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State institutions. 767, 771, 784, 850, 862, 865 State Insurance Department, 1093
State Journal, 1206
State Library, 1079 State Live-stock Registry Board, 1032 State Mannal Training Normal School at Pittsburg, 1353 State militia, 717
State Normal School, Concordia, 1039
State Normal School, Emporia, 1036 State Normal School, Leavenworth, 1039
State oil refinery, 855, 1194
State organization committee, 455
State Orphans' Home, Atchison, 1107, 1373
State Printing Plant, 992, 1092, 1212 State Reform School, 786
State Reformatory, 833
State rights party, 481
State row, 776 State School for the Blind, 1035
State School for the Deaf, 1035
State Soldiers' Home, 1084 State supervision of banks, 969
State Tax Commission, 1094, 1224 State Temperance Union, 815, 817, 822, 1217 State textbook plant, 861 State Tuberculosis Sanitarium, 1108 State-wide primary, 857 State Woman's Suffrage Association, 831 Stanffer, Henry O., 1477 Steamboat Sultan, 604
Steel Fixture Manufacturing Company, 1753 Steele, Jefferson L., 1579
Stephan & Isern Mercantile Company, 2168
Stephens, Charles, 2282 Stephens, Mrs. J. H., 1956 Stephenson, Fred' L., 2482 Sterling, 998, 1046 Stevens, Aaron D., 622
Stevens, Chester, 1667 Stevens county, 114, 834, 1269 Stevens, Robert S., 269, 718, 722
Stevens, Thomas A., 1939 Stevens, Thomas C., 765 Stevenson, James, 1784 Stevenson, Samuel, 681 Stewart, Allen T., 1440 Stewart, James H., 1296
Stewart, Josiah, 681 Stewart, J. E., 684 Stewart, William J., 1472
Stich, Adolph C., 1269
Stich, Kathleen E., 1271
Stich, William E., 1675 Stiefel, Minnie E., 1464
Still, Andrew T., 1264 Still-hunt for buffalo, 289
Stillings, Edward, 2728
Stillings, Vinton, 2729
Stillwell, Leander, 1359
Stinson, Samuel A., 718, 946
Stock Yards Serum Co., Kansas City, Kansas, 2400 Stockraising, 2493, 2521
Stoddard, Amos Major, 52
Stolz, Michael M., 2524
Stone against Southwood, 682
Stone Corral, 112
Stone, Fred L., 2179
Stone, Joseph E., 2026
Stone, Joshua A., 1847
Stone, J. C., 717, 719
Stone, Minerva A., 1847
Stone, Ralph C., 2668
Stone, Robert, 935, 1364, 1498
Stonecipher, Ernest E., 2050
Stonecipher, J. C., 2050
Storch, George, 1468
Storch, Ida, 1386
Stout, Mahlon F., 1642
Stout, Sabrina C., 1642
Stout, William, 1489
Stover, John S., 2591
Strahan, Charles S., 1949 Stranger Crossing, 637
Straub, Charles A., 2429 Strawn, Asahel, 1277
Strawn, George H., 1277
Street, William D., 1218.
