CONTENTS

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   I.      THE BEGINNING OF KANSAS HISTORY .............................9

  II.     KANSAS BECOMES A PART OF THE UNITED STATES......16

 III.     EXPLORATION OF THE KANSAS COUNTRY BY THE
                 UNITED STATES.................................................................20

  IV.    KANSAS AS A PATHWAY.......................................................29

   V.    KANSAS AS AN INDIAN COUNTRY......................................46

  VI.    KANSAS ORGANIZED AS A TERRITORY..............................57

 VII.    THE COMING OF THE SETTLERS...........................................63

VIII.    THE FIRST TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT............................73

  IX.    RIVAL GOVERNMENTS IN KANSAS.....................................79

    X.   THE PERIOD OF VIOLENCE........ ............................................85

   XI.   THE PERIOD OF POLITICAL CONTESTS ..............................95

  XII.   PIONEER LIFE..........................................................................103

 XIII.   KANSAS IN THE CIVIL WAR................................................111

 XIV.   THE HALF CENTURY SINCE THE CIVIL WAR ..................117

  XV.   THE INDUSTRIES OF KANSAS.............................................141

 XVI.   RAILROADS IN KANSAS......................................................172

XVII.   EDUCATION IN KANSAS ....................................................183

XVIII.  KANSAS MEMORIALS..........................................................201

XIX.     THE KANSAS SPIRIT............... ............................................211

            APPENDIX...............................................................................215

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QUIVIRA-KANSAS

In that half-forgotten era,
 With the avarice of old,
     Seeking cities he was told
                 Had been paved with yellow gold,
In the kingdom of Quivira­

Came the restless Coronado
   To the open Kansas plain,
             With his knights from sunny Spain;
      In an effort that, though vain,
          Thrilled with boldness and bravado.

             League by league, in aimless marching,
             Knowing scarcely where or why,
                  Crossed they uplands drear and dry,
That an unprotected sky
  Had for centuries been parching.

But their expectations, eager,
       Found, instead of fruitful lands,
             Shallow streams and shifting sands,
Where the buffalo in bands
           Roamed o'er deserts dry and meager.

    Back to the scenes more trite, yet tragic,
                  Marched the knights with armor'd steeds;
Not for them the quiet deeds;
Not for them to sow the seeds
From which empires grow like magic.

Thus Quivira was forsaken;
            And the world forgot the place
                    Through the lapse of time and space.
            Then the blue-eyed Saxon race
Came and bade the desert waken.

                                                                                      -EUGENE WARE.

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Journeys of Cabeza de Vaca and Coronado...........................................................12

"Francisco Vasqueth de Coronado, commander of an expedition arrived at this place"......13

The expedition of Pike, and the location of the original Indian tribes. There were no clearly defined boundaries between the tribes............................................................................................22

An Indian Village.......................................................................................................24

Interior of an Indian Lodge.........................................................................................25

The Santa Fe and Osage Trails and early lines of Railroads through Kansas....................28

Scenes in early Santa Fe. Left, a street scene. Upper right, an adobe house. Lower right, the old "Palace.....................................................................................................................30

Pack Mules...............................................................................................................31

Council Oak, under which the Commissioners and Indians met at Council Grove to make their treaty.......................................................................................................................34

Crossing the Plains....................................................................................................36

Buffaloes, sometimes called American bison................................................................37

Pawnee Rock............................................................................................................37

An Indian in War Dress..........................................................................47

Indian Reservations in Kansas.................................................................47

The Indian tepee.......................................................................................................49

Shawnee Mission as first built in 1830.........................................................................51

The Camp of Instruction held every year at Fort Riley on that part of the reservation known as Pawnee Flats.............................................................................................................52

Pontoon Bridge at Fort Riley......................................................................................52

Old Wall at Fort Leavenworth....................................................................................53

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