The Pony Express operates in Kansas, with 11 stations along the Kansas section of the route. Kansas women are given the right to vote in school elections. Shawneetown is affected by the Civil War. Many of the town's homes and businesses are burned and 2 are killed. Civil War continues until 1864.
Many settlers leave the area to find tranquility elsewhere.
Charles Bluejacket is elected Shawnee chief. Bluejacket was the grandson of Marmaduke Van Swerangen, a white man born in Virginia who had been captured by the Shawnee Indians and given the new name Bluejacket because he was wearing a blue hunting shirt at the time of his capture. Van Swerangen had been out hunting with a younger brother when he was captured by the Shawnee Indians, and had agreed to go willingly to live with the Shawnee provided they release his brother. Shawnee's St. Joseph's Catholic Church organized. 1875 Shawnee Indians again pushed West, this time to the Shawnee Reservation in Oklahoma.