A half century later, Christiana Tillson wrote about her early days in Illinois in a memoir published by R. R. Donnelley in 1919. In it she describes her husband's rise to wealth through the speculative land boom during the 1820s and 1830s and his loss of fortune when the land business went bust after the Specie Circular was issued in 1836.
The Tillsons lived quite ordinary lives in extraordinary times, notes Kay J. Carr, introducing this edition. Their views and sensibilities, Carr says, might seem strange to us, but they were entirely normal to people in the early nineteenth century. Thus Tillson's memoir provides vignettes of ordinary nineteenth-century American life.
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A half century later, Christiana Tillson wrote about her early days in Illinois in a memoir published by R. R. Donnelley in 1919. In it she describes her husband's rise to wealth through the speculative land boom during the 1820s and 1830s and his loss of fortune when the land business went bust after the Specie Circular was issued in 1836.
The Tillsons lived quite ordinary lives in extraordinary times, notes Kay J. Carr, introducing this edition. Their views and sensibilities, Carr says, might seem strange to us, but they were entirely normal to people in the early nineteenth century. Thus Tillson's memoir provides vignettes of ordinary nineteenth-century American life.
Imprint | Kessinger Publishing Co |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | June 2008 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | June 2008 |
Authors | Christiana Holmes Tillson |
Editors | Milo Milton Quaife |
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 10mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - Trade |
Pages | 192 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4367-5808-6 |
Barcode | 9781436758086 |
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LSN | 1-4367-5808-4 |