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Hercules Price to Ferdinand Erhardt

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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Hercules H. Price to Ferdinand Erhardt

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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Hercules H. Price to Adolph Roenigk

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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E.A. Herod to George W. Martin

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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Eugene Carr to Hercules Price

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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Frank Frantz to George W. Martin

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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Hercules Price to A. Roenigk

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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What’s the matter with Kansas?

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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Reminiscences of Reverend William H. Honnell

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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H.L. Stein to George W. Martin

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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Reverend T.H. Kinsella to J.V. Kelly

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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Milo Custer to George W. Martin

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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A.M. Coville to George W. Martin

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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T.S Huffaker and Joseph S. Chick correspondence

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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George Pierson Morehouse to George W. Martin

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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George Pierson Morehouse to George W. Martin

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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John Thompson Peery to W.W. Cone

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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W.S. Chick to W.W. Cone

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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Joseph S. Chick interview

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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Daniel Boone to W.W. Cone

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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J.C. McCoy to W.W. Cone

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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Hercules H. Price to George W. Martin

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…