882 Notes and Ncivs Mr. Charles A. Hanna (New York) has printed privately a volume entitled Historical Collections of Harrison County, Ohio. The book treats at length of the leading elements of the population — Scotch-Irish, Quakers, "Pennsylvania Dutch," Virginians and New-Englanders, — and also contains, as Part II., an alphabetized collection of land patents, early marriage records, graveyard records, and abstracts of wills from 1S13 to 1S60. Part III. is a compilation of genealogies. Number XVI. of the P'ilson Club Publications (Louisville, John P. Morton and Co.) is Boonesborough : Its Founding, Pioneer Struggles, In- dian Experiences, Transylvanian Days, and Revolutionary Annals, by Mr. George W. Ranck, who has given much time to the history of Kentucky. An interesting contribution to Texan history is The Evolution of a State, compiled from the reminiscences of Mr. Noah Smithwick, who came to Texas in the early '20s, by Mrs. Nanna Smithwick Donaldson (Austin, Texas, Gammel Book Co.). 'The April Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association is entirely given up to a careful and excellent monograph on the San Jacinto Campaign, by Professor Eugene C. Barker, the fruit of much critical study, and accompanied by some interesting documents not before pub- lished, or not before printed in English. Father Chrysostomus Verwyst has written an account of the Life and Labors of Rt. Rev. Frederic Baraga, First Bishop of Marquette, Michi- gan (Milwaukee,. ]I. H. Wiltzius and Co.). The volume also contains sketches of other Indian missionaries in the Northwest. On Memorial Day, in Sioux City, a monument was dedicated in honor of Sergeant Charles Floyd, a member of the Lewis and Clark ex- pedition, who was buried near that spot on August 20, 1804. An in- scription states that the shaft was erected by the Floyd Memorial Asso- ciation, assisted by the United States and by the state of Iowa. The Early Empire Builders of the Great West, by Moses K. Arm- strong (St. Paul, Minn., E. W. Porter), is compiled, with additions, from the author's Early History of Dakota Territory (1866), and is a record of pioneer experiences nearly half a century ago. In December the Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society printed an elaborately illustrated account of the Oregon Trail, by Professor F. G. Young of Eugene ; in the March number the principal article is one on the political history of Oregon from 1853 to 1S65, by Hon. George H. Williams. Dr. AVilliam A. Mowry, who has spent a long time in conscien- tious research into his subject, has just published a volume entitled Mar- cus Whitman and the Early Days of Oregon (Boston, Silver, Burdett and Co.), in which he aims, without ignoring or being uncritical of the documentary evidence, to uphold a quite different view of the story of Whitman from that which Professor Bourne set forth in earlier pages of this volume.
