Samuel Adams Drake

Samuel Adams Drake (December 20, 1833 – December 4, 1905) was an American journalist and writer.

Early life Samuel Adams Drake was born in Boston in 1833, a son of Samuel Gardner Drake and Louisa Elmes.

Death He died in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1905.

Works Hints for Emigrants to Pike's Peak, a pamphlet and his first publication (1860) Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston (1873) Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast (1875) Bunker Hill (1875) Captain Nelson (1879) History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts (1880) Around the Hub (1881) Heart of the White Mountains (1882) New England Legends and Folk Lore (1884) Our Great Benefactors (1885) The Making of New England (1886) The Making of the Great West (1887) Burgoyne's Invasion (1889) The Taking of Louisburg (1891) The Pine Tree Coast (1891) The Battle of Gettysburg (1892) The Making of Virginia (1893) Our Colonial Homes (1894) The Campaign of Trenton (1895) The Watch Fires of '76 (1895) On Plymouth Rock (1898) The Myths and Fables of To-day (1900) The Young Vigilantes (1904)