REVIEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS
BY THE EDITOR
ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT WRITES A $5,000
PRIZE BOOK
Forty-Niners, The Chronicle of the
California Trail.
By Archer Butler Hulbert. (Boston: Little, Brown &
Company. 1931. pp. 340. Price $3.50.)
The past six years have witnessed a
growing interest
in the winning of the far West, the
overland journeys
to the Pacific Coast--to Oregon and
California in the
days of the ox-team and the Conestoga
wagon. Perhaps
the most colorful of the migrations to
the sunset regions
beyond the Rocky Mountains was the Gold
Rush to Cal-
ifornia which reached its culmination
in 1849. The
Argonauts in this daring and romantic
venture have
long been called Forty-Niners.
There was a somewhat extensive
literature of this
enterprise while it was in progress.
The excitement at-
tending the discovery of gold in this
region which had
recently been acquired from Mexico, rapidly spread
throughout the entire country. The
story grew as it
traveled; it had an irresistible appeal
to the adventurous
and the seekers of fortune who were
soon organizing
expeditions to this new Eldorado.
Newspaper and mag-
azine articles, pamphlets and books
descriptive of the
discovery appeared in print and were
eagerly sought and
read. An exodus to the Land of Gold was
the alluring
prospect of the hour.
In the intervening years sketches and
monographs
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of the gold rush have been written.
Diaries and letters
of the Argonauts have been brought to
light, and it is
now possible to view and evaluate this
movement from
the vantage ground of the present.
This interesting subject has attracted
the pen of an
historian who finds episodes of our
American history a
fruitful field of research and, without
romancing, in-
vests them with romantic interest.
Archer Butler Hul-
bert years ago began his career as a writer
in Ohio. His
first historical monograph appeared in
the Ohio Archae-
ological and Historical Society Publications,
Volume
8, 1900. In the years following, as
professor of history
in Marietta College and Colorado
College, and lecturer
on American history, he found time to
write a long line
of historical monographs and books that
hold high rank.
At present his writings on George
Washington are in
frequent demand. He was one of the
first to emphasize
the interest of the "Father of His
Country" in western
lands and the upbuilding of our
unrivaled and invincible
Republic.
Professor Hulbert has for years been
gathering ma-
terials for Forty-Niners. As in his other historical
studies he has exhausted every
available source of infor-
mation for this Chronicle of the
California Trail. "He
has studied two hundred and fifty
original journals of
the Forty-Niners; he has collected the
drawings and car-
toons of the period; he has gathered
the songs that they
sang round the camp-fire and has
reproduced the maps
of each stage of the heroic
journey." The result is a
work of the highest authority,
documented, concise, com-
prehensive and definitive.
The first preparatory study of the
author was the
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Trail itself. If possible that must be
definitely located
before the diaries and other data could
be intelligently
considered. Much work and care were
given to this.
No general marking of its course was to
be accepted
until verified. Something more reliable
than surmise
and the memory of those who passed over
it must be
found. The author gathered absolutely
authentic infor-
mation in the "General Land
Office" in Washington.
Wherever the old trails crossed a
township that fact was
marked in the surveyor's plat. By
joining together the
reduced maps of over six hundred
townships the actual
official location of the Trail was
established. In some
portions for a distance the Trail
divided. Different
wagon-trains for a time follow
different branches, but
later join again on the main road.
After the Trail and
its branches had been accurately
located, the author trav-
eled over almost its entire length, and
over some por-
tions a number of times. The diaries
and other sources
then became intelligible and a
comprehensive view of
this historic trek was presented to the
author.
He next chose a unique plan for the
story of the
Trail. He presents it in the form of a
long letter or
journal addressed by a fictitious
youthful Argonaut to
his father "back East." The
letter is dated Independ-
ence, Missouri, April 30, 1849, and
details the journey
which ended on the Pacific slope at
Hangtown, (Placer-
ville) August 19. There is a
supplemental chapter,
"Bright Red Gold For Dearie,"
descriptive of mining
and social experiences in the
Sacramento Valley.
What a cosmopolitan assembly met at
Independence,
Missouri, for this exodus over plains,
deserts and moun-
tains to the land of promise! Near the
opening of the
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first chapter a list of the various
representatives is given,
a part of which reads as follows:
No earlier Cause ever called together
in the New World such
a strange medley of men, so curious a
mass as this Golden Army.
