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This brief diary, kept by Anna Margaret (Watson) Randolph, begins with her move to Kansas in an entry dated August 17, 1858. These six entries at the beginning of her diary provide details about her family's journey from Ohio to Kansas Territory, included a number of interesting accounts of their journey on a riverboat. Their boat ran aground several times and, interspersed among her descriptions of these difficulties, Anna wrote about her sister Mary Jane, the weather, and her personal observances of other passengers. She also filled her diary with her frustrations and concerns during their arduous journey west.
Creator: Randolph, Anna Margaret Watson, 1838-1917
Date: August 17, 1858 - August 22, 1858
Item Number: 2262
Call Number: Anna M.W. Randolph Coll. #238 Box 1 Folder 20
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 2262
Agriculture - Environment - Weather
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Farmers
Collections - Manuscript - Randolph, Anna M. W.
Community Life - Community services - Travel and tourism
Community Life - Religion - Christianity - Friends (Quakers)
Date - 1854-1860 - 1858
Environment - Water - Rivers
Environment - Weather
Government and Politics - Political Parties - Free Soil
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery - Abolition
Home and Family - Activities - Religious - Church attendance
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Home and Family - Families
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Diary
People - Notable Kansans - Randolph, Anna Margaret (Watson), 1838-1917
Places - Cities and towns - Emporia
Places - Counties - Lyon
Places - Other States - Ohio
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Transportation - Water
Transportation - Water - Boats
Transportation - Water - Steamboats
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Diaries
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