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Author/Creator:Athearn, Charles G.
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Title:Correspondence, 1855.
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Physical Description:26 p.
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Summary:The correspondence between Charles Athearn and his family urges people interested in settling in Kansas Territory to consider the Wolf Creek and Neosho River area, where he has taken a site. Letters describe the weather, crops, the future prosperity of area, the erection of cabins, post offices, churches, operation of saw-mills, persuading a railroad line to pass through the area, making Kansas a free state, and staying the tide of slavery. Last letter, from Caleb, tells of his father Charles's death.
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Other formats:Typed transcript available.
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Cite as:Charles G. Athearn Correspondence. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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Subjects:Athearn, Caleb.
Athearn, Charles G.
Frontier and pioneer life--Kansas.
Slavery--Kansas.
Kansas--History--1854-1861.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3203649