The next day [May 8th] I took a walk out to Westport, and proceeded from thence to the plains of Kansas Territory, where the Santa Fe trains were encamped…
Kansas. From our Special Correspondent. Oxford, Johnson Co., K. T., August 9, 1858. Political economists tell us that the laws which govern population are fixed and irreversible, but what…
The Shawnees is the most important tribe in the territory. They are more numerous and farther advanced than any others in civilization. The reservation is one of the most…
Shawnee Manl. Labor School The Committee appointed to examine and report on the subject brought before the Board by the Rev. Thomas Johnson, pertaining to Mission property known as…
George F. Pierce, D. D., Bishop in the M. E. Church South, travelled to attend the Kansas Mission Conference in Kickapoo, Kansas Territory (just north of Fort Leavenworth) which was…
Westport, Mo. Sept. 2d, 1856 To the Citizens of Missouri: Mr. Thomas Trewitt has just arrived from New Mexico; he had charge of Mr. S.L. McKinney’s train from this…
In his 1856 book, Conquest of Kansas, by Missouri and her allies: a history of the troubles in Kansas, from the passage of the Organic Act until the close of…
Missionary Movement in Kansas—The Shawnee Mission. Clyde, N. Y., Saturday, Nov. 15, 1856. To the Editor of the New York Daily Times: Rev. Thomas Johnson has been a Missionary…
An Indian Dream. At the recent anniversary of the American Congregational Union in New York, the subject of’ building churches in Kansas being under consideration, the Rev. Richard Knight…
This agreement made and concluded this Twenty-sixth day of April in the year our Lord, one thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-six, by and between the Missionary Society of the…