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ROSS, HARVEY LEE. _The early Pioneers and pioneer Events of the State of Illinois. Chicago_, 1899.

A medley of facts, written by a pioneer of 1820. The author was acquainted with both Cartwright and Lincoln, and speaks of them and of pioneer events with authority. Tells of a trip from New Jersey by wagons.

SCHOOLCRAFT, HENRY ROWE. _Summary Narrative of an exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820; resumed and completed, by the Discovery of its Origin in Itasca Lake, in 1832. By authority of the United States. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, & Co._, 1855. 596 pp.

The book is chiefly of interest to us because of its description of Chicago.

--_Travels in the central Portions of the Mississippi Valley: comprising Observations on its mineral Geography, internal Resources, and aboriginal Population. Performed under the Sanction of Government, in the Year 1821.

New York: Collins & Hannay_, 1825. 459 pp.

The writer descended the Wabash, the Ohio, and then ascended the Mississippi and the Illinois to Chicago. His descriptions of places, peoples and things are well written and are a chief historical source.

SCHULTZ, CHRISTIAN. _Travels on an inland Voyage through the States of New-York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and through the Territories of Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi and New-Orleans; performed in the Years 1807 and 1808. New York: Isaac Riley_, 1810. 2 vols. I., xviii.+206; II., 224 pp.

Has an interesting description of Illinois settlements.

SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY, _Editor. The St. Clair Papers. The Life and public Services of Arthur St. Clair ... with his Correspondence and other Papers.

Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co._, 1882. 2 vols. I., viii.+609; II., 649 pp.

Much information concerning Illinois under the Ordinance of 1787.

Criticisms: _Nation_, x.x.xIV., 383; _New York Tribune, June_ 16, 1882.

_Stories of the pioneer Mothers of Illinois. A collection of Ma.n.u.script Letters from the pioneer Women of the State, giving their early Experiences. Collected for the World's Columbian Exposition and afterward deposited in the Illinois State Historical Library._

Especially valuable for information on reasons for immigration and on methods of traveling.

STORROW, SAMUEL A. _The North-West in 1817._ In _Wis. Hist. Coll._, VI., pp. 154-87. _Madison, Wis.: Atwood & Culver, State Printers_, 1872.

The narrative, which is in the form of a letter to Maj.-Gen. Brown, was first published in pamphlet form. The letter is dated Dec. 1, 1817. It deals chiefly with the country to the north of Illinois, but the author visited Chicago, was entertained at Fort Dearborn, and wrote of the desirability of an Illinois-Michigan ca.n.a.l.

TENNEY, H. A. _Early Times in Wisconsin_. In _Wis. Hist. Coll._, I., pp.

94-102. _Madison, Wis.: Beriah Brown_, 1855.

Written in 1849. Gives considerable information concerning the Galena region. Tells of the size of Galena and of Springfield, Ill., in 1822.

Criticism: _Draper MSS., Z_ 24.

THOMAS, Judge WILLIAM. _Reminiscences._ Printed in the _Jacksonville, Ill., Weekly Journal, Apr._ 18, 1877. Clipping bound in _Ill. Local Hist.

Pamphlets_, V., in Library of Wisconsin State Historical Society.

The article is of extreme interest to a student of early society in Illinois. The author settled in Jacksonville, Ill., in 1826. His observations were unusually acute. He was a lawyer and a teacher. He tells of Yankees vs. Southerners, of early lawlessness, and of early Galena.

--_Winnebago Outbreak of 1827._ In _Chicago Tribune, Apr._ 7, 1877.

Reprinted from the _Jacksonville (Ill.) Journal_ of Aug. 17, 1871.

The article is important because the writer was a volunteer in the campaign against the Winnebagoes.

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