A standard history of Kansas and Kansans, Volume I, Part 7

Author: Connelley, William Elsey, 1855-1930. cn
Publication date: 1918
Publisher: Chicago : Lewis
Number of Pages: 668


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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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