Kansas Historical Quarterly

Honor Roll of Volunteers:
Kansas Historical Quarterly project

Butler, Debbie

• "Some Phases of the Industrial History of Pittsburg, Kansas" by Fred N. Howell

Dell Brady, Marilyn

• "Letters of Thomas Wells"

Dowdey, Don

• "Letters of Thomas Wells"

Furniss, Sean

Wildlife biologist, wildlife refuge manager, transportation specialist, family historian, genealogical researcher, internet pioneer and former Peace Corps Volunteer. Sean was the founder of the National Wildlife Refuge System web server, a co-developer of the recreation.gov web server, and manager of the Miami Co pages for KSGenWeb. He has presented and published articles related to wildlife and his family histories.

• Letters of John and Sarah Everett, 1854-1864, continued
• Letters of John and Sarah Everett, 1854-1864, continued
• Letters of John and Sarah Everett, 1854-1864, continued
• Letters of John and Sarah Everett, 1854-1864, concluded

Griffin, R.

• "The West Breaks in General Custer" by Minnie Dubbs Millbrook
• "Rebecca Visits Kansas and the Custers: The Diary of Rebecca Richmond," by Minnie Dubbs Millbrook

Jensen, Harriette

Harriette is the granddaughter and great-great-grandaughter of Kansas and Oklahoma pioneers, a semi-retired technical writer and a creative writer who lives in Stockton, California. She hosts the Sumner Co KS and Kay County OK genealogy and history sites, the Hoisington Family web site and the Hoisington Family mailing list. She has transcribed the Sumner County chapter of Cutler's History of Kansas and is currently transcribing the 1895 agricultural census for Sumner County.

• "The Building of the First Kansas Railroad South of the Kaw River," by Harold J. Henderson
• "Walt Whitman in Kansas" by Robert R. Hubach
• "Lewis Bodwell, Frontier Preacher, The Early Years (In Two Installments--Part I)," by Russell K. Hickman
• "Lewis Bodwell, Frontier Preacher, The Early Years (In Two Installments--Part II)," by Russell K. Hickman
• "From Sodom to the Promised Land: E. P. McCabe and the Movement for Oklahoma Colonization," by Martin Dunn
• "Circuit-Riding in Southwest Kansas in 1885 and 1886; The Letters of Jeremiah Evarts Platt," by Louise Barry, ed.
• "Susanna Madora Salter -- First Woman Mayor" by Monroe Billington
• "Gateway to the Promised Land" by Jean C. Lough

Josephson, Jeannie

• "Alf M. Landon, as Leader of the Republican Opposition, 1937-1940," by George H. Mayer
• "The Pike's Peak Gold Rush and the Smoky Hill Route, 1859-1860," by Calvin W. Gower

Lawrence, Elizabeth

Elizabeth, a retired teacher of algebra and cultural geography, is the recipient of the Fred Rosenstock award for "Outstanding Contributions to Rocky Mountain History." The author of 2 books on the Overland Trail, she devotes her time to preserving and documenting the history of western trails.

• "Robbery on the Santa Fe Trail in 1842"
• "The Chisholm Trail," by John Rossel

Maranchie, Jodi

• "W. E. Campbell, Pioneer Kansas Livestockman" by C. W. McCampbell

Matthews, John K.

• "Notes on Writing of Kansas Histories, Part Five" [Andreas/Cutler History] by James C. Malin
• "James C. Malin: An Appreciation" by Robert W. Johanssen

Mix, Larry E. and Carolyn

Larry and Carolyn Mix of St. John, Kansas have been collecting, preserving, and disseminating knowledge about the Santa Fe Trail since the mid-1960's. They've devoted considerable time to building their website about the Trail, which contains a wealth of information of interest to historians, genealogists, and students, and have assisted others with building websites as well.

• "Soldiering on the High Plains" by Myra E. Hull
• "Sketches of Early Days in Kearny County," by Virginia Pierce Hicks
• "Supplying the Frontier Military Posts," by Raymond L. Welty
• "The Policing of the Frontier by the Army," by Raymond L. Welty
• "The Fort Leavenworth-Fort Gibson Road," by Louise Barry
• "A Robbery on the Santa Fe Trail," by James W. Covington
• "Patrolling the Santa Fe Trail," by Merrill J. Mattes, ed.
• "The Story of Fort Larned," by William E. Unrau
• "An Army Hospital .... Fort Riley," Part One, by George E. Omer, Jr.
• "The Kiowa and Comanche Campaign of 1860 as Recorded in the Personal Diary of Lt. J. E. B. Stuart," by W. Stitt Robinson, ed.
• "An Army Hospital .... Fort Riley," Part Two, by George E. Omer, Jr.
• "The Mail Station and the Military Camp on Pawnee Fork," by Morris F. Taylor
• "The Ranch at Walnut Creek Crossing," by Louise Barry
• "The Ranch at Little Arkansas Crossing," by Louise Barry
• "The Ranch at the Great Bend," by Louise Barry
• "Fort Aubrey," by Louise Barry
• "The Ranch at Cimarron Crossing," by Louise Barry
• "Fort Atkinson on the Santa Fe Trail," by Leo E. Oliva

Morgan, Gordon

Gordon Reese Morgan manages a small group at the Florida Department of Transportation, reporting on the usage of Florida's highways. He grew up in southern Nebraska and has an avid interest in family and local history in the area. He has family connections to Brown, Doniphan, and Riley Counties in Kansas, and Richardson, Nemaha, Lancaster, and other counties in Nebraska. He is particularly interested in 19th century Welsh immigration, and in everyday life in Kansas in the late 19th century.

