  [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] Abbott, Dr. Lucius; 49. Baker, B'vt Major D.; 144. Cahokia; 138. Dearborn, Fort; see Fort Dearborn. Eastman, Lieut. J. L.; 113, 114. Farnum, Isabella (Cooper); 197. Galloway, A. J.; 218. Hackleys, Ann and John; 173. Indians; passim; see table of contents. Jackson, Andrew; 107. Kaskaskia; 133, 138. Laframboise, Josette; 24. Macomb, Mr.; 112. Napoleonic years; 63. O'Fallon, Col.; 37, 178. Parc-aux-vaches; 23, 115, 166. Queen Charlotte, (schooner); 113, 114. Relics recovered; 178. Sand-dunes; 25; 29, 31, 180. Tanner, Dr. H. B.; 65. Van Home, James; 118, 146, 150. Wabash Indians; 44. DIBBLE PUBLISHING CO., 334 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. MAJOR KIRKLAND'S FIVE BOOKS. Historical Works: THE STORY OF CHICAGO. Cloth, $3.50; Half Morocco, $5.00; Full Morocco, Gilt Edged, $7.00. THE CHICAGO MASSACRE OF 1812. Paper, 50 cts. Cloth, $1.00 Novels: ZURY, THE MEANEST MAN IN SPRING COUNTY. Paper, 50 cts.; Cloth, $1.50. THE McVEYS, AN EPISODE. Cloth, $1.25. THE CAPTAIN OF COMPANY K. Illustrated. Paper, 50 cts.; Cloth, $1.00. Each of the above books sent, carriage free, on the receipt of the price named. All three of the novels, in cloth, for $3.00. The two histories are devoted to a topic which the whole world agrees to consider, on the whole, the most interesting of all now offered for its attention, namely, the young giant of the West:—Chicago. The last named, "The Chicago Massacre of 1812," is here, within these covers, to speak for itself. The first named, "The Story of Chicago," has been published for about a year, meeting a success without parallel among the books on this subject. The publishers have received (beside hundreds of favorable reviews) the following eloquent personal letters, worth many ordinary critiques:
HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE STORY OF CHICAGO: Boston, March 19, 1892. My Dear Mr. Dibble: I have waited a few days to become acquainted with your beautiful book, "The Story of Chicago." It is indeed a story worth telling, and I thank you most heartily for giving me the opportunity of reading it and the privilege of placing it upon my shelves. They used to tell us that the age of miracles had passed, but few recorded miracles compare with the wonder of this great city, springing up like a mushroom and hardening and spreading its branches until it stands like a mighty oak, king of the forest, with the promise of countless ages before it. I have had great pleasure in looking at the splendid architectural monuments as they are figured in your pages. I have looked with the deepest interest on the portraits of the men who have wrought all these marvels, and I only wish that I could promise myself the delight of beholding Chicago as she will appear in her more than royal robes when the world is flocking to look at her, the Empress City of the West; it may be, by and by, of the Continent. I am, dear sir. Very truly yours,
I have delayed to thank you for "The Story of Chicago" until I could find time to make myself thoroughly familiar with it; and I can now say, without hesitation, that it has interested me more than any other story of a town that I have ever read. I congratulate you on having secured as its author so accomplished a writer as Major Kirkland, whose novels are a memorable delight, and who proves himself, in this fascinating "Story of Chicago," no less successful as a historian. Your very numerous and beautiful illustrations add greatly to the value of the book; and surely this Story, (which reads like a chapter of miracles,) is a contribution to American history of which no one can afford to be ignorant. Yours very sincerely,
The Dibble Publishing Co., Kind Friends:—"The Story of Chicago" is Major Kirkland's masterpiece. He has comprehended what envious New York has called the "Windy City," but which is in reality the Magic City, not only of America but of the world. Whoever helps to put this book under eyes that have not been blessed by its fair, inspiring pages and choice photogravures has helped to increase the sum of human happiness, for as the brain of man is creation's masterpiece so Chicago is the planet's whispering gallery of whatever is most hopeful, progressive and inspiring to humanity. Her history is the epic of the Great Lakes and the wonder-book of the prairies. Long may its crisp pages rustle in the breeze. Frances E. Willard.
