griffith george washington ewing (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 8vo, [viii], 284, [v] pages brown cloth; ex libris Dorothy Arbuckle. Griffith was born in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. He took Horace Greeley's advice to "Go West, Young Man". He became a pioneeer at Minneola, Franklin County, Kansas [ now a ghost town ]. He moved to Lawrence and established trade with the Natives. Quantrell's Raiders burned his store, his house, his carriage, and stole his horses. "I had nothing left . but my wife and child, a pony belonging to Mrs. Griffith, the clothes on our backs and $10 I had saved from the cash drawer when the guerrillas looted the store." "The raiders had taken all the good horses they could find and had left their wornout ones behind. These were gathered up by a committee, sold and the money distributed to those whose horses were stolen. I got $15 of the fund." The final chapter covers his retirement to Los Angeles.