Reynolds, John:

$500 · Offered by William Reese Company

THE PIONEER HISTORY OF ILLINOIS, CONTAINING THE DISCOVERY, IN 1673, AND THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY TO THE YEAR EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN, WHEN THE STATE GOVERNMENT WAS ... "For his history of the early French communities and the settlement of the American Bottom, Reynolds relied on early pioneers still living" - Streeter. An important early history by a governor of the state who was in office at the time of the Mormon troubles and the murder of Joseph and Hyrum Smith. With the illustrated bookplate of prominent American archaeologist and linguist Alice Leslie Walker, updated in manuscript with her married name of Kosmopoulos.

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