The genesis of the Wakarusa War dates…
November 1855 CE
The murder is the culmination of a long-simmering feud between the two, as for some time they had argued about a land claim near Hickory Point, located about fourteen miles (twenty-three kilometers) south of Lawrence, Kansas.
Coleman argues that he had been acting in self-defense when he killed Dow, and so when Douglas County Sheriff Samuel J. Jones investigates, he chooses to arrest Dow's Free-State affiliate, Jacob Branson, for disturbing the peace.
Branson, however, will eventuallybe rescued by Free-Staters, led by Samuel Newitt Wood, which will cause the pro-slavery faction to seethe with anger.
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