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True Story of the Rescue of Kansas from Slavery.
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_______________. The Truth at Last. History Corrected.
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F. Fell, 1962.Connelley, William Elsey. James Henry Lane, the Grim Chieftain of Kansas.
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1966.Miller, Nyle. Great Gunfighters of the Kansas Cowtowns, 1867-1886.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1967.Palmer, Frederick. This Man Landon: The Record and Career of Governor
Alfred M. Landon of Kansas. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1936.Plummer, Mark. Frontier Governor; Samuel J. Crawford of Kansas. Lawrence:
University Press of Kansas, 1971.Ruede, Howard. Sod-house Days: Letters from a Kansas Homesteader,
1877-78. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1983.Smith, Marguerite E. Pioneer Heritage: The Smith Family: A
Biographical-Autobiographical Story. New York: Vantage Press, c. 1977.Speer, John. Life of General James H. Lane, the Liberator of Kansas.
Garden City, KS: J. Speer, printer, 1896.Stahl, Frank. One-Way Ticket to Kansas: The Autobiography of Frank M.
Stahl As Told by Margaret Whittemore. Lawrence: University of Kansas
Press, 1959.Stratton, Joanna. Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier. New
York: Simon and Schuster, c. 1980.Three Years on the Kansas Border; In Perils by Mine Own Countrymen. By a
clergyman of the Episcopal Church. New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, c.
1856.Treadway, William Eugene. Cyrus K. Holliday, a Documentary Biography.
Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1979.United States Biographical Dictionary. Kansas Volume: Containing
accurately compiled Biographical Sketches, into which is woven the History
of the State and its Leading Interests. Chicago: S. Lewis and Company, 1879.Walbridge, Caroline. Ranchorama and Louie C. Walbridge; an Illustrated
Story of Profile Ranch and the Owner. Russell, KS: The Russell Record,
1966.Wilson, Don W. Governor Charles Robinson of Kansas. Lawrence: University
Press of Kansas, c. 1975.
MINORITIES:
Athearn, Robert. In Search of Canaan: Black Migration to Kansas, 1879-80.
Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1978.Bruce, Janet. The Kansas City Monarchs: Champions of Black Baseball.
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1985.Cornish, Dudley. Kansas Negro Regiments in the Civil War. Topeka: State
of Kansas Commission on Civil Rights, 1969.Cox, Thomas C. Blacks in Topeka, Kansas, 1865-1915: A Social History.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c. 1982.DeVoe, Carrie. Legends of the Kaw: the Folklore of the Indians of the
Kansas River Valley. Kansas City, MO: Franklin Hudson, 1904.Kansas State Historical Society. Historical Site Survey. Black Historical
Sites, a Beginning Point. Topeka: 1977.Miner, H. Craig. The End of Indian Kansas: A Study of Cultural
Revolution, 1854-1871. Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1978.New England Emigrant Aid Company. Two tracts for the times. The one
entitled "Negro-slavery No Evil," by B.F. Stringfellow of Missouri. The
other, an answer to the inquiry "Is It Expedient to Introduce Slavery into
Kansas?" by D.R. Goodloe of North Carolina. Boston: Mudge and Son,
printer, 1855.Painter, Nell. Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas after
Reconstruction. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1986.Robb, John M. The Black Coal Miner of Southeast Kansas. Topeka: State of
Kansas Commission on Civil Rights, 1969.Schwendemann, Glen. Nicodemus: Negro Haven on the Solomon. Topeka: State
of Kansas Commission on Civil Rights, 1971.Tower, Philo. Slavery Unmasked. New York: Negro Universities Press,
1969.Unrau, William. The Kansa Indians; A History of the Wind People,
1673-1873. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971.United States Department of the Interior. Promised Land on the Solomon:
Black Settlement at Nicodemus, Kansas. Washington, D.C.: Supt. of Docs.,
U.S. G.P.O., 1986.
BUSINESS/PROFESSIONAL:
Amos, Eugene, ed. Kansas Funeral Profession: Through the Years Since
1858. Shawnee Mission, KS: Kansas Funeral Directors Association, 1983.Anderson, George LaVerne. Kansas West. (Pacific Railway Company) San
Marino, CA: Golden West Books, 1963.Crimmins, Harold. A History of the Kansas Central Railway, 1871-1935.
Emporia, KS: Graduate Division of the Kansas State Teachers College, 1954.Crippen, Waldo. The Kansas Pacific Railroad: A Cross Section of an Age of
Railroad Building. New York: Arno Press, 1981.History of Kansas Newspapers. Topeka: Kansas State Printing Plant, W.R.
