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Archaeological excavations: in Quindaro, 126, 141 A Archaeology of Large-Scale Manipulation of Prey, The: The Economic Aaronson, Reuben: Strangers in Town, 220–21 and Social Dynamics of Mass Hunting: reviewed, 297 Abilene Weekly Reflecto , 179 Archives. See Dole Archives Abolitionists: escaped slaves aided by, 163; settlers, Arkansas City (Cowley Co.): immigrant railroad workers, 181 157–58; relations with free-state movement, 157–60, 168; slave Arts: Brown v. Board of Education mural, 210; festival in Wichita’s rescues, 264. See also Doy, John; Gardner, Joseph; Underground East Douglas area, 280–81; post-office murals, 208 Railroad Arvin, Lester, 280 “Affair at Ci cleville: The Strike on the Kansas Central Railway Assaria (Saline Co.): immigrant railroad workers, 179 in the Aftermath of the Great Upheaval”:article by Charles F. Atchison (Atchison Co.): Greek Americans, 174, 177; lynchings, Harris, 20–31 170; slave-catching raids, 162–63, 164; Soldiers Orphans Home, African Americans: civil rights leaders, 120; competition from No. 4 back cover immigrants, 184; decoys for slave-cathers, 163–64, 168, Atchison, David Rice, 86–87 263, 264, 268; freedmen’s school (Quindaro), 99, 106–7, 114; Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad: immigrant workers, 176, interracial marriages, 181; lynchings, 168, 169, 170, 258, 259, 177–78, 182; in Ottawa, 35; wages, 22 260, 267–68, 268; middle-class women’s clubs, 37, 44-45; Atchison Champion, 25, 27 migration to Kansas, 115, 206; at Ottawa Chautauqua, photo, Atchison County: slave-catching raids, 161, 164, 170 43; racist violence against, 259, 260–61; railroad workers, 177; Atchison Daily Globe, 170, 177 spirituals, 117–18, 119, 120; in Topeka, 210–11; in Union Armyh Atkins, George, 127 248; urban renewal and, 145; voting rights, 105–6; in woman’s Atkins, Natalie, 127 suffrage movement, 41. See also, Pinks, Allen; Segregation; Averill, Thomas Fox: film eviewed by, 196–98; note on, 192 Slave-catching; Slaves; Western Univeristy African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church: Allen Chapel, 78–79, photo, 79; bishops, 117, 123, 127; Western University and, 74, 114–16, 122, 123, 125, 131 B Agricultural fairs: poster reproduced, No. 1 inside front cover Agriculture: grasshopper damage, 8–10; labor of farm children, Baker, Richard A., 226 58–59; in Quindaro, 136; wheat harvesting, 54, photo, 48. See Ballad of Scruggs, The: poster, 200; reviewed, 199–201 also Homesteading Balsley, Thomas, 289, 290 Ah-ke-tah-kihe-ka, 12–13 Bamberg, Albert E., 62–63 AIM. See American Indian Movement Bamberg, Elma L.: “My Home on the Smoky,” article on, 46–63; Alcohol: public consumption and drunkenness, 277–78, 280, 281, photo, 46 285, 286, 290. See also Prohibition; Temperance movement Barber County: Cedar Mountains, 12; militia, 10–11, 14; white Alexander, John: Bender, 191, 198–99 settlement, 4–5, 6–8. See also Medicine Lodge; Osage Border All Because of a Mormon Cow: Historical Accounts of the Grattan War Massacre, 1854–1855: reviewed, 149 Barker-Devine, Jenny: book reviewed by, 234 Allen, Henry J., 205 Barnes, Dora “Dode,” 49–52, 53, 56, 57, 59–60, 62 Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Kansas City), Barnes, Jennie Moore, 49, 50–52, 55–56, 60, 62 78–79; photo, 79 Barnett, Claude, 121 Alma Enterprise, 109 Barnum, Nancy, 181 Altoona (Wilson Co.): Greek immigrants, 182–83 Bassett, A. O., 92 AME Church. See African Methodist Episcopal Church Bate, Isabel, 209 American Elsewhere, The: Adventure and Manliness in the Age of Baxter Springs (Cherokee Co.): in Civil War, 26 Expansion: reviewed, 238 Beaudoin, Jedd: film eviewed by, 198–99; note on, 192 American Hellenic Educational and Progressive Association, 189 Behrend, Darrell, 280 American Indian Movement (AIM), 215 Bell, Sarah: “A Congress of Women: The Woman’s Council at the Anagnostou, Yiorgos, 175 Ottawa Chautauqua, 1892–1914,” article by, 32–45; note on, 33 Anderson, Eric P.: book reviewed by, 146; films eviewed by, Bement, Leland C.: book coedited by, reviewed, 297 201–4; note on, 192–93 Bender (film), 191; poste , 199; reviewed, 198–99 Anderson, Naomi, 41 Bender family. See Bloody Benders Anderson, Stephanie: book by, reviewed, 234 Bent, George, 248–49 Anderson, William “Bloody Bill,” 249 Bent, William, 248 Anslover, Nicole: books reviewed by, 64–65 Berlage, Nancy K.: book reviewed by, 147 Anthony, Daniel Read, 29, 261; photo, 29 Berlinger, Joe: Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders, 211–12 Anthony, Susan B.: at Chautauquas, 34, 40; visits to Kansas, 40, 41 Bernal, Hector: Brown v. Board of Education Mural Project: Legacy & Antle, Jay: book reviewed by, 66 Vision: Time-Lapse Video Project, 210 Antonino (Ellis County): settlement, 57 Bernstein, David, 175–76 Arapaho tribe, 8 Beyond the Borders of Law: Critical Histories of the North American West: reviewed, 237

Index 301 BFI. See Browning Ferris Industries Billingham, Chase M.: “‘Urban Renewal,’ Homelessness, and C the Birth and Death of Wichita’s Naftzger Park,” article by, Cabin Creek, Battle of, 248 270–91; note on, 271 Camden Point, Missouri, 250–51 Bishop, L. W., 16 Cameron Sun (Missouri), 118–19 Bismarck Grove (Douglas Co.): Chautauqua assembly, 35 Camp, Sherri: film eviewed by, 206–7; note on, 193 Bixby, A. L., 44 Campney, Brent M. S.: “‘The Infamous Business of Kidnapping’: Black, Harold, 209 Slave-Catching in Kansas, 1858–1863,” article by, 154–71; Black Jack, Battle of, 245 “‘Leave Him Now to the Great Judge:’ The Short and Tragic Black Kettle, 8 Life of Allen Pinks, Free Black, Fugitive Slave, and Slave- BlacKKKlansman: poster, 214; reviewed, 212–14; table reading, catcher,” article by, 256–69; note on, 155, 257 photo, 193 “Canada to Kansas: The Wyandot Origins of Quindaro”: article Blaser, Lee, 274 by John Nichols, 80–89 Blatchley, Eben, 89, 114 Canady, Darren: film eviewed by, 212–14; note on, 194 period, 158, 245. See also Free-state movement; Canby, Edward, 247 Kansas Territory; Slave-catching Caney (Montgomery Co.): Indian festival, 19 Blockson, Charles L., 131 Capote, Truman: In Cold Blood, 191, 194, 211, 212 Bloody Benders: film on, 198–99; graves of victims, photo, 191; Captain, Augustus, 19 historical marker, 190, 192; story of, 190–91 Carlson, Kristen: book coedited by, reviewed, 297 Blunt, James G., 248, 251, 252, 253 Carothers, Pat, 126 Blunt, William, 26 Carroll, Graham: A New Deal for Public Art in the Free State, 208–9 Boatner, Edward H., 114, 118, 120 Casten, William, 176–77 Bonds, Nedra, 126, 133, 137–39 Castle, Elizabeth A.: Warrior Women, 214–16 Book notes, 71, 151, 239, 300 Catt, Carrie Chapman, 41 Book reviews, 64–70, 146–50, 234–38, 294–99 CCFOQ. See Concerned Citizens for Old Quindaro Booth, C. C., 115 Center City Steering Committee (CCSC), Wichita, 276, 278, 279 Boston Daniels et al. v. Board of Commissioners, 126 Chadwick, Charles, 95–96, 97, 98 Bowles, John, 248 Chang, Chung, 282 Bowlus, L. H., 10–11, 12 Chanute (Neosho Co.): railroad workers, 177 Boxell, Mark: book reviewed by, 294 Chanute Daily Tribune, 177 Boyd, James, 276 Chaperone, The: poster, 207; reviewed, 207–8 Bremer, Jett, 110 Charowhas, Louis, 174–75 Brightburn, 191; poster, 223; reviewed, 222–23 Chautauquas: