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18 produkter
Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois
Av Christiana Holmes Tillson, Milo Milton Quaife m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
206 kr
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Knight of Another Sort
Prohibition Days and Charlie Birger
Av Gary DeNeal
Häftad, 1998
335 kr
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In 1913, Charlie Birger began his career as a bootlegger, supplying Southern Illinois with whiskey and beer. Drawing on a cast of the living, the dead and the soon-to-be-dead, DeNeal recreates Prohibition-era Illinois, depicting shoot-outs, gang wars, arrests, trials and convictions.
Black Jack
John a. Logan and Southern Illinois in the Civil War Era
Inbunden, 1995
231 kr
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Black Jack
John a. Logan and Southern Illinois in the Civil War Era
Häftad, 1995
296 kr
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Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock
Historical Accounts of the Famous Highwaymen and River Pirates Who Operated I the Pioneer Days Upon the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and Over the Natchez Trace
Häftad, 1996
267 kr
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Personal Memoirs of John H. Brinton
Civil War Surgeon, 1861-1865
Av John Brinton
Häftad, 1996
380 kr
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John Hill Brinton (1832–1907) met, observed, and commented on practically the entire hierarchy of the Union army; serving as medical director for Ulysses S. Grant, he came into contact with Philip H. Sheridan, John C. Frémont, Henry W. Halleck, William A. Hammond, D. C. Buell, John A. Rawlins, …
Great Cyclone at St. Louis and East St.Louis, May 27, 1896
Häftad, 1997
331 kr
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Compiled from stories in the city's daily newspapers, this text gives an account of the great cyclone at St. Louis and East St. Louis, which happened in 1896. Within twenty minutes, the cyclone had killed 137 people in St. Louis, and another 118 across the river in East St. Louis.
Stagecoach and Tavern
Tales of the Old Northwest
Av Harry Ellsworth Cole, Louise Phelps Kellogg
Häftad, 1997
282 kr
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This text is a nostalgic, sometimes romantic, social history about life in the taverns along the stagecoach lines in Wisconsin and northern Illinois around 1800-1880s. After Cole's death, his notes and illustrations where turned into a book by historian Kellogg and published in 1930.
Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife
An Autobiography
Av Southern Illinois University Press
Häftad, 1997
261 kr
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Mrs. John A. Logan's story, and that of her husband, a general in the American Civil war. She tells of the important events in their life, such as their marriage, the birth of their children, the Civil War, opinions about Abraham Lincoln and his assassination, and her husband's death.
Tales and Songs of Southern Illinois
Av Charles Neely, Charles Neely
Häftad, 1998
315 kr
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This is a collection of over 150 tales and songs from southern Illinois. In forming the collection, Charles Neely required only that the tales and songs - whether home grown or transplanted from the great body of world lore - had taken root somehow in the area of southern Illinois known as Egypt.
Behind the Guns
The History of Battery I, 2nd Regiment, Illinois Light Artillery
Av Clyde C. Walton, Thaddeus C.S. Brown m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
209 kr
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Much has been written of the infantry and cavalry of the American Civil War, but this volume provides a regimental history of a light artillary unit discussing the variety of weapons used by the unit and was originally written by three of its soldiers, including the bugler.
Life and Letters of General W.H.L.Wallace
Häftad, 2000
246 kr
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Originally published in 1909, this biography by Isabel Wallace recounts the life of her adoptive father, William Hervy Lamme Wallace, the highest-ranking Union officer to fall at the battle of Shiloh. It is based on the letters and family papers of the General and his wife.
French and Indians of Illinois River
Häftad, 2001
253 kr
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Complex and paradoxical, Nehemiah Matson (1816-1873) celebrated the occupation of the Middle West by European pioneers even as he labored to preserve the memory of the natives these pioneers replaced. He perpetuated the memory of the Indians who were driven out of the territory, but he nevertheless …
Conquest of the Illinois
Häftad, 2001
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224 kr
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Written only a decade after George Rogers Clark's conquest of Illinois, this firsthand account shows the region as it existed in the 1770s, explains how British occupation affected Kentucky settlers, and exhibits Clark's enormous diplomatic skills in convincing the French settlers and Indians along …
John a.Logan
Stalwart Republican from Illinois
Häftad, 2001
261 kr
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This work is a sequel and tells John Logan's postwar story. It covers topics such as reconstruction, regional and national Republican party politics, military policies, developing tariff policies, and the 1884 presidential race.
Eight Months in Illinois
With Information to Immigrants
Häftad, 2002
266 kr
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The Illinois frontier offered abundant opportunity, noted English traveler William Oliver after his journey to America in 1841-42, but life there was hard. Accordingly, Oliver advised the wealthy and comfortable to remain in England and counseled the unprosperous to seek their fortunes in America. …
Growing Up with Southern Illinois, 1820 to 1861
From the Memoirs of Daniel Harmon Brush
Av Daniel Harmon Brush, Milo Milton Quaife m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
261 kr
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Growing Up with Southern Illinois is the self-portrait of a rugged pioneer, Daniel Brush, who prospered on the Illinois frontier, founded the town of Carbondale, and led a regiment of hellions in the Civil War.
When Lincoln Came to Egypt
Av George W. Smith, Daniel W. Stowell
Häftad, 2016
246 kr
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In When Lincoln Came to Egypt, George W. Smith discusses Lincoln’s various trips to southern Illinois, focusing mainly on Lincoln’s most prominent visit, when he came to debate Stephen A. Douglas in Jonesboro in 1858.
