Correspondence

The correspondence between Charles Athearn and his family urges people interested in settling in Kansas Territory to consider the Wolf Creek and Neosho River area, where he has taken a site. Letters describe the weather, crops, the future prosperity of area, the erection of cabins, post offices, churches, operation of saw-mills, persuading a railroad line to pass through the area, making Kansas a free state, and staying the tide of slavery. Last letter, from Caleb, tells of his father Charles's death.