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We have a number of memoirs and diaries/journals from people who traveled in or settled in early Indiana, many of which can be found at the linked pages below. Indiana Biographies & Memoirs Coffin, Levi, Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad (1880) Eggleston, George C., Life in Early Indiana (1910) …
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 …
Here are memoirs of interest by three people who lived on the frontier in the Great Lakes region. Reminiscences of Adele Gratiot; Recollections of a Young Mother in the Lead Region, 1826-1841 Weekly Gazette May 2, 1879 Gratiot, Adele Galena Ill. Adele Gratiot was a young mother of 24 when she moved to southwestern Wisconsin …