Sugar Creek; Life on the Illinois Prairie

by John Mack Faragher

• ISBN13: 9780300042634
• ISBN10: 0300042639
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1988-03-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

This is the fascinating story of the birth and development of a rural American community, from its origins at the turn of the century to the years that followed the Civil War.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Maps	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Howling Wilderness
The Pioneer of Sugar Creek	p. 3
Hunters and Sugar-Makers	p. 10
Defenders of the Manitou	p. 18
A War of Extirpation	p. 25
The Country of Plenty To Eat
Land-Looker	p. 39
American Tartars	p. 44
Customs of Association	p. 53
With Milk and Honey Flow	p. 61
Lords of the Soil, Tenants of the Hearth
Totally and Forever Dissolved	p. 79
In Sickness and in Health	p. 87
Raising Hogs and Children	p. 96
She Drained Herself to Give Them Life	p. 110
The Sugar Creek Community
A Scene to Rouse Their Passions	p. 121
Good Neighborship	p. 130
Open-Country Connexions	p. 143
The Community of Feeling	p. 156
All Is Changed
It Answers Well for a Village	p. 173
Landlords and Tenants	p. 181
Conservative Change	p. 199
The Remnant of That Pioneer Band	p. 216
Conclusion	p. 234
Notes	p. 239
Index	p. 271
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