KANSAS    PIONEER    
Woodson   County

  
            
Kalida Cave
     In the beginning
   May  30,  1855                January    29,  1861
Territorial                         Statehood
One   Nation,   Under  God,   Indivisable,   
With   Liberty,  And   Justice,  For   ALL


--------------IN THE EARLY 1800'S,,, THE NEW YORK INDIAN RESERVATION AS IT WAS COMMONLY REFERRED TO, WAS INHABITED BY MANY TRIBES OF OUR NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN FAMILIES............IT WAS A VERY POPULAR WINTERING PLACE FOR THE MANY INDIAN NATIONS WHO CAME TO THE CHAUTAUQUA HILLS TO SEEK SHELTER FROM THE FANGS OF WINTER IN THE MANY CROSS TIMBERS THAT DOMINATED THE AREA............IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE SOUTH CHOSE TO ENGAGE IN A STRUGGLE WITH NORTHERN FORCES IN A DISPUTE OVER FREEDOM VS. SLAVERY.......PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN OFFERED SAFE HAVEN TO THE LEADER OPOTHLEYOHOLO AND HIS FOLOWERS WISHING TO SET OUT THE WAR "THE WAR OF THE WHITE PEOPLE". A WAR THAT THE NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN WOULD COME UP ON THE SHORT END.........THIS STRUGGLE CAME LONG BEFORE CUSTER AND THE LITTLE BIG HORN OF 1876, AND YET LITTLE HAS EVER BEEN RECORDED OF THIS TRAGIC EVENT.........


 

Wichita * Keechi * Waco *  Tawakonie

Trail of Broken Promises

 Felix  Gouge                              Bill  Linde                             Thomas  Yahola
Today, Felix, Thomas and Bill, stand together, where their grandfathers joined in their fight for freedom against the invading raiders from the Confederacy.

Their Grandfathers  Muskogee Chief and Leader Opothleyoholo "Gouge:  and 
Kansas Home Guard 
Major General John B. Scott.
Commanding General of the Neosho Valley Kansas Home Guard.
Commanding General 
1st & 2nd Kansas All  Indian Brigades
Commanding Iola Home Guard Battalion 
Battle at Mine Creek

Native American Words

  The Indian 23rd Psalm
Chronicles of Oklahoma
Chronicles of Oklahoma (contd)_
Native American Nations

Woodson County Land of Opportunity

Osage Indian Nation
Indian Geneology
American Indian
Some History of the War of 1812 and the Red Stick War in 1814

Among the Creeks (new)

INDIAN HISTORY 
  Kansas and the Civil War
And They Came From Near And Far  
Kansas Map 1857-1859
Trail where they Cried
 Opothle Yoholo 
 Opothleyoholo 1854 
"Beneath the Underdog"
An Indian Version of the Twenty-Third Psalm
Indian Chiefs  *
http://americanindian.net/
Native American Leaders and Chiefs
      Woodson County Geneology  
  Kansas Sampler  
    Woodson  County  
   Toronto  Kansas    

 *  It should be noted that it is written that at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend,  on March 27,
1814,  this great 15 year old warrior, Opothleyoholo   showed great  leadership abilities
when facing Stonewall Jackson, in the Red Stick War.   It is believed that he was born in
1798 or 1799.    He  died  on  March 23, 1863  and  was  burried  in an unmarked grave
with his daughter   near   Fort  Belemont,  in  Woodson  County,   Kansas..