GREEN'S HISTORICAL SERIES EARLY DAYS IN KANSAS. PIONEER NARRATIVES OF THE FIRST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF KANSAS HISTORY. HISTORY GIVEN OF SOME OF THE SAC AND FOX INDIANS ILLUSTRATED WITH MANY PORTRAITS OF PIONEERS AND INDIANS. LEIDA SAYLOR'S STORY THE OLD SAUK INDIAN, QUENEMO HENRY HUDSON WIGGANS' NARRATIVE. INDIAN PAMPHLET NUMBER ONE.
Olathe, Kansas: Charles R. Green, July, 1912. Original printed and illustrated wrappers bound upside down at the end of the book. Erratic and sometimes no pagination. Early leaves browned, later leaves bright on glossy paper. Crudely bound, some short blank edge chips Good plus.
This is the first of five volumes published between 1912 and 1914. "These crudely printed thin volumes, edited in homespun fashion, are the work of one amateur's devotion. Among the haphazard contents are verbatim memoirs not readily available elsewhere. Vol. I refers to the counties of Douglas, Franklin, Shawnee, Osage, and Lyon. . . These newsprint volumes are worth the search if one seeks completeness in a collection on the Trail" [Rittenhouse].
"A strange, amateur production. Numerous pagination irregularities" [Graff]. Green "was untrained in historical research, but the results he achieved have unquestioned value, and a belated tribute should be given to him. Unfortunately he could afford to print but few copies, usually only a hundred or so" [137 Eberstadt 111].
Seeking contributions, he writes at the end, "I am out over $500 cash and all my spare time for 10 years..."
Rader 1665. Rittenhouse, Santa Fe Trail 251. Graff 1636. Item #42086
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