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3 unusual facts about William Ridenbaugh


William Ridenbaugh

During the Bleeding Kansas struggles in the late 1850s he was among the Missouri residents who bought land in Kansas (in his case across the Missouri River in Doniphan County, Kansas in an attempt to also vote there with regards to whether Kansas should enter the state as a slave state.

William Fahnestock Ridenbaugh (February 19, 1821-October 18, 1874) was a newspaper publisher who started the St. Joseph Gazette in St. Joseph, Missouri.

The paper would chronicle early settlement of the Old West along the Oregon Trail and California Trail.



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