...y greatly regretted to dispel a treasured local illusion, they had to do it. In the above quotation, the Nomad asks a pertinent query, and his somewhat conditional reply is well illustrated by Mr. Brooks ' successor, Mr. Usher, in his work of 1886, a practical reprint of the History of 1855. But who were the gentlemen of the Historical Society, the iconoclasts who assailed the bogus history, and e...