concerts, 118–19; history, 34; New York, 34, 37; Broderick, Case, 30 Ottawa, article on, 32–45; Redpath-Horner circuit, 119, No. 1 Brooks, Louise, 193, 207–8 back cover Broome, George, 120 Che-hah-nah-she, 13 Brown, John: Battle of Black Jack, 245; slave rescues, 264; statue in Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North Quindaro, 99, 111, 114, 125, 143, photos, 75, 78 America’s Grasslands since 1945: reviewed, 148 Brown, Nancy Quindaro. See Guthrie, Nancy Quindaro Brown Cherokee tribe, 248 Brownback, Sam, 208 Chetopa (Four Lodges; Osage leader), 8 Browning Ferris Industries (BFI): attorneys, 141; landfill proposal, Cheyenne tribe, 6–7, 8, 254–55 110, 125–31, 137–39 Chicago Tribune, 103 Brownlow, Kevin, 207 Children: Greek immigrant boys, 185–86; of homesteaders, article Brown v. Board of Education Mural Project: Legacy & Vision: Time- on, 46–63. See also Schools Lapse Video Project: reviewed, 210 Chisholm Trail, The: Joseph McCoy’s Great Gamble: reviewed, 67 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 194, 210, 211 Christianson, James R., 5–6, 18 Bruce, Henry Clay, 266–67, 268; photo, 267 Chumos, Constantine (“Con”), 174 Bryan, Jimmy L., Jr.: book by, reviewed, 238 Chumos, James (Demetrios), 174 Bryan, William Jennings: at Chautauquas, 34, 36 Chumos, Peter, 181 Bryant, B. S., 284 Circleville (Jackson County): railroad strike, article on, 20–31 Buchanan, Rex: book reviewed by, 67 Civil War: escaped slaves, 159, 160–61, 164–65; guerrilla activity Buchkoski, John: book reviewed by, 148 on Missouri-Kansas border, 169, 249–51; Indians in, 8, 13n, 88– Buford, John, 87 89, 248; in Kansas, 246–47, 248; Kansas Red Legs, 26, 107, 249; Bukaty, John J., Sr., 126, 130 lynchings during, 167–68; in New Mexico, 246–48; Quindaro Burdsal, Caleb S., Jr., 252–53 and, 88, 104–5; Second Colorado Cavalry Regiment, article on, Burke, Diane Mutti, 159, 258 242–55. See also Confederate Army; Union Army Burleigh, Harry T., 120 Civil War battles: Baxter Springs, 26; Cabin Creek, 248; Honey Burnett, McKinley, 210 Springs, 248; Little Blue River, 251–53; Mine Creek, 253 Burns, Louis F., 5 Clampitt, Elaine, 281 Burrell, Fenton, 261 Clare, Mike, 169–70 Clark County: white settlement, 4–5. See also Osage Border War

302 Kansas History Clinton, Bill, 232 Davis, Levi, 12, 16 Clutter family murders, 211–12 Dean, John, 257, 264, 269 Coen, Ethan and Joel: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, 199–201 Dean, Virgil W., 292; photo, 292 Coffeyville (Montgomery Co.): African Americans, 118, 120–21; Debrow, Joe: book by, reviewed, 299 immigrant workers, 182; Macedonia Baptist Church, 118; Deep River Plantation Singers, 119 Osages and, 8, 18–19 Delaware Indians: lands owned by, 77, 102; reservation, map, 85; Coggs, Tyszu, 130 Wyandots and, 84 Colby, P. T., 105 Demetropoulos, George, 178 Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders: poster, 213; reviewed, Democratic Commercial, 265–66 211–12 Demopoulos, George, 182 Coleman, Audrey: “Congressional Archives: A new source for the Denton, Gene, 283 Vietnam era,” article coauthored by, 224–33; note on, 225 Denver, James, 246 Collamore, G. W., 93 Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), 275–76, Colorado: gold rush, 244, 245, 246; Sand Creek Massacre, 244, 283 249, 254; Second Colorado Cavalry Regiment, article on, Dewey, Paul, 212 242–55 Diaries of Reuben Smith, Kansas Settler and Civil War Soldier, The: Comanche County: white settlement, 4–5. See also Osage Border reviewed, 70 War Dick, Leroy, 190 Comanche tribe, 8n, 254–55 Dickinson, Elizabeth, 128 Compromise of 1850, 156–57 Diggs, Annie, 40, 45 Concerned Citizens for Old Quindaro (CCFOQ), 126, 127 Dillard, E., 266 Confederate Army: Indians in, 88–89, 248; in Indian Territory, Dirck, Brian, 167 248; in Missouri, 250–53; in New Mexico, 246–48; Price’s Dobak, William A., 255 forces, 251–53. See also Civil War Docking, Robert, 231 Confederate flag: captu ed by Second Colorado Cavalry, 251, Dodd, Theodore, 247 photo, 250 Dodge City (Ford Co.): Camp Dodge, 246, 254 Congress, U.S.: documents and records, 225–27, 228 Doke, Josh: Goodland, 216–17 “Congressional Archives: A new source for the Vietnam era”: Dole, Elizabeth: papers of, 225 article by Audrey Coleman and Sarah D’Antonio Gard, 224–33 Dole, Robert J.: campaign poster (1980), No. 3 back cover; letters “Congress of Women, A: The Woman’s Council at the Ottawa from constituents, 228–29, 231, reproduced, 229; photos, 224, Chautauqua, 1892–1914”: article by Sarah Bell, 32–45 230, 232; political career, 226, 228, 231 Conley, Lydia, 128 Dole Archives: article on, 224–33 Connelley, William Elsey, 258, 268 Dole Foundation for the Employment of People with Disabilities, Constitutions. See Kansas Constitution; Leavenworth 226 Constitution; Lecompton Constitution Dole Institute of Politics, 225, 227. See also Dole Archives Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth: book by, reviewed, 146 Doniphan County: slave-catching raids, 160, 161, 164, 165, 170 Cooper, Scott: Hostiles, 201–3 Donnell, Jim, 278 Corey, A. S., 107 Douglas, Stephen A., 87, 157 Cory, Charles E., 101; photo, 102 Douglas County: lynchings, 260; slave-catching raids, 161, 164, Costakis, Theodorus Yorgios (“Greek George”), 174; portrait, 174 166, 168, 170. See also Lawrence Cottonwood Falls (Chase Co.): film set in, 196–9 Doy, Charles, 262 Courts. See Kansas Supreme Court; U.S. Supreme Court Doy, John, 257, 258, 261, 262–63; photo, 256 Cox, Steven: book reviewed by, 235 Doyle, Chris, 287 Cozad, S. H., 27 Drake, George W., 27, 28 Creek Indians, 248 Drake, Henry, 105 Crime: Bloody Benders, 190–91, 192, 198–99; Clutter family Duff, John, 28 murders, 211–12; in films, eview article on, 190–223; horse Duke, David, 214 thieves, 7–8; murders near Medicine Lodge, 6–8, 10, 15–16; robberies of Greek immigrants, 182n; in Wichita, 277, 284, 285–86, 287, 288. See also Lynchings; Slave-catching Curtis, Samuel R., 249–50, 251 E Cusey, James C., 14, 15 Custer, George Armstrong, 8 Eaton Hotel (Wichita), 284, 285, 287, 291; photos, 278, 282, 283 Cutler, William G., 18 Eaves, Lucile, 44 Editor’s Note, 292–93 Edmark, Bonnie, 279 D Education. See Schools; Western University Edwards, Tai S.: film eviewed by, 214–16; “Introduction,” article Daley, Sean M.: book reviewed by, 149 coauthored by, 74–75; note on, 74, 195 Dannahower, Debra, 281 Ehlers, Vernon, 226 Daughters, Carrie, 37 Eisenhower at the Dawn of the Space Age: Sputnik, Rockets, and Davis, Jefferson, 247, 255 Helping Hands: reviewed, 64–65

Index 303 Elevations: A Personal Exploration of the Arkansas River: reviewed, Fort Hays, 55–56 66 Fort Larned: photos, 246, 254; Second Colorado Regiment in, 246, Ellis County: homesteading memoir, article on, 46–63; sod 248, 254 houses, photo, 53; Volga Germans, 56, 61, 62. See also Hays Fort Leavenworth, 250 Ellison, William, 269 Fort Riley: Second Colorado Regiment in, 246, 254, 255 Ellsworth Reporter, 21 Fort Scott (Bourbon Co.): in Civil War, 248; Greek Americans, 182; Emancipation Proclamation, 169, 259 post-office mural, 209; slave-catching raids, 1 Embry, W. W., 28 Fort Scott Democrat, 162, 164, 166 Emporia (Lyon Co.): immigrant workers, 180–81; slave-catching Fort Smith, Arkansas, 248 raids, 160 Foster, C. Bickley, 273 Emporia Gazette, 205. See also White, William Allen Foster, Charles, 165 Emporia News, 14, 22 Fowler, Randall: book by, reviewed, 64–65 Emporia Weekly News-Democrat, 13 Frank, Thomas, 205 Engler, Michael: The Chaperone, 207–8 Frankenheimer, John: Gypsy Moths, 196–98 Environmental Systems Analysts (ESA), 126 Franklin County: racist violence, 260. See also Ottawa Epps, Kristen, 156, 163, 170; book by, reviewed, 68 Frazier, Harriet C., 265 Erby, Kelly: book reviewed by, 68; film eviewed by, 204–6; note Freed, John, 126 on, 193 Freedmen’s school (Quindaro), 99, 106–7, 114 ESA. See Environmental Systems Analysts Freedom of speech, 205 Esterline, Nick, 288 Freedom’s Champion, 160, 161, 162–63, 164–65, 166–67 Etcheson, Nicole, 158, 167; “The Homestead of the Free: Freedom Freedom’s Frontier national heritage area, 79 and Prosperity in Quindaro, Kansas,” article by, 90–99; note Free-state movement: Battle of Black Jack, 245; hypocrisy about on, 91 slave-catching, 166–70; New England Emigrant Aid Company, Evangelical Christians: camp meetings, 34 81, 87, 91, 93, 102, 110; Quindaro and, 74, 93, 102, 103, 105, 107, Evans, Stacy R.: “The More Things Change,” article by, 76–79; 110–11, 114, 142–43; relations with abolitionists, 157–60, 168; note on, 77 settlers, 245. See also Kansas Territory Evans, Sterling: book edited by, reviewed, 147 Frisbee, Meg: book reviewed by, 238 Evening Kansan-Republican (Newton), 177 Frisbie, Kathleen Johnson, 233 Evett, Kenneth, 209 Frizell, D. A., 191 Ewing, Thomas, 26, 249 Frizell, Michael, 191 Fugitive Slave Law, 156. See also Slave-catching Fulbright, Sylvia, 133–35, 139 F “‘Facing the Riverfront’: Oral Histories of Quindaro”: compiled G and edited by Anna L. Jacobson, 132–39 Fallaha, Said Hail: book reviewed by, 236 Gard, Sarah D’Antonio: “Congressional Archives: A new source Farming across Borders: A Transnational History of the North for the Vietnam era,” article coauthored by, 224–33; note on, American West: reviewed, 147 225 Farms. See Agriculture Garden City (Finney Co.): documentary on, 220–21 “Fear, Politics, Myth, and Memory: Governor Thomas A. Osborn Gardner, Alexander: photos by, 22, 95 and the Osage Border War of 1874–1875”: article by Isaias Gardner, Joseph: photo, 162; safe house, 161, 166, 168 McCaffer , 2–19 Garlinghouse, M. V., 16 Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs, 45 Garnett (Anderson Co.): lynchings, 169 Fellman, Michael, 260 Garrison, C. K., 31 Films: review article on, 190–223 Gazette Globe, 108 Finney, Joan, 138 Geary, James, 287 First Amendment. See Freedom of speech Geary County: namesake, 255n First Colorado Regiment, 247 General Federation of Women’s Clubs, 33, 37, 44 First Kansas Colored Infantry, 248 Georcowles, John, 182–83 First National Bank of Junction City, 255 German Americans: homesteaders, 6; Volga Germans, 56–57, 61, “Five Lessons We Can Learn From Quindaro”: article by James 62 N. Leiker, 140–45 German Baptist Brethren Church, 6 Flanagan, Kevin M.: film eviewed by, 217–18; note on, 195 Getz, Bob, 279, 282–83 Fliter, John: book reviewed by, 237 Gianakon, Nicholas and Thomas, 186–87 Florer, John N., 19 Gibson, Isaac T., 9–10, 11, 16 Folks, John H., 16–17 Gilbert, J. E., 35 Ford, James, 246, 247, 250–51, 252, 253; photo, 242. See also Second Gilbert, Marcy, 215, 216; photo, 196 Colorado Cavalry Regiment Gilpin, William, 246, 247 Ford County: namesake, 246 Girard Press, 4 Forest Park (Ottawa), 35–36, 38; photos, 32, 42, 44 “‘God created the earth, but he didn’t finish things’: Childhood

304 Index Memories of Homesteading in Elma Bamberg’s My Home on 55–56; racist violence, 260; schools, 55, 56, 60; Yost Milling the Smoky”: article by James N. Leiker, 46–63 Company, 54, 56, 57, 60, 61 Goodland (film): poste , 217; reviewed, 216–17 Hays, George, 34 Goodland (Sherman Co.): film set in, 216–1 Hays Free Press, 56 Goody Clancy, 287 Hays Republican, 56 Gould, Jay, 31 Hellenic American Club, 188 Governorship, Kansas. See Allen, Henry J.; Brownback, Sam; Helm, T. M., 9 Docking, Robert; Finney, Joan; Hayden, Mike; Landon, Alfred Hemp and the Global Economy: The Rise of Labor, Innovation, and M.; Osborn, Thomas A.; Stanley, William E.; St. John, John Trade: reviewed, 150 Graham, J. H., 181 Hendon, Ruth, 128; photo, 124 Graham, Maryemma, 206; photo, 206 Hennessey, Al, 277 Grand Army of the Republic: Junction City post, 255 Henry, Jacob, 97 Gray, Alfred, 101, 105, 107; photo, 100 Herald of Freedom, 4, 158, 165 Gray, George M., 101 Hiawatha (Brown Co.): immigrants, 179–80 Great Depression: New Deal programs, 208–9 Hickock, James B. “Wild Bill,” 255 Great Upheaval, 21–23, 25 Hickock, Richard, 212 Greek Americans: article on, 172–89; associations, 188, photo, Hill, Hiram, 93, 94, 95, 96–97, 98 189; candy shops, 174–75, 187, photos, 172, 177, table, 186; Hill, Michael A.: book reviewed by, 69 cartoons, 180; padrone system, 185–86, 188; railroad workers, Hillsboro Wheat Festival: posters, No. 3 inside front cover 176–79, 180–81, 182; shoemakers, photo, 184; shoeshine Hinds, Russel, 167 businesses, 180, 183–87, ads, 183, table, 185; wrestlers, 174, 175 Hoag, Enoch, 15, 16 “Greeks in Kansas, The: Immigrant Life on the Contested Edge of Hoisington (Barton Co.): immigrant railroad workers, 181 American Whiteness, 1880–1920”: article by Isaias McCaffer , Holcomb (Finney Co.): Clutter family murders, 211–12 172–89 Hollister, Ovando James, 244–45 Greeley, Horace, 102 Holt, Nora, 113–14, 121–22 Gregg, John A., 123 Holton (Jackson County): railroad, 23–24, 30; strike-breaking Groce, John, 253 posse and, 26–27, 28–30 Guglielmo, Thomas A., 176 Holton Argus, 24, 27, 29, 30 Gust, George, 179 Holton Militia Company, 27 Guthrie, Abelard, 81, 87, 91, 93–94, 97–99, 108; photo, 82 Holton Recorder, 29, 30 Guthrie, Nancy Quindaro Brown, 81, 87, 92–93, 107; portraits, 80, Homelessness: in Wichita, article on, 270–91 90 Homesteading: Bamberg memoir, article on, 46–63; in south- Gypsum Hills, 3–4, 6–8. See also Osage War central Kansas, 4–5, 6–8; women’s roles, 48–49, 59, 60 Gypsy Moths: poster, 198; reviewed, 196–98 “Homestead of the Free, The: Freedom and Prosperity in Quindaro, Kansas”: article by Nicole Etcheson, 90–99 Honey Springs, Battle of, 248 Hope, Jesse, 136 H Hope, Jessie, III, 126; photo, 124 Hopkins, J. C., 8 Hahn, Steven, 159 Horner, Charles F., 119 Hall, W. P., 265 Horse thieves, 7–8 Hamer, David, 96 Horton (Brown Co.): post-office mural, 2 Hampsten, Elizabeth, 63 Hostiles: poster, 202; reviewed, 201–3 Hannon, Floyd, 278 Housing: sod houses, 52–53, photo, 53; in Wichita’s East Douglas Harlem Renaissance, 121 area, 277, 279, 284, 287, 291. See also Homelessness Harper County: white settlement, 4–5. See also Osage Border War Hoyt, George, 250 Harper’s Weekly, 263 Hoyt, John W., 41 Harrington, Grant, 114 HUD. See Department of Housing and Urban Development Harris, Charles F.: “Affair at Ci cleville: The Strike on the Kansas Hughes, Ferdie, 127 Central Railway in the Aftermath of the Great Upheaval,” Hughes, Langston: documentary on, 193, 206–7 article by, 20–31; note on, 21 Humphrey, Adelia Alice, 107–8 Hart, Charley. See Quantrill, William Hunter Elite, The: Manly Sport, Hunting Narratives, and American Harter, Inc., 283 Conservation, 1880–1925: reviewed, 69 Hartman, Mary, 28 Hursh, Frank, 133–34, 139 Hartman, William B., 25, 26, 27–28, 29, 30 Hurt, R. Douglas: book reviewed by, 150 Hashim, Nadra O.: book by, reviewed, 150 Hutchinson (Reno Co.): Greek Americans, 186–87 Havens, George, 245 Hyatt, Thaddeus, 93, 98 Havre Daily News (Montana), 118 Hayden, Mike, 130, 131 Hayes, Roland, 120 Hays (Ellis Co.): agricultural fair poster, No. 4 inside front cover; Camp Fletcher, 246, 254; fi e (1895), 57, photo, 58; Fort Hays,

