File containing a collection of research papers on Henry Clay Pate, or Henry Pate, publisher of the Westport Border Star proslavery newspaper and a participant in 1850s border warfare in the Kansas City area. Justice of the peace of Kaw Township in 1855 and involved in the 1856 attack on Lawrence, Kansas, resulting in Pate's capture by the abolitionist John Brown (and later visiting Brown in jail following the Harper's Ferry rebellion) before engaging in the Civil War.
