Pioneers
First-Person Accounts
- Lilla Day Monroe Collection of Pioneer Women Stories Index the memoirs that were the basis for Joanna Stratton's book, Pioneer Women
- Chestina Bowker Allen's journal, 1854-1858, Pottawatomie County, Kansas
- Abbie Bright's diary and letters, 1861-1903
- The Letters of Peter Bryant, Jackson County Pioneer, 1861-1864 part 1, part 2, from Kansas Historical Quarterly, 1961
- Reminiscence of a former slave, Marcus Lindsay Freeman
- John William Gardner diary, 1875, Jefferson County, Kansas
- Isaac Goodnow's diaries, 1856-1960, Manhattan, Kansas
- G. W. Paddock diary, 1857-1860, Wyandotte, Kansas
- Catherine Wiggins Porter's reminiscences from 1885, "Holding Down A Norhtwest Kansas Claim" in Graham County, Kansas.
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Anna Margaret Watson Randolph's story of coming to Kansas on a riverboat, 1858
- Samuel Reader's diaries, 1853-1913, Shawnee County, Kansas
- Augustus Schulz's diary, 1872-1878, McPherson County, Kansas
- Crossing the Plains, the journal of Harriet Bidwell Shaw, 1851
- Reuben Smith diaries, 1854-1904, Miami County, Kansas
- Joseph Trego's diary, 1857-1858, near Mound City, Kansas
- Daniel Mulford Valentine's diary, 1859, Leavenworth, Kansas
- Letters of a Kansas Pioneer,1855-1860, Thomas C. Wells part 1, part 2, part 3, from Kansas Historical Quarterly, 1936
Articles
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Kansas Settlers On the Osage Diminished Reserve: A Study of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House On the Prairie from Kansas History, autumn 2001
Bibliographies
- Guide to diaries and journals found in the Kansas Historical Society collections
- Immigration to Kansas
- Colonies and settlements in Kansas
- Cultural and ethnic groups
Other Websites
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The Sons and Daughters of the Soddies was a national association of people that collected the stories, letters, and photos of people who were born or lived in a sod house. Over 25,000 items from the collection are online on the website of the Prairie Museum of Art & History, Colby, KS: http://prairiemuseum.pastperfectonline.com
