Of great interest for a study of early troubles with the Indians. Treats of East _vs._ South in Illinois and of Regulators. Deals almost exclusively with the period before 1830. Compiled largely from interviews with old settlers, hence not wholly reliable.
HINSDALE, BURKE AARON. _The Old Northwest with a View of the thirteen Colonies as const.i.tuted by the royal Charters. New York: Townsend MacCoun, 1888._ 8vo. 440 pp. _2d ed., rev. New York: Silver, Burdett & Co., 1899._ $2.50.
In general only the boldest outlines of immigration to Illinois are sketched. The slavery struggle in Illinois (1822-24) is treated with comparative fullness. Criticism: _Boston Herald, July 2, 1888_.
HOSKINS, NATHAN. _A History of the State of Vermont, from its Discovery and Settlement to the Close of the Year 1830. Vergennes: J. Shedd, 1831._ 12 mo. 316 pp.
Tells of the unusually cold summer of 1816.
HOWE, HENRY. _Historical Collections of the great West: containing Narratives of the most important and interesting Events in western History-remarkable individual Adventures-Sketches of frontier Life-Descriptions of natural Curiosities: to which is appended historical and descriptive Sketches of Oregon, New Mexico, Texas, Minnesota, Utah and California. Cincinnati: Henry Howe, 1853._ 8vo. 440 pp.
Compiled from a large number of sources, largely secondary.
HUBBARD, GEORGE D. _A Case of geographic Influence upon human Affairs._ Pages 145-157 of _Bulletin of the American Geographical Society_, x.x.xVI., No. 3, _March_, 1904. _Pub. by the Society, New York._
A scientific discussion of the effect of glaciation upon the character of the people of different portions of Illinois.
HULBERT, ARCHER BUTLER. _Red-Men"s Roads. The Indian Thoroughfares of the central West. Columbus, Ohio: Fred J. Heer & Co., 1900._ 37 pp.
The book has many maps and is a help toward an understanding of the ways by which early settlers reached Illinois.
HYNES, Rev. THOMAS W. _History of a Century. An Address delivered at Greenville, Bond Co., Ill., on July 4, 1876._
A newspaper clipping, bound, without the name of the paper from which it was taken, in _Illinois Local History Pamphlets_, V., in Library of the Wisconsin State Historical Society. It contains a valuable historical letter from Mrs. Almira Morse, a resident as early as 1820.
_Illinois. Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois. Chicago and New York: Munsell Pub. Co., 1900._ 608 pp.
Edited by Newton Bateman, LL. D., and Paul Selby, A. M. Much more reliable than many books of the same literary type.
_International Monthly. Burlington, Vt._, IV., 794-820. See Turner, Frederick Jackson.
JAMES, EDMUND JANES, and LOVELESS, MILO J. _A Bibliography of Newspapers published in Illinois prior to 1860. Springfield, Ill., Phillips Bros., State Printers, 1899._ 94 pp.
A very valuable work. An appendix gives a list of the Illinois and Missouri papers (1808-1897) in the St. Louis Mercantile Library, while a second appendix enumerates the county histories of Illinois and tells where they may be found.
JOHNSON, ERIC and PETERSON, C. F. _Svenskarne i Illinois. Chicago: W.
Williamson, 1880._ 471 pp.
Chiefly valuable for a later period. The salient points of early Illinois history are canva.s.sed.
KINGDOM, WILLIAM, Jr. _America and the British Colonies, an abstract of all the most useful Information relative to the United States of America, and the British Colonies of Canada, the Cape of Good Hope, New South Wales, and Van Diemen"s Island. London: G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1820._ 16mo. 359 pp.
Pages 61-73 describe Illinois and give some judicious advice to emigrants.
Conservative, but not cynical. Entire pages are reprinted from other authors, notably Fearon, without the use of quotation marks.
