Title: Frontier Manhattan
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.
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life, History, Frontier and pioneer life, kansas, Kansas, history
Places: Manhattan (Kan.), Kansas, Manhattan
Time periods: 19th century