The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 Part 16

I., 103-16 (1857), gives an account of the ma.s.sacre at Fort Dearborn, August 15, 1812, largely taken from the Kinzie narrative.

_Chicago Sunday Tribune, Nov._ 28, 1897.

New light thrown on Old Fort Dearborn. An account of the finding of important records in the archives of the U. S. government. The archives contained the original order for building a fort where Fort Dearborn later stood (order of 1803), and sketches of Fort Dearborn as early as January, 1808. The sketches are reproduced.

CLARKE, S. C. _Prairie State, The._ (_Atlantic Monthly_, VII., 579-595, _May_, 1861.)

Well written and treats a large number of subjects.

COPELAND, LOUIS ALBERT, B. L. _The Cornish in southwest Wisconsin._ Pages 301-334 of _Wis. Hist. Coll._, XIV. _Madison, Wis.: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer_, 1898.

Gives several facts concerning the early history of the Galena region.

Most of the Cornish, however, came after 1830.

DANA, E. _Geographical Sketches on the Western Country: designed for Emigrants and Settlers: being the Result of extensive Researches and Remarks. To which is added a Summary of all the most interesting Matters on the Subject, including a particular Description of the unsold public Lands, ... also, a List of the princ.i.p.al Roads. Cincinnati: Looker, Reynolds & Co._, 1819. 312 pp.

Pages 133-156 are devoted to Illinois. A suggestion of the fraudulent count in the census of 1818 is given.

--_A Description of the bounty Lands in the State of Illinois: also, the princ.i.p.al Roads and Routes, by Land and Water, through the Territory of the United States. Cincinnati: Looker, Reynolds & Co._, 1819. 12mo. 108 pp.

Gives very few references to settlement and few descriptions of historic sites.

DAVIDSON, ALEXANDER, _and_ STUVe, BERNARD. _A complete History of Illinois from 1673 to 1873; embracing the physical Features of the Country; its early Explorations, aboriginal Inhabitants; French and British Occupation; Conquest by Virginia; territorial Condition and the subsequent civil, military and political Events of the State. Springfield, Ill.: Ill.

Journal Co._, 1874. 944 pp.

Crude, but no specialist in Illinois history should be without it. Not minute in treatment of immigration.

_Decatur, Macon County, Illinois, History of. Decatur, Ill.: Compiled and published by Wiggins & Co., Cleveland, O._, 1871. 51 pp.

A symposium without historical merit. Almost exclusively of a later period than 1830, but tells of the first settlement of the county in 1820.

DRAKE, SAMUEL ADAMS. _The Making of the Ohio Valley States, 1660-1837. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons_, 1894. 16mo. 269 pp.

A very few pages are devoted to Illinois, and naturally the larger events alone are noted.

DREW, BENJAMIN. _The Refugee; or, The Narratives of fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the colored Population of Upper Canada. Boston: John P.

Jewett & Co._, 1856. 12mo. 387 pp.

A few of the refugees whose escapes are narrated pa.s.sed through Illinois on the Underground Railroad.

EAMES, CHARLES M. _Historic Morgan and Cla.s.sic Jacksonville. Jacksonville, Ill.: Daily Journal Steam Job Printing Office_, 1885. 336 pp. In Library of Chicago Historical Society.

Of great interest because of its details concerning early methods of travel and concerning the beginnings in Morgan county. Deals with pioneer and slavery history.

EDWARDS, NINIAN WIRT. _History of Illinois, from 1778 to 1833; and Life and Times of Ninian Edwards. Springfield, Ill.: Ill. State Journal Co._, 1870. 549 + iii. pp.

Written by the son of Gov. Ninian Edwards. Not in good form, but has much authentic material.

_Family Magazine: or, Monthly Abstract of general Knowledge. New York, Boston, Cincinnati._

Volumes IV. (1837) and V. (1839) have short articles on Illinois, which are too light to be taken seriously.

FARMER, SILAS. _The History of Detroit and Michigan, or the Metropolis ill.u.s.trated. A chronological Cyclopedia of the Past end Present, including a full Record of territorial Days in Michigan and the Annals of Wayne County. Detroit: Silas Farmer & Co._, 1884. Revised and enlarged, 1890. 2 vols.

