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Kansas Memory Podcast Listen to stories of Kansans -- some famous, some infamous and some just average folks -- that are contained in documents preserved by the Kansas Historical Society Library and Archives. The letters, diaries, and other documents featured in the biweekly \"A Kansas Memory\" podcasts provide fascinating glimpses into the past by sharing the words of the people who lived through these events. The documents used in our first series of podcasts are part of Territorial Kansas Online, a virtual repository of primary sources from the Bleeding Kansas era, 1854-1861. The URL for the web site is www.territorialkansasonline.org. Visit www.kshs.org to learn more about the programs and services of the Kansas Historical Society.
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Governor Mike Hayden Interview Updated: 2010-12-15 16:00:00 Description: Kansas governor Mike Hayden held office from January 12, 1987 - January 14, 1991. Hayden grew up in Atwood in northwest Kansas and relied heavily on support from agriculture and the rural areas of the state in his 1986 campaign. During his administra...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Governor John Carlin Interview Updated: 2010-10-13 16:00:00 Description: This features excerpts from the second interview with Kansas Governor John Carlin, who held office from January 8, 1979 to January 12, 1987. In 1978, in a surprise upset, he defeated the Republican incumbent Governor, Robert Bennett, in his bid for r...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Governor John Carlin Interview Updated: 2010-09-15 16:00:00 Description: Kansas Governor John Carlin held office from January 8, 1979 to January 12, 1987. He was elected to the Kansas legislature in 1970 and was Minority Leader of the House from 1975-1977; then Speaker of the House from 1977-1979, when Democrats unexpecte...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Governor William Avery Interview Updated: 2010-08-18 16:00:00 Description: William Avery would have never become a politician if not for a series of disastrous floods in Kansas in the mid 20th century. He was the third generation of Averys farming near Wakefield, in Clay County, when President Truman appropriated funds to b...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Governor John Anderson Interview Updated: 2010-07-21 16:00:00 Description: John Anderson Jr. was governor of Kansas from January 9, 1961 to January 11, 1965. Dr. Bob Beatty, professor of political science at Washburn University, conducted this interview as part of the Kansas Governors Recorded History and Documentary Projec...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Judge Robert Lee Carter Interview, 1992 Updated: 2010-06-23 16:00:00 Description: Robert Lee Carter was hired by Thurgood Marshall after WWII to work as an assistant counsel for the NAACP. He worked on a number of civil rights cases and represented the plaintiffs in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case before the U. S. S...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Clark Bruster To His Family, Sept.-Nov. 1917 Updated: 2010-05-26 16:00:00 Description: This podcast features excerpts from the letters written home by young Clark Bruster of Waverly, New York during the fall of 1917 while he was training with U. S. Artillery Battery A at Fort Riley, Kansas. Some artillery are still drawn by horses duri...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Clark Bruster To His Family, June-Sept. 1917 Updated: 2010-04-28 16:00:00 Description: Clark Bruster's great-grandfather was an early settler of Waverly, N. Y., a village on the New York/Pennsylvania border. Harvey and Cora Bruster raised Clark and his brothers there in the early 1900s. Waverly had about 6,000 residents at that time. C...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Susan Dimond Journal, 1875 Updated: 2010-03-31 16:00:00 Description: Susan Bixby Dimond and her husband Will made the long journey from her family home in Mayville, New York, to Osborne County, Kansas, in February 1872 to begin a promising new life in the West. Susan was a 30 year-old former schoolteacher; Will was ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD John William Gardiner Diary, 1875 Updated: 2010-03-03 16:00:00 Description: John William Gardiner was the third of nine children in the large Gardiner family. His parents, William and Susan, were farmers who moved from Missouri to Jefferson County, Kansas Territory, in March 1855 when John was four years old. These excerpts ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok Letter Updated: 2010-02-03 16:00:00 Description: Before he became the "Wild Bill" of legend, James Butler Hickok was one of hundreds of immigrants who streamed into Territorial Kansas hoping to acquire a piece of the Indian reservation lands that were coming onto the market. After the Kansas/Nebras...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Interview With Robert Layher About Experiences In World War II Updated: 2010-01-06 16:00:00 Description: Robert Fonzo Layher enlisted in the U. S. Navy in 1939 and was assigned to the North Island Naval Air Station in San Diego, when he resigned his commission to join the American Volunteer Group. This was a covert operation that served with the Chinese...