![]() ![]() This is a first edition of an important account of an English family that emigrated to America in 1831. Pamphlet, original pronted wrappers, 62 pp.Normal aging and browning, a few chips to spine overall a nice copy. ![]() The covers are moderately worn, the front cover has some spots, some minor foxing on the fore-edge, otherwise fine unmarked, tight, and square. With courage and self-reliance Rebecca Burlend accepted the privations and difficulties of this pioneering venture. ![]() It records the daily struggle and also the satisfactions of homesteading in the Old Northwest: life in a log cabin food, clothes, and furniture of the period early churches and schools the unspoiled countryside and its denizens. 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 was a whole new world for a family that had never been more than fifty miles from home in rural Yorkshire. ![]() Louis and from there went to the wilds of western Illinois. They took a steamboat up the Mississippi to St. 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. Illustrated with photographic portrait frontispiece. Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion and borders on cover, t.e.g., fore-edge deckle. ![]()
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