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Kansas territorial days by the wife of a politically active abolitionist, and governor of the "Free-State" of Kansas, Topeka government, which was disallowed by the United States in 1856. The book concerns the events around this Free State government, the battle in Lawrence, and Robinson's ousting and imprisonment. Robinson would later be nominated and win the official Territorial governorship in 1859.

Excerpt from Kansas; Its Interior and Exterior Life: Including a Full View of Its Settlement, Political History, Social Life, Climate, Soil, Productions, Scenery, Etc The soil for richness can be surpassed in no country. It is of a black color, with a sub-soil of clay and limestone basis. Vegs tation is most luxuriant. The soil and climate are most admira bly adapted to the raising of grains of every known variety. The growth of melons, cantelopes, tomatoes, squashes, - ln fact, vegeta bles of all kinds, is wonderful. Western Missouri bears most excellent fruit of all kinds, apples of the best varieties, peaches, plums, grapes, etc. The soil and climate in Kansas being similar, a very few years will see the perfection of the same fruits through out the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.