KINGSTON, Hon. JOHN T. _Early Western Days._ (In _Wis. Hist. Coll._, VII., 297-344). _Madison, Wis.: E. B. Bolens, 1876._
Gives a short account of the slavery struggle in Illinois in 1822-24.
-- _Slavery in Illinois. Necedah, Wis.: Necedah Republican._ 6 pp.
Reprinted, without date, in pamphlet form. In Library of State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
A very short sketch of slavery in Illinois from its introduction in 1719-20.
KIRKLAND, JOSEPH. _The Story of Chicago. Chicago: Dibble Pub. Co., 1892._ 470 pp.
The book makes large reference to authorities and is in consequence valuable for reference.
KoRNER, GUSTAV. _Das deutsche Element in den Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika, 1818-1848. Cincinnati: A. E. Wilde & Co., 1880._ 16mo. 461 pp.
The 12th chapter (pp. 244-81) treats of German settlement in Illinois.
Tells of the first German and Swiss settlements in the state. Naturally this chapter and the work as a whole is largely concerned with a period later than 1830.
LAW, Judge JOHN. _Address delivered before the Vincennes Historical and Antiquarian Society, February 22, 1839. Louisville, __ Ky.: Prentice & Weissinger_, 1839. 48 pp. Enlarged and reprinted as _The colonial History of Vincennes. Vincennes: Harvey, Mason & Co_., 1858. 156 pp.
Of great value on account of its description of Clark"s campaign, and its notes on Mermet, Gibault, Hamilton, Tec.u.mseh, La Balme, and on the public lands.
LAWRENCE, JOHN. _The History of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. Dayton, Ohio: W. J. Shuey_, 1868. 2 vols. I., vi.+416; II., vii.+431 pp.
The book contains many facts concerning early emigration and settlement.
Its bearing on early Illinois history is, however, slight.
LEATON, Rev. JAMES. _History of Methodism in Illinois, from 1793 to 1832.
Cincinnati: Walden & Stowe_, 1883. 410 pp.
Very interesting notes on Peter Cartwright, Jesse Walker, and other pioneers.
LEE, FRANCIS BAGLEY. _New Jersey as a Colony and as a State. New York: The Publishing Soc. of New Jersey_, 1902. 4 vols. I., 422; II., 456; III., 400; IV., 402 pp.
The work is superbly printed and ill.u.s.trated and contains a vast amount of information, but is totally lacking in bibliography or references, except a few indications in the index to the ill.u.s.trations.
LoHER, FRANZ. _Geschichte und Zustande der Deutschen in Amerika.
Cincinnati: Eggers & Wulkop_, 1847. v.+544 pp.
The chapters of especial interest to us are "Ausstromen der Yankees," pp.
237-41; "Einwanderung von 1815 bis 1830," pp. 253-58; "Die Wohnsitze"
(Illinois and Missouri), pp. 337-40. The author cites many authorities, and his book is of very great value in the study of the a.s.similation of an expatriated people.
LOTHROP, J. S. _J. S. Lothrop"s Champaign County (Ill.) Directory for 1870-1, with History of the same, and of each Township therein. Chicago: J. S. Lothrop_, 1871.
Tells a great many things-several of which are false-concerning the early period of Illinois history.
LUSK, D. W. _Eighty Years of Illinois Politics and Politicians, Anecdotes and Incidents. A succinct History of the State, 1809-1889. 3d ed. Revised and enlarged. Springfield, Ill.: H. W. Rokker_, 1889. 609+109 pp.
The 609 pages are political. The 109 pages have a great interest, dealing as they do with the beginnings of Illinois. Secondary sources are largely quoted. Not exact enough for critical work, yet very suggestive.
M"AFEE, ROBERT B. _History of the late War in the Western Country, comprising a full Account of all the Transactions in that Quarter, from the Commencement of Hostilities at Tippecanoe, to the Termination of the Contest at New Orleans on the Return of Peace. Lexington, Ky.: Worsley & Smith, 1816._ 8vo. 534 pp.