The Baker Plantation House in Danville, Missouri is to auction on October 18, 2010. The property is available for viewing by interested parties on September 18, from 1:30 to 3:30 in the afternoon. The House is located on the north outer road of Interstate 70, near the Danville exit (Exit 170).
This is a spectacular example [...]
The notorious Sam Hildebrand of St. Francois County, Missouri, was wounded quite severely in 1869. As a result, he hid out in the town of Big River Mills, where he dictated a memoir of his Civil War escapades. The memoir, referred to as his Autobiography but also known as his “Confessions”, is on book shelves [...]
Ulysses Grant died in 1885. He labored through the end stages of throat cancer while he completed his great Memoirs, and one of the people at his side (some of the time) was his publisher. Mark Twain had become acquainted with Grant somehow – when Grant was President these were two of the most famous [...]
Mark Twain said this of Ulysses Grant’s Memoirs:
“I had been comparing the [M]emoirs with Caesar’s Commentaries. . . I was able to say in all sincerity that the same high merits distinguished both books – clarity of statement, directness, simplicity, manifest truthfulness, fairness and justice toward friend and foe alike and avoidance of flowery speech. [...]
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