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The Fate of the Old Donkey and a Kansas Murder
An old worn donkey is kept and then let out to graze as a tired driver complains of his stubborn jack. The text rapidly shifts to a grisly Kansas murder near Tecumseh, describing a body found tied to a tree, shot above the left eye, a knife in the chest, and a stray toadstool with an anti slavery inscription. The article lists Laban Parker of Cleveland, Ohio, as the murdered man and includes a dated timeline of Fremont’s explorations and California events alongside attacks by border ruffians and Free State reprisals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
Joe
Buck
Crorus
Kansas
Laban Parker
Cleveland
Ohio
Savannah
Georia
III
Virginia
Charleston
John W. Mitchell
South Carolina
Protestant Episcopal Church
United States
Hamburg
Jackson
Sloop of War
Williams
Carolina
Tennessee
Cherokee Country
van Buren
Missouri
Nicolet
Fremont
Poinsett
Des Moines River
Iowa
Jessie
Benton
Rocky Mountains
Indian Council
Fort Laramie
Gulf of Mexico
Washington
North American
Salt Lake
Tyler
Gen
Scott
Polk
California
Castro
Hawk’s Peak
Oregon
Gilles Ie
James Buchanan
Great Britain
Buchanan
Commodore Stockton
Mariposa
Kearney
Stockton
Phan
Charleston Mercury
Senate
Indorses Fremont
St. Louis
Taylor
Mexico
U.S
Royal Geographical Society
London
Prussia
Baron Humboldt
Col. Benton
Col. Fremont
Panama
Free State Party
Europe
Alderman Fulmer
United States Supreme Court
Caleb Cushing
Taney
Howard
Banks
Tur
Waterloo
Napoleon
la Ostend
John C. Fremont
Corps of Topographical Engineers
Rocky Mountain
Columbia River
Monterey
Col
Tlamath Lake
Oregon Territory
Bay of
San Francisco
Sacramento
Sonoma
American Fork
Soncima
de la Torre
Bay of San Francisco
Cairo
Santa Clara
Fre
The
Angles
Pico
Autland
Californias
Mesa
Sonora
Publc
W. L. Marcy
U. States
Franklin
Hoyt
Massachusetts
Block House
Washington Creek
Free State
Couse
Lawrence
St Louis
Atchison
Saingtelson