There they lie amid their fading fires
of prairie grass, of tepee
poles, of cottonwood stumps, of
chokecherry wood, of sagebrush.
of greasewood--rich men, poor men,
beggar men, thieves; far-
mers, lawyers, doctors, merchants,
preachers, workmen; Repub-
licans, Whigs, Federalists,
Abolitionists; Baptists, Methodists,
Transcendentalists, Campbellites,
Millerites, Presbyterians, Mor-
mons; white men, black men, yellow men,
Germans, Russians,
Poles, Chileans, Swiss, Spaniards;
sailors, steamboat men, lum-
bermen, gamblers; the lame,
squint-eyed, pockmarked, one-armed;
the bearded, the beardless, the
mustachioed, side-whiskered, and
goateed; singing, cursing, weeping, and
laughing, in their sleep;
squaws in royal blankets, * * * brave
women in knickerbockers
that reach to the shoetops, covered by
knee-length skirts of sim-
ilar material; the witty, nitwits, and
witless; pet cats, kittens,
canaries, dogs, coons; cherished
accordions, melodeons, flutes,
fiddles, banjos; fortune-tellers,
phrenologists, mesmerists, * * *
card sharks, ventriloquists, and
evangelists from almost every
state, nation, county, duchy,
bishopric, island, peninsula, bay, and
isthmus in all the world--dreaming of
gold where those California
trails zigzag away over a hundred rough
knolls where the Kansas
and Missouri rivers have quarreled for centuries for
right of way.
This was called the Golden Army. Under
the quiet
stars of that April night they were
praying, drinking,
swearing and gambling; singing psalms
and ribald songs.
On the morrow they took up hopefully
and joyously the
long journey to meet perils of which
they had not
dreamed, trials that tested to the
limit their endurance
and tragedies that left in their wake
wrecks of wagons,
dead oxen and the graves of Argonauts
who never
reached "the haven where they
sought the precious
dust." Within the limit of this brief review there is
not room for even a list of the
thrilling experiences of
this multitude who bravely struggled
through the blind-
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ing dust of the alkali deserts, who
hungered and thirsted
and still pressed onward. Here is one
of the shorter
descriptions of an incident of the
advance of The Golden
Army:
But what you do not get there as a daily
diet is the tragic
testing--the taking the cover off a man,
so to speak, and saying
right out loud, "My God, the man's
a beast!" Well, we do that--
in this alkali hell. Listen. Riding down
a steep, narrow place
yesterday, Wagonhound heard loud
screaming for help. At first
he could see no one, but coming closer
to the Humboldt he soon
saw a man in the river struggling with a
span of horses to which
was still attached the running gear of a
wagon. A few rods below
him were his wife and two children about
five and three years old
--floating down the strong current in the wagon-bed.
Wagonhound stopped the train, but before
he could unlimber
his legs Picayune was scrambling
downstream over the rocks after
the woman and children, who were
screaming at the top of their
voices. The river here made a short bend
around some rocks
and on the point Picayune was able to
grab the corner of the
wagon-bed as it came along--already well
filled with water. He
held to it, and the current swung it
ashore. The woman handed
her children out to other emigrants who
had rushed down, and
then climbed out herself. When all were
safe the woman, hug-
ging her children with one arm, knelt at
Picayune's feet and,
clasping his knees, sobbed as though her
heart would break, re-
peating over and over that he had saved
their lives.
By this time no less than fifty men who
had seen the rescue
crowded the rocks where the man and his
horses had gotten safely
out. This alkali, you know, works into
the nerves and leaves them
pretty taut. This crowd "knew"
that the man had deliberately
let his wife and children go in order to
save his team. Quicker
than I can tell it the tongue of the
man's wagon was set up and
hasty preparations were being made to
hang him from the end of
it. Almost frantic at this demonstration
the wife again threw
herself at Picayune's feet and begged
him to save her husband,
also! Her tears and entreaties, more
than anything Picayune
said, quieted the men, although a good
many were still in favor
of throwing the scoundrel into the
river. But we helped them
get their wagon together and then moved
on.
We are tempted to quote from the large
number of
songs which this journey called forth
and which are
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numerously reproduced throughout the
book. Most of
them are new to the writer of this
review. Some were
sacred and some profane--we might add,
very profane.
They range all the way from "Old
Hundred" to "Hang-
town Gals."
The value of this work is the
satisfaction that you
have of knowing that every statement
and every inci-
dent is sustained by contemporaneous
accounts, chiefly
from the diaries of the members of
"The Golden Army."
The highest testimonial to this work,
which is certainly
the outstanding book of the year 1931,
is the fact that
Forty-Niners, in competition with over five hundred
manuscripts, won the prize of $5,000
offered by The
Atlantic Monthly Press and Little, Brown & Company,
for the most interesting unpublished
work (not fiction)
dealing with the American scene.
The format is excellent and thoroughly
up to date.
The illustrations when one first opens
the book are sur-
prising and apparently out of place in
a serious non-
fiction production. But when we learn
that they, like
the other sources from which the author
has drawn, are
reproductions of the cartoons and
illustrations of the
period, we appreciate the fact that
they illuminate and
support the text. Twelve excellent maps
accompany the
text and enable the reader to follow
the march of The
Golden Army from Independence to the
Pacific Coast.
Even the colorful cover in which the
work appears has
a distinct and helpful value to the
reader by presenting
in clear outline this remarkable
California Trail.
