Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . TERRITORY DRAINED BV THE ILLINOIS j zT^o~vo-L-^ i^tixA^-i^M, PREFACE. Why publish this book? There should be many and strong reasons to warrant such anundertaking. Are there such reasons? What considerations are weighty enough to haveinduced the publishers to make this venture? and what special claims has Illinois to such adistinction? These are reasonable and inevitable inquiries, and it is fitting they shouldreceive attention. In the first place, good State Histories are of great importance and value, and there isabundant and cheering evidence of
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . TERRITORY DRAINED BV THE ILLINOIS j zT^o~vo-L-^ i^tixA^-i^M, PREFACE. Why publish this book? There should be many and strong reasons to warrant such anundertaking. Are there such reasons? What considerations are weighty enough to haveinduced the publishers to make this venture? and what special claims has Illinois to such adistinction? These are reasonable and inevitable inquiries, and it is fitting they shouldreceive attention. In the first place, good State Histories are of great importance and value, and there isabundant and cheering evidence of an increasing popular interest in them. This is true ofall such works, whatever States may be their subjects; and it is conspicuously true of Illi-nois, for the following, among many other reasons: Because of its great prominence in theearly history of the West as the seat of the first settlements of Europeans northwest of theOhio River—the unique character of its early civilization, due to or resulting from its earlyFrench population brought in contact with the aborigi
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