MARCH 1855: “DAMNED YANKEES” COME TO KANSAS

On March 18, 1855, twelve days after leaving Boston, on a sunny and piercingly cold day, Isaac Good now’s boat arrived in Kansas City, six days ahead of theLonora.The immigrants were expecting to arrive in a sizable city with warm spring weather.¹ “How different the facts,” lamented Isaac Goodnow.²...

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Zusammenfassung:	On March 18, 1855, twelve days after leaving Boston, on a sunny and piercingly cold day, Isaac Good now’s boat arrived in Kansas City, six days ahead of theLonora.The immigrants were expecting to arrive in a sizable city with warm spring weather.¹ “How different the facts,” lamented Isaac Goodnow.² Winter had not yet released its grip on Kansas Territory, and after the steamboat was secured and the planks lowered, the passengers disembarked and found in Kansas City a small, “cheerless” village covered with snow.³ The town was situated “upon a clay bluff, very steep, with one dirty street