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, […]
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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 number of books authored by people who were settlers or visitors in Illinois in the early 1800s, and who wrote about their experiences there. The list below doesn’t include all such books on History of the Great Lakes States, but it’s a good start. Illinois Biographies and Memoirs page Burlend, Rebecca, A
The books below were authored by foreign visitors to the U.S. They described what they saw, recorded their reactions, and collected information for friends or reading audiences back home. All the works cover, at least in part, travels in the region of the Great Lakes States. Books are grouped below in the decades in which