Index 305 I Jones, C. W., 162 Junction City (Geary Co.): Union Army veterans, 255 I Just Want to Testify . . .: reviewed, 209–11; scene from, 211 Justice on Fire: The Kansas City Firefighters Case and the Rail oading Iliff, E. ., 13 of the Marlborough Five: reviewed, 235 Immigrants: in Garden City, 220–21; Greek, article on, 172–89; Italian, 176, 178, 180–81; Lebanese, 187; from Madagascar, 162; marriages, 181–82, 188; Mexican, 177, 220–21; railroad workers, 176–79, 180–81, 182; seen as nonwhite, 175–76, K 178–79, 180–85, 188; Volga Germans, 56–57, 61, 62 In Defense of Loose Translations: An Indian Life in an Academic Kallias, Dimitri, 181 World: reviewed, 146 Kansas Arts Commission, 208 Independence (Montgomery Co.): Greek immigrants, 179, 184n, Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI), 212 187 Kansas Central Railroad, 31 Indian agents, 11, 14, 248, 255 Kansas Central Railway: bankruptcy, 31; construction, 23–24, Indian Removal Act of 1830, 84 30–31; Leavenworth engine, 23, photo, 24; strike, article on, Indians: activists, 194–95, 214–16; in Civil War, 8, 13n, 88–89, 248; 20–31 films about, 192–93, 201–4, 214–16, 218–20; fo ced removals, 4, Kansas Chief, 10, 160, 161, 166, 170 4n, 255; Osage Border War, article on, 2–19; railroad workers, Kansas City (Wyandotte Co.): aerial view (1959), 145; cable 178. See also Osage Nation; Wyandot Nation car, photo, 144; Chocolate Shop, photos, 172, 177; Greek Indian Territory: Civil War in, 248; Osage Reserve, 4, 4n, 9–10, 18 Americans, 179, 188, photo, 189; landfill p oposal, 110, Indian wars, 254–55 125–31, 137–39; Landmarks Commission, 126; Planning “‘Infamous Business of Kidnapping, The’: Slave-Catching in Commission, 125–26; Public Library, 133, 144; Works Kansas, 1858–1863”: article by Brent M. S. Campney, 154–71 Progress Administration recreation center, photo, 140. See also Ingalls, John James, 36, 40 Quindaro; Wyandotte Inter-Faith Ministries (Wichita), 287 Kansas City, Missouri: competition with Quindaro, 97, 99; slave- “Introduction”: article by Tai S. Edwards and James N. Leiker, catchers, 264–65 74–75 Kansas City Call, 126 INTRUST Bank Arena (Wichita), 288 Kansas City Gazette, 115 Iola (Allen Co.): Greek immigrants, 178 Kansas City Globe, 108–9 Iola Weekly Record, 178 Kansas City Journal, 41, 107–8 Iowa Point (Doniphan Co.): slave-catchers, 166 Kansas City Journal of Commerce, 264–65 Irish Americans: in Leavenworth, 261 Kansas City Kansan, 109–10, 127, 130 Irvine, Joseph, 277 Kansas City Kansas Community College, 125–26 Ise, John, 50 Kansas City Southern Railroad: immigrant workers, 176, 178–79 Italian immigrants, 176, 178, 180–81 Kansas City Star, 107, 108, 111, 127, 130, 213 Kansas City Stockyards: horse and mule division, 30 Kansas City Times, 130 Kansas Colored Infantry, First, 248 J Kansas Constitution: prohibition amendment (1881), 17 Kansas Equal Suffrage Association, 40 Jackson, Gus and Nick, 185; photo, 184 Kansas Historical Society (KSHS): building, 44; historic Jackson, Robert G., 117, 118, 119, 121, 122 preservation department, 126, 128; meetings, 109; presidents, Jackson, William “Kojak,” 285 5; Quindaro preservation efforts and, 128, 129–3 Jackson County: map (1878), 28. See also Circleville Kansas Historic Sites Board of Review, 130 Jackson Jubilee Singers, 106, 113, 118–19, 121, 122; promotional : petitions to, 40; Quindaro preservation bill, material, reproduced, 112 129–30 Jacobson, Anna L.: “‘Facing the Riverfront’: Oral Histories of Kansas National Guard: Vietnam deployment, 231 Quindaro,” compiled and edited by, 132–39; note on, 133 Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, 74, 87, 157 Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 175, 176 Kansas News, 158, 161 Jagodinsky, Katrina: book coedited by, reviewed, 237 Kansas Red Legs, 26, 107, 249 James, Jeannette, 287 Kansas State Globe, 130 Jennison, Charles Rainsford, 251, 253; photo, 167 Kansas State Militia: Osage Border War and, 10–14, 15–17 Jessye, Eva, 113, 118, 120–21, 122 Kansas Supreme Court: Quindaro landfill case, 12 Jews: Greek immigrants, 187 Kansas Territory: Bleeding Kansas period, 158, 245; Colorado as Johns, Laura M., 40, 45 part of, 246–47; defense in Civil War, 246–47; elections, 87, 95; Johnson, Bruce G., 233 governors, 246, 247; Lecompton Constitution, 94–95; racist Johnson, Lyndon B.: Vietnam War and, 228, 231, 232 violence, 259; slave-catching incidents, article on, 154–71; Johnson, Michael P., 269 slaves, 158, 258; white settlers, 4–5, 6–7, 8, 12, 157–60, 245. See Johnson, Thomas, 86, 87 also Free-state movement; Quindaro Johnston, Lucy B., 43–45 Kansas Tribune, 15, 159 Johnston-Larimer Building (Wichita), 277, 281, 283 Kansas Women’s Christian Temperance Union (KWCTU), 42–43 Kassebaum, Nancy, 129, 285n

306 Index Kassebaum, Philip, 285, 285n, 291 slaves in, 260, 266; Gardner photo (1867), 95; Greek Americans, Katz, Wendy Jean: book edited by, reviewed, 298 174; Pinks lynching, 168, 267–68, 269; racist violence, 260, 261; KBI. See Kansas Bureau of Investigation railroads, 23; slave-catching raids, 164 Keim, Fanny, 6 Leavenworth, Jesse Henry, 248, 255; photo, 247 Keim, Isaac, 6, 16 Leavenworth, Kansas & Western Railroad, 31 Kelly, Jim: I Just Want to Testify . . ., 209–11 Leavenworth Conservative, 253 Kelly, Tara Kathleen: book by, reviewed, 69 Leavenworth Constitution, 105 Kennedy, Elijah R., 6, 16 Leavenworth County: Delaware reservation, map, 85; slave- Kidnappings. See Slave-catching catching raids, 164, 170 King, Christina D.: Warrior Women, 214–16 Leavenworth Daily Commercial, 264 King, Martin Luther, Jr.: March on Washington, 120 Leavenworth Daily Times, 24–25 Kiowa tribe, 8, 254–55 Leavenworth Democratic Standard, 267 Kirby, Gene, 212 Leavenworth engine, 23; photo, 24 Kitchen, Ken, 273, 274, 278, 283 Leavenworth Times, 23, 26, 29–31 KKK. See Ku Klux Klan Leavenworth Times and Conservative, 168, 257, 266, 267, 268 Knight, Bob, 287 Leavenworth Weekly Times, 24, 27, 159, 160, 161, 162 Koons, George, 6 Lebanese immigrants, 187 Krok, James, 286 Lecompton Constitution, 94–95, 158 KSHS. See Kansas Historical Society Lee, Gerald B., 131 Ku Klux Klan (KKK): BlacKKKlansman, 212–14; in Kansas, 193, Lee, Percy, 119 205 Lee, R. Alton, 22 Kurtis, Bill, 204 Lee, Spike: BlacKKKlansman, 212–14; photo, 193 KWCTU. See Kansas Women’s Christian Temperance Union Legal cases: Boston Daniels et al. v. Board of Commissioners, 126. See also Crime; Kansas Supreme Court; U.S. Supreme Court Leiker, James N., 110–11; “‘God created the earth, but he didn’t finish things’: Childhood Memories of Homesteading in Elma L Bamberg’s My Home on the Smoky,” article by, 46–63; “Five Lessons We Can Learn From Quindaro,” article by, 140–45; Labelle, Kathryn Magee, 82 “Introduction,” article coauthored by, 74–75; note on, 47, 74 Labette County. See Bloody Benders Lenape Indians. See Delaware