History of Cook County, Illinois
Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
Publisher :
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 36,4 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN :
Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
Publisher :
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 36,4 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN :
Author : Gillum Ferguson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0252094557
Russell P. Strange "Book of the Year" Award from the Illinois State Historical Society, 2012. On the eve of the War of 1812, the Illinois Territory was a new land of bright promise. Split off from Indiana Territory in 1809, the new territory ran from the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers north to the U.S. border with Canada, embracing the current states of Illinois, Wisconsin, and a part of Michigan. The extreme southern part of the region was rich in timber, but the dominant feature of the landscape was the vast tall grass prairie that stretched without major interruption from Lake Michigan for more than three hundred miles to the south. The territory was largely inhabited by Indians: Sauk, Potawatomi, Kickapoo, and others. By 1812, however, pioneer farmers had gathered in the wooded fringes around prime agricultural land, looking out over the prairies with longing and trepidation. Six years later, a populous Illinois was confident enough to seek and receive admission as a state in the Union. What had intervened was the War of 1812, in which white settlers faced both Indians resistant to their encroachments and British forces poised to seize control of the upper Mississippi and Great Lakes. The war ultimately broke the power and morale of the Indian tribes and deprived them of the support of their ally, Great Britain. Sometimes led by skillful tacticians, at other times by blundering looters who got lost in the tall grass, the combatants showed each other little mercy. Until and even after the war was concluded by the Treaty of Ghent in 1814, there were massacres by both sides, laying the groundwork for later betrayal of friendly and hostile tribes alike and for ultimate expulsion of the Indians from the new state of Illinois. In this engrossing new history, published upon the war's bicentennial, Gillum Ferguson underlines the crucial importance of the War of 1812 in the development of Illinois as a state. The history of Illinois in the War of 1812 has never before been told with so much attention to the personalities who fought it, the events that defined it, and its lasting consequences. Endorsed by the Illinois Society of the War of 1812 and the Illinois War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission.
Author : Lisa Marie Adams
Publisher :
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 34,97 MB
Release : 1991*
Category : Illinois City (Ill.)
ISBN :
Author : Irwin F. Mather
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 20,56 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Illinois
ISBN :
Author : Sidney Breese
Publisher :
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 32,71 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Illinois
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Ford
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781016410878
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Author : Clarence Walworth Alvord
Publisher : Springfield, Ill. : Illinois State Journal Company
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 10,77 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Illinois
ISBN :
Author : Sidney Breese
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 2019-03-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781010314257
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : John Carroll Power
Publisher :
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 23,23 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Anagamon County (Ill.)
ISBN :
Author : James E. Davis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 37,13 MB
Release : 2000-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253214065
In this major new history of the making of the state, Davis tells a sweeping story of Illinois, from the Ice Age to the eve of the Civil War.