Samuel Adams Drake
20 December 1833 – 4 December 1905
Samuel Adams Drake was raised in Boston. In 1858 he went to Kansas to work as the telegraphic agent of the New York Associated Press. He became a journalist for the St. Louis Republican and the Louisville Journal, and for a while edited the Leavenworth Times. In 1861 he joined the state militia and served throughout the American Civil War, becoming brigadier general of militia in 1863. In 1864, he was colonel of the 17th Kansas Volunteers, commanding the post of Paola, Kansas, during Price's invasion of Missouri in that year. He returned to Boston in 1871 and resumed literary work.
Books
- A book of New England legends and folk lore in prose and poetry. Illustrated by F. T. Merrill
- On Plymouth rock
- Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex
- Taking of Louisburg
- The taking of Louisburg, 1745
- Captain Nelson
- Bunker Hill
- Hints and information for the use of emigrants to Pike's Peak
- Myths and Fables of To-Day
- The making of Virginia and the middle colonies, 1578-1701
- The battle of Gettysburg, 1863
- The making of Virginia and the middle colonies, 1578-1701
- The Pine-tree coast
- Taking of Louisburg, 1745;
- The Taking of Louisburg, 1745
- The making of the Ohio Valley states, 1660-1837
- Our world's great benefactors
- Watch Fires Of '76
- Civil war papers read before the commandery of the state of Massachusetts, Military order of the loyal legion of the United States ...
- General Israel Putnam
- Old Boston taverns and tavern clubs
- The campaign of Trenton, 1776-77
- Our Colonial Homes
- The Young Vigilantes
- The making of the great West
- Our Colonial Homes
- The heart of the White Mountains
- Historic Fields and Mansions of Middlesex
- Our World's Great Benefactors
- Historic mansions and highways around Boston, being a new and revised edition of "Old landmarks and historic fields of Middlesex"
- Nooks and corners of the New England coast
- Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston
- Making of the Ohio Valley States
- The Making of the Ohio Valley States
- Georgia
- Burgoyne's invasion of 1777
- Historic Fields and Mansions of Middlesex
- Myths and Fables of To-Day
- The Heroical Book of American Colonial Homes
- The making of New England
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