| Description |
x, 273 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
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text rdacontent |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The people, the place, the times -- 1854: "A most appropriate town site" -- Winter 1854-1855: a New England crusade -- March 1855: "Damned yankees" come to Kansas -- Spring 1855: becoming Manhattan -- Bleeding kansas: "Tyranny is now in the ascendant" -- The wearying work of frontier life -- 1856: waiting out the violence -- 1857: a town built from stone -- 1858: "We do not despair of a free state yet" -- 1859: "A flourishing yankee settlement" -- 1860-1865: drought, violence, and victories -- Post-Civil War: triumph of the yankees -- 1870s: "A lively town, full of business" -- 1880-1894: into the modern era. |
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Manhattan (Kan.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Kansas -- Manhattan.
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| ISBN |
9780700618323 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0700618325 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780700621408 pbk. |
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