Strickler, H. J., 501, 638, 700
Strickler, Joseph L., 2056
Strike of 1885, 1136 Strikes of 1894, 841
Stringfellow, Benjamin F., 529, 602, 642, 993; portrait, 476 Stringfellow, John H., 361, 401, 402, 944
Strong, Benjamin F., 2436
Strong, Frank, 2355
Strong, Henry D., 1554
Stubbs, Walter Roscoe, 857, 2251, 2380; portrait, 858 Study, Harry P., 2199 Stuewe Family, 1590 Stuewe, Ferdinand, 1591 Sturges, William, 768
Sublette, William, 182
Sudan grass, 1281 Sudendorf, Henry H. F., 1591
Sudendorf, Herman 11., 1594 Suffrage amendment, 1188. 1191
Sugar beets, 850 Sugar from sorghum, 835 Sugar mound, 669
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Sullivan, James D., 1755 Sumner, Colonel E. V., 472, 503, 506, 537, 591, 606 Sunday schools, 1792; first in Kansas, 2418 Sundgren, Erie, 2559 Sunflower as state flower, 2171 Sunflower State, 2171 "Sunny Kansas," 388 Sunworship, 219
Supreme Court Justice, 1208
Surber, Cassius C., 1915
Suteliff, Harry O., 1426
Sutcliffe, John S., 2256
Suttle, William C., 2168 Sutton, William B., 2035 Swan, Paul C., 2603
Swanson, Ernest F., 2572 Swarts, Carroll L., 2383 Swartz, Louis A., 1509
Swayze, Addison W., 2596
Swayze, Jason C., 1800
Swayze. Oscar K., 1801
Swedish colonists, 2494, 2538
Sweet elover, 1281
Swensou, John A., 2548 Swensson, Carl A., 1515, 2502
Swift & Company, 991
Swiggert, Clayton A., 1870
Swingle, W. W., 1078
Swogger, Glenn, 2624 Sylvan State Bank, 2643 Syracuse, 115
Talbot, Asa K., 19-1 Talbott, Isaac F., 2515
Tallman, Charles O., 1946
Tallman, Thomas W., 1947
Tampa county, 60
Tanquary, Mamie J., 1903
Tappan, Samuel F., 493, 496, 498, 537, 692
Taracari, Great C'ity of, 23
Taschetta, Charles A., 2377 Taschetta, Peter, 2376 Taton, Francis 11., 1499
Tax law, 855 Taylor, George, 813
Taylor, Harrison C., 2622
Taylor. William, 997 Taylor. Zachary, 296, 627
Teasley, D. 11., 150]
Teasley, James M., 1500
Tebbs, William II., 401 Tecumesh, 373, 393, 391. 411, 164, 501, 802; churches, 1009
Tegeler, Alvin II., 1558 Teichgraeber, Bernhard, 2273 Tejo, 1
Temperance, movement, 784, 786, 759, 2232: societies, 791 ; sentiment, growth of. 797; influence of, 801; convention of 1874, 607: banner, 811. 828: en forcement by law in Lawrence, 2362; leader, 2419 Templeton, Fay, 736 Templeton, James A., 1866 Tenth Kansas Volunteer Infantry, 877,
Terey, John R., 1612 Territorial affairs, review of, 412
Territorial bonds fraudulent, 700
Territorial capital, 413, 691
Territorial capital at Pawnee, 401
Territorial conditions, 579
Territorial courts, 645
Territorial election, alien voters, 393
Territorial eleetors, 928
Territorial government, 366
Territorial 298
government recommended,
Territorial investigation, 532
Territorial legislature, first laws, 417, 533, 647, 937; repudiated, 454
Territorial Militia, 418
Territorial Register, 523
Territory of Louisiana, 52
Territory of Missouri, 52
Territory of Nebraska, 298
Territory of the Platte, 303
Terry, Theodore H., 2490
Tester, William H., 1976
Text Book Commission, 845, 1095
Thacher, Solon O., 796, 946, 947, 948, 1239
Thacher, Timothy D., 692, 945, 1274 Thaver, Eli, 341, 345, 360, 365, 395, 428, 576, 580, 595 Theis, P. F., 2321
Third Indian Regiment, 902
Third Kansas Regiment, 876
Third Kansas Volunteer Battery, 899
Third party in Kansas, 1123
Thirteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, 891 Thoes, Richard E., 1592
Tholen, Charles, 2427
