In his later teenage years, Hickok moved to Kansas ... “Jayhawkers” and worked as a bodyguard for General James Henry Lane. During this period, he also met William “Buffalo Bill” Cody, with whom he ...

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861 ... and the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act and how each shifted the parameters of the debate, but Merry ...

On the coattails of a new exhibit, a presentation at the Smoky Hill Museum will focus on Civil War events that happened in Kansas. According to the museum, the May presentation titled “The Civil ...

After the American Civil War ended ... of the Civil War. This image shows Gardner as he travels on the prairie with his complex photography wagon. After the war ended, he moved west to take photos of ...

Residents say the attacks challenge their sovereignty, threaten their livelihood and hobble their efforts to build a new country after nearly 14 years of civil war. In early April, Israeli airstrikes ...

“The Underground Railroad — the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War — refers ... at the University of Kansas, described the alterations ...

Historic origins The term "Jayhawker" originated during the Civil War, when conflict arose ... We’re from Kansas, Jayhawkers, and proud of it.” 3. A mythic combination The Jayhawk is a ...

Missouri took control of the St. Louis police department just before the start of the Civil War, a gambit by state leaders to prevent ... crime in St. Louis under local leadership. They say Kansas ...

With the exception of Nicodemus, one of the few remaining Kansas African American communities founded after the Civil War, the history of Black settlement has been largely ignored in Kansas history.

The Martin Cemetery in Stafford County, Kansas holds the remains of "Exodusters" who migrated to the area in the years after the Civil War ended. Sometimes the little places you pass every day ...