At the helm of the K.G.C. influence in the State of Missouri was a man named Stephen Friel Nuckolls. He was sent by the K.G.C. in his home state of Virginia to influence the slave trade in Nebraska Territory. He made many trips to Missouri to speak out on the podium about property rights in the new Territory of Nebraska. Property being slaves that were property in the state of Missouri retaining their value and ownership in Nebraska Territory. Nuckolls also enticed the Missourians to cross the state line and influence the voting in Nebraska Territory to be suited for the slave owners in Missouri who wanted to stake a claim in the new territory. Nuckolls frequented a small settlement near Rock Port Missouri that was named Louden. It was there that he would conspire with A.A. Bradford to build the City of Nebraska City, Nebraska to accept military freight from the Government that was coming up the Missouri River from St. Luis and other ports, some as far away as New York, New York. Nuckolls was no fan of John Brown and the abolitionist movement that he was sent to Nebraska to do battle with. Some of history has fell through the cracks, have you ever read about Lane putting a hit on Julius Sterling Morton the Copperhead? Nuckolls speaks of it in the letters I have included with this post. Sterling Price, much like George Bickley was mostly a front man for the true inner circles of the K.G.C and the O.A.K. who he has mysteriously been given credit for naming in 1863.
Look in the diaries of the men you want to know.
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