It Happened In Southern Illinois Book

List of Illustrations ix

A Personal Word Allen, John W. xi

Preface xvii

1 Individuals 3

Southern Illinois Has a Storied Background

The Legend of Dr. Anna Bigsby

Last Lawsuit of Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln's Mother

One Artist Painted a Smiling Lincoln

A Grandmother's Notes

Johnny Appleseed

The Boy of Battle Ford

Mount Olive and "Mother" Jones

Long-Time Partners

John Messinger at Clinton Hill

"Bat" Masterson William Barclay

"Wild Bill" Hickok James Buder

An Illinois Boy and the Wild West

An Unusual Man and His Strange Car

Through Grand Canyon with a One-Armed Illinoisan

Aaron Burr's Great Scheme

Lee's Success and Failure

A Fighting Irishman

The Life and Works of F. F. Johnson, M.D.

An Illinois Teacher

A Man Who Has Become a Legend

Mother Bickerdyke

Civil War Story Josiah Nickolson's

2 Folklore 49

Strange Beliefs About Birds

Christmas Superstitions

Some Owls Come Calling

Folklore About the Left Hand

Apple Time

Mister Groundhog, Champion Sleeper

Reading Palms or Bumps

Superstitions About Money

Beekeepers and Lore About Bees

This "Egypt" and That Egypt

Superstitions About Foods

Random Bits of Horsey Folklore

Cats and Man

With a Few Grains of Salt

3 Indians 75

An Ancient Emblem

Whiteside's Station

War Bluff, An Indian Fort

The World's Largest Earthen Memorial

The Insect War and Shawneetown

Illinois Indians Moved to Kansas

4 Landmarks 86

The Vanishing Landscape

Old Houses Tell Stories

The Devil's Claim to Real Estate

Shawnee National Forest

Natural Bridges

Cave-in-Rock

Lesser Bluffs of Loess

Ebb and Flow Spring

How Bloody Island Came By Its Name

Macoupin County's Great Courthouse

Transplants from Ancient China

Forced to Call Out "Calf Rope!"

5 Travel 108

A Southern Illinois Tour

The Vanished Interurban

About Lizards

A Surrey with the Fringe on Top

Southern Illinois Tour Continued

Going Down to Cairo

On the Way to Old Shawneetown

Prowling About Old Cemeteries

All Roads Led to Frankfort

Let's Go for Another Drive

Tourism is Growing Up

Geology Reveals Earth History

Lost Among the Kentucky Hills

A Few Miles Along Memory Lane

6 Business and Industry 139

Antiques Tell How People Lived

The Kentucky Rifle

The Old General Store

The Village Barbershop

Some Unique One-Man Shops

Shoe Repairmen But No Cobblers

A Veteran Horseshoer

A Visit to a Blacksmith Shop

From the Daybook of a Blacksmith

New-Old Industries

Beginning of the Illinois Central

A Circus Comes to Shawneetown

The Gentle Art of Horse Swapping

The Boom Days of Patent Medicines

Traveling Shows

He Trusted a Stranger

The Paddies Are Gone

To Broughton On a Saturday Afternoon

7 Farm Life 174

Artifacts Tell Stories

Grain Harvesting

Threshing Machines Recall Olden Times

Farming Then and Now

Deserted Buildings Tell Stories

This Man Has His Own Museum

Apple Season

"Egypt" Still Grows Cotton

As Hungry as the Town Sow

Kerosene Lamps

Homemade Playthings

Log Rolling Has Changed

Windmills

The Lost Art-of Driving Oxen

Barbed Wire

Forgotten Goods

Fodder and Pumpkins

Corn

Musings in an Old Kitchen

Sniffing an Album of Odors

Lost Odors

Short 'n' Long Sweet'nin'

"Sugaring Off" Time

Whittling

8 Schools 218

Some Call It Nostalgia

Still Sits the Schoolhouse

Pie Suppers

Last Day in a Country School

Schoolbooks of Another Year

The Vanishing Country School

First Illinois School Closes

Octagonal Schools

Ewing College

Illinois' Oldest College

Law Schools

9 Special Days 239

An Echo of Old Christmas

Christmas Trees

Great Day for Irish

Flag Day

Around the Fourth of July

County Fairs

Mule Day at Enfield

Popcorn Day

Halloween

A One-Man Reunion

10 Churches 259

Mostly About Churches

Easter Services on Bald Knob

"Egypt's" Strange Religious Cult

Saint Joseph's Seminary

The Shakers

He Didn't Know the Rooster Was There

The Amish Are Unusual People

11 Law and Order 273

Organized Crime and Samuel Mason

Only One Woman Hanged in the State

Peeking Into Box A 1-40

A Roman Holiday

The Fear of Prison Walls

Back to Prisons

12 Slavery 285

"Egypt" and the Mason-Dixon Line

Morrison Had Laborers for Rent

The Dred Scott Decision

Emancipation Centennial

13 The Military 293

High School Boys Retrace Clark's Trail

A Boy's Diary of Mexican War

On the Eve of the Civil War

The Race for Cairo

Daniel Brush and His Volunteers

Shelter for an Army

Cooties

From Ample to Scanty Rations

Living Off the Country

Private George Griffith's Civil War Diary

Private Griffith at War's End

Civil War Had Horse Marines

A Music Master Goes for a Ride

A Confederate Prison Camp

Civil War Reunions

14 Rivers 323

The Dark Bend of the Ambraw

Locks and Dams on the Ohio

Barging Coal Then and Now

The World's Most Unusual Navy

Gunboats of the Rivers

It is a Great River

15 Towns- New and Old 335

Shiloh Hill is Worth Visiting

The American Bottom

From Florence to Grayville

Shawneetown

In and About Salem

Grand

Tower

Vincennes

La Belie Fontaine

Highland

Teutopolis, Town of the Teutons

The Kaskaskia of the Carribean

16 Speech 356

Language of Horse and Buggy Days

Do You Understand What I Mean?

Vanishing Words

17 What They Said About Us 362

History of the English Settlement in Edwards County

Illinois in 1837 & 8

From Timber to Town

The Outlaw Years

The Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock

Diluvium or the End of the World

The Other Illinois

18 Random Stories 375

Wandering in a Wonderland

Old Advertisements

Southern Illinois Went "A Borrowing"

Gypsies Are a Strange People

How a Habit Got Started

Martha Ann and David Go for a Ride

Replacements for the Old

Index 389