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Articles & Stories
Kansas Territorial Newspapers
These territorial Kansas newspapers, published between September 15,
1854, and January 29, 1861, which are not available for view at the
above link (Atchison County Newspapers online) are available in the
collections of the Library/Archives Division of the Kansas State
Historical Society. All papers listed are available at no charge
through interlibrary loan.
Atchison (Atchison County)
Atchison Union
Democratic
June 4, 1859 - Sept. 7, 1861.......................A 1394
Freedom's Champion
A free-state paper connected to the New England Emigrant Aid
Company, it continued on the press of the Squatter Sovereign. F.G.
Adams and John A. Martin were among those associated with it.
Feb. 20, 1858 - Dec. 20, 1860.......................A 994
Jan. 5, 1861 - Dec. 31, 1863 ........................A 995
Feb. 20, 1858 - June 1, 1861.......................A 998
Kansas Zeitung
A bilingual (German/English) free-state paper.
July 22, 1857 - Nov. 6, 1858......................L 1664
Squatter Sovereign
Begun as a company paper by the Atchison Town Company, this became
under editor John Stringfellow the best-known and most notorious of
the Kansas pro-slavery papers. In March 1857, the paper was sold to
Samuel C. Pomeroy, a Massachusetts free-stater who represented the
New England Emigrant Aid Company, who turned it into a free-state
periodical. Subsequently it was sold to John A. Martin, who renamed
it Freedom's Champion.
Feb. 3, 1855 - Dec. 5, 1857.........................A 1044
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