As Others See Chicago
Subtitle: Impressions of Visitors, 1673-1933
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: May 29, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780226668215
Subjects: American history; Places & peoples: general interest; History; History - General History; History: American; Americas (North Central South West Indies); United States - State & Local - General; History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); Chicago; Chicago (Ill.); Description and travel; Illinois; Social life and customs; Sources; Travelers' writings; Visitors, Foreign
First sentence: ATHOUGH Chicago was not incorporated as a town until 1833, her history stretches back to the days of the intrepid French explorer and the gay and courageous voyageur of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, whose insatiable curiosity and unbounded zeal lured them into unfrequented paths.