Sugar Creek : life on the Illinois Prairie /
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| Author / Creator: | Faragher, John Mack, 1945- |
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| Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, c1986. |
| Description: | xvii, 280 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/772400 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations and Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1. Howling Wilderness
- 1. The Pioneer of Sugar Creek
- 2. Hunters and Sugar-Makers
- 3. Defenders of the Manitou
- 4. A War of Extirpation
- Part 2. The Country of Plenty To Eat
- 5. Land-Looker
- 6. American Tartars
- 7. Customs of Association
- 8. With Milk and Honey Flow
- Part 3. Lords of the Soil, Tenants of the Hearth
- 9. Totally and Forever Dissolved
- 10. In Sickness and in Health
- 11. Raising Hogs and Children
- 12. She Drained Herself to Give Them Life
- Part 4. The Sugar Creek Community
- 13. A Scene to Rouse Their Passions
- 14. Good Neighborship
- 15. Open-Country Connexions
- 16. The Community of Feeling
- Part 5. All Is Changed
- 17. It Answers Well for a Village
- 18. Landlords and Tenants
- 19. Conservative Change
- 20. The Remnant of That Pioneer Band
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index