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Growing Up with Southern Illinois, 1820 to 1861
Growing Up with Southern Illinois is the self-portrait of a rugged pioneer, Daniel Brush, who prospered on the Illinois frontier, founded the town of Carbondale, and led a regiment of hellions in the Civil War.
Growing Up With Southern Illinois, 1820 to 1861
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Growing Up With Southern Illinois, 1820 to 1861
Excerpt from Growing Up With Southern Illinois, 1820 to 1861: From the Memoirs of Daniel Harmon Brush Thus it came to pass that those western areas lying adjacent to the Ohio and the lower Mississippi were being rapidly accu pied by settlers while there was still but a trickle of migration into the region adjoining the Great Lakes. Chiefly, too, they were populated by southern migrants who found their way into the western country either by way of the Ohio River or by traveling over land through the famous Cumberland Gap, lying near the borders of Kentucky, Tennes see, and Virginia. Only when the Erie Canal was completed m 1825 and steamboats were placed on the Upper Lakes did the tide of mi...
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It Happened in Southern Illinois
In this collection of articles describing the people, places, and folkways of southern Illinois, John W. Allen provides entertaining and informative glimpses into the region’s past. Included here are sketches of the early pioneering days when wolves were literally chased from the door, stories about the many Indian artifacts discovered among the rolling hills and valleys of the area, and articles pertaining to the strategic role the region played during the Civil War. Allen also describes the activities of such infamous outlaws as Samuel Mason and the Harpe brothers as well as the famous Illinois-born heroes “Bat” Masterson, “Wild Bill” Hickok, and Wyatt Earp. In his warm and friendly style, Allen reminisces about the self-sufficient and satisfying rural life of a previous generation with its oxcarts, pie suppers, threshing machines, kerosene lamps, and blacksmith shops. Any reader interested in southern Illinois and its history will delight in this collection of stories from John W. Allen’s popular newspaper column, “It Happened in Southern Illinois.”
Introducing English
Over the past thirty years, composition has flowered as a discipline in the academy. Doctoral programs in composition abound, and its position in the pantheon of academic fields seems assured. There is plenty of work in composition. But what is the nature of that work now, and what should it be? James Slevin asks such probing, primary questions in Introducing English, an overdue assessment of the state of composition by one of its most respected practitioners. Too often, Slevin claims, representations of composition take the form of promoting the field and its specialists, rather than explaining the fundamental work of composition and its important consequences. In thirteen thematically and ...
Cultural Conservatism, Political Liberalism
Examines whether cultural studies has been too dismissive of the tradition of literary-cultural criticism that preceded it
