A true picture of emigration / by Rebecca and Edward Burlend ; edited by Milo Milton Quaife.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : The Citadel Press, 1968.Description: xxxi, 167 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:- 917.73/45/033
- F 545 .B962 1968
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Reprint of the 1848 edition.
Includes index.
Title page -- Prefatory remarks -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5.
"In 1831 Rebecca Burlend and her husband John disposed of their small Yorkshire farm in England and planned their migration to North America. With their small children, the Burlends embarked on the vessel Home, bound for New Orleans. Their eventual destination was Pike County in Illinois. The stormy voyage in steerage was only a prelude to the rigors of the wagon-train journey that would bring them to the semi-wilderness which was to be their new home. This volume, narrated by Mrs. Burlend and written and edited by her son Edward, is the detailed account of the family's establishment of a farm and a new life on the Illinois plains. Mrs. Burlend's original intention in writing their story was to provide a helpful guide for other migrants who might wish to follow the Burlend's trail. In this she was successful, for others joined them in Pike County in great numbers. But, more important, Mrs. Burlend has provided us with an authentic classic of Americana which draws a vivid picture of life in the Midwest in the eighteen-thirties." -- from the back cover.
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