Indians Labor: Great Upheaval, 21–23, 25; railroad strikes, article on, Leon, John, 174 20–31 Lerner, Steve: Strangers in Town, 220–21 Lacy, Madison Davis: Langston’s Lawrence, 206–7 Leslie, Edward E., 269 Lakota Indians: in films, 203–4, 214–16, 218–2 Levis, Peter S., 128 Lampton, W. M., 16 Lewis, Mollie, 114 Landis, Shirley, 127 Lewis and Clark Expedition, The: Day by Day: reviewed, 295 Landon, Alfred M., 123 Life of Mark Twain, The: The Early Years, 1835-1871: reviewed, 236 Lane, James: at Quindaro, 107 Lillie, John C., 30 Langston, Charles H., 106 Lincoln, Abraham: Emancipation Proclamation, 169, 259 Langston’s Lawrence: publicity photo, 194; reviewed, 206–7 Lincoln University, 116 Lansing (Leavenworth Co.): Mt. Muncie Cemetery, 212 Linn County: slave-catching raids, 160 Larcom, Lucy, 99 Little, O. W., 101, 109 Laskey, Robert, 133–34, 139 Little Blue River battle, 251–53 Latinos. See Mexican immigrants Lockman, Charles, 253 Laugesen, Amanda: book reviewed by, 295 Lockstone, William, 255 Lause, Mark, 248 Longcor, George Newton, 198 Law. See Crime; Kansas legislature; Kansas Supreme Court; Legal Longcor, Mary Anne, 198 cases Longwell, Jeff, 27 Lawrence (Douglas Co.): African Americans, 117; Langston’s Lonnegan, John, 254 Lawrence (film), 206–7; Pinks in, 262–63, 264; Quantrill’s Lookout Township (Ellis Co.): homesteading memoir, article on, raid, 169, 249; racist violence, 260; railroads, 96, 97; sacking 46–63; school, 55, 56, 58, 60 by proslavery forces (1856), 158; sketch (1850s), 157; slave- Los Angeles Times, 131 catching raids, 160, 165, 168 Lovett, Christopher C., 293; photo, 293 Lawrence Republican, 155, 158–59, 160, 161, 162, 164, 166, 168, 259 LPW. See Leavenworth, Kansas & Western Railroad Lawry, Sandra: book coedited by, reviewed, 149 Ludlam, J. F., 174–75 Layton, Robert, 289 Lynchings: attempted, 265; of blacks, 168, 169, 170, 258, 259, 260, Lease, Mary Elizabeth, 34 267–68, 269; in Second Colorado Regiment, 253–54; of slave- “‘Leave Him Now to the Great Judge:’ The Short and Tragic Life catchers, 167–68 of Allen Pinks, Free Black, Fugitive Slave, and Slave-catcher”: Lyon County: slave-catching raids, 160, 165–66. See also Emporia article by Brent M. S. Campney, 256–69 Leavenworth (Leavenworth Co.): black businessmen, 266–67; competition with Quindaro, 97; Fort Leavenworth, 250; freed

Index 307 M Missouri River: at Quindaro, 74, 77, 92, 102, 109, 131, 134, photo, 99 Mackaman, Frank, 225 Mitchell, Mitch, 286 Mactavish, Bruce: films eviewed by, 209–11; note on, 194 Mitchell, Pablo: book coedited by, reviewed, 237 Mallea, Amahia: book by, reviewed, 296 Montana, Ed, 267 Manhattan (Riley Co.): Greek American students, 180 Montgomery County: Greek immigrants, 179–80. See also Manhattan Nationalist, 181 Coffeyvill Manusos, James: photo, 188 Moonlight, Thomas, 250, 251, 252, 253 MAPC. See Metropolitan Area Planning Commission Moore, Emma, 55 MARC. See Mid-America Regional Council More Than a Doctrine: The Eisenhower Era in the Middle East: Marling, Karal Ann, 209 reviewed, 64–65 Marriages: of immigrants, 181–82, 188; interracial, 181 “More Things Change, The”: article by Rev. Stacy R. Evans, 76–79 Marshall, F. J., 247 Morgan, Perl S., 108 Martin, John H., 6, 16 Moriarty, Laura: The Chaperone, 193, 207 Marvel, William, 244 Morris, Charles A., 16 Marvel Comics, 222 Morton, Albert C., 92, 93, 94, 95, 96–97 Matthews, William D.: photo, 165 Moses, Esther, 286 McCaffer , Isaias: “Fear, Politics, Myth, and Memory: Governor Moskos, Charles C., 175, 182 Thomas A. Osborn and the Osage Border War of 1874–1875,” Moten, Etta, 113, 119, 121; photo, 120 article by, 2–19; film eviewed by, 220–22; “The Greeks in Moulos, Ernéstos and Cosmos, 187 Kansas: Immigrant Life on the Contested Edge of American Moulos, Georgia, 187 Whiteness, 1880–1920,” article by, 172–89; note on, 3, 173, Moulton, Gary E.: book by, reviewed, 295 195–96 Mound City (Linn Co.): Hinds lynching, 167 McClure, Rea, 41 Mowry, Bethany R.: film eviewed by, 222–23; note on, 196 McCormick, Mark, 205 Mroczek, Terry, 63 McCoy, Max: book by, reviewed, 66; book reviewed by, 296 Mulich, William, 129, 130 McDermott, John D.: book coedited by, reviewed, 149 Munro, Ian H.: note on, 101; “A Spot of Human Ground: McEwan, Jean, 190 Changing Perceptions of Quindaro and Its History,” article by, McGhee, Thomas, 264–65 100–111 McKinney, Janice, 286 Murphy, Laura R.: book reviewed by, 297 McLain, William, 252 Murray, Orrin McKinley, Sr., 113, 117, 127, 131 McLaughlin, Henry, 264–65 Music: African American spirituals, 117–18, 119, 120. See also McNeal, Thomas Allen, 7–8 Jackson Jubilee Singers; Western University Medicine Lodge (Barber Co.): murders near, 6–8, 10, 15–16; Osage Myers, Lana Wirt: book edited by, reviewed, 70 Border War and, 6–8, 11–14; settlers, 4–5, 6–7, 12; Stockade Museum, 18 Medicine Lodge Cresset, 17 Melekov, Leon, 187 N Melioras, John, 182 Mendoza, Jose, 221 NAACP. See National Association for the Advancement of Methodist Church: missionaries, 83–84, 86; slavery and, 86 Colored People Metropolitan Area Planning Commission (MAPC), Wichita, 273, Naftzger, Gwen, 284–85 274, 276 Naftzger, John E., 274, 280, 280n Mexican immigrants, 177, 220–21 Naftzger, L. S., 280n Mexican War, 84 Naftzger, M. C., 280, 280n; portrait, 281 Meyers, Jan, 129 Naftzger Memorial Park (Wichita): article on, 270–91; photos, Miami County: lynchings, 260 282, 283, 286 Mid-America Regional Council (MARC), 128 Naldoza, Ted, 286 Migiackis, Nick D., 188 Napier, Rita G., 110, 111 Mikes, Thomas, 179 Nation, Carry A., 17–18, 291, 291n Militias. See Kansas State Militia National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), 41 Miller, Lewis, 34, 45 National Association for Colored Women, 37 Millikan, Mona, 210 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Mine Creek, Battle of, 253 (NAACP): Kansas City, Kansas, chapter, 130; Topeka chapter, Miner, Craig, 14 210, 211 Missouri: Confederate Army in, 250–53; guerrilla activity during National Association of Negro Musicians, 122 Civil War, 169, 249–51; lynchings, 258; Order No. 11, 169, 249, National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA): basketball 259; slaves, 159, 258 tournament, 288–89, 290 Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad (KATY), 178, 182 National Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy, Inc.: pamphlet, Missouri Democrat, 102 226 Missouri Pacific Rail oad, 31, 176–77, 180–81, 182 National Endowment for the Arts, 208 National League of Families of Prisoners of War and Missing in

