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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1900. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... MEMOIRS AND RECOLLECTIONS EARLY DAYS OF FORT SCOTT. About the first of May, 1855, I took Horace Greeley's advice: "Go west, young man, and grow up with the country," and left my native town of Milton, Pennsylvania. I first stopped some four months in LaPorte, Indiana, and went from there to Dixon, Illinois, where I stayed some four months. On the first day of December in company with a fellow-carpenter I went to Fulton City, Illinois, on the Mississippi River, with the intention of taking a boat for New Orleans. The day before we got there the last boat for the season went down the river, so we stopped at Fulton City and went to work at our trade of carpentering on a large hotel that was being built there, called the Dement House. I stayed at Fulton City until September, 1857, when I went to St. Louis, and was there until the second day of December, when I engaged passage on a boat for Pittsburg. The same day I went up to the old Planters Hotel to get my dinner before leaving, and in the hotel I met George A. Crawford, having become acquainted with him in Illinois during the spring of '57. He says to me: "Come, go along to Fort Scott; I and some others have started a good town there." I told Mr. Crawford my intention was to go west and get ahead of the railroads, so as to get me a cheap farm, but I had paid my passage to go back east and spend the winter with my mother before going further west, but I promised him to come to Fort Scott the following spring. I went to my old home and during the winter and until late spring it was a question in my mind whether to settle down in my old home or go further west than I had been before. At last, about the middle of April, my desire to go west again conquered, and besides I felt that I ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151670243
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 38
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151670243
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 86 gr


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