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xv Acknowledgments I would like to recognize Gillian Berchowitz for her support of this series, Civil War in the Great Interior, as well as its coeditors, Christine Dee and Martin Hershock . In particular, I would like to thank Christine for inviting me to contribute to this volume on Kansas. I have enjoyed our many conversations and this book is better for her insights. In addition, I appreciate the work of the production team, especially Jean Cunningham, Beth Pratt, and Nancy Basmajian, for their work ushering this volume to press. Finally, I would like to thank the two anonymous readers who read this book in manuscript form. Although I have not taken every suggestion, they did point me in important new directions and their assessment of my work was thoughtful and thorough. Themajorityof thedocumentsinthisvolumewerecollectedatthreearchivesin Kansas, and the staffs of each were extraordinarily helpful. Thanks to Mary Nelson at Special Collections and University Archives at the Wichita State University library and to Karen Cook and Sheryl Williams at the Kansas Collection, Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, for their help in bringing this project to fruition. At the Kansas State Historical Society, the entire staff in the research division made researching this book a pleasure, and I would particularly like to acknowledge Teresa Coble for her good cheer and helpfulness. For their help with permissions, I would like to thank archivist Bob Knecht and Virgil Dean, editor of Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains. Moreover, Nancy Sherbert, curator of photographs, helped me quickly identify Breaking Dawn, the Samuel J. Reader painting on the cover, and secure permission for its use within a compressed time frame. She also drew my attention to a number of images of notable Kansans, some of which I have included. The history department at California State University, San Bernardino, provided critical funds to travel to Kansas to collect the majority of these documents at the start of this project. At Ithaca College, travel funds from the School of Humanities and Sciences facilitated a trip to Kansas at the close of the project, and the Center for Faculty Research and Development funded two course releases that allowed me to finish writing, editing, and preparing this volume for publication. On a personal note, I greatly appreciate how much my friends—particularly JenniferAhlskog ,AngelaBranneman,BrettFlehinger,JenniferGermann,KurtGraham, Elisabeth Guzman, Cheryl Jung, and Silvana Siddali—enrich my life. Finally, I especially wish to acknowledge my family—Aurora Ponce, Florence Ponce-Cornejo, Lauren Ponce-Cornejo, and Andres Cornejo—for their love and support. I dedicate this volume to my sister, Florence, aware that this simple acknowledgment could never capture all she has done for me or the place she holds in my heart. ...