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Title
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Opening the Western Frontier: Rev. Thomas Johnson & the Shawnee Indian Mission [and associated articles]
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Description
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Article about the Methodist Shawnee Indian Missions in the 1830s near Turner, Kansas, and Westport, Missouri, and the family of missionary Reverend Thomas Johnson (1802-1865), with photos, maps, and illustrations. Description of Thomas Johnson, a native of Virginia and Methodist minister "appointed missionary to the Shawnee Indians" (his brother William Johnson appointed to the Kansas and Delaware Indians), arriving in Kansas and building the first mission building in 1830, killed at his home at 35th and Agnes Avenues in Kansas City "by parties unknown."
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
