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They Broke the Prairie
Earnest Elmo CalkinsIntroduction by Rodney O. Davis
Paper978-0-252-06094-6
$18.00
| Pub Date: | 1989 |
| Pages: | 480 pages |
| Dimensions: | 5.375 x 8 in. |
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.
Subjects:
Illinois / History, State & Local / History, Am.: 19th C. / History, Am.: 20th C.
