Author Name: Pease, Theodore Calvin, Illustrated by Photos
Title: THE STORY OF ILLINOIS from the First French Explorers to the soldiers Returning from World War II
Publisher: Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1949
Seller ID: 026116
HB. Very Good/Good+. Revised. 8vo - over 8" - 9" Tall Octavo. xviii, 284 pp, green cloth covered boards, dj blu w/blk lettering, dj chipped at the corners, ffep browned from newspaper clipping of map of Illinois from 1949, dj price-clipped. The history of Illinois complete in one volume. The story begins w/groping of navigators for a route to Asia & comes to focus on the explorations of Marquette & Joliet and the adventures of La Salle & Tonty in Illinois. True version of George Clark's conquest of the Northwest for America & the critical thirty-eight years when Britain considered retaking this territory.
ILLINOIS HISTORY PHOTOS NON-FICTION AMERICANA
Price =
12.32 USD |
