Swope, Gilbert E.

Coming to Kansas: Details of the Trip and Location of a Pennsylvania Colony

Reprinted from Kansas City Times in the Carlisle Mirror; April 19, 1878. The tide of emigration that has set in like a flood since the first opening of spring has become a matter of general comment, but so far nothing has been definitely known regarding the settlement of the various parties that have passed through Kansas City farther than that they nearly all settled in the State of Kansas.