Social and Economic Conditions of Southwestern Illinois, 1818-1835
Author : Eleanor Holland Helwig
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Page : 134 pages
File Size : 12,79 MB
Release : 1957
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Author : Eleanor Holland Helwig
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Page : 134 pages
File Size : 12,79 MB
Release : 1957
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Author : Earl Wiley Hayter
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Page : 7 pages
File Size : 35,78 MB
Release : 1934
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Author : Josephine Alice McGinty
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Page : 214 pages
File Size : 35,33 MB
Release : 1935
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Author : Morris Birkbeck
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 34,88 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781437052381
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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Page : 1878 pages
File Size : 47,4 MB
Release : 1965
Category : American literature
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A world list of books in the English language.
Author : Robert G. Spinney
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 13,24 MB
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501748351
City of Big Shoulders links key events in Chicago's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today's robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose lives made the city—from the tycoons and the politicians to the hundreds of thousands of immigrants from all over the world. In this revised and updated second edition that brings Chicago's story into the twenty-first century, Spinney sweeps his historian's gaze across the colorful and dramatic panorama of the city's explosive past. How did the pungent swamplands that the Native Americans called "the wild-garlic place" burgeon into one of the world's largest and most sophisticated cities? What is the real story behind the Great Chicago Fire? What aspects of American industry exploded with the bomb in Haymarket Square? Could the gritty blue-collar hometown of Al Capone become a visionary global city? A city of immigrants and entrepreneurs, Chicago is quintessentially American. Spinney brings it to life and highlights the key people, moments, and special places—from Fort Dearborn to Cabrini-Green, Marquette to Mayor Daley, the Union Stock Yards to the Chicago Bulls—that make this incredible city one of the best places in the world.
Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 610 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Catalogs, Union
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Based on reports from American repositories of manuscripts.
Author : National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
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Page : 324 pages
File Size : 37,27 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Agriculture
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Page : 816 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History, Modern
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Author : Robert Mazrim
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226514234
When Abraham Lincoln moved to Illinois’ Sangamo Country in 1831, he found a pioneer community transforming from a cluster of log houses along an ancient trail to a community of new towns and state roads. But two of the towns vanished in a matter of years, and many of the activities and lifestyles that shaped them were almost entirely forgotten. In The Sangamo Frontier, archaeologist Robert Mazrim unearths the buried history of this early American community, breathing new life into a region that still rests in Lincoln’s shadow. Named after a shallow river that cuts through the prairies of central Illinois, the Sangamo Country—an area that now encompasses the capital city of Springfield and present-day Sangamon County—was first colonized after the War of 1812. For the past fifteen years, Mazrim has conducted dozens of excavations there, digging up pieces of pioneer life, from hand-forged iron and locally made crockery to pewter spoons and Staffordshire teacups. And here, in beautifully illustrated stories of each dig, he shows how each of these small artifacts can teach us something about the lifestyles of people who lived on the frontier nearly two hundred years ago. Allowing us to see past the changed modern landscape and the clichés of pioneer history, Mazrim deftly uses his findings to portray the homes, farms, taverns, and pottery shops where Lincoln’s neighbors once lived and worked. Drawing readers into the thrill of discovery, The Sangamo Frontier inaugurates a new kind of archaeological history that both enhances and challenges our written history. It imbues today’s landscape with an authentic ghostliness that will reawaken the curiosity of anyone interested in the forgotten people and places that helped shape our nation.