Bøger i Shawnee Classics serien

This text is a nostalgic, sometimes romantic, social history about life in the taverns along the stagecoach lines in Wisconsin and northern Illinois around 1800-1880s. After Cole's death, his notes and illustrations where turned into a book by historian Kellogg and published in 1930.

This work is a sequel and tells John Logan's postwar story. It covers topics such as reconstruction, regional and national Republican party politics, military policies, developing tariff policies, and the 1884 presidential race.

Compiled from stories in the city's daily newspapers, this text gives an account of the great cyclone at St. Louis and East St. Louis, which happened in 1896. Within twenty minutes, the cyclone had killed 137 people in St. Louis, and another 118 across the river in East St. Louis.

In 1913, Charlie Birger began his career as a bootlegger, supplying Southern Illinois with whiskey and beer. Drawing on a cast of the living, the dead, and the soon-to-be-dead, DeNeal recreates Prohibition-era Illinois, depicting shoot-outs, gang wars, arrests, trials and convictions.

Presents the self-portrait of a rugged pioneer, Daniel Brush, who prospered on the Illinois frontier, founded the town of Carbondale, and led a regiment of hellions in the Civil War.