Topics in Kansas History: Settlement (1830 - 1890)

Settlement between 1830 and 1890 included thousands of American Indian tribes who were moved to the area from the East and Great Lakes area. After Kansas Territory was opened to settled in 1854 people of European ancestry chose to move to the region, increasing in numbers with statehood in 1860. read more

Find resources on Settlement:

• Territorial Kansas Online

Letters, documents, objects, photographs, and sites

• Barbed wire
• Cotton gin
• County fair posters
• Exoduster flier (African American settlement)
• Gardner, Alexander Photograph Collection
• Gunsmithing tools
• Hyer cowboy boots
• Immigrant's violin
• Locomotive No. 132, AT&SF
• Log house
• Pioneer's diary
• Plow
• Portrait of a pioneer
• Railroad immigration pamphlets
• Scales & money belt from trading post
• Stagecoach
• Steam engine model
• Tombstone from Oregon Trail
• Wheat People: Celebrating Kansas Harvest (an online exhibit)
• Windmill, Currie
• Windmill, Queen

• Cottonwood Ranch State Historic Site in Studley
• Constitution Hall State Historic Site in Lecompton
• Goodnow House State Historic Site in Manhattan
• Grinter Place State Historic Site in Kansas City
• Hollenberg Station State Historic Site near Hanover
• Pawnee Rock State Historic Site in Pawnee Rock

Bibliographies

• Kansas County Histories Bibliographies
• Frontier Forts Bibliography
• Indian Missions and Missionaries Bibliography

Finding aids and guides to the collections

• New England Emigrant Aid Company Papers
• William Clark papers

Museum Store

• Bleeding Kansas books
• Cowboys & Soldiers books
• Frontier Forts books
• Kansas Territorial 150th gifts

Kansas Heritage, our popular history magazine

• "Going For the Gold," Spring 2000
• "Head'em Up, Move 'em Out: The Legacy of the Chisholm Trail," Summer 1997
• "'It Was a Dark and Stormy Night': A Photo Essay," Autumn 1998

Kansas History, our scholarly journal

• "The Kansas City Urban Planning Tradition: George Kessler, Henry Wright, and Herbert Hare," Autumn 1997
• "Kansas Settlers on the Osage Diminished Reserve: A Study of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie," Autumn 2001
• "Zion Valley: The Mormon Origins of St. John, Kansas," Summer 2001

Kansas Kaleidoscope, our children's magazine

• "Amber Waves of Grain," May 1999
• "Kansas Geography," April 1999
• "Kidmapped!" August/September 2001
• "The Making of Kansas: Territorial Days 1854-1861," December 2000/January 2001
• "The Mexican History of Kansas," August/September 2002
• "A Moving Experience: Immigration to Kansas," October/November 2001
• "Settlement in Kansas," September 1998
• "The Story of Territorial Kansas," October/November 2003

• Homes Through the Years
• Postcards from the Past: Preserving the Built Environment

Teaching Materials

• Classroom Materials: Settlement
• Field Trips: Settlement

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