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| | Events of a Century Ago in The Fort Leavenworth Area |
 | | In 1844, the Wyandotte Indians were making improvements and getting settled on their new lands at the junction of the Missouri and Kansas rivers, which they had purchased from the Delawares, having arrived only a short time before from Ohio. |
 | | In 1844, the personnel of the Fort Leavenworth Indian Agency was as follows: Richard W. cummins, agent; Jonathan Phillips, subagent for Wyandotte; Joshua Carpenter, subagent; Clement Lessert, John M. Armstrong, Henry Tiblow, interpretors; Charles Graham, James B. Post, Charles Fish, Isaac Monday, Robert Wilson, J. Carpenter, flsmiths; J. Pitman and Mab Frankler, assistant flsmiths; W. |
 | | In the spring of 1844 a band of desperadoes, mostly from Clay county, Mo., with several from Platte county, held up a wagon train belonging to a man named Jarvis on the Santa Fe Trail. |
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