POWELL, J. W., Director. _Eighteenth annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Inst.i.tution, 1896-97. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899. Part 2. Indian land Cessions in the United States compiled by Charles C. Royce, with an Introduction by Cyrus Thomas_. 521-997 pp. and 67 plates.
Valuable. The work was used in preparing the outline maps of Indian cessions contained in this work.
REID, HARVEY. _Biographical Sketch of Enoch Long, an Illinois Pioneer.
Chicago: Fergus Printing Co., 1884._ 134 pp. This is Volume II. of the _Chicago Historical Society"s Collections_.
Mr. Long visited St. Louis and resided at Alton and Galena before 1827.
The book is of great interest on account of its notes on the methods of travel and the extent of Illinois settlements at that date.
REYNOLDS, JOHN. _Belleville in January, 1854._ A 12-page pamphlet, printed without place, publisher, or date. In Library of Wisconsin State Historical Society.
Tells of the laying out of the city in the cornfield of George Blair, in 1814.
-- _A biographical Sketch._ (_Western Journal and Civilian_, XV., 100-114).
Gives glimpses of early travel and of pioneer life.
-- _The pioneer History of Illinois, containing the Discovery, in 1673, and the History of the Country to the Year 1818. Belleville, Ill.: N. A.
Randall, 1852. 2d ed., with portrait, notes and index, Chicago: Fergus Printing Co., 1887._ 459 pp.
Contains much valuable biographical material, and describes the life of the early settlers in a clear way. Criticism: _Draper MSS._, Z 13, 14.
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. _The Winning of the West. New York: G. W. Putnam"s Sons, 1889-96._ Vols. I.-IV.. I., xiv. + 352: II., 427; III., 339: IV., 363 pp.
Valuable, although bearing marks of haste in preparation. Criticism: _Am.
Hist. Rev._, II., 171.
SANBORN, EDWIN DAVID. _History of New Hampshire, from its Discovery to the Year 1830. Manchester, N. H.: John B. Clarke, 1875._ 422 pp.
Describes the unusually cold summer of 1816 and its effect upon western migration. The book is written in an extremely disconnected style, and is without index, references, or bibliography.
SERGEANT, THOMAS, Esq. _View of the land Laws of Pennsylvania. With Notices of its early History and Legislation. Philadelphia: James Kay, Jr., and Brother. Pittsburgh: John I. Kay & Co., 1838._ 13 + 203 pp.
Valuable for ascertaining the price at which Pennsylvania public lands, which competed with government lands in the West, were sold.
SHALER, NATHANIEL SOUTHGATE. _Kentucky. A pioneer Commonwealth. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1885._ viii. + 433 pp.
Useful as giving an insight into the character of a neighboring state from which many of the early settlers of Illinois came. One of the best of the American Commonwealths series.
SHEA, JOHN GILMARY. _History of the Catholic Church in the United States, 1808-1843. New York: John G. Shea, 1890._ vii. + 731 pp.
References to Illinois are very few, but are important. The volume is the third in the author"s four-volumed History of the Catholic Church in the United States.
SIEBERT, WILBUR HENRY. _The Underground Rail Road from Slavery to Freedom; with an Introduction by Albert Bushnell Hart. New York; The Macmillan Co., 1898._ viii. + iii. + 478 pp.
Has notes of great interest on the U. G. R. R. in Illinois before 1830.
Criticism: _Am. Hist. Rev._, IV., 557.
SMITH, THEODORE CLARKE. _The Liberty and Free Soil Parties in the Northwest. New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1897._ vii. + 351 pp.
(_Harvard Hist. Studies_, VI.)
A well-written book, but only the first chapter concerns the period before 1830. This chapter is, however, well worth attention.
STEINHARD, S. _Deutschland und sein Volk. Gotha: Hugo Scheube, 1856-7._ 2 vols. I., x. + 658; II., 826 pp.
Pages 28-46 of volume II. are on the Germans in the United States and contain a few important facts, including statistics, for our period. The Vandalia (Ill.) settlement of 1820 is mentioned.
STEVENS, ABEL, LL. D. _History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America. New York: Phillips & Hunt, 1884._ 4 vols. I., 423; II., 511; III., 510; IV., 522 pp.
The fourth volume of this history has interesting notes on Benjamin Young and Jesse Walker, respectively. These men came to Illinois as pioneer ministers; the former in 1804, the latter in 1806.
STRONG, MOSES M., A. M. _History of the Territory of Wisconsin, from 1836 to 1848. Preceded by an Account of some Events __ during the Period in which it was under the Dominion of Kings, States or other Territories, previous to the Year 1836. Madison, Wis.: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers_, 1885. 16mo. 637 pp.
A valuable book. Its chief interest for us is its sketches of early settlement in the Galena lead region.
SULTE, BENJAMIN. _Histoire des Canadiens-Francais, 1608-1880. Montreal: Wilson & Cie._, 1882-4. 8 vols. 8vo. About 160 pp. per vol. _Montreal: Granger Freres._ 40 parts, paper, $10; 4 vols, cloth.
Gives only slight attention to the French of Illinois. A popular work, but quite useful for a study of social inst.i.tutions.
SUMMERS, THOMAS O. _Biographical Sketches of eminent itinerant Ministers distinguished, for the most Part, as Pioneers of Methodism within the Bounds of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Nashville, Tenn.: Southern Methodist Publishing House_, 1859. 374 pp.
Pages 48-56 give a character sketch of Jesse Walker and an idea of the character of the men to whom he preached in Illinois in 1807.
SWAYNE, WAGER. _The Ordinance of 1787; and the War of 1861. An Address delivered before the N. Y. Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. New York: C. G. Burgoyne_, [c. 1893]. 90 pp.
Contains interesting notes on George Rogers Clark and on slavery in Illinois.
THOMSON, JOHN LEWIS. _Historical Sketches of the late War between the United States and Great Britain. Philadelphia: Thos. Desilver_, 1816. 359 pp. _5th ed._, 1818.
Contains one of the earliest accounts of the ma.s.sacre at Fort Dearborn, August 15, 1812. The account is short, but tolerably correct. The work was reprinted in 1887 [Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.], with a short account of the war with Mexico added. 656 pp.
THOMPSON, ZADOCK. _History of the State of Vermont, from its earliest Settlement to the Close of the Year 1832. Burlington: Edward Smith_, 1833.
12mo. 252 pp. _Reprinted with natural Hist. of Vt. and Gazetteer of Vt.
Burlington: Zadock Thompson_, 1853. 8vo. 224+224+200+63 pp.
Describes the cold season of 1816-17.
THWAITES, REUBEN GOLD. _Early Lead-mining in Illinois and Wisconsin._ Pages 191-196 of _Am. Hist. a.s.s"n. Rep"t._, 1893. _Washington: Government Printing Office_, 1894.
Contains several interesting statements concerning the early history of the Galena region.
TUCKER, GEORGE. _Progress of the United States in Population and Wealth in fifty Years, as exhibited by the decennial Census. Boston: Little & Brown, 1843._ 12mo. 211 pp.
The fifty years were 1790-1840. Very useful for material concerning the relative growth of different sections of the country.
TURNER, FREDERICK JACKSON. _Middle West, The._ _International Monthly_, IV., 794-820 (1901).
The article has a few suggestions that are of value for our period.