The pioneers, preachers, and people of the Mississippi Valley
By: By William Henry Milburn
Contributors: Making of America Project.
Publisher: Derby & Jackson
Published: 1860
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Number of pages: 465
Subjects: Mississippi River Valley -- History.
Table of contents: title: Lecture 1. De Soto; title: Lec.2. Marquette and La Salle; title: Lec.3. The French in Illinois; title: Lec.4. The red men and the War of Pontiac; title: Lec.5. The cabin homes of the wilderness, at the beginning of the Revolution; title: Lec.6. The cabin homes of the wilderness during the American Revolution; title: Lec.7. Sketches of character and adventure in the West, to the failure of Burr's Expedition, 1806; title: Lec.8. Manna in the wilderness, or, the old preachers and their preaching; title: Lec.9. Western mind: its manifestations, eloquence and humor; title: Lec.10. The Great Valley: its past, its present and its future