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A NOTABLE BOOK ON THE OHIO RIVER
Who's Who on the Ohio River and its
Tributaries.
By Ethel C. Leahy. (The E. C. Leahy
Publishing Com-
pany, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1931. $10.00.)
This book very faithfully carries out
the promise in
its sub-title: The Ohio River from
the Ice Age to the
Future,
History--Biography--Statistics.
In her "foreword," Miss Leahy
modestly apologizes
for signing her name to the portions of
the work which
are the result of her own research and
literary effort.
This she has done in order to give
contributors the priv-
ilege of presenting their contributions
under their own
names and thus to have full credit.
Miss Leahy very properly assigns to Mr.
Gerard
Fowke the initial chapter on the origin
of the Ohio
River. Mr. Fowke has for many years
been recognized
as a high authority on archaeology,
geology, and their
related subjects. Some years ago he
wrote for the Ohio
State Archaeological and Historical
Society the Archac-
ological History of Ohio, a work of 748 pages which
promptly on its first appearance
attracted wide attention
and comment. This work has stood the
test of time and
is generally recognized today as an
essential source-book
on its subject. He has also contributed
a long line of
monographs to the Bureau of American
Ethnology. The
list of these covers a number of pages
in the Archaco-
logical and Historical Quarterly for April, 1929. He
has written frequently and ably for the
Ohio State Ar-
chaeological and Historical Society
publications and is
generally recognized as one of the
ablest students of ar-
chaeology, geology, and anthropology in
Ohio and the
122 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications
Middle West. His introductory
contribution to Who's
Who on the Ohio River is up to his usual high standard.
The succeeding topics, "Thomas
Hutchins," "Voyage of
the Donelson Party,"
"Blennerhassett and Aaron Burr,"
"Manpower Boats and Their
Navigators," 'The Keel
Boats," are all suggestive of the
logical succession of
topics that are ably handled.
Then comes a reproduction of Zadok
Cramer's Nav-
igator originally published in Pittsburgh in 1814. This
rare old work in all of its complete
and informing details
has been reproduced with remarkable
fidelity and care.
The reproduction in the form in which
it appears is
easily worth the cost of the entire
volume. It covers
195 closely printed pages and gives a
wealth of names,
of islands, tributaries to the Ohio and
villages along
that river and its tributaries. Some of
these names have
disappeared. Others have been changed.
But here in
this old Navigator they appear as in the original pub-
lication with full directions for
transportation on that
river to the period of publication.
John Fitch and other
claimants for the honor of inventing
the first steamboat
have their claims impartially presented
and considered.
The introduction of steam as a motive
power for vessels
on the Ohio River is fully and
graphically set forth.
Captain Henry Miller Shreve and his
contribution
to navigation of the Mississippi and
the Ohio, are given
adequate space.
"Steam Boats on the Ohio River and
its Tributaries,
1812-1836," from Statistics of
the West, by James Hall,
is the reproduction of another
publication that will be
found useful to librarians and others
interested in the
early navigation of the Ohio. This portion
of the work
Reviews, Notes and Comments 123
concludes on page 382 with a poetic
tribute to the Ohio
River by Mrs. Bessie H. Woolford, of
Madison, Indiana,
printed fifty years ago. The second
portion of the book
is given to the biographies of notable
men and women
living on the Ohio River and its
tributaries.
Then comes a section of statistics
useful, of course,
for reference. It is 316 pages. There
is also a list of
the "National Organization of
Masters, Mates, and
Pilots Association of America"
with some reference to
their work; the "U. S. Engineer
Corps of the Upper
Mississippi Valley Division,"
'Locks and Dams of the
Ohio River and its Tributaries"
and other themes espe-
cially appropriate to this work. The
author is to be
highly commended for occupying in such
a worth while
way a new field and presenting a book
that should have
generous reception and a place in every
Ohio public
library.
In binding, illustrations and
typography, the work
is all that could be desired. It numbers
868 pages.
RANDOLPH ABBOTT SHOTWELL
The Papers of Randolph Abbott
Shotwell have been
issued in a well-printed and
interesting volume of 511
pages including index of nine
pages. The sub-title,
Three Years in Battle and Three in
Federal Prisons, ex-
plains the scope and content of this
work, of which we
have received the first volume. In this
the author, who
had active service in the Confederate
armies during the
Civil War, gives an interesting and
somewhat detailed
account of that service and experience
for the entire
period of the war. In volume one, which
is before us
124 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications
for review, the record of that service
is brought down
to the Battle of Gettysburg. Here is
the concluding
statement of the author in regard to
that battle:
Two days the Confederates drove
everything before them,
yet on the third day were repulsed. On the fourth day
they
stood in their tracks inviting
counter-charges which the Federals
dared not venture. Yet, though the
battle at the worst could only
be called a drawn battle, it proved in
ulterior consequences, of a
moral rather than a physical character,
the most crushing and
irreparable defeat of the war; the
turning-point whence all tended
downhill. The elucidation of these
seeming paradoxes will be
attempted in the following sketchy
narrative of the battle.
