French Roots in the Illinois Country
Subtitle: The Mississippi Frontier in Colonial Times
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: July 20, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780252069246
Subjects: American history; Illinois - Local History; U.S. History - Colonial Period (1607-1775); History; History - U.S.; History: American; Illinois; United States - Colonial Period; United States - State & Local - General; History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775); United States - General
First sentence: French Canadian families lived separately, as Peter Kalm, a Swedish (born an ethnic Finn) traveler and diarist, observed; each family settled independently on its own elongated parcel of land.