About this title: On a frosty day in November 1831, Rebecca Burlend and her husband, John, and their five children debarked at New Orleans after a long voyage from England. They took a steamboat up the Mississippi to St. Louis and from there went to the wilds of western Illinois. It was a whole new world for a family that had never been more than fifty miles from home in rural Yorkshire. Rebecca's narrative, written with the help of her son, was first published in 1848 as a pamphlet for people of her own class in England who might be considering migration to America. It records the daily struggle and also the ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Citadel Press NY c.1974, trade paperbk., this is a reprint of #34 in the Lakeside Classics Ser., in a slightly larger format. original edition published in 1848. 8vo. (xxi, 167)pp. VG. read more
Edition: First Paperback Edition; First Printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: U. Nebraska Press
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780803260832ISBN:0803260830
Description: Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 0803260830. read more
Edition: Lakeside Press Edition
Binding: Decorative Cloth
Publisher: R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Chicago, IL
Date Published: 1936
Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall B001I4L30I Shelfworn. Red cloth with gilt binding. Gilt to top edge. Minor foxing to inner boards and book block. Tightly bound and square. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Citadel Press, New York
Date Published: 1968
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Previous owner's stamp. Otherwise clean. xxxi, 167 p. illus., maps, ports. 21 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Maps, Portraits. Reprint of the 1848 ed. read more
Description: Citadel Press, NY c.1968, this is a reprint of #34 in the Lakeside Classics Ser., in a slightly larger format, orig. pub.1848. 8vo. cloth, (xxi, 167)pp. F/F $ read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: CITADEL PRESS
Date Published: 1968
Description: Like New. Dust jacket shows minor shelf wear, otherwise an unblemished copy.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Free Delivery Confirmation! Ships same or next business day! read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Windmill Publications
Date Published: 1998
Description: AN/NONE. Red buckram boards with gilt stamping. Facsimile reprint of the 1936 Lakeside Classic edition. A narrative of pioneer life in Pike County, Illinois between 1831-1845, written by an English woman who settled in Illinois with her husband and five children.; MCN10048; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 167 pp. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780803260832ISBN:0803260830
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Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Lakeside Press, Chicago, IL
Date Published: 1936
Description: Black & White Illustrations. VG/-- 12mo., xxxi, 169 pp., Vg condition except for faded spine. Lakeside Classic, Christmas of 1936, including a list of others. T.e.g. Originally published anonymously in London about 1848. Illustrated with portraits and a foldout map of the Burlend homestead and vicinity, in and around Pike County, Illinois, from map prepared by Jess M. Thompson. read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
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