The volume in certain of its pages
bears evidence of
the fact that it is difficult for the
soldier, be he Union or
Confederate, to see the contest in
which he was engaged
from a strictly unbiased viewpoint. He
naturally as-
cribes to the cause in which he was
engaged, a virtue
and a valor superior to that of the
opposing warriors.
At one point in the volume the dead
Union soldiers were
left on the battlefield and assume to
have been lacking in
courage because most of them were shot
in the back.
The reminiscences of a Union soldier
would naturally
include some battle in which the
Confederates left on the
field would bear like marks indicative
of a lack of brav-
ery. However, these evidences and
others of a similar
character of a somewhat partial
southern view are com-
paratively few and far between.
The author's description of the first
and last shot of
the Civil War is worth repeating here.
A short distance from the Federal camps,
I noticed a party
of horsemen in civilians' dress, and
quickly recognized on nearer
approach the erect form of President
Davis. He was clad in a
plain, but neatly fitting suit of
bluish-grey jeans, the product of
some country-woman's loom, and wore an
old felt 'slouch' hat
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which no doubt 'came in with the
Confederacy.' But no plain-
ness of attire could disguise the
dignity of manner, graceful atti-
tude, and vigilant eye of the great
Southern leader. 'I suppose
this recalls your Mexican
experience," said Judah P. Benjamin,
who sat near him, but Mr. Davis merely
nodded and turned to
make some remark to a venerable-looking
old man, who looked
like a veritable 'Father in Israel,'
tho' I fancy he was not espe-
cially partial to the sleek, fat-faced Jewish
secretary. This noted
personage was 'Edmund Ruffin of
Virginia'--who fired the first
and the last shot of the war. Like
Gerrit Smith, (tho' the anti-
podes in all other respect of the
notorious Abolitionist) his large
round head was covered with long grey
locks that fell on his
shoulders 'like the lion's tawny mane.'
He sat his horse like the
born Cavalier that he was, and flashed a
look of no great love on
the numerous Yankee corpses that lay
near by, and which he
seemed to be counting.
Poor old man! His naturally strong
passions and prejudices
rendered him at last almost a maniac on
the subject of the war.
When South Carolina seceded he hastened
to Charleston, enrolled
himself as a private in one of the
batteries surrounding Fort
Sumter, and was accorded the honor, to
him precious above all
price, of firing 'the first gun of the
war.' And in 1865, he fired
'the last gun of the war'--into his own
head.
The description of the same tragic
event is told in
somewhat different phrase but to the
same effect by
Benet in John Brown's Body.
Edmund Ruffin, old Secessionist,
Firer of the first gun that rang against
Sumter,
Walks in his garden now, in the
evening-cool,
With a red, barred flag slung stiffly
over one arm
And a silver-butted pistol in his right
hand.
He has just heard of Lee's surrender and
Richmond's fall
And his face is marble over his high
black stock.
For a moment he walks there, smelling
the scents of Spring,
A gentleman taking his ease, while the
sun sinks down.
Now it is well-nigh sunken. He smiles
with the close,
Dry smile of age. It is time. He unfolds
the flag,
Cloaks it around his shoulders with
neat, swift hands,
Cocks the pistol and points it straight
at his heart.
The hammer falls, the dead man slumps to
the ground.
The blood spurts out in the last light
of the sun
Staining the red of the flag with more
transient red.
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RESEARCHES IN ANATOLIA
New light has been thrown on Hittite
History and
Archaeology by researches of the
University of Chicago
as recorded in Oriental Institute
Publications, volume 6,
in Researches In Anatolia, volume
2, entitled The Ali-
shar Huyuk Season of 1927, part 1. This
is a report of
the Anatolian expedition of the
University. Following
is the reliable descriptive statement
of this very attrac-
tive and copiously illustrated book:
This graphic and profusely illustrated
volume is the first of
two in which are presented the important discoveries
made in the
first season's excavations at the
Alishar mound. Volume VI,
after an introduction on
"Hittite" history and archaeology, takes
up the environment and topography of the
mound, the progress
of the excavation at each point, the
buildings and fortifications,
and especially the relative chronology,
a question which has proved
to be indissolubly linked with the
pottery. Volume VII, to follow,
will deal with the objects of bone and
metal, seal stones, coins
(catalogued by Mr. E. T. Newell),
disposal of the dead, and par-
ticularly the actual bodies of certain
long-vanished denizens of
Asia Minor (studied by Dr. Fay-Cooper
Cole and other members
of the Department of Anthropology at the
University of Chicago).
SCHOENBRUNN IN POETRY
Mr. Julius Miller Richardson, an
attorney-at-law in
New Philadelphia, has recently
published a poem in
seven cantos entitled Schoenbrunn--an
Epic of the Ro-
mance and Tragedy of the First
Village in Ohio. This
is neatly printed and substantially
bound in a volume of
sixty pages. It is a work of real
merit. The poem is
written in stanzas of eight lines each.
