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Thomas Gay: Kansas Reminiscences, Part 4 [Bogus Legislature]

Personal Recollections of Life in Territorial Kansas in Border Ruffian Days Perhaps, in all the history of those turbulent times, there...

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Thomas Gay: Kansas Reminiscences, Part 3 [The Battle of Hickory Point]

Personal Recollections of Life in Territorial Kansas in Border Ruffian Days (From the Chariton Herald, Feb. 22, 1894) I think some old...

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Thomas Gay: Kansas Reminiscences, Parts 1 and 2

Personal Recollections of Life in Territorial Kansas in Border Ruffian Days (From the Chariton Herald, Feb. 8 and Feb 15, 1894) These...

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Hard Times for Hardville

Hardville, Jefferson Co., KS From the Winchester Star, Apr. 8, 1910 (Copied by Raymond Riley) A peculiar condition was discovered through...

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Sold as a Slave

Charity Ross Will Soon Be with the Daughter She Has Not Seen for Forty-Five Years Kansas City, 12/29/1898: An old colored woman sat in...

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Double Face Value for "Shin-Plasters"

Early Days in Oskaloosa From the Oskaloosa Independent, March 9, 1933 By Francis Henry Roberts While I have before told the story of the...

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Land Sales at Osawkee

From the Prairie City Freeman’s Champion, August 13, 1857 (Prairie City was an early town about a mile west of present-day Baldwin City,...

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Doctor Loses Wife

Loses Wife from Car, Drives on From the McLouth Times, June 27, 1929 Dr. Cain is the recipient of many ha, ha's from his neighbors and...

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