Pages 411-20 are on Illinois. Too inaccurate to be of great value, although some information in regard to roads may be used. Tells of routes, methods, and cost of travel.
Palmer, John McCauley. Personal Recollections of John M. Palmer. Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Co., 1901. 631 pp.
The writer came to Illinois in 1831, but he had previously lived in Kentucky, and he gives some facts concerning slavery that are of value.
Parkison, Col. Daniel M. Pioneer Life in Wisconsin. In Wis. Hist. Coll., II., 326-64. Madison, Wis.: Calkins & Proudfit, 1856.
The author came from Tennessee to Madison county, Illinois, in 1817; in 1819, to Sangamon county, Illinois; in 1827, to Galena, Illinois. Gives a valuable statement concerning the feeling of Yankees toward Southerners, tells of the first sermon in Sangamon county, and of the Winnebago war of 1827.
Peck, Rev. John Mason. A Guide for Emigrants (1831), containing Sketches of Illinois, Missouri, and the adjacent Parts. Boston: Lincoln & Edmands, 1831. 336 pp.
Contains a great amount of fairly accurate information. Its description of cities is especially useful. Page 184 gives an amusing and instructive illustration of the need of energy and work in even a frontier settlement (1829).
——Memoir of John Mason Peck, D. D., edited from his Journals and Correspondence. By Rufus Babcock. Philadelphia: Am. Baptist Pub. Soc., 1864. 12mo. 360 pp.
Not in good literary form. Throws much light upon the moral and religious life in Illinois and Missouri from 1817 to 1857.
——The Religion and Morals of Illinois prior to 1818. In Reynolds, Pioneer History of Illinois. Pp. 253-275.