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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
Twenty men leave Lawrence for Pike's Peak. One of the first expeditions to the gold regions......May 21, 1858 People's vote on the Lecompton constitution as modified: For, 1,788; against, 11 300......Aug. 2, 1858 Governor Denver resigns; Secretary Hugh S. Walsh acting governor......Oct. 10, 1858 Captain Montgomery, with sixty-eight men, enters Fort Scott and releases Benjamin Rice, a free-State prisoner......Dec. 16, 1858 Samuel Medary, governor, arrives at Lecompton......Dec. 18, 1858 John Brown and his men go into Missouri, liberate fourteen slaves, and bring them into Kansas......Dec. 20, 1858 Kansas in 1858, by W. P. Tomlinson, contains a history of the troubles in Linn and Bourbon counties......Dec. 31, 1858 Democratic territorial convention, Tecumseh, states that the slavery question is practically settled in favor of a free State ......May 11, 1859 Republican party organized in Kansas; convention at Osawatomie addressed by Horace Greeley......May 18,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nevada, (search)
evada included in the Territory of Utah by act......Sept. 9, 1850 Trading-post erected on land where Carson City now stands......1851 E. Allen and Hosea B. Grosch discover silver ore in Gold Cañon......1853 Carson City laid out in Eagle Valley by Abraham V. Z. Curry, who built a stone house there......1858 Chinese first introduced into Nevada to work on a mining-ditch at Gold Cañon......1858 Territorial enterprise started at Genoa by William L. Jernegan and A. James......Dec. 18, 1858 Penrod Comstock & Co. discover the socalled Comstock lode in Six-Mile Cañon......June 11, 1859 First settlement on the site of Reno made by C. W. Fuller......1859 A constitution for the unorganized Territory of Nevada, prepared in July, is adopted by the people......Sept. 7, 1859 First pony express reaches Carson Valley in eight and a half days from St. Joseph, Mo. The news by it is telegraphed to San Francisco and published there in nine days from New York......April 12, 186