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SWEDISH PIONEERS IN KANSAS
BY
Theodore W. Anderson, A.M.
President of Minnehaha Academy.
The Swedish people have never formed a large
proportion of the population of Kansas. An eminent
historian of the State[1] estimates that the total number
of inhabitants of Swedish descent is 50,000, of whom
nearly half live in the central part, chiefly in the Smoky
Hill Valley. They have, however, played and still play
a significant and honorable role in the State and date
their history back to the early formative days of the
territory.
Until the year 1854 Kansas was scarcely more than
a geographical expression, the hunting ground of the
Indians and a trading place for a few whites. Twelve
hundred is believed to be the total number of white
people in Kansas at that time,[2] of whom half were
soldiers at Ft. Leavenworth and other military posts, and
the other half traders and missionaries among the
Indians. For a few decades caravans of trade had wound
over the historic Santa Fe trail, and 90,000 gold seekers,
it is estimated, had crossed Kansas en route to California.
But in 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, by which the
territory was organized, put Kansas into the limelight
of the nation. Giving the settlers the right to determine
for themselves whether or not slavery should exist, it
[1] Blackmar, History of Kansas, Vol. II, p. 793.
[2] Arnold, History of Kansas, p. 54.
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