Frontier Manhattan
Subtitle: yankee settlement to Kansas town, 1854-1894
By: Kevin G. W. Olson
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kansas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780700618323
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life; History
Description: When Isaac Goodnow and five fellow New Englanders arrived at the junction of the Kansas and Big Blue rivers in March of 1855, they pitched a tent and launched a town. Harassment and homesickness almost drove them back east, but they held their ground to establish an anti-slavery and educational stronghold: the town of Manhattan, Kansas.
Table of contents: title: The people, the place, the times; title: 1854: "A most appropriate town site"; title: Winter 1854-1855: a New England crusade; title: March 1855: "Damned yankees" come to Kansas; title: Spring 1855: becoming Manhattan; title: Bleeding kansas: "Tyranny is now in the ascendant"; title: The wearying work of frontier life; title: 1856: waiting out the violence; title: 1857: a town built from stone; title: 1858: "We do not despair of a free state yet"; title: 1859: "A flourishing yankee settlement"; title: 1860-1865: drought, violence, and victories; title: Post-Civil War: triumph of the yankees; title: 1870s: "A lively town, full of business"; title: 1880-1894: into the modern era.