INTRODUCTION
Humphrey's The Squatter Sovereign; Inman's Stories of the Old Santa Fe Trail; Irving's Adventures of Captain Bonneville, and A Tour of the Prairies; Jenkins' The Northern Tier; Kansas Biographical Register; Kendall's Santa Fe Expedition; Lewis and Clark's Journals; Long's Expedition, Report of; Lowe's Five Years a Dragoon; Margry's Works; Meline's Two Thousand Miles on Horseback; Monette's Discovery and Settlement of the Mississippi Valley; Murray's Travels in North America; Parker's Kansas and Nebraska Handbook; Parkman's Discovery of the Great West; Parrish's Life on the Great Plains; Phillips' Conquest of Kansas; Pierce's Incidents of Western Travel; Pike's Expedition, Accounts of; Redpath's The Roving Editor, and Life of John Brown; Richardson's Beyond the Mississippi; Mrs. Robinson's Kansas, Its Interior and Exterior Life; Shea's Memoir of French Colonies in America, Translation of Charlevoix, and Expedition of Penalosa; Simpson's Smithsonian Reports; Smyth's Heart of the New Kansas; Speer's Life of James H. Lane; Spring's Prelude to the War of '61; Steele's Sons of the Border, and Frontier Army Sketches; Tewksbury's Kansas Picture Book; Thwaites' Early Western Travels; Tomlinson's Kansas in 1858; Victor's American Conspiracies; Von Holst's Constitutional History of the United States; Washburn College Bulletins; Webb's Scrap Books; Wilson's Rise and Fall of the Slave Power; Wilson's Eminent Men of Kansas; County Histories, Magazines, Newspaper Files, Gazetteers, City Directories, etc.
Manuscripts.—The Kansas State Historical Society has a vast collection of manuscripts, consisting of letters, historical sketches, short biographies, etc. Among those consulted may be mentioned Dunbar's Account of the Bourgmont Expedition; Executive Minutes and Correspondence; Journals of the Constitutional Conventions; Letters of John Brown; Letters and Diary of Isaac McCoy; Gov. A. H. Reeder's Diary; Unpublished reports of various Commissions, etc.
