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These legal documents relate to the case of the United States versus Thomas Donovan and Michael Culbert. Donovan and Culbert were accused of selling alcohol to members of the Shawnee Tribe on February 15, 1855 on the Shawnee Tribal Land in the Kansas Territory. The two men were arrested on February 18, 1855. The Shawnee Tribe was removed to a tract of land in Johnson, Wyandotte, and Douglas counties in 1826. Alcohol was prohibited on Native American land from 1832 to 1953.
Date: 1855
Item Number: 444971
Call Number: Kansas Territory Criminal Case Files, Box 8, Folder 35
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 444971
Collections - State Archives - U. S. District Court of Kansas (Kansas Territory) - Criminal Case Files
Date - 1854-1860 - 1855
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Crime - Alcohol
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Vice - Alcohol use
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Courts - United States District Courts
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Courts - Second Judicial District
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Case file
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Record, Judicial
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Warrant
People - American Indians - Missions - Shawnee Methodist Mission
People - American Indians - Tribes - Shawnee
People - Notable Kansans - Lecompte, Samuel, 1814-1888
Places - Counties - Douglas
Places - Counties - Johnson
Places - Counties - Wyandotte
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records - Case files
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Legal documents
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