Very rare. In the Chicago Historical Society Library. A valuable book.
Describes the attack on Fort Dearborn in 1812.
MACKENZIE, E. _An historical, topographical, and descriptive View of the United States of America, and of Upper and Lower Canada ... the present State of Mexico and South America, and also of the native Tribes of the New World. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Mackenzie & Dent, 1819._ viii. + 432 pp.
The four pages devoted to Illinois are interesting and fairly reliable, though scarcely up to date. The author mentions eighteen works used in compiling his book.
MCLAUGHLIN, ANDREW C. _Lewis Ca.s.s. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1891._ 363 pp. $1.25.
Describes the expedition of General Ca.s.s to northern Illinois during the Sauk outbreak of 1827. Criticism: _Nation_, LIII., 204.
MARIETTA, O. _Report of the Commissioners of the National Centennial Celebration of the Early Settlement of the Territory North West of the Ohio River, ... held at Marietta, O., July 15-19, inclusive, 1888.
Columbus, O.: The Westbote Company, State Printers, 1889._ 292 pp.
Contains many speeches of varying historical accuracy and importance.
MASON, EDWARD GAY. _Chapters from Illinois History. Chicago: Herbert S.
Stone, 1901._ 322 pp.
Scholarly and accurate, and rich in citation of sources. Tells of Old Fort Chartres, John Todd"s Record-Book, the march of the Spaniards across Illinois, and the Chicago ma.s.sacre.
-- _March of the Spaniards across Illinois._ (In his _Chapters of Illinois History, Chicago, 1901_; also in _Mag. of Am. Hist._ N. Y., XV., 457-469, 1886.)
Refers to a number of sources. The march is that of 1781 against St.
Joseph.
MATHER, IRWIN F. _The Making of Illinois. Chicago: A. Flanagan, 1900._ 292 pp.
The work is strong in the number of subjects which it treats. The Illinois of our period is well covered. The bibliography cites many valuable sources, but no references are given in the body of the work. The date of the founding of the village of Kaskaskia is given as 1695-a confusion of the mission on the Illinois River with the later village of the same name.
MAYO, A. D. _Western Emigration and Western Character._ (_Christian Examiner_, N. Y., Lx.x.xII., 265-82, 1867.)
The subject is well treated, but the value of the article for our purpose is not so great as it would have been if confined to the early period.
MEIGS, WILLIAM M. _The Life of Thomas Hart Benton. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1904._ 535 pp.
The work throws much light upon the policy of the United States in regard to the sale of public lands, and the att.i.tude of the West towards that policy.
MELISH, JOHN. _A geographical Description of the United States, with the contiguous British and Spanish Possessions. Philadelphia: John Melish, 1816._ 182 pp.
A trifle over one page is devoted to Illinois. Of interest only as showing what was presented to the East at the time concerning Illinois. Melish was a professional map and gazetteer maker. His work typifies that of the geographers of the time, who described the world with marvelous audacity.
-- _A geographical Description of the United States, with the contiguous Countries, including Mexico and the West Indies. Philadelphia: John Melish, 1822._ v.+491 pp.
Seven pages are devoted to Illinois. The description of several Illinois towns is useful. This was a second and much improved edition of the author"s similar work of 1816.
-- _Information and Advice to Emigrants to the United States: and from the Eastern to the Western States: ill.u.s.trated by a Map of the United States and a Chart of the Atlantic Ocean. Philadelphia: John Melish, 1819._ 12mo.
v.+144 pp.
An entire chapter of twenty six pages is devoted to Birkbeck"s settlement in Illinois. The map shows several routes in Illinois, but it must have been old. The book is a good type of its cla.s.s.
MOORE, CHARLES. _The Northwest under three Flags, 1635-1796. New York: Harper & Bros., 1900._ xxiii. + 402 pp.
Many facts concerning the Illinois of the period are given. This work is of considerable historical value. References to sources, although not abundant, are helpful.
MOSES, JOHN. _Illinois, historical and statistical. Comprising the essential Facts of its Planting and Growth as a Province, County, Territory, and State. Derived from the most authentic Sources, including original Doc.u.ments and Papers. Together with carefully prepared statistical Tables.... Chicago: Fergus Printing Co., 1889-93._ 2 vols.
1316 pp.
The author was secretary and librarian of the Chicago Historical Society.
His work is perhaps the best that has appeared.
MOWRY, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS. _The territorial Growth of the United States. New York: Silver, Burdett & Co., 1902._ 225 pp.
The chapter on the Northwest Territory tells of various cessions of land comprised in the present Illinois.
MURAT, ACHILLE. _America and the Americans. New York: William H. Graham, 1849._ Duodecimo. vii. + 260 pp.
Too late in date to be of much service, although some valuable suggestions as to the social and political development of the frontier can be obtained. The writer was an acute observer. He treats politics, slavery, society, religion, justice, etc. The book was written about 1829.
Describes customs and extra legal proceedings in the West.
_Nashville, Tennessee, History of, with full Outline of the natural Advantages.... Nashville, Tenn.: Pub. House of the M. E. Church, South, 1890._ 656 pp.
Tells of pa.s.sage of emigrants from North Carolina to Illinois in 1780, of French traders from Illinois to Tennessee in 1779, of Tennesseeans getting head rights from George Rogers Clark.
_North American Review, Boston._
Volume LI., 92-140 (July, 1840) has an exhaustive review of Peck"s Gazetteer of Illinois. The review is probably of much more historical interest than the Gazetteer.
PALMER, B. M. _Slavery in Illinois. (Dubuque semi-weekly Telegraph, Tues., Sept. 19, 1899.)_
Gives the bill of sale, taken from the county records of Jo Daviess County, Ill., and executed in that county in 1830, of a negro mother and child.
PATTERSON, ROBERT WILSON. _Early Society in southern Illinois. Chicago: Fergus Printing Co._, 1879. Pp. 103-131 of _Fergus historical Series_ No.
14.
A characterization, in general terms, of early Illinois society, its manners and its origin. This was a lecture read before the Chicago Historical Society, Oct. 19, 1880.
PECK, Rev. JOHN MASON, _Editor. __"__Father Clark__"__ or the Pioneer Preacher. Sketches and Incidents of Rev. John Clark, by An Old Pioneer.
New York: Sheldon, Lamport & Blakeman_, 1855. 287 pp.
Gives considerable religious and Indian material for Illinois history from 1790 to 1833, but chiefly on the earlier part of that period.
-- _An historical Sketch of the early American Settlements in Illinois, from 1780-1800. Read before the Ill. State Lyceum, at its anniversary_, Aug. 16, 1832. (_Western monthly Mag._, I., 73-83. Feb. 1833.)
Popular, but of some value.
POST, Rev. T. M. [Author of pp. 93-102.] _Contributions to the ecclesiastical History of Connecticut; prepared under the Direction of the General a.s.sociation, to commemorate the Completion of one hundred and fifty Years since its first annual a.s.sembly. New Haven: Wm. L. Kingsley_, 1861. xiv. + 562 pp.
A symposium. The article by Rev. Mr. Post is on "The Mission of Congregationalism at the West." It is suggestive on the moral effects of frontier life.