The Kansa Indians
The Kansa Indians

Author: William E. Unrau

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1986-01-01

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780806119656

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After their first contacts with whites in the seventeenth century, the Kansa Indians began migrating from the eastern United States to what is now eastern Kansas, by way of the Missouri Valley. Settling in villages mostly along the Kansas River, they led a semi-sedentary life, raising corn and a few vegetables and hunting buffalo in the spring and fall. It was an idyllic existence-until bad, and then worse, things began to happen. William E. Unrau tells how the Kansa Indians were reduced from a proud people with a strong cultural heritage to a remnant forced against their will to take up the whites' ways. He gives a balanced but hard-hitting account of an important and tragic chapter in American history.

Bulletin
Bulletin

Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Library

Publisher:

Published: 1901

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13:

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Bulletin
Bulletin

Author: United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Library

Publisher:

Published:

Total Pages: 832

ISBN-13:

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Lincoln and His World
Lincoln and His World

Author: Richard Lawrence Miller

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2012-01-27

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 0786488123

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In the climax of Richard Lawrence Miller's epic four-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln's pre-presidential years, a blunder by the proponents of slavery propels Lincoln toward the White House. Initially, passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act seems to be a victory for the South, opening the American West to slavery. Ultimately, however, the North rises in anger, with Lincoln helping to fan the flames of rage. Before the first shot of the Civil War is fired, the ambitious westerner is transformed, seeking more power yet, but wielding it in defense of the American dream. His dedication and dependability set him apart from his Republican competitors and help him secure his party's presidential nomination in 1860. With this installment, the most detailed and comprehensive biography of a pre-presidential Abraham Lincoln in the past 100 years comes to its conclusion.