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Synopsis
Excerpt from The Life of Preston B. Plumb, 1837-1891, United States Senator From Kansas for the Fourteen Years From 1877 to 1891: A Pioneer of the Progressive Movement in America
The object of this book is to present in a direct and simple way the leading events in the life of Preston B. Plumb. It has, however, a higher purpose than the mere exaltation of any name. A book which does not render service to society is worse than useless. Inter woven there will be found something here of pioneer life, the founding of a great State, the passing of the old order, a change in the destiny of the Republic, the coming of a new era, and the influence of these on our industrial and political life. There will appear visions of the sword shaken over the land, and we shall see marches over the red roads of the Ozarks, on the prai ries, through the rolling woodlands of Missouri, across the Great Plains, and in the Rocky Mountains. There will arise to view the shock of battle, the dead and dying on bloody fields, the crime and glory of war an iridescent phantasmagoria of the baseness and sub limity of human passions and human actions.
These are some of the reasons for this book. It is hoped that others will appear in its reading.
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