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En route to Kansas Territory via St. Charles, Iowa, Watson Brown wrote to his sister, Mary Brown, and their extended family to report that he was in "fine spirits besides being in good company we are in the company of a train of Kansas teams loaded with Sharps rifles and canon."
Creator: Brown, Watson , 1835-1859
Date: October 30, 1856
Item Number: 4397
Call Number: John Brown Coll. #299 Box 1 Folder 17
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 4397
Agriculture - Livestock - Horses
Collections - Manuscript - Brown, John
Date - 1854-1860 - 1856
Government and Politics - Political Parties - Free Soil
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery - Abolition
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Political parties - Free State
Home and Family - Families - Brothers and sisters
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Military - Weapons - Artillery - Cannons
Military - Weapons - Firearms - Rifles
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - African Americans
People - Notable People - Brown, John, 1800-1859
People - Notable People - Douglass, Frederick ,1818-1895
People - Women
Places - Other States - Iowa
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Transportation - Non-motorized - Wagons
Transportation - Trails
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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