| Title | Illinois in 1837 & 8; a sketch descriptive of the situation, boundaries, face of the country, prominent districts, prairies, rivers, minerals, animals, agricultural productions, public lands, plans of internal improvement, manufactures, &c., of the state of Illinois: also, suggestions to emigrants, sketches of the counties, cities, and principal towns in the state: together with a letter on the cultivation of the prairies, by H. L. Ellsworth. To which are annexed the letters from a rambler in the West.
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| Published | Philadelphia, S. A. Mitchell, 1837, [c1837]
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| Description | viii, 9-143 p. fold. map. 22 cm.
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| General Note | "The publisher is probably the author. It was got up mainly to promote the sale of Illinois lands then owned by John Grigg of Philadelphia."--Sabin, Bibl. amer., v. 9, no. 34260.
Another edition published in 1837 without cover title.
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| Subjects | Illinois.
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| Other Authors | Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868.
Rambler in the West.
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| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: F 38 J M682 I1
mq130852: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 71309] |
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