THEY BROKE the PRAIRIE - 9780252060946

THEY BROKE the PRAIRIEAuthor(s): Earnest Elmo Calkins\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252060946, 978-0252060946\nSynopsis\n First published in 1937 in honor of\nthe Galesburg and Knox College Centenary, the book contains a wealth of\nlively details and amusing anecdotes. Calkins traces the progress of the\ncommunity and the college through the arrival of the railroad, slave running,\nabolitionist confrontations, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, the Civil War,\nand the postwar era.