Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois PrairieYale University Press, 2017 M02 1 - 285 páginas "This is a book for anyone who has ridden down a country road and, hearing the wind whistle through the cornstalks, wondered about the Indians and pioneers who listened to that sound before him."—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune Winner of the 1986 Society for the History of the Early American Republic Award The fascinating story of the birth and development of a rural American community from its origins at the turn of the nineteenth century to the years that followed the Civil War. Drawing on newspapers, account books, and reminiscences, the author of the prize-winning Women and Men on the Overland Trail vividly portrays the lives of the prairie’s inhabitants—Indians, pioneers, farming men and women—and adds a compelling new chapter to American social history. "Every chapter, almost every page, contains new ideas or throws new light on old ones, by means of a wealth of detail and clarity of though which brings the past alive again."—Hugh Brogan, The Times Literary Supplement "Here, succinctly set out, is the American prairie experience."—Publishers Weekly |
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... Social conditions. 4. Sugar Creek Valley (Macoupin County and Sangamon County, Ill.)—Economic conditions. F547, SQ4F37 1986 977.3'56 86-5622 ISBN 0–300–03545–4 (cloth) 0–300–04263–9 (pbk.) The paper in this book meets the guidelines for ...
... lists, marriage records, plat maps, probate materials, church records, and cemetery inventories—constitute an invaluable resource for the social historian. I want to especially thank Eileen Gochnanour and Xi Acknowledgments.
Life on the Illinois Prairie John Mack Faragher. social historian. I want to especially thank Eileen Gochnanour and Joyce Stuper of the Society. I also learned from Mary Alice Dodds Bale, who knows the history of the Cumberland ...
... social history must build. The technique of family reconstitution also allows historians to examine in outline the life histories of individual families. Linked with various other kinds of evidence, including reminiscence, and presented ...
... social order.” Recently the productive system of early America has been the subject of a good deal of historical debate. Has American agriculture been fundamentally capitalist from its beginnings, or was it characterized by a different ...
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37 | |
Lords of the Soil Tenants of the Hearth | 77 |
The Sugar Creek Community | 119 |
All Is Changed | 171 |
Conclusion | 234 |
Notes | 239 |
Index | 271 |