Excerpt from Twelfth Biennial Report: Of the Board of Directors, of the Kansas State Historical Society for the Period November 1, 1898, to November 1, 1900 The duty of Such wide collection elsewhere is generally distributed through a variety of agencies, but in Kansas the functions of this Society cover all. Within these rooms the state centers; here every movement of its people, the record of the individual in politics, busi ness, literature, or otherwise, is gathered and closes. Several local communities find here records of their own they do not possess them selves. The men who founded this Society and guided it in its earlier years may not have builded better than they knew, but they builded far greater than anybody dreamed of. The Society is not alone a gatherer 'lof historic incidents, but its chief duty seems literally to be the exten'sion and preservation of the lives of the women and the men who have made the state. 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.