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A history of Illinois : from its commencement as a state in 1818 to 1847

by: Ford, Thomas, 1800-1850; Shields, James, 1806-1879

Publication date: 1854

Topics: Black Hawk War, 1832, Mormons

Publisher: Chicago : S.C. Griggs & Co. ; New York : Ivison & Phinney

Collection: lincolncollection; americana

Contributor: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection

Language: English

"Containing a full account of the Black Hawk war, the rise, progress, and fall of Mormonism, the Alton and Lovejoy riots, and other important and interesing events"--T.p

Published, without alteration, after the death of the author, by James Shields

Includes publisher's advertisements at end

Book, buckram (copy 1)

Book, cloth (copy 2)

Holograph on flyleaf and back endsheet: John Chambers, his book (copy 2)

Sabin

Church, E.D. Discovery

Graff Coll

Byrd, C.K. Illinois

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