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Excerpt from Sketches of Kansas Pioneer Experience Historical Society, to write sketches of my Kansas life for the use of the said Society, and he represented that Others of my coworkers, or some of them, were doing so; but I as often declined to attempt the task, partly because I doubted whether I could write much that would be of general interest at this late day, and partly because of my increasing aversion to any labor of this sort. Since the death of Judge Adams, others have made the same request of me, and more especially on the score that there are now so few remaining to tell the story of early Kansas con icts and trials, that it becomes rather a duty on the part of those who were actors to leave to posterity some traces of their foot prints. As a further reason, it is urged that, when so much has been badly written of pretended Kansas history - some by authors who were not born until after Kansas became a state - those who have personal knowledge and were living witnesses of the early events should surely be first heard. This will be no attempt, however, to write a history of Kansas, _nor to write a full Kansas chapter of my own biography, but rather to portray some personal incidents in my Kansas show my relation to, or agency in, some of the public affairs during our territorial period. 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."