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Raising the Stakes
2014
Overview
As numerous Free-State parties moved across Iowa toward Kansas in 1856, two young men from Springdale, Iowa, had joined the emigrants. George B. Gill and seventeen-year-old Barclay Coppoc climbed aboard the first major Kansas-bound wagon train from Iowa City led by Shalor Eldridge, trail coordinator for Free-State overland operations.
A lean twenty-four-year-old of freethinking bent, Gill had already worked on a whaling ship in the Pacific and now was joining the Free-State cause in Kansas. In late August 1856 he and a friend happened to be in the vicinity of the Osawatomie battle and joined the fight against a large
