has been little covered; his retelling of the emigration of the New England settlers recalls one of the most compelling stories of the antebellum era; and his coverage of the 1860s surpasses that of most previous histories. Written for general readers while boasting an impressive depth of scholarship, Frontier Manhattan takes us on a journey into the past to shop at Higginbotham and Purcell's or enjoy a stay at the Manhattan House hotel with jovial mayor Andrew Mead. With its strong sense of place and personality, Olson's book is as engaging as it is informative in celebrating the origins and early life of this quintessential Kansas city.