Biography
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 by Samuel Adams Drake
Making of the Ohio Valley Stat
Making of the Ohio Valley States
Taking of Louisburg, 1745;
Taking of Louisburg, 1745;
Watch Fires Of '76
Watch Fires Of '76
Myths and Fables of To-Day
Myths and Fables of To-Day
Taking of Louisburg
Taking of Louisburg
The Making of the Ohio Valley States
The Heroical Book of American
The Heroical Book of American Colonial Homes
The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars
Historic mansions and highways around Boston, being a new and revised edition of "Old landmarks and historic fields of Middlesex"
The young vigilantes
The making of New England
Civil war papers read before the commandery of the state of Massachusetts, Military order of the loyal legion of the United States ...
The myths and fables of to-day
On Plymouth rock
The campaign of Trenton, 1776-77
The watch fires of '76
Our Colonial Homes
The making of the Ohio Valley states, 1660-1837
The making of Virginia and the middle colonies, 1578-1701
The battle of Gettysburg, 1863
The Pine-tree coast
The taking of Louisburg, 1745
Burgoyne's invasion of 1777
Our World's Great Benefactors
The making of the great West
Old Boston taverns and tavern clubs
A book of New England legends and folk lore in prose and poetry. Illustrated by F. T. Merrill
Our great benefactors
Around the Hub
The heart of the White Mountains
History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Captain Nelson
Old landmarks and historic fields of Middlesex
Samuel Gardner Drake
Samuel Gardner Drake
General Israel Putnam
Nooks and corners of the New England coast
Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston
Hints and information for the
Hints and information for the use of emigrants to Pike's Peak