The history of Randolph county, Illinois

 

Table of Contents

I. INTRODUCTION AND MAP

II. HISTORIAN E. J. MONTAGUE'S

"A DIRECTORY, BUSINESS MIRROR, HISTORICAL SKETCHES, RANDOLPH COUNTY, ILLINOIS, WITH BRIEF NOTES OF THE PIONEER SETTLEMENTS", published in 1859... 1-134

III. ZEBEDIAH BARKER III, MINUTE MAN... 135-135a

IV. REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS BURIED IN RANDOLPH COUNTY, ILLINOIS... 137-142

V. CLASSIFIED PRECINCT DIRECTORIES

VI. INDEX... 143-158

 

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For many years before Kaskaskia was known to the white man, it was an Indian village, around which the crude natives hunted and fished, boiled their corn and venison, smoked the calumet, and danced to the guttural notes of discordant music, without a reference, therefore, to the Indian tribe from which Kaskaskia has taken its name, a sketch of the place, however complete in other particulars, would yet be imperfect.