Prairie State
Author : Paul McClelland Angle
Publisher :
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 29,70 MB
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN :
Exploring Nature in Illinois
Author : Michael Jeffords
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 31,91 MB
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0252096266
Book Description
Loaded with full color photographs and evocative descriptions, Exploring Nature in Illinois provides a panorama of the state's overlooked natural diversity. Naturalists Michael Jeffords and Susan Post explore fifty preserves, forests, restoration areas, and parks, bringing an expert view to wildlife and landscapes and looking beyond the obvious to uncover the unexpected beauty of Illinois's wild places. From the colorful variety of birds at War Bluff Valley Audubon Sanctuary to the exposed bedrock and cliff faces of Apple River Canyon, Exploring Nature in Illinois will inspire readers to explore wonders hidden from urban sprawl and cultivated farmland. Maps and descriptions help travelers access even hard-to-find sites while a wealth of detail and photography offers nature-lovers insights into the flora, fauna, and other aspects of vibrant settings and ecosystems. The authors also include diary entries describing their own impressions of and engagement with the sites. A unique and much-needed reference, Exploring Nature in Illinois will entertain and enlighten hikers, cyclers, students and scouts, morning walkers, weekend drivers, and anyone else seeking to get back to nature in the Prairie State.
The Iron Road in the Prairie State
Author : Simon Cordery
Publisher : Railroads Past and Present
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 33,53 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780253019066
Book Description
In 1836, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas agreed on one thing: Illinois needed railroads. Over the next fifty years, the state became the nation's railroad hub, with Chicago at its center. Speculators, greed, growth, and regulation followed as the railroad industry consumed unprecedented amounts of capital and labor. A nationwide market resulted, and the Windy City became the site of opportunities and challenges that remain to this day. In this first-of-its-kind history, full of entertaining anecdotes and colorful characters, Simon Cordery describes the explosive growth of Illinois railroads and its impact on America. Cordery shows how railroading in Illinois influenced railroad financing, the creation of a national economy, and government regulation of business. Cordery's masterful chronicle of rail development in Illinois from 1837 to 2010 reveals how the state's expanding railroads became the foundation of the nation's rail network.
Haunted Illinois
Author : Troy Taylor
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 16,10 MB
Release : 2008-05-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0811740668
Book Description
Illinois's mysterious and often violent history has made the state a haven for restless spirits.
Sugar Creek
Author : John Mack Faragher
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 10,76 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300042634
Book Description
Follows the development of a rural Illinois community from its origins near the beginning of the nineteenth century, looks at community activity, and tells the stories of ordinary pioneers
Illinois, the Story of the Prairie State
Author : Grace Humphrey
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 2018-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781378917206
Book Description
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Illinois History
Author : Andrew Santella
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 18,60 MB
Release : 2007-10-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781432902681
Book Description
You can find the answers to these questions and more in Illinois History. This book contains many fascinating and historical facts that tell the story of Illinois, from its first people to the explorers and settlers who came later. You will also learn about Illinois's role in the American Revolution and Civil War. Book jacket.
Illinois, Land and Life in the Prairie State
Author : Ronald E. Nelson
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 34,3 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
"This book attempts to further the reader's understanding of Illinois in three ways. First, it contributes to an awareness of the state's landscape variety by emphasizing geographical patterns of environmnetal and human phenomena. Second, it illustrates the intimate relationships between human populations and their habitat in the state. Third, it traces the development of these landscapes and relationships through time in order to determine how the state's present land and life came to be. To supplement the written descriptions and analyses, well over a hundred maps are included in the book."--Preface page vii.
Illinois: The Prairie State
Author : Rennay Craats
Publisher : Weigl Publishers
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 21,5 MB
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1489648569
Book Description
Discover America explores each state, district, and territory in the United States of America. From Alabama to Wyoming, this series features vivid images, informative charts, and detailed maps to guide readers through their nation. Each book explores geography, history, culture, and economics to illustrate the diversity of this unique country.
Picturing the Prairie
Author : Philip Juras
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 44,51 MB
Release : 2021-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780578864587
Book Description
The fifty-four paintings in this volume celebrate the natural beauty of the rare tallgrass prairie environments of Illinois and the remarkable legacy of conservation that sustains them. Artist and author Philip Juras's evocative canvases are based on extensive research, travel, and time in the field with prairie conservation experts. As a result, his luminous paintings, and his descriptions of them, are rich in ecological and historical detail. An accompanying essay by acclaimed conservationist Stephen Packard tells the story of how the tallgrass prairie ecosystem was, and is, being saved from extinction in Illinois by a series of remarkable individuals and initiatives-efforts that have inspired conservation practices well beyond the state's borders.Picturing the Prairie invites us to get to know these restored landscapes, both within these pages and in the corresponding 2021 exhibition at the Chicago Botanic Garden. In them we can experience the magnificence of this archetypal American grassland, both in its present nature, and as it was in the past.
