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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
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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