Lecompton - Bleeding Kansas Program Series
"Postmarked: Bleeding Kansas"
This program will be presented by Chad Lawhorn, editor and publisher at the Lawrence Journal-World. He will discuss his 2013 book that republished the Bleeding Kansas era correspondence between early Lawrence settler and Free State supporter Edward Fitch, and his wife, Sarah Fitch. Culminating at the 1863 Lawrence massacre, the Fitch letters offer a frontline view of the border conflict in Kansas before and during the Civil War as it was seen by those who lived it.
