The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 Part 9

WORKS CONSULTED.

I. Sources.

_American Historical a.s.sociation, Annual Report of the. Was.h.i.+ngton: Government Printing Office._

Report for 1893, pp. 199-227, see Turner, Frederick Jackson; Report of 1896, Vol. I., pp. 930-1107, has "Selections from the Draper Collection in the possession of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, to elucidate the proposed French expedition under George Rogers Clark against Louisiana, in the years 1793-94."

_American monthly Magazine and critical Review. New York: H. Biglow, editor._

Volumes I.-III. (1817-18) give information of much value concerning European conditions inducing emigration. A few of the notices concern emigration from east to west in the United States.

_American Register; or, Summary Review of History, Politics, and Literature. Philadelphia._

Volume II., 202, 203, 216 (1817), tells of improvements in steamboat navigation.

_Americans as they are; described in a Tour through the Valley of the Mississippi. London: Hurst, Chance & Co.,_ 1828. vi. + 218 pp.

Observations on Illinois are more suggestive than accurate.

At.w.a.tER, CALEB. _Remarks made on a Tour to Prairie du Chien. Columbus, Ohio: Isaac N. Whiting_, 1831. 296 pp.

The tour was from Circleville, Ohio, to Prairie du Chien, in 1829, and thence to Was.h.i.+ngton. The writer's remarks give valuable material for the history of the time.

-- _Writings. Columbus, Ohio: Caleb At.w.a.ter_, 1833. 408 pp.

The author was one of a commission to treat with the Indians at Prairie du Chien for the cession of the lead region. In 1829 he went from St. Louis to Prairie du Chien. He gives good descriptions of Quincy, Galena, and a few other places. The part of the Writings describing this journey was separately printed in 1831. The edition of 1833 is somewhat better than the previous one.

BALESTIER, JOSEPH N. _Annals of Chicago: a Lecture delivered before the Chicago Lyceum, Jan. 21, 1840. Republished from the original Edition of 1840, with an Introduction, written by the Author in 1876. Chicago: Fergus Printing Co._, 1876. In _Fergus historical Series_, I., No. 1. 48 pp.

Contains a copy of Capt. Heald's letter of 1812, describing the ma.s.sacre at Fort Dearborn.

BIGGS, WILLIAM. _Narrative of William Biggs, while he was a Prisoner with the Kickepoo Indians ... on the west Bank of the Wabash River ... Printed for the author, June, 1826._ 22 pp.

Biggs was captured on March 28, 1788, and remained a captive for several weeks. This very rare book gives valuable insight into the revolting customs of the Indians.

BIRKBECK, MORRIS. _Extracts from a supplementary Letter from the Illinois: an Address to British Emigrants, and a Reply to the Remarks of William Cobbett, Esq. 2d ed. London: James Ridgeway_, 1819. 36 pp.

Birkbeck had issued an address to British emigrants, advertising the virtues of his English settlement in Illinois. William Cobbett declared that Birkbeck's account of the fertility and salubrity of Illinois was not true. Birkbeck issued a somewhat scathing reply, showing Cobbett's ignorance.

-- _Letters from Illinois. Philadelphia: M. Carey & Son_, 1818. 12mo. vii.

+ 154 pp.

Twenty-two letters written from November, 1817, to March, 1818, by Morris Birkbeck, from the English settlement in Edwards county, Ill., of which settlement he was the founder. Very valuable for notes concerning transportation and the manner of life of the early settlers of Illinois.

-- _Notes on a Journey in America from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois. Philadelphia: Richardson_, 1817.

Pa.s.sed through several editions in England.

A graphic account of the journey of Birkbeck from 500 miles east of Cape Henry, Va. (April 26, 1817), to Shawneetown, Ill., where on August 2, 1817, he bought 1440 acres of land as a site for his English settlement.

Very valuable for information concerning transportation and western conditions.

BLANEY, Capt. _An Excursion through the United States and __ Canada during the years 1822-23. By an English Gentleman. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy_, 1824. 16mo. 511 pp.

Pages 156-92 tell of the author's trip across Illinois. He visited Albion and then went to St. Louis overland. The descriptions of Birkbeck's settlement, the difficulties of prairie travel, and of the frontier life encountered are much above the average of travelers' reports.

BONNER, T. D. _Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians. Written from his own Dictation. New York: Harper & Bros._, 1858. 16mo. 535 pp.

The book deals almost entirely with the region west of the Mississippi, but in 1820 Beckwourth visited Galena. He went from St. Louis with a party led by Col. R. M. Johnson, the object of the party being to gain a mining concession from the Sauk Indians.

BRANNAN, JOHN (_Editor_). _Official Letters of the military and naval Officers of the United States, during the War with Great Britain in the Years 1812, 13, 14, & 15. Was.h.i.+ngton: Way & Gideon, 1823._ 510 pp.

A valuable collection. Printed without comment. Pages 84-5 give Capt.

Heald's official report of the ma.s.sacre at Fort Dearborn, August 15, 1812.

The report is in a letter to Thos. H. Cus.h.i.+ng, Adjutant General, written from Pittsburg, October 23, 1812.

BRODHEAD, Col. DANIEL. _A Letter from Brodhead to Gen. Was.h.i.+ngton referring to La Balme's Expedition._

In _The olden Time_, II., 390-91.

BUTRICKE, GEORGE. _Affairs at Fort Chartres, 1768-1781. Albany: J.

Munsell_, 1864. 10 pp.

Reprinted from _Historical Magazine_, VIII., No, 8. Valuable. Several letters written by Geo. Butricke, then stationed at Fort Chartres.

Contains interesting notes on Indians, Spaniards, and British. Tells of epidemic.

_Calendar of Virginia State Papers and other Ma.n.u.scripts. Richmond, Va._, 1875-1900. 9 vols.

The early volumes have doc.u.ments of great value concerning the period when Illinois was a part of Virginia.

CARTWRIGHT, PETER, _Autobiography of Peter Cartwright, the __ backwoods Preacher. Ed. by W. P. Strickland. New York: Carlton & Porter_, 1857, 16mo. 525 pp.

The author was from 1803 to the time of writing his book (1856) one of the most famous circuit riders. His first work was in Kentucky. He came to Illinois in 1823. His views on slavery, which caused his removal, are interesting. A valuable work, especially for giving an insight into the social life of the time.

CHETLAIN, Gen. AUGUSTUS LOUIS. _Recollections of seventy Years. Galena: The Gazette Pub. Co._, 1899. 304 pp.

The author was one of the first settlers in Galena, and gives valuable information concerning that important region-1821 ff.

_Chicago Historical Society's Collections. Chicago_, 1882-90:-

I. History of the English Settlement in Edwards County, Illinois, by George Flower, 1882. 408 pp.