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title	:	Prairie Albion : An English Settlement in Pioneer Illinois Shawnee Classics
author	:	Boewe, Charles E.
publisher	:	Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0809322838
print isbn13	:	9780809322831
ebook isbn13	:	9780585335674
language	:	English
subject	British Americans--Illinois--Edwards County--History--19th century, Albion (Ill.)--History--19th century, Frontier and pioneer life--Illinois--Edwards County, Edwards County (Ill.)--History--19th century.
publication date	:	1999
lcc	:	F549.E3B68 1999eb
ddc	:	977.3/79100413
subject	:	British Americans--Illinois--Edwards County--History--19th century, Albion (Ill.)--History--19th century, Frontier and pioneer life--Illinois--Edwards County, Edwards County (Ill.)--History--19th century.

Page i Prairie Albion Shawnee Classics A Series of Classic Regional Reprints for the Midwest

Page iii Prairie Albion An English Settlement in Pioneer Illinois Charles Boewe

Page iv Copyright 1962 by Southern Illinois University Press Shawnee Classics edition published 1999 by Southern Illinois University Press Preface to the Shawnee Classics edition copyright 1999 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 02 01 00 99 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Boewe, Charles E., 1924 Prairie Albion : an English settlement in pioneer Illinois / Charles Boewe. p. cm. (Shawnee classics) Includes bibliographical references. 1. British AmericansIllinoisEdwards CountyHistory19th century. 2. Albion (Ill.)History19th century. 3. Frontier and pioneer lifeIllinoisEdwards County. 4. Edwards County (Ill.)History 19th century. I. Title. II. Series. F549.E3B68 1999 977.3'79100413dc21 99-21403 ISBN 0-8093-2283-8 (pbk.: alk. paper) CIP The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.

Page v To Edgar L. Dukes, HIMSELF A PIONEER

Page vii Preface to the Shawnee Classics Edition When this book was completed in 1961, I was aware that lacking in it were the voices of the women who participated in the settlement on the English Prairie. They were wanting because at the time women's writings were unavailable. The transformation of our society during the past thirty years that has to some extent rescued women from the neglect of history has brought forth one book relevant here: Eliza Julia Flower, Letters of an English Gentlewoman: Life on the Illinois-Indiana Frontier, 18171861 (Muncie, 1991), edited by Janet R. Walker and Richard W. Burkhardt. Eliza Julia Flower's known letters are few in number and cover only the period 183359, but Walker and Burkhardt have set them in a rich matrix of related material, interspersed with their own commentary, to illustrate the many hardships and occasional pleasures of domestic life on the prairies. Though never intended for publication, Mrs. Flower's letters bear comparison with Christiana Holmes Tillson's A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois (Carbondale, 1995), the memoir of a woman pioneer of about the same period but farther north, in Montgomery County. They were not, however, as mirthful as those of that other prairie "raconteuse," Eliza W. Farnham, whose Life in Prairie Land (Urbana, 1988) took place still farther north, in Tazewell County, also in the 1830s. Unfortunately, Eliza Julia Flower was demurely silent on the one thing we might most like to know. This is whether, as Morris Birkbeck's vivacious ward, she truly was the cause of the bitter estrangement between Morris Birkbeck and George Flower when she chose to marry the latter. Two things about her are clearly established in this book: she was by all accounts a beautiful woman (her portraits in old age notwithstanding), and she genuinely loved her husband. The strength of her character is illuminated as we watch her go without complaint from being the gracious hostess of the Flowers' Park House mansion to being

Page viii the efficient proprietor of ever more modest hotels when penury forced the Flowers to take up innkeeping, first in New Harmony, Indiana, then in Mt. Vernon, Illinois. Walker and Burkhardt also provide some hitherto unavailable pictorial material, and more images can be inspected in the profusely illustrated Art, Crafts, and Architecture in Early Illinois, by Betty I. Madden (Urbana, 1974). Chapter 7 of Madden's book, "Early Encounters with the Prairies," deals especially with the English Settlement, but pictures of some of the few surviving English Settlement artifacts are also scattered elsewhere in the book. Not directly germane, but useful in putting the English Settlement in the wider context of pioneering in Illinois, is John Mack Faragher's Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (New Haven, 1986). Faragher alludes to both Birkbeck and Flower, but his book is specifically focused on a settlement in Sangamon County that began about the same time as theirs. This book is the most comprehensive historical, economic, and social study yet of a prairie settlement on the farmer's frontier. There are also two articles published since Prairie Albion that are worth mentioning. Both show that interesting material still remains to be dug out of the record by researchers who go to the trouble to seek it, information not supplied in the reminiscences of the participants themselves. Mary Ann Slater wrote "Quarreling in the English Settlement: The Flowers in Court,"

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