Originally published in 1962, this story of the English Settlement in pioneer Illinois is compiled from the eyewitness accounts of the participants. The founders, Morris Birkbeck and George Flower, as well as their associates and the many visitors to their prairie settlement, wrote mainly for immediate and sometimes controversial ends. Charles Boewe has selected excerpts from letters, descriptions, diaries, histories, and periodicals within a chronological framework to emphasize the implicit drama of the settlers' deeds as ...
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Originally published in 1962, this story of the English Settlement in pioneer Illinois is compiled from the eyewitness accounts of the participants. The founders, Morris Birkbeck and George Flower, as well as their associates and the many visitors to their prairie settlement, wrote mainly for immediate and sometimes controversial ends. Charles Boewe has selected excerpts from letters, descriptions, diaries, histories, and periodicals within a chronological framework to emphasize the implicit drama of the settlers' deeds as they searched for a suitable site, founded their colony, and augmented their forces with new arrivals from England. No less dramatic is the subsequent estrangement of the two founders, the disillusionment of many of the English settlers, the untimely death of Birkbeck, and the financial ruin of Flower.
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Fine in very good jacket. Size: 9 1/2"; NOT an ex library book. Clean interior pages. Dust jacket has spot of peeling on spine, no chips, price is clipped.
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Good. Size: 6x1x9; ***please read*** no marks on text-some discoloration on the front cover at the top-no DJ-some foxing on the top edge-my shelf location 22-A-12*
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Small 8vo. Tan cloth over limp boards. xv, 317pp. Illustrations. Fine. Tight, handsome first edition. George Flower (1788-1862) and Morris Birkbeck (1764-1825) were Englishmen who attempted to create an English pioneering community in Edwards County, Illinois Territory around 1817; Birkbeck wrote the classics "Notes on a Journey in America" (1817) and "Letters from Illinois" (1818).
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