Senator and Mrs. James Henry Lane, 1861–66, Albumen silver print from glass negative, × cm (9 × 7 3/4 in
Senator and Mrs. James Henry Lane, 1861–66, Albumen silver print from glass negative, × cm (9 × 7 3/4 in.), Photographs, Senator James H. Lane of Kansas (1814-1866) was most often seen in a woolen shirt, bearskin overcoat, and straw hat. The fiercest leader of the Free State movement in the 1850s, he brought various antislavery forces together to form a unified party and led military campaigns against pro-slavery towns with such effectiveness and brutality that he earned the sobriquet, the 'Grim Chieftain of Kansas
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