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Fort Leavenworth, unorganized U.S. territory (now in Leavenworth Co., Kansas)
Summary
Situated on bluff west of Missouri River, about twenty-five miles northwest of Kansas City, Missouri. Area first explored by Spaniards, 1540. Area acquired by U.S. in Louisiana Purchase, 1803. Settled first as Cantonment Leavenworth by U.S. Army colonel Henry Leavenworth, 8 May 1827. Name changed to Fort Leavenworth, 8 Feb. 1832. Jonathan Dunham began sporadic missionary work among American Indians living near fort, 1840. Outfitting post for U.S. Army during Mexican-American War. Mormon Battalion outfitted at fort, Aug. 1846.
Links
papers
- Letter from Thomas Burdick, 28 August 1840
- Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 2, 1 March–6 May 1845
- Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846; Volume 3, 6 May 1845–13 January 1846
- History Draft [1 January–3 March 1843]
- Hyrum Smith, Testimony, 1 July 1843 [ Extradition of JS for Treason ]
- Letter from William W. Phelps, 24 August 1834
- Lyman Wight, Testimony, 1 July 1843 [ Extradition of JS for Treason ]
- Sidney Rigdon, Testimony, 1 July 1843 [ Extradition of JS for Treason ]
- Trial Report, 8–26 July 1843, as Published in Nauvoo Neighbor [ Extradition of JS for Treason ]
- State/Province
- unorganized U.S. territory (now in Kansas)
- Country:
- United States of America