The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-11-19
rHG Annals OF KANSAS.
auditor VyiIder's History of
DuF. state.

Oar STATE.
The advertisement of this new
work, about which SO much has
been said in the papers, appears in
another column. 1t viii be seen that
it is ready for delivery, aud the is-
sue being limited, Il, ,se who want
copies will do well to forward
their orders to Geo. ". Martin at
Topeka.
To give an idc. as tn what this
work is We copy me following arti-
Gle from the Independence Courier.
The book. with the above title,
by State Auditor u. W. Wilder,
which is now in press, will without
doubt be the master literary. or
rather historical, production of Kan
sas. The book is arranged CiroBO-
logically under years, moaths and
days of each month, each event and
fact being under its date and III the
briefest way. Not being nara
tive history there are no theories ~
sustain and no space taken np with
forcing the opinions OF ;sie author
on the reader. No important Iaci
relating to Kansas is emitted in the
three and one third Ceniurits I'm
braced in the record. Tie previous
histories have embraced only Ih =
period while Kansas was q til ito
ry. His compilations comes down
to October 1st, 1875. There are
twenty-one years OF elections, and
conventions, each election being
made up from official reeords-Ter-
ritoriai and State-no:, however,
embracing county and city elections.
The conventions reported with Off
cersRnd platforms number about
eighty. The Topeka, LecomptOn,
Leavenworth and Wyandotte con-
situations are published in full,
with the delegates in each body
and some account of each conven-
ton. This will be an important
and interesting feature of the work
and the copy of the old LecOmpton
constitution alone will be worth
! the price of the book. Probably
not one man in Kansas has copy
of all these historic constitutions.
The book contains an account OF all
the religious and secret societies OF
the State, and this will also be one
of its important features.
The military record is the most
valuable part ofthis "old almanac
and is the only complete history
ever printed in one book, of oul
volunteers and militia. 1t embraces
the names of every commissioned
officer in the volunteer service
and in the Price raid-over forty
regiments and batteries.
An account is given of every
book relating to Kansas, and they
number more than fifty. About
three hundred books have beer
j copied from in compiling the An
mails, the most important of then
being U. s. Statutes and Treaties
Congressional Reports and every
Legislative Journal, Volume o
Laws and reports of all State Off
GERS.
1t will contain about $50 pages
and as State Printer, Geo. w. Mar
tin, is doing the work, we may an
ticipate handsome job of printing
and binding
In preparing this work, Mr.. Viii
der has accomplished a task that NJ
one who is not perfectly fami lial
with the past history of Kansas
and her many hard struggles could
accomplish, and a task that blu
few would like to undertake
However, he has finished it, and
now his name is emblazoned higf
up on the scroll of fame, where
future generations may look upor
it, and breathe thanks to the mar
who has left to their keeping tina
which tells of the early history anG
hard struggles of the great State O.
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