Download or read book The History and Stories of Buffalo Illinois written by Perry R. Hall and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of Illinois and Its People written by William Lewis Nida and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Buffalo Grove written by Village of Buffalo Grove 50th Anniversary Committee and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Buffalo Grove region of Illinois beginning with the earliest settlers in the 1840s to the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the incorporation of the Village in 2008.
Download or read book History of Lee County Illinois written by Frank Everett Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Buffalo in the House written by Richard Dean Rosen and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sprawling suburban house in Santa Fe is not the kind of home where a buffalo normally roams, but Veryl Goodnight and Roger Brooks are not your ordinary animal lovers. Over a hundred years after Veryl's ancestors, Charles and Mary Ann Goodnight, hand-raised two baby buffalo to help save the species from extinction, the sculptor and her husband adopt an orphaned buffalo calf of their own. Against a backdrop of the old American West, A Buffalo in the House tells the story of a household situation beyond any sitcom writer's wildest dreams. Charlie has no idea he's a buffalo and Roger has no idea just how strong the bond between man and buffalo can be. In the historical shadow of the near-extermination of a majestic and misunderstood animal, Roger sets out to save just one buffalo. Written in the tradition of Ian Frazier's Great Plains and the work of Garrison Keillor and Bill Bryson, A Buffalo in the House tells an important, uplifting story about one animal's ability to touch human lives and reconnect people of all ages to the vanished past.
Download or read book A History of the City of Buffalo written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chapters from Illinois History written by Edward Gay Mason and published by Chicago : H.S. Stone. This book was released on 1901 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Ogle County Illinois written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Voice of the Prairie written by John Heckman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Voice of the Prairie: A Brief History of Polo, Illinois, 1857-1957 What happened to all these buffalo? The Winter of 1778 is known in our early history, as the winter of the deep snow. In the Mississippi Valley it snowed heavily, then the weather became warm and a crust formed over the snow. It was too hard for the buffalo to break through to get bark and grass for food. During that winter many of the buffalo starved. Isaac Chambers can, without doubt, be considered the first settler in what today is Ogle County. In the spring of 1830 he built a cabin on the south side of the creek near the Galena Trail. It was his intention to keep a tavern, or inn, for the travelers on their way to Galena. John Ankeny had passed through Buffalo Grove the previous year on his way to Galena. Ankeny marked some trees to indicate that that area was his claim. When Ankeny returned in the spring of 1830 with his family he found that Isaac Chambers had built a log cabin to be used as a tavern on the site he had staked out. Some controversy ensued be tween these two men in which Chambers was successful. So Ankeny chose land on the north side of the creek about a half mile west from where Chambers had built his tavern. Here Ankeny built a rival tavern. In the spring of 1831, Oliver W. Kellogg and Samuel Reed, with their families, arrived at Buffalo Grove. Mr. Kellogg purchased the claim and improvements of Isaac Chambers. Samuel Reed came to this area with the purpose of farming. The first spring he was here he broke and planted fourteen acres of corn. In 1832, he sowed some wheat which was, without doubt, the first wheat sowed in What today is Ogle County. This area can rightfully claim the first farm in the country. The Reed claim is a part of the farm now own ed by Sam Gilbert. In the spring of 1832 the Black Hawk War began. A dispatch was sent to the settlers telling them of the battle at Stillman's Run, where the In dians were victorious. They were ordered to go at once to the military headquarters near Dixon's ferry. These settlers, so it is said, then went to Peoria where they remained until September. Then they returned to their homes in Buffalo Grove. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book French and Indians of Illinois River written by Nehemiah Matson and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complex and paradoxical, Nehemiah Matson (1816-1873) celebrated the occupation of the Middle West by European pioneers even as he labored to preserve the memory of the natives these pioneers replaced. He perpetuated the memory of the Indians who were driven out of the territory, but he nevertheless accumulated wealth selling their land to the pioneers. Rodney O. Davis notes in his new foreword to this book that Matson combined the attributes of a scholar with those of a salesman and promoter. Matson settled in Princeton, Illinois, in 1836. He left behind a library partially endowed by him, named for him, and finally completed in 1913. According to Davis, however, Matson's other legacy, "of equal significance in his own eyes, consisted of the five books he authored on northern Illinois and Illinois River history and cartography, volumes based not only on conscientious scholarship but also on both Indian and white reminiscence and on local folklore." Matson's historical writings are valuable even when he deals with well-known events because his personal perspective makes his observations unique. Without the stories and reminiscences he collected, much valuable information would have been lost, especially since many of his informants, both Indian and European, were illiterate. Because his informants often told conflicting stories, Matson admitted that "harmonizing all conflicting accounts . . . has not been a success." Although Matson's sources may not always have agreed, and sometimes his heart may have overruled his head and colored his accounts, he was a conscientious and committed author. "Obviously," Davis explains, "this book must be evaluated as what it is, a piece of colorful local history, romantically anchored in legend yet rooted also in invaluable research and produced by a dedicated amateur whose standards were high. . . . French and Indians of Illinois River is a model of its type, indeed a minor classic."
