Category: History - American
=Introduction.= More than four centuries have passed since Columbus discovered America. During that time the hunting ground of three hundred thousand Indians has become the United States with its more than one hundred million civilized people. In the center of this great natio...
=Introduction.= More than four centuries have passed since Columbus discovered America. During that time the hunting ground of three hundred thousand Indians has become the Unit...
2. CHAPTER II=The French.= While the Spaniards were searching for wealth in the southern part of North America the French were trading with the Indians in the northern part along the St. Law...
3. CHAPTER III=President Jefferson Sent Explorers.= When the United States bought Louisiana the country from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean was a vast unknown area. President Jeff...
4. CHAPTER IV=Mexico a Century Ago.= Nearly three centuries passed from the time Cortez led the Spaniards into Mexico until Kansas became a part of the United States. During those years Span...
5. CHAPTER V=Kansas Belonged to the Indians.= During the years when the white men were traveling back and forth across Kansas they were not making settlements here. The country remained in...
6. CHAPTER VI=The Year 1854 an Important Date.= The year 1854 is an important one in the history of Kansas, for it brings to a close the period during which this region was used as a hunting...
7. CHAPTER VII=Little Known of Kansas in 1854.= Kansas in 1854 was, to most people, only a name, a part of the great desert in the Far West, an Indian country. Many of those who had crossed i...
8. CHAPTER VIII=The Government of a Territory.= When a territory is organized it must be provided with a government. The people in a territory may not elect their officers as in a state; they...
9. CHAPTER IX=The Free-state Plan.= The free-state people decided to ignore the proslavery government, and since they were really made outlaws by the “Bogus Legislature” they organized anoth...
10. CHAPTER X=The Severe Winter of 1855-’56.= The Wakarusa War closed in December, 1855. This second winter proved to be an exceedingly severe one, and many of the settlers were not sufficie...
11. CHAPTER XI=Beginning of the Political Period, 1857.= The Missourians had given up hope of conquering Kansas by force. After the close of the period of violence the contest became almost e...
12. CHAPTER XII=Comforts of Life Receive Little Attention.= The seven Territorial years had brought freedom to Kansas, but the struggle had left the pioneers little time or strength for buildi...
13. CHAPTER XIII=Beginning of the Civil War.= Just before Kansas was admitted several of the southern states seceded from the Union. The trouble between the North and the South had reached the...
14. CHAPTER XIV=Beginning of this Period.= Nearly three score years have passed since the close of the Civil War; a period of work, growth, and progress. The earlier years in Kansas were but a...
15. CHAPTER XV=The Earliest Kansas Farmers.= Agriculture, the leading industry of our State, was for many years almost the only occupation of our people. The Indians were the first farmers in...
16. CHAPTER XVI=The Beginning of Railroads in the United States.= About the time Kansas was becoming the highway for the Santa Fe trade, experiments were being made in England with a new inven...
17. CHAPTER XVII=The First Schools in Kansas.= The first schools in Kansas were the mission schools for the Indians. When Kansas was organized as a Territory and the white settlers began to mak...
18. CHAPTER XVIII=Significance of Kansas History.= Kansas is a comparatively new State. Nearly all of its history has been made within little more than a century, and most of it within the sixty...
19. CHAPTER XIX=Introduction.= Kansas is a great State; great in size and wealth, great in industries and resources, and great in what it has accomplished. But there are states that are larger...