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On November 2, the group crossed the north fork of the Blue River into Kansas and camped at Oak Grove, which was probably renamed Elm Grove. On November 3, they reached Bull Creek, near Bulltown [58] (which became Paola, Kansas). The group reached the end of the journey, on the western bank of the Osage River, at Osawatomie, Kansas, on November ...
Turkey Creek was part of areawide disasters including the all-time record Great Flood of 1844, which relocated the stream's mouth from the Missouri River westward to the Kaw (Kansas) River and erased all human settlement of the French Bottoms. [6] Another was the Great Flood of 1951.
The Pottawatomie massacre occurred on the night of May 24–25, 1856, in the Kansas Territory, United States.In reaction to the sacking of Lawrence by pro-slavery forces on May 21, and the telegraphed news of the severe attack on Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, John Brown and a band of abolitionist settlers—some of them members of the Pottawatomie Rifles—responded violently.
Marais des Cygnes massacre [18] May 19, 1858 Trading Post, Kansas: Bleeding Kansas 5 Border Ruffians [19] vs Free-Staters [20] Battle of the Spurs: January 31, 1859 near modern Netawaka, Kansas: Bleeding Kansas Underground Railroad: 0 [21] John Brown, J. H. Kagi, Aaron Dwight Stevens, & 12 escaped slaves vs. U.S. marshals: Lawrence Massacre [22 ...
The Massacre in the Great Temple, also called the Alvarado Massacre, was an event on May 22, 1520, in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan during the Spanish conquest of Mexico, in which the celebration of the Feast of Toxcatl ended in a massacre of Aztec elites. [14] [15] 1521: Massacre after the fall of Tenochtitlan: Tenochtitlan, modern day Mexico
East Turkey Creek Road, Pearce, Arizona (private property) 31°51′57″N 109°25′08″W / 31.865868°N 109.418852°W / 31.865868; -109. Nationality
Turkey Creek (Ditch Creek), a stream in Missouri; Turkey Creek (Elk Fork Salt River), a stream in Missouri; Turkey Creek (Lake Taneycomo), a stream in Missouri; Turkey Creek (Little Sac River), a stream in Missouri; Turkey Creek (Osage River), a stream in Missouri; Turkey Creek (Spring River), a stream in Kansas and Missouri
After the Kansas City Massacre, Miller fled to the east coast, staying with New Jersey mobster Abner "Longy" Zwillman in Orange, New Jersey until Miller killed a Zwillman gunman in an argument. Leaving for Chicago on October 23, 1933, Miller posed as a salesman for an optical supply house while living with girlfriend Vi Mathias until Federal ...