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Item Details
| Title:
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THEY BROKE THE PRAIRIE
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| By: |
Earnest Elmo Calkins |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£16.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0252060946 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780252060946 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
30 June, 1989 |
| Series: |
Prairie State Books |
| Pages: |
480 |
| Description: |
Traces the progress of the community and the college through the arrival of the railroad, slave running, abolitionist confrontations, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, the Civil War, and the postwar era. |
| Synopsis: |
First published in 1937 in honor of the Galesburg and Knox College Centenary, the book contains a wealth of lively details and amusing anecdotes. Calkins traces the progress of the community and the college through the arrival of the railroad, slave running, abolitionist confrontations, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, the Civil War, and the postwar era. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Illinois Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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