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209:"A Historical Study on the Early History of Solomon, Kansas: 1859-1860," master's thesis, Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, Kansas, July 1969, pp. 1-2 (a copy is located in the Kansas State Historical Society archives, Topeka, Kans.).
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Buchanan as Told by John J. Little of Niles, Kansas," (N.p.: n.d.), p. 1 (from the collections of the Ottawa County Historical Museum).
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Solomon, Kansas," (N.p.: 1935), pp. 1-2, 57 (in the Dickinson County Historical Society & Museum, Abilene, Kans.).
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