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Brookdale Rice Co Kansas
Jany 1st 1871
Dear Sir
Enclosed please find petition for the general distribution of arms among the citizens of Rice Co. necessary for their defence against any raid or raids by the Cheyenne Indians.
Most of the settlers located in this vicinity are unable to purchase the arms and ammunition necessary, hence the petition.
Should you not decree it advisable to send the arms, a small detachment of troops sent here would allay all anxiety on the part of the people located in this vicinity.
Trusting that you will give this matter your careful
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consideration I have the honor to be very truly yours
D.H. Bowdoin
Address.
Brookdale P.O.
By way of Ellsworth
This letter is part of the Kansas Adjutant General's correspondence collection, containing 50 years of letters from 1861-1910, now available on Kansas Memory. Events highlighted in this collection include the militia companies involved in the Civil War, including colored units, and Price’s Raid claims for compensation for lost property and militia service rendered during Price’s Missouri Expedition. Reports of Indian conflicts continued well into the 1880s, as the presence of the reorganized Kansas National Guard expanded across the state and beyond, including the Spanish-American War in 1898. The Kansas Adjutant General’s correspondence collection is one of many found in the State Archives which preserves the records of all three branches of state government, including the official records of nearly every Kansas governor.