Chronicles the first four decades of Mahattan, Kansas, as it grew from tent to town. Captures the origins and early life of this quintessential Kansas city in an engaging and informative history.
When Isaac Goodnow and five fellow New Englanders arrived at the junction of the Kansas and Big Blue rivers in March of 1855, they pitched a tent and launched a town: Manhattan, Kansas. Kevin Olson's history of Manhattan's founding illuminates the divisive forces that had to be overcome amidst the turbulence of the Civil War era, and the drama of building a town from scratch on the Great Plains frontier.
