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One-Way Ticket
to Kansas, the autobiography
of Frank M. Stahl, as told and illustrated by Margaret Whittemore.
University of Kansas Press, 1959. Transcribed by John D. Meredith
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I......Seven
Times Seven Are Seven - (birth in New Harrison,
Ohio - neighbors - Mexican-American War - home schooling - the sow in
the schoolhouse)
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| II.....Woods and Streams - (local wildlife - encounters with a panther - fishing - shinny matches in winter) |
| III.....Farm Work - (farm work and crops - father's stance on liquor - father's skills as cobbler and mother's as seamstress) |
| IV......Making Barrels - (barrel making- winning a shooting match) |
| V......The Whisky Bottle - (train trip to Dayton - caught in a drunken riot - log rolling - barn raising) |
| VI.....Slave or Free? - (reading Uncle Tom's Cabin - issues of slavery in Kansas - presidential election campaigns) |
| VII....The One-Way Ticket - (decision to emigrate to Kansas - the train from Greenville west to Jefferson City) |
| VIII...Heading Up the Missouri - (traveling the Missouri river on the New Lucy - activities on board - first encounter with slaves -- arrival in Kansas City and lodging at the Gillis House) |
| IX.....Out Where the West Begins - (walking west into Kansas - a promise of work falls through - left alone) |
| X.....A Friend in Need - (meeting Robert Simmerwell - arrival at Six Mile Creek -- working for Simmerwell on the farm - Simmerwell's missionary work and family) |
| XI....."Keep the Mill A-Going" - (Auburn's first steam mill - James Lane visits Auburn - joining the Independent Order of Good Templars - parents move from Ohio to Kansas - drought of 1860 and closing of the mill) |
| XII....Western Kansas Diggings - (prospecting in Colorado - following the Platte river to Denver - arrival and impressions of the new town) |
| XIII...There's Gold in Those Hills - (cutting logs for houses - meeting Jim Beckworth - prospecting in Central City - looking for gold in the San Juan mountains - led on a wild goose chase - meeting Kit Carson and avoiding Indian war parties - retrieving cattle from thieves - return to Central City and Denver - outbreak of the Civil War -- return to Kansas) |
| XIV....The Long, Long Trail - (Kansas enters the union - carrying guns and ammunition from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Union on the Santa Fe Trail - routines of trail life - Council Grove and other waypoints along the trail - taking the Cimarron cutoff - returning via Raton Pass and Bent's Fort) |
| XV....With the Cavalry in Arkansas - (enlistment in the 2nd Kansas Cavalry - father's death - with the army in Arkansas - Fort Smith - fighting at Cane Hill - battle of Prairie Grove - Wild Bill Hickock - wounding at Dardanelle and convalescence at Fort Smith - working in the commissary department and defending a local family from depradations - travel back to Auburn and meeting Jennie Dickson) |
| XVI..."Git Along, Little Dogies, Git Along!" - (end of the war -- driving cattle from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Union on the Santa Fe Trail - reunion with Colonel Cloud at Fort Larned - Cimarron cutoff -- encounter with Indians - return via the Aubry cutoff) |
| XVII...On the Trail of the Indian - (Enlistment in the 18th Kansas Cavalry and Indian fighting - Fort Harker - engaging Indians in the Spillman Creek fight - escape under cover of darkness - 1867 treaty and cessation of hostilities) |
| XVIII...Stone Fences - (courting - building stone fences - marriage - dealing with local Indians - leadership in the Masons - election to public office) |
| XIX...Prohibition Picnics - (working for temperance - Kansas institutes prohibition - beginnings of the annual temperance picnic - chasing bootleggers - made chief of police in Topeka) |
| XX...."Old Alfalfa's" Raids - (raids on liquor establishments - surprise raids - run-in with Carrie Nation) |
| XXI...Gambling Must Go - (Raids on gambling establishments - disguises and subterfuge) |
| XXII. .Mission Accomplished - (made superintendent of the Kansas Temperance Union - public speaking tours - return visit to New Harrison - reflections on a life) |