Dear Mr. Dibble: When you prevailed upon Major Kirkland to write the "Story of Chicago." you displayed once more your acumen. You induced the brilliant author of "Zury" to forego his imaginative work for a while, and to devote his talent to the narration of an "o'er true tale"—a tale, however, as strange and absorbing as any romance. I know he will get his reward, and I hope you will get yours. But let me compliment you, heartily, upon the book itself, and upon the liberality and taste with which you have illustrated it. Every American is proud of Chicago, of her history, her great ambition, her financial and intellectual progress. Her record is faithfully set forth in your handsome volume. Whoever designs to visit Chicago and the Columbian Exposition should own and thoroughly read "The Story." Ever sincerely yours, Following the good practice of "letting other men do the talking," here are some of the countless public praises which came crowding in after the publication of each of the three novels: KIRKLAND'S THREE NOVELS. ONE NOVEL ("Zury") tells of life on Zury's farm, and another ("The McVeys") tells of life at Springville and early Chicago, with glimpses of Lincoln, Douglas, David Davis, etc., and bring together Zury and Anne Sparrow, the hero and heroine of both novels: Of these two books Hamlin Garland in The Boston Transcript says: "The full revelation of inexhaustible wealth of native American material ... will come to the Eastern reader with the reading of "Zury" ... It is as native to Illinois as Tolstoi's "Anna Karenina" and Torguenieff's "Father and Sons" are to Russia, its descriptions are so infused with real emotion and so graphic. The book is absolutely unconventional ... not a trace of the old-world literature or society,—and every character is new and native ... The heroine is a Boston girl, ... a bouncing, resolute, and very frank personage, able to care for herself in any place. The central figure ... is Zury.... This a great and consistent piece of character painting.... He fills the book with his presence and his inimitable comments upon life and society.... A man whose better nature flowered late." "The McVeys; An Episode," has the sincerity of history, and when one reads it he is in the very atmosphere of Spring County. The surveying crew, the railroad building and final jubilee, the lead mining all go on under the eye.... The story of Anne and her children forms the connecting thread of a book of great power and freshness. The War novel won the first prize ($1,600) in the famous competition got up by the Detroit Free Press. In gaining favorable notices it quite equalled its two predecessors. "The Captain of Company K." There is nothing in the nature of artistic writing within the covers of "The Captain of Company K," by Maj. Joseph Kirkland, nor is there any of that kind called real because it is ugly, but there is a good story of life in a volunteer company in active service. The hero is a fine specimen of those countless citizens to whom their country's need revealed their best "The Captain of Company K," by Joseph Kirkland, is one of the very few later stories of '61 which cannot fail to interest everybody. To those readers who are already acquainted with Mr. Kirkland's "Zury" and the "McVeys," and they are not a few, "Company K" will be a double treat, as it carries some of the characters he has portrayed in them through the scene of the great rebellion. The style of the book is clearly hinted at in its unique dedication to "The surviving men of the firing line; who could see the enemy in front of them with the naked eye, while they would have needed a field glass to see the history makers behind them." The private's impressions of war, formed in the teeth of musketry, may be of less value to accurate history than the view from the the epaulette quarter, but for dramatic purposes the foot soldier's story is best, as Mr Kirkland proves by his success with a military novel.—Kingston (N. Y.) Freeman. I read the story at one sitting, and morning found me closing the volume. You have written a true book. That intimate image of certain phases of the Civil War, which the mind's eye of the soldier alone retains, and which, already dimmed by years, would soon have been blotted forever, has been caught and fixed in literature.—Major Henry A. Huntington. 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This sweet singer, though blind, has so beautifully told the story of "Lily Pearl" that one of our leading authors says of her: "Sightless she is not, for in her the mind's eye is of a brilliancy that seems to make our mere physical vision useless by comparison. Better the soul's sight without eyes, than the eyesight without soul." 458 pages handsomely illustrated and neatly bound in cloth, $1.25. Address DIBBLE PUBLISHING CO. Transcriber Note Images were moved so as to not split paragraphs. Hyphenation, outside of quoted passages, was standardized to the most prevalent form used. Minor typographical errors were corrected. To preserve the look of the original, the muster-roll on page 150 retains an asterisk rather than using a repeated footnote letter. BLOCK HOUSE OF FORT DEARBORN