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Frontier Illinois
Author | : James E. Davis |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2000-08-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0253214068 |
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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.
Murder Madness and Mayhem on the Iowa Illinois Frontier
Author | : Nick Vulich |
Publsiher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2018-09-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780359107131 |
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It's not the usual boring history read. It's a fast-paced, easy to read, behind the scenes look at the making of Iowa and Illinois focusing on Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois.
The Sangamo Frontier
Author | : Robert Mazrim |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 729 |
Release | : 2008-09-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780226514239 |
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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.
Big Sky Rivers
Author | : Robert Kelley Schneiders |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015059980345 |
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To frame his story, Schneiders goes back to the nineteenth-century journals of fur traders and settlers and in the record of flora, fauna, floods, and human activity he finds evidence of rapid and disruptive change. Bison once had the greatest influence on the land, and Schneiders depicts an original bison and Indian trail networks on which were overlaid the first torts and towns and then the railroads, highways, and reservoirs that reconfigured the region forever.
Free Frank
Author | : Juliet E. K. Walker |
Publsiher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1995-01-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813108403 |
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The story of Free Frank is not only a testament to human courage and resourcefulness but affords new insight into the American frontier. Born a slave in the South Carolina piedmont in 1777, Frank died a free man in 1854 in a town he had founded in western Illinois. His accomplishments, creditable for any frontiersman, were for a black man extraordinary. Goods and services commanded a premium in the life of the frontier. Free Frank's career shows what an exceptional black man, though working against great odds, could accomplish through industry, acumen, and aggressiveness. His story suggests a great deal about business activity and legal practices, as well as racial conditions, on the frontier. Juliet Walker has performed a task of historical detection in recreating the life of Free Frank from family traditions, limited personal papers, public documents, and secondary sources. In doing so, she has added a significant chapter to the history of Afro-Americans. - Back cover.
Prairie Justice
Author | : Roger L Severns |
Publsiher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2015-01-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780809333691 |
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A concise legal history of Illinois, Prairie Justice covers the French, British, early-American, and Illinois-statehood periods to 1900. It illustrates the changes over time in the different judicial systems, culminating in the establishment of a unique body of Illinois law.
German Pioneers on the American Frontier
Author | : Andreas Reichstein |
Publsiher | : University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1574411349 |
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Wilhelm 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.
Archaeology as a Tool of Civic Engagement
Author | : Barbara J. Little,Paul A. Shackel |
Publsiher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0759110603 |
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Little and Shackel use case studies from different regions across the world to challenge archaeologists to create an ethical public archaeology that is concerned not just with the management of cultural resources, but with social justice and civic responsibility.