Author: WOLFE, David (editor)
Title: Metamora: In Lincoln's Path (Vol. 1, No. 1, June, 1964)
Description: [Metamore, IL], Woodford County Old Settlers Association, 1964. Paperback. 4to. Stiff red pictorial wrappers. 50pp. Numerous illustrations, advertisements. Near fine. Exceptionally tight, clean and attractive first edition of the "Woodford County Old Settlers Association 1964 Souvenir Book," an annual local publication from the county seat of Woodford County, Illinois, smack dab in the center of the state -- where Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson I once practiced law. A miscellany of articles on local history, early settlers and so on. Metamora is best remembered as the site of one of the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates. .

Keywords: Illinois & Midwest


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