• "Welsh Settlements in America," by Phillips G. Davies
• "The Welsh Settlers of Emporia: A Cultural History,"
  by Carolyn B. Berneking
• "The Mythical Jayhawk," by Kirke Mechem

Nelson, Lynn H.

Teacher, surveyor, writer, medieval historian, Internet 'mountain man' -- that only scratches the surface. It would take more space than we have here to list all his interests and accomplishments ... but did we mention he is the founder of the Kansas Collection (KanColl)? Lynn has completed a number of articles and issues in the Quarterly for KanColl, including:

• "Letters of Thomas Wells" Various issues (1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943)

Payne, Marilyn

Marilyn Payne is a Kansas native, having been born in Olathe and a resident there for 23 years. She received a Bachelors of Music Education from the University of Missouri in Kansas City and taught public school orchestra in Houston and Dallas, Texas. She also played cello in several semi-professional orchestras and provided private music lessons. Her husband is from the Pittsburg, Kansas area. In addition to transcribing KHQ articles, she has scanned and preserved nearly 2000 old family photos dating back to the late 1800's. She and her husband and son recently moved to Wisconsin.

• "The Impact of the Railroads on Coal Mining" in Osage County, 1869-1910," by D. Lane Hartsock
• "Former Mining Communities of the Cherokee-Crawford Coal Field of Southeastern Kansas," by William E. Powell
• "Ironquill's 'The Washerwoman's Song," by James C. Malin

Roberts, Tod

Tod Roberts calls himself a semi-retired (or semi-employed) writer, editor, and college teacher. The descendant of 19th-century Harvey County, Kansas pioneers, he was born in Newton in 1943 with the assistance of his grandfather, Dr. R. C. McClymonds. He earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Kansas and teaches at Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida.

• "The Invention and Development of the Dial Telephone: The Contribuion of Three Lindsborg Inventors," by Emory Lindquist
• "Ships in World War II Bearing Kansas Names," by Harold J. Henderson
• "The Army Engineers as Road Surveyors and Builders in Kansas and Nebraska, 1854 - 1858," by W. Turrentine Jackson
• "The Dodge City Cowboy Band," by Clifford P. Westermeier
• "The University of Kansas and the Years of Frustration, 1854-1864," by C. S. Griffin
• "The New England Emigrant Aid Company Parties of 1855," by Louise Barry
• "Some Notes on College Basketball in Kansas," by Harold C. Evans
• "Judge Lecompte and the 'Sack of Lawrence,' May 21, 1856: Part One, The Contemporary Phase," by James C. Malin
• "Judge Lecompte and the 'Sack of Lawrence,' May 21, 1856: Part Two, The Historical Phase--Concluded," by James C. Malin
• "'Beautiful Bismarck'--Bismarck Grove, Lawrence, 1878-1900," by Jim L. Lewis
• "Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence: A Question of Complicity," by Burton J. Williams
• "Erastus D. Ladd's Description of the Lawrence Massacre," by Russell E. Bidlack
• "Emergency Housing at Lawrence, 1854," by James C. Malin
• "In Pursuit of Quantrill: An Enlisted Man's Response," by William E. Unrau, ed.
• "Housing Experiments in the Lawrence Community, 1855," by James C. Malin
• "Notes on the Prosalvery March Against Lawrence,"
• "The Sacking of Lawrence," by Alan Conway
• "The University of Kansas and the Sack of Lawrence: A Problem of Intellectual Honesty," by C. S. Griffin
• "Veterinary Service on Custer's Last Campaign," by John S. Gray
• "An Old Trail Plowed Under--Hays to Dodge," by Minnie Dubbs Millbrook
• "A Look at Early Lawrence: Letters From Robert Gaston Elliot," by Carolyn Berneking
• "The Impact of Politics and Prison Industry on the General Management of the Kansas State Penitentiary," by Harvey R. Hougen
• "Kansas Conflict: Populist Versus Railroader in the 1890's," by Donald E. Press
• "Mob Violence and Kansas Mennonites in 1918," by James C. Juhnke
• "Naval Air Stations in Kansas During World War II," by R. Douglas Hurt
• "Wyatt Earp and the 'Buntline Special' Myth,," by William B. Shillingberg
• "Thomas Ewing, Jr., and the Origins of the Kansas Pacific Railway Company," by David G. Taylor
• "William Allen White's 1924 Gubernatorial Campaign," by Jack Wayne Traylor
• "Kansas in 1876," by Homer E. Socolofsky
• "The Construction and Development of Fort Wallace, Kansas, 1865-1882," by R. Douglas Hurt
• "Portrait of a Workers' Utopia: The Labor Exchange and the Freedom, Kan., Colony," by H. Roger Grant
• "Aids to Prospective Prospectors: Guidebooks and Letters from Kansas Territory, 1858-1860," by Calvin W. Gower
• Kansas History Off the Press, Spring 1977
• Bypaths of Kansas History: A Traffic Stopper in Wichita,
  Summer 1976
• Bypaths of Kansas History: Before the Days of Deluxe Super
  Chief Service, Autumn 1977
• Kansas History Off the Press, Summer 1976
• Kansas History Off the Press, Autumn 1977
• Kansas Historical Notes
• HTML production for various issues