Tholer, Hermon J., Jr., 2126
Tholen, Webster W., 2428
Tholen, William, 699, 721
Tholen, William A., 2425
Thomas, Chester, 2458 Thomas, Frank W., 1327
Thomas, Jesse B., 293
Thomas, Mary R., 1328
Thomas, Owen M., 2117
Thomas, Rees E., 2673
Thompson, Frederic M., 1494
Thompson, Henry, 564, 567, 585
Thompson, Henry S., 2682
Thompson, Owen .A., 1649
Thompson, Robert A., 256]
Thompson, Thomas E., 2115
Thompson, William HI., 1567
Thompson. William R., 2671
Thompson, Will S., 2683
Thompson, W. A. L., 1290
Thompson, W. W .. 1940 Thornton, J. Q .. 159
Thoroman, David C., 1758
Thoroman, Albert M., 1794
Threshing scene in Kansas, 1089
Thurman, Arthur M., 1987
Tillotson. Howard C., 2356
Timber absence. 77
Timmerman, William, 1994
Timmons, William S., 199% Tioa, 2172 Titus, Colonel I. T., 60% Tobias, Joseph F., 259% Todd guerilla, 732 Todd, Robert M., 26-4
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Tole, John H., 1727 Tomlinson, William C., 2059 Tomson, Thomas K., 1628
Tonganoxie, 2277 Tonty, 33
Topeka, 79, 151, 152, 160, 161, 209, 216, 260, 400, 411, 423, 455, 464, 465, 509, 534, 607, 609, 712, 768, 777, 791, 792, 816, 825, 836, 841, 851, 964, 987, 992, 1063; founded, 362, 1649; government, 478; act of rebellion, 470; legislature, 647; made permanent capital, 718; hanks, 981; churches, 1010; a center for the manufacture of flour, 1203; one of the founders of, 1252, 1278; chapter iu municipal history, 1308; park system, 1268, 1308; playgrounds, 1308; bridges, 1310; streets, 1311; first telephone system, 1730; horse street ear line, 1730; first schoolhouse, 1758; under Mayor MeAfee, 2419; pension agency, 2443
Topeka Association, 792
Topeka Blade, 1801
Topeka Capital, 1973, 2102
Topeka Commonwealth, 1235
Topeka Constitution, 467, 468, 595, 651, 690, 693, 696, 925, 936; constitution, election, 523
Topeka convention of 1855, 939
Topeka convention of 1857, 654
Topeka Daily Capital, 825
Topeka Industrial and Educational In- stitute, 1040
Topeka Movement, 461, 472, 791, 938
Topeka Movement men, 709
Topeka State Hospital, 1105, 1653
Topeka State Journal, 1801
Toronto Republican, 2294
Torrance, Austin A., 2638
Town at the mouth of the Blue depopu- lated, 210
Town-building, in the years 1869-1873, 1293
Town of Douglas, 509
Town of Franklin, 593
Town of Kiowa, 18
Town of the Big Spring, 967
Townsend, John K., 152
Townsley confession, 572
Townsley, James, 566, 575, 582, 585 Tractors, 1281
Trade stimulus, early expeditions, 48
Traders State Bank, Arkansas City, 2577 Trading Post, 35, 225, 336, 669, 670, 735 Trading with Indians, 2489
Tramp circular, 1189
Transportation, 165, 186; the Santa Fe Trail 84; freight rates, 167; corpora- tions, 1122
Trask, Josiah C., 1253
Traveling library commission, $49
Travis, Frank L., 256]
Traylor, G. W., 2594 Treadwell, Colonel B. F., 611
Treason prisoners, 1244
Treaty of Lawrence, 512
Treaty-seene between the Pawnee and the Kansa, 232 Trees, difficulty of growing. 711 Trekell, Emery, 2698
Tribune Printing Company, 1740
Tri-City Herald, 2352
Trickett, Charles W., 1-26
Trigg, Thomas E., 2097 Trott, Charles H., 1906
Trout, George W., 2012
Tront, Loring, 1807
Troutman, John L., 1682
Troy, 173 Truby, Marvin F., 1717
True, Lewis C., 2057
Trueblood, Richard H., 2260
Truitt, Guy E., 2054
Truman, Thomas C., 1833
Truskett, T. W., 2100
Trusts, 1193
Trusts and combinations, 842
Tuberculosis sanitarium, 861, 1091
