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Thomas Ewing, Jr., wrote from Leavenworth to his father in Ohio seeking his assistance with a legal matter involving claims to the land "reserved to certain half breeds of the Kansas tribe." Most of this land was occupied by squatters and questions of legal title and transfer were being litigated in the territorial and federal courts.
Creator: Ewing, Thomas, 1829-1896
Date: March 9, 1860
Item Number: 923
Call Number: Thomas Ewing, Jr., Coll. No. 341, Letter Press Book No. 3
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 923
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Lawyers
Collections - Manuscript - Ewing, Thomas, Jr.
Date - 1854-1860 - 1860
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Policies and programs - Land
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Courts
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - American Indians - Indian lands
People - American Indians - Tribes - Kanza (Kaw)
Places - Cities and towns - Leavenworth
Places - Counties - Leavenworth
Places - Other States - Ohio
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/923