A History of Kansas

Chapter 45: Transcriber’s Note:

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The work traces the region’s development from Indigenous hunting grounds through early European exploration and inclusion in the United States, describing territorial organization, settlement, and the rival governments and violent conflicts that preceded statehood. It portrays pioneer daily life and the region’s experience in the Civil War, then follows postwar recovery and growth of agriculture, industry, transportation, and public education. Organized as a narrative for young readers, the account emphasizes the motives, hardships, and accomplishments of settlers and public leaders and concludes with memorials and reflections on the character and civic spirit that shaped the community.

Transcriber’s Note:

Only a few photographs have a source attribution. Many may have been copied from newspapers, and some are not in focus. The texture was not improved, so that the electronic images would be similar to the originals.

Inconsistent hyphenation, dialect, obsolete and alternative spellings were left unchanged.

Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and moved to the end of the book, preceding the Index. There are two anchors to Footnotes 36 and 37.

The following were changed:

Changed comma to stop at end of index entry: Democratic Party, 98.

Added stop to end of caption: STAGE COACH.

Added names of Governors to captions.

Corrected spelling: ecomomics to economics.

Removed space from Wa Keeney in appendix.