Forging a Free State
By "The Cowboy" Jim Gray
On Jan. 15, 1856, the squatters in Kansas Territory met at designated polling places to elect Kansas leadership after their polls were overrun by an invasion of Missouri voters in an earlier election. Free State squatters (a term used for settlers) refused to recognize that elected government and proclaimed their second election the legitimate poll of Kansas residents. The earlier pro-slavery assembly became known as the Bogus Legislature.
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