Kansas and Kansans in World War I

Blake A. Watson, a former attorney with the US Justice Department, is Samuel A. McCray Chair in Law, University of Dayton School of Law. He is the author of Buying America from the Indians: Johnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native Land Rights. One of the soldiers featured in the book, Ralph Nichols of Oskaloosa, is Watson’s great-uncle. Nichols’s brothers Arvil and Charles also served. Watson’s relatives have lived in twenty counties in Kansas.