Rescue of Jacob Branson, 1855

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Title: Rescue of Jacob Branson, 1855
Creator: J.N. Holloway
Description: Woodcut depicting the rescue of Free-Stater Jacob Branson following his arrest for threats made to Franklin Coleman. A skirmish broke out in the Wakarusa River Valley near Lawrence, Kansas, following the murder of Charles Dow, a Free-State settler who was killed by the proslavery Franklin Coleman. While the murder was not about politics, the resulting political unrest led Douglas County Sheriff Samuel J. Jones to raise a militia and place Lawrence under siege. The "war" claimed one more victim, a Free-Stater named Thomas Barber.
Date: 1855
Local Subject: Bleeding Kansas, Bloodletting Missouri
Picturing the War
Popular Sovereignty
Wakarusa War
People: J.N. Holloway
Geographic Subject: Douglas County, Kansas
Object Type: Image
Owning Organization: Kansas Historical Society
Location: http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/208715
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