Review for History of Ritchie County: With Biographical Sketches of Its Pioneers and Their Ancestors, and With Interesting Reminiscences of Revolutionary and Indian Times (Classic Reprint) : This book is incredible, I have never been so frightened reading a book and yet so riveted that I couldn't stop reading. I loved this book. It grabbed me from the first page and I had trouble putting it down. Read it, you won't be disappointed.
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The idea of writing a history of Ritchie county had its origin in a suggestion made by Lewis Harvey Adams while editor of the "Ritchie Standard," about the year 1904 when he requested us to write some historical articles (of towns and other points of interest in the county) for his paper. We had long been an invalid (from an injury to the spine sustained by a fall from a horse) and was at that time local correspondent for his paper. However, we agreed to comply with this request in case that the desired data could be obtained, and shortly after set about the task, and when once at work, we became so much interested, that the research resulted in a brief history of the county which ran as a serial in the Ritchie Standard from June 7, 1906, to January 3, 1907; and by the time this serial was at an end, quite a
