The Illini: A Story of the PrairiesBy Clark Ezra Carr
1905 fourth edition, A.C. McClurg and Co. (Chicago, Illinois), 6 x 9 1/2 inches tall 3/4 green leather spine and tips over gilt-ruled, marbled paper-covered boards, matching marbled endpapers, 468 pp. A fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a splendid binding.
The author here endeavored, by interweaving facts and fiction, to give his conception of the position and influence of Illinois among the sisterhood of states, as well as his estimate of events, and of those Illinoisans who were conspicuous actors in them, from 1850, when the Fugitive-slave law was enacted, to the opening of the Civil War.
Author Clark Ezra Carr (1836-1919), a prominent Illinois Republican, was appointed postmaster of Galesburg, Illinois in 1861 by Abraham Lincoln, a post he held for over two decades.