Illinois in the fifties
Subtitle: or, A decade of development, 1851-1860
By: by Charles Beneulyn Johnson.
Edition: Illinois centennial ed.
Publisher: Flanigan-Pearson co.
Published: 1918
Place of publication: Champaign, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Illinois -- History -- 1778-1865; Illinois -- Social life and customs
Table of contents: title: -The Pioneer and his environment; title: -A Progressive pioneer and the evolution of a home; title: -The gold seekers of the late Forties; title: -The stage-driver, stage-coach, stage-hand and an original Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde; title: -A Country store in the Fifties; title: -Churches, church people and preachers in the Fifties; title: -Sports, amusements and some other things; title: -The village Lyceum and some local Pettifoggers; title: -An old-time water-mill; title: -Schools, scholars and teachers; title: -In and about an Illinois cornfield in the Fifties; title: -Books, periodicals and other reading matter in the Fifties; title: -The village doctors; title: -Railroads and other methods of travel and transportation; title: -Elections, parties and politics; title: -Slavery and the Lincoln-Douglas debate