25," ch. iv., pages
unnumbered.

450 "Stories of the Pioneer Mothers of Ill.," in MSS. in Ill. State
Hist. Lib.

451 "Niles' Register," XXX., 287; "Ill. Intelligencer," May 18, 1826.

452 "Ill. Monthly Mag.," I., 129.

_ 453 Ibid._, I., 128-9

454 Fearon, "Sketches of America," 1817, 261, reprinted in Kingdom, "Am.
and the British Colonies," 63; Birkbeck, "Letters from Ill." 22,
32-3, 51-2, 69, 78, 85; Birkbeck, "Extracts," 24-5, shows that a
honey-locust hedge could be made (1819) for less than 12 cents per
rod.

455 Birkbeck, "Jour. from Va. to Ill.," 36; Duden, "Nordamerika," 319.

456 Faux, "Memorable Days in Am.," 315.

457 Birkbeck, "Letters from Ill.," 35-6.

458 Mackenzie, "View of the U. S.," 1819, 298.

459 "Niles' Register," XXII., 112.

_ 460 Ibid._, XXV., 272.

461 Loomis, "Notes of a Journey to the Great West in 1825," ch. iv,
pages unnumbered.

462 "H. J." (Ill.), 1828-29, 63.

463 "State Papers," No. 55, 21st Cong., 1st Sess., Vol. III.; "Niles'
Register," XXVIII., 161.

464 "Niles' Register," XXII., 226.

465 Parkison, "Pioneer Life in Wis.," in "Wis. Hist. Soc. Coll.," II.,
328-9.

466 Owen, "Ums Jahr 1819 und 1829," in "Deutsch-Amerikanische
Geschichtsblatter," Jahrgang 2, Heft 2, S. 42.

467 Meeker, "Early Hist. of the Lead Region," in "Wis. Hist. Soc.
Coll.," VI., 280.

468 "Pub. Lands," IV, 800.

469 "Narrative of Morgan L. Martin," in "Wis. Hist. Soc. Coll.," XL,
398.

470 Chetlain, "Recollections of Seventy Years," 6; Mrs. Adile Gratiot,
in "Early Ill. Towns," Lib. of Chicago Hist. Soc.

471 Parkison, "Pioneer Life in Wis," in "Wis. Hist. Soc. Coll.," II.,
329.

472 "Ex. Doc.," No. 277, 20th Cong., 1st Sess., Vol. VII.

473 "Shattuck Memorials," 233-4.

474 "Niles' Register," XXXIV., 344.

475 "Jacksonville (Ill.) Weekly Journal," Apr. 18, 1877.

476 Babcock, "Memoir of John Mason Peck," 123.

477 Peck, " 'Father Clark'; or, The Pioneer Preacher," 240.

478 Reynolds, "Illinois--My Own Times," 59.

479 Babcock, "Memoir of John Mason Peck," 229.

480 "Trans. of the McLean Co. (Ill.) Hist. Soc," II., 19.

481 "Jacksonville (Ill.) Weekly Journal," Apr. 18, 1877.

482 Peck, in Reynolds, "Pioneer Hist. of Ill.," 259.

_ 483 Ibid._, 272-3.

484 Strickland, "Autobiography of Peter Cartwright," 386-7.

485