Prairie Albion: An English Settlement in Pioneer Illinois

by Charles Boewe and Charles E. Boewe

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809322838
• ISBN13: 9780809322831
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"