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ngs are well written and are a chief historical source. SCHULTZ, CHRISTIAN. _Travels on an inland Voyage through the States of New-York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and through the Territories of Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi and New-Orleans; performed in the Years 1807 and 1808. New York: Isaac Riley_, 1810. 2 vols. I., xviii.+206; II., 224 pp. Has an interesting description of Illinois settlements. SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY, _Editor. The St. Clair Papers. The Life and public Services of Arthur St. Clair ... with his Correspondence and other Papers. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co._, 1882. 2 vols. I., viii.+609; II., 649 pp. Much information concerning Illinois under the Ordinance of 1787. Criticisms: _Nation_, XXXIV., 383; _New York Tribune, June_ 16, 1882. _Stories of the pioneer Mothers of Illinois. A collection of Manuscript Letters from the pioneer Women of the State, giving their early Experiences. Collected for the World's Columbian Exposition and afterward deposited in the Illinois State Historical Library._ Especially valuable for information on reasons for immigration and on methods of traveling. STORROW, SAMUEL A. _The North-West in 1817._ In _Wis. Hist. Coll._, VI., pp. 154-87. _Madison, Wis.: Atwood & Culver, State Printers_, 1872. The narrative, which is in the form of a letter to Maj.-Gen. Brown, was first published in pamphlet form. The letter is dated Dec. 1, 1817. It deals chiefly with the country to the north of Illinois, but the author visited Chicago, was entertained at Fort Dearborn, and wrote of the desirability of an Illinois-Michigan canal. TENNEY, H. A. _Early Times in Wisconsin_. In _Wis. Hist. Coll._, I., pp. 94-102. _Madison, Wis.: Beriah Brown_, 1855. Written in 1849. Gives considerable information concerning the Galena region. Tells of the size of Galena and of Springfield, Ill., in 1822. Criticism: _Draper MSS., Z_ 24. THOMAS, Judge WILLIAM. _Reminiscences._ Printed in the _Jacksonville, Ill., Weekly Journal, Apr._ 18, 1877. Clipping bound in _Ill. Local Hist. Pamphlets_, V., in Library of Wisconsin State Historical Society. The article is of extreme interest to a student of early society in Illinois. The author settled in Jacksonville, Ill., in 1826. His observations were unusually acute. He was a lawyer and a teacher. He tells of Yankees vs. Southerners, of early lawlessness, and of early Galena. ----_Winnebago Outbreak of 1827._ In _Ch
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