Sugar Creek : life on the Illinois Prairie / John Mack Faragher.
Material type: TextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c1986.Description: xvii, 280 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cmISBN:- 0300035454 (alk. paper)
- 9780300035452 (alk. paper)
- Sugar Creek Valley (Macoupin County and Sangamon County, Ill.) -- History
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Illinois -- Sugar Creek Valley (Macoupin County and Sangamon County)
- Sugar Creek Valley (Macoupin County and Sangamon County, Ill.) -- Social conditions
- Sugar Creek Valley (Macoupin County and Sangamon County, Ill.) -- Economic conditions
- Sugar Creek (Macoupin County and Sangamon County, Ill.) -- History
- Illinois Sangamon County Sugar Creek, ca 1800-ca 1870
- F547.S94 F37 1986
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Bibliography: p. 239-270.
Includes index.
Howling Wilderness -- The Pioneer of Sugar Creek -- Hunters and Sugar-Makers -- Defenders of the Manitou -- A War of Extirpation -- The Country of Plenty To Eat -- Land-Looker -- American Tartars -- Customs of Association -- With Milk and Honey Flow -- Lords of the Soil, Tenants of the Hearth -- Totally and Forever Dissolved -- In Sickness and in Health -- Raising Hogs and Children -- She Drained Herself to Give Them Life -- The Sugar Creek Community -- A Scene to Rouse Their Passions -- Good Neighborship -- Open-Country Connexions -- The Community of Feeling -- All Is Changed -- It Answers Well for a Village -- Landlords and Tenants -- Conservative Change -- The Remnant of That Pioneer Band.