Illinois in the War of 1812 Ferguson Paperback John Wiley & Sons 9780252081828

Illinois in the War of 1812Author(s): Gillum Ferguson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252081828, 978-0252081828\nSynopsis\nRussell P. Strange \""Book of the Year\"" Award from the Illinois State Historical Society, 2012.\n\nOn the eve of the War of 1812, the Illinois Territory was a new land of bright promise. Split off from Indiana Territory in 1809, the new territory ran from the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers north to the [url] border with Canada, embracing the current states of Illinois, Wisconsin, and a part of Michigan. The extreme southern part of the region was rich in timber, but the dominant feature of the landscape was the vast tall grass prairie that stretched without major interruption from Lake Michigan for more than three hundred miles to the south. The territory was largely inhabited by Indians: Sauk, Potawatomi, Kickapoo, and others. By 1812, however, pioneer fa.