Samuel Adams Drake (December 20, 1833December 4, 1905) was a

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journalist and writer.

Biography

Samuel Adams Drake was born in

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on December 20, 1833, a son of Samuel Gardner Drake. He was educated in the public schools of Boston. He went to

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in 1858 as telegraphic agent of the New York Associated Press, became the regular correspondent of the

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''Republican'' and the

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''Journal'', and for a while edited the Leavenworth ''Times''. In 1861 he joined the state militia and served throughout the

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, becoming brigadier general of militia in 1863. In 1864, he was colonel of the 17th Kansas Volunteers, commanding the post of

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, during Price's invasion of

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in that year. He returned to Boston in 1871 and resumed literary work. He married Isabelle G. Mayhew in 1858. In 1867, he remarried to O. M. Grant. He died in

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on December 4, 1905.

Works

* ''Hints for Emigrants to Pike's Peak'', a pamphlet and his first publication (1860) * ''Old Landmarks of Boston'' (1873) * ''Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast'' (1875) * ''Bunker Hill'' (1875) * ''Captain Nelson'' (1879) * ''History of

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'' (1880) * ''Around the Hub'' (1881) * ''Heart of the White Mountains'' (1882) * ''

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Legends and Folk Lore'' (1884) * ''Our Great Benefactors'' (1885) * ''The Making of New England'' (1886) * ''The Making of the Great West'' (1887) * ''Burgoyne's Invasion'' (1889) * ''The Taking of Louisburg'' (1891) * ''The Pine Tree Coast'' (1891) * ''The

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'' (1892) * ''The Making of Virginia'' (1893) * ''Our Colonial Homes'' (1894) * ''The Campaign of Trenton'' (1895) * ''The Watch Fires of '76'' (1895) * ''On Plymouth Rock'' (1898) * ''The Myths and Fables of To-day'' (1900) * ''The Young Vigilantes'' (1904)

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