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KsTerritorialMap
Resource courtesy of Watkins Community Museum

Kansas Territorial Map - 1856.

This map depicts Kansas Territory in 1856. Most settelments are along rivers and along the eastern border with Missouri. Note that it extends west to the Rocky Mountains and that to the south what is listed as "Indian Territory" will later become Oklahoma.

Type: image
Project: WJHS Grant
Temporal coverage: 1856
Spacial coverage: Kansas Territory
Creator: Unknown
Object date:1856
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