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Prairie Albion: An English Settlement in Pioneer Illinois (Shawnee Classics (Reprinted)) by Charles E. Boewe is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>Originally published in 1962, this story of the English Settlement in pioneer Illinois is compiled from the eyewitness accounts of the participants. The founders, Morris Birkbeck and George Flower, as well as their associates and the many visitors to their prairie settlement, wrote mainly for immediate and sometimes controversial ends. Charles Boewe has selected excerpts from letters, descriptions, diaries, histories, and periodicals within a chronological framework to emphasize the implicit drama of the settlers' deeds as they searched for a suitable site, founded their colony, and augmented their forces with new arrivals from England. No less dramatic is the subsequent estrangement of the two founders, the disillusionment of many of the English settlers, the untimely death of Birkbeck, and the financial ruin of Flower.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Who reads Prairie Albion: An English Settlement in Pioneer Illinois (Shawnee Classics (Reprinted))?

Author

Charles E. Boewe

Publisher

Southern Illinois University Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809322831

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, American Studies, Humanities