Fort Leavenworth and the Soldiers' home . h:^::::ed ; the standard of the Republic as against the ., o^-^n veracious pen, by a^a^ew^^^^^^^ in^ .^s^owr. ^-rirtXuTr wWle Ca^sorstopped to skin one of the beastsmayed, he tells us, g^,,i„„ed fearlessly onandbrought it\tJ;it:;hh^*:vor;:xU^^^^^^^ down a buu w ^j^ Colonel Mason called him down 1 this affair *au he tep^^y^ ^„ d„ hty explorer should T ^:^his courage forLr contingencies underPap Price, orasfb;r;rga!:srhis propensity to turn tail before Stonewall Jackson nornarLly John C. Fremont escaped having greatness thrustrhrnX%rr°tCu:-o:itnia m
Fort Leavenworth and the Soldiers' home . h:^::::ed ; the standard of the Republic as against the ., o^-^n veracious pen, by a^a^ew^^^^^^^ in^ .^s^owr. ^-rirtXuTr wWle Ca^sorstopped to skin one of the beastsmayed, he tells us, g^,,i„„ed fearlessly onandbrought it\tJ;it:;hh^*:vor;:xU^^^^^^^ down a buu w ^j^ Colonel Mason called him down 1 this affair *au he tep^^y^ ^„ d„ hty explorer should T ^:^his courage forLr contingencies underPap Price, orasfb;r;rga!:srhis propensity to turn tail before Stonewall Jackson nornarLly John C. Fremont escaped having greatness thrustrhrnX%rr°tCu:-o:itnia m the wake of Kit Carson, -n:;::^:nSCTg;Tydivided-osciiiatedinpa.^ Horse, ana me entitled to posthumous honors. •vinVX o-a:^:tirin the foregoing introductory lines toa ha?ty survey of the vast domain in which we are situated, let us Fort^TLvlwotthe city of Leavenworth, and Leavenworth of ike LouisioMa Purchase. I si t i:i i\ii t n I*: I 17 o&i^^^^um^iifvTJ PHOTOGRAPHER. ., /r;™; inoo-linr: u (/ n; r SI I. Misstn McPiiBaaDji Haix BoruiVAmD. Po«t Lkavbkwobth. rhiefly in the following, to-wit: the Fort, the city, the National Home,and the Kansas State Prison, which lie in echelon alon); the westshore of the Missouri River in the order They came intoexistence in the order given, except that the State Pri«nn ranks theNational Home by date of commission. T lain dcfr iice wr. .c birth. aiid p; -Is prct. c this dominating quality in the lives of great men and in the history ofthe f • ? . . ,^ ofthr :c. that peculiar, indefinable, triumphant something which determinesthe i:; • ? ? On lines ; stance of a notable spot wherein we may mark in its larger and more com- 18 The Romantic History plex perspective ihe divinity which hedges us about, which thwartsour purpose, which, when we would go here, with commanding fingersays, Go there ! and we go, whether we will or no. Under orders from the War Department, Col. Henry H. Leaven-worth, 3d U. S. In
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