Tucker, Edwin, 2298
Tucker, George E., 2299
Tucker, Howard D., 2299
Tucker, Levi L., 1433
Tulloek, Alonzo J., 2304
Tulloss, James O., 2205
Turk, 5, 230; brought to account. \
Turner, 240, 241
Turner, James B., 1914
Turner, John O., 693
Turner, Robert W., 1545
Turning-point in the political affairs of Kansas territory, 656
Tuthill, principal salt man of '60s, 996 Twelfth Kansas, 750
Twelfth Kansas Volunteer Infantry, 890 Twente, John W., 2268
Twentieth Kansas Regiment, 46, 849, 909, 1964
Twenty-first Kansas Volunteer Infantry, 915
Twenty-first Kansas Volunteer Regi- ment, officers, 916
Twenty-second Kansas Volunteer In- fantry, 917
Twenty-second Kansas Volunteer Regi- ment, officers, 918
Twenty-third Kansas Volunteer Infan- try, 919
Twenty-third Kansas Volunteer Regi- ment, officers, 920
Twenty-fifth Kansas Militia, 748
Twine plant, 860
Two-cent railroad fare, 855: law in Kan. sas, 1569 Tyler, DeWitt C., 1559
Tyler, William H., 2222
Tyner, William S., 2169
Tyner, Willis H., 2169
Tyro State Bank, 1849
Ulysses, 103 Uncle Sam Refining Co., 1006
Underground railroad, 17, 352, 394, 627, 741, 1650; from Kansas, 609: station, 1683
Union Hotel prison, 736
Union Labor Party, 1134 Union Pacific Railroad, 777, 1240, 1293 Uniontown, 161, 336
United States governments of Upper Louisiana, 51 United States senators, 715
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('niversal suffrage, 693 University of Kansas, 360, 1231, 1235, ยท 1236, 2355 Updegraff, R. T., 2617 Updegraff, W. W., 798 Upper Louisiana, 52; capital of, 34 I'sher, John P., 268
Vaca, Cabeza de, 3 Valeda State Bank, 1983 Valley Falls, 73, 2418 Valley Home, 173 Vance, B. H., 1503
Van De Mark, Martin V., 1571
Van Denberg, Miller M., 1440
Vanderschmidt, Fred, 2310
Vanderschmidt, George, 2310
Vonderschmidt Louis 2310
Vanderslice, Thomas J., 1310
Vandervelde, Conrad, 2281
Van Doren, C. J., 2495
Van Dorp, Louis, 1644
Van Horn, Robert T., 371
Van Meer, William II., 2365
Waldraven, Luther W., 1830
Van Natta, Henry H., 1550
Waldron, John W., 2278
Van Natta, N. T., 1548
Walke, O. F., 1915
Van Ness, Alice, 736
Walker, Charles S., 2175
Van Petten, Matthew B., 1705
Walker, G. M., 737
Van Zile, Mary P., 1034, 1737
Walker, James A., 2306
Varner, Ed. C., 1462
Walker, Joel, 304
Varner, Samuel C., 2145
Vanghan, James A., 2148
Vaughan, Jim, 736
Walker, Orrin E., 1769
Vaughan, William L., 2139
Vaughn, Armon P., 2474
Vaughn, Clarence G., 2339
Vaughn, C. K., 2339
Vaughn, George W., 2337
Vawter, Jeptha D., 1704
Veale, George W., 1370
Veale's Regiment, 769
Veatch, Nathan T., 1421
Verdigris river, 222 Vermilion river, 72
Vermillion, Clinton D., 2644
Veteran plainsman, 1213
Vicory, Merifield, 1669
Vigilance committee, 439, 441, 482
Villazne, expedition of 1720, 37 Vincent Brothers, 1140, 1159
Vincent, John F., 998
Walnut Springs camp, 14\3
Walnut valley, 2533
Walsh, A. H., 2701
Walsh, Hugh S., 668, 702
War between Free-State and Slavery factions, 435 War, nature of, 155; unexpected results, 184
War with Mexico, 296
Ward, Edward A., 1664
Ward, John, 1830
Ward, Joseph O., 1423
Ward, Milan L., 1042
Ward, Milton F., 1663
Ward, Sammel, 2590
Ward, Sarah L., 1664
Waggener, James W., 1386
Waggener, William P., 13-6 Waggoner, Grant, 1909
Wagner, Frederick .I., 2602 Wagner, George, 2618
Wagon and carriage factories, 989 Wagon bed springs, 103, 114 Wagoner, Joseph E., 1591 Wagoner, Ruby B., 1591 Wagons, Santa Fe trade, 139; in over- land freighting, 166; trains, 1308
