Frontier Manhattan : Yankee Settlement to Kansas Town, 1854-1894 /

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Olson, Kevin G. W.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Frontier and pioneer life.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Frontier and pioneer life > Kansas > Manhattan.
Kansas > Manhattan.
Manhattan (Kan.) > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The people, the place, the times
  • 1854: "A most appropriate town site"
  • Winter 1854-1855: a New England crusade
  • March 1855: "Damned Yankees" come to Kansas
  • Spring 1855: becoming Manhattan
  • Bleeding Kansas: "Tyranny is now in the ascendant"
  • The wearying work of frontier life
  • 1856: waiting out the violence
  • 1857: a town built from stone
  • 1858: "We do not despair of a free state yet"
  • 1859: "A flourishing Yankee settlement"
  • 1860-1865: drought, violence, and victories
  • Post-Civil War: triumph of the Yankees
  • 1870s: "A lively town, full of business"
  • 1880-1894: into the modern era.

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