John Brown's cabin : entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871

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Date Created:

January 18, 1871

Format:

Still image

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black-and-white photographs

Extent / Dimensions:

04.37 x 02.75 inches

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Recto: John Brown's cabin. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by A.W. Barker, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington; Verso: An old land-mark of Kansas. This picture was taken for Major C.C. Hutchinson's new book, Fifteen years in Kansas, and represents the cabin occupied by old John Brown during the most eventful period of his career in Kansas. It was here that his well-known Parallels were written for the Lawrence Republican adn New York Tribune, and here Kagi, Anderson and others who afterwards fell at Harper's Ferry found an asylum. It was here that Col. Montgomery and his border men took refuge when pursued by Gen. Harney and government officials, and here too that the Potawatamie rifle company stacked arms when visiting Judge Cato's court, thereby so frightening that august body that it fled to Lecompton on the ensuing day, much to the relief of the free state settlers. In this cabin, standing on an open prairie, John Brown successfully secreted for a whole month, eleven fugitive slaves from Missouri when the whole country was filled with hunters in pursuit. It is located one mile south-west of Lane P.O., in Franklin county. Hon. Judge Hanway, who appears with his hat off, is one of the oldest citizens of Kansas, and a follower of John Brown--Ottawa Herald, Jan. 18, 1871. For Sale by A.W. Barker, Ottawa, Ks.