PARKISON, Col. DANIEL M. _Pioneer Life in Wisconsin._ In _Wis. Hist.
Coll._, II., 326-64. _Madison, Wis.: Calkins & Proudfit_, 1856.
The author came from Tennessee to Madison county, Illinois, in 1817; in 1819, to Sangamon county, Illinois; in 1827, to Galena, Illinois. Gives a valuable statement concerning the feeling of Yankees toward Southerners, tells of the first sermon in Sangamon county, and of the Winnebago war of 1827.
PECK, Rev. JOHN MASON. _A Guide for Emigrants_ (1831), _containing Sketches of Illinois, Missouri, and the adjacent Parts. Boston: Lincoln & Edmands_, 1831. 336 pp.
Contains a great amount of fairly accurate information. Its description of cities is especially useful. Page 184 gives an amusing and instructive ill.u.s.tration of the need of energy and work in even a frontier settlement (1829).
--_Memoir of John Mason Peck, D. D., edited from his Journals and Correspondence. By Rufus Babc.o.c.k. Philadelphia: Am. Baptist Pub. Soc._, 1864. 12mo. 360 pp.
Not in good literary form. Throws much light upon the moral and religious life in Illinois and Missouri from 1817 to 1857.
--_The Religion and Morals of Illinois prior to 1818. In Reynolds, Pioneer History of Illinois_. Pp. 253-275.
The writer came to Illinois before 1818, and knew many of the persons of whom he wrote.
_Pennsylvania Packet and daily Advertiser. Philadelphia_, 1785-89; _Apr._, 1789; _Mar._, 1790; _Apr.-Dec._, 1790. In Library of Wisconsin State Historical Society.
August 23, 1790, the expression of apprehension of the depopulation of the East by emigration to the West is said not to be well founded.
_Peoria County, Illinois, Marriage Licences, 1825-1855._ On file in the court house in Peoria, Ill.
The early names show the French origin of the inhabitants. The absence of clergymen is noticeable.
PIKE, Lieut. ZEBULON MONTGOMERY. _An Account of a Voyage up the Mississippi River, from St. Louis to its Source; made under the Orders of the War Department, by Lieut. Pike, of the U. S. Army, in the Years 1805 and 1806. Compiled from Mr. Pike"s Journal._ A 68 page pamphlet without place, publisher, or date.
Locates the largest Sauk village. These reports are of extreme importance.
An edition including the trip of 1807 was issued in 1895 by Harper, F. P., New York. 3 vols. $10.00.
_Pioneer of the Valley of the Mississippi, The. Rock Spring, Ill.: Rev. J.
M. Peck, editor._
Issue of April 24, 1829, in St. Louis Mercantile Library.
PITTMAN, Capt. PHILIP. _The present State of the European Settlements on the Mississippi, with a geographical Description of that River; ill.u.s.trated by Plans and Draughts. London: J. Nourse_, 1770. viii. +99 pp.
8 maps.
Describes the settlements in Illinois and gives a map of the region. Of great value.
Criticism in _Narrative and Critical History of America_, VI., 702.
_Regulators of the Valley._
Charles M. Eames, in his _Historic Morgan and Cla.s.sic Jacksonville_ (1885), says that a vigilance committee with the above t.i.tle was formed in 1821, or thereabouts, to rid the country of horse-thieves and robbers. "A regular const.i.tution was drawn up and subscribed to, and this paper is still in existence." C. M. Eames, son of the now deceased author, in a letter of Oct. 7, 1903, said that he had made an unsuccessful search for the ma.n.u.script.
REYNOLDS, JOHN, _My own Times, embracing also, the History of my Life.
Belleville, Ill._, 1855. Reprinted, _Chicago: Fergus Printing Co._, 1879.
iv.+395 pp. $7.50.
Verbose, but has much wheat among the chaff. Covers the period from 1800 to 1853. The first edition is now very rare.
ROSS, HARVEY LEE. _The early Pioneers and pioneer Events of the State of Illinois. Chicago_, 1899.
A medley of facts, written by a pioneer of 1820. The author was acquainted with both Cartwright and Lincoln, and speaks of them and of pioneer events with authority. Tells of a trip from New Jersey by wagons.
SCHOOLCRAFT, HENRY ROWE. _Summary Narrative of an exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820; resumed and completed, by the Discovery of its Origin in Itasca Lake, in 1832. By authority of the United States. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, & Co._, 1855. 596 pp.
The book is chiefly of interest to us because of its description of Chicago.
--_Travels in the central Portions of the Mississippi Valley: comprising Observations on its mineral Geography, internal Resources, and aboriginal Population. Performed under the Sanction of Government, in the Year 1821.
New York: Collins & Hannay_, 1825. 459 pp.
The writer descended the Wabash, the Ohio, and then ascended the Mississippi and the Illinois to Chicago. His descriptions of places, peoples and things are well written and are a chief historical source.
SCHULTZ, CHRISTIAN. _Travels on an inland Voyage through the States of New-York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and through the Territories of Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi and New-Orleans; performed in the Years 1807 and 1808. New York: Isaac Riley_, 1810. 2 vols. I., xviii.+206; II., 224 pp.
Has an interesting description of Illinois settlements.
SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY, _Editor. The St. Clair Papers. The Life and public Services of Arthur St. Clair ... with his Correspondence and other Papers.
Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co._, 1882. 2 vols. I., viii.+609; II., 649 pp.
Much information concerning Illinois under the Ordinance of 1787.
Criticisms: _Nation_, x.x.xIV., 383; _New York Tribune, June_ 16, 1882.
_Stories of the pioneer Mothers of Illinois. A collection of Ma.n.u.script Letters from the pioneer Women of the State, giving their early Experiences. Collected for the World"s Columbian Exposition and afterward deposited in the Illinois State Historical Library._
Especially valuable for information on reasons for immigration and on methods of traveling.
STORROW, SAMUEL A. _The North-West in 1817._ In _Wis. Hist. Coll._, VI., pp. 154-87. _Madison, Wis.: Atwood & Culver, State Printers_, 1872.
The narrative, which is in the form of a letter to Maj.-Gen. Brown, was first published in pamphlet form. The letter is dated Dec. 1, 1817. It deals chiefly with the country to the north of Illinois, but the author visited Chicago, was entertained at Fort Dearborn, and wrote of the desirability of an Illinois-Michigan ca.n.a.l.
TENNEY, H. A. _Early Times in Wisconsin_. In _Wis. Hist. Coll._, I., pp.
94-102. _Madison, Wis.: Beriah Brown_, 1855.
Written in 1849. Gives considerable information concerning the Galena region. Tells of the size of Galena and of Springfield, Ill., in 1822.
Criticism: _Draper MSS., Z_ 24.
THOMAS, Judge WILLIAM. _Reminiscences._ Printed in the _Jacksonville, Ill., Weekly Journal, Apr._ 18, 1877. Clipping bound in _Ill. Local Hist.
Pamphlets_, V., in Library of Wisconsin State Historical Society.
The article is of extreme interest to a student of early society in Illinois. The author settled in Jacksonville, Ill., in 1826. His observations were unusually acute. He was a lawyer and a teacher. He tells of Yankees vs. Southerners, of early lawlessness, and of early Galena.
--_Winnebago Outbreak of 1827._ In _Chicago Tribune, Apr._ 7, 1877.
Reprinted from the _Jacksonville (Ill.) Journal_ of Aug. 17, 1871.
The article is important because the writer was a volunteer in the campaign against the Winnebagoes.