Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1919-1922, Vol. 15

Download or read book Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1919-1922, Vol. 15 written by Kansas State Historical Society and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1919-1922, Vol. 15: Together With Addresses, Memorials and Miscellaneous Papers The basis of the land titles in Kansas City, Kan, and all the east ern portion of Wyandotte county rests in the extinction of the Indian titles held by the Wyandots and Shawnees. Maps showing the exact surveys of the allotments to these Indians are published herein, and the original descriptions furnished. It is always of interest to know who were the first individual owners of the soil. Some other states have done much more along this line than has Kansas. Kansas City, Kan, is the commercial metropolis of the state, and historically Wyandotte is the most important county in Kansas; so this infor mation as to the origin of the titles to these lands is timely. Kansas is the first state to achieve constitutional prohibition. Since the nation has followed Kansas, the manner of this achieve ment assumes more than ordinary interest. The only attempt worthy of mention to show the processes of obtaining constitutional prohibition for Kansas is that of Miss Clara Francis, librarian of the Society. She prepared her paper for Connelley's History of Kan sas, from which work it is here reproduced with permission. It was believed that it should be made as available to the public as possible. Constant calls on the Society are made for information on this subject. 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.