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Rivers by Design

Author : Karen M. O'Neill

Publisher : Duke University Press

Page : 306 pages

File Size : 35,7 MB

Release : 2006-05-03

Category : History

ISBN : 9780822337737

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DIVA sociological history of flood control politics that examines how local and regional pro-growth interests organized to press the federal government to protect land from flooding, and how this action altered the relationship between regions and the federa/div





Chicago Historical Society's Collection

Author : Chicago Historical Society

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Page : 256 pages

File Size : 10,32 MB

Release : 1918

Category : Chicago (Ill.)

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CONTENTS.--I. Flower, G. History of the English settlement in Edwards County, Illinois. 1882.--II. Reid, H. Biographical sketch of Enoch Long. 1884.--III. Edwards, N. The Edwards papers. 1884.--IV. Mason, E. G., ed. Early Chicago and Illinois. 1890.--V. Boggess, A. C. The settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830. 1908.--VI-IX. Polk, J. K. The diary of James K. Polk ... 1845 to 1849 ... ed. ... by M. M. Quaife. 1910.--X. Putnam, J. W. The Illinois and Michigan canal. 1918.--[XI] Ingraham, C. A. Elmer E. Ellsworth and the zouaves of '61. [1925]--XII. Knight, R. and Zeuch, L. H. The location of the Chicago portage route of the seventeenth century. 1928.