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Interview With Arthur Jones About Experiences In World War II Updated: 2009-12-09 16:00:00 Description: Arthur Jones served in WWII with the 219th Field Artillery, 35th Infantry Division of the Third Army. They landed in France shortly after Independence Day, 1944. Arthur's duty was to drive a Jeep that carried encoded messages back and forth between o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Interview With Raymond Brown About Experiences In World War II Updated: 2009-11-11 16:00:00 Description: Raymond Brown grew up on a farm in Olpe, Kansas, during the 1920's and 30's. He was twenty-six when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and in 1942 he joined the newly activated 95th Infantry Division, part of General Patton's Third Army. On September...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mabel Holmes' Diary, 1935-1939, part 2 Updated: 2009-10-14 16:00:00 Description: Mabel Holmes, a longtime Topeka resident, kept a daily diary from January 1, 1935-December 31, 1939. During this time, storms resulting from the severe drought conditions blanketed the state in dust so thick that it could be pitch black in the middle...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mabel Holmes' Diary, 1935-1939, part 1 Updated: 2009-09-16 16:00:00 Description: Mabel Holmes, a longtime Topeka resident, kept a daily diary from January 1, 1935-December 31, 1939. During this time, storms resulting from the severe drought conditions blanketed the state in dust so thick that it could be pitch black in the middle...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Indian War of 1868-69, part 2 Updated: 2009-08-19 16:00:00 Description: In 1868, raids by hostile Indian bands on the western frontier increased as the white population of Kansas swelled after the Civil War and railroads were built father west. George Armstrong Custer and the 7th U. S. Cavalry were assigned to pursue the...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Indian War of 1868-69, part 1 Updated: 2009-07-22 16:00:00 Description: In 1868, raids by hostile Indian bands on the western frontier increased as the white population of Kansas swelled after the Civil War and railroads were built father west. That winter the U. S. Army, led by General Sheridan, decided to pursue bands ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ned Beck's July 4th Updated: 2009-06-24 16:00:00 Description: Ned Beck continued writing in his diary throughout the summer of 1880, so we have his first-hand account of Holton, Kansas' 4th of July festivities. Holton planned to hold a community picnic on July 3rd, since July 4th fell on Sunday that year, but i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ned Beck's Diary Updated: 2009-05-27 16:00:00 Description: Another school year is coming to a close in Holton, Kansas. Final exams; class picnics; summer baseball teams forming--it could be May 2009--but 11 year old Ned Beck wrote this diary in 1880. This podcast featur...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD William Peffer's Scrapbook Updated: 2009-04-29 16:00:00 Description: In the late 19th century, American tax laws favored Northeastern industrialists, who amassed enormous fortunes, while farmers in rural America found it harder and harder to make a living. The Farmer's Alliance, combined with other labor movements, fo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Samuel Reader's Autobiography Updated: 2009-04-01 16:00:00 Description: Samuel Reader joined the Kansas State Militia in Shawnee County when the war broke out between the North and South, but they didn't see action until "Price's Raid" in the late fall of 1864. Samuel wrote this eye-witness account of the Battle of the ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Samuel Reader's Diary Updated: 2009-03-04 16:00:00 Description: Samuel began keeping a daily record of his life at the age of thirteen and continued faithfully until he died in 1914 at the age of 78. In 1855, when he was just 19, he moved from Illinois to Kansas Territory. These passages are from Samuels diary ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Lincoln In Kansas Updated: 2009-02-04 16:00:00 Description: Abraham Lincoln visited Kansas only once, in December 1859. This podcast features excerpts from Lincoln's speech as published in the Leavenworth newspaper and observations about the future president by people who saw him speak during that visit....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Lincoln & the 1860 Election Updated: 2009-01-07 16:00:00 Description: "The new Republican Party, which opposed the expansion of slavery, nominated Abraham Lincoln for president in 1860. Lincoln took office only a month after Kansas was admitted to the Union. Excerpts from correspondence written by and to Kansans in 1...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Battle of the Bulge, A Kansas Story Updated: 2008-12-10 16:00:00 Description: "In early December of 1944, Second Lieutenant Martin Jones of the 106th Division of the Army moved through Belgium to the German border. Jones and his division were scattered through the Ardennes forest when the Germans began moving tanks across the ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Kansas Veterans Remember: World War II Updated: 2008-11-12 16:00:00 Description: Participants in the Kansas Veterans of WW II Oral History Project, sponsored by the Kansas State Legislature, remember their service in the European and Pacific Theaters during the Second World War. This podcast features the reminiscences of Captain...