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Show Department of Kansas Has Research Program Ancient Indian battle grounds, historic his-toric spots and unrecorded trails of early Spanish explorers who preceded . the Lewis and Clarke expedition in the Pacific Northwest are expected to j be brought, to light by investigation j and research by the department of Kansas of Ihe American Legion dur- j Ing Ihe spring and summer. Announcement of the investigations planned was made by Thomas Fini-pan. Fini-pan. a member of the department executive ex-ecutive committee, who took the matter mat-ter up recently with the state histor-' leal society. The knowledge that a Spanish ex-pedilion ex-pedilion out of Santa Fe, N. 51., in (he spring of ItVfO, passed near Kansas Kan-sas City, fought Tr.dians near Quin-daro Quin-daro and eventually was slaughtered In a battle at the junction of the Loup with the Platte river in Nebraska, came from an unusual but authentic source, historians believe. From a manuscript written In St. Louis, Mo., by a priest, (he only man to escape from the Quindaro massacre, massa-cre, comes the story of (hese early expeditions. The manuscript was recently re-cently found in the archives of a Paris library. K. E. rdackman. Legionnaire, Le-gionnaire, formerly of Kansas City and now curator of the State Historical Histor-ical society of Nebraska, uncovered the enlightening old manuscript. Much information Is expected to be gained on the early history of the arrival ar-rival in Kansas of the Wyandotte Indians, In-dians, a remnant of the Troquois Vibes of New York, it is said. I |