Starved Rock Through The Centuries PDF Download

Excerpt from Starved Rock: The Birthplace of IllinoisStarved Rock has looked down through the centuries on the Indian busy in his great camp, along the blue waters of the wide Illinois, on his hunting ground and his corn land.It has seen bobbing canoes of the Jesuits and the Franciscans and heard the orders of their companions, the explorers, who together were the first white men to penetrate Illinois.It has echoed to the violins of the lonely French soldiers and their friends, thousands of. Miles from their homeland.It has seen the camp of the Indians raided and left in ruins by their savage enemies, has looked down on the last of its original people, who climbed its rocky summit to gaze on a virgin land, that teemed with game and was cloaked in giant trees along the shores and on the rocky bluffs.This craggy old piece of jutting rock washed by the river on one side, and inaccessible from two sides must be climbed, now in the same man ner as by those who long ago were wrapped in their green quilt in the wilderness.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.