Title: Pages from the early history of the West and Northwest
First published: 1868
Description: Rev. Stephen R. Beggs was born to Methodist parents in 1801 in Virginia, and the family settled in Clark County, Indiana when he was about six years old. He became a preacher before he was 20. This volume is his autobiography and also contains historical material about Methodism on the frontier in Illinois. Some of the topics found in the Table of Contents are:

Early Methodism in Indiana, Districts and Circuits, Introduction to the Illinois Work, Pioneer Experiences, Quakers and Infidels at a Methodist Meeting, A Primitive Baptism, Mission Work in Chicago 1831-2, Terrors of an Indian Raid, History of Peoria, Sketch of Rev. Jesse Walker, Aurora and Ottawa, Sangamon County, the Plainfield Work, The Chicago Indian Massacre of 1812, Mrs. Kinzie’s Narrative, Causes of the Sauk War, The Methodist Book Concerns in New York and Cincinnati, History of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, Western Methodism, James B. Finley, St. Louis in the Olden Time, Progress of Methodism in Illinois.
Subjects: Methodist Episcopal Church in Illinois, Methodist Episcopal church in the Mississippi valley, Frontier and pioneer life, History, Methodist Episcopal Church
Places: Old Northwest, Illinois
Time periods: 1800-1865
LC classification: F484.3 .B44