First published in 1937 in honor of
the Galesburg and Knox College Centenary, the book contains a wealth of
lively details and amusing anecdotes. Calkins traces the progress of the
community and the college through the arrival of the railroad, slave running,
abolitionist confrontations, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, the Civil War,
and the postwar era.
the Galesburg and Knox College Centenary, the book contains a wealth of
lively details and amusing anecdotes. Calkins traces the progress of the
community and the college through the arrival of the railroad, slave running,
abolitionist confrontations, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, the Civil War,
and the postwar era.
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