Bucking the Railroads on the Kansas Frontier

The Struggle Over Land Claims by Homesteading Civil War Veterans, 1867-1876

John N. Mack (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2013
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-7029-7 (ISBN)

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As the Civil War ended, thousands of Union veterans imagined Kansas as a place to make a new beginning. Many veterans settled in the southeastern part of the state. In their struggle to establish lawful, ordered communities the settlers came into conflict with railroads intent on building through southeast Kansas to reach warm-water ports in Texas.

To the settlers the railroads represented both a promise and a threat. By linking farmers and businessmen with eastern markets, the railroads guaranteed the prospects of economic gain. However, when they claimed rights to the land that settlers had already claimed, railroad monopolies were identified as a new manifestation of the same threat to republican values they had fought against in the recently concluded War. This book tells the story of the settlers' opposition to and victory over railroads and the impact on the evolution of political thought in Kansas and the American west.

John N. Mack teaches history for the University System of Georgia as an online lecturer in history at Georgia Perimeter College. A resident of Lawrence, Kansas, he has published and lectured extensively on the history of Kansas and the west.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: The War That Had No End—Veterans as Settlers

1. The Battle Begins (1866–1867)

2. Vigilance Committees and Settlers’ Clubs (1868–1870)

3. The Transformation of Settler Society (1870)

4. Challenges to Public Order (1871–1874)

5. Settlers Triumphant (1875–1876)

Epilogue

Appendix: The Osage in Neosho County (1825–1865)

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Zusatzinfo	13 photos, appendix, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	308 g
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7864-7029-1 / 0786470291
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-7029-7 / 9780786470297
Zustand	Neuware