Wyandotte Constitutional Convention Bibliography
Adams, Franklin G. "The Capitals of Kansas." Kansas Historical Collections, 1903-1904 8 (1904): 331.
Berthoff, Rowland. "Conventional Mentality: Free Blacks, Women, and Business Corporations as Unequal Persons, 1820-1870." Journal of American History 76 (December 1989): 752-784. A study of the attitudes of white men on these constitutional issues through the use of record debate that took place at 24 constitutional conventions; Kansas is one of those cited.
Caldwell, Martha B. "When Horace Greeley Visited Kansas in 1859." Kansas Historical Quarterly 9 (May 1940): 115-140. The author discusses Greeley's decision to make a trip West and his plans (and subsequent trek through) to visit Kansas of which he had written a great deal. He planned his trip so as to be in Osawatomie for the convention that was scheduled for purposes of organizing the Republican party in Kansas--May 18, 1859.
Drapier, A. E. Kansas Constitutional Convention: Proceedings and Debates of the Kansas Constitutional Convention. . . Wyandotte in July, 1859. Also The Constitution Annotated to Date, Historical Sketches, Etc. Topeka: Kansas State Printing Plant, 1920. This is an expanded version of Drapier's Proceedings, first published in 1859.
Gaeddert, G. Raymond. The Birth of Kansas. Lawrence: University of Kansas Publications, 1940.
Howes, Charles C. This Place Called Kansas (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1952): 23-27.
Martin, George W. "The Boundary Lines of Kansas." Kansas Historical Collections, 1909-10 11 (1910): 53.
Martin, John A. "The Wyandotte Constitutional Convention." Kansas Magazine 5 (March/April 1911): 23.
Phillips, William A. "The Wyandotte Convention." Kansas Monthly 4 (January 1881): 1.
Price, David H. "Sectionalism in Nebraska: When Kansas Considered Annexing Southern Nebraska, 1856-1860." Nebraska History 53 (Winter 1972): 447.
Purdue, Rosa M. "The Sources of the Constitution of Kansas." Kansas Historical Collections, 1901-1902 7 (1902): 130.
Simpson, Benjamin F. "The Wyandotte Constitution." Kansas Historical Collections, 1883-1885 3 (1886): 385. Simpson was a delegate to the convention.
Thacher, T. Dwight. "The Leavenworth Constitutional Convention." Kansas Historical Collections, 1883-1885 3 (1886): 5.
__________. "The Rejected Constitutions." Kansas Historical Collections, 1883-1885 3 (1886): 436.
Waters, Joseph G. "Fifty Years of the Wyandotte Constitution." Kansas Historical Collections, 1909-1910 11 (1910): 47.
"What Might Have Happened Had Lecompton Prevailed." Kansas Historical Collections, 1907-1908 10 (1908): 216.
Zornow, William Frank. "The Thirty-fourth Star." in his Kansas: A History of the Jayhawk State, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957): p. 80.
