Preface
For some reason the people of today are not nearly as familiar with the achievements of the last fifty years as they are with those of earlier days.
The school boy can glibly recount the story of Columbus, William Penn, or Washington, but asked about the events leading up to the settlement of the West will know nothing of them and will probably reply "they don't teach us that in our school"—and it is true. Outside of the names of...
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