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Kansas Neutral Lands promise in southeastern Kansas
Correspondence from Fort Scott May 1 1876 extols southeastern Kansas as richly diverse and productive. It highlights Cherokee Neutral Lands in Bour bon Crawford and Cherokee counties with 800000 acres sold by the Missouri River Ft Scott and Gulf Railroad, notes grasshopper drought light in this area, praises crops from wheat and corn to cotton and peanuts, and urges energetic settlement while predicting a prosperous future with rail and mining support. General Clark of the land department is cited as a contact for buyers.
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Fort Score
Barton
Kansas
Colorado
Bourbon, Grawford
Cherokee
Kansas City Exposition
Missouri River
Ft. Scott and Gulf
Kansas City
Indian Territory
Baxter Springs
Zink ‘Works
Ft. Scott
Girard
Iowa
I. L. Hicks
Indiana
Billings
West Indies
Enoch Carter
Cherokee County
Illinois
Columbus
Copeland
Crawford County
J. M. Douglass
Ingraham
Tennessee
Garrison
Union
Crawford
Banner
Missouri
Spring River
Shoal Creek
Great West
John A. Clark
Freeport
Land Department
Ft. Scott and Gulf Railroad
Clark