Background note: On August 7, 1868 the Potawatomi lands were purchased from the Federal government for $1.00 an acre by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, whose rails did not run through them. For more information, see _Steel Trails to Santa Fe_, L. L. Waters, University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, 1950.
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