Samuel Adams Drake
Samuel Adams Drake was raised in Boston. In 1858 he went to Kansas to work as the telegraphic agent of the New York Associated Press. He became a journalist for 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.
Books
The Making of New England
2001
ISBN 9781582183992
The heart of the White Mountains
1881
ISBN 9780848236694
The Border Wars of New England
2001
ISBN 9781582183312
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston
1873
ISBN 9781306546621
Historic mansions and highways around Boston, being a new and revised edition of "Old landmarks and historic fields of Middlesex"
1874
ISBN 9781377487007
Bunker Hill
1875
ISBN 9781432654320
Nooks and corners of the New England coast
1875
ISBN 9781446015087
A book of New England legends and folk lore in prose and poetry. Illustrated by F. T. Merrill
1883
ISBN 9780548038093
Burgoyne's invasion of 1777
1889
ISBN 9781973720201
The battle of Gettysburg, 1863
1891
ISBN 9781582183275
The campaign of Trenton, 1776-77
1895
ISBN 9798549638389
The border wars of New England, commonly called King William's and Queen Anne's wars
1897
ISBN 9780879280451
On Plymouth rock
1897
ISBN 9781429046053
The making of the great West
2001
ISBN 9781582184371
History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts
1880
ISBN 9781018849522