CHAPTER VIII

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THE CIVIL WAR.

The Issue Between Early Settlers—Influx of Free State and Pro-Slavery Partisans—Early Volunteering—Military Organizations—Threatened Invasion from Missouri— Political Societies—Jayhawkers—Cleveland’s Gang— Lynchings—Atchison County Troops in the War—Price’s Attempted Invasion Pages 129–150

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NAVIGATION.

Pioneer Transportation—Early Ferries and Rates—Famous River Boats—Steamboat Lines to Atchison—Steamboat Registers Pages 151–157

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