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• The Conquest of Kansas, by Missouri and Her Allies: A History of the Troubles in Kansas, From the Passage of the Organic Act Until the Close of July, 1856 (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co., 1856), by William A. Phillips
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• Kansas: Its Interior and Exterior Life (c1856), by Sara T. L. Robinson (HTML at kancoll.org)
• Kansas: Its Interior and Exterior Life (third edition; Boston: Crosby, Nichols and Co.; et al., 1856), by Sara T. L. Robinson
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• Kansas: Its Interior and Exterior Life (seventh edition; Boston: Crosby, Nichols and Co.; et al., 1857), by Sara T. L. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The War in Kansas: A Rough Trip to the Border, Among New Homes and a Strange People (New York: Derby and Jackson; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1856), by George Douglas Brewerton
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• A Ride Through Kanzas (ca.1856), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Geary and Kansas, by John H. Gihon
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• Speech ... on the Action of the Select Committee Ordered to Inquire into the Facts Connected with the Formation of the Lecompton Constitution of Kansas, by David Safford Walbridge (page images at MOA)
• The Englishman in Kansas: or, Squatter Life and Border Warfare, by Thomas H. Gladstone (page images at MOA)
• Pioneer Days in Kansas, by Richard Cordley (HTML at kancoll.org)
• Six Months in Kansas, by Hannah Anderson Ropes
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• The Border Ruffian Code in Kansas (page images at MOA)
• Quantrill and the Border Wars (Cedar Rapids, IA: Torch Press, 1910), by William Elsey Connelley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geary and Kansas Governor Geary's administration in Kansas: with a complete history of the territory until July 1857: embracing a full account of its discovery, geography, soil, rivers, climate, products; its organization as a territory ... All fully authenticated. (C.C. Rhodes, 1857), by John H. Gihon (page images at HathiTrust)
• In perils by mine own countrymen Three years on the Kansas border. (Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Charles Robinson, the first state governor of Kansas. (Crane & company, printers, 1902), by Frank W. Blackmar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six months in Kansas (J. P. Jewett & co.;, 1856), by Hannah Anderson Ropes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New England emigrant aid company, and its influence, through the Kansas contest, upon national history (F. P. Rice, 1887), by Eli Thayer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kansas affairs. The report of the investigating committee (G. S. Blanchard, 1856), by United States. Congress. House. Committee to Investigate the Troubles in Kansas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The boundary lines of Kansas : an address by Geo. W. Martin, secretary of the State Historical Society, before the Old Settlers' Association at Alma, September 28, Independence, October 16, and at the banquet at Kansas City, Kan., October 18, 1909, in honor of the Wyandotte convention. (s.n., 1910), by George Washington Martin and Kansas State Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slavery unmasked; being a truthful narrative of a three years' residence and journeying in eleven Southern States (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Philo Tower (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Political speeches, partly in the House and Senate, dealing mainly with Kansas and slavery.] (University of Michigan, Digital Library Initiatives, 1855) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slavery unmasked: being a truthful narrative of a three years' residence and journeying in eleven southern states: to which is added the invasion of Kansas, including the last chapter of her wrongs. (E. Darrow & brother, 1856), by Philo Tower (page images at HathiTrust)
• With the border ruffians; memories of the Far West, 1852-1868 (J. Murray, 1908), by R. H. Williams and E. W. Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• True history of the Kansas wars, and their origin, progress and incidents; with statements concerning the murders of Dow, Barber, Doyle and others, the attempted assassination of Sheriff Jones--Judge Lecompte before the Grand Jury of Lecompton--the arrest of G.W. Brown, Governor Robinson, Deitzler and N.S. Wood--the sacking of Lawrence, etc., illustrated in frontispiece and a portrait of the author (Reprinted, W. Abbatt, 1932), by O. N. Merrill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The border ruffian code in Kansas ([Tribune office], 1856) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern interest in territorial Kansas, 1854-1858. ([Topeka, Kan.], 1923), by Elmer Leroy Craik (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Englishman in Kansas or, Squatter life and border warfare (Miller & company, 1857), by Thomas H. Gladstone and Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at HathiTrust)
• The battle cry of freedom. (University of Kansas Press, 1954), by Samuel A. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The first two years of Kansas, or, Where, when and how the Missouri bushwhacker, the Missouri train and bank robber, and those who stole themselves rich in the name of liberty, were sired and reared : an address (State Print. Office, 1907), by George Washington Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conquest of Kansas by Missouri and her allies. A history of the troubles in Kansas, from the passage of the organicact until the close of July, 1856. (Philips, Sampson and company, 1856), by William A. Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Kansas conflict ... (Harper & brothers, 1892), by Charles Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the Kansas crusade, its friends and its foes. (Harper & brothers, 1889), by Eli Thayer and Edward Everett Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the special committee appointed to investigate the troubles in Kansas with the views of the minority of said committee. (C. Wendell, printer, 1856), by United States. Congress. House. Committee to Investigate the Troubles in Kansas, Mordecai Oliver, William Alanson Howard, and United States. 