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Date: June 26, 1910
This is a letter from Hercules Price of Napa County, California, to Ferdinand Eberhardt of Lincoln, Kansas. Price writes of his participation at the “Battle of Summit Springs” in northeast…
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Date: April 10, 1909
A letter from J.R. Mead of Wichita, Kansas, to George W. Martin, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas. Mead writes of his early years in Kansas, focusing mostly on his…
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Date: July 01, 1879-September 01, 1879
This item contains a list of items purchased by U.S. Indian Agent H.C. Linn for the Kansas (Potawatomi) Agency in the third quarter of 1879. Items include beef, bastard files,…
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Date: November 18, 1906
A letter from W.E. Marsh of Lincoln, Kansas, to George W. Marsh, Kansas Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas. Marsh writes that he does not have much information on an Indian fight…
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Date: December 10, 1878
In this item, U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs explains to U.S. Indian Agent H.C. Linn that the U.S. Secretary of the Interior has approved the purchase of school and shop…
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Date: 1916
A history of the Pioneer Monument erected at the Lincoln County courthouse. The monument is in memorial to a group of early settlers who were massacred by Indians on August…
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Date: November 1, 1878
This receipt lists items purchased from G.T. Bolman’s store in Netawaka, Kansas, by U.S. Indian Agent H.C. Linn for the Potawatomi Agency in Kansas.
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Date: October 01, 1878-December 14, 1878
This item details the goods and services purchased for the Kansas Agency in the final quarter of 1878. This abstract lists who purchased the item, what item was purchased, as…
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Date: January 3 - 8, 1908
These two letters are from E. E. Blackman of the Nebraska Historical Society, to Adolph Roenigk, Lincoln, Kansas. In the first letter, Blackman acknowledges receipt of Roenigk’s letter and states…
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Date: 1926
A history of Sylvan Grove, Lincoln County, Kansas, written by Helen Sigley during her senior year at Sylvan High School. The history recounts the earliest settlers of the town, how…
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Date: 1913
An account by Adolph Roenigk of Lincoln County, and his time in Kansas, starting in the summer of 1868. Roenigk recounts working for the military at Fort Harker, Indian depredations…
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Date: May 05, 1880-November 25, 1880
In this correspondence between Frederick Chouteau and W. W. Cone, Chouteau addresses a number of questions that Cone had submitted to him regarding Chouteau’s years among the Native Americans of…
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Date: September 2, 1867
Elisabeth Stevens Morse reports on the situation at the Delaware Boarding School in Kansas to U.S. Indian Agent John Gill Pratt. In the four page letter Morse reports on the…
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Date: February 13, 1866-July 14, 1866
This item is the 1866 daily journal for Elisabeth S. Morse who taught at the Delaware Baptist Mission near Edwardsville, Kansas. While a number of entries are fairly brief, the…
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Date: 1908
A series of letters written by Clara Gowing describing Gowing’s experiences such as her “Early Mission life among the Indians of the west,” “Miss Elisabeth S. Morse,” “An Indian Payment,”…
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Date: October 1, 1907
A letter from Reverend Jospeh Romig to George W. Martin of the Kansas State Historical Society, contains details regarding the Moravian Mission in Franklin County, Kansas, where Romig served from…
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Date: May 27, 1910
Reverend Joseph Romig responds to questions from George Martin, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, about the Munsee Indians. Romig explains were the Munsees came from, their early encounters…
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Date: June 15, 1909
These two items concern the Chippewa cemetery in Ottawa, Kansas. In the letter to H.F. Sheldon, Reverend Joseph Romig explains that he made the drawing of the cemetery when he…
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Date: September 17, 1915
An address given by Arthur Stanley before the Old Settler’s Reunion in Lincoln, Kansas. Stanley recounts life in Lincoln, of living in a dugout, the fear of prairie fires, prairie…
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Date: August 30, 1910
A letter from Adolph Roenigk of Lincoln County, Kansas, to George W. Martin, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas. Roenigk writes of the Pawnee Indians that were killed at Mulberry…
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Date: April 06, 1907
A letter from Adolph Roenigk of Lincoln County, Kansas, to George W. Martin, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas. Roenigk writes that a paper he submitted to the Historical Society,…
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Date: January 14, 1908
This is a letter from Adolph Roenigk, Lincoln, Kansas, to George W. Martin, Kansas Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas. Roenigk inquires about a pipe that was once owned by Chief Tall…
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Date: 1906
This item, written by missionary Reverend Joseph Romig of Franklin County, Kansas, contains a detailed history of the Native American tribes of Franklin County, Kansas, from 1862-1906. The cover indicates…
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Date: October 10, 1905
In this item, A. M. Campbell relates his experiences regarding the Delawares, the Southern Cheyennes, Black Kettle, and the Battle of Washita. Serving as a ferry boat operator in Lawrence,…
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Date: January 16, 1911
In this letter to George Martin of the Kansas State Historical Society, Captain Dewitt C. Goodrich writes regarding an attack that occurred near Victoria, Kansas, in October 1867. According to…
