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• Early days in Kansas : an address / by George W. Martin. ([Topeka? Kan. : s.n., 1904]), by George Washington Martin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Minutes of the Annual Session of the Northwest Kansas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by Methodist Episcopal Church, Northwest Kansas Conference (partial serial archives)
• Minutes of the South Kansas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by Methodist Episcopal Church, South Kansas Conference (partial serial archives)
• Journal of the Annual Convention, Diocese of Kansas, by Episcopal Church Diocese of Kansas (partial serial archives)

• Journal of the Annual Convention, Diocese of Kansas, by Episcopal Church Diocese of Kansas (partial serial archives)

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• History of the State of Kansas (Chicago: A. T. Andreas, 1883), ed. by William G. Cutler
  • HTML at kancoll.org
  • photocopy in 3 parts: page images at HathiTrust
• Kansas: The Prelude to the War for the Union, by Leverett Wilson Spring (HTML at kancoll.org)
• Emigrant Life in Kansas, by Percy G. Ebbutt (HTML at kancoll.org)
• Pioneer History of Kansas, by Adolph Roenigk and John C. Baird (HTML at kancoll.org)
• A history of Kansas / Anna E. Arnold. (Topeka : The State of Kansas, I. Zumwalt, state printer, 1919), by Anna E. Arnold (page images at HathiTrust)
• An appeal to the record; (Topeka, Kan., The author, 1903), by William Elsey Connelley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kansas as she has grown up and something about Montgomery County, her most marvelous section and its natural resources and industrial development. ([Independence], 1907), by Henry W. Young (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Charles Robinson and the Kansas epoch. ([Topeka, Kansas : Hall Lithographing Co., 1907?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kansas: its history, resources and prospects. (Wichita, Kan., Eagle printing house, 1890), by Kansas. Bureau of immigration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beyond the Mississippi; from the great river to the great ocean. (Hartford, Conn., American publishing company; [etc., etc.], 1867), by Albert D. Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the adjutant general of the state of Kansas ...1861-1865. (Leavenworth, Kan. : Bulletin co-operative printing company [etc.], 1867-70), by Kansas. Adjutant General's Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address delivered at the quarter-centennial celebration of the admission of Kansas as a state, by John Alexander Martin (Gutenberg ebook)

• Kansas: Its Interior and Exterior Life (1856), by Sara T. L. Robinson
  • HTML at kancoll.org
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• A Ride Through Kanzas (ca.1856), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Conquest of Kansas, by William A. Phillips (page images at MOA)
• Geary and Kansas, by John H. Gihon
  • HTML at kancoll.org
  • page images at MOA
• 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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  • page images at MOA
• 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)
• The conquest of Kansas, (Boston, Philips, Sampson and company, 1856), by William A. Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Kansas conflict, (Lawrence, Kan. : Journal Pub. Co., 1898), by Charles Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reply to "T.W.H." in Boston advertiser. ([Harrison? Me. : s.n., 1903?]), by Samuel C. Smith (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. (Washington, C. Wendell, printer, 1856), by United States. Congress. House. Committee to Investigate the Troubles in Kansas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kansas controversy. Speech of Hon. George W. Jones, of Iowa, delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 16, 1856. (Washington, Congressional globe office, 1856), by George Wallace Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Committee on federal relations relative to the admission of Kansas into the federal union. (Austin, Printed by J. Marshall & co., state printers, 1858), by Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Committee on Federal Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kansas affairs. The report of the investigating committee; presented to the House of representatives, Washington, July 1st and 2d, 1856. (Cincinnati, G. S. Blanchard, 1856), by United States. Congress. House. Committee to Investigate the Troubles in Kansas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Border ruffian code in Kansas. ([New York : Tribune Office, 1856]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six months in Kansas. By a lady. (Boston, J.P. Jewett; New York, Sheldon, Blakeman; [etc..etc.], 1856), by Hannah Anderson Ropes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wars of the western border; or, New homes and a strange people. By G. Douglas Brewerton. (New York, Derby & Jackson, 1860), by George Douglas Brewerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early days in Kansas : an address / by George W. Martin. ([Topeka? Kan. : s.n., 1904]), by George Washington Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pilgrim and the cavalier in Kansas / by Edmund G. Ross. ([Washington, D.C. : Hayworth pub. house, 1917?]), by Edmund G. Ross (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 (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Brown, as viewed by H. Clay Pate. (New York, The author, 1859), by Henry Clay Pate (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 (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, ([Chicago] Printed by Wright, Medill, Day, 1856), by J. E. Roy (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. (Philadelphia, C.C. Rhodes, 1857), by John H. Gihon (page images at HathiTrust)
• In perils by mine own countrymen. Three years on the Kansas border./ By a clergyman of the Episcopal church. (New York, Auburn, Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six months in Kansas. By a lady. (Boston, J. P. Jewett & co.; New York, Sheldon, Blakeman & co., [etc., etc.], 1856), by Hannah Anderson Ropes (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Political speeches, partly in the House and Senate, dealing mainly with Kansas and slavery.] ([Washington, D.C., 1855-57]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The border ruffian code in Kansas ([New York, Tribune office, 1856]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Englishman in Kansas or, Squatter life and border warfare / With an introduction by Fred Law Olmsted. (New York, Miller & company, 1857), by Thomas H. Gladstone (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./ By William Phillips. (Boston, Philips, Sampson and company, 1856), by William Addison Phillips (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. (Washington, C. Wendell, printer, 1856), by United States. Congress. House. Committee to investigate the troubles in Kansas (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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