34th Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• Territorial Kansas; studies commemorating the centennial. (Lawrence, 1954), by University of Kansas (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Brown and the legend of fifty-six (American philosophical society, 1942), by James C. Malin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kansas, its interior and exterior life : including a full view of its settlement, political history, social life, climate, soil, productions, scenery, etc. (Crosby, Nichols, 1856), by Sara T. D. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kansas; the prelude to the war for the union (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1885), by Leverett Wilson Spring (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Kansas: from the first exploration of the Mississippi valley, to its admission into the Union: embracing a concise sketch of Louisiana; American slavery, and its onward march; the conflict of free and slave labor in the settlement of Kansas, and the overthrow of the latter, with all other items of general interest. (James, Emmons & co., 1868), by John N. Holloway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some Jewish associates of John Brown ([New York], 1908), by Leon Hühner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneer days in Kansas (The Pilgrim press, 1903), by Richard Cordley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kansas; or, Squatter life and border warfare in the far West (G. Routledge & co., 1857), by Thomas H. Gladstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kansas; its interior and exterior life. Including a full view of its settlement, political history, social life, climate, soil, productions, scenery, etc. (Crosby, Nichols and Company; [etc., etc.], 1856), by Sara T. L. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of Gov. R.J. Walker; with the true story of the rescue of Kansas from slavery. (The author, 1902), by George W. Brown and Thomas Ewing (page images at HathiTrust)
• The truth at last. History corrected. Reminiscences of old John Brown. Thrilling incidents of border life in Kansas; with an appendix, containing statements and full details of the Pottawotomie massacre, by Gov. Crawford, Col. Blood, Jas. Townsley, Col. Walker, and others (Stereotyped and printed by A.E. Smith, 1880), by George W. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kansas ; the prelude to the war for the Union (Houghton, Mifflin, 1894), by Leverett Wilson Spring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Gen. James H. Lane, "the liberator of Kansas"; with corroborative incidents of pioneer history. (J. Speer, printer, 1896), by John Speer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gun and the gospel; early Kansas and Chaplain Fisher. (Medical century company, 1897), by H. D. Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Kansas conflict (Journal publishing Company, 1898), by Charles Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Gen. James H. Lane, "the liberator of Kansas"; with corroborative incidents of pioneer history. (J. Speer, printer., 1897), by John Speer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The war in Kansas. A rough trip to the border, among new homes and a strange people. (Derby & Jackson;, 1856), by George Douglas Brewerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geary and Kansas. Governor Geary's administration in Kansas: with a complete history of the territory until June 1857: embracing a full account of its discovery, geography, soil, rivers, climate, products; its organization as a territory. All fully authenticated. (C. C. Rhodes, 1857), by John H. Gihon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Foot-notes on Kansas history ([Journal company, printers], 1906), by Robert Gaston Elliott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The first two years of Kansas; or, Where, when and how the Missouri bushwhacker, the Missouri train and bank robber, and those who stole themselves rich in the name of liberty, were sired and reared : an address (State Print. Office, 1907), by George W. Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Brown, a soldier of fortune;ba critique. (H.P. Wilson, 1913), by Hill Peebles Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kansas in eighteen fifty-eight. Being chiefly a history of the recent troubles in the territory. (H. Dayton;, 1859), by William P. Tomlinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• With the border ruffians; memories of the far West, 1852-1868 (John Murray, 1907), by R. H. Williams and E. W. Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• New homes and a strange people (Derby & Jackson, 1857), by George Douglas Brewerton and Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection. German Americana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wars of the western border, or, New homes and a strange people (Derby & Jackson, 1858), by George Douglas Brewerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. S. A. Douglas, of Illinois, on Kansas territorial affairs. (Printed at the Union office, 1856), by Stephen A. Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Englishman in Kansas; or, Squatter life and border warfare. (Miller & company, 1857), by Thomas H. Gladstone and Frederick Law Olmsted (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three years on the Kansas border. (Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856), by John McNamara (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kansas, its interior and exterior life : including a full view of its settlement, political history, social life, climate, soil, productions, scenery, etc. (Crosby, Nichols and Co., 1856), by Sara T. D. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report [of] the Committee on Territories, to whom was referred so much of the annual message of the President of the United States as relates to territorial affairs, together with his special message of the 24th day of January, 1856, in regard to Kansas Territory, and his message of the 18th of February, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 4th of February, 1856, requesting transcripts of certain papers relative to the affairs of the Territory of Kansas. ([Washington, 1856), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories, Jacob Collamer, Stephen A. Douglas, and United States. Congress 1855-1856) Senate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal recollections of Pardee Butler, with reminiscences (Standard Publishing Company, 1889), by Pardee Butler and Mrs. Rosetta Butler Hastings (page images at HathiTrust)
