Kansas: Sources

• NARA Kansas Territorial Papers. National Archives Records Administration. State Department Territorial Papers, Kansas, 1854-1861. online

• Kansas Executive Minutes 1854-1855. "Executive Minutes Kept during Governor Reeder's Administration." Publications of the Kansas State Historical Society. Topeka: Kansas Publishing House, T.D. Thacher, State Printer, 1886, pp. 34-86.
• Kansas Executive Minutes 1855-1856. "Executive Minutes Kept during Governor Shannon's Term, including those Recorded in the Intervals of the Service of Secretary Woodson as Acting Governor." Publications of the Kansas State Historical Society. Topeka: Kansas Publishing House, T.D. Thacher, State Printer, 1886, pp. 91-145.
• Kansas Executive Minutes 1856-1857. "Executive Minutes of Gov. Geary." Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society, embracing the Fifth and Sixth Biennial Reports, 1886-1888, Together with Copies of Official Papers during a Portion of the Administration of Governor Wilson Shannon, 1856, and the Executive Minutes of Governor John W. Geary during his Administration, beginning September 9, 1856, and ending March 10, 1857. Vol. IV. Topeka: Kansas Publishing House, Cliff C. Baker, State Printer, 1890, pp. 520-746.
• Kansas Executive Minutes 1857-1860. "Documentary History of Kansas." Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1889-'96; together with Addresses at Annual Meetings; Copies of Official Papers and Executive Minutes during the Administrations of Governors Robert J. Walker, James W. Denver, and Samuel Medary, and of Acting Governors Daniel Woodson, Fred. P. Stanton, James W. Denver, Hugh S. Walsh, and George M. Beebe, 1857-'60; and including some papers of dates 1855 and 1856. Vol. V. Topeka: Press of the Kansas State Printing Company. J. K. Hudson, state printer. 1896, pp. 156-633.
• Kansas Constitution 1859. Constitution of the State of Kansas; Adopted at Wyandot, July 29, ’59, [s.l., s.n., 1859?]. online
• Kansas Constitutional Convention 1859. Larimer, Harry G. (ed.) Kansas Constitutional Convention: A Reprint of the Proceedings and Debates of the Convention which framed the Constitution of Kansas at Wyandotte in July, 1859. Topeka: Kansas State Printing Plant, 1920. online
• Kansas House Journal. House Journal of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Kansas… Lawrence, Kansas: John Speer, 1861-. [title, publisher and place of publication vary in several volumes]. online
• Kansas National Democrat. Kansas National Democrat (No. 1, 30 Jul 1857 - No. 27, 14 Mar 1861) online
• Kansas Senate Journal. Senate Journal of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Kansas… Lawrence, Kansas: Speer & Moore, 1861-. [title, publisher and place of publication vary in several volumes] online
• Kansas State Journal. The Kansas State Journal (Lawrence) (No. 1, 21 Nov 1861 - 1869) online
• Statutes at Large. The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America: from the organization of the government in 1789 to March 3, 1845. Boston, Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1845-1846, vol. 1-4 || The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America: from the organization of the government in 1789 to March 3, 1845. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1856-1867, vol. 5-8 || The Statutes at Large and Treaties of the United States of America. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855-1862, vol. 9-11 || The Statutes at Large, Treaties, and Proclamations, of the United States of America. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1863-1869, vol. 12-15 || The Statutes at Large and Proclamations of the United States of America. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1871-1873, vol. 16-17 || The Statutes at Large. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1875-1873, vol. 18-. online