A series of letters from one who traveled through the West in 1818-19. In a fair manner the discouragements which emigrants may expect to meet are portrayed. In Library of Chicago Historical Society.
II. Secondary Works.
Abbott, John Stevens Cabot. History of Maine from the earliest Discovery of the Region by the Northmen until the present Time. Boston: B. B. Russell, 1875. 556 pp.
Tells of the “Ohio fever,” which raged about the close of the war of 1812, and which furnished some settlers to Illinois.
Agnew, Hon. Daniel, LL. D. History of the Region of Pennsylvania north of the Ohio and west of the Allegheny River ... also, an Account of the Division of the Territory for public Purposes, and of the Lands, Laws, Titles, Settlements, Controversies, and Litigation within this Region. Philadelphia: Kay & Brother, 1887. 4+246 pp.
The work shows the price at which Pennsylvania public lands sold at the time Illinois was being settled.
Allen, J. A. American Bisons, living and extinct. Cambridge, Mass.: Welch, Bigelow, & Co., 1876. ix.+246 pp. and 12 plates.
Carefully done. Tells of the great herds of buffalo early found in Illinois and of their extermination in that region.
Allen, William Francis. The Place of the North-West in general History. Pages 92-111 of the author's Essays and Monographs. Boston: Geo. H. Ellis, 1890. 392 pp. Found also in Papers of the Am. Hist. Ass'n., III., pp. 329-48.
Good for a view of our subject as connected with larger portions of the world's history.