A Kansas Memory Podcast

Episode 6: "...encountering sickness, losses, calumny and prosperity": The Diary of Chestina Bowker Allen

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The documents used in the Allen diary podcast are available on Earlier Kansas Memory podcasts used documents from Territorial Kansas Online: A Virtual Repository for Territorial Kansas History, 1854-1861.

  • Journey from Massachusetts to Kansas
    October 17, 1854-April 22,1858
    Chestina Bowker Allen traveled to Kansas Territory from Roxbury, Massachusets, with her husband Asahel Gilbert Allen and five children - William, Charles, Henrietta, John and Abbie. While the titled indicated it recorded the journey to the territory, it actually documented their first three years in Kansas Territory.
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