Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie

Title: Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie
Author: John Mack Faragher
ISBN: 0300042639
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1988
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: New edition
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
American History: 1691722
Section: History | United States | State & Local - General
Publisher Description: "This is a book for anyone who has ridden down a country road and, hearing the wind whistle through the cornstalks, wondered about the Indians and pioneers who listened to that sound before him."--Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune

Winner of the 1986 Society for the History of the Early American Republic Award

The fascinating story of the birth and development of a rural American community from its origins at the turn of the nineteenth century to the years that followed the Civil War. Drawing on newspapers, account books, and reminiscences, the author of the prize-winning Women and Men on the Overland Trail vividly portrays the lives of the prairie's inhabitants--Indians, pioneers, farming men and women--and adds a compelling new chapter to American social history.

"Every chapter, almost every page, contains new ideas or throws new light on old ones, by means of a wealth of detail and clarity of though which brings the past alive again."--Hugh Brogan, The Times Literary Supplement

"Here, succinctly set out, is the American prairie experience."--Publishers Weekly