Wagstaff, Thomas E., 1253
Wagstaff, W. R., 721 Wah-Shun-Gah, Chief of the Kaws (por- trait), 208 Wakarusa, 71, 266, 361, 364, 464, 508, 509
Wakarusa Association, 357
Wakarusa battle, 2001
Wakarusa settlement, 383
Wakarusa toll bridge, 495
Wakarusa war, 356, 483, 519, 522, 562, 605, 1269 Wakefield, Judge John A., 356, 357, 359, 377, 383, 384, 401, 445, 446, 465, 468, 510, 619 Walden, J. M., 692
Walraven, Alexander J., 1830
Walker, Paul E., 1805
Walker, Robert J., 297, 305, 650, 659, 928; portrait, 652; inaugural ad- dress, 653
Walker, Samuel, 619, 895, 1223; por- trait, 688
Walker, Thaddeus, 1125
Walker, Thaddeus H., 776
Walker, Thomas M., 2429
Walker, William, 301, 304, 319, 1071; portrait, 306; journal, 305
Wall, Paul J., 1818
Wall, Thomas B., 1817
Wallace, Clark A., 2698
Wallace, John W., 2115
Walls of corn, Neosho county, 1087
Walnut creek, 98, 174
Viola Spring Water Company, 1237 Von der Heiden, William H., 2684 Voris, Mills G., 2424
Vote of 1872, 777
Voters imported, 391
Voters, territorial qualifications, 334 Vrooman, H. P., 1133
Wabaunsee, 1253; churches, 1011 Wabaunsee connty, 74
Waddle, Luther H., 1868
Waddle, Samuel H., 1397
Wade, William B., 1946
Wages in 1986, 1135 Waggener, Balie P., 980, 1376
Ware, Engene F., 1175, 1297
Waring, Charles, 762
Waring, Hattie Shaw, 2555
Waring, Richard, 2555 Wark, George H., 1928
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Walker, Matthew R., 304
Walker, Oliver D., 2527
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Warkentin, Bernhard, 2291 Warner, John, 1225 Warner, Theodore F., 170 Warren, F. P., 2373 Warren, George F., 515 " Warren Knaus Collection, " 2500 Warren Mortgage Company, 2372 Washburn College, 1012, 1062
Washington Avenue Methodist Episco- pal church, Kansas City, Kansas, 257 Washington county, 161 Washington National Bank, 1516
Wasson, Owen C., 2326
Waters, Henry J., 1024, 1027, 1034, 2388
Waters, Joseph G., 1289
Watkins, Fred M., 2075
Watkins, Jabez B., 2407
Watkins, J. B., Land Mortgage Co., 2407
Watson, William J., 912
Watson, Winfield W., 2559
Watt, Fred S., 1530
Watt, Robert A., 2227
Watterson, Thomas W., 401
Wattles, Augustus, 401
Waverly Gazette, 2624
Wea Tar Spring, 1001 Weas, 274
Weaver, George E., 1679
Weaver, James G., 1133
Weaver, Willis G., 2602
Webb, William C., 1093
Webb, William W., 1672
Weber, Henry W., 1622
Webster, C. D., 1005 Webster, Daniel, 354 Weddell, J., 401
Weekly Democrat, MePherson, 2500
Weekly Kansas Chief, Troy, 1413
Weeks, Arnold F., 1444
Weeks, David, 1471
Weeks, George H., 1471
Weer, William, 877
Weible, Harry C., 2085
Weichselbaum, Samnel, 1895
Weichselbaum, Theodore, 1895
Weightman, Matthew, Jr., 1331
Weiner, Theodore, 567, 585
Weir City Journal, 1868
Weiss, Julius, 1761
Welch, B. A., 2695
Welch, Charles D., 2252
Wellhouse, Walter, 759
Welling, Peter, 2169
Wellington, 987, 998
Wells, Joseph A., 1960
Wentworth, Edward N., 1873 Werner, John, 1002
Wessels, Henry W., S81
West, Hugh E., 853, 1005. 1854
West, J. D., 2081
Westcott, Seba C., 1996
Western Antomobile Indemnity Associa- tion, 1344
Western commerce, great characters, 181 Western Kansas, 771. 772; Indian tribes, 234 Western settlers of Kansas, 710 Western states, 182
Western States Portland Cement Com- pany, 1870 Western Terra Cotta Co., 1993
