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Although Ingalls began this relatively brief letter from Sumner with comments on the local election (he won the race for city attorney), he devoted most of it to the Pike's Peak Gold Rush--"the amount and character of the emigration to Pike's Peak is truly astonishing. . . . [T] military roads are already thronged with anxious hundreds, on foot, dragging hand carts, on mules, and with ox teams."
Creator: Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900
Date: March 15, 1859
Item Number: 2960
Call Number: John James Ingalls Coll. #177 Box 1 Folder 2
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 2960
Agriculture - Livestock - Mules
Agriculture - Livestock - Oxen
Business and Industry - Mining and quarrying - Gold
Collections - Manuscript - Ingalls, John James
Community Life - Community services - Roads
Community Life - Town development
Date - 1854-1860 - 1859
Environment - Natural resources - Gold
Government and Politics - Elections
Government and Politics - Local Government - County - Attorney
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Elections
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Governors - Medary, Samuel
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans - Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900
Places - Cities and towns - Leavenworth
Places - Cities and towns - Sumner (Atchison)
Places - Counties - Atchison
Places - Counties - Leavenworth
Places - Other States - Colorado
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Transportation - Roads & Highways - Roads
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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