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Samuel Adams Drake - The Myths And Fables Of Today: Of Presentiments

THE MYTHS AND FABLES OF TODAY..... Is a wonderful collection of myths & fables that are certain to keep the kids smiling. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY..... Samuel Adams Drake (December 20, 1833 – December 4, 1905) was an American journalist and writer. Samuel Adams Drake was born in Boston on December 20, 1833, a son of Samuel Gardner Drake. He was educated in the public schools of Boston. He went to Kansas in 1858 as telegraphic agent of the New York Associated Press, became the regular correspondent of 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. He married Isabelle G. Mayhew in 1858. In 1867, he remarried to O. M. Grant. He died in Kennebunkport, Maine. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------