Western Theological Seminary of tl :- Lutheran Church, Atchison, 1410 Western University, Quindaro, 1040 Westfall, Dr., 585
Westfall State Bank, 2598
Westlake, Charles E., 2129
Westmoreland, 1511 Westmoreland Recorder, 1393
Westphalia Times, 2660
Westport, 1665
Westport battle, 762
Westport meeting, 359 West Virginia, 337
Wetherall, Charles E., 2720
Wheat, 2505; grinding, 989
Wheat, Benoni, 798
Wheeler, John W., 1913
Whig party, 297
Whigs, 627 Whisky, 392
Whisky ring, 825
Whisky riot, 792
Whiteratt, George E., 1439
White, Charles F., 1634
White, George L., 813
White Hair, Osage chief, 225
White Hair's village, 227; site of, 225
White, James W., 2399
White, Jesse, 1245
White, Thomas J., 2083
White, William Allen, 1149, 1152
Whitfield, John W., 377, 384, 533, 539, 591; platform, 381
Whitford, Adoniram J., 1336
Whitford, James H., 802
Whitford, Jennie Nichols, 1337
Whiting, Albe B., 1313
Whitley, Hiram C., 2217
Whitmore, A. J., 1778
Whittelsey, Harry R., 1199
Whittelsey Mercantile Company, 1199
Whittle, E. J., 2457
Wichita, 18, 20, 22, 777, 987, 991, 1012, 1042; founder, 1227
Wichita Beacon, 2236
Wichita Eagle, 1223
Wichita Quivira villages, 11
Wichita Telegraph college, 1807
Wieker, Sylvester F., 2289
Wide Awakes, 661
Wiechen, G. G., 1419
Wiegner, Daniel, 2499
Wilder, Abel C., 1258 Wilder, Daniel W., 708, 710, 834, 107 .. 1268 Wiley, John E., 2672
Wiley, Vernon M., 2667
Wilhelm, Frederic M., 1747
Wilhoit, James C., 1738
Wilhoit, John W., 1478
Wilkinson, Allen, 401, 579 Wilkinson, James, 52 Wilkinson murder, 570
Will, Thomas E., 1024, 1027
Willard, Albert B., 2207
Willard, Frances, 826
Willard, Julius T., 1019, 1034, 1347
Willets, John F., 837
Williams, Al F., 2030 Williams, Ansel, 2132 Williams, Byron, 2074
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Williams, H. H., 582 Williams, Ike N., 1301 Williams, Johnson S., 1775 Williams, Joseph, 682 Williams, Mark H., 1536 Williams, Oliver M., 2073 Williams, Roy G., 2671 Williams, R. M., 813 Williams, S. A., 401
Williams, Warner E., 2166
Williams, William T., 2132
Williamson Alvin L., 1523
Williamstown, 210; Indian agency at, 151, 211 Willis, Edward C., 1373 Willits, John F., 1147
Willow Springs, 110, 111, 483 Wilmington, 111
Wilmot's Proviso, 296
Wilson, Albert E., 1984
Wilson, Albert L., 2504 Wilson, A. P. Tone Jr., 1217
Wilson, Benjamin L., 2503
Wilson, Carey J., 1243
Wilson connty, 853, 911, 1001, 1003 Wilson County Citizen, 2369
Wilson, Davies, 722
Wilson, Drusilla, $19; portrait, 818
Wilson, Ebenezer E., 1984
Wilson, Fannie, 1415
Wilson, George, 574
Wilson, George A., 2597
Wilson, Gerald F., 1517
Wilson, Hiero T., 681, 685, 1225 Wilson, Hill P., 581
Wilson, James, 2319
Wilson, James A., 1467
Wilson, James M., 1616 Wilson, Jesse S., 1465 Wilson, John, 2452
Wilson, Joseph C., 1687 Wilson, Joseph J., 2128 Wilson, Samuel A., 2633 Wilson State Bank, 2598
Wilson, Walter E., 974, 2695
Wilson, William II., 1725 Wilson's Creek battle, 870
Winbigler, Clarence, 2699 Winchell, James M., 692, 946 Wind Indians, 195 Windom, 112 Wind people, 195 Wind storms, 1662, 1711 Winfield, 861, 988, 1009, 1159; founder of, 1259 Wingate, George W., 2024 Winkler, Frederick, 1574 Winner, Oliver F., 1709 Winsor, L. A., 1508 Winter, John M., 1731 Winter of 1855-56, 522 Wolf, Innocent, 1426 Wolfe, Gideon R., 2605 Wolfe, Ulysses S., 2292 Wolff, Charles, 1232 Wolves, 1316, 1638 Woman in Kansas constitution, 950 Woman, of Kansas Indians, 195 Woman suffrage. 693, 34, 541, 950, 156%: amendment to the constitution, 1257
Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 754 Woman's ernsade, 501, 819 Women in border war, 736 Women in temperance movement, 792, 818 Women of Kansas, 862 Women's crusade, 806
Women's Relief Corps, 1082 Women-workers, 867
Wood, Colonel Samuel N., 357, 445, 493, 496, 498, 536, 692, 701, 721, 825, 945, 1129, 1148, 1153, 1155, 1158, 1268; portrait, 494 Wood, James, 1788
Wood, Jesse D., 401, 451
Wood, Millard F., 1981 Wood, Owen J., 1350
Wood, Samnel MeM., 1335
Wooden Horse ranch, 2361
Woods, Otho T., 1325 Woods, Walter A., 2196
Woodson county, 911; schools, 2492
Woodson, Daniel, 366, 402, 508, 612, 638, 652, 661; acting governor, 417, 606 Woodson, Samuel H., 164 Woodson, Silas, 529
Woodward, Orpheus S., 2320
Woolard, Samuel F., 2431
Wooster, Alfred Q., 1926
Working hours of railroad employes, 855
Workingmen's party, 1123
Worrel, Alfred, 1860 Worswiek, William O., 1399
Wright, Robert M., 1219
Wrong, Katherine E., 1503
Wuester, Mary C., 1303
Wulf, H. F. G., 2476
Wulfekuhler, Frederick W., 2387
Wulfekuhler, Henry W., 2395
Wulfekuhler, Otto, 2395 Wyandot Indians, 249, 251, 299. 301. 304, 311, 331, 509 Wyandot nation, 336 Wyandot reservation, 257 Wyandot reserve, 530 Wyandotte, 257, 483, 697. 762, 2033, 2051; founder of the first paper, 1248; experiences of an early settler, 1995 Wyandotte, Old, 2167 Wyandotte constitution, 696, 707, 946, 973; delegates, 709; convention, 795 Wyandotte county, 206, 210, 240, 241, 257, 336, 390, 768, 911, 966, 967, 1035 Wyeth, Nathaniel, 182 Wyeth, Nathaniel J., 151
Yage outlaws, 734 Yandell, William 11., 1511 Yates Center News, 2260, 2261
Yates, James A., 1860 Yates, Robert, 147 Yenawine, William R., 1851
Yoder, S. T., 2682 Yoe. Charles, 1740 Yoo. W. T., 1739 Young, P. C., 2242 Young, Samuel, 394 Younger. Cole, 736 Younger, Henry, 401
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Youngers, The, 733 Yount, Oscar M., 2141
Zabel, Herman, 1444 Zerzan, George F., 1621 Ziegler, Gottlob, 2612 Ziegler, Lydia, 2612
Zimmerman, Alvis C., 1382 Zimmerman, J. E., 2117 Zimmerman, Mark E., 964 Zinc, 989, 1007, 2161; ore, 1007: output, 1009; manufacturing, 2076 Zionville, 114 Zook, William R., 1539
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CHAPTER I
QUIVIRA
CORONADO
The conquest of the continent of North America by the Spaniards was for the most part conducted from Cuba. The expedition of Cortez to conquer Mexico sailed from Havana. In 1520 Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon was granted a royal license to explore the coasts of Florida. In pursuance of this order he sent his lieutenant Gordilla to make a pre- liminary voyage, whose reports were so favorable that Ayllon carried them to Spain, where he seeured a royal cedula to explore and settle eight hundred leagues of the Florida coasts. In 1525 he sent out Pedro de Quexos to make a more extensive preliminary survey of the east shores of America. This expedition returned with a very favorable account of the Atlantic coast regions. In June, 1526, Ayllon sailed from Hispaniola with three ships bearing Spanish emigrants for a colony. He beat up the coasts of North America to the mouth of a stream after- wards known as the James River, into which he turned. On its wooded shores he founded a settlement which he called San Miguel, on the spot where the English afterwards built Jamestown. The Spaniards did not sueceed at San Miguel. Ayllon soon died of a fever; the colonists quar- reled and finally abandoned the enterprise.
