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This document contains additional reports of conditions in various Kansas Territory counties during the drought of 1860. It consists of letters that W. F. M. Arny copied and sent to Thaddeus Hyatt, president of the National Kansas Committee. The reports were submitted by Josiah G. Fuller, James Whary, and Henry Brock, Eureka, Greenwood County; W. A. Harris and A. L Williams, Cottonwood Falls, Chase County; H. H. George, W. Wendell, and R. W. Cloud, Waterloo, Breckenridge County; I. P. Herrick, Iowa Township, Doniphan County; G. S. Northrup, J. H. Spicey, and A. G. Carpenter, Geneva Township, Allen County; and Charles P. Twiss, Cofachique Township, Allen County. The reports describe prospects for crops and other conditions resulting from the prolonged drought. Naturally, the drought was difficult for everyone in the Kansas Territory. However, the drought was especially hard for Native American tribes because of their reliance on the buffalo herds of the American West which decreased substantially due, at least in part, to the dry conditions of the period.
Date: 1860
Item Number: 90570
Call Number: Thaddeus Hyatt Coll. #401 Box 2 Folder 1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 90570
Agriculture - Crops
Agriculture - Livestock
Collections - Manuscript - Hyatt, Thaddeus
Community Life - Clubs and organizations - Charitable - Relief - Kansas National Committee
Date - 1854-1860 - 1860
Environment - Weather - Droughts
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - American Indians
People - American Indians - Indian lands
People - Notable Kansans - Arny, William Frederick Milton, 1813-1881
People - Notable People - Hyatt, Thaddeus
Places - Cities and towns - Cottonwood Falls
Places - Cities and towns - Eureka
Places - Counties - Allen
Places - Counties - Breckinridge (1855-1862)
Places - Counties - Chase
Places - Counties - Doniphan
Places - Counties - Greenwood
Places - Counties - Lyon
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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