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Juliette Gordon
"2012 is the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouting in the United States. This timely coloring/history book showcases Juliette Gordon Low and important places related to her life and times. Featuring 15 detailed line drawings and essays, the images are accompanied by a wealth of facts and stories about the founder of Girl Scouts as well as her beloved home state of Georgia. The text is written for older readers, but the tales make interesting telling for younger children as well. Artist/author, Merana Cadorette, is an avid Girl Scout archivist and collector."--Amazon
Wau-Bun
But the certainty of encountering similar misadventures would have weighed little with me. I was now to visit, nay, more, to become a resident of that land which had, for long years, been to me a region of romance. Since the time when, as a child, my highest delight had been in the letters of a dear relative, describing to me his home and mode of life in the "Indian country," and still later, in his felicitous narration of a tour with General Cass, in 1820, to the sources of the Mississippi-nay, even earlier, in the days when I stood at my teacher's knee, and spelled out the long word Mich-i-li-mack-i-nac, that distant land, with its vast lakes, its boundless prairies, and its mighty forests, had possessed a wonderful charm for my imagination. Now I was to see it!-it was to be my home!
Chicago’S Authentic Founder
Chicagos Authentic Founder traces the life and time of Jean Baptiste Point DuSable from Haiti through Louisiana, Peoria, Chicago, and Saint-Charles, Missouri, where he died in 1818. It examines important historical events such as the foundation of Chicago, George Rogers Clarks conquest of the French villages in Illinois, and DuSables arrest and appointment as manager of the Pinery in Michigan. The extent of DuSables Chicago business or trading post is treated in full. DuSables life in Saint-Charles is recounted in light of various court documents. His relationship to and leadership of the Pottawatomi tribe is explored and analyzed in ways that correct many of the inaccuracies found in the ac...
Fort Dearborn
Fort Dearborn is a historical novel about the early history of Chicago. Historical characters, such as the Shawnee chief Tecumseh, are intertwined with fictional characters as the fort comes under attack during the War of 1812.
Hidden History of Middlesex County, Connecticut
While Middlesex County is one of the most historic communities in the nation, some of its past is little known. Researchers found dinosaur tracks in Middlefield that date back 200 million years. The author of Dr. Dolittle, Hugh Lofting, lived in Killingworth, and a young Dr. Seuss spent summers in Clinton. Constance Baker Motley, the first female African American federal judge, resided in Chester. A Portland lake has water levels that fluctuate for no apparent reason. An Essex blacksmith shop was America's oldest continuously run family business. Local authors Robert and Kathleen Hubbard reveal these and many other unforgettable stories.
Women Building Chicago 1790-1990
A path breaking reference work that features biographies of more than 400 women who helped build modern day Chicago. 158 photos.
Mapping Manifest Destiny
"An exhibition at the Newberry Library November 3, 2007-February 16, 2008"
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Muddy Ground
In early North America, carrying watercraft—usually canoes—and supplies across paths connecting one body of water to another was essential in the establishment of both Indigenous and European mobility in the continent’s interior. The Chicago portage, a network of overland canoe routes that connected the Great Lakes and Mississippi watersheds, grew into a crossroads of interaction as Indigenous and European people vied for its control during early contact and colonization. John William Nelson charts the many peoples that traversed and sought power along Chicago’s portage paths from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries, including Indigenous Illinois traders, French explorers...
