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Allen Dunmire diary
Diary entries are made in ink and pencil. Each entry mentions the weather conditions and is followed by the daily activities. There are diary entries for each day of the year 1879. In addition, there are notes on expenditures and receipts during the year as well as accounts received and paid.
Anna G. (Smith) Irvin's memories of early days in Kansas
Reminiscences of early days near Blue Mound. Recounts family's departure from England and trip West. Describes pioneer life in Douglas County, raids during the civil War, and Indians in the area. A 4-page "Excerpt" and map is included with the account.
Anne E. Bingham reminiscences
Reminiscences of life on a farm near Junction City following migration west in 1869. Sixteen years on a Kansas farm, 1870-1886.
Buggy Tracks by Bess Harrison
Buggy Tracks; A personal narrative of life in a small western Kansas town in the early 1900's, together with family photographs. Ft. Morgan, Colorado? 197-
Clark family papers
This collection consists of letters that discuss family affairs, droughts and crops. J. S. Clark mentions carrying mail, "following" cotton, and Mormons. Lizzie mentions raising chickens and pigs. It also contains a marriage certificate for J. S. Clark and Mary Ann Pedigrew from Kansas in 1873.
Ella J. Chase journal
Emily Isabelle Combes letters
A typed transcription of letters written by Emily Isabelle Combes in 1871 to her fiance in Ohio. Combes moved to Rice County, Kansas, with her father where they homesteaded. Her letters describe pioneer life on the prairie, relations between white settlers and Native Americans, buffalo hunts, prairie fires, and other experiences she had in Kansas.
Hall Family Correspondence
Joel Grover diary
Grover was born in Springfield, Livingston Co., New York, August 5, 1825; died in Lawrence, Kansas, July 28, 1879. This collection consist of a diary kept during the years 1857 and 1858 by Joel Grover, an early resident of Lawrence, Kansas. A transcription of the diary was completed in 1981.
John Henry Vansickle papers
This collection consists of letters describing incidents of the border raids during the Kansas Territory-Missouri border wars just before the United States' Civil War in detail, including references to John Brown, William Quantrill, Jim Montgomery, and Fort Scott. The collection also includes a deed to land in McLean County, Illinois owned by Vansickle.
Joseph A. Cody correspondence
This collection consists of Joseph Cody's letters to his wife, Elvira (Cable) Cody, and those received from other friends, arranged chronologically from 1854-1885. It also includes letters written by Elvira and those she received from friends prior to her marriage to Joseph, arranged chronologically from 1847-1853. Letters written by Elvira's father, Eleazer Cable, a nurseryman in Ohio concerned with the maintenance of the Cable nursery, are dated from 1837-1869.
Joseph F. Smith letters
Three family letters written by Franklin County, Kansas settler Joseph F. Smith in the first year of his arrival in Kansas Territory and in the first two years of Kansas statehood. An emigrant from Iowa, Smith writes to his brother Alvin Smith of Ohio regarding the local weather, crops, prices of provisions, the threat of secessionists, and his hopes for purchase of land from the Native American reserve on which he works in winter months.
Joseph M. Reed letters
This collection consist of eight letters of Joseph M. Reed dated from 1858 to 1863, and compiled by Evelyn L. Harmon and Glenn E. L. Slining in 1977.
Journal of a Kansas farmer
Journal of a Kansas farmer, October, 1873-October, 1876; recorded in the People's comprehensive diary. .. for the use of farmers and others. (Mitchell County, Kansas, 1876.)
Kate Warthen Searcy papers
Kate (Warthen) Searcy was an early homesteader in western Kansas, in addition to being a schoolteacher, author, and newspaper editor. This collection includes her family correspondence and some records related to her career, as well as photographs and other personal materials.
Letter to Michael Brodhead. Garden City, Kansas.
Reminiscences of early days in Nicodemus and Graham County, Kansas.
Letter to Mr. Taft in Coldwater, Kansas
Letter addressed to Mr. Taft includes manuscript of an article about the history of Comanche County: the early success of the farmers, the take-over by the cow men and the return of the farmer. Covers the period 1873-1905. Folder includes both the handwritten original letter and a typed transcript.
Mabel Amrine reminiscences
The collection consists of a typescript of a newspaper article from 1955 and photocopy of a magazine article from 1956 written by Mabel Chilcott Amrine; and photocopies of a three-part newspaper article from 1957 written by M. F. Amrine. There is also a photocopy of Mrs. Amrine's magazine article which also appeared in a Topeka newspaper in 1957.
Minutes of the Session of the Presbyterian Church, Burlingame, Kansas
Minutes of the Session of the Presbyterian Church, together with the Church Register, 1874-1904. Philadelphia, Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1869.
My Own Experience
In this memoir, written on 304 numbered leaves, Rosa B. "Rose" Garrison Hawkins, born in 1870, recalls her early years on her parents' farm in McLean County, Illinois, her elopement and marriage at age fifteen, her life as a homesteader in western Kansas and southeastern Colorado, and her return to Illinois in 1890. Her account, extending from early childhood to 1896, details the many harrowing hardships which she and her husband endured as homesteaders and overland travelers.
Newspaper Clippings. [compiled by] Library, University of Kansas.
Personal papers of Bonnie B. Worline
This collection consists of a manuscript and proofs for "Sod House Adventure," which was published in 1956.
Peterson family reminiscences
Typewritten copies of speeches given by members of the Peterson family concerning life in the 1870s in Brantford (Washington County), Kansas, a Swedish community in the north central region of the state.
Pioneer life in Kansas
This collection consists of a single, three-page typescript reminiscence by Caroline Updegraff Parker, relating the experiences of her brother William W. Updegraff and her own family in Osawatomie, Kansas from 1855 to 1869, as well as a photograph of her brother William later in his life.