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The Benders of Kansas. Wichita: Kan-Okla Publishing, 1913 [51] Jonusas, Susan. Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier. New York: Viking, 2022. ISBN 978-1-9848-7983-7; Katz, Brigit. "The Kansas Homestead Where America's First Serial Killer Family Committed Its Crimes Is Up for Sale".
The Great Osage Trail, also known as the Osage Trace or the Kaw Trace, was one of the more well-known Native American trails through the countryside of the Midwest and Plains States of the U.S., pathways blazed by herds of buffalo or other migrating wildlife (Medicine Trails). Map of most of the Santa Fe Trail in 1845.
As the Osage ceded more and more of their land, the US established a new trading post at Fort Scott, Kansas, closer to the ancestral villages near the headwaters of the Osage River near Nevada, Missouri. Fort Osage formally was closed in 1822, but remained a landmark on the Santa Fe Trail and a transit point for supplies going north. By 1836 it ...
The Sturges Osage Treaty was a treaty negotiated between the United States and the Osage Nation in 1868. The treaty was submitted to both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate but was never ratified. [2]: 300 The treaty arose out of a growing need to relocate the Osage to a new reservation.
They struggled simply to survive through famine and the war. During the war, many Caddoan and Creek refugees from Indian Territory came to Osage country in Kansas, further straining their resources. [citation needed] Although the Osage favored the Union by a five to one ratio, they made a treaty with the Confederacy to try to buy some peace.
Location of Osage County in Kansas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Osage County, Kansas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Osage County, Kansas, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts ...
Osage Mission's post was located at the Osage Catholic Mission, which was established in 1847. Eventually, Osage Mission became the town of St. Paul, Kansas, inside what would become Neosho County, Kansas. The Mission was located about 35 miles (56 km) north of the Kansas-Indian Territory border.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places website since that time. [3]