Kaskaskia

Author : Clarence Walworth Alvord
Publisher : Springfield, Ill. : Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kaskaskia Records, 1778-1790 written by Clarence Walworth Alvord and published by Springfield, Ill. : Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library. This book was released on 1909 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David MacDonald
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809337320
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kaskaskia written by David MacDonald and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first comprehensive account of the Illinois village of Kaskaskia covers more than two hundred years in the vast and compelling history of the state. David MacDonald and Raine Waters explore Illinois’s first capital in great detail, from its foundation in 1703 to its destruction by the Mississippi River in the latter part of the nineteenth century, as well as everything in between: successes, setbacks, and the lives of the people who inhabited the space. At the outset the Kaskaskia tribe, along with Jesuit missionaries and French traders, settled near the confluence of the Kaskaskia and Mississippi rivers, about sixty miles south of modern-day St. Louis. The town quickly became the largest French town and most prosperous settlement in the Illinois Country. After French control ended, Kaskaskia suffered under corrupt British and then inept American rule. In the 1790s the town revived and became the territorial capital, and in 1818 it became the first state capital. Along the way Kaskaskia was beset by disasters: crop failures, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, epidemics, and the loss of the capital-city title to Vandalia. Likewise, human activity and industry eroded the river’s banks, causing the river to change course and eventually wash away the settlement. All that remains of the state’s first capital today is a village several miles from the original site. MacDonald and Waters focus on the town’s growth, struggles, prosperity, decline, and obliteration, providing an overview of its domestic architecture to reveal how its residents lived. Debunking the notion of a folklore tradition about a curse on the town, the authors instead trace those stories to late nineteenth-century journalistic inventions. The result is a vibrant, heavily illustrated, and highly readable history of Kaskaskia that sheds light on the entire early history of Illinois.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kaskaskia Navigation Project O&M written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kaskaskia Island Drainage and Levee District written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kaskaskia River, Ill., Navigation Project written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers S. 520, to authorize Army Corps of Engineers to plan and construct Kaskaskia River Channel from Fayetteville, Ill., to Mississippi River below St. Louis, Mo.

Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kaskaskia River, Illinois written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Hartwell Catherwood
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Kaskaskia written by Mary Hartwell Catherwood and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carlyle Lake Project, Kaskaskia Valley written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dr. Theodore P. and Susanne Fadler
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365110559
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a French Village Ð Chronicles of Prairie du Rocher, Kaskaskia and the French Triangle written by Dr. Theodore P. and Susanne Fadler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs tell the story of early French exploration into the New World which included villages and ports from New Orleans north to Canada. The characters and their families are dealt with in detail, the genealogists and historian will not be disappointed in this tale with early French coureur-des-bois and voyageurs many with Indian wives as well as major characters in mid-American history. Treason, treachery, counterfeiting, kidnapping, murder and intrigue fill the book. Relationships, courting and early marriages with related families who were the first settlers in the Kaskaskia and Prairie du Rocher area and the early Louisiana and Illinois territory are woven throughout the narrative. Expect surprise visits by George Washington, LaSalle, Mccarty, Big Harpe, Little Harpe who are infamous as the first serial killers of North America, John Duff the Counterfeiter, John Law, John Dodge, George Rogers Clark, Sam Mason the River Pirate, and the Cave-in-the-Rock Gang, all play unexpected roles in this book.

Author : John J. Franco
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Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kaskaskia River Navigation Project, Illinois written by John J. Franco and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: