Tales and trails of Illinois
By: Stu Fliege.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Illinois -- History -- Anecdotes.; Illinois -- History, Local -- Anecdotes.; Illinois -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
Genres: Anecdotes.; Biography
Description: Tells the stories of fifty-two significant events in the history of Illinois.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tower Rock, ageless landmark of the Mississippi; title: Salt mines in Illinois, an important early industry; title: The Great Sauk Trail across northern Illinois; title: Europeans come to Illinois : the Jolliet and the Marquette Expedition; title: A grisly reputation : John Moredock, Indian slayer; title: The Sucker State and mining Galena at Galena; title: The last trails of Chief Ducoigne and his Kaskaskia; title: Across Illinois with the famed birdwatcher John James Audubon; title: "Black diamonds" along the Big Muddy : Illinois' first coal mine; title: Waiting for the Second Coming : the Rappites Harmonie; title: A "perfect society" experiment : Robert Owen's New Harmony; title: The midnight ride of Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard; title: Stillman's run : a debacle of the Black Hawk War; title: Illinois martyr to freedom of the press : Elijah Parish Lovejoy; title: The singing plow that "scoured" : John Deere and Company; title: A trail of tears across southern Illinois : a Cherokee tragedy; title: James Semple's trackless train : the prairie car; title: Shaping the state : the Illinois and Michigan Canal; title: A French quest for Utopia in Illinois : the Icarians; title: Up, up, and away : two kids in a runaway balloon; title: An angelic hero of the Civil War : ary Ann "Mother" Bickerdyke; title: Fencing the west : De Kalb and its barbed wire; title: James Buchanan Eads and his wonderful bridge; title: Elixers in Illinois : mineral springs, baths and resorts; title: Who threw the bomb? : the Haymarket Riot; title: Death stalks the rails : the Chatsworth train wreck; title: Quincy's pioneer in the sky : Thomas Scott Baldwin; title: A shortcut to the Mississippi : the Hennepin Canal; title: Illinois's most heinous murderer : Herman W. Mudgett; title: Chicago's master boodlers : Michael "Hinky Dink" Kenna and "Bathhouse" John Couglin; title: Of Ferris wheels and Jacksonville's Eli Bridge Company; title: "General" Alexander Bradley's marches on the coalfields; title: The man who electrified Illinois : Samuel Insull; title: John Alexander Dowie's Utopia : Zion, Illinois; title: "The most dangerous woman in America" : Mary Harris "Mother" Jones; title: Chicago's new Iroquois Theatre becomes a fiery death trap; title: A big lake, a small town, and William Patrick Rend; title: Illinois's worst coal mine disaster : the Cherry Mine fire; title: Rock River Valley, Lorado Taft and the Black Hawk statue; title: Calbraith Perry Rogers and the Vin Fiz Flyer cross Illinois; title: World War I hysteria : the Prager hanging; title: "Butchery; title: wrought in madness" : the 1922 Herrin Massacre; title: The minister served arsenic : Ina's great scandal; title: Nature wreaks devastation : the 1925 Tri-State Tornado; title: Illinois's last hanging : the gangster Charley Birger; title: The nuclear age dawns in a Chicago squash court; title: Illinois's beautiful gorge : Lusk Creek Canyon; title: The Sun Singer and Robert Allerton's exotic park; title: Oquawka : the town that immortalized an elephant; title: Monsters and creatures of the Big Muddy River; title: An Illinois ecological Eden : LaRue Swamp-Pine Hills area; title: The Koster site : "Amerindians" and Dr. Stuart Struever.