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    Osawatomie is a city in Miami County, Kansas, United States, 61 miles (98 km) southwest of Kansas City. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city...
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  • pro-slavery Border ruffians, led by John W. Reid, attacked the town of Osawatomie, Kansas, which had been settled largely by anti-slavery Free-Staters. Reid...
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  • Osawatomie may refer to: Osawatomie, Kansas Osawatomie High School Battle of Osawatomie, engagement in Bleeding Kansas struggle Osawatomie Brown, an 1859...
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    John Brown (abolitionist) (category People from Osawatomie, Kansas)
    September 14–15, 1856" Near Netawaka, Kansas: Battle of the Spurs Osawatomie, Kansas: At the site of the Battle of Osawatomie, in John Brown Memorial Park. "Soldiers'...
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  • President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt in a speech in Osawatomie, Kansas on August 31, 1910. The progressive nationalist policies outlined...
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  • Osawatomie Brown is an 1859 play by Kate Edwards, about John Brown's attack on slave owners in Kansas, and its sequel, his raid on Harper's Ferry. The...
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    Historic Site and John Brown Cabin, is located in Osawatomie, Kansas. The site is operated by the Kansas Historical Society, and includes the log cabin of...
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    along the western bank of the Osage River, ending near present-day Osawatomie, Kansas. During the journey of approximately 660 miles (1,060 km) over 61...
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    The Congregational Church in Osawatomie, Kansas, at 315 6th St., was built in 1858-61. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013...
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  • Osawatomie State Hospital is a public psychiatric hospital in the U.S. state of Kansas, located in the city of Osawatomie, Kansas. Established by the...
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    ensure Kansas' entry as a state as a free, or anti-slavery one. The county's most notable abolitionist was John Brown, who moved to Osawatomie, making...
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    Watson Brown (abolitionist) (category People from Osawatomie, Kansas)
    was the one Brown boy who did not go to Kansas in the 1850s, part of his father's efforts to prevent Kansas from becoming a slave state. In 1856 he wrote...
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  • American Life and adopted by Roosevelt after an August 1910 speech in Osawatomie, Kansas The New Freedom – slogan of Woodrow Wilson's 1912 presidential campaign...
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    Edwardsville, Kansas – Pop: 4,390 North Kansas City, Missouri – Pop: 4,354 Osawatomie, Kansas – Pop: 4,297 Louisburg, Kansas – Pop: 4,276 Fairway, Kansas – Pop:...
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    Lynn Dickey (category People from Osawatomie, Kansas)
    Fame in 1992. Born in Paola, Kansas, and raised in Osawatomie, Kansas, southwest of Kansas City, Dickey led Osawatomie High School to a state championship...
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    reforms advocated by progressives. In a speech that Roosevelt gave at Osawatomie, Kansas on August 31, 1910, he outlined his views on conservation of the lands...
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  • in the Kansas State Senate, from 1989 to 1996. Walker was born in Independence, Kansas. He worked as a high school teacher in the Osawatomie school system...
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  • Osawatomie High School (OHS) is a public high school in Osawatomie, Kansas, United States. It is operated by Osawatomie USD 367 school district. Its mascot...
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    for the free-state movement in Kansas included major towns and cities like Lawrence, Eudora, Baldwin City, Osawatomie, Ozawkie, Burlingame, Mound City...
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    Indians from Indiana to Indian Territory, at the site of present-day Osawatomie, Kansas, a distance of 660 miles (1,060 km). The first settlers arrived in...
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    Wayback Machine, text of Theodore Roosevelt's August 31, 1910 speech in Osawatomie, Kansas Stanley Nider Katz; Stanley I. Kutler, eds. (1972). New Perspectives...
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    village of Osawatomie, Kansas after the Battle of Osawatomie. T. W. Higginson, a minister, was instrumental in turning the Massachusetts State Kansas Committee...
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    Ogden Oketo Olathe Olivet Olmitz Olpe Olsburg Onaga Oneida Osage City Osawatomie Osborne Oskaloosa Oswego Otis Ottawa Overbrook Overland Park Oxford Ozawkie...
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    In August 1910, Roosevelt escalated the rivalry with a speech at Osawatomie, Kansas, which was the most radical of his career. It marked his public break...
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    progressive. Theodore Roosevelt, August 31, 1910, New Nationalism speech, Osawatomie, Kansas In advance of the New York convention, Roosevelt embarked on a western...
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    the New Nationalist platform, which he introduced in a speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, on August 31. Another source of tension involved the authority of...
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    Iowa). They moved again 1837–1838 in the Potawatomi Trail of Death to Osawatomie, Kansas. The formal application came in the summer of 1835 at a meeting on...
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    angry pro-slavery supporters at Osawatomie. Before the organization of the Kansas–Nebraska territory in 1854, the Kansas and Nebraska Territories were consolidated...
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    Marais des Cygnes River (category Rivers of Kansas)
    in the song "The River" by Chely Wright. La Cygne, Kansas, in Linn County and Osawatomie, Kansas, in Miami County are gravely affected by its flooding...
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    on December 31, 1830. He was shot and killed by Martin White in Osawatomie, Kansas, on August 30, 1856, and was buried there. Mary had thirteen children...
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