[Washington: 1861]. 36th Cong., 2d Sess. HR Rep. 104. 1861. 892 pp. Disbound, else Very Good. An extraordinary compilation of the various civil eruptions that accompanied the struggle for control of Kansas. The first of two volumes. More
[Lecompton, Lawrence, Topeka, Leavenworth, and the "bogus legislature" from Washington]: [1856-1877]. The earliest laws of the State of Kansas [excepting the second session], with the Kansas House Journal of the first statehood legislature. Paginated variously, some volumes with institutional rubberstamps and bookplates. Otherwise, texts are clean, with bindings in various..... More
Washington: Cornelius Wendell, Printer, 1857. 35th Cong., 1st Sess. SED11. 775pp, disbound else Very Good. At midstream of the Buchanan administration, his disastrous Kansas policy alienates his Democratic support in the North; even pro-slavery northerners find it difficult to stomach the election frauds and violence necessary to sustain the Lecompton..... More