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Date: December 29, 1907
This is a letter from Hercules Price, Napa County, California, to Ferdinand Erhardt, Lincoln, Kansas. Price writes about the Battle of Summit Springs, which took place in northeastern Colorado on…
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Date: December 06, 1907
This is a letter from Hercules Price, Napa County, California, to Ferdinand Erhardt, Lincoln, Kansas. Price writes about the Battle of Summit Springs, which took place in northeastern Colorado on…
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Date: September 17, 1909
This letter is from Hercules Price, Napa County, California, to Adolph Roenigk, Lincoln, Kansas. Price writes about the Battle of Summit Springs, which took place in northeastern Colorado on July…
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Date: August 16, 1867
In this letter to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Orville H. Browning discussed the Osage Catholic Mission lands in Kansas. Specifically, Browning addresses under what conditions the land…
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Date: October 02, 1902
In this letter, E.A. Herod, professor of mathematics at Northwestern Territorial Normal School, relates what he knows about a battle between Confederate soldiers and Osage Indians that took place in…
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Date: June 21, 1910
This is a response t Hercules Price from Eugene Carr. Price had asked for a copy of a map of the Battle of Summit Springs. The battle had taken place…
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Date: November 30, 1904
In this item, United States Indian Agent Frank Frantz, who served as an officer with the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War, responds to a letter sent by Kansas State…
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Date: May 31, 1910
This is a letter from Hercules Price, Napa County, California, to Adolph Roenigk. Price writes of the battle of Summit Springs, which took place in northeastern Colorado on July 11,…
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Date: June 16, 1860
This item contains a list of “New York Indians entitled to 320 acres, or a half section of land, each within the New York Reservation in Kansas Territory.” Included are…
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Date: August 15, 1896
Born in Emporia, Kansas in 1868, William Allen White grew up in El Dorado, attended the College of Emporia and the University of Kansas and worked on newspapers in Topeka…
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Date: May 30, 1857
This item, written by Reverend William H. Honnell, contains Honnell’s recollections of his life in northeast Kansas during the Kansas Territory period. Honnell relates having a boat he was traveling…
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Date: May 12, 1902
In this letter to George W. Martin, H.L Stein discusses his recollections of Kickapoo Chief Captain Hamilton. According to Stein, he first met Captain Hamilton at the general store in…
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Date: September 06, 1943
These two items, from C.C. Isely of Dodge City, Kansas, contain Isely’s thoughts on his experience at the Kickapoo Indian Reservation in the late 1890s. In the letter to Reverend…
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Date: October 08, 1923
This item, sent to J.V. Kelly by Reverend T.H. Kinsella, contains information on the Jesuit Mission at Kickapoo, Leavenworth County, Kansas. Kinsella addresses Catholic missionary life in the West, and…
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Date: December 10, 1906
In this letter to Kansas State Historical Society Secretary George W. Martin, Milo Custer writes in regard to the Kickapoo Indians and their prophet Kannekuk. Custer, a researcher and writer…
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Date: March 27, 1909
In this letter to Kansas State Historical Society Secretary Geroge W. Martin, A.M. Coville relates his knowledge of the Kaw Indian White Plume. Coville explains that when he first met…
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Date: April 19, 1906-April 21, 1906
This correspondence between T.S. Huffaker and Joseph S. Chick contains details of the Kaw Mission and the early settlers in the area surrounding it, including William Johnson, Mary Jane Chick,…
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Date: October 12, 1905
In this brief letter to George W. Martin of the Kansas State Historical Society, lawyer George Pierson Morehouse of Council Grove, Kansas, describes the location of the Kaw Indian village…
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Date: April 16, 1904
In this letter to George W. Martin, George P. Morehouse discusses the “Fool Chiefs” of the Kaw tribe. According to Morehouse, the two “Fool Chiefs” were well-known Kaw leaders who…
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Date: December 30, 1880
In this letter to Kansas State Historical Society clerk W.W. Cone, Reverend John Thompson Peery discusses his recollections of the Kaw Mission. According to Reverand Peery, he arrived at the…
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Date: December 05, 1880
In this letter to W.W.Cone of the Kansas State Historical Society, William S. Chick of Glenwood, Kansas, relates details of the Kaw Mission, the “Pottawotomie Indians,” William Johnson, and other…
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Date: October 19, 1908
This item contains fifteen pages of notes taken by Zu Adams during an interview with Kansas City businessman Joseph S. Chick that took place at Kansas City’s Union Station in…
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Date: August 11, 1879
In this item, Daniel Boone, grandson of pioneer frontiersman Daniel Boone, relates details of his early life in Kansas to W.W. Cole. Boone explains that his family lived just beyond…
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Date: August 1879
In this letter to W.W. Cone, John C. McCoy discusses the early settlement of Kansas, including his belief that Napoleon Boone was the “first white child born within the limits…
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Date: July 26, 1910
This is a letter from Hercules Price of Napa County, California, to George W. Martin, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas. Price writes about his experience at the “Battle of…