Download or read book Papers in Illinois History and Transactions written by Illinois State Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Indians of Illinois written by Helen Cox Tregillis and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the history, and notable individuals, of the Illinois Indians who left their mark upon the United States. Two chapters are devoted to the history and customs of Indians in the area of present-day Illinois, beginning in ancient times and continuing through the 1800s. Transcribed accounts from newspapers of the late 1800s and early 1900s provide a first-hand look at whites and their interactions with the Illinois Indians during recent history. The bulk of the book is made up of selected biographies of local early Native Americans, including such well-known Indians as Big Foot, Black Hawk, Pontiac, and Tecumseh, among many others. There is also a lengthy roster of Indians who appear in Illinois records (1642-1861) that typically gives a date, place, and event with which the individual is associated.
Download or read book Publications of the Illinois State Historical Library Illinois State Historical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Illinois Central Railroad written by John F. Stover and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1975 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Buffalo Bill in Bologna written by Robert W. Rydell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to the production and distribution of mass culture, no country in modern times has come close to rivaling the success of America. From blue jeans in central Europe to Elvis Presley's face on a Republic of Chad postage stamp, the reach of American mass culture extends into every corner of the globe. Most believe this is a twentieth-century phenomenon, but here Robert W. Rydell and Rob Kroes prove that its roots are far deeper. Buffalo Bill in Bologna reveals that the process of globalizing American mass culture began as early as the mid-nineteenth century. In fact, by the end of World War I, the United States already boasted an advanced network of culture industries that served to promote American values. Rydell and Kroes narrate how the circuses, amusement parks, vaudeville, mail-order catalogs, dime novels, and movies developed after the Civil War—tools central to hastening the reconstruction of the country—actually doubled as agents of American cultural diplomacy abroad. As symbols of America's version of the "good life," cultural products became a primary means for people around the world, especially in Europe, to reimagine both America and themselves in the context of America's growing global sphere of influence. Paying special attention to the role of the world's fairs, the exporting of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show to Europe, the release of The Birth of a Nation, and Woodrow Wilson's creation of the Committee on Public Information, Rydell and Kroes offer an absorbing tour through America's cultural expansion at the turn of the century. Buffalo Bill in Bologna is thus a tour de force that recasts what has been popularly understood about this period of American and global history.
Download or read book A Buffalo in the House written by R. D. Rosen and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a #1 New York Times–bestselling author, “a heartwarming tale of bonding between people and animals” (Booklist). A sprawling suburban house in Santa Fe is not the kind of home where a buffalo normally roams, but Veryl Goodnight and Roger Brooks are not your ordinary animal lovers. Over a hundred years after Veryl’s ancestors, Charles and Mary Ann Goodnight, hand-raised two baby buffalo to help save the species from extinction, the sculptor and her husband adopt an orphaned buffalo calf of their own. Against a backdrop of the American West, A Buffalo in the House tells the story of a household situation beyond any sitcom writer’s wildest dreams. Charlie has no idea he’s a buffalo and Roger has no idea just how strong the bond between man and buffalo can be. In the historical shadow of the near-extermination of a majestic and misunderstood animal, Roger sets out to save just one buffalo—in a true story featuring “one of the most memorable characters in recent nature writing” (Publishers Weekly). “More than a touching man-beast buddy tale . . . lovingly chronicles the history of an embattled species and its importance in the American West.” —Entertainment Weekly “Moving proof of the restorative powers of man’s relationship with nature.” —People
Download or read book The Making of Illinois written by Irwin F. Mather and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