Valuable for information concerning Clark, Hamilton, Vigo, and La Balme.

FLAGLER, Major D. W. _A History of the Rock Island a.r.s.enal from its establishment in 1863 to December, 1876: and of the Island of Rock Island, the Site of the a.r.s.enal, from 1804 to 1863. Was.h.i.+ngton: Government Printing Office_, 1877. 483 pp. 13 plates, 2 pictures.

The first chapter of the book refers to the first white settlement in the region of Rock Island, about 1828.

FORD, GOV. THOMAS. _A History of Illinois, from its Commencement __ as a State in 1818 to 1847. Containing a full Account of the Black Hawk War, the Rise, Progress, and Fall of Mormonism, the Alton and Lovejoy Riots, and other important and interesting Events. Chicago: S. C. Griggs & Co._, 1854. 447 pp.

As the t.i.tle indicates, the book is chiefly valuable for a period later than 1830. It is also largely political. The first one hundred and ten pages will be found useful and deal to some extent with the social life when the state was young. Criticism: _Draper MSS._, Z 13.

GERHARD, FRED. _Illinois as it is; its History, Geography, Statistics, Const.i.tution, Laws, Government, Finances, Climate, Soil, Plants, Animals, State of Health, Prairies, Agriculture, Cattle-breeding, Orcharding, Cultivation of the Grape, Timber-growing, Market-prices, Lands and Land-prices ... etc. Philadelphia: Charles Desilver_, 1857. 451 pp.

Pages 13-137 are devoted to the history of Illinois. The author is conspicuously accurate and treats a large number of topics. A valuable secondary work.

_Glimpses of the Monastery. Scenes from the History of the Ursulines of Quebec during two hundred Years, 1639-1839. By a Member of the Community.

Second edition, completed by Reminiscences of the last fifty Years, 1839-1889. Quebec: L. J. Domers & Frere_, 1897. ix.+418+184 pp.

Pages 84-93 of the first pagination give a suggestive discussion of the capability of the Indian for civilization.

GREEN, THOMAS MARSHALL. _Historic Families of Kentucky. (First Series.) Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co._, 1889. 304 pp.

Gives a few facts concerning John Todd and John Todd Stuart, who were active in Illinois. The latter was a cousin of Mary Todd Lincoln and had much early influence upon Lincoln. The volume deals with McDowells, Logans, and Allens. Well written and valuable.

HAIGHT, WALTER C., _B. L. The Ordinance of 1787._ (pp. 343-402 of _Pub. of the Mich. Pol. Sci. a.s.s'n._ II.), 1896, 1897.

A discussion of the binding effect of the Ordinance of 1787. The question has a close connection with slavery in Illinois.

HALL, B. F. _The early History of the North Western States, __ embracing New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Iowa and Wisconsin, with their land Laws, etc., and an Appendix containing the Const.i.tutions of those States. Buffalo: Geo. H. Derby & Co., 1849._ Duodecimo. 477 pp.

Statements made in this book must be carefully verified. The rise of conflicting land t.i.tles is fairly well treated.

HARRIS, N. DWIGHT, Ph. D. _The History of Negro Servitude in Illinois and of the slavery Agitation in that State 1719-1864. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1904._ 276 pp.

An erudite work, compiled from many sources previously unused.

HAYES, A. A., Jr. _The Metropolis of the Prairies. (Harper's New Monthly Mag._, LXI., 711-730, Oct. 1880).

A readable popular article. Chiefly concerned with events later than 1830.

HEATON, JOHN L. _The Story of Vermont. Boston: D. Lothrop Co., 1889._ 319 pp.

Has an interesting chapter of twenty pages on The Great West. More reliable than so popular a book usually is.

HENDERSON, JOHN G. _Early History of the __"__Sangamon Country,__"__ being Notes on the first Settlements in the Territory now comprised within the Limits of Morgan, Scott and Ca.s.s Counties. Davenport, Iowa: Day, Egbert & Fidlar, 1873._ 33 pp.