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CONTENTS		Page in books
VOLUME 1
Preface	Preface	iii
Chapter I	Quivira	1
Chapter II	Louisiana	28
Chapter III	Lewis and Clark	48
Chapter IV	Upper Louisiana	51
Chapter V	Pike	54
Chapter VI	Long	69
Chapter VII	The Great American Desert	76
Chapter VIII	The Santa Fe Trail	84
Chapter IX	The Oregon Trail	145
Chapter X	Indians	189
Chapter XI	The Buffalo	277
Chapter XII	The Missouri Compromise	291
Chapter XIII	The Compromise of 1850	296
Chapter XIV	The Provisional Government	298
Chapter XV	Repeal of the Missouri Compromise	317
Chapter XVI	Kansas Territory	333
Chapter XVII	Forming the Battle-Lines	340
Chapter XVIII	First Settlements	356
Chapter XIX	Governor Reeder	366
Chapter XX	Election of the Legislature	388
Chapter XXI	The Legislature	401
Chapter XXII	Lane	421
Chapter XXIII	Robinson	428
Chapter XXIV	The Beginnings of Disorder	435
Chapter XXV	The Big Springs Convention	444
Chapter XXVI	The Topeka Movement	461
Chapter XXVII	Wilson Shannon	473
Chapter XXVIII	The Wakarusa War	483
Chapter XXIX	The First Sacking of Lawrence	522
Chapter XXX	Old John Brown	555
VOLUME 2
Chapter XXXI	Lane's Army of the North	595
Chapter XXXII	Bleeding Kansas	610
Chapter XXXIII	The Republican Party	627
Chapter XXXIV	John W. Geary	632
Chapter XXXV	Robert J. Walker	650
Chapter XXXVI	Frederick P. Stanton	660
Chapter XXXVII	James William Denver	666
Chapter XXXVIII	Samuel Medary	695
Chapter XXXIX	The State of Kansas	708
Chapter XL	The Political Beginnings of the State	712
Chapter XLI	Prairie Grove	724
Chapter XLII	District of the Border	732
Chapter XLIII	Collapse of the Military Prison	736
Chapter XLIV	The Lawrence Massacre	740
Chapter XLV	The Pursuit of Quantrill	746
Chapter XLVI	The Price Raid	753
Chapter XLVII	Thomas Carney	765
Chapter XLVIII	Governor Samuel J. Crawford	769
Chapter XLIX	Nehemiah Greene	774
Chapter L	James MAdison Harvey	776
Chapter LI	Thomas A. Osborn	779
Chapter LII	George T. Anthony	782
Chapter LIII	John Pierce St. John	785
Chapter LIV	Prohibition in Kansas	788
Chapter LV	George W. Glick	829
Chapter LVI	John A. Martin	832
Chapter LVII	Lyman U. Humphrey	835
Chapter LVIII	Lorenzo D. Lewelling	839
Chapter LIX	Edmund N. Morrill	842
Chapter LX	John W. Leedy	845
Chapter LXI	William Eugene Stanley	847
Chapter LXII	Willis J. Bailey	850
Chapter LXIII	Edward W. Hoch	853
Chapter LXIV	Walter Roscoe Stubbs	857
Chapter LXV	George H. Hodges	860
Chapter LXVI	Arthur Capper	865
Chapter LXVII	Military History	869

SPECIAL ARTICLES
The Lecompton Movement	925
Kansas Laws and Their Origin	935
The Militia and the National Guard from Its Inception to the Present Day	953
Kansas Archaeology	960
Kansas Banks and Banking	969
Manufactures in Kansas	988
Medicine	993
Resources	996
Churches	1009
Educational and Other Institutions	1015
The Populist Uprising	1113
VOLUMES 3 & 4 & 5
Biography	1197

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A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, being transcribed by students and staff from USD 508, Baxter Springs Middle School, Baxter Springs, Kansas.

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