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Houston, Samuel Dexter. “Letter from Big Blue.” Kansas Herald of Freedom (Wakarusa, KS), April 25, 1857.  

“Samuel Dexter Houston Dead.” Eskridge Tribune-Star and Eskridge Independent (Eskridge, KS), March 10, 1910.  

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Barry, Louise. "The Emigrant Aid Company Parties of 1854." Kansas Historical Quarterly 12, no. 2 (1943): 115-155. https://www.kshs.org/p/the-emigrant-aid-company-parties-of-1854/12933 

Connelley, William E. A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans. Chicago: Lewis Publishing, 1918. https://www.ksgenweb.org/archives/1918ks/toc.html

Logan, James K. The Federal Courts of the Tenth Circuit: A History. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, 1992.

Olson, Kevin G. W. Frontier Manhattan: Yankee Settlement to Kansas Town, 1854–1894. University Press of Kansas, 2015.