Excerpt from History Montgomery County, Kansas: By Its Own People; Containing Sketches of Our Pioneers; Revealing Their Trials and Hardships in Planting Civilization in This County From the era of squatter settlement, the final treaty with the Red Man and the legitimate settlement by the white man, down through the organization and development of the county, the pages of this book are replete. With events and incidents which mark the stages of advancement toward the splendid civilization of the present day. 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.