Excerpt from Growing Up With Southern Illinois, 1820 to 1861: From the Memoirs of Daniel Harmon Brush Thus it came to pass that those western areas lying adjacent to the Ohio and the lower Mississippi were being rapidly accu pied by settlers while there was still but a trickle of migration into the region adjoining the Great Lakes. Chiefly, too, they were populated by southern migrants who found their way into the western country either by way of the Ohio River or by traveling over land through the famous Cumberland ...
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Excerpt from Growing Up With Southern Illinois, 1820 to 1861: From the Memoirs of Daniel Harmon Brush Thus it came to pass that those western areas lying adjacent to the Ohio and the lower Mississippi were being rapidly accu pied by settlers while there was still but a trickle of migration into the region adjoining the Great Lakes. Chiefly, too, they were populated by southern migrants who found their way into the western country either by way of the Ohio River or by traveling over land through the famous Cumberland Gap, lying near the borders of Kentucky, Tennes see, and Virginia. Only when the Erie Canal was completed m 1825 and steamboats were placed on the Upper Lakes did the tide of migrat1on Into the Great Lakes area begin in earnest.1 Thus Detroit, oldest city in interior. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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