GENERAL   INDEX  STATE   HISTORY.
 

DESCRIPTIVE AND EARLY
HISTORY.

INTRODUCTORY.                                     Page.

Its Name.........................        33

The Face of thcCountryl^I'IIlI             33

Tile Kivcr System........   ........      34

Timber, Shrubs and Herbage.......      35

GKOLOGICAL STRUCTURE.

Tertiary Area...................             35

Tertiary Fossils....................      36

Creteceous Area...............     '      36

Fossils of the Niobrara.......'.'...[      37

Benton Fossils....................        38

Dakota Fossils.....................      39

Upper Carboniferous Area..........      39

Upper Carboniferous  and Permian

Fossils...............„..........      40

Coal Measures______.......________      40

Lower Carboniferous Fossils________      40

Sub-Carbonlferous Area_____ .....      41

Valuable Geological Products.......      41

Building Stone ........._•..........      41

Lime, Hydraulic Cement and Plaster      41

Clay—Coal—Salt...................      42

Lead and Zinc _____................      43

Silver and Gold.-.......____________      43

Miscellaneous______________________      43

Climate................._.......'.'      43

EARLY EXPLORATIONS AND EXPE¬
DITIONS.

Title to the Soil....................     44

Spanish Explorations and Discover¬
ies (1527-1536)............„.....      44

Coronado..........................44, 45

French Explorations and Discoveries     45

Marquette and Jollet..............45, 46

Du TIssenet....._..................     47

De BourgmoDt ....................48, 49

Western Fur Trade and Traders___     49

Early   American   Explorers   (1804-

1807).............................      4!1

Pike's Expedition.................50—53

Long's Expedition..................53, 51

The Great American Desert........     51

The Early Highways...............     54

Early Santa Fe Trade.......       ....54, 55

ThcSanta Fe Road...............55—57

INDIAN HISTORY.

Indians of Kansas ._......____

•   Western or Indian Territory........58,

Kansas Nation...................59,

Osage Nation......................60

Osage Missionary Establishments ..

Pawnees...........................63,

Padoucas..........................64,

Shawanoes, or Shawnees...........65,

Shawnee Missionary Establishments

Early Missionaries................66

Delawares, or Lenapes.............68,

Delaware Missions.................

Ottnwas    .....____.____...........

Ottawa Baptist Mission.............

Chlppcwas.........................

Wyandots    ........................70,

Pottawatomles           ...............71,

Pottawatomie Missionary Establish¬
ments............................71,

Mlamles______________________.....

Miami Missions____................

Confederated Tribes...............72,

Sacs and Foxes.....................

Jowas.  _______________.............

Klckapoos..........................

Gherokees .................._......

New York Indians..................

Indians of the Plains...............

PBE-TERRITORIAL HISTORY.

The Slavery Qnestlon..............

First Slavery Restriction...........

First Slavery Extension............

Slave Statistics    ..................

Emancipation In the Northern States
Classification of population of United

States...........................

The Missouri Contest..............

The Missouri Compromise..........

From 1820 10 1852............^.....

The Annexation of Texas--------------

The Wllmot Proviso................

Compromise of 1850................

Presidential Election (1852).........

Territorial Organization of Kansas..
Repudiation of Missouri Compromise
 

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72
72
, 73
73
73
73
73
74
74

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75
75
75
75

75
76
76
77
77
77
78
79
80
 

TERRITORIAL HISTORY.

The Organic Act...................     81

Population of Kansas—1854 .......     82

first Political Movements.........     82
 

Country Opened to White Settlers..     83
Land Claimed by Missouri Squatters     83

Eastern Emigration.............     84

Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Com¬
pany -----........................     84

Spli-lt of the Northern Press........     85

New York and Connecticut Emigrant

Aid Company........____........     35

Claim Associations.................     85

Town Associations  ................     86

First Territorial Appointments.....     86

The Beginning of Government.....     86

Governor Reeder's early Labors In

Kansas _________________________     §7

Election Proclamation for FlrstElec-

t'on.............................87, 88

Platte County Self-defensive Associ¬
ation ................_...........     90

Blue Lodges.............._.                  90

The First Political Campaign.......     91

The First Territorial Election......      93

Census of Kansas Territory........     94

Council Districts Defined...........     94

Representative Districts Defined---      94

Judicial Districts Defined.........     94

Election of March 30, 1855.........95-98

Anarchy Established In   the Terri¬
tory ............................99, 100

Lynch Law Organized .............    100

Election of May 22. 1855...........    101

First Territorial Legislature........    101

Unseating of Free-soil Members-. 102, 103
Legislature at Shawnee Mission-. 103, 104

