Download or read book Report of the Illinois and Michigan Canal written by Illinois. Canal Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Illinois and Michigan Canal written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Prairie Passage written by Emily Harris and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhibition guide on the traveling photography exhibition and subsequent book titled Prairie Passage, by Edward Ranney.

Download or read book Illinois and Michigan Canal written by David A. Belden and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pictures and histories of canals in northeastern Illinois.

Download or read book A Report of the Illinois and Michigan Canal April 1944 written by Illinois. Division of Waterways and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report written by United States. Army. Office of the Chief of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 1386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Glimpse at the Great Western Republic written by Sir Arthur Augustus Thurlow Cunynghame and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Starved Rock State Park written by Dennis Cremin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visitors to Starved Rock State Park are often struck by the grandeur of its rustic lodge. They marvel at its massive fireplace and hand-hewn logs. Yet few realize that this structure is a tangible reminder of the Civilian Conservation Corps, which in the 1930s provided work for young men left unemployed by the Great Depression. Starved Rock Lodge was one of the biggest projects of the "CCC boys" along the Illinois and Michigan Canal, but it was far from the only one. Working as a team and living in camps from Willow Springs to La Salle-Peru, they built facilities that transformed the old canal into what became the I&M Canal State Trail (1974) and the nation's first National Heritage Corridor (1984). President Franklin D. Roosevelt's nation-wide program preserved the landscape from the ravages of soil erosion, flooding, and deforestation. In the process, the young men built beautiful parks, buildings, and shelters that we use and admire today.

Download or read book Passage to Chicago written by Tom Willcockson and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passage to Chicago: A journey on the Illinois & Michigan Canal in the Year 1860 takes the reader on a special kind of journey: an in-depth, illustrated look at life on a fictional canal boat, the Prairie Star, as it travels to Chicago just before the Civil War. You will experience the daily lives of those who lived and worked on the canal boats, as well as in the towns they traveled through. Hop on board with the canalers, mule boys, lock tenders and their families, miners, quarrymen, shopkeepers, and others, to witness their world of more than 150 years ago.

Download or read book Report written by Fay, Spofford, and Thorndike and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Report of the Canal Commissioners written by Illinois. Canal Commissioners and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Filth of Progress written by Ryan Dearinger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Filth of Progress explores the untold side of a well-known American story. For more than a century, accounts of progress in the West foregrounded the technological feats performed while canals and railroads were built and lionized the capitalists who financed the projects. This book salvages stories often omitted from the triumphant narrative of progress by focusing on the suffering and survival of the workers who were treated as outsiders. Ryan Dearinger examines the moving frontiers of canal and railroad construction workers in the tumultuous years of American expansion, from the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 to the joining of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads in 1869. He tells the story of the immigrants and Americans—the Irish, Chinese, Mormons, and native-born citizens—whose labor created the West’s infrastructure and turned the nation’s dreams of a continental empire into a reality. Dearinger reveals that canals and railroads were not static monuments to progress but moving spaces of conflict and contestation.

Download or read book Report of the Chief of Engineers written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: