A History of Kansas

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Anna E. Arnold. A History of Kansas

A History of Kansas

Table of Contents

PREFACE

A HISTORY OF KANSAS

CHAPTER I

THE BEGINNING OF KANSAS HISTORY

CHAPTER II

KANSAS BECOMES A PART OF THE UNITED STATES

CHAPTER III

EXPLORATION OF THE KANSAS COUNTRY BY THE UNITED STATES

CHAPTER IV

KANSAS AS A PATHWAY

CHAPTER V

KANSAS AS AN INDIAN COUNTRY

CHAPTER VI

KANSAS ORGANIZED AS A TERRITORY

CHAPTER VII

THE COMING OF THE SETTLERS

CHAPTER VIII

THE FIRST TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER IX

RIVAL GOVERNMENTS IN KANSAS

CHAPTER X

THE PERIOD OF VIOLENCE

CHAPTER XI

THE PERIOD OF POLITICAL CONTESTS

CHAPTER XII

PIONEER LIFE

CHAPTER XIII

KANSAS IN THE CIVIL WAR

CHAPTER XIV

KANSAS SINCE THE CIVIL WAR

CHAPTER XV

THE INDUSTRIES OF KANSAS

CHAPTER XVI

TRANSPORTATION IN KANSAS

CHAPTER XVII

EDUCATION IN KANSAS

CHAPTER XVIII

KANSAS MEMORIALS

CHAPTER XIX

THE KANSAS SPIRIT

THE APPENDIX

INDEX

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Anna E. Arnold

Published by Good Press, 2021

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An Experience with Indians. This caravan decided to take the southern route. A band of Indians soon appeared, carrying an American flag as a token of peace. They talked with the traders by means of signs and told them there were immense numbers of Indians ahead. A little later a band of warriors appeared and threatened to fight. There was great excitement as the caravan prepared for battle and the Indians continued to pour over the hills. But there was no fighting, for the chief came forward with his “peace pipe,” from which the captain took a whiff. The warriors were ordered back to rejoin the long train of squaws and papooses who were following with the baggage. There were probably three thousand Indians in this party, and they moved down into the valley and pitched their wigwams. The traders felt sure that since the women and children were along the Indians would not be hostile, and they, therefore, formed their camp a few hundred yards away. The Indians gathered around to gaze at the wagons, for it was probably the first time most of them had ever seen such vehicles. Some of them followed to the next camp, and the next day a large number of them gathered around the caravan. This sort of thing continued until the traders made up a present of fifty or sixty dollars’ worth of goods to “seal the treaty of peace.”

Their First News. Some days later the caravan met a Mexican buffalo hunter. He told the traders the news from Santa Fe, the first they had heard since the return of the caravan of the year before. To-day Kansas City and Santa Fe are little more than twenty-four hours apart by rail, and we read the latest news from both places in the morning and evening papers.

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