Transcribed from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar.

Lone Star Order.—This was one of the organizations of the pro-slavery men in the territorial days. It was a secret, oath-bound society, similar in its plans and purposes to the "Blue Lodges" (q. v.) and had for its ultimate object the making of Kansas a slave state. But little can be learned of its work, further than that David R. Atchison was one of the moving spirits, as he was in practically every pro-slavery movement at that period.

Page 184 from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed July 2002 by Carolyn Ward.