Removal of Governor Reedcr___104, 105

The Black Laws....................    105

Work of First Territorial Legislature    105

The Free-State Movement..........    106

Democratic Meeting In Lawrence...    106
Free-State Conventions In Lawrence

106   107

Big Springs Convention...........108-110

Nomination of Free-State Congress¬
ional Delegate...................    109

Topeka Delegate Convention ......    110

Elections of October, 1855..........    Ill

TopekaConstltutlonalConventlon.lU, 112

Topeka Constitution........___    112

Governor Shannon's Arrival .......    113

Law and Order Party Organized.. 114, 115
The   Arrest and Rescue of  Jacob

Branson.......................116, 117

The Wakarusa War..............1]7-1'20

Topeka Constitution In Congress___    122

The National Conventions .........    123

Presidential Election (1856).........    123

The Home Struggle In Kansas     ...    121

The Topeka Legislature............    125

Chief Justice Lecompte............    127

The Sack of Lawrence........130, 131

The Pottawatomie Murders.........    131

War South of the Kaw.. -......131-135

Excitement In ■:he Northern States.-

136, 137
Dispersion   of   Topeka  Legislature

(July 1856).....................140, 141

Second Battle of Franklin .........    142

Siege of Fort Titus    ...............    142

Troubles North of the Kaw......M3, 144

Administration of Acting-Governor

Woodson......................144-146

Battle of Osawatomie..............    115

Liberation of Treason Prisoners___    147

Administration of Governor Geary.-

147-157

End of Free-State Raids...........    149

Attempted   Invasion   of    Missouri

Troops.....................-.....    149

Arrest of Col   Harvey's Men   .....   150

Close of the Atchlson-Strlngfellow

Campaign.....................150, 151

The Judiciary -..................152, 153

Emigrants over Lane's Route......    153

Free-State Prisoners.....—   .-.154,155

Governor Geary's tour through Kan¬
sas......._____............--------    155

Topeka Legislature ot 1857.....155, 156

Second Territorial Legislature......    156

Resignation of Governor Geary.....    157

Acting-Governor Stanton........157, 158

Administration ot Governor Walker

158-165
Election of Delegates to Lecompton

Constitutional Convention........    160

Question of   Voting  at  Territorial

Election, October, 1857........-    160

Apportionment for Third Territorial

Legislature......................    161

Grasshopper Falls Convention ... -    162
Lecompton   Constitutional   Conven¬
tion.........................162,163

Flection of October 5, 1857 -.......   163

Extra Session of Territorial Legisla¬
ture (Kree-State).........-.„,.--   165
 

Removal of Secretary Stanton and
resignation of Governor Walker.-

Vote on the Lecompton Constitution

Election for State Ofllcors (Lecomp¬
ton Constitution).................

Leavenworth Constitutional Conven¬
tion............................niT

Secretary Denver appointed Gov¬
ernor........___............

Kansas Affairs at Washington......

Resignation of Gov. Denver.......

Samuel Medary appointed Governor

Disintegration of Old Parties______

Organization of Republican Party In
Kansas   ........................

Wyandotte Constitutional Conven¬
tion .........................173-

Clalm Commission.................

Election for State and National Offi¬
cers (Wyandotte Constitution)-----

Drouth and Famine ...............

Resignation of Governor Medary.-.

Last Session of the Territorial Leg¬
islature _......................---
 

165
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166

169

169
170
171

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172
 

St. Louis, Fort Scott & Wichlta-
 

STATE  HISTORY.

MILITARY RECORD.

First Kan.sas Volunteer Infantry-.180, 181
Second   Kansas   Volunteer   Infant¬
ry -----........................181, 182

Second Kansas Volunteer Cavalrv..

"1S2-184
Fifth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry-. 184, 185

Sixth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry-----

185-188
Seventh   Kansas   Volunteer  Caval¬
ry.......................___18", 139

Eighth   Kansas   Volunteer   Infant¬
ry.............................Isn-IM

Ninth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry--193, 191
Tenth Kansas Volunteer Infantry.194, 193
Eleventh   Kansas   Volunteer Caval¬
ry   ........................___195-197

Twelfth   Kansas   Volunteer Infant- _

ry...........................197,193

Thirteenth Kansas Volunteer Caval¬
ry................................    198

Fourteenth   Kansas   Volunteer   In¬
fantry .........................198, 1!)0

Fifteenth  Kansas Volunteer Caval¬
ry...............................    199

Sixteenth  Kansas Volunteer Caval¬
ry .....-......  ...............199, 200

Seventeenth  Kansas Volunteer In¬
fantry.........................    200

First Kansas Colored Infantry___200, 201

Second Kans^is Colored Infantry..201, 202

First Kansas Volunteer Battery.....    202

Second Kansas Volunteer Battery.--    202
Third Kansas Volunteer Battery    ..    'i03
Holllsler's, afterwards Hopkins', Bat¬
tery   ..........................203. 204

