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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Illiana Genealogist
Author: Biographical and Reminiscent History of Richland, Clay and Marion Counties, Illinois
Author: Genealogical & Local History Books in Print
Author: Periodical Source Index, 1847-1985: Places
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
V.1-2, 5-6, 9-10, 13-14:Places; v.3-4,7-8,11-12,15-16: Families.
The Genealogical Record
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Category : Houston Region (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Genealogy Division Subject Catalog, 1976-1984: P-Z
Author: Indiana State Library. Genealogy DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Genealogical & Local History Books in Print
Author: Netti Schreiner-YantisPublisher: Genealogical Books in Print
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of BibliographyPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2352
Book Description
The Genealogical Helper
Author: Illinois in the War of 1812
Author: Gillum FergusonPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252094557
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Russell P. Strange "Book of the Year" Award from the Illinois State Historical Society, 2012. On the eve of the War of 1812, the Illinois Territory was a new land of bright promise. Split off from Indiana Territory in 1809, the new territory ran from the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers north to the U.S. border with Canada, embracing the current states of Illinois, Wisconsin, and a part of Michigan. The extreme southern part of the region was rich in timber, but the dominant feature of the landscape was the vast tall grass prairie that stretched without major interruption from Lake Michigan for more than three hundred miles to the south. The territory was largely inhabited by Indians: Sauk, Potawatomi, Kickapoo, and others. By 1812, however, pioneer farmers had gathered in the wooded fringes around prime agricultural land, looking out over the prairies with longing and trepidation. Six years later, a populous Illinois was confident enough to seek and receive admission as a state in the Union. What had intervened was the War of 1812, in which white settlers faced both Indians resistant to their encroachments and British forces poised to seize control of the upper Mississippi and Great Lakes. The war ultimately broke the power and morale of the Indian tribes and deprived them of the support of their ally, Great Britain. Sometimes led by skillful tacticians, at other times by blundering looters who got lost in the tall grass, the combatants showed each other little mercy. Until and even after the war was concluded by the Treaty of Ghent in 1814, there were massacres by both sides, laying the groundwork for later betrayal of friendly and hostile tribes alike and for ultimate expulsion of the Indians from the new state of Illinois. In this engrossing new history, published upon the war's bicentennial, Gillum Ferguson underlines the crucial importance of the War of 1812 in the development of Illinois as a state. The history of Illinois in the War of 1812 has never before been told with so much attention to the personalities who fought it, the events that defined it, and its lasting consequences. Endorsed by the Illinois Society of the War of 1812 and the Illinois War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission.