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1Title:  Eight months in Illinois: with information to immigrants    
 Creator:  Oliver, William. 
 Publication:  W. M. Hill, Chicago,1924. 
 Notes:  With facsimile of original t.-p., Newcastle upon Tyne, 1843. 
 Call #:  F38J O48 1924 
 Extent:  260 p. 21cm. 
 Subjects:  Illinois -- Description and travel
 
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2Title:  Pictures of Illinois one hundred years ago    
 Creator:  Quaife, Milo Milton, 1880- 
 Birkbeck, Morris, 1764-1825
 Blane, William Newnham, 1800-1825
 Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864
 Publication:  R. R. Donnelley, Chicago,1918. 
 Call #:  F38JE Q2 
 Extent:  xxiii, 186p. port. 18cm. 
 Subjects:  Illinois -- Description and travel
 
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3Title:  Illinois as Lincoln knew it: a Boston reporter's record of a trip in 1847    
 Creator:  Buckingham, Joseph H., 1806-1880 
 Pratt, Harry E. (Harry Edward), 1901-1956
 Abraham Lincoln Association (Springfield, Ill.)
 Publication:  Springfield, Ill,1938. 
 Notes:  "Reprinted from Papers in Illinois history and transactions for the year 1937, for members of the Abraham Lincoln Association." 
 Call #:  Pam. P919 
 Extent:  84 p. illus., plates, map. 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Illinois -- Description and travel
 
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4Title:  Letters from Illinois    
 Creator:  Birkbeck, Morris, 1764-1825 
 Melish, John, 1771-1822
 Publication:  M. Carey and Son, Philadelphia,1818. 
 Call #:  F38X E26B 
 Extent:  154 p. : 2 folded maps ; 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Illinois -- Description and travel | Imprints, Early American To 1820
 
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5Title:  Life in prairie land    
 Creator:  Farnham, Eliza Woodson Burhans, 1815-1864 
 Publication:  Harper & Bros, New York,1846. 
 Call #:  F38J F236 
 Extent:  408 p. ; 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Illinois -- Description and travel | Illinois -- Social life and customs
 
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6Title:  Wau-bun: the "early day" in the North-west    
 Creator:  Kinzie, John H.Mrs, 1806-1870 
 Gordon, Eleanor Lytle Kinzie, 1835-1917
 Publication:  Rand, McNally & company, Chicago, New York,[c1901] 
 Call #:  F42JE K56W3 
 Extent:  xiii. 15-393, a-j p. plates, 2 port. (incl. front.) 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Frontier and pioneer life -- Wisconsin | Northwest, Old -- Description and travel | Fort Winnebago (Portage, Wis.) | Illinois -- Description and travel | Chicago (Ill.) -- History | Illinois -- Description and travel | Chicago (Ill.) -- History
 
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7Title:  The far West, or, A tour beyond the mountains: embracing outlines of western life and scenery ; sketches of the prairies, rivers, ancient mounds, early settlements of the French, etc    
 Creator:  Flagg, Edmund, 1815-1890 
 Publication:  Harper & Bros, New York,1838. 
 Call #:  F25J F574 
 Extent:  2 v. ; 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel | Missouri -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Illinois -- Description and travel
 
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8Title:  Personal narrative of travels in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky: and of a residence in the Illinois Territory: 1817-1818    
 Creator:  Fordham, Elias Pym. 
 Ogg, Frederic Austin, 1878-1951
 Publication:  A.H. Clark Co, Cleveland,1906. 
 Notes:  "Selected list of contemporary travels": p. [239]-242. 
 Call #:  F36J F712 
 Extent:  248 p. illus., maps, 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel | Illinois -- Description and travel | United States -- Description and travel | English Prairie (Ill.) | Cleveland imprints 1906-
 
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9Title:  Two years' residence in the settlement on the English Prairie, in the Illinois country, United States: with an account of its animal and vegetable productions, agriculture, &c. &c., a description of the principal towns, villages, &c. &c., with the habits and customs of the back-woodsmen    
 Creator:  Woods, John, d. 1829 
 Publication:  Printed for Longman, Hurst, Reessa, Orme, and Brown, London,1822. 
 Call #:  F38DC W895 
 Extent:  310 p. : 3 maps (2 fold.) ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Frontier and pioneer life -- Illinois | Edwards County (Ill.) | Illinois -- Description and travel | Ohio River -- Description and travel
 
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10Title:  Notes upon the western country: contained within the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and the territory of Michigan: taken on a tour through that country in the summer of 1832    
 Creator:  Hoskins, Nathan, 1795-1869 
 Publication:  James P. Fogg, Greenfield [Mass.],1833. 
 Call #:  F33J H826 1833 Vault 
 Extent:  108 p. 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Ohio -- Description and travel | Indiana -- Description and travel | Illinois -- Description and travel | Michigan -- Description and travel | Northwest, Old -- Description and travel
 
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11Title:  A description of the bounty lands in the state of Illinois: also, the principal roads and routes, by land and water, through the territory of the United States; extending from the province of New-Brunswic, in Nova Scotia to the Pacific Ocean    
 Creator:  Dana, E. (Edmund) 
 Publication:  Looker, Reynolds & co., printers, Cincinnati,1819. 
 Notes:  "Description of the principal roads and routes, by land and water ..." with special t.-p,: p. [49]-108. The bounty lands comprised that part of Illinois between the Missippi and Illinois rivers. 
 Call #:  F38DC D167 1819 Vault 
 Extent:  108 p. 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Bounties, Military -- United States | Illinois -- Description and travel | United States -- Public lands | Illinois -- Public lands | United States -- Distances, etc | Imprints, Early American To 1820 | Ohio imprints 1819
 
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12Title:  Wau-bun, the "early day" in the North-west    
 Creator:  Kinzie, John H.Mrs, 1806-1870 
 Publication:  Derby & Jackson, H.W. Derby & co, New York, Cincinnati,1856. 
 Notes:  Narrative of travel in Wisconsin and Illinois; life at Fort Winnebago (Portage) Wisconsin, 1830-1833; Chicago in 1831; Chicago massacre of 1812. 
 Call #:  F42JE K56W 
 Extent:  xii, 13-498 p. front., plates. 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Frontier and pioneer life -- Wisconsin | Northwest, Old -- Description and travel | Portage (Wis.) | Illinois -- Description and travel | Chicago (Ill.) -- History | Ohio imprints 1856
 
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13Title:  Prairie farming in America: With notes by the way on Canada and the United States    
 Creator:  Caird, JamesSir, 1816-1892 
 Publication:  Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, London,1859. 
 Call #:  B 7671 
 Extent:  viii, 128 p. front. (fold. map) 18 cm. 
 Subjects:  Agriculture -- United States | Agriculture -- Canada | Agriculture -- Mississippi River Valley | Northwest, Old -- Description and travel | Canada -- Description and travel | Illinois -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | United States -- Description and travel
 
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14Title:  A true picture of emigration: or Fourteen years in the interior of North America : being a full and impartial account of the various difficulties and ultimate success of an English family who emigrated from Barwick-in-Elmet, near Leeds, in the year 1831    
 Creator:  Burlend, Rebecca, 1793-1872 
 Burlend, Edward, 1875
 Publication:  G. Berger, London,[1848] 
 Notes:  Attributed to Rebecca Burlend. Preface dated : Swillington, August 1st, 1848. An account of experiences in Pike County, Illinois, related by the author to her son. Edward Burlend, and recorded by him. 
 Call #:  Pam. B1550 
 Extent:  62 p. ; 18 cm. 
 Subjects:  Burlend, Rebecca, -- 1793-1872 | Frontier and pioneer life -- Illinois -- Pike County | Women pioneers -- Illinois -- Pike County | Illinois -- Description and travel | United States -- Emigration and immigration -- 19th century | Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- 19th century | Pike County (Ill.) -- Biography
 
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