The Old Kaskaskia Records An Address Read Before The Chicago Historical Society February 2 1906 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Old Kaskaskia Records: An Address Read Before the Chicago Historical Society, February 2, 1906 My own interest in Illinois history began about a year ago, when I was sent by the Illinois State Historical Library to report on an old French record in Belleville. In the St. Clair court-house has been preserved what is left of the Cahokia records, which have proved very valuable for the period following the conquest by George Rogers Clark; but of earlier date a record - book from the French period is all that remains.2 The mission to Belleville was so successful that the trustees of the Historical Library decided to send me into the field for a month last summer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.