CONTENTS:

• Officers for 1912; Past Presidents of the Society
• Board of Directors
• Life Members of the Society
• Active Members of the Society
• Acknowledgement
• Addenda
• Errata
• In Memoriam. Miss Zu Adams, Late Librarian of the Kansas State Historical Society

INTRODUCTION

• Historical Accuracy in Newspapers, by Sheridan Plough

I. ADDRESSES AT ANNUAL MEETINGS

• Some Western Border Conditions in the 50's and 60's, by Albe B. Whiting
• Kansas in History, by Edwin C. Manning
• The Service of the Army in Civil Life After the War, by William A. Calderhead
• The West: Its Place in American History, by John Lee Webster

II. SOME REVIEW OF FIFTY YEARS

• Railroads in Kansas, by O.C. Hull
• The History of Railroad Building Into and Out Of Kansas City
• The Development of the Milling Industry in Kansas, by Leslie A. Fitz
• Fifty Years of Kansas Agriculture, by Edwin H. Webster
• Indian Missions in Kansas, by Earl Leon Shoup
• Progressive Legislation in Kansas, by Charles E. Hill
• Universities of Fifty Years Ago and the University of Kansas To-Day, by Arvin S. Olin
• The University of Kansas in 1912, by W.H. Carruth
• The Founding of the State Normal School, by Lyman B. Kellogg
• The Western State Normal School at Hays

III. THE ELEMENTS

• Personal Recollections of the Terrible Blizzard of 1886, by O.P. Byers
• From a Diary Kept by E.D. Smith of Meade, Kan., in 1886.
• The Blizzard of 1885.
• Account of a Blizzard in 1856, by A.B. Whiting
• Earthquake in Kansas, by John D. Parker
• Earthquake of November, 1875.
• A Third Earthquake, November, 1877.
• Earthquake in 1895.
• Earthquake Again in 1906.
• Is the Rainfall in Kansas Increasing?, by Hamilton Perkins Cady

IV. DAYS OF THE MISSIONARY

• The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Kansas--1854 to 1906, by Rev. Joab Spencer
• Life Among the Delaware Indians, by Miss Clara Gowing

V. STATECRAFT

• A History of the Kansas School Fund, by Charles Hanford Landrum

VI. PREHISTORIC KANSAS

• A Study of the Route of Coronado Between the Rio Grande and Missouri Rivers, by James Newton Basket
• Jedediah S. Smith and the Settlement of Kansas, by E.D. Smith
• Crossing the Plains, by George H. Himes

VII. THE SOLDIER IN KANSAS

• A Historic Picture
• General Thomas Ewing, Jr., by Major Harrison Hannahs
• A Colonel of Kansas, by Capt. Clad Hamilton
• First Kansas Infantry in the Battle of Wilson's Creek, by James A. McGonigle
• Diary of Chauncey B. Whitney
• With Albert Sidney Johnston's Expedition to Utah, 1857, by Gen. Samuel W. Ferguson
• Indian Fight in Ford County in 1859, Joseph B. Thoburn

VIII. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS

• The First Capital of Kansas, by Henry Shindler
• The Naming of Osawatomie, and Some Experiences with John Brown, by Ely Moore, Jr.
• Mother Smith, of Ellis, by James H. Beach
• Pioneer Life in Kansas, by Miss Fannie E. Cole
• A Chapter From the Archives, by Geo. W. Martin
• Reminiscences Concerning Fort Leavenworth in 1855-'56, by E.T. Carr
• The Conception and Growth of a Kansas Railroad
• The Exodus to Kansas in 1855, by Capt. DeWitt C. Goodrich
• Some Reminiscences of Early Days on Deep Creek, Riley County, by Francis A. Abbott
• Women in Office
• My Experiences in the Lawrence Raid, by O.W. McAllaster
• Kansas Chronology
• Some of the Lost Towns of Kansas
  • Juniata
  • Old Indianola
  • Moneka
  • Paris, Linn County
  • Oread, Coffee County
  • The Historic Town of Minneola
  • The Rise and Fall of Sumner
  • Old Sumner
  • Rome, Ellis County
  • Republican City, Clay County
  • The End of Coronado
  • Lost Towns of Bourbon County
  • The Story of Ladore
  • Greenwood City
  • The Life and Death of Coolidge and Kendall
  • The Travail of Cimarron and Ingalls and the Death of Montezuma
  • Reminiscences of Runnymede
  • The Town of Sidney
• Extinct Geographical Locations
• General Index

EXTRACTED BIOGRAPHIES:

A note about the biographies: Most articles in the book are accompanied by a biography of the author, and may also be accompanied by biographies of persons featured in the articles. If an article has been included in full in this extraction, any accompanying biographies will appear in this index and will be referenced in the article. If an article was not extracted in full, the biographies will appear here, along with their page numbers and the title of the article in which they appear.

Alan Blythman Adamson
James Lewis Baskett
David Josiah Brewer
Ira D. Bronson
Ross Burns
Otto Philip Byers
William Alexander Calderhead
Erasmus Theodore Carr
William Herbert Carruth
Pleasant Chitwood
George Blake Cosby
Ellen M. Cowles
John H. Edwards
David B. Emmert
Brig. Gen. Samuel Wragg Ferguson
Leslie Arthur Fitz
John Francis
Bradley E. Fullington
DeWitt C. Goodrich
Miss Clara Gowing
Capt. Clad Hamilton
Maj. Harisson Hannahs
William Selby Harney
James E. Harrison
Edward Mortimer Hayes
Bishop Eugene Russell Hendrix
Charles Edward Hill
George Henry Himes
Oscar Clayton Hull
Rev. Ammi Bradford Hyde
Lyman Beecher Kellogg
Manning M. Kimmel
Charles Hanford Landrum
Samuel Lappin
Fitzhugh Lee
Dr. Cornelius Ambrosius Logan
William Wallace Martin
Octavius Warren McAllaster
Robert Byington Mitchell
Miss Elizabeth S. Morse
Rev. Grosvenor C. Morse
Clarinda Irene Howard Nichols
Henry Brace Norton
Arvin Solomon Olin
Rev. John Dempster Parker
Baptiste Peoria
John Perry
Sheridan Plough
John Gill Pratt
Salmon S. Prouty
Bennet Riley
Edward Gibson Ross
William Bedford Royall
Henry Shindler
Earl Leon Shoup
Dr. Tiffin Sinks
Edmund Kirby Smith
Ezra Delos Smith
Albert Reynolds Taylor
Solon Otis Thacher
Joseph B. Thoburn
Charles S. Triplett
John Palmer Usher
Earl Van Dorn
Edwin Harrison Webster
John Lee Webster
Albe B. Whiting
Chauncey Belden Whitney
Jasper Newton Wilkinson
Moses Younkin
William Younkin

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