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A portrait of Michael Westernhouse Sutton, an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad attorney in Dodge City, Kansas. Sutton, a prohibitionist, worked against his friend William Barkley "Bat" Masterson during the liquor war of 1886. Also, he served in the Kansas House of Representatives in 1893 representing District 97.
Date: Between 1880 and 1889
Item Number: 213412
Call Number: B Sutton, Michael W. *3
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 213412
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Lawyers
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1880s
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Prohibition and temperance
Government and Politics - State Government - Legislature - House of Representatives
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Dodge City
Places - Counties - Ford
Thematic Time Period - Cattle Drives, 1867 - 1885
Type of Material - Photographs
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