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Show 4 PREFACE conditions be forgotten, and why has so little interest been taken in keeping memorandas and records of events and conditions of those early and trying times. I have written several times over much of the information I have gathered in order to make cor-rections and supply additional information. I have been more than twenty years compiling this history, and have not left a stone unturned in my endeavors to obtain correct data on all the important events which properly belong to this history. My aim has been to give credit where such was due, but to get in the names of all who took part or were enrolled in the different Militia Companies participating in the Indian Wars would be too great a task, and yet, they are all deserving of mention. It has not been my purpose to single out any one as a particular hero ahead of all others, but to record conditions and facts as they existed and oc-curred. I sincerely thank all who haVe assisted me, especially the Indian War Veterans and the Church Historians for their willing and interested assist-asce. I will make special mention of Assistant Church Historian Andrew Jenson, who has given me important assistance in obtaining correct dates and information, and preparing my manuscript for the printers, and hope my little book will fill an important place in the history of our fair State. The Compiler. |