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Eastern Cowboy - Harry Boehme Fine Updated: 2008-10-15 16:00:00 Description: In the spring of 1915, fifteen year old Harry Fine graduated from the Princeton Preparatory School in Princeton, New Jersey. That fall, he headed west to spend a year as a working cowboy in Maple Hill, Kansas. Harry's father, founder and headmaster o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Stormy Weather: Floods Updated: 2008-09-17 16:00:00 Description: This podcast features two stories recorded by visitors to the Forces of Nature exhibit, currently on display at the Kansas Museum of History through January 9th, 2009. In the first segment, farmer and author Thomas Holmquist describes a 2007 flood on...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Capital Punishment in Kansas Updated: 2008-08-20 16:00:00 Description: The death penalty has always been controversial in Kansas. Executions were first halted in 1872, after the legislature passed a law requiring the governor to sign off on all execution orders. Capital punishment has continued to stir controversy, no...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Stormy Weather: tornadoes in Kansas Updated: 2008-07-23 16:00:00 Description: Since long before Euro-American settlement, strong winds have been a constant feature of the central plains region and the area now known as Kansas. The name Kansas was borrowed from the Kanza Indians who called themselves "the people of the south wi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Happy Home: Martha Farnsworth Diary Updated: 2008-06-25 16:00:00 Description: Martha Farnsworth was a prolific diary writer, recording her daily experiences from 1882 through 1922 with only minor gaps. This podcast features entries from Martha's diary that describe her second marriage to another postman named Fred Farnsworth. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Young Love: Martha Farnsworth Diary Updated: 2008-06-11 16:00:00 Description: Martha Farnsworth was a prolific diary writer, recording her daily experiences from 1882 through 1922 with only minor gaps. This podcast features entries from Martha's diary that describe her courtship and first marriage to John W. Shaw, a post man i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Over There: Martha Farnsworth and WWI Updated: 2008-05-28 16:00:00 Description: Martha Farnsworth was a prolific diary writer, recording her daily experiences from 1882 through 1922 with only minor gaps. Martha , with some assistance from her second husband Fred taught a Sunday School class of boys at the first Christian Church...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Grasshoppers! Plague of the Prairie Updated: 2008-05-14 16:00:00 Description: In the mid 1870s, settlers trying to establish homes and farms in Kansas had to deal with grasshopper invasions that would destroy crops. This pod cast will feature excerpts from a reminiscence that provides a word picture of an invasions in 1874 and...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Shawnee Missions, 1830-1854 Updated: 2008-04-30 16:00:00 Description: After the treaty of 1825, the Shawnee Indians were removed from Ohio to the Indian Territory west of Missouri. In response, three Christian missions were built in the vicinity of the Westport Landing on the Missouri River. The records from these mi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Child Labor: "...it is better for children to learn to work when they are little" Updated: 2008-04-16 16:00:00 Description: Children's lives have changed dramatically in America in the last hundred years. Today we take it for granted that children will attend public school and not work full-time, but in the early 1900's, laws regulating child labor were still evolving. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Before They Were Famous Updated: 2008-04-02 16:00:00 Description: In 1872, Henry Raymond arrived in Dodge City, Kansas, to join his brother Theodore and friends to hunt buffalo to make money. The friends happened to be the Masterson brothers--Bat, Jim, and Ed--who all later became lawmen in the Dodge City area. T...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The B-B-Blizzard, Kinsley, Kansas Updated: 2008-03-19 16:00:00 Description: In January 1886 a fierce blizzard struck south central Kansas. Over 200 people were stranded in Kinsley, Kanasas, population 600+. Snowbound for almost a week, the passengers in cooperation with the two local newspapers, the Kinsley Graphic and the...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka: “...you see everything as done good is done by white people." Updated: 2008-03-05 16:00:00 Description: From 1991 to 1996 the Kansas Historical Society participated in a grant project that funded eighty oral interviews with people involved in or affected by U.S. school desegregation cases that culminated in the U. S. Supreme Court case, Brown versus Bo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka: Part 2 Updated: 2008-02-20 16:00:00 Description: From 1991 to 1996 the Kansas Historical Society participated in a grant project that funded eighty oral interviews with people involved in or affected by U.S. school desegregation cases that culminated in Brown versus Board of Education. These inter...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka: Updated: 2008-02-06 16:00:00 Description: From 1991 to 1996 the Kansas Historical Society participated in a grant project that funded eighty oral interviews with people involved in or affected by U.S. school desegregation cases that culminated in the U. S. Supreme Court case, Brown versus Bo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The End of the Buffalo Updated: 2008-01-23 16:00:00 Description: By the late 1800's the wild buffalo was nearly extinct. Listen to the stories of Harriet Bidwell, who witnessed a buffalo hunt while traveling on the Santa Fe Trail; and Henry Raymond, who hunted the shaggy beasts when massive herds still roamed the...