This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...The rights of the Indian, however, have seldom been regarded, and here as elsewhere the whites will soon become the sole possessors of the soil. For political purposes Kansas has been divided into 18 districts. Of the population enumerated, 192 were slaves and 403 foreigners. The principal settlements are--Leavenworth ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...The rights of the Indian, however, have seldom been regarded, and here as elsewhere the whites will soon become the sole possessors of the soil. For political purposes Kansas has been divided into 18 districts. Of the population enumerated, 192 were slaves and 403 foreigners. The principal settlements are--Leavenworth City and Kansas City on the Missouri, the latter at the mouth of the Kansas, and there are several others on the Kansas. The principal military station is Fort Leavenworth, and there are others, viz., Fort Riley, at the junction of the Republican Fork with the Kansas, and forts Mann and Atkinson, on the Arkansas river., Kansas was originally a portion of the Louisiana purchase of 1803; and subsequently a large portion of Its eastern division was included in the Indian Territory. In 1854 it was erected into a separate territorial government. EMIGRANT ROUTES ROM THE SEA-PORTS TO THE WESTERN STATES. Therr are four general routes by which emigrants are carried from the sea-board to the Western States, having their initial points at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. The port of New York, being that at which emigrants are chiefly landed, demands the first notice. From this point there are several routes to the interior: 1st. The Erie Railroad Route, which, commencing at Jersey City, opposite New York, passes northward through New Jersey, and then west through the southern counties of Western New York to Dunkirk, on Lake Erie, whence emigrants pass over the Lake Shore line of railroads to Cleveland. The distance from New York to Cleveland by this route is about 602 miles. 2d. The Central Railroad Route.--By this route the emigrant will go from New York to Albany by the Harlem Railroad or the Hudson River Railroad, or by steamboat on the ...
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