Author: BOEWE, Charles
Title: Prairie Albion: An English Settlement in Pioneer Illinois
Description: Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1962. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Tan cloth over limp boards. xv, 317pp. Illustrations. Fine. Tight, handsome first edition. George Flower (1788-1862) and Morris Birkbeck (1764-1825) were Englishmen who attempted to create an English pioneering community in Edwards County, Illinois Territory around 1817; Birkbeck wrote the classics "Notes on a Journey in America" (1817) and "Letters from Illinois" (1818). .

Keywords: Illinois & Midwest


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