Smith, state printer, 1916.Kerr, John Leeds. Destination Topolobampo; the Kansas City, Mexico and
Orient Railway. San Marino, CA: Golden West Books, 1968.Kirkwood, Roger, ed. The Story of Banking in Kansas. Topeka: Kansas
Bankers Association, 1981.Miller, Nyle. Kansas in Newspapers. Topeka: Kansas State Historical
Society, 1963.Nelson, Edward. The Company and the Community. Lawrence: Bureau of
Business Research, School of Business, University of Kansas, c. 1956.Records of Washburn College, 1881-1926. Partial Contents: Minutes of the
faculty meetings of the Kansas Medical College, October 21, 1889-May 29,
1913--Kansas Medical College correspondence, 1903-1913.Richmond, Robert, ed. Requisite Learning and Good Moral Character: A
History of the Kansas Bench and Bar. Topeka: Kansas Bar Association,
1982.Sheridan, Richard. An Economic History, 1500-1900. Lawrence: School of
Business, Bureau of Business Research, University of Kansas, 1956.Union Pacific Railroad Company. Kansas Industrial Properties. Omaha:
Union Pacific Railroad, 1945.Weston, W., ed., Weston's Guide to the Kansas Pacific Railway, containing a
full and reliable description of the cities and towns...from Kansas City,
Mo. and Leavenworth, Kansas, to Denver, Colorado. Kansas City, Mo.:
Bulletin Steam Print and Engraving House, 1872.
RELIGION:
Correll, Charles. A Century of Congregationalism in Kansas: 1854-1954.
Topeka: Congregational Christian Conference, c. 1953.Dougherty, J.G. General Association of Congregational Ministers and
Churches of Kansas. Memorial Volume; being historical papers, read at the
General Association of Congregational Ministers and Churches of Kansas,
semi-centennial session, Lawrence, Kansas, June 14-18, 1904. Lawrence:
1904.Holter, Don W. Fire on the Prairie; Methodism in the History of Kansas.
Hymowitz, Kay. The Spirit Unconsumed: A History of the Topeka Jewish
Community. Topeka: Temple Beth Sholom, 1979.Linquist, Emory. The Protestant Church in Kansas: An Annotated
Bibliography. Wichita: University of Wichita, 1956.
ARCHEOLOGY:
Lees, William. Jotham Meeker's Farmstead: Historical Archeology at the
Ottawa Baptist Mission, Kansas. Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society,
1986.Marshall, James. The Archeology of the Elk City Reservoir: A Local
Archeological Sequence in Southeast Kansas. Topeka: Kansas State
Historical Society, 1972.O'Brien, Patricia. Archeology in Kansas. Lawrence: University of Kansas,
1984.Schmits, Larry. Archeological and Geological Investigations at the Coffee
Site, Tuttle Creek Lake, Kansas: Final Report. Lawrence: University of
Kansas, Museum of Anthropology, 1981.Wedel, Waldo. Archeological Remains in Central Kansas and Their Possible
Bearing on the Location of Quivira. City of Washington: The Smithsonian
Institution, 1942.Williams, Barry. 14CT347: A Burned Rock Complex of Southeastern Kansas.
Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1988.Wilmeth, Roscoe. Excavations in the Pomona Reservoir. Topeka: Kansas
State Historical Society, 1970.Witty, Thomas. Four Archeological Sites of the Perry Lake, Kansas. Topeka:
Kansas State Historical Society, 1983._____________. Salvage Archeology of the John Redmond Lake, Kansas.
Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1980._____________. The Woods: Avery and Streeter Archeological Sites, Milford
Reservoir, Kansas. Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1963.
GENEALOGY:
Kansas Pioneers. Topeka: Topeka Genealogical Society, 1976.
Robertson, Clara H. Kansas Territorial Settlers of 1860, who were born in
Tennessee, Virginia, and South Carolina: a compilation with Historical
Annotations and Editorial Comment. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing
Co., 1976.Wiebe, Raymond. The John Frantz People, from Poland to Central Kansas.
Wichita: Wiebe, 1979.
PICTORIAL:
Hamil, James. Return to Kansas. Lawrence: Southwind Press, 1984.
Ikenberry, Larry. Kansas Past: A Photographic Essay of the Great Plains
of Western Kansas. Olympia, WA: Cascade Photographics, 1979.Johnston, J. Early Leavenworth and Fort Leavenworth: A Photographic
History. Leavenworth, KS: Johnston, 1977.Lyle, Wes. Kansas Impressions: Photographs and Words. Lawrence:
University Press of Kansas, 1972.Miller, Nyle. Kansas, a Pictorial History by Nyle H. Miller, Edgar
Langsdorf and Robert W. Richmond. Topeka: Kansas Centennial Commission,
1961.
____________. Kansas -- the 34th Star: a Photographic Treasury of Kansas
issued in Commemoration of the American Bicentennial. Topeka: The Society, 1976.Weathers, Ginny. Discover Kansas: The Light, the Land, the Living.
Topeka: Image Press; Verona, NJ: Unicorn Pub. House, c. 1983.
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