This series contains 0.79 cubic feet of correspondence, legislation, reports, clippings, military papers, and publications by Sidney Clarke and by others. The arrangement is chronological by year, and within the year by subject. Included are materials on Clarke's life in Massachusetts, his move to Kansas in 1859, and his military service during the Civil War. Prominent correspondents include James H. Lane, W. W. H. Lawrence, J. G. Blunt, and J. J. Ingalls. This series contains 3.65 cubic feet of correspondence, reports, legislation, clippings, military papers, congressional documents, and circulars.
Arrangement is by congress and within the congress by subject.
Major topics include Indian treaties and removal of Indian tribes from Kansas, the death of James H. Lane, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, railroad land acquisition and construction in Kansas, Reconstruction, newspaper ownership and management, political campaigns, Quantrill and Price Raids, suffrage, settlement of Cherokee Neutral Lands, acquisition of military reservations for bridges and public institutions, military bounties, and legislation for Oklahoma Territory. Correspondents of note are D. R. Anthony, Susan B. Anthony, Louis V. Bogy, O. H. Browning, William F. Cody, George A. Crawford, Henry L. Dawes, O. O. Howard, James H. Lane, S. C. Pomeroy, Edmund G. Ross, and Joseph Wilson. This series includes 1.27 cubic feet of correspondence, clippings and newspapers, legislation, Congressional documents, circulars, and petitions from the end of the 41st Congress to the year after Sidney Clarke's death. Arrangement of the materials is by year and within the year alphabetically by subject. Major subjects covered are Kansas and Oklahoma politics and political campaigns, non-Indian settlement in Oklahoma and Indian Territories, Oklahoma constitution and statehood, cattle syndicates, investigations of election frauds, prohibition, and the candidacy of Clarke for U. S. Marshal for Kansas and for Territorial Governor of Oklahoma.