Free Online Library
Free Online Library
Each book entry on site pages has a brief description and a link to the free online book. Illinois Biographies & Memoirs page Bacheller, Irving, A Man for the Ages: A Story of the Builders of Democracy Burlend, Rebecca, A True Picture of Emigration, or, Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America (etc.) Hubbard, […]
Selected Books about Pioneer Life in Early Illinois Read More »
This History of the Great Lakes States website contains many titles related to the War of 1812. The list below contains works found on the various War and Military pages that are almost exclusively about that war. There are also works on other pages of the site, such as the Biographies and Memoirs, Fiction, and
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle played an important role in the early history of the French acquisition of the Great Lakes region from about 1673 to 1687. In explorations west and south from existing Canadian settlements, he established forts on the Great Lakes and on the Ohio, Illinois and Mississippi rivers. On his last
In 1788 the first new permanent American settlement northwest of the Ohio River (not including French villages) within the borders of the Northwest Territory was established at Marietta, Ohio. However, American involvement in that frontier region had begun nearly 20 years prior to that, before the Revolutionary War started, with pioneers moving into wilderness areas
We have a selection of free online history journals, magazines and newspapers from the 1800s and early 1900s from the Great Lakes region and each of it’s five states, at these pages; Great Lakes History Periodicals: Newspapers Illinois History Periodicals Indiana History Periodicals Michigan History Periodicals Ohio History Periodicals Wisconsin History Periodicals We also have