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| Due to the number of requests this web site has had for information on Haddam, Kansas we are listing the two books still in print and available and how to obtain them. Click on either the "Remember When" or "Heritage" copy of book front cover (at bottom of page) for description and order information. |
1869 - 1969" | |||
Written in 1994 | |||
Written in 1997 |
Although the book, "Haddam's Hundred" written by
Dora Hoffman Brown is out of print this webmaster quotes
Dora Hoffman Brown's words to give internet viewers some historical
insight into a pre-Haddam era.
"In the mid 1850's there was not a vestige of civilization in that part of Kansas now known as Washington County. For untold ages it (Kansas) had been covered with a waving sea of wild grasses. Vast buffaloes had for numberless years wandered almost unmolested across it and its solitude had been broken only by occasional bands of nomadic savages in search of prey or plunder.
Kansas was a part of that section of country which old geographies had designated as 'the great American desert,' a barren waste incapable of agricultural production and uninhabitable. But it was not destined to always remain unknown."
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