Milo Quaife

Recounts the history of the American flag and other symbols representing national sovereignty and illustates the use and display of the flag.

Volume 3 of the Society’s 3-volume Constitutional Series. This volume contains, according to the editor, “…the story of the doings of the convention of 1846 as contemporaneously reported for certain newspapers of the state [followed by] a presentation of the discussion over ratification which ended in the decisive rejection of the constitution by the voters at the election of April 6, 1847.”

This volume by history professor Milo Quaife was intended as a readable popular history and also an up-to-date (early 20th century) scholarly explanation of the significant place of Chicago in the struggle for the Northwest. Chapter headings: The Chicago Portage Chicago in the Seventeenth Century The Fox Wars: A Half-Century of Conflict Chicago in the Revolution The Fight for the Northwest The Founding of Fort Dearborn Nine years of Garrison Life The Indian Utopia The Outbreak of War The Battle and Defeat The Fate of the Survivors The New Fort Dearborn The Indian Trade War and the Plague The Vanishing of the Red Man There are nine appendixes containing accounts of the Fort Dearborn massacre, and a 20-page annotated bibliography.

The author was a historian of the American Midwest, and served as Director of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Chapter headings include: -The Vincennes Trace -The road to Ottawa and the Southwest. -The thoroughfares to the lead mines. -The Green Bay Road. -The plank road era. -The commerce of the prairies. -Stage coaches and travel. -Taverns and tavern life. -Dangers of the highway. -A bridal tour in pioneer Illinois. -Appendix: Guide to the chief points of historical interest within a day’s journey of Chicago.

A couple with five children decide to emigrate from Yorkshire, England to the American west. This narrative is written by the wife from her own viewpoint. It begins with the decision to leave England and describes the voyage to New Orleans followed by a riverboat trip up the Mississippi and their lives on their new farm. Although the writing style is old-fashioned British English, her descriptions are fresh and realistic. Burlend neither glamorized nor glossed over the hardships. The result is a forthright and honest account of her experiences, with many interesting details that are normally missed or skimmed over by male authors of similar memoirs.

This little volume seeks to present in simple language which anyone may read and enjoy the story of the forces responsible for the existence of modern Chicago. Twenty years ago, in a volume now out of print, I covered the same general subject. My present narrative utilizes to some extent the earlier one. It contains, in addition, the results for two added decades of study and reflection. In this period much new material has come to light, and some former errors have been disclosed. If my story of how Chicago came to be shall bring pleasure as well as instruction to the reader, my object in writing it will have been realized. -Milo M. Quaife

Volume 1 of the Society’s 3-volume Constitutional Series. This volume contains, according to the editor, “…available documentary records of official proceedings and popular discussion attendant upon the assembling of the first Wisconsin constitutional convention in the autumn of 1846.”

Volume 2 of the Society’s 3-volume Constitutional Series. This volume contains, according to the editor, “…the official journal of proceedings of the Wisconsin constitutional convention, together with the debate, in so far as the latter can now be reconstructed from existing sources of information.