Following are
the titles of the cantos;
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1. The Wilderness
2. The
Coming
3. The Building
4. The Vision
5. The Storm
6. Ad Interim
7. The Restoration
This volume, bound in cloth, sells for
$1.00.
MARKING OF GRAVE OF ALEXANDER BERRY-
HILL, REVOLUTIONARY PATRIOT
The official marking of all the graves
of Revolu-
tionary Soldiers who are buried in Ohio
is a goal set for
themselves by the patriotic orders,
Daughters of the
American Revolution, and Sons of the
American Revo-
lution. A number of such markers have
been placed in
the Miami Valley during the past year,
and one such
ceremony attended by more than 300
descendants of the
patriot, and friends, was at Bellbrook
on August 8th,
when the official Grave Marker of the
Sons of the Amer-
ican Revolution was placed at the grave
of Alexander
Berryhill, a member of the Virginia
Militia who, at the
Battle of Guilford Court House in 1781,
was wounded
by a sword and captured, and was a
prisoner of war two
years. He afterward married Rachel
Thomson, a niece
of Charles Thomson, Secretary of the
Continental Con-
gress 1774-1789. They came to Greene
County, Ohio, in
1814, and the ceremonies at the graves
of these pioneers,
at Bellbrook, included music by four
great-great-grand-
sons, the presentation address by
another great-great-
grandson, the flag raising by a
great-great-granddaugh-
ter, the acceptance address by Judge
Thorne, of Bell-
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Publications
brook,
former Assistant Attorney General of the United
States,
bugle calls and rifle salutes by a corps from the
Ohio
Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans Home at Xenia.
Representatives
of the various patriotic orders of most
of the
cities of the Miami Valley attended the cere-
monies.
EARLY OHIO
CONTRACT TO TEACH SCHOOL
Prof. W. H.
Siebert of the Ohio State University
has
presented to the Library a photostat copy of an
agreement
between Samuel Sullivan, a school teacher,
and Benjamin
Iddings, Eli Sims, and Daniel Sollenber-
ger,
directors, to teach school in Butler Township, Mont-
gomery
County, Ohio. The agreement reads as follows:
SEPTEMBER 14TH, 1836
Articles of
agreement made and conducted between Benjamin
Iddings, Eli
Sims and Daniel Sollenberger, directors for the 70th
dist. of
common Schools in Butler Township M. C. Ohio of the
first part
and the Undersigners of the county and State aforesaid,
of the second
part "Witnesseth" The said directors doth for third
part agree to
employ Samuel Sullivan to teach an English school
in said dist. for the
Term of six months, commencing on Monday
the 26th Instant.
And the
Undersigners for their part doth agree to pay the
said
directors three dollars for each Scholar by them respectively
signed or
sent to said School at the expiration of the same; also
furnish 1/4
cord of wood per Scholar, delivered at the Schoolhouse
in said dist.
on or before the first day of november next. other-
wise pay the
said directors the amount in money equivalent to the
furnishing
of the same against said day suitable for a
Signers
Names No. Signers Names No.
Directors
Eli Jones 2 Daniel Sollenberger 1 1/4 Eli Jones
Richard
Landham 2 Andrew Maus 1 Benj. Iddings
Wm Stevenson 2 Conrad Weaver 1/2 -----
Robert
Wooffendale 1 Jonathan Hoffman 1/2 John Sandham
Joseph
Hoffman 1 1/2 Smith Gregg 1
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Signers Names No. Signers
Names No. Directors
William M. Henderson 1/2 Nathan Hoover 1
George Hoffman 2 Daniel Brusman 1
John Shorts 1Wm Wiley 1/2
Benj. Iddings 2 John Shufer 1
Joseph Burkham 1Joel
Hutchins 1
Daniel Curtner 1
Daniel Hoffman 1/2
A------Cooper
2/3
The photostat of this document was handed Prof.
Siebert by Dr. A. C. Flick of New
York State Library.
The original is in that library.
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the Illinois and the Wabash Towns, 1778 and 1779. An au-
thentic account of Clark's conquest, in concise and complete
form. 815 pages.
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*Cady, John F. Western Opinion and the War of 1812. October,
1924. 49 pages
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*Campbell, James E., Elm, Dedication of. Program and Addresses.
January, 1924. 9 pages ................. ..............
... .10
Cole, W. H. Map and Guide to The Great Serpent Mound. The
pamphlet is a guide to The Great Serpent Mound of Adams
County, Ohio. The author, Professor W. H. Cole, was for
many years chairman of the committee of the Society on Ser-
pent M ound Park.
24 pages
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* Reprinted from the Ohio Archceological and Historical Quarterly.
Vol. XLI--9.
