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Samuel Tappan wrote from Barker's Mission on the Shawnee Reserve in present-day Johnson County, Kansas Territory, to Ellen Goodnow, Isaac Goodnow's wife, near Manhattan. Tappan updated Ellen on the status of some misplaced luggage, providing a good description of local shipping and travel procedures. He praised the land of Kansas, " a glorious country to try 'men's soles' (sic)". Tappan also described the recent scuffle between Governor Reeder and Benjamin Stringfellow, an incident which embodied the tension between anti and proslavery supporters.
Creator: Tappan, S. F. (Samuel Forster), d. 1913
Date: June 29, 1855
Item Number: 3613
Call Number: Isaac Goodnow Coll. #357 Box 1 Folder 39
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 3613
Business and Industry - Trucking and freighting
Collections - Manuscript - Goodnow, Isaac
Date - 1854-1860 - 1855
Environment - Landscape
Government and Politics - Political Parties - Free Soil
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Pro-Slavery
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Governors - Reeder, Andrew H
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Legislatures
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Political parties - Free State
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Political parties - Proslavery
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - American Indians - Missions - Shawnee Methodist Mission
People - American Indians - Tribes - Shawnee
People - Notable Kansans - Reeder, Andrew H. (Andrew Horatio), 1807-1864
People - Notable Kansans - Tappan, Samuel Forster
People - Women
Places - Cities and towns - Manhattan
Places - Cities and towns - Pawnee (Geary County)
Places - Cities and towns - Shannon
Places - Cities and towns - Shawnee Mission
Places - Counties - Geary
Places - Counties - Johnson
Places - Counties - Riley
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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