| Prairie Albion: An English Settlement in Pioneer Illinois Contributor(s): Boewe, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 0809322838 ISBN-13: 9780809322831 Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press OUR PRICE: $20.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1999 Annotation: Originally published in 1962, this story of the English Settlement in pioneer Illinois is compiled from the eyewitness accounts of the participants. The founders, Morris Birkbeck and George Flower, as well as their associates and the many visitors to their prairie settlement, wrote mainly for immediate and sometimes controversial ends. Charles Boewe has selected excerpts from letters, descriptions, diaries, histories, and periodicals within a chronological framework to emphasize the implicit drama of the settlers' deeds as they searched for a suitable site, founded their colony, and augmented their forces with new arrivals from England. No less dramatic is the subsequent estrangement of the two founders, the disillusionment of many of the English settlers, the untimely death of Birkbeck, and the financial ruin of Flower. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century - History | Expeditions & Discoveries |
| Dewey: 977.379 |
| LCCN: 99021403 |
| Lexile Measure: 1270 |
| Series: Shawnee Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.12" W x 9.04" (1.31 lbs) 360 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Great Lakes - Cultural Region - Heartland - Cultural Region - Midwest - Geographic Orientation - Illinois |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Originally published in 1962, this story of the English Settlement in pioneer Illinois is compiled from the eyewitness accounts of the participants. The founders, Morris Birkbeck and George Flower, as well as their associates and the many visitors to their prairie settlement, wrote mainly for immediate and sometimes controversial ends. Charles Boewe has selected excerpts from letters, descriptions, diaries, histories, and periodicals within a chronological framework to emphasize the implicit drama of the settlers' deeds as they searched for a suitable site, founded their colony, and augmented their forces with new arrivals from England. No less dramatic is the subsequent estrangement of the two founders, the disillusionment of many of the English settlers, the untimely death of Birkbeck, and the financial ruin of Flower. |