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- catalog abstract "Tells the stories of fifty-two significant events in the history of Illinois.".
- catalog contributor b12785114.
- catalog coverage "Illinois Biography Anecdotes.".
- catalog coverage "Illinois History Anecdotes.".
- catalog coverage "Illinois History, Local Anecdotes.".
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""The most dangerous woman in America" : Mary Harris "Mother" Jones -- Chicago's new Iroquois Theatre becomes a fiery death trap -- A big lake, a small town, and William Patrick Rend -- Illinois's worst coal mine disaster : the Cherry Mine fire -- Rock River Valley, Lorado Taft and the Black Hawk statue -- Calbraith Perry Rogers and the Vin Fiz Flyer cross Illinois -- World War I hysteria : the Prager hanging -- "Butchery-- wrought in madness" : the 1922 Herrin Massacre -- The minister served arsenic : Ina's great scandal -- Nature wreaks devastation : the 1925 Tri-State Tornado -- Illinois's last hanging : the gangster Charley Birger -- The nuclear age dawns in a Chicago squash court -- Illinois's beautiful gorge : Lusk Creek Canyon -- The Sun Singer and Robert Allerton's exotic park -- Oquawka : the town that immortalized an elephant -- Monsters and creatures of the Big Muddy River -- An Illinois ecological Eden : LaRue Swamp-Pine Hills area -- ".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Shaping the state : the Illinois and Michigan Canal -- A French quest for Utopia in Illinois : the Icarians -- Up, up, and away : two kids in a runaway balloon -- An angelic hero of the Civil War : ary Ann "Mother" Bickerdyke -- Fencing the west : De Kalb and its barbed wire -- James Buchanan Eads and his wonderful bridge -- Elixers in Illinois : mineral springs, baths and resorts -- Who threw the bomb? : the Haymarket Riot -- Death stalks the rails : the Chatsworth train wreck -- Quincy's pioneer in the sky : Thomas Scott Baldwin -- A shortcut to the Mississippi : the Hennepin Canal -- Illinois's most heinous murderer : Herman W. Mudgett -- Chicago's master boodlers : Michael "Hinky Dink" Kenna and "Bathhouse" John Couglin -- Of Ferris wheels and Jacksonville's Eli Bridge Company -- "General" Alexander Bradley's marches on the coalfields -- The man who electrified Illinois : Samuel Insull -- John Alexander Dowie's Utopia : Zion, Illinois -- ".
- catalog description "Tells the stories of fifty-two significant events in the history of Illinois.".
- catalog description "The Koster site : "Amerindians" and Dr. Stuart Struever.".
- catalog description "Tower Rock, ageless landmark of the Mississippi -- Salt mines in Illinois, an important early industry -- The Great Sauk Trail across northern Illinois -- Europeans come to Illinois : the Jolliet and the Marquette Expedition -- A grisly reputation : John Moredock, Indian slayer -- The Sucker State and mining Galena at Galena -- The last trails of Chief Ducoigne and his Kaskaskia -- Across Illinois with the famed birdwatcher John James Audubon -- "Black diamonds" along the Big Muddy : Illinois' first coal mine -- Waiting for the Second Coming : the Rappites Harmonie -- A "perfect society" experiment : Robert Owen's New Harmony -- The midnight ride of Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard -- Stillman's run : a debacle of the Black Hawk War -- Illinois martyr to freedom of the press : Elijah Parish Lovejoy -- The singing plow that "scoured" : John Deere and Company -- A trail of tears across southern Illinois : a Cherokee tragedy -- James Semple's trackless train : the prairie car -- ".
- catalog extent "xiii, 236 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Tales and trails of Illinois.".
- catalog identifier "0252027760 (Cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0252070852 (Paper : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Tales and trails of Illinois.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog relation "Tales and trails of Illinois.".
- catalog spatial "Illinois Biography Anecdotes.".
- catalog spatial "Illinois History Anecdotes.".
- catalog spatial "Illinois History, Local Anecdotes.".
- catalog subject "977.3 21".
- catalog subject "F541.6 .F58 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents ""The most dangerous woman in America" : Mary Harris "Mother" Jones -- Chicago's new Iroquois Theatre becomes a fiery death trap -- A big lake, a small town, and William Patrick Rend -- Illinois's worst coal mine disaster : the Cherry Mine fire -- Rock River Valley, Lorado Taft and the Black Hawk statue -- Calbraith Perry Rogers and the Vin Fiz Flyer cross Illinois -- World War I hysteria : the Prager hanging -- "Butchery-- wrought in madness" : the 1922 Herrin Massacre -- The minister served arsenic : Ina's great scandal -- Nature wreaks devastation : the 1925 Tri-State Tornado -- Illinois's last hanging : the gangster Charley Birger -- The nuclear age dawns in a Chicago squash court -- Illinois's beautiful gorge : Lusk Creek Canyon -- The Sun Singer and Robert Allerton's exotic park -- Oquawka : the town that immortalized an elephant -- Monsters and creatures of the Big Muddy River -- An Illinois ecological Eden : LaRue Swamp-Pine Hills area -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Shaping the state : the Illinois and Michigan Canal -- A French quest for Utopia in Illinois : the Icarians -- Up, up, and away : two kids in a runaway balloon -- An angelic hero of the Civil War : ary Ann "Mother" Bickerdyke -- Fencing the west : De Kalb and its barbed wire -- James Buchanan Eads and his wonderful bridge -- Elixers in Illinois : mineral springs, baths and resorts -- Who threw the bomb? : the Haymarket Riot -- Death stalks the rails : the Chatsworth train wreck -- Quincy's pioneer in the sky : Thomas Scott Baldwin -- A shortcut to the Mississippi : the Hennepin Canal -- Illinois's most heinous murderer : Herman W. Mudgett -- Chicago's master boodlers : Michael "Hinky Dink" Kenna and "Bathhouse" John Couglin -- Of Ferris wheels and Jacksonville's Eli Bridge Company -- "General" Alexander Bradley's marches on the coalfields -- The man who electrified Illinois : Samuel Insull -- John Alexander Dowie's Utopia : Zion, Illinois -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Koster site : "Amerindians" and Dr. Stuart Struever.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Tower Rock, ageless landmark of the Mississippi -- Salt mines in Illinois, an important early industry -- The Great Sauk Trail across northern Illinois -- Europeans come to Illinois : the Jolliet and the Marquette Expedition -- A grisly reputation : John Moredock, Indian slayer -- The Sucker State and mining Galena at Galena -- The last trails of Chief Ducoigne and his Kaskaskia -- Across Illinois with the famed birdwatcher John James Audubon -- "Black diamonds" along the Big Muddy : Illinois' first coal mine -- Waiting for the Second Coming : the Rappites Harmonie -- A "perfect society" experiment : Robert Owen's New Harmony -- The midnight ride of Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard -- Stillman's run : a debacle of the Black Hawk War -- Illinois martyr to freedom of the press : Elijah Parish Lovejoy -- The singing plow that "scoured" : John Deere and Company -- A trail of tears across southern Illinois : a Cherokee tragedy -- James Semple's trackless train : the prairie car -- ".
- catalog title "Tales and trails of Illinois / Stu Fliege.".
- catalog type "Anecdotes. fast".
- catalog type "Biography Anecdotes. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Local history. fast".
- catalog type "text".