KANSAS COLLECTION BOOKS
Transcription completed by John Maier.




SIX MONTHS


IN


K A N S A S .




BY A LADY.

[Hannah Anderson Ropes]






B O S T O N:
PUBLISHED BY JOHN P. JEWETT AND CO.
CLEVELAND, OHIO:
JEWETT, PROCTOR AND WORTHING.
NEW YORK:
SHELDON, BLACKMAN AND CO.
1856.






TO MY MOTHER:
WHOSE LIFE HAS BEEN MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN A POEM,
WISER THAN A PROVERB,
THESE LETTERS WERE WRITTEN.



TO ALL WHOM I LOVE
IN DEAR NEW ENGLAND;
TO THE MOTHERS
WHO AT DIFFERENT TIMES HAVE PUT ON A CHEERFUL COURAGE
TO SAY "FAREWELL" TO DEAR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN,
PUSHING FORTH TO THIS FAR-OFF LAND,
THEY ARE HERE TENDERLY AND AFFECTIONATELY

INSCRIBED.



LAWRENCE, Kansas Territory,}
                April, 1856.           }                                                   H. A. R.




TABLE OF CONTENTS.


THE JOURNEY TO KANSAS

FIRST EXPERIENCE IN KANSAS.

THE MISSOURI INVASION.

MURDER OF BARBOUR - THE TRUCE.

WINTER EXPERIENCES AND OBSERVATIONS.

KANSAS SUFFERERS - TROUBLE THREATENED.

MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS.



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