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD To His Excellency The Governor Updated: 2008-01-09 16:00:00 Description: No collection of state records can create as varied a snapshot of an era as the correspondence the governor receives. Constituents write about any current topic that they believe needs the governor's attention. These letters become part of the per...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Gift of Opportunity: Harry Colmery and the GI Bill of Rights Updated: 2007-12-26 16:00:00 Description: Harry Colmery, a Topekan, is credited with writing the initial draft of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, better known as the GI Bill of Rights. He was part of a committee formed by the national American Legion to secure benefits for those ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Christmas in the 1870s Updated: 2007-12-12 16:00:00 Description: Harriet Adams wrote about her memories of the Christmas when she was seven years old. This story conveys her anticipation of this holiday in a delightful way. She outlines the families various traditions through her childhood eyes including the fam...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Immigrant Guides Updated: 2007-11-28 16:00:00 Description: Immigrants flocked to Kansas in the 1870s in response to the opening of vast tracts of land for white settlement. Their excitement was fueled in no small part by brochures the railroads were distributing, claiming the state had the "best and cheapest...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dwight D. Eisenhower: General or Admiral? Updated: 2007-11-14 16:00:00 Description: Dwight D. Eisenhower--a sailor??? In 1910, Dwight D. Eisenhower requested an appointment to West Point or the naval academy from his U. S. Senator Joseph Bristow of Salina, Kansas. This podcast features the letters he wrote to Senator Bristow and a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Elam Bartholomew: An Ordinary and Extraordinary Kansan Updated: 2007-10-31 16:00:00 Description: In many ways, Elam Bartholomew was a typical Kansas settler as he encountered most of the challenges facing those settling on the Great Plains. He is an extraordinary Kansan because he recorded his life's events for 60 years in his daily diaries. H...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Indian Removal in Kansas Updated: 2007-10-17 16:00:00 Description: Before statehood, Kansas was part of the original "Indian Territory" located west of the Mississippi River. This land was intended to be the permanent home for Indian tribes that were removed from the eastern United States to open land for white set...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Never Ending Struggle for Equality Updated: 2007-10-03 16:00:00 Description: As the citizens of Territorial Kansas were writing constitutions that would determine whether or not slavery was allowed in Kansas, they were also debating the issues of voting rights for blacks (in the versions that excluded slavery) and women. Thi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Exodusters Updated: 2007-09-19 16:00:00 Description: After the Civil War, freed slaves in the South faced an uncertain future. Economically destitute, they struggled to establish schools and buy their own land. The establishment of the sharecropping system, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the entrench...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Investigating Election Fraud: the Howard Committee Updated: 2007-09-05 16:00:00 Description: The Howard Committee was established by the U.S. congress to investigate the widespread claims of voting fraud in Kansas Territory. Over 1300 pages of testimony was recorded concerning fraud and violenct by both pro- and anti-slavery supporters. Th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Samuel Reader's Diary Updated: 2007-08-22 16:00:00 Description: When Samuel Reader moved to Kansas Territory in May of 1855, he continued chronicling his life and adventures during the "Border Wars". He was a self-trained artist and included illustrations and watercolor paintings in his journal. Reader joined Ge...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD John Brown: Compassionate or Violent Updated: 2007-08-08 16:00:00 Description: John Brown was an ardent anti slavery proponent. Because of his well know acts of violence including his raid on the government arsenal at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, he is often portrayed as a terrorist or madman. He was also a dedicated and co...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Andrew Reeder, Territorial Governor Updated: 2007-07-25 16:00:00 Description: Andrew Horatio Reeder was appointed the first Governor of Kansas Territory in 1854. He started out supporting the pro-slavery government, but shifted to the opposition, and eventually had to flee the state in disguise. He remained involved in Kansa...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD John James Ingalls: Fast Track. . .from Law to Politics Updated: 2007-07-11 16:00:00 Description: John James Ingalls came to Kansas Territory as a young man. He was raised in Massachusetts and trained as a lawyer. He first settled in Sumner, Atchison County. The letters home to his father in this podcast describe his growing success as a lawye...