Excerpt from The History of Square Dancing Period of square dancing. These Old American folk dances, which have never died out, have revived and spread from backwoods and mountains and plains into the cities again. Yet nothing seems to be known wherice they came originally and how they developed into what they are. For some years now, I have been gathering information from Old dance-books, town chronicles, newspapers, novels of the Old times, even poetry and sheet-music, with results which have fitted together into an outline-history of this forgotten phase of our culture. This history is not unamus ing, pivoting as it does, now upon some great revolution, and again upon so trivial a matter as a change of style in ladies' skirts. For the history of square-dancing is an expression of the ever-chang. 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.