Slight, but tells of the beginnings of the city in the third decade of the
19th century.

BECKWITH, PAUL. _Creoles of St. Louis. St. Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing
Co._, 1893. 169 pp.

The genealogy of the five branches of the Chouteau family is given. As
many of this family were prominent in early Illinois the work is of some
interest, although not wholly reliable.

BEGGS, Rev. STEPHEN R. _Pages from the early History of the West and
North-West: embracing Reminiscences and Incidents of Settlement and
Growth, and Sketches of the material and religious Progress of the States
of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, with especial Reference to the
History of Methodism. Cincinnati: Methodist Book Concern_, 1868. 325 pp.

Good upon the beginnings of northern Illinois. Tells of the Chicago
massacre (1812), of the work of Rev. Jesse Walker, and of early pioneer
life. No clerical bias, in the bad sense.

BERNHEIM, G. D. _History of the German Settlements and of __ the Lutheran
Church in North and South Carolina, from the earliest Period of the
Colonization of the Dutch, German and Swiss Settlers to the Close of the
first Half of the present Century. Philadelphia: The Lutheran Book Store_,
1872. ix.+557 pp.

Pages 471-3 tell of the North Carolina Synod sending a missionary to
Illinois in 1827.

BIRNEY, WILLIAM. _James G. Birney and his Times. The Genesis of the
Republican Party with some Account of abolition Movements in the South
before 1828. New York: D. Appleton & Co._, 1890. 24mo. x.+443 pp.

Chapter 12 is on abolition in the South before 1828. The work is helpful
in learning the conditions from which southern emigrants moved.

BLANCHARD, RUFUS. _Discovery and Conquest of the Northwest, with the
History of Chicago. Wheaton: R. Blanchard & Co., 1879. Chicago: Cushing_,
1880. 768 pp. 8vo.

A well-written and valuable book for discovery and conquest, but of little
value for a study of mere immigration before 1831. What it has of
immigration is almost exclusively confined to immigration to the region of
the present Chicago.

----_History of Illinois, to accompany an historical Map of the State.
Chicago: National School Furnishing Company_, 1883. 128 pp.

The text is a disconnected symposium, and has in some cases been
superseded by later research. The map is the most valuable part of the
work. It is 27-1/2x42-1/2 inches in size, mounted on heavy cloth, and shows,
with dates, Indian trails, routes of exploring and