"This is a book for anyone who has ridden down a country road and, hearing the wind whistle through the cornstalks, wondered about the Indians and pioneers who listened to that sound before him."--Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune Winner of the 1986 Society for the History of the Early American Republic Award The fascinating story of the birth and development of a rural American community from its origins at the turn of the nineteenth century to the years that followed the Civil War. Drawing on newspapers, account books, ...
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"This is a book for anyone who has ridden down a country road and, hearing the wind whistle through the cornstalks, wondered about the Indians and pioneers who listened to that sound before him."--Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune Winner of the 1986 Society for the History of the Early American Republic Award The fascinating story of the birth and development of a rural American community from its origins at the turn of the nineteenth century to the years that followed the Civil War. Drawing on newspapers, account books, and reminiscences, the author of the prize-winning Women and Men on the Overland Trail vividly portrays the lives of the prairie's inhabitants--Indians, pioneers, farming men and women--and adds a compelling new chapter to American social history. "Every chapter, almost every page, contains new ideas or throws new light on old ones, by means of a wealth of detail and clarity of though which brings the past alive again."--Hugh Brogan, The Times Literary Supplement "Here, succinctly set out, is the American prairie experience."-- Publishers Weekly
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In Sugar Creek, Faragher argues that frontiersmen were not the individualists that many Americans believe. These settlers relied heavily on the community to find, build and develop the areas of central Illinois. His book discusses the transformation of rural settlements, beginning in the early 19th century until the 1860s. As with many towns during this time, the emerging capitalist market drastically changed the landscape. This book is a well written narrative. I would recommend it as a case study of rural history in the American west.
