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Paperback / softback. New. The Illinois frontier offered abundant opportunity, noted English traveller William Oliver after his journey to America in 1841-42, but life there was hard. In ""Eight Months in Illinois"" Oliver provided pertinent and practical information about what people might encounter in the frontier.
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Eight Months in Illinois: With Information to Immigrants Paperback - 2002
by William Oliver; Foreword by James E. Davis
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- Title Eight Months in Illinois: With Information to Immigrants
- Author William Oliver; Foreword by James E. Davis
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 264
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-03
- ISBN 9780809324378 / 0809324377
- Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5.94 x 0.69 in (19.56 x 15.09 x 1.75 cm)
- Reading level 1420
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Geographic Orientation: Illinois
- Library of Congress subjects Illinois - Description and travel, Illinois - Social conditions - 19th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001042671
- Dewey Decimal Code 977.303
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SIU Press, 2002-03-21. Paperback. New. 7x5x0. <br /><br/>The Illinois frontier offered abundant opportunity, noted English traveler William Oliver after his journey to America in 1841-42, but life there was hard. Accordingly, Oliver advised the wealthy and comfortable to remain in England and counseled the unprosperous to seek their fortunes in America. Written for the poor who would migrate and published in 1843, his Eight Months in Illinois: With Information to Immigrants sought only to provide pertinent, valid, and practical information about what people might encounter in the frontier state. What Oliver actually accomplished, however, was much more: he imparted invaluable insights into and analyses of American life during an era of sweeping social, economic, and political change. <br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/><br /><br/>In his new foreword to this edition, James E. Davis stresses Oliver's sincere desire to help British immigrants…
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