130 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society
Publications
*Coleman, Christopher
B. Rediscovering the Old Northwest. July,
1930. 22 pages
.............................................. 10
*Cresap Society. Meeting at Cumberland, Md. June 24, 1917.
Exercises attending
unveiling of the Memorial at Riverside
Park. 31 pages
...................................
.10
*Cresap Society.
Unveiling of the Cresap Tablet at Logan Elm
Park, October 21,
1916. January, 1917. 23 pages ...........
.10
*Donavan, S. K. John
Brown at Harper's Ferry and Charlestown.
Introductory note by
C. B. Galbreath. July, 1921. 46 pages...
.25
*Dunn, W. Ross.
Education in Territorial Ohio. April, 1926. 60
pages
...................................................... .20
*Edgerton, Mrs. H. G.
Israel Putnam. A sketch, also the report of
the Spiegel Grove
Committee, October 8, 1927, by A. E. Culbert.
October, 1927. 31
pages ..................................... .10
*Fowke, Gerard.
Americans Before Columbus. October, 1930. 25
pages ............................................
..... .... .25
Fowke, Gerard.
Archaeological History of Ohio. A work of ab-
sorbing interest not
only to Ohioans but to all archaeological
students, 748
pages ........................................... 5.00
*Fowke, Gerard.
Geology as a Factor in Human Life and Char-
acter. January, 1931.
36 pages............................. ... 25
*Fowke, Gerard.
Sketch of Life and Works. April, 1929. 22 pages. .25
*Galbreath, C. B.
James Edwin Campbell--In Memoriam. January,
1925. 103
pages. Buckram ................................. .75
Galbreath, C. B.
(editor). Expedition of Celoron to the Ohio Coun-
try in 1749. Contains
all of importance that has been written
on this subject,
including full text of the translation of the
Journals of Celoron
and Father Bonnecamps. 140 pages......
.50
Galbreath, C. B.
Logan Elm and the Dunmore War. First ap-
peared in the Ohio
Educational Monthly. It concludes with
verses by the author,
read on Ohio History Day, 1923, at the
Logan Elm .
7 pages
.........................................
.16
*Galbreath, C. B.
William 'Corless Mills--In Memoriam; 1860-1928.
April, 1928. 15 pages
.....................................
.15
*Galbreath, C. B.
(editor). Ohio's Monument to General Anthony
Wayne Unveiled and
Wayne's Strategic Advance from Fort
Greenville.
"Wayne's Strategic Advance from Fort Greenville,"
with maps, has been
prepared, by O. W. Priddy with diligent
and extended
research. October, 1929, and January, 1930. 102
pages
...................................................... .25
*Galbreath, C. B.
(editor). Presentation of McGuffey Readers and
Exercises Incident
Thereto. April, 1927. 26 pages ............
.10
*Galbreath, C. B.
(editor). Railroad Discussion Not Forbidden by
Lancaster School
Board. Compiled chiefly from materials
furnished by Judge
Van A. Snider. January, 1928. 11 pages..
.10
*Galbreath, C. B.
Daniel Joseph Ryan--In Memoriam.
October,
1923. 22
pages.............................................. .10
*Galbreath, C. B.
"The Spirit of 76." July, 1930. 12 pages........ .10
Glines, W. M. Johnny
Appleseed, by One Who Knew Him. 12
pages
.......................................................20
*Green, James A. The
Map of Hamilton County, Ohio. April, 1926.
33 pages ..........................
.......................... .15
* Reprinted from the Ohio
Archaological and Historical Quarterly.
Reviews,
Notes and Comments 131
*Green, James A.
A Visit in 1929 to the Sites, in Western Ohio,
of Forts Built
by Generals Arthur St. Clair, Anthony Wayne
and William
Henry Harrison. October, 1929. 28 pages....... .15
*Hicks, Clara
Belle. The History of Penal Institutions in Ohio.
O ctober,
1924. 67 pages ...................................... .25
*Holmes, William
Henry. Artist, Geologist, Archaeologist and Art
Gallery
Director. Sketch of life and works. October, 1927.
37 pages
................................................... .25
*Hulbert, Archer
Butler. The Provincial Basis of Patriotism. Re-
port of an
Address. October, 1927. 12 pages ................ .10
Huntington, C.
C. A History of Banking and Currency in Ohio
Before the
Civil War. 312 pages
.............................. 1.00
Huntington, C.
C., and McClelland, C. P. History of Ohio Canals.
Their
Construction. Cost, Use and Partial Abandonment. The
material for
this valuable contribution was prepared by two stu-
dents of Ohio
State University under direction of Professor J.
E. Hagerty,
Department of Political Science and Economics.
181 pages
................................................... 50
*Jordan, Philip
D. Philip Bevan--Minor Poet of Ohio.
April,
1931. 18 pages
.............................................
.15
*Keeler, Lucy E.
