If you look at a map of Kansas printed before 1865, you will notice that our area of southeast Kansas is called the Cherokee Neutral Land. This area was comprised of all of the present county of Cherokee, all of Crawford County, and a strip about six miles wide across the southern part of Bourbon County. This tract was 50 miles long from north to south and 25 miles wide, with the eastern bounda...
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