A Kansas Memory Podcast

Samuel Reader's Diary

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

• Samuel Reader's Diary
  October 13, 1855
  From the time he read Lewis and Clark's journals as a young man, Samuel Reader kept a diary. An untrained artist, he included sketches and watercolors in his diary
• Excerpt from Samuel Reader's Autobiography, Volume 2
  Titled "Border Wars. Leaving for the front." Here, Reader talks about his family's objections to his participation in the Battle of Hickory Point.
• Battle of Hickory Point
  A description of the Battle of Hickory Point which took place from the author's perspective.
• "A Cheerless Retrospection"
  Reader reflects on his experience at the Battle of Hickory Point and General Lane's withdrawl at the request of Governor Geary, who threatenedto bring in U.S. Dragoons if the matter continued to escalate.