Sugar Creek; Life on the Illinois Prairie
by John Mack FaragherFormat: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 1988-03-11
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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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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