The movement which led to the expedition of Coronado had its origin in the myths of "The Seven Cities." These myths were the more readily believed because of the magnitude of the spoil of the Peruvian Empire, accounts of which had spread over the whole of both Old and New Spain. It was supposed that what Pizarro had accomplished in South America might be duplicated in North America. In this relation it must be remembered that the Spaniards had not then explored the interior of the continent, and that they were in almost total ignorance of its geography, its mineral resources, its productions, its animal life, and its inhabitants.
The myth of "The Seven Cities" appeared first in Mexico in 1530. Nuno de Guzman was then President of New Spain. Attached to his estate was an Indian named Tejo, who was a native of the valley of Vol. 1-1
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Oxitipar. This Indian claimed to be the son of a trader, then dead. This trader, so the son said, had gone into the back country to barter fine feathers for whatever ornaments the inhabitants of those regions could be indueed to part with. On the journey (or journeys) made for this purpose, the Indian Tejo had accompanied his father. He uow told Guzman that they brought back much silver and gold, which the country produced in considerable quantities. He said, also, that he had seen in that northern land some towns as large as the City of Mexico then was. In seven of those towns there were streets given over to shops and workers in the precious metals. Those cities, he said, were far distant, and from his native valley it required forty days to reach them. For the way, he insisted, was through a barren land where no plant-life was to be seen except some desert shrubs the height of a span.
Hoping to find rich countries to plunder, Guzman organized an expedition to diseover "The Seven Cities." He enlisted four hundred Spaniards and collected twenty thousand Indians with which to make conquest of those opulent countries of which he had little doubt the seven towns were the capitals. But the expedition came to nothing. The difficulties encountered in the first stages of the march discouraged the men, and discontent spread through the ranks of the adventurers. For this, and for other eauses, Guzman abandoned the enterprise when he had but entered the district of Culican.
Panfilo de Narvaez was prominent in the conquest of Cuba in 1511, and settled in that island. Mexico was subject to Cuba, but Cortez threw off the authority of Velasquez. In an effort to regain and retain his power in Mexico, in 1520, Velasquez appointed Panfilo de Narvaez Lieutenant-Governor of Mexico, and directed him to voyage to that country, take possession of it, and imprison Cortez. Narvaez set out on this mission, and landed at Vera Cruz in April, 1520. On the 28th of May he met Cortez at Campoala, where he was defeated, wounded, and captured. He managed soon to regain his liberty, after which he went to Spain, where, in 1526, he secured a royal patent to conquer and govern Florida.
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