The author probably did not reach Illinois, but his letters from Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky give interesting bits of information in regard to the manner and cost of travel—1818 to 1820.
Flower, George. History of the English Settlement in Edwards County, Illinois, founded in 1817 and 1818, by Morris Birkbeck and George Flower. Chicago: Fergus Printing Co., 1882. 16mo. 401 pp.
The work is volume I. of the Chicago Historical Society's Collections. The best book on this important episode in immigration to Illinois.
Flower, Richard. Letters from Lexington and the Illinois, containing a brief Account of the English Settlement in the latter Territory, and a Refutation of the Misrepresentations of Mr. Cobbett. London: J. Rigdway, 1819. iv. + 32 pp.
Two letters—one from Lexington and the other from New Albion, Ill. Highly colored.
Forsyth, Maj. Thomas, Indian Agent. Journal of a Voyage from St. Louis to the Falls of St. Anthony, in 1819. In Wis. Hist. Coll., VI., 188-215. Madison, Wis.: Atwood & Culver, State Printers, 1872.
Incidentally the writer gives an account of the atrocities committed in 1812 by Capt. Thomas E. Craig upon the inhabitants of Peoria. Forsyth was an eye-witness of the barbarities described.
Galena Advertiser. Galena, Ill. Pub. by H. Newhall, Philleo and Co., July 20, 1829-May 24, 1830, and July 20, 1829-May 10, 1830.
July 20, July 27, August 10, Sept. 14, Sept. 21, 1829, have been used. In Library of Chicago Historical Society.
Galena (Ill.) Weekly Gazette.