The settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830Boggess, Arthur Clinton
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The settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830
Boggess, Arthur Clinton
Illinois -- History -- 1778-1865
CHETLAIN, Gen. AUGUSTUS LOUIS. _Recollections of seventy Years. Galena:
The Gazette Pub. Co._, 1899. 304 pp.
The author was one of the first settlers in Galena, and gives valuable
information concerning that important region—1821 ff.
_Chicago Historical Society’s Collections. Chicago_, 1882-90:—
I. History of the English Settlement in Edwards County, Illinois,
by George Flower, 1882. 408 pp.
II. Sketch of Enoch Long, by Harvey Reid, 1884. 112 pp.
III. The Edwards Papers, edited by E. B. Washburne, 1884. 632 pp.
IV. Early Chicago and Illinois, 1889. 400 pp. Of great value.
CHILDS, Col. EBENEZER. _Recollections of Wisconsin since 1820. In Wis.
Hist. Coll._, IV., 1859, 153-95.
The writer describes Chicago as it was in 1821, at which time he visited
it.
_Christian Spectator_, V., 1823, 20-26. _Remarks on the States of Illinois
and Missouri_, by Edward Hollister.
The author had recently completed a missionary tour in these states, and
his remarks give an insight into the social conditions of the time.
COBBETT, WILLIAM. _A Years Residence, in the United States of America, 3d
ed. London: William Cobbett_, 1828. 370 pp.
Cobbett was in the United States in 1817-18. He declared that Birkbeck and
Fearon had deceived the people of England by portraying America as better
than it was. His book is unfair.
COFFIN, LEVI. _Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the reputed President of the
Underground Railroad.... Cincinnati: Western Tract Society_ [c. 1876]. _2d
ed. with appendix. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co._, 1880. 732 pp.
Pages 89-99 describe the author’s visit to a Quaker settlement in Sangamon
county, Ill., in 1823. Lost on the prairies.
COLLOT, VICTOR. _A Journey in North America, containing a Survey of the
Countries watered by the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, and other affluing
Rivers ... Illustrated by 36 Maps, Plans, Views, and divers Cuts. Paris:
Arthus Bertrand_, 1826. 2 vols. and atlas in one. iv. + 310; v. + 272 pp.
The author traveled through Illinois in 1796. His observations were acute
and are more helpful than would be expected from a soldier of fortune. The
New Orleans _Picayune_ of March 18, 1901, has a valuable article on the
journey of Collot and its purpose. See his _Map of the Country of the
Illinois_, in pocket.
_Columbian Centinel. Boston, June-December_, 1790; 1791-1801; 1802-1829.
The issue for June 16, 1790, has a note on the current experiments with
steamboats. In Library of Wisconsin State Historical Society.
CROGHAN, GEORGE. _Journal_, 1765. In Thwaites, _Early western Travels, I.,
126-73. Cleveland, Ohio: Arthur H. Clark Company_, 1904.
The Journal is of a trip to the West, and characterizes the early French
settlers.
CUMING, FORTESCUE. _Sketches of a Tour to the western Country,...
commenced at Philadelphia in the Winter of 1807 and concluded in 1809.
Pittsburg: Cramer, Spear & Eichbaum_, 1810. 12mo. 504 pp.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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