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This 32-volume collection of journals and accounts by explorers and travelers in the American west was published over a 3-year period beginning in 1904 by Reuben Thwaites, as Secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Accounts of travel to the Great Lakes region are included in:: Volumes 1-5Volume 6 (Brackenridge)Volume 8 (Evans)Volumes 9 -12Volume 19 (Ogden […]
Below are some illustrated travel booklets; mostly published 1879 – 1884. They advertise the pleasures of vacationing in Northern Michigan, and also in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and other locations. The railroad companies began producing these guides soon after railway lines were completed to northern towns, marking the beginning of the tourist industry for most northern locations.
The list below includes books and articles on the site’s Illinois and Indiana pages. This site has similar resources for Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan, so please check the same subject pages for those states, which you can reach from History of the Great Lakes States. Some of the histories found on the each state General
Anti-Slavery before the Civil War; Illinois and Indiana Read More »
In the summer of 1778, during the Revolutionary War, Colonel George Rogers Clark with less than 200 soldiers made an expedition from Kentucky to Kaskaskia, in present-day Illinois. They took the British post there completely by surprise, conquering it without casualties. In February 1779 Col. Clark, with only about 100 men, followed up by marching
This page has links to two groups of works covering women authors of the 19th century. The first group has works by or about women authors and poets around the U.S. Second are works about authors, male and female, from the Great Lakes states, many of whom wrote about the region. Entries for these are