Original Boundaries Took the Territory All the Way to the Rocky Mountains ; Divide Was in Kansas
The Topeka Capital-Journal › January 23, 2004
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Pikes Peak could have been in Kansas.
On May 30, 1854, President Franklin Pierce signed the Kansas- Nebraska Act, which called for the organization of new two territories. The Kansas Territory was to lie west of the Missouri River between the 37th and 40th parallels of latitude and extend west to the crest of the Rocky Mountains.See the full content of this document
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Original Boundaries Took the Territory All the Way to the Rocky Mountains ; Divide Was in Kansas
"The eastern border was Missouri, the northern was Nebraska, the southern border was Oklahoma or the Indian Territory, and it went west to the Continental Divide," said Tim Rues, site administrator of the Constitutio...
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