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Stagecoach and Tavern
This text is a nostalgic, sometimes romantic, social history about life in the taverns along the stagecoach lines in Wisconsin and northern Illinois around 1800-1880s. After Cole's …
The Great Cyclone at St. Louis and East St.Louis, May 27, 1896
Compiled from stories in the city's daily newspapers, this text gives an account of the great cyclone at St. Louis and East St. Louis, which happened in 1896. Within twenty …
When Lincoln Came to Egypt
In When Lincoln Came to Egypt, George W. Smith discusses Lincoln’s various trips to southern Illinois, focusing mainly on Lincoln’s most prominent visit, when he came to debate …
Life and Letters of General W.H.L.Wallace
Originally published in 1909, this biography by Isabel Wallace recounts the life of her adoptive father, William Hervy Lamme Wallace, the highest-ranking Union officer to fall at …
Eight Months in Illinois
The Illinois frontier offered abundant opportunity, noted English traveler William Oliver after his journey to America in 1841-42, but life there was hard. Accordingly, Oliver …
The Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock
Exceptionally rare and valued by book collectors, Otto A. Rothert's riveting saga of the outlaws and scoundrels of Cave-in-Rock chronicles the adventures of an audacious cast of …
Black Jack
John A. Logan, called Black Jack by the men he led in Civil War battles from the Henry-Donelson campaign to Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and on to Atlanta, was one of the Union Army's …
Growing Up with Southern Illinois, 1820 to 1861
Growing Up with Southern Illinois is the self-portrait of a rugged pioneer, Daniel Brush, who prospered on the Illinois frontier, founded the town of Carbondale, and led a regiment …
John A.Logan
This work is a sequel and tells John Logan's postwar story. It covers topics such as reconstruction, regional and national Republican party politics, military policies, developing …
The Conquest Of The Illinois
Written only a decade after George Rogers Clark's conquest of Illinois, this firsthand account shows the region as it existed in the 1770s, explains how British occupation affected …
FRENCH AND INDIANS OF ILLINOIS RIVER
Complex and paradoxical, Nehemiah Matson (1816-1873) celebrated the occupation of the Middle West by European pioneers even as he labored to preserve the memory of the natives …
Tales and Songs of Southern Illinois
This is a collection of over 150 tales and songs from southern Illinois. In forming the collection, Charles Neely required only that the tales and songs - whether home grown or …