Early History of Wabaunsee County, Kansas by Matt Thomson

Title: Early History of Wabaunsee County, Kansas, with Stories of Pioneer Days and Glimpses of Our Western Border. Containing Portraits and Biographical Sketches, Historical Reminiscences, Views of Towns [...] &c.

Author: Matt Thomson

Description: Reprint of Matt Thomson's Early History of Wabaunsee County, originally published in 1901. Boards in gilt-stamped black cloth. Three pages have either pink highlighting or underlining, else volume is unmarked. Generally clean, with a few pages having a bit of minor soiling in the margins. Many illustrations. Includes a general index and an index of the biographies. 368 + viii pages. 8.5 x 5.5 inches.

Includes more than 200 biographies of Wabaunsee County pioneers; a chronology of notable events (1869-1902); a list of early marriages (1857-1870); about 200 portraits of prominent citizens and many pictures of residences, schoolhouses, churches; accounts of famous murder cases; notes on the organization of school districts, and many interesting details and anecdotes.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

Publisher: [Printed by Ag Press]
Place: [Manhattan, Kansas]
Year: 1973

Keywords: pioneers, genealogy,