This weekend, booktv is in topeka, kansas, with help of our local cable partner talks communications. Michael church of the kansas state archives looks at the life of local pioneer samuel reader who kept a diary for 64 years beginning in 1849. Samuel reader was a kansas pioneer, farmer, soldier artist and photographer among many other things. He kept a Daily Journal from 1849 all the way up until 1913. From age 13 all the way to a 78 i believe. And the diaries were donated to the society by his daughter right after his death in 1914. He created 15 journals over the period of his life. But we only received 13 because in 1890 his farmhouse burned and they were only able to save 13 of the journals. Two of them volume one and volume four, perished in the fire. Apparently is influenced by a great reading of the journals of lewis and Clark Expedition and you want to keep a Daily Journal like they did and it was a special interest in their illustrations that they included and he wanted to ill
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