"...encountering sickness, losses, calumny and prosperity": The Diary of Chestina Bowker Allen

from A Kansas Memory: The Kansas Historical Society Library and Archives Podcast · host Pat Michaelis

Diaries provide glimpses of the routine and the unusual. Chestina Bowker Allen was 46 years old when she came to Kansas with her husband and 5 children to aid the free state cause. Her diary describes daily life and various events in Bleeding Kansas. Musical selections performed by The Free Staters (www.thefreestaters.com) and Curly Miller and Carole Anne Rose (http://theold78s.com/).

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