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Subject: Re: 1850's Illinois
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:42:10 EST
There were many reasons for the Brethren to move as part of the 'westward
movement', including the sheer joy of developing new lands. An excellent,
almost poetic work for the period, although it begins just after the Civil
War, is Hamlin Garland's classic memoir of his family, "A Son of the Middle
Border", (Macmillan & Co., 1914). They were not Brethren - but otherwise
the pioneer life he describes would be typical of that of our Brethren
ancestors in Illinois and Wisconsin. If not in your local library, try the
used bookshops.
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