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Auction: 323 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1535

White Cloud City Company (Kansas Territory) July 1st, 1857. One share. No.68. George Washington flanked by two females. Liberty, left. Indian chief, right. Signed by Louise C. Denver, wife of James William Denver, Secretary and Governor of Kansas Territory, and the man who Denver, Colorado was named after. Very Fine, with a few trivial rust spots, and a small body hole. Light pencil notations in the top margin. Issued near the beginning of the "Bleeding Kansas" era. The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act placed the power to allow or forbid slavery in Kansas Territory in the hands of the settlers. Pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements in Kansas clashed with "Anti Free-Staters" as new cities such as White Cloud were organized. White Cloud began as a flourishing community along the Missouri River at a time when steamboats were still a major source of freight and passenger traffic. This is the only such Kansas Territorial certificate known to this cataloger. Off the market since 2002.
From the John E. Herzog Collection.

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