Accompanied by facsims. of 22 primary documents on 43 leaves (26 x 21 cm.-28 x 35 cm.).
Summary
Facsimiles of primary source materials with transcripts and teaching notes, developed for use by educators in middle schools.
Contents
Kansas forts: before Kansas was a territory -- The first military escort down the Santa Fe Trail -- The Oregon Trail and Stephen W. Kearny's 1845 expedition -- The U.S. Army's duty of patrolling the border between white settlement and the permanent Indian frontier -- Kansas forts: territorial Kansas and the Civil War -- Fort Riley and the establishment of Kansas Territory -- The first Kansas colored infantry regiment -- The wounded from the Mine Creek Battle, and related action of October 25, 1864 who were taken to the Fort Scott hospital -- Kansas forts: the Indian Wars -- The Sand Creek massacre and its effects on Kansas -- Hancock's war (Custer article) -- Hancock's war (Harper's weekly) -- The Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty -- The Battle of Beecher Island -- The march of the survivors of the Battle of Washita to Fort Hays -- The prisoners of the Battle of Washita held at Fort Hays -- The Cheyenne outbreak of 1878 -- Kansas forts: life at the forts -- George Sternberg and the Fort Harker cholera epidemic of 1867 -- The burning of the Fort Larned stables and racial prejudice at Fort Larned -- Material goods accessible to the fort population -- Charles King at Fort Hays -- Life as an officer's wife at Fort Harker -- Demographics at a frontier fort -- View of early Fort Wallace and its officers -- Military map of Kansas.