• False claims of Kansas historians truthfully corrected. (The author, 1902), by George W. Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Speech of Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, on the bill to admit Kansas as a state under the Topeka constitution : Delivered in the House ... June 28, 1856. (Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1856), by Alexander Hamilton Stephens (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prayer of Thaddeus Hyatt to James Buchanan, president of the United States, in behalf of Kansas, asking for a postponement of all the land sales in that territory, and for other relief : together with correspondence and other documents setting forth its deplorable destitution from the drought and famine : submitted under oath, October 29, 1860. (H. Polkinhorn, printer, 1860), by Thaddeus Hyatt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address to the people of the United States together with the proceedings and resolutions of the Pro-slavery Convention of Missouri, held at Lexington, July, 1855. (Printed at the Republican Office, 1855), by Mo. Pro-slavery Convention Lexington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slavery unmasked. (Literature House, 1970), by Philo Tower (page images at HathiTrust)
• True history of the Kansas wars, and their origin, progress and incidents; with statements concerning the murders of Dow, Barber, Doyle and others ... Judge Lecompte before the grand jury of Lecompton--the arrest of G. W. Brown, Governor Robinson, Deitzler and N. S. Wood--the sacking of Lawrence, etc. Illustrated with ... colored engravings ... ([J. R. Telfer], 1856), by O. N. Merrill and W. F. Noble (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six months in Kansas. (J.P. Jewett;, 1856), by Hannah Anderson Ropes and Proctor Jewett (page images at HathiTrust)
• James Henry Lane, the "Grim chieftain" of Kansas (Crane, 1899), by William Elsey Connelley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Kansas conflict (Journal Pub. Co., 1898), by Charles Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report [of] the Committee on territories, to whom was referred so much of the annual message of the President of the United States as related to territorial affairs, together with his special message of the 24th day of January, 1856, in regard to Kansas Territory, and his message of the 18th of February, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 4th of February, 1856, requesting transcripts of certain papers relative to the affairs of the territory of Kansas ... ([Washington, 1856), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories, Stephen A. Douglas, and 1st session United States. 34th Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reports of select committees of the Senate on slavery and the condition of Kansas, and on the outrage on the freedom of debate in Congress. (Free Press Print., 1856), by Vermont Senate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the special committee appointed to investigate the troubles in Kansas, with the views of the minority of said committee. (C. Wendell, printer, 1856), by United States. Congress. House. Committee to Investigate the Troubles in Kansas, Mordecai Oliver, William Alanson Howard, and 1st session United States. 34th Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reply to "T.W.H." in Boston advertiser. (s.n., 1903), by Samuel C. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kansas; her struggle and her defense; a discourse preached in the Plymouth Congregational Church of Chicago, Sabbath afternoon, June 1, 1846 (Printed by Wright, Medill, Day, 1856), by J. E. Roy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Committee on federal relations relative to the admission of Kansas into the federal union. (Printed by J. Marshall & co., state printers, 1858), by Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Committee on Federal Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kansas; the prelude to the war for the union. (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1907), by Leverett Wilson Spring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kansas affairs. The report of the investigating committee; presented to the House of representatives, Washington, July 1st and 2d, 1856. (G. S. Blanchard, 1856), by United States. Congress. House. Committee to Investigate the Troubles in Kansas and 1st session United States. 35th Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Border ruffian code in Kansas. (Tribune Office, 1856), by YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geary and Kansas. Governor Geary's administration in Kansas. With a complete history of the territory. Until June 1857. Embracing a full account of its discovery, geography, soil, rivers, climate, products; its organization as a territory ... All fully authenticated. (J. H. C. Whiting, 1857), by John H. Gihon (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Brown (The author, 1859), by Henry Clay Pate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six months in Kansas. (J.P. Jewett;, 1856), by Hannah Anderson Ropes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wars of the western border; or, New homes and a strange people. (Derby & Jackson, 1860), by George Douglas Brewerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early days in Kansas : an address (s.n., 1904), by George Washington Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pilgrim and the cavalier in Kansas (Hayworth pub. house, 1917), by Edmund G. Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spencer Kellogg Brown, his life in Kansas and his death as a spy, 1842-1863 : as disclosed in his diary. (Heinemann, 1903), by Spencer Kellogg Brown and George Gardner Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kansas affairs ... Report [of] the Special Committee appointed to investigate the troubles in the territory of Kansas ... ([Washington, 1856), by United States. Congress. House. Committee to Investigate the Troubles in Kansas, John Sherman, and William Alanson Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Politics of the country. Speech of Hon. I. Washburn, jr., of Maine. In the House of representatives, June 21, 1856. (Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1856), by Israel Washburn and United States House of Representatives (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of the Hon. Robert Toombs ... on the President's Kansas message : (1856), by Robert Augustus Toombs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kansas contested election. (Printed at the Office of the Congressional Globe, 1856), by Alexander H. Stephens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geary and Kansas : Governor Geary's administration in Kansas: with a complete history of the territory until July 1857: embracing a full account of its discovery, geography, soil, rivers ... its organization as a territory ... (C.C. Rhodes, 1857), by John H. Gihon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conquest of Kansas, by Missouri and her allies : A history of the troubles in Kansas, from the passage of the organic act until the close of July, 1856 (Phillips, Sampson and company, 1856), by William A. Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• With the border ruffians : memories of the Far West, 1852-1868 (Musson Book Co., 1919), by R. H. Williams and E. W. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Select Committee on slavery, the Dred Scott decision, and the action of the Federal Government thereon, submitted Thursday, Nov. 18, 1858. (E.P. Walton, printer, 1858), by the Dred Scott Decision Vermont. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Select Committee on Slavery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kansas investigation. Minority report of the Kansas Investigating Committee of the House of Representatives (Printed at the Union Office, 1856), by United States. Congress. House. Committee to Investigate the Troubles in Kansas, Mordecai Oliver, and United States. Congress 1855-1856). House (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kansas. (H. Holt], 1910), by Carl L. Becker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bilder und skizzen aus Kansas (Arnoldische buchhandlung, 1860), by Thomas H. Gladstone (page images at HathiTrust)
• With the border ruffians memories of the far West, 1852-1868 (Musson, 1910), by R. H. Williams and E. W. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Subduing freedom in Kansas : report of the Congressional Committee, presented in the House of Representatives, Tuesday, July 1, 1856. (s.n, 1856), by United States House of Representatives (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kansas territorial governors. (Crane and Company, 1900), by William Elsey Connelley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kansas; the prelude to the war for the union (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1906), by Leverett Wilson Spring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kansas : the prelude to the war for the union (Houghton, Mifflin and Company ;, 1887), by Leverett Wilson Spring (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Kansas struggle, of 1856, in Congress, and in the presidential campaign; with suggestions for the future. (American Abolition Society, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters to the great Democratic anti-Lecompton meeting, against the Lecompton fraud, held at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 8, 1858. (Printed by L. Towers, 1858) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kansas affairs ... Report [of] the special committee appointed to investigate the troubles in the territory of Kansas ... ([Washington, 1856), by United States. Congress. House. Committee to Investigate the Troubles in Kansas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kansas; its interior and exterior life : including a full view of its settlement, political history, social life, climate, soil, productions, scenery, etc. (Journal Publ. Co., 1899), by Sara T. L. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conquest of Kansas by Missouri and her allies : a history of the troubles in Kansas : from the passage of the Organic Act until the close of July, 1856 (Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1856), by William A. Phillips and Andrew Dickson White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The inner voice (Sheridan house, 1940), by Nina Wilcox Putnam (page images at HathiTrust)
• The war in Kansas. A rough trip to the border, among new homes and a strange people. (Derby & Jackson;, 1856), by George Douglas Brewerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Committee on Federal Relations relative to the admission of Kansas into the federal union. (Printed by John Marshall & Co., State Printers, 1858), by Texas. Legislature. Committee on Federal Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charles Robinson. Biographical sketch and historical review. From "Eminent men of Kansas." ([n.p., in the 1890s), by Hill P. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The first two years of Kansas. (State printing office, 1907), by George Washington Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Gen. James H. Lane "the liberator of Kansas" : with corroborative incidents of pioneer history (J. Speer, 1896), by John Speer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kansas, its interior and exterior life : including a full view of its settlement, political history, social life, climate, soil, productions, scenery, etc. (Crosby, Nichols, 1856), by Sara T. L. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Gen. James H. Lane, "the liberator of Kansas" ; with corroborative incidents of pioneer history. (J. Speer, printer, 1896), by John Speer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Charles Robinson, the first state governor of Kansas. (Crane & Co., printers, 1902), by Frank W. Blackmar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address to the People of the United States, together with the Proceedings and Resolutions of the Pro-Slavery Convention of Missouri, Held at Lexington, July 1855 (Gutenberg ebook)
• Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler, by Pardee Butler, ed. by Rosetta Butler Hastings (Gutenberg ebook)

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