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Atlas map of Leavenworth County, Kansas
Creator: Missouri Publishing Co.
Date: 1878
This atlas contains maps of the townships with plat owners names, lithograph illustrations, a history of Leavenworth County, and biographical sketches of local citizens.
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Governor's Message vetoing the Kickapoo ferry
Creator: Reeder, Andrew H. (Andrew Horatio), 1807-1864
Date: July 21, 1855
This item is a printed letter by Governor Andrew Reeder to the legislature, informing them that he had vetoed the bill to incorporate a ferry in Kickapoo, Kansas Territory. Reeder reminds the legislature that they were to meet at Ft. Leavenworth and not at the Shawnee Manual Labor School.
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Kansas pioneer, extra
Date: January 18, 1856
This newspaper clipping from the Kansas Pioneer, published in the territory city of Kickapoo near Leavenworth, Kansas, describes the violence and tension between pro-slavery and free state forces during the Bleeding Kansas era. The article goes on to encourage pro-slavery supporters to take up arms against Abolitionists. The Extra indicated the messenger came from Eastin and that pro-slavery men were leaving for Eastin. It is not clear if the paper meant the city of Easton in Leavenworth County, or if it was referring to Lucien Eastin, editor of the Kansas Weekly Herald, legislator and Brigadier General in the Kansas Militia. The language in the Extra is inflammatory.
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Kickapoo City Association minute book
Creator: Kickapoo City Association
Date: August 28, 1854 - October 1, 1858
This minute book documented the founding of the Kickapoo City Association in Leavenworth County and its transactions through October 1, 1858. It contained the association's by-laws. It was a fairly complete example of how a town association conducted business, including surveying the proposed site, acquiring title to the land involved, sale of shares, and efforts to make the town attractive to prospective settlers. Meetings were held on the town site or in Weston, Missouri.
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Kickapoo old land office
Date: Between 1890 and 1910 ?
A photo of the Kickapoo Old Land office in Leavenworth County, Kansas.
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Land Office, Kickapoo, Kansas Territory, notice
Creator: United States. General Land Office
Date: June 12, 1858
Issued by John W. Whitfield, land office register and former proslavery territorial delegate to Congress, on June 12, 1858, this one-page notice informed Sol Miller of a counter claim made against some preemption land in which Miller (referred to as "an adverse claimant") apparently held an interest. The notice was also signed by Daniel Woodson, receiver, who had served as the first secretary of the territory of Kansas and on several occasions in 1855 and 1856 as acting governor.
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Old Kickapoo cannon
Date: between 1840 and 1860
The "Old Kickapoo" cannon was a United States Model 1841 six-pounder field gun. The cannon was captured by American forces in the Battle of Sacramento during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). After the war the gun made its way to Weston, Missouri, were it was seized by proslavery forces in a raid and taken to the town of Kickapoo, Kansas, a town just to the north of Leavenworth. The proslavery Kickapoo Rangers used the gun in the raid on Lawrence on May 21, 1856. Later in 1858 the cannon was captured by free-state forces in a foray against Kickapoo. The gun then resided for a time in Leavenworth. After the Civil War the cannon was used to clear a coal mine shaft at Leavenworth and the barrel blew up due to being overcharged. It later was purchased from a scapyard in 1884 by the Kansas State Historical Society and then placed in its historical collections.
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Sale of public lands, Kansas Territory
Creator: Hendricks, Thomas A.
Date: July 21, 1858
This 1858 flyer announced the sale of various public lands in Lecompton and Kickapoo, Kansas Territory.
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Standard atlas of Leavenworth County, Kansas
Creator: Geo. A. Ogle & Co.
Date: 1903
This atlas shows maps of each township with the names of landowners. It has a patrons' directory, portraits of residents, and plats of towns in the year of publication.
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Territory of Kansas and Indian Territory
Creator: Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1804-1871
Date: 1857
This map, drawn by Henry Rogers and Alexander Keith Johnston in 1857, details Kansas Territory and Indian Territory. Kansas Territory included portions of what would become eastern Colorado. Indian Territory later became Oklahoma. The map traces the route of the Santa Fe Trail, proposed routes for the Pacific Railway, and identifies military forts. The maps also provides information on geographical features.
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Voting at Kickapoo, Kansas Territory
Date: 1867
An 1867 illustration of pro-slavery Missourians voting at Kickapoo, Kansas Territory, sometime in 1855. The image was copied from "Beyond the Mississippi" by Albert D. Richardson (German edition).
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Voting at Kickapoo, Kansas Territory
Date: 1867
An 1867 illustration of pro-slavery Missourians voting at Kickapoo, Kansas Territory, sometime in 1855. The image was copied from "Beyond the Mississippi" by Albert D. Richardson.
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William Stanley to John A. Halderman
Creator: Stanley, William
Date: January 12, 1858
Shortly after John Halderman left Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, for a trip east (Washington, D. C., it is nearly certain), William Stanley writes him from Leavenworth regarding some "excitement" that had occurred there the very day Halderman left. Many were fearful of "attack" and thus the alarms were "sounded. . . . Hundreds of free state men were soon in arms, and the proslavery party exhibited more of apprehension than I have ever witnessed before." He mentions proslavery men leaving for Shawnee, the fact that many free-state men had recently been driven out of nearby Kickapoo, Kansas Territory, that John Calhoun was given a military escort to Lecompton, and Stanley's confidence that the [Lecompton] constitution would pass the Congress.
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