Author
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 by Samuel Adams Drake
29 titles
A book of New England legends and folk lore in prose and poetry. Illustrated by F. T. Merrill
Samuel Adams Drake
1883
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston
Samuel Adams Drake
1873
Historic mansions and highways around Boston, being a new and revised edition of "Old landmarks and historic fields of Middlesex"
Samuel Adams Drake
1874
The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars
Samuel Adams Drake
1897
The making of the great West
Samuel Adams Drake
1887
Nooks and corners of the New England coast
Samuel Adams Drake
1875
The campaign of Trenton, 1776-77
Samuel Adams Drake
1895
Burgoyne's invasion of 1777
Samuel Adams Drake
1889
Bunker Hill
Samuel Adams Drake
1875
History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Samuel Adams Drake
1880
On Plymouth rock
Samuel Adams Drake
1897
The making of New England
Samuel Adams Drake
1886
The heart of the White Mountains
Samuel Adams Drake
1881
The battle of Gettysburg, 1863
Samuel Adams Drake
1891
Old Boston taverns and tavern clubs
Samuel Adams Drake
1886
Our World's Great Benefactors
Samuel Adams Drake
1887
The Pine-tree coast
Samuel Adams Drake
1891
General Israel Putnam
Samuel Adams Drake
1875
Old landmarks and historic fields of Middlesex
Samuel Adams Drake
1876
Around the Hub
Samuel Adams Drake
1881
Our great benefactors
Samuel Adams Drake
1884
The young vigilantes
Samuel Adams Drake
1904
Our colonial homes
Samuel Adams Drake
1894
The taking of Louisburg, 1745
Samuel Adams Drake
1891
The Making of the Ohio Valley States
Samuel Adams Drake
2001
Captain Nelson
Samuel Adams Drake
1879
Georgia
Samuel Adams Drake
1879
Watch Fires Of '76
Samuel Adams Drake
2023
Historic Fields and Mansions of Middlesex
Samuel Adams Drake
2023