308 Index Southeast Asia, 232, 233 Ottawa Rangers, 245 National Trust for Historic Preservation, 110 “‘Our Blood-Drenched Frontiers’: Violence and Social Justice in Native Americans. See Indians Recent Films of Kansas and the Great Plains”: article edited NAWSA. See National American Woman Suffrage Association and introduced by Thomas Prasch, 190–223 Nebraska Territory: provisional government, 86, 87. See also Ozawkie (Jefferson Co.): settlers, Kansas-Nebraska Act NEEAC. See New England Emigrant Aid Company Neely, Jeremy, 103 Ne-Kah, 13 P Neodesha (Wilson Co.): Greek immigrants, 178; Hubbell’s dry goods store, 178 Panagopoulos, Harritos, 183 New Deal for Public Art in the Free State, A: poster, No. 3 front Panagos, Peter, 187 cover; reviewed, 208–9 Panic of 1857, 88, 95, 96, 97, 99, 244 New England Emigrant Aid Company (NEEAC): Quindaro and, Panic of 1873, 8, 22, 23–24 81, 87, 91, 93, 102; racial views of leaders, 110. See also Free- Pankratz, Richard, 126 state movement Paola (Miami Co.): free-state movement and, 158 New Mexico: Civil War in, 246–48. See also Santa Fe Trail Papadopoulos, Yiota, 188 Newspapers: partisan, 14; slave-catching reports, article on, Papanek, Nicolette, 287 154–71 Park, George S., 93 New York (state): Chautauquas, 34, 37 Parks, Gordon, 130, 206–7 New York Herald Tribune, 102 Parkville and Grand River Railroad, 97–98 New York Times, 102, 110, 126 Parsons (Labette Co.): immigrant railroad workers, 178–79 New York Tribune, 102, 162 Parsons Weekly Sun, 178 Nichols, Clarina Irene Howard: as editor of Quindaro Chindowan, Pastras, James, 188 93, 94, 102; photo, 94; on Quindaro, 107, 128, 143 Pate, Henry, 245 Nichols, John: “Canada to Kansas: The Wyandot Origins of Patterson, Corvine, 114–15 Quindaro,” article by, 80–89; note on, 81 Patton, Will: photo, 197 Nixon, Richard, 231 Paul, R. Eli: book coedited by, reviewed, 149 Norris, David, 283–84, 285 Pawnee City (Riley Co.), 245 Norton, G. H., 14 Pearson, James B., 231n Nute, Ephraim: letter, 262 Peele, Jordan, 213 Perot, Margot: photo, 224 Perot, Ross: photo, 224 Pickard, Nancy, 195, 217 O Pierce, Franklin, 157 Pike, Albert, 248 Oblinger-Smith, 276, 278 Pinks, Allen: article on, 256–69; as decoy for slave-catchers, 164, O’Connor, J. Patrick: book by, reviewed, 235 263, 264, 268; murder, 168, 267–68, 269, newspaper story on, Oertel, Kristen Tegtmeier, 110 268; obituary, 257; prison records, 265 Olathe Mirror, 4, 105 Pioneers. See Homesteading Old Quindaro. See Quindaro Pioneers of Promotion: How Press Agents for Buffalo Bill, . T. Old Quindaro Brewery: photo, 129 Barnum, and the World’s Columbian Exposition Created Modern Old Quindaro Cemetery, 125; marker, 76 Marketing: reviewed, 299 Old Quindaro Museum, 79, 89; sign, 131 Platt family: photo of African American woman, 103 Old Town Association (OTA), Wichita, 284, 285, 287 Pleasonton, Alfred, 251 One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Pomeroy, Samuel C., 93, 97 Regenerative Agriculture: reviewed, 234 Pony Express, 26 Osage Border War (1874–1875): article on, 2–19 Pope, John, 7 Osage County Chronicle, 7 Populist Party, 40–41, 45, 142, 205 Osage Nation: buffalo hunters, 10– 1, 12–14, 15–17, 18; chiefs, 8, Post-office murals, 208 photo, 5; Confederate Army and, 248; photos, 7; U.S. military Prairie City (Douglas Co.), 259 and, 8; visitors to Kansas, 18–19, 19n; white settlers and, 8, 8n Prasch, Thomas: “‘Our Blood-Drenched Frontiers’: Violence and Osage Reserve, 4, 4n, 9–10, 18 Social Justice in Recent Films of Kansas and the Great Plains,” Osawatomie (Miami Co.): Roosevelt speech, 143 article edited and introduced by, 190–223; book reviewed by, Osawatomie Herald, 166 298 Osborn, Thomas A.: Osage Border War and, article on, 2–19; Preboth Investments, Inc., 273 photo, 2 Premier Productions, 119 OTA. See Old Town Association Prentis, Carrie, 37–38, 40, 45 Ottawa (Franklin County): Forest Park, 35–36, 38, photos, 32, 42, Price, Jay M., 293 44 Price, Sterling, 251–53 Ottawa Chautauqua: article on, 32–45; photos, 32, 36, 39, 40, 42, Price’s Raid, 245, 250, 253 43 Pritchard, Jesse, 250 Ottawa Chautauqua Assembly Herald, 33, 35, 37–39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45 Prohibition: in Kansas Constitution, 17; state law, 42

Index 309 Q Republican Study Committee, 208 Ricker, Cyrus M., 11–14, 16, 17; letter by, 15 QTPS. See Quindaro Town Preservation Society Rider, The: photo, 220; reviewed, 218–20 Quakers: Indian agents, 11, 14 Riley, Boots, 214 Quantrill, William: guerrilla band, 249; Lawrence raid, 169, 249; Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela, 58 photo, 249; Pinks and, 263, 264, 268–69; as slave-catcher, 263 Rising Son, 117 Quastler, I. E., 23 River in the City of Fountains, A: An Environmental Quindaro (Wyandotte Co.): Allen Chapel African Methodist City and the Missouri River: reviewed, 296 Episcopal Church, 78–79, photo, 79; cemetery, 125, photo, Rizer, Mary Keith, 255 76; changing perceptions of, article on, 100–111; charter Rizer, Robert O., 253–54, 255 revocation, 99; Civil War and, 88, 104–5; cultural memory Roark, James L., 269 of, 141–42; decline, 97, 98, 103–5, 107, 114; emancipation Robbins, Blake: photo, 197; The Scent of Rain and Lightning, 217–18 celebrations, 106; famous visitors, 107; farms, 77, 136; Robbs, LaDawndra, 133, 136, 137, 139 founding and growth, 74, 81, 87–88, 89, 91–97, 101–3, 107; Roberts, Betty, 126 freedmen’s school, 99, 106–7, 114; free-state movement and, Robeson, Paul, 120 74, 93, 102, 103, 105, 107, 110–11, 114, 142–43; geographic area, Robinson, Charles: lands owned by, 97, 99, 108, 115; photo, 92; 77, 92; historical district, 77; historical markers, photo, 78; land political views, 93; at Quindaro, 107, 109; Quindaro Town purchased for, 74, 87–88, 106–7; land speculation, 108, 110, Company and, 81, 87, 91–94, 96, 97, 98–99, 102 article on, 90–99; library, 105; maps, 90, 92–93, 104; mayors, Robinson, Marvin, 75, 126, 127, 128, 139, 145; “The Struggle to photo, 100; as National Commemorative Site, 74–75, 79, No. Save the Quindaro Site, 1982-1989,” article with assistance of, 2 back cover; Ninth Kansas Regiment stationed in, 99; Old 124–31 Quindaro Museum, 79, 89, photo of sign, 131; oral histories, Robinson, Verdis, 126–27 132–39, 144; origins of name, 92; overlook, No. 2 front cover; Roediger, David R., 175, 176 population, 74, 94; prehistory of, 143–44; preservation efforts, Roosevelt, Eleanor: African Americans and, 121; photo, 122 79, 110, 111, 124–31, 137–39, 145; ruins, 101, 106–7, 108–10, 134, Roosevelt, Theodore: at Chautauqua, 34; New Nationalism 139, photos, 106, 108, 127, 129, 132; rural area, photos, 135, speech, 143; W. T. Vernon and, 117 138; schools, 105, 106, 114, 127, 133, 138; special issue, No. 2; in Root, Wesley C., 179 twentieth century, 132–39, 144; warehouses, 96, 102, photo, 99. Rosecrans, William S., 251 See also Western University Ross, Edith Connelly, 191 Quindaro Chindowan, 93, 94, 96, 97, 102–3, 104, 107, 143 Rumsfeld, Donald, 230 Quindaro Park: photo, 137 Russian immigrants. See Volga Germans Quindaro Ruins Archaeological Park: photo of sign, 142 Quindaro Town Company, 81, 87, 91–94, 95–99, 101, 105, 107, 115 Quindaro Town Preservation Society (QTPS), 111, 127–30, 131 Quindaro Tribune, 104–5, 161 S Salina (Saline Co.): Greek Americans, 181; post-office mural, 2 Salvation Army: in Wichita, 271, 277, 279, 280, 281 Santa Fe Railway. See Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad R Santa Fe Trail, 246, 247, 248 Race. See African Americans; Segregation Saville, Brad, 288, 290 Railroads: construction, 21, 23–24, 30–31, photo, 22; immigrant Scent of Rain and Lightning, The: photo, 197; poster, 218; reviewed, workers, 176–79, 180–81, 182; narrow-gauge, 23; Quindaro 217–18 and, 93, 96, 97–98, 102, 144–45; strikes, 21–23, 25; wages, 22, Scharnhorst, Gary: book by, reviewed, 236 25, 179. See also Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad; Kansas Schmits, Larry, 126 Central Railway Schofield, John, 24 Ramirez, Renva K.: book