THEY BROKE THE PRAIRIE

       First published in 1937 in honor of
      the Galesburg and Knox College Centenary, the book contains a wealth of
      lively details and amusing anecdotes. Calkins traces the progress of the
      community and the college through the arrival of the railroad, slave running,
      abolitionist confrontations, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, the Civil War,
      and the postwar era.