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Rocky Road to Kansas, Part Three: The Letters of Joseph Trego, "...my boots were so tight on my feet after the first day's walk in the mud that I was afraid to pull them off lest I couldn't get them on again..." Updated: 2007-06-27 16:00:00 Description: Joseph Trego was one of the earliest settlers in Sugar Mound, Kansas Territory, in Linn County, which was renamed Mound City, Kansas in 1859. Although he was a doctor in Illinois, he helped build and operate a sawmill and a gristmill there starting...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Searching for "heroic stuff in my mould:" John James Ingalls in Kansas Territory Updated: 2007-06-13 16:00:00 Description: John James Ingalls came to Kansas as a young man and became one its most prominent citizens. His letters home question his fortitude to endure the hardships he is experiencing, describe his efforts as a new lawyer, and contain a very entertaining des...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Rocky Road To Kansas, Part Two, Ellen Goodnow and Maria Felt: "advise those young men who brought such doleful reports about Kansas, not to leave the sight of their father & mothers dwelling again." Updated: 2007-05-31 16:00:00 Description: Ellen Goodnow and Maria Felt were early settlers sponsored by antislavery groups who wanted Kansas Territory to be admitted to the Union as a free state. Both of these women sent encouraging reports back east about their journeys to Kansas Territory...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Those . . .who are fearful or faint-hearted, had better not come: Letters from the Rev. Samuel Adair Updated: 2007-05-16 16:00:00 Description: Samuel and Florella Adair came to Kansas Territory to support the efforts to prohibit slavery in Kansas. Both were natives of Hudson, Ohio, deeply committed abolitionists and graduates of Oberlin Collegiate Institute (now Oberlin College). In 1854, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Rocky Road To Kansas, Part 1: Julia Lovejoy's Diary Updated: 2007-05-02 16:00:00 Description: Julia Louisa Lovejoy, was the deeply religious wife of a Methodist Episcopal minister, and an ardent abolitionist. Julia's family traveled to Kansas Territory in 1855, under the auspices of the New England Emigrant Aid Company. Excerpts from the di...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD James Lanes: A General and a Politician Updated: 2007-04-18 16:00:00 Description: James Lane was one of the most influential, and controversial, characters in Kansas during the territorial period. Originally a politician in Indiana, he moved to Kansas in 1855 and joined the free state cause. He was involved with the extral lega...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Here's To You, Mrs. Robinson: The Letters of Charles and Sarah Robinson Updated: 2007-04-04 16:00:00 Description: Dr. Charles Robinson and his wife, Sarah, were both prominent figures in the battle to make Kansas a free state. But that doesn't mean they always saw eye-to-eye. Hear, in their own words, what it was like to be a "power couple" in the antislavery mo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD "...encountering sickness, losses, calumny and prosperity": The Diary of Chestina Bowker Allen Updated: 2007-03-21 16:00:00 Description: Diaries provide glimpses of the routine and the unusual. Chestina Bowker Allen was 46 years old when she came to Kansas with her husband and 5 children to aid the free state cause. Her diary describes daily life and various events in Bleeding Kans...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD "The Grossest Outrage Ever Perpetrated": Sheriff Jones and the Sack of Lawrence Updated: 2007-03-07 16:00:00 Description: Pro slavery supporters gained control of the territorial government in Kansas but free state supporters claimed election fraud and set up their own legislature with their own officials. Lawrence, Kansas was viewed as the center of the illegal free ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD You and your lady are invited: Social Life in Kansas Territory Updated: 2007-02-21 16:00:00 Description: Life in Kansas Territory was difficult and sometimes dangerous. However, settlers also held dances and started cultural institutions similar to those they left behind. Listen to invitations to social events and an excerpt from a publication by a l...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD $200 Reward Escape to Freedom: Runaway Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Kansas Territory Updated: 2007-02-07 16:00:00 Description: Some abolitionists in Kansas were committed to freeing slaves. Wanted posters were printed for escaped slave while others printed messages that urged homeowners to resist those searching for runaway slaves. The Underground Railroad was active in Kan...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Marcus Freeman and his owner: Slavery in Kansas Territory Updated: 2007-01-24 16:00:00 Description: Slavery in Kansas Territory was a reality. Listen to the penalties imposed for encouraging slaves to escape or rebel and to a "bill of sale" for an African American woman. Hear Marcus Freeman's reminiscence of his life as a slave with his owner wh...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Letters Home: Dangers of Life in Kansas Territory Updated: 2007-01-10 16:00:00 Description: Kansas Territory was a dangerous place to live. Listen to the letters of Cyrus K. and Mary Holliday, John Brown, and Sene Campbell as they describe the real threats experienced by those involved in the events of Bleeding Kansas. Musical selections pe...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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