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Samuel Clarke Pomeroy, United States Senator from Kansas
Merritt & Van Wagner
Samuel Clarke Pomeroy, United States Senator from Kansas, seated in a horse drawn carriage in front of a residence, Washington D.C.
previewJoseph McCoy
At the end of the Civil War when millions of longhorns were left on the plains of Texas without a market, the Union Pacific was building west across Kansas. Joseph McCoy, an Illinois stockman, believed these cattle could be herded north for shipment by rail. He built yards at Abilene and sent agents to notify the Texas cattlemen. In 1867 the first drives were made up the Chisholm Trail and during the next five years more than a million head were received.
previewTexas cattle in a corral
Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909
This drawing published by Harper's Weekly magazine depicts Frederic Remington's illustration of a herd of Texas longhorns in a corral with two cowboys.
previewCowboys on round up
This sepia colored photograph shows a group of cowboys on round up at Chiquita Creek which is possibly in Texas or Oklahoma.
previewCowboys at a chuck wagon
This sepia colored photograph shows a group of cowboys eating at a chuck wagon.
previewRichard West to John P. St. John
Richard West, a resident of Barton Station, Alabama, wrote this letter to Kansas governor St. John requesting information about available land in Kansas. West was a farmer who described in some detail many of the concerns facing emigrants, including transportation and other expenses. In addition to his role as governor of Kansas, St. John also served on the Board of Directors of the Kansas Freedmen?s Relief Association.
previewWilliam E. Mathewson
William E. Mathewson, a trader and trapper, who first earned the title "Buffalo Bill," for supplying setters with buffalo meat during the winter of 1860-61. He maintain a respected relationship with the Native Americans and helped gather delegates for the Little Arkansas Treaty in 1865 and the Medicine Lodge Council meeting in 1867. Latter in his life he settled in Wichita, Kansas, and established the Wichita Savings Bank.
preview"The End, 1883"
Garretson, M.S.
This ink on paper drawing by Martin Garretson depicts the artist's conception of the changes in western Kansas as the open prairie was claimed for family farms. By 1883, the vast buffalo herds of the central plains had been hunted almost to the point of extinction. In the drawing, one man is shown loading bleached buffalo bones into an oxen-drawn wagon, while another man with a horse-drawn plow has begun plowing the cleared prairie for a farm crop. A young girl and boy are shown with piles of horns and horned skulls, and a woman is shown standing in the doorway of a small farmhouse in the background.
previewVeterinarian, Kansas State
Kansas. Governor (1879-1883: Glick)
These letters are from A. A. Holcomb, Kansas State Veterinarian, to Kansas Governor G. W. Glick. Most of the letters discuss his investigation of diseases in cattle and other livestock. There are a couple reports of the diseases. Other letters are receipts of expenditures.
previewVeterinary Surgeon
Kansas. Governor (1879-1883: Glick)
These letters are from various individuals regarding a new position, the Kansas State Veterinarian, to Kansas Governor G. W. Glick. Many letters are applications, while some are endorsements. Those that applied or were endorsed with signed petitions include A. A. Holcomb, M. J. Tracy, William Baxter, C. A. Gibson, and George Walker. A. A. Holcomb was appointed to the position.
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