1 Sodbusters and Rainmakers
Citations
Please feel free to take these pages with you at the conclusion of the event.
Introduction
Craig Miner
Kansas: The History of the Sunflower State, 1854-2000. Kansas Historical Society and
University Press of Kansas, 2002.
Homestead Act (1862) Ourdocuments.gov.
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=31
The Emancipation Proclamation. National Archives & Records Administration.
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/
Settlement in Kansas. Kansas Historical Society.
https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/settlement-in-kansas/14546
Droughts. Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties,
cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. Edited by Frank W. Blackmar. 1912: 547-549.
http://www.ksgenweb.com/archives/1912/d/droughts.html Tenth Biennial Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, 1895-1896. Kansas Memory.
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/225336
Episode One: The Dry Years
James C. Malin
“Dust Storms: Part One, 1850 – 1860,” Kansas Historical Quarterly 14 (May 1946): 129-44.
https://www.kshs.org/p/kansas-historical-quarterly-dust-storms-part-one-1850-1860/13024
Charles P. Twiss
“Reports from Eureka Township, Greenwood County, etc.” October 1860. Territorial Kansas Online.
http://www.territorialkansasonline.org/~imlskto/cgibin/index.php?SCREEN=show_transcript&document_id=100422SCREEN=immigration&submit=&se
arch=&startsearchat=&searchfor=&printerfriendly=&county_id=&topic_id=95&document_id=100422
&selected_keyword=
J.G. Reaser and S.M. Irvin
“The Drouth and Famine in Kansas,” New York Daily Tribune, 10 October 1860. Territorial Kansas Online.
http://www.territorialkansasonline.org/~imlskto/cgibin/index.php?SCREEN=show_document&SCREEN_FROM=immigration&document_id=101496&F
ROM_PAGE=&topic_id=95
Martha Valentine
“Home Life in Early Days,” Topeka Capitol, 23 February 1908. Kansas Memory.
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/211075
Shared Stories of the Kansas Land Reader’s Theater Project
2 John James Ingalls
“Letters,” 3 April 1860. Territorial Kansas Online.
http://www.territorialkansasonline.org/~imlskto/cgibin/index.php?SCREEN=show_transcript&document_id=102132SCREEN=immigration&submit=&se
arch=&startsearchat=&searchfor=&printerfriendly=&county_id=&topic_id=92&document_id=102132
&selected_keyword=
John L. Pratt
“Miscellaneous accounts of conditions resulting from drought,” 1860. Territorial Kansas Online.
http://www.territorialkansasonline.org/~imlskto/cgibin/index.php?SCREEN=show_transcript&document_id=100418SCREEN=immigration&submit=&se
arch=&startsearchat=&searchfor=&printerfriendly=&county_id=&topic_id=95&document_id=100418
&selected_keyword=
A.W. Johnson and Isabella Johnson
“Letter to Robert S. Wickizer,” 24 March 1875. Kansas Memory.
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/210872 Thaddeus Hyatt
“Starvation in Kansas,” 4 February 1860. Territorial Kansas Online.
http://www.territorialkansasonline.org/~imlskto/cgibin/index.php?SCREEN=show_transcript&document_id=100424SCREEN=immigration&submit=&se
arch=&startsearchat=&searchfor=&printerfriendly=&county_id=&topic_id=95&document_id=100424
&selected_keyword=
“Letter to the New York Tribune,” 14 September 1860. Territorial Kansas Online.
http://www.territorialkansasonline.org/~imlskto/cgibin/index.php?SCREEN=show_transcript&document_id=100421SCREEN=immigration&submit=&se
arch=&startsearchat=&searchfor=&printerfriendly=&county_id=&topic_id=95&document_id=100421
&selected_keyword=
John and Sarah Everett
“Letters, 1859-1864.” Kansas Historical Quarterly November 1939 (350-383).
http://www.kancoll.org/khq/1939/39_4_everett.htm
S.C. Pomeroy
“Letter to Thaddeus Hyatt,” 10 October 1860. Territorial Kansas Online.
http://www.territorialkansasonline.org/~imlskto/cgibin/index.php?SCREEN=show_transcript&document_id=101495SCREEN=immigration&submit=&se
arch=&startsearchat=&searchfor=&printerfriendly=&county_id=&topic_id=95&document_id=101495
&selected_keyword
Episode Two: Exodusters and Immigrants
US Congress
Homestead Act, 1862. Library of Congress.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=012/llsl012.db&recNum=423
John P. St. John
“Action of Other Cities on the ‘Exodus’ Question,” 25 April 1879. Kansas Memory.
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/210632
Kansas Freedmen’s Relief Association
“Articles of Corporations and By-Laws,” 1879. Kansas Memory.
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/210613
Shared Stories of the Kansas Land Reader’s Theater Project
3 Advertisement for Nicodemus, 16 April 1877. Kansas Memory.
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/210499
Flora Moorman Heston
“Letters,” Kansas History Summer 1983. http://www.kshs.org/publicat/history/1983summer_heston.pdf
O.C. Gibbs
“About Nicodemus,” 30 April 1879. Kansas Memory.
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/210648
Francis L. Pierce
“Sketches of Early Days,” Ed. Virginia Pierce Hicks, Kansas Historical Quarterly February 1938.
http://www.kancoll.org/khq/1938/38_1_hicks.htm
Mattie Bradshaw
“Eliza Bradshaw: An Exoduster Grandmother,” Kansas History 26 (Summer 2003).
http://www.kshs.org/publicat/history/2003summer_dicks.pdf
Episode Three: Questions of Water
The Iola Register, 15 August 1890. Chronicling America, Library of Congress.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83040340/1890-08-15/ed-1/seq2/#date1=1889&index=0&rows=20&words=DROUGHT+drought+droughts&searchType=basic&seq
uence=0&state=Kansas&date2=1891&proxtext=drought+&y=14&x=7&dateFilterType=yearRange&p
age=1
The Wichita Daily Eagle, 22 July 1890. Chronicling America, Library of Congress.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014635/1890-07-22/ed-1/seq1/#date1=1889&sort=date&rows=20&words=DROUGHT&searchType=basic&sequence=1&index=1
8&state=Kansas&date2=1891&proxtext=drought+&y=14&x=7&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=3
Martha B. Caldwell
"Some Kansas Rainmakers," Kansas Historical Quarterly Vol. VII, August 1938.
http://www.kancoll.org/khq/1938/38_3_caldwell.htm
Victoria Foth
“Gully Washers Guaranteed: The Kansas Rainmakers Water and the Making of Kansas,” Kansas Natural
Resource Council.
http://www.knrc.ws/watermk04.htm
House Committee on Irrigation
“An act regulating the diversion, appropriation, storage and distribution of water for industrial purposes,”
1891. Kansas Memory.
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/215096
For More Information
Kansas Humanities Council
Shared Stories of the Kansas Land Reader’s Theater Project
www.kansashumanities.org