OF

Western History.

ILLUSTRATED.

VOL. XIV.
MAY, 1891-OCTOBER, 1891.

NEW YORK:

MAGAZINE OF WESTERN HISTORY PUBLISHING CO.,
132 Nassau Street.

US 13.15 15397-17

1891, hay

5- Oct. 12,

Tucker fund.

fund.

EDITORIAL NOTES,

·

VERSIONS OF THE BIBLE, XX.,

Historical Account of the more Important Versions and Editions.

THE AZTEC GOLD MINE, NEW MEXICO, AND ITS DISCOVERER,

MATHEW LYNCH,

SUCCESSFUL YOUNG MEN OF THE WEST,

Ralph Voorhees, Esq.

THE COLORADO LEGAL PRofession,

Hon. Caldwell Yeaman.

Geo. F. Marshall

CORRESPONDENCE,

Hon. F. C. Sessions

ABRAHAM LINCOLN,

CHICAGO PRIOR TO 1840, IX.,

A Pen Picture of 1839.

JOHN W. JACKSON-DR. TOLMAN WHEELER-JOEL ELLIS-DEVOTION

Howard Louis Conard

John W. Harman

C. EDDY

WHY HE BECAME A REPUBLICAN,

HAD SEEN UGLIER MEN

A New York Merchant's Interview with Mr. Lincoln.

THREE LAWYERS OF MONTANA,

Hon. Decius S. Wade-William Chumasero-Samuel Word.

REMINISCENCES OF THE THIRTY-SIXTH AND THIRTY-

SEVENTH CONGRESSES, XXII.,

OLD VIRGINIA, VII.,

TRINIDAD UPON THE LAS ANIMAS,

Charles W. Hobart

Gen. Charles W. Darling

Her Coal Fields-A Great Pay Roll-Hon. Delos A. Chappell.

LIBRARIES FROM BOSTON To Pueblo,

The Missouri Historical Society.

Col. Henry Dudley Teetor

Gen. James M. Ashley

H. G. Cutler

C. P. Connolly

Hon. John Hutchins

Hon. Elliott Anthony

H. D. T.

Col. Henry Dudley Teetor
A. B. McKinley

H. D. T.

Lincoln and the ex-Presidents-The Future Presidents-An Ohio Man's Letter-

Going East for a Wife-Three Western Judges--The War-A Man who Defied Jef-

ferson Davis-Some Wonderful Prophecies-The Oneida Historical Society-An Old

Church.

PAGE

AMONG THE Books,

The Vikings of Western Christendom-Frederick Douglass-A Tariff Primer.

James Harrison Kennedy

VERSIONS OF THE BIBLE, XXI.,

Gen. Charles W. Darling

Historical Account of the more Important Versions and Editions.

HISTORY OF THE MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS AND MEDICAL PROFESSION OF

CHICAGO, XVII.,

Robert B. Treat, M. D.

ANTI-POLYGAMY MORMONS,

The Reorganized or Iowa Branch of the Church.

ZERMATT, SWITZERLAND,

Mr. Sessions' Summer in Europe and Africa.

EDWIN WARREN TOOLE,

CHICAGO PRIOR TO 1840, X.,

THOMAS ALLEN-JAMES F. LORD-MATTHEW LAFLIN-OREN SHER-

MAN-CHAUNCEY B. BLAIR-PHILIP F. W. PECK,

Howard Louis Conard

Hon. F. C. Sessions

C. P. Connolly

REMINISCENCES OF THE THIRTY-SIXTH AND THIRTY-

SEVENTH CONGRESSES, XXIII.,

DR. W. L. STEELE,

Ex-UNITED STATES SENATOR GEORGE M. CHILCOTT,

THE STATE OF WASHINGTON: THE STORY OF ITS

PIONEER DAYS,

Hon. John Hutchins

H. D. Teetor

Col. W. F. Prosser

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III

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133

136

147

151

156

159

EDITORIAL NOTES,

A Credit to the "Great Divide "-The New Venture of the Western Reserve Histor-

ical Society-Death of D. W. Cross and Russell Errett-The Gift to the Johns Hopkins

University-Conclusion of the Utica Lectures-The March Meeting of the Oneida

Historical Society-Action upon the Herkimer Monument-The Appeal of the West

Virginia Society--Other Voices of Prophecy Concerning America-The Controversy

as to the Red Jacket Memorial.

163

166

170

203

216

218

223

235

AMONG THE Books,

241

Introduction to the Study of Federal Government-The Constitutional History of
Illinois.