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Excerpt from Life of George R. Smith, Founder of Sedalia, Mo: In Its Relations to the Political, Economic, and Social Life of Southwestern Missouri, Before and During the Civil War Under date of February 8, 1901, after having examined the manuscript of this biography, Dr. Hale wrote again: I am much more interested in the memorial than I could have thought possible. The ground which it covers seems to me of great importance, and I am glad that Mr. Harding has not shirked the extreme difficulty of working out the early chapters. He has made what seems to me a very valuable contribution to the his tory of our country, on lines which historians gen erally shirk. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.