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| Title | A Southern Family on the Missouri Frontier: Letters from Independence, 1843-1855 |
| Abstract | Extensive article that collects excerpts from the letters of Samuel Ralston (1809-1899), an Irish immigrant to North Carolina moving to western Missouri. It gives information on various subjects in the border warfare period of the Kansas City area, including the western trails, as well as Ralston's later life and father-in-law relationship to the notorious Frank James. |
| Notes | Page 216: "The letters published here from Ralston and members of his family give information on settlement of the western border; fares and travel time between Independence and eastern seaboard cities; difficulties of financing new crops on an expanding Missouri farm; slave discipline; trade and migration from Independence to Santa Fe, Chihuahua, and Oregon; a Methodist Indian mission; family problems in which a daughter 'disposed to be giddy' had to be 'strictly guarded'; the formation and operation of border Blue Lodges; and the struggle to make Bleeding Kansas a slave state." |
| Author | W. Darrell Overdyke
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| Date | May//1951 |
| Source | Journal of Southern History |
| Location | SC 73: Collection of Magazine Article Photocopies |
| Volume | 17 |
| Number | 2 |
| Page | 216-237 |
| Local Subject | Border Warfare
Independence, Missouri
Ralston, Samuel R.
Santa Fe Trail
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| Illustrations | No |
| Item Type | Magazine Article
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| Access This Item | This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests |
| Item ID | 107962 |
| CONTENTdm number | 15040 |
