On a frosty day in November 1831, Rebecca Burlend and her husband, John, and their five children debarked at New Orleans after a long voyage from England. They took a steamboat up the Mississippi to St. Louis and from there went to the wilds of western Illinois. It was a whole new world for a family that had never been more than fifty miles from home in rural Yorkshire. Rebecca's narrative, written with the help of her son, was first published in 1848 as a pamphlet for people of her own class in England who might be ...
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On a frosty day in November 1831, Rebecca Burlend and her husband, John, and their five children debarked at New Orleans after a long voyage from England. They took a steamboat up the Mississippi to St. Louis and from there went to the wilds of western Illinois. It was a whole new world for a family that had never been more than fifty miles from home in rural Yorkshire. Rebecca's narrative, written with the help of her son, was first published in 1848 as a pamphlet for people of her own class in England who might be considering migration to America. It records the daily struggle and also the satisfactions of homesteading in the Old Northwest: life in a log cabin; food, clothes, and furniture of the period; early churches and schools; the unspoiled countryside and its denizens. With courage and self-reliance Rebecca Burlend accepted the privations and difficulties of this pioneering venture.
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Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. 16mo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering, rules and decoration. xxxi, 167pp, (1p ad). Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, two tissue-guarded illustrations, small foldout map. Very good. Spine quite faintly sunned; internally tight and near fine. Tight, handsome 34th volume in the annual "Lakeside Classics" series of Americana reprints. First of this edition of a noted chronicle of a British family's move to frontier illinois, first published anonymously in London in 1848--originally subtitled "Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America; Being a Full and Impartial Account of the Various Difficulties and Ultimate Success of an English Family Who Emigrated from Barwick-in-Elmet, Near Leeds, in the Year 1831."
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Very good. Citadel Press hardcover, with jacket, tight and unmarked, mild jacket wear. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. Customers purchasing more than one item from us may be entitled to a shipping discount.
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Fine in Very Good- jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 167 pages. "This volume, narrated by Mrs. Burlend and written and edited by her son Edward, is the detailed account of the family's establishment of a farm and a new life on the Illinois plains. This is a complete reprint of a work published in Aug. 1848." FINE HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD-DUST JACKET.
