. A history of the United States. Territories from which Kansas andNebraska were Erected with slaves and without them equal. The admission of California put the freestates ahead. WAR IN KANSAS 383 ritory.^ Covered wagons which had started for Californiagold-fields with California or bust painted on the sidesput on Kansas instead. Adventurers and frontiersmen,eager for excitement, joined in the fray. Many Missourianscrossed the boundary, some to settle with their slaves, othersmerely to help their party win the victory. These men the. Scene on the Kansas BorderNote the ferry-boat propelled by p
. A history of the United States. Territories from which Kansas andNebraska were Erected with slaves and without them equal. The admission of California put the freestates ahead. WAR IN KANSAS 383 ritory.^ Covered wagons which had started for Californiagold-fields with California or bust painted on the sidesput on Kansas instead. Adventurers and frontiersmen,eager for excitement, joined in the fray. Many Missourianscrossed the boundary, some to settle with their slaves, othersmerely to help their party win the victory. These men the. Scene on the Kansas BorderNote the ferry-boat propelled by poles, the stern-wheeled steamboat, and the wagons anti-slavery people called border ruffians. The most deter-mined leader of the anti-slavery settlers was John Brown,who with four sons, all well armed, fought against the colo-nists from the southern states. It was a war of ambushes andassaults on settlements. The Missourians succeeded in found-ing Atchison and Leavenworth, near the Missouri River,while the Free-soilers took up the lands farther back, aroundLawrence and Topeka. The Free-soilers soon outnumbered their opponents. TheNorth had the advantage not only in the number ready toemigrate to Kansas, but also in money to aid them, and in ^ The new territories included the great region which now makes up thestates of Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Montana, part of Colorado, andWyoming. 384 THE QUESTION OF SLAVERY railroads to carry them to the battleground. The conse-quence was that the Free-soilers eventually succeeded in
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