Title: Life in prairie land
First published: 1846
Description: Eliza Farnham (1815-1864) was a novelist, feminist, abolitionist and activist for prison reform. She moved to Illinois from New York in 1835 and married, returning to New York in 1841. This memoir covers those years on the Illinois prairie, near Pekin.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Description and travel, Biography, History, Women pioneers, Pioneers, Travel, Manners and customs, Frontier and pioneer life, northwest, old, Frontier and pioneer life
Places: Illinois
People: Eliza W. Farnham (1815-1864), Eliza Woodson Burhans Farnham
Time periods: 1778-1865, To 1865