Mackenzie, E. An historical, topographical, and descriptive View of the United States of America, and of Upper and Lower Canada ... the present State of Mexico and South America, and also of the native Tribes of the New World. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Mackenzie & Dent, 1819. viii. + 432 pp.
The four pages devoted to Illinois are interesting and fairly reliable, though scarcely up to date. The author mentions eighteen works used in compiling his book.
McLaughlin, Andrew C. Lewis Cass. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1891. 363 pp. $1.25.
Describes the expedition of General Cass to northern Illinois during the Sauk outbreak of 1827. Criticism: Nation, LIII., 204.
Marietta, O. Report of the Commissioners of the National Centennial Celebration of the Early Settlement of the Territory North West of the Ohio River, ... held at Marietta, O., July 15-19, inclusive, 1888. Columbus, O.: The Westbote Company, State Printers, 1889. 292 pp.
Contains many speeches of varying historical accuracy and importance.
Mason, Edward Gay. Chapters from Illinois History. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1901. 322 pp.
Scholarly and accurate, and rich in citation of sources. Tells of Old Fort Chartres, John Todd's Record-Book, the march of the Spaniards across Illinois, and the Chicago massacre.
—— March of the Spaniards across Illinois. (In his Chapters of Illinois History, Chicago, 1901; also in Mag. of Am. Hist. N. Y., XV., 457-469, 1886.)
Refers to a number of sources. The march is that of 1781 against St. Joseph.