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Author: Robert Mazrim
Publisher: Illinois Transporatation Archaeological Research Program
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 184
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Author: Robert Mazrim
Publisher: Illinois Transporatation Archaeological Research Program
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James E. Davis
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2000-08-22
Total Pages: 546
ISBN-13: 9780253214065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: Andreas Reichstein
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781574411348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilhelm Wagner (1803-1877), son of Peter Wagner, was born in Dürkheim, Germany. He married Friedericke Odenwald (1812-1893). They had nine children. They emigrated and settled in Illinois. His brother, Julius Wagner (1816-1903) married Emilie M. Schneider (1820-1896). They had seven children. They emigrated and settled in Texas.
Author: Theodore Calvin Pease
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 520
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carl J. Ekberg
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780252069246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Book Prize for the Best Book on Louisiana History, French Roots in the Illinois Country creates an entirely new picture of the Illinois country as a single ethnic, economic, and cultural entity. Focusing on the French Creole communities along the Mississippi River, Carl J. Ekberg shows how land use practices such as medieval-style open-field agriculture intersected with economic and social issues ranging from the flour trade between Illinois and New Orleans to the significance of the different mentalities of French Creoles and Anglo-Americans.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Claims
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Published: 1836
Total Pages: 2
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: F. M. Perryman
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-12-19
Total Pages: 71
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Pioneer Life in Illinois" by F. M. Perryman explores life in Illinois from many points of view. As the author himself has been born and brought up in Illinois, there is a nativity and originality to his work. Taking place near the turn of the century, much of Illinois was relatively barren, leaving many residents to be resourceful and live off the land. Though the state is now much different, remnants of pioneer life still remain.
Author: Gerald A. McWorter
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780910671170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew Philadelphia chronicles the history of a town founded in 1836 in Central Illinois by a freed slave. The book covers the history of the town, the inhabitants, their descendants, and the archeological digs.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Claims
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Published: 1836
Total Pages: 2
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gillum Ferguson
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2012-01-26
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0252094557
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRussell 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.