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Nelson Rusk, writing from Topeka, described for William Barnes, secretary of the New York State Kansas Committee, economic conditions and political events in Kansas. Rusk commented on the high cost of living and described in negative terms Col. Edwin V. Sumner's dispersal of the free state legislature on July 4, 1856.
Creator: Rusk, Nelson
Date: July 13, 1856
Item Number: 534
Call Number: William Barnes Coll. #269 Box 2 Folder 7
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 534
Business and Industry
Government and Politics - Territorial Government
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
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