Date(s): February 4, 1860 to January 14, 1861 Location: DONIPHAN, Kansas, ALLEN, Kansas, BRECKENRIDGE, Kansas, GREENWOOD, Kansas, CHASE, Kansas Tag(s): Thaddeus Hyatt, Kansas Territory, James Buchanan, Drought, Famine, Agriculture, Civil War Discussion of the Kansas Territory before the Civil War often turns directly to the time period known as “Bleeding Kansas,” which generally refers to the year of 1856 or to its part in the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. These events, however, were not what the citizens of the Kansas Territory were concerned with immediately before the outbreak of the Civil War. In 1860, with the rest of the country...