by, reviewed, 294 Schools: freedmen’s school (Quindaro), 99, 106–7, 114; in Hays Ramos, Bethany Murray: note on, 196 and Ellis County, 55, 56, 58, 60; integration, 211; Kansas Ransom, H. J., 28 history taught in, 129, 139; in Quindaro, 105, 106, 114, 127, 133, Rassogianis, Alexander, 183 138; segregated, 105, 106, 114, 211; in Topeka, 211 Reader, Samuel J.: diary, 260 Schweig, Martyl, 209 Reardon, John, 126 “Second Colorado Cavalry and the Conquest of the Central Redpath-Horner Chautauquas, 119, No. 1 back cover Plains, The”: article by Christopher M. Rein, 242–55 Reed, Bill, 121 Second Colorado Cavalry Regiment: article on, 242–55; at Honey Rein, Christopher M.: note on, 243; “The Second Colorado Springs, 248; in Kansas, 246, 248, 249, 253, 254–55; officers Cavalry and the Conquest of the Central Plains,” article by, 246, 247; soldiers, 244–45, 247, 253; vigilantism, 253–54 242–55 Sedgwick County. See Wichita Republican National Committee: Dole as chairman, 226, 231 Segregation: Brown v. Board of Education decision, 194, 210, 211; Republican Party: African Americans and, 116, 123; free-state Jim Crow period, 206; at Ottawa Chautauqua, 41, 44, 45; of narrative, 142–43; state conventions, 40; woman suffrage schools, 105, 106, 114, 211; in women’s club movement, 37, issue, 40–41, 45. See also Dole, Robert J.; Kansas legislature 44–45 Self, William, 254

310 Index Seminoles, 248 Standing Up to Colonial Power: The Lives of Henry Roe and Elizabeth Seneca (Nemaha Co.): post-office mural, 2 Bender Cloud: reviewed, 294 Seneca Nation, 88–89 Stanley, William E., 116 SenGupta, Gunja, 92, 110, 170 Stanton, Irving, 248, 253 Settler colonialism, 48, 243–44. See also Homesteading Star of Empire, 103 Shanahan, Mark: book by, reviewed, 64–65 Stein, Martin, 128 Shaw, Anna Howard, 40, 41 Steineger (mayor), 131 Shawnee County: lynchings, 260. See also Topeka Steinroetter, Vanessa: films eviewed by, 199–201; note on, 192 Shawnee Methodist Mission, 86; photo, 86 Stevens, John, 273 Shawnee people, 143 Stewart, John E. (abolitionist), 163, 264 Shepler, S. J., 12 Stewart, John (missionary), 83–84 Sherman, William Tecumseh, 107 St. John, John, 17 Sherow, James E.: book by, reviewed, 67; Editor’s Note by, 292–93 Stockade Museum (Medicine Lodge), 18 Shire and McCrystal, 24–25 Stockdale, James, 231–32 Shockley, Dennis, 130 Stockdale, Sybil, 231–32; photo, 224 Shortridge, James R., 6, 99 Stone, Jeff ey C.: book reviewed by, 70 Sibley, Henry H., 247 Storrs, Sylvester, 108 Siebert, Wilbur, 83 Strangers in Town: poster, 221; reviewed, 220–21 Silva, John Alexander, 221 Streeter, James, 255 Simpson, Napoleon, 161, 166, 168, 171 “Strength through Numbers: The Intersection of Abolitionist Simpson, Samuel N., 81, 87, 92, 93 Politics, Freed Blacks, and a Flourishing Community in Singers. See Jackson Jubilee Singers Quindaro” symposium, 74, 79, 292–93 Sitting Bull, 203–4 Stringfellow, Benjamin, 87 Slave-catching: article on, 154–71; decoys, 163–64, 168, 263, “Struggle to Save the Quindaro Site, 1982-1989, The”: article by 264, 269; incidents, 259, 261–62, 263–65, map, 160, table, 163; Fred Whitehead, 124–31 newspaper stories, reproduced, 158, 169, 259; poster, 154 Stubbs, Mahlon, 14 Slavery: debate over extension in new states, 156–58, 243; Sumner County Press, 6–7, 16–17 Emancipation Proclamation, 169, 259. See also Abolitionists; Sun City (Barber Co.), 6, 10–11 Free-state movement Superman stories, 222 Slavery on the Periphery: The Kansas-Missouri Border in the Supernatural, 191 Antebellum and Civil War Eras: reviewed, 68 Supreme Court. See Kansas Supreme Court; U.S. Supreme Court Slaves: former, 136–37; freed, 260–61; in Kansas Territory, 158, Suttle, A., 95 258; lynchings, 258; in Missouri, 159, 258; runaway, 103, 107, Sutton, Belle, 55 137, 156, 159, 163, 164–65, 258, 259; at Shawnee Methodist Sutton, William, 55 Mission, 86; spirituals and, 117–18; Wyandot owners, 82, 87. Swank, Sandi, 287 See also Underground Railroad Swanton, John R., 83 Smith, Curtis, 133–34, 136–37, 139 Smith, Frank, 278 Smith, J. Nelson, 246, 251, 252; photo, 252 Smith, Leonard (Len) T., 23, 25–26, 27, 28, 30, 31; photo, 25 T Smith, Levi, 16 Smith, Nathaniel Clark, 117 Taft, William Howard: W. T. Vernon and, 117 Smith, Perry, 212 Tammi, Emma: The Wind, 199–201 Smith, Thaddeus T., 114 Tatara, Paul: note on, 192 Smith Center (Smith Co.): namesake, 246 Temperance movement: in Kansas, 17–18, 108, 291n; meetings, Smith County: namesake, 246 35; Ottawa Chautauqua and, 42–43; women in, 34–35. See also Smock, Raymond W., 227 Prohibition Smoky Hill River: homesteading memoir, article on, 46–63 Thayer, Eli, 93 Snell, Joseph W., 128, 130 Third Colorado Infantry, 249 Social justice: films on, eview article, 190–223 Thompson, George. See Pinks, Allen Social Science Club of Kansas and Western Missouri, 37 Thomson, Claire: films eviewed by, 219–20; note on, 195 Socolofsky, Homer, 129 Thornton, John Calhoun, 250 Songs My Brothers Taught Me: publicity photo, 195; reviewed, Thralls, Joe, 8 218–20 Thunder Hawk, Madonna, 194–95, 214–16; photo, 196 Sortor, Elisha, 105 Thurston, Mrs. S. A., 41 Sortor, Norman B., 127 Tibbetts, John: film eviewed by, 207–8; note on, 193 Southern Kansas Fair Association: poster, No. 4 inside front cover Timon, Alcibiades, 181 Southwest National Bank, 274, 280n Tisdale, Morris, 19 Spaghetti Works building (Wichita), 288–90, 291; photo, 286 Todd, George, 249 “Spot of Human Ground, A: Changing Perceptions of Quindaro Toombs, Michael, 194 and Its History”: article by Ian H. Munro, 100–111 Topeka (Shawnee Co.): African American residents, 210–11; Stallworth, Ron, 213–14; photo, 193 Brown v. Board of Education, 210, 211; Chautauqua assembly,

Index 311 35; Gage Park, postcard, No. 4 front cover; Greek Americans, 174–75, 186, 187; Hartzell Park, 35; Kansas Day Club, 116; V Purity Lunch Room, 187; racist violence, 260; schools, 211; Vail, David D.: book by, reviewed, 148; book reviewed by, 299 shoeshine businesses, 186; slave-catching raids, 159; Tough Vance, E. T.: cartoon, 10 murder trial, 30 Van Slyke, Darius, 16 Topeka Capital, 41 Veale, George W., 109 Topeka Constitutional Convention (1855), 158 Verdigris River Valley, 4, 8n Topeka Daily Blade, 15 Vernon, William T., 110, 116–17, 123, 127; photo, 115 Topeka Daily Capital, 116, 179, 186 Victory Theater (Wichita), 274–75, 277, 280 Topeka Plaindealer, 187 Vietnam War, 228–32, 233 Topeka State Journal, 116, 174, 175, 176–77, 210 Vincent, John Heyl, 34, 35, 45 Topeka Weekly Commonwealth, 7, 11 Virdee, Satnam, 184 Tough, William Sloan, 23, 26–29, 30; photo, 20 Volga Germans, 56–57, 61, 62 Towers, William H., 110, 125; photo, 109 Vollmer, Clarence E., 273 Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898–1899, The: Voss, Ralph: film eviewed by, 211–12; note on, 194 Art, Anthropology, and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siècle: Voss, Tom, 181 reviewed, 298 Voting rights: of African Americans, 105–6. See also Woman Treaty of the Little Arkansas, 254 suffrage movemen Tripp, Joseph F., 25 Trump, Donald J., 74, 208 Tsutsui, William M.: film eviewed by, 208–9; note on, 194 W