The Price Raid......... .......204-306

Cost of Price Raid...............■307,208

Indian Ueglments..................    208

Eighteenth  Kansas  Volunteer Bat¬
talion ............................    210

Nineteenth Kansas Volunteer Cav¬
alry ...........................310, 211

Indian   Troubles   In  Kansas   (1S64-

1870).......................___209-311

LEG1SL.A.TIVE AND POLITICAL AN-

NALS(1861to 1883)..............211-238

Gubernatorial Vote of Kansas.....    3.4

Vote of Kansas at Presidential Elec¬
tions............................    235

Kansas Presidential Electors.-.___,236

Kansas Representatives In Congress   236

Kansas United States Senators......   236

The Judiciary of the Territorial Pe¬
riod.............................    236

Territorial Judicial Districts ___236, 237

Courts Under the State Regime_____   237

District   Courts .................237,238

United States Courts...............    2';f

State Officers.......................   238

Biographies of   Governors of Kan¬
sas .........-..................339-241
 

THE ERA OF PEACE.

RAILROADS

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, and
Branch Connections...........243-31-")

UnlonPaclflc—divisions and branch¬
es .............................315-3 IT

Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf —
branches_____................217. 218

Kansas City, Lawrence & Southern
—branches....................248, 349

Missouri, Kansas & Texas......250, 251

Mlssoqrl FflClfic  ......   ............    251
 

51, 2'i3

St. Louis, Wichita & Western ......   3ri3

Nebraska, lola,  Topeka & Memphis   3i3

Atchison & Nebraska..............    '^'t'^

Railroad Lands.....................    2'i3

HUSBANDRY.

Tables showing the growth of hus¬
bandry In Kansas from Its admis¬
sion Into the Union to I8h:i     .....    254

Kan.sas Crop of Cereals, by counties,

for 1883.........................    355

Kansas Crop of Mlseellancons Field

Products, by counties, for  1882--.    250
Horticultural and Garden Products,
and   value   of   -Vnlmuls   sold   for
slaughter, by eountles, for 1882.  .    2.5T

Horticulture.--  .................257, 258

Kansas State Board of Agriculture

258-262

Fruit Trees In Kansas In 1878.......    258

Kansas State Horticultural Society..    262

Kansas State Grange.............363-3(i5

State Fairs       ____................    265

Commissioner of Fisheries.......265, 266

SCHOOLS OF KANSAS.

The Common School System........    266

Reports of state Superintendents of

Public Instruction................    267

Summary of Educational Statistics

267, 268
School Census of Kansas, by Coun¬
ties (1882)........................    '368

State Agricultural College....... '369, 270

State Nonnal School ..........--370, 271

State  University.................271. 373

Leavenworth Normal School........    272

Concordia Normal School.......-.-    272

County Nonnal Institutes........272, 27!

City Schools........................    273

Private Institutions of Learning....    27:1

State Teachers' Association_____373. 374

Kansas State School Fund..........    37."»

Kansas Academy of Science......375, 276

CHURCHES........................275-377

KANSAS JOURNALISM............278-281

STATE INSTITUTIONS.

State Charitable Institutions___281, 282

State Penitentiary..................    282

State Reform School.............I'lJ-as*

STATE SOCIETIES.

Kansas State Historical Soclety--283, 281

State Library............._.....284, '385

Kansas Medical Societies........285, 286

Kansas State Bar Association___286, 287

PROHIBITION IN KANSAS.

Territorial Legislation..............    2S7

Action of the Wyandotte Convention

287. 288
The Constitutional Prohibitory

Amendment.....................    388

The Prohlliltorv Liquor Law......289, 290

Amendment tt) Section 10 of Liquor
Law..........................290, 291

THE EXODUS......................291, 292

NAVIGATION OF THE KAW........    292

FLOOD OF 1844....................292, 293

PUBLIC LANDS,

Government Lands ................    30.i

School Lands..........._...........    391

Railroad Lands.....................    394

APPENDIX.

The Organic Act...................    295

Wyandotte Constitution..........295-299

IN MEMORIAM.

Biography of John Brown___...299, 300

Biography of   Hon.   Thomas   John¬
son ._......................    3110.301

Biography of (Jen. James H. Lane.. 301
Biography of Hon. Alfred (;ray...301, 302
Biography of MaJ.  Gen.  James G.

Blunt..........................    302

Biography of I»rof. Benj. F. Mudgi'   302
Biography of ( ..1. James Montgom¬
ery ...........................303, 303

Biography of Hon. Henry J. Adams 303
Biography of Hon. Marcus J. Parrott 30;l
Biography of Hon. George Graham 303
Biography c,f Hon.   Martin  F. Ion

■ way     ...................303,301

Biography of  Rev.  John T.  Jones

(Ottawa Jones)................3114. 305

Biography of Judge James Hanuay   305

Biography of linn. D. P. Lowe___..    305

POST OFFICES.....   .................    305

CENSUS (IF  K.\NS.\.s    ..............    3oii