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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-207
TO AUTHORIZE THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR TO ACQUIRE CERTAIN
PROPERTY RELATED TO THE FORT SCOTT NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE IN
FORT SCOTT, KANSAS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
JULY 11, 2017.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 1541]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1541) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire
certain property related to the Fort Scott National Historic Site in
Fort Scott, Kansas, and for other purposes, having considered the
same, report favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 1541 is to authorize the Secretary of the In-
terior to acquire certain property related to the Fort Scott National
Historic Site in Fort Scott, Kansas.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
Established in 1842, Fort Scott initially served in a line of forts
created to establish a Permanent Indian Frontier. 1 After an in-
flux of white settlements forced several tribes to relocate west of
the Mississippi, the government guaranteed certain lands to tribes
as off-limits to white settlement. The Army created a line of forts
stretching from Minnesota to Louisiana to maintain peace between
the newly relocated tribes and the white settlers in Missouri and
Arkansas, as well as prevent conflicts between the tribes them-
selves.2 In the 1850s, a variety of factors including the Gold Rush
resulted in the continued Western expansion, and a desire to estab-
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2 Ibid.
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