The Glorious Gateway of the West: An Historic Pageant of the Story of Fort Wayne, Commemorating the one Hundredth Anniversary of Indiana's Admission to the Sisterhood of States - Couverture rigide
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Foreword In the year seventeen hundred and ninety-five, at the memorable Treaty of Greenville, Chief Little Turtle, wisest of the savages of all times, pleaded with General Wayne to permit the Indians to retain the ownership of the lands on which the City of Fort Wayne now stands. He called it that glorious gateway through which have come all of the good words of our chiefs, from the North to the South, and from the Eastto the West. Wayne, the pupil of Washington, under whose instructions he had established his fort at the head of the Maumee, and who shared with Washington the conviction that the Miami village points to an important post for the Union, refused the earnest plea of the Red Man. Today, through this glorious gateway of civilization pass with kindliness and gentleness to the regions beyond the knowledge of men, the good words of the truest type of modern citizenship inspiration, truth, service. These are made manifest in the Pageant. They are its very foundation. The play will pass away. I ts spirit will remain to the end of time; for the work here done by willing hearts and hands, can never fade from the lives of those who see and those who do. And coming generations of men will feel the power of an unseen influence of the Centennial year of nineteen hundred and sixteen.
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