Medium: Text
Date: December 25, 1925
This item, written by William Elsey Connelley of the Kansas State Historical Society, traces the origins of the name Topeka. Beginning with the early settlement of the land that became…
Medium: Text
Date: January 01, 1900-January 01, 1920
This item, written by William Elsey Connelley of the Kansas State Historical Society, provides a detailed history of the Old Shawnee Mission up until the early twentieth century. Connelley’s history…
Medium: Text
Date: 1917
This item was written in 1917 by Kansas State Historical Society Secretary William Elsey Connelley. Included is both the handwritten draft and typed draft of the work. In the item,…
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Date: 1917
This item was written by William Elsey Connelley of the Kansas State Historical Society It covers the history of the Prairie Band of Potawatomie Indians then located on the reservation…
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Date: November 23, 1917-December 03, 1917
The largest item in this group is a list of Potawatomi allottees complied by Colonel Henry J. Aten around 1905. The accompanying correspondence, that discusses the list of allottees, consists…
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Date: January 1, 1850 - August 7, 1879
This item, acquired from Mary Peery Whittaker by William E. Connelley of the Kansas State Historical Society, contains diary entries written by Reverend John Thompson Peery who was served the…
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Date: March 08, 1921
This item, written by William Elsey Connelley of the Kansas State Historical Society, covers some of the history of the Methodist Indian Mission which was later known as the Indian…
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Date: May 07, 1923-May 24, 1923
This collection of items written by Miss Edna Clyne of Seatlle, Washington, for William Elsey Connelley of the Kansas State Historical Society, includes a number of Native Indian stories regarding…
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Date: Unknown
This is a history of Bradford Robbins Grimes and his grandfather, Captain “Dick” Grimes. The history covers cattle and cattle drives and the Indian presence that both men encountered.
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Date: April 14, 1918
This item, secured from Rezin Wilcoxen by William E. Connelley in 1895, contains the vocabulary of the language spoken by the Delaware Nation. According to Connelley, Rezin learned the Delaware…
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Date: 1851-1904
A collection of fifty-six letters from the family of James Butler (“Wild Bill”) Hickok. The letters describe the adventures of the Hickok children (including Wild Bill) in California, Kansas, Missouri…
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Date: December 29, 1863
This item from the collection of Charles R. Green details the injuries he sustained during the Battle of Chicamauga in September of 1863. Following the Civil War, Green began a…
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Date: January 01, 1894-January 01, 1910
This item, written by Lyndon, Kansas, historian Charles R. Greene, details the life of Sauk Indian, Quenemo. It details Quenemo’s life and achievements. According to Green, an article that he…
Medium: Text
Date: Between 1900 and 1920
This item contains a thorough account of the original settlers and the history of the Delaware Reserve. Written by historian Charles R. Green, this item contains a rather detailed look…
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Date: August 31, 1876
This item, copied by Charles R. Green from a “book at the Sac & Fox Agency Okla,” indicates that the Sac and Fox tribe was living at Reservation number 417.…
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Date: September 1, 1854
This document summarizes three reports from Judge B.A. James, Reverend Meeker and [J.]B. [Dueriuck] about Native American tribes within the Great Nemaha Agency. The reports includes interesting details regarding during…
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Date: September 1, 1853
This item lists tribes under the Superintendency of Indians Affairs in St. Louis headed by B.A. James and Colonel Alfred Cummings. In particular, the item lists the Ottawas, Chippewas of…
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Date: Between 1900 and 1920
Elbridge Burke Fenn moved to Kansas in 1866 with several others, first settling in a “vacant cabin” on the Sac and Fox Agency. This item contains information on several Sac…
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Date: Between 1920 and 1938
A transcription of an article that appeared in the Clark County Clipper, Ashland, Kansas, on December 30, 1886 and on January 1, 1885. The article recounts the significance of Mount…
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Date: Unknown
A history on how Clark County received its name. The county is named after Charles F. Clark, captain and assistant adjutant of the U.S. Volunteers during the Civil War.
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Date: February 1903-February 21, 1903
This correspondence between James W. Baird and Marjory Dawson of the Missouri Historical Society, concerns the activities of Baird’s grandfather James Baird. The letter from J.W. Baird to Dawson, dated…
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Date: January 10, 1898
In this letter to Colonel Henry Inman, James W. Baird writes in regard to Inman’s recent book “The Old Santa Fe Trail: The Story of a Great Highway.” Baird informs…
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Date: Between 1869 and 1890
This item contains several pages of entries taken from the diary of Richard F. Blinn, who lost his wife and child in an 1868 Cheyenne raid. The diary entries detail…
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Date: Unknown
This item tells of the fate of Richard Blinn’s wife Clara and their son Willie in 1868. After spending a short time living in Ottawa, Kansas, the Blinn’s left for…
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Date: August 14, 1901
In this letter to Judge Ruppenthal, William K. Beach provides a first-hand account of an Indian raid that occurred in June of 1867 at Fossil Creek Station near present day…
