History of Hancock County, Illinois, together with an outline history of the State, and a digest of State laws . ^ and clover meadow. Inrecurring to those early days of prairie green and bloom, one canalmost wish them back again; they were such a glory and a joy;such a boundless, magnificent, waving, rolling sea of beauty. Thisin bright summer; but ah! let winters storms and snows come —and right here we close the picture and the 204 HISTORY OF HANCOCK COUNTY. CHAPTER II. PIONEERS AND PIONEER LIFE. How did people live in the pioneer davs?—is a question whichthe youth of to-day may Nv
History of Hancock County, Illinois, together with an outline history of the State, and a digest of State laws . ^ and clover meadow. Inrecurring to those early days of prairie green and bloom, one canalmost wish them back again; they were such a glory and a joy;such a boundless, magnificent, waving, rolling sea of beauty. Thisin bright summer; but ah! let winters storms and snows come —and right here we close the picture and the 204 HISTORY OF HANCOCK COUNTY. CHAPTER II. PIONEERS AND PIONEER LIFE. How did people live in the pioneer davs?—is a question whichthe youth of to-day may Nvell ask. In 1S17, it is said the firststeamboat, the Gen. Pike, ascended the Mississippi above Previous to that period, all merchandise and provisions,except of home product, had to be brought to Illinois by way ofXew Orleans, in keel-boats. cordelled up the current by strongmuscular force,—a trip from the settlements to that city and back,occupying about six months time; or they had to be conveyedacross the mountains from the seaboard cities to Pittsburgh orWheeling, and floated down the Ohio in broad-horns. Salt wasprocured in small quantities from Kanawha and about Shawnee-town; but tea, coffee, spices, sugar, and the thousand and one arti-cles which now constitute the food of the inhabitants, were seldomseen; or if seen, were procured for extreme occasions only, and atgreat expense, by the wealthy. Buckskin moccas
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