WOODS, JOHN. _Two Years’ Residence in the Settlement on the English Prairie, in the Illinois Country, U. S. With an Account of its animal and vegetable Productions, Agriculture, &c. &c. A Description of the principal Towns, Villages, &c. &c. With the Habits and Customs of the Back-woodsmen. London: Longman & others_, 1822. 310 pp. Of great value. Unusually conservative as to Illinois advantages, but apparently truthful. WRIGHT, JOHN S. _Letters from the West; or, A Caution to Emigrants. Salem, N. Y.: Dodd & Stevenson,_ 1819. 72 pp. A series of letters from one who traveled through the West in 1818-19. In a fair manner the discouragements which emigrants may expect to meet are portrayed. In Library of Chicago Historical Society. II. Secondary Works. ABBOTT, JOHN STEVENS CABOT. _History of Maine from the earliest Discovery of the Region by the Northmen until the present Time. Boston: B. B. Russell_, 1875. 556 pp. Tells of the “Ohio fever,” which raged about the close of the war of 1812, and which furnished some settlers to Illinois. AGNEW, Hon. DANIEL, LL. D. _History of the Region of Pennsylvania north of the Ohio and west of the Allegheny River ... also, an Account of the Division of the Territory for public Purposes, and of the Lands, Laws, Titles, Settlements, Controversies, and Litigation within this Region. Philadelphia: Kay & Brother,_ 1887. 4+246 pp. The work shows the price at which Pennsylvania public lands sold at the time Illinois was being settled. ALLEN, J. A. _American Bisons, living and extinct. Cambridge, Mass.: Welch, Bigelow, & Co._, 1876. ix.+246 pp. and 12 plates. Carefully done. Tells of the great herds of buffalo early found in Illinois and of their extermination in that region. ALLEN, WILLIAM FRANCIS. _The Place of the North-West in general History._ Pages 92-111 of the author’s _Essays and Monographs. Boston: Geo. H. Ellis_, 1890. 392 pp. Found also in _Papers of the Am. Hist. Ass’n_., III., pp. 329-48. Good for a view of our subject as connected with larger portions of the world’s history. _Alton city Directory_, 1858. _Alton, Ill.: McEvoy & Bowron_, 1858. 156 pp. A short historical sketch of Alton is given. Its authority is on a par with that of county histories. _American historical Review._ New York. Vol. IV., 623-35. See Boyd, Carl Evans, below. ANDREAS, A. T. _History of Chicago from the earliest Period to the present Time. Chicago: A. T. Andreas_, 1884. I., 648; II., 780; III., 876 pp. Only pages 31-111 of Volume I. concern the period before 1830. The narrative is written with considerable care, and the work is especially rich in copies of old maps, having not fewer than two dozen before 1830. ASBURY, HENRY. _Reminiscences of Quincy, Illinois, containing historical Events, Anecdotes, Matters concerning old Settlers and old Times, etc. Quincy, Ill.: D. Wilcox & Sons_, 1882. 224 pp.