Kaskaskia
Subtitle: The Lost Capital of Illinois
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780809337316
Subjects: United states, history
Description: "This book tells the history of Kaskaskia, Illinois, from its founding to its time as the territorial capital and then the first state capital, through its disasters--earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, and epidemics--and finally to its disappearance when the Mississippi River washed it away"--