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They Broke the Prairie

  • ISBN-13: 9780252060946
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Earnest Elmo Calkins
  • Price: AUD $47.99
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  • Local release date: 16/03/1989
  • Format: Paperback 480 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History [HB]
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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.
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