Scheetz, Jim

Jim Scheetz, the grandson of Kansas Pioneers, grew up in Hanover, KS, home to the historic Hollenberg Pony Express station. He received his BS in Journalism from Kansas State. He currently is semi-retired, lives in Colorado (formerly Kansas Territory), and volunteers with several historical societies.

• "When Kansas Became A State"
• "Kansas Territory and Its Boundary Question: 'Big Kansas' or 'Little Kansas'," by Calvin W. Gower

Smith, Gardner

Gardner is the author of 34 books on Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. His newest book, "The Perfect River," on the Canadian River, is currently in production. He has an abiding interest in Kansas because he was born and raised in Cass County, Nebraska. His kinfolk were some of the first people to settle on the Republican River of Nebraska.

• "The Pictorial Record of the Old West" by Robert Taft
• "Over the Santa Fe Trail Through Kansas in 1858" by H. B. Möllhausen
• George Root's 24 part series on ferries in Kansas (in progress)

Smith, Teresa J.

A retired businesswoman in Oregon, Teresa Smith traces her interests in Kansas history to her father's family, which settled between Topeka and WaKeeney. In 2000 she completed a book-length manuscript on her Truan/Truran family roots and is now working on the Blender/Schickel lines. "When not online looking for lost relatives," she writes, "I serve as president of our local library club, Regent of the Tillamook (Oregon) Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and founder of a local genealogy group." Teresa invites anyone seeking information on Tillamook, Yamhill, or Marion counties in Oregon to contact her [you may reach her through Tod Roberts at KanColl].

• "The Ranch at Cow Creek Crossing (Beach Valley P.O.)," by Louise Barry
• "The Migration of the Russian-Germans to Kansas," by Norman E. Saul

Smith, Tristan

Having grown up in Kansas City MO and worked at the Arabia Steamboat Museum there for several years, Tristan Smith has studied the Santa Fe, California, and Oregon Trails and the role of Kansas in American history. In addition to his work on the KHQ transcription project, he volunteers at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Museum and Library in Independence MO. Tristan lives in Lawrence KS and is employed at the University of Kansas. He is also working on his degree in Liberal Studies at Park University and is involved in extensive genealogy research. He and his wife are avid travelers.

Stafford, Susan

Susan was born and raised in Kansas; though she traveled far, her heart never left the Sunflower State. Managing the Kansas Collection has given her the opportunity to help share the best things in Kansas, and Kansans, with the world.

• "The Value of History, by H. K. Lindsley"
• HTML production for various issues

Taylor, Dick

Director of the Kansas Collection (KanColl), Dick has roots in both Nebraska and Kansas. His other websites, including GHOSTCHASER and Oldtime Nebraska, reflect his love of history, genealogy, and home states, as well as his talent for web development.

• "Letters of Thomas Wells"

Thurgood, Trudy

Trudy Thurgood has been studying her Kansas roots for the past three decades. A wife, mother, and grandmother, she traces her lineage to pioneers in several Kansas counties. One ancestor, who kept her home and family together despite being widowed with 13 children in Lebanon, Kansas in the 1860's, has been an inspiration to Trudy. When she isn't busy with Kansas history, Trudy enjoys art, music, and horse training.

• "Death Notices From Kansas Territorial Newspapers, 1854-1861: Part One, A-L," Alberta Pantle, comp.

Wassemiller, Debbie

Debbie is the great granddaughter of Sherman County, Kansas pioneers. She is a secretary, genealogist, historian, wife, mother and soon to be grandmother. Her interests include history, genealogy, football, scrapbooking, and the Amish, just to mention a few.

• "Kansas and the Centennial of the Civil War"

Wynkoop, Chris

• "Early Theatre at Fort Scott," by James C. Malin
• "Theatre in Kansas, 1858-1868: Background for the Coming of the Lord Dramatic Company in Kansas, 1869 (Part One, Leavenworth)," by James C. Malin
• "Theatre in Kansas, 1858-1868: Background for the Coming of the Lord Dramatic Company to Kansas, 1869 (Part Two, Atchison, Lawrence and Topeka) -- Concluded," by James C. Malin
• "E. W. Wynkoop and the Bluff Creek Council," by Timothy A. Zwink
• "Dodge City Varieties -- A Summer Interlude of Entertainment," by James C. Malin
• "Gold Fever in Kansas Territory: Migration to the Pike's Peak Gold Fields, 1858-1860," by Calvin W. Gower

Associate Project Manager: Tod Roberts

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