Medium: Text
Date: July 29, 1912-May 04, 1914
This correspondence, which centers around Joab Spencer, concerns the location of the Shawnee Mission near Kansas City, Kansas. In the first letter, dated July 29, 1912, William Johnson asks Spencer…
Medium: Text
Date: May 09, 1862
This item indicates that Shawnee Indian Elizabeth Ironsides sold 80 acres of land to James N. Big Knife of Lexington, Kansas, on May 9, 1862. The sale of the land…
Medium: Text
Date: October 7, 1862
These two items deal with the manner in which warrants were handled by the General Land Office a number of years after the founding of that office. The first item…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1890 and 1930
A note describing Minnie Weichell Worthman, the daughter of Mrs. Weichell, who was captured by Indians in a raid on the Saline River in Kansas, May 30, 1869.
Medium: Text
Date: December 08, 1898
A transcription of an article from the Lincoln Beacon newspaper, on the Lincoln Courthouse being burned.
Medium: Text
Date: May 1908
An explanation of photographs that the Kansas Historical Society may have received. Roenigk explains that a battle between Potawatomie and Pawnee Indians was fought in 1867 in Lincoln County, and…
Medium: Text
Date: August 1882-September 1882
A listing of students who are in favor of temperance. This paper was circulated by J.C. Ruppenthal among his fellow classmates at the Lincoln County Kansas Teacher’s Institute.
Medium: Text
Date: July 15, 1912
In these two letters, Emanuel F. Heisler discusses the Old Shawnee Indian Mission near Kansas City, Kansas.
Medium: Text
Date: February 28, 1910 to March 2, 1910
A list of historical points in Lincoln County, as it relates to pioneer monuments.
Medium: Text
Date: October 25, 1937
A letter from Adolph Roenigk to Kirk Mecham, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas. Roenigk recounts the Mulberry Scrap, a skirmish between Indians and Lincoln County settlers…
Medium: Text
Date: December 29, 1930
This item is an impression of a copper coin that belonged to W.G. Nussback. The coin impression indicates that it was used by “Rankin and Gibbs, Sac and Fox Traders,”…
Medium: Text
Date: May 13, 1907
In this letter to George W. Martin of the Kansas State Historical Society, Moravian missionary Joseph Romig, who was a missionary in Franklin County, Kansas, from 1862-1871 and 1900-1905, discusses…
Medium: Text
Date: June 12, 1910-August 30, 1910
Items in this correspondence detail the location of various Native Indian missions in Kansas, including the Munsee Mission, the Peoria Mission, the Ottawa Mission, and the Sac and Fox Agency.
Medium: Text
Date: October 10, 1904-January 24, 1908
In this correspondence with George W. Martin of the Kansas State Historical Society, Adolph Roenigk addresses issues related to the Pawnee Indians. In the letter dated October 10, 1904, Roenigk…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1864 and 1900
A military summary of Hercules H. Price while he served in Stoneman’s Brigade, 5th U.S. Cavalry and General Service Detachment at Army headquarters, Division Pacific and Department of California, San…
Medium: Text
Date: January 18, 1896
In this letter to Dr. J.W. McIntosh, E.C.Thayer discusses the character of James Murie, Pawnee breastworks, and tensions and conflicts betweeen the Pawnees, Omahas, and Sioux.
Medium: Text
Date: December 10, 1910
This is a letter from Hercules H. Price, Napa County, California, to George W. Martin, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas. Price writes about the Battle of Summit Springs, which…
Medium: Text
Date: September 26, 1910
A letter from George W. Neelis, Department of the Interior, United States Indian Service, to Hercules H. Price, Napa County, California. Neelis writes that he was visited by a member…
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Date: August 10, 1910
This is a letter from Hercules Price, Napa County, California, to John C. Baird, Vesper, Kansas. Price writes about the Battle of Summit Springs, which took place in northeastern Colorado…
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Date: June 21, 1917-November 04, 1917
Letters written by Clark Bruster, Fort Riley, Kansas, to his family in Waverly, New York. The detailed letters were written while he was training at Fort Riley. Bruster enlisted in…
Medium: Text
Date: 1900
This item, written and illustrated by J.C. Price, contains detailed information on the location of the Republican Pawnee Indian village in Republican County, Kansas.
Medium: Text
Date: September 29, 1897
This item is a draft of C.E. Adams’s speech to mark the occasion of the second flag raising of the Pawnee Republic Historical Society in September 1897.
Medium: Text
Date: January 12, 1899-July 17, 1900
This correspondence concerns Pawnee Indian lands in Kansas, including conflicts with white settlers, Indian schools, the location of Pawnee villages, and other pieces of Pawnee history.
Medium: Text
Date: January 7, 1891-January 18, 1928
This correspondence addresses explorer Zebulon Pike’s 1806 expedition to the West, particularly Pike’s visit to the Pawnee village located in present-day Republic County, Kansas. The correspondence spans the years 1891…
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Date: December 9, 1895
In this letter to Franklin G. Adams, J.K. Barnd, editor of the Ness County News of Ness, Kansas, discusses his interest in the route that explorer Zebulon Pike took when…
