Linn County, Kansas: A History

"Written to give and preserve the more intimate knowledge of incidents of world-wide importance and marking an epochal period in the history of the human race. ... It is a fact that no community of equal size anywhere in the United States had so many families representative of the best Anglo-Saxon people ranging all the way from the Crusaders under Richard Coeur de Leon, at Runnymede, and down through European and English history to America with all its brilliant achievements and wonderful ...