A Kansas Memory Podcast

Before They Were Famous

The documents used in the Famous podcast are available on

• Henry Raymond Diary
  Henry Hubert Raymond makes daily entries in this diary for one year, beginning on November 11, 1872. The diary describes his trip to Kansas to meet up with his brother Theodore (generally "The" in the diary). At the time Henry arrived in Kansas, Theodore was working with the Masterson (Mastison early in the diary) brothers, Bat and Ed, on a grading subcontract for the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad near Dodge City. Theodore had become friends with the Masterson family on his way west in 1870. Henry, Theodore, and the Masterson brothers began hunting bison (buffalo) and Henry describes their efforts in brief but graphic detail.