Wabaunsee County Historical Society, 109 U Waggoner, Jim, 177 Wagner, Frank, 180 Underground Railroad: in Kansas, 258; station in Quindaro, 107, Wah-Zha-Zhi people. See Osage Nation 110, 114, 128, 138, 143; supporters, 158; Wyandots and, 83 Walden, John M., 102–3, 105, 106, 107, 110–11 Underground Railroad Museum (Quindaro), 89 Waldo (Russell Co.): immigrant railroad workers, 179 Union Army: Eleventh Kansas Cavalry, 250; Fifteenth Kansas Walker, Hal, 126 Cavalry, 250, 251; First Kansas Colored Infantry, 248; Kansas Walker, Joel, 81, 87–88; photo, 88 Mounted Riflemen, 104; memorials, 44; Ninth Kansas Walker, Thaddeus H., 14 Regiment, 88, 99, 104; Order No. 11, 169, 249, 259; Second Walker, William, 84, 86–87; photo, 83 Colorado Cavalry Regiment, article on, 242–55; Second Walker-Hill, Helen, 121 Kansas Cavalry, 88; Seventh Kansas Cavalry, 29; Sixteenth Wallace, Oliver, 245 Kansas Cavalry, 251; Third Colorado Infantry, 249; veterans, Wamego (Pottawatomie Co.): Redpath-Horner Chautauquas 11–12, 255. See also Civil War program, No. 1 back cover Union Pacific Rail oad: branches, 31; construction, 23, 55, photo, Ward, R. B., 173 22; employees, 134, 179; routes, 96 Ward, T. M. D., 116 Union Rescue Mission (Wichita), 277, 280, 285, 287n Warford, John, 178 Union Traction Company, 180 Warrior Women: poster, 215; reviewed, 214–16 U.S. Army: Fort Hays, 55–56; Indian wars, 254–55; Sixth Cavalry, Washburn College: Greek American students, 174 6, 11; Wyandots and, 84. See also Fort Riley; Union Army Washington, Booker T., 34, 106, 116–17 U.S. Department of the Interior, 17 Wathena (Doniphan Co.): runaway slave killed in, 259; slave- U.S. Merchant Marine ships, 109 catching raid, 161, 165 U.S. Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 194, Watie, Stand, 248 210, 211 Watkins, Albert (Mr. and Mrs.), 277 U.S. Treasury Department: Section of Fine Arts, 208–9 Wa-tse’-gi-don-a-bi, 12, 13, 17 University Daily Kansan, 213 Watson, J., 178 University of Kansas: African American graduates, 117, 121; Dole Wausau Record-Herald (Wisc.), 113 visit (1965), 229–30, photo, 230. See also Dole Archives WCTU. See Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Unrau, William, 254 Weed, David M.: film eviewed by, 216–17; note on, 195 Upham, J. J., 11 Weekly Union, 107 “‘Urban Renewal,’ Homelessness, and the Birth and Death of Weidenbaum, Lewis, 274 Wichita’s Naftzger Park”: article by Chase M. Billingham, Weldon, Catherine, 203–4 270–91 Wells, J. G.: map of Kansas and Nebraska territories, No. 2 inside Urban Renewal Agency (URA), Wichita, 273–83, 291 front cover Wenske, Paul: note on, 113; “Western University at Quindaro and Its Legacy of Music,” article by, 112–23 West, Elliott, 59, 243 Western Argus, 105

312 Index Western University: academic courses, 116, 117, 122–23; Winfield Daily P ess, 185 alumni, 135; anthem, 115, 122; article on, 112–23; carpentry Wisdom, Bill, 129–30 department, photo, 117; closing, 113, 123; decline, 122–23; Wise, William, 253–54 former campus, 77, 78–79, 111, 114, 123, 125, 127, photos, Woermke, Otto, 274 75, 115; founding, 74; graduates, 78, 144; John Brown statue, Woman’s Columbian Club of Ottawa, 38 99, 111, 114, 125, 143, photos, 75, 78; land title, 107; music Woman’s Council, Ottawa Chautauqua: article on, 32–45 department, 113, 117–18, photos, 115, 117; music department Woman’s Press Association, 38 alumni, 113–14, 117, 118, 120–22, photos, 120, 122; origins, Woman suffrage movement, 33, 35, 39–42, 43, 44, 4 89, 99, 106, 114–15; Parks Hall, 122, photo, 75; presidents, Woman Walks Ahead: poster, 203; reviewed, 201–4 110, 116–17, 122; Stanley Hall, 116; state funding, 116, 122–23; Women: homesteaders, article on, 46–63 vocational training, 116, 117, 122, 123; Ward Hall, 115–16, 122, Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), 17, 37, 42–43, photo, 75. See also Jackson Jubilee Singers 291n, No. 1 front cover Western University Association (WUA), 125, 131 Women’s club movement, 33, 34–35, 37–39, 44–45 “Western University at Quindaro and Its Legacy of Music”: Wood, Fern Morrow, 191 article by Paul Wenske, 112–23 Works Progress Administration: recreation center, photo, 140 Wheeler, E. M., 180 World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition (1884), No. Wheeler, James, 84 1 front cover Wheeler, Jessica, 31 World War I: military service of Greek Americans, 188 White, Susanna: Woman Walks Ahead, 201–4 Worrall, Henry: cartoon, 9; watercolor reproduced, No. 1 front White, William Allen: documentary on, 204–6; opposition to cover Klan, 193, 205; photo, 205; on Populists, 142, 205 Wright, John K., 255 White Cloud (Doniphan Co.): slave-catching raids, 161 WUA. See Western University Association Whitehead, Fred, 127, 130; note on, 125; photo, 124; “The Struggle Wulz, Ralph, 274 to Save the Quindaro Site, 1982-1989,” article by, 124–31 Wyandot Nation: burial grounds, 128; Civil War and, 88–89; Whittier, John Greenleaf: “The Kansas Emigrants,” 91, 99 history, 82–87; lands owned by, 77, 79, 84–85, 87; perceptions Wichita (Sedgwick Co.): candy shops, 187; East Douglas Avenue, of, 102; Quindaro and, 74, 81, 87–89, 91, 143 photo, 275; Eaton Hotel, 284, 285, 287, 291, photos, 278, 282, Wyandotte (Wyandotte Co.): competition with Quindaro, 97, 105; 283; Greek Americans, 174, 181, 187, 188; Metropolitan Area map (1878), 104 Planning Commission, 273, 274, 276; Naftzger Memorial Park, Wyandotte Commercial Gazette, 106, 107, 160–61, 163, 167–68, 259, article on, 270–91; Old Town district, 276, 277, 278–91; police 264 force, 278, 280, 286–87; retail stores, 274–75, 277, 280, 285, 286, Wyandotte County: aerial view (1959), 145; Delaware reservation, photo, 270; Southern Kansas Fair poster, No. 4 inside front map, 85; map (1878), 104; slave-catching raids, 161, 162, 164, cover; urban renewal, article on, 270–91; Urban Renewal 167–68, 170, 264; Unified Government, 79. See also Kansas Agency, 273–83, 291 City; Quindaro Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce, 274 Wyandotte County Commission, 127 Wichita Art Museum, 276 Wyandotte Gazette, 15, 105, 106, 107 Wichita Beacon, 177, 274, 277, 278, 280 Wyandott Herald, 106 Wichita Daily , 181, 184, 188 Wichita Design Council, 289, 290 Wichita Downtown Development Corporation, 289 Wichita Eagle, 4, 8, 23, 130, 288, 289, 290–91 Y Wichita Eagle-Beacon, 276, 284, 285 Wichita State University: research on homeless in Wichita, 279 Yarovesky, David: Brightburn, 222–23 Wichita Wholesale Grocery Company, 288 Yellow Boy, Corey: films eviewed by, 219–20; note on, 195 Wilberforce University, 115, 116 York, Alexander, 198 Willard, Fred, 26, 27 York, William, 198 William Allen White: What’s the Matter with Kansas?: reviewed, Yost Milling Company, 54, 56, 57, 60, 61 204–6 Yung, Bill, 281 Williams, A. H., 25–26, 27, 28–29, 30 Williams, Ellen, 250, 251 Williams, Eugene, 210, 211; photo, 211 Williamson, Theresa, 127, 130 Z Willmott, Kevin: The Battle for Bunker Hill, 217; BlacKKKlansman, 212–14; bullet-proof vest, 213; Gordon Parks Elementary, 193; Zavatsky, Jack, 281 photo, 193; William Allen White: What’s the Matter with Kansas? Zhao, Chloé: The Rider, 218–20; Songs My Brothers Taught Me, 193, 204–6 218–20 Wilson, Bob (Congressman), 230 Zwonitzer, Mark, 206 Wilson, Bob (Quantrill confederate), 264, 269 Wilson, Carol, 155 Wilson, Henry, 107 Wilson County Sun, 180 Wind, The: poster, 201; reviewed, 199–201

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