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    Tales and Trails of Wakarusa
    Tales and Trails of Wakarusa
    Tales and Trails of Wakarusa
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    Tales and Trails of Wakarusa

    By Alexander Miller Harvey

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Tales and Trails of Wakarusa - Alexander Miller Harvey

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      Title: Tales and Trails of Wakarusa

      Author: Alexander Miller Harvey

      Release Date: March 6, 2011 [EBook #35507]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TALES AND TRAILS OF WAKARUSA ***

      Produced by Linda M. Everhart, Blairstown, Missouri

      Tales and Trails

      of Wakarusa

      By

      A. M. HARVEY

      of the Topeka Bar

      Crane and Company, Printers

      Topeka, Kansas

      1917

      Copyright 1917

      By Crane and Company

      A Forethought and a Dedication

      "A Paradoxical philosopher, carrying to the uttermost length that aphorism of Montesquieu's, 'Happy the people whose annals are tiresome,' has said; 'Happy the people whose annals are vacant.' In which saying, mad as it looks, may there not still be found some grain of reason? For truly, as it has been written, 'Silence is divine,' and of Heaven; so in all earthly things, too, there is a silence which is better than any speech. Consider it well, the Event, the thing which can be spoken of and recorded; is it not in all cases some disruption, some solution of continuity? Were it even a glad Event, it involves change, involves loss (of active force); and so far, either in the past or in the present, is an irregularity, a disease. Stillest perseverance were our blessedness — not dislocation and alteration — could they be avoided.

      "The oak grows silently in the forest a thousand years; only in the thousandth year, when the woodman arrives with his ax, is there heard an echoing through the solitudes; and the oak announces itself when, with far-sounding crash, it falls. How silent, too, was the planting of the acorn, scattered from the lap of some wandering wind! Nay, when our oak flowered, or put on its leaves (its glad Events), what shout of proclamation could there be? Hardly from the most observant a word of recognition. These things befell not, they were slowly done; not in an hour, but through the flight of days: what was to be said of it? This hour seemed altogether as the last was, as the next would be.

      It is thus everywhere that foolish Rumor babbles not of what was done, but of what was misdone or undone; and foolish History (ever, more or less, the written epitomized synopsis of Rumor) knows so little that were not as well unknown. Attila Invasions, Walter-the-Penniless Crusades, Sicilian Vespers, Thirty-Years' Wars: mere sin and misery; not work, but hindrance of work! For the Earth all this while was yearly green and yellow with her kind harvests; the hand of the craftsman, the mind of the thinker, rested not; and so, after all and in spite of all, we have this so glorious high-domed blossoming World; concerning which poor History may well ask with wonder, Whence it came? She knows so little of it, knows so much of what obstructed it, what would have rendered it impossible. Such, nevertheless, by necessity or foolish choice, is her rule and practice; whereby that paradox, 'Happy the people whose annals are vacant,' is not without its true side. — Carlyle.

      This book of tales and trails of people whose annals are vacant, because they were peaceful and happy, is dedicated to the nineteen-year-old soldier boys of 1917 and to their comrades; and especially to that nineteen-year-old soldier, Randal Cone Harvey, whose image and whose service is with us by day and by night. May their service help bring to a war-cursed world such peace that the annals of all men will be stories of love, companionship and association one with another.

      A. M. Harvey.

      Contents

      Forethought and Dedication

      The Trail of the Sac and Fox

      The Stone Bridge

      The Newcomers

      An Old-Timer

      Mother Newcomer

      John MacDonald

      Jake Self

      The Yankee and His Hog — and Other Troubles

      The Trail That Never Was Traveled

      The Conversion of Cartmill

      A Fourth of July Speech

      The Phantom Fisherman, and Other Ghosts

      An Indian Christmas

      The Trail of the Sac and Fox

      It was during the '40's that the Sac and Fox Indians started on their long journey to take up their home in the land provided for them in Kansas, being a portion of the present counties of Lyon, Osage, and Franklin. In the year 1846 a large number of them had camped in the Kansas River Valley near the present site of Topeka, and because of their friendship with the Shawnees they were permitted to remain there for some time before moving on. Many of them formed attachments and friendships among the Shawnees and Pottawatomies, and remained with them. After the main body of the Sac and Fox moved on to their own lands, their associations with the Shawnees and other friendly Indians were such that there was much travel back and forth.

      The trails leading south from the Kansas River Valley all fell into the Oregon or California road, and along that the Indians traveled to the trading village of Carthage,

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