Illinois Trails & Traces
Portraits and Stories Along the State's Historic Routes
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Product details:
- Publisher Southern Illinois University Press
- Date of Publication 14 November 2022
- ISBN 9780809338481
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages294 pages
- Size 210x270x13 mm
- Weight 1021 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 113 illustrations 254
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Short description:
Partners the deft writing of Gary Marx with vivid photography by Daniel Overturf to illuminate ever evolving patterns of travel and settlement. Taking the reader on a journey down early buffalo traces and Native American trails, this book shows how these paths evolved into wagon roads and paved highways.
MoreLong description:
Trails & Traces partners the deft writing of Gary Marx with vivid photography by Daniel Overturf to illuminate ever evolving patterns of travel and settlement. Taking the reader on a journey down early buffalo traces and Native American trails, this book shows how these paths evolved into wagon roads and paved highways. Marx and Overturf explore historic routes ranging from Route 66 to the Underground Railroad, all the way back to post-Ice Age animal migration trails followed by Paleo-Indian people. The authors also examine how rivers, canals, and railroads spurred the rapid rise of Illinois as a modern state.
In this book, Marx and Overturf bring history into the present by including over forty photographic portraits and written profiles of individuals who live along these routes today. Many of the people you will meet on these pages work to preserve and honor the history of these passages. Others profiled here embody the spirit of the old roads and provide a vivid link between past and present. Through this journey, we discover that we’ve all been traveling the same road all along.
Table of Contents:
- CONTENTS
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. The Road In
- 2. Trails Through the Wilderness
- 3. Twin Canoes
- 4. Paths of War
- 5. Up from the Ohio
- 6. The Lincoln Way
- 7. Stagecoach to Canal Boat
- 8. The Railroad Era
- 9. Out of the Mud
- 10. Waves of Humanity
- Afterword
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
