Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 65593-h.htm or 65593-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/65593/65593-h/65593-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/65593/65593-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/historyofkansas01arno Transcriber’s note: Text in italics is surrounded by underscores, _like this_. Text in bold face is surrounded by equal signs, =like this.= [Illustration: MEMORIAL HALL] A HISTORY OF KANSAS by ANNA E. ARNOLD Author of Civics and Citizenship [Illustration: Seal of the State of Kansas] Published by the State Of Kansas Imri Zumwalt, State Printer Topeka, 1919 7-6552 Copyright 1914, Anna E. Arnold Copyright 1919 (Revised), Anna E. Arnold All Rights Reserved [Illustration: Printer’s Logo] PREFACE No State has a history better calculated to inspire patriotism in its people than has Kansas. In this fact lies the greatest reason for teaching Kansas History in the schools. A knowledge of the difficulties that have been met and conquered in building the State will create in the minds of the boys and girls a greater respect for the sturdy qualities of the pioneers; it will give them a wholesome sense of the great cost at which the ease and comfort of to-day have been purchased; it will stimulate in them a desire to live up to the past. If the study of Kansas History is to accomplish these results, the subject must be presented in such a way as to arouse the interest of the pupils. They must feel its reality. They must catch its spirit. With the hope of fulfilling in some measure these requirements, this book has been prepared with the following aims constantly in mind: to make it, as nearly as possible, a narrative; to select from the wealth of material at hand such subject matter as is within the comprehension of children, eliminating such matter as can be fully understood and appreciated only by mature minds; to present the general movement of the State’s progress rather than a mass of unrelated facts. Only so much detail has been used as is necessary to a clear understanding of events. The purpose has not been to chronicle a multitude of events, but rather to show forth what manner of men and women were the builders of our State, what motives actuated them, what conditions surrounded them, how they lived, and what they accomplished. An effort has been made to give the pupils a general view of the State’s history as a whole, to give them a framework on which to build their later knowledge, and to leave them with a desire to learn more of Kansas history. ANNA E. ARNOLD. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. THE BEGINNING OF KANSAS HISTORY 9