Illinois: a history of the Prairie State
Print Book, English, [1972]
W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co, Grand Rapids, Mich., [1972]
History
xxiv, 626 pages illustrations 24 cm
9780802870254, 0802870252
495362
Prairie, portages, and Indians
The French and the British
The arrival of the English-speaking
The territory of Illinois
New state on the frontier
Almost a slave state
Yankees in the north
Preachers, presses, and abolitionists
Internal improvements: a fiasco
The Mormon years
Fiscal honor
The arrival of the railroads
The fourth largest state
Tax-supported education
Douglas, Lincoln, and slavery
The Civil War
The Constitution of 1870
Chicago burns and grows
Grangers and greenbackers
The workingman organizers
Third state and second city
The progressive movement
War and reorganization
The prohibition era
Out of the mud, into the air
The Great Depression
War and recovery
Still growing, amid new problems