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James William Denver papers and diary
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 19
Overview
Business papers and correspondence of James William Denver from 1839-1912. Includes a diary dated May 20, 1850-September 5, 1850, with miscellaneous notes.
Dates:
1839 - 1912
Letter to Captain Grover from Captain Sircoxy
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P828
Overview
This letter, dated November 3, 1857, is from Delaware Chief John Sarcoxie (signed "Sircoxy" in the letter) to Joel Grover, a free-state loyalist of Kansas Territory whose property in the town of Lawrence was a station on the Underground Railroad. Citing their prior contract, the Delaware chief asks for Grover's payment of $600 to the Delaware Nation as agreed upon completion of the Quindaro Road (a stage road from the Underground Railroad town of Quindaro, Kansas to Lawrence, completed in...
Dates:
November 3, 1857
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- California -- Politics and government 1
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- Kansas -- Politics and government -- 1854-1861 1
- Lawrence (Kan.) -- History 1
- Lawrence (Kan.) -- History -- 19th century 1
- Overland journeys to the Pacific 1
- Quindaro (Kansas City, Kan.) -- History 1
- Railroads -- Kansas 1
- Shawnee Indians 1
- Underground Railroad -- Kansas 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
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- Democratic Party (Calif.) 1
- Denver, James William, 1817-1892 1
- Denver, James William, 1863-1898 1
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