The Centenary Celebration of the Birth of Ruther-
ford Birchard
Hayes at Spiegel Grove, Fremont, Ohio, October
4, 1922.
April, 1923. 115
pages .............................
.75
*Keeler, Lucy E.
(editor). Dedication of The Hayes Memorial Li-
brary and Museum
at Spiegel Grove State Park, Fremont, Ohio,
May 30, 1916.
October, 1916. 85 pages ...................... .40
Knight, George
W. Asa Smith Bushnell, Governor of Ohio. Re-
printed
from the Old Northwest Genealogical
Quarterly, for
1904. It is a
very useful and interesting biography of one of
Ohio's prominent
citizens and governors. 13 pages............
.25
*McAlpine,
William. The Origin of Public Education in Ohio. July,
1929. 41
pages
.............................................. .25
McGrane,
Reginald Charles. William Allen: A Study in Western
Democracy. An
impartial biography of Ohio's former United
States Senator
and Governor, with bibliography and index. 279
pages
....................................................... 2.50
MacNeilan,
Debora M. An Interpretation of the Life and Poetry
of Coates
Kinney. 88 pages.
Paper ......................................................
50
Cloth ...................................................... 1.00
Martzolff, C. L.
Poems on Ohio. 1911. A carefully collected an-
thology of poems on
Ohio. 221 pages........................ 1.00
Mills, William C. Archeological Atlas of Ohio. This atlas
shows the
distribution of the various classes of prehistoric
remains in Ohio.
It is published in oblong folio form and the
pages are numbered
1-88. It contains a full page map of each
of the 88
counties of the state and opposite each of these maps
is a page of
descriptive matter, in many instances accompanied
with one or more
cuts. There are 11 introductory pages of text
and
illustrations, including two full page maps of Ohio, one
showing Indian trails and towns and the other the distribution
of mounds and
enclosures. This atlas is the only one of its
kind that is
published by any state and is, of course, an essential
* Reprinted from
the Ohio Archaological and Historical Quarterly.
132 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications
aid to any one
interested in the subject that it presents.
187
pages
....................................................... 3.00
Mills, William C. Map
and Guide to Fort Ancient. An authentic
map and accurate
description of this remarkable earthwork,
fully illustrated. 28 pages
................................... .25
Mills, William C.
Ohio Archaeological Exhibits at the Jamestown
Exposition. 49
pages ........................................ .50
Ohio Canal,
Commencement of the, at the Licking Summit, July 4,
1825. This pamphlet
is in part a reprint of one published by
John Herman in
Lancaster, Ohio, in 1825. It contains an ac-
count of the
commencement of the Canal, including the speech
delivered by Senator
Thomas Ewing on that occasion, together
with a report of the
Address by Governor DeWitt Clinton of
New York, toasts
offered by distinguished guests and supple-
mental press
notices. 48 pages ............ ................ ....
Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical Society--Its Museum and
Library, the Parks in
Its Custody. A neatly illustrated pamph-
let describing the
work of the different departments of the
Society. 32
pages
...................................
.20
Ohio Archaeological
and Historical Society Publications.
Vols.
1-40; vols. 1-39
bound in cloth, per volume ................... 3.00
These publications in
bound form are the annual volumes of
the Ohio
Archaeological and Historical Quarterly. They contain
contributions and
monographs devoted to the history and
archaeology of Ohio
and the history of the Northwest Territory.
Ohio Archaeological
and Historical Quarterly. Separate issues each
.75
Ohio Historical
Collections:
Volume 1--
*Holt, Edgar Allan.
Party Politics in Ohio, 1840-1850. Disser-
tation presented for
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the
Graduate School of
the Ohio State University, 1929. July, 1928,
January, April,
1929. 449 pages.............................. 2.50
Volume 2--
*Smith, Donnal V.
Chase and Civil War Politics. July, Octo-
ber, 1930.
181 pages...................
..................... 2.50
*Plumb, Charles S.
Felix Renick, Pioneer. January, 1924. 67 pages .25
Randall, E. O.
(editor). The Centennial Celebration. The entire
proceedings of the
celebration, held under the auspices of the
Society of
Chillicothe, May 20 and 21, 1903, of the admission of
Ohio into the Union,
March 1, 1803. 730 pages ............... 1.50
*Randall, E. O. The Dunmore
War. October, 1902. 33 pages......
.10
Randall, E. O.
(editor). The Masterpieces of the Ohio Mound
Builders. Fully illustrated. 126 pages.
Paper
......................................................50
Cloth ..................................
.................... 1.00
Randall, E. O. Ohio
in the American Revolution. An Address
prepared for the Ohio
Centennial Celebration, Chillicothe, Ohio,
M ay 20,
1903. 26 pages ................. ....................
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Randall, E. O.
(editor). The Serpent Mound, Adams County, Ohio.
Mystery of the Mound
and History of the Serpent. The most
complete work on this
mound that has been published. 125
pages.
Paper
..................................................... .50
Cloth
....................................................... 1.00
* Reprinted from the Ohio
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*Randall,
E. O. Washington's Ohio Lands. July, 1910. 16 pages.. .20
Science
Bulletins:
Volume
1, Number 1--
Short
Papers on Ohio Birds. Edited under the supervision of
the
Natural History Department. Contains
very interesting
reports
on Ohio birds by the Wheaton Club, Columbus. 79
pages
...................................................... 1.00
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1, Number 2--
A
Preliminary Annotated List of the Robber Flies of Ohio, by
Stanley
W. Bromley. Edited under the supervision of the Na-
tural
History Department. 19 pages.......................... .50
*Sherman,
Walter J. Fort Industry, an Historical Mystery. April,
1929.
31 pages............................ ..... .20
Shetrone,
H. C. Certain Mounds and Village Sites in Ohio. Vol-
um
e 4
................... ................................... 3.00
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1, 2 and 3 were published by Dr. William C. Mills.
Volume
1 out of print.
Volume 2 ................................................. 3.00
Volume 3 ............................................
..... 4.00
Shetrone,
H. C. The Mound Builders. Reprinted from Natural
History,
the Journal of the American Museum of
Natural His-
tory.
29 pages ............................................. .15
Shetrone,
H. C. Primer of Ohio
Archaeology. The Mound-
Builders
and theIndians. 42 pages
........................... .10
*Siebert,
Wilbur H. A Quaker Section of the Underground Railroad
in
Northern Ohio. July, 1930. 26 pages ...................... .25
Spiegel
Grove State Park, the Hayes Memorial Library and Mu-
seum,
and the Hayes Homestead, Fremont, Ohio. Illustrated
Catalogue. 1926.
104 pages
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Trimble,
Allen, Governor of Ohio. Autobiography and Correspond-
ence,
with Genealogy of the Family. Reprinted from the Old
Northwest
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a well-written
and very
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Northwest
Territory and early Ohio. 240 pages .............. 1.50
Williams,
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ford
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Ohio
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5 volumes
with index. Per
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Williams,
Charles Richard (editor). Life of Rutherford Birchard
Hayes.
Pronounced to be among the best of American biogra-
phies.
Two volumes. Per volume.......................... 3.50
*Wilson,
Charles Ray. The Negro in Early Ohio.
July, 1930.
54 pages........................
.......................... .20
*Wittke,
Carl. The Ninth Ohio Volunteers: A Page from the Civil
War
Record of the German Turners of Ohio. April, 1926.
18 pages
.................................................... 10
*Zeisberger,
David. History of the Northern American Indians.
Edited
by Archer Butler Hulbert and William Nathaniel
Schwarze.
An original, authentic, and interesting account of
the
North American Indians that were found in the northern
part of
what is now the United States, by Zeisberger, the fa-
mous
Moravian missionary. 189 pages. Out of print.
Identical
with contribution on the same subject in the Quarterly,
Volume 19.
January, 1910
...................................
3.00
*Zimmerman,
Carrie B. Ohio, the Gateway of the West. January,
1931.
47 pages ........................................... .25
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NOTE
The following contributions in this
issue of the
QUARTERLY will
later appear in separate form:
Washington's Camp Sites on the Ohio
River, by
Guy-Harold Smith.
Cornelius Sedam and his Friends in
Washington's
Time, by Emma S. Backus.
Journal of Ensign William Schillinger,
with Intro-
duction by James A. Green.
Old Ohio River Steamboat Days, by W. G.
Sibley.
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REVIEWS, NOTES AND COMMENTS
BY THE EDITOR
ARCHER BUTLER HULBERT WRITES A $5,000
PRIZE BOOK
Forty-Niners, The Chronicle of the
California Trail.
By Archer Butler Hulbert. (Boston: Little, Brown &
Company. 1931. pp. 340. Price $3.50.)
The past six years have witnessed a
growing interest
in the winning of the far West, the
overland journeys
to the Pacific Coast--to Oregon and
California in the
days of the ox-team and the Conestoga
wagon. Perhaps
the most colorful of the migrations to
the sunset regions
beyond the Rocky Mountains was the Gold
Rush to Cal-
ifornia which reached its culmination
in 1849. The
Argonauts in this daring and romantic
venture have
long been called Forty-Niners.
There was a somewhat extensive
literature of this
enterprise while it was in progress.
The excitement at-
tending the discovery of gold in this
region which had
recently been acquired from Mexico, rapidly spread
throughout the entire country. The
story grew as it
traveled; it had an irresistible appeal
to the adventurous
and the seekers of fortune who were
soon organizing
expeditions to this new Eldorado.
Newspaper and mag-
azine articles, pamphlets and books
descriptive of the
discovery appeared in print and were
eagerly sought and
read. An exodus to the Land of Gold was
the alluring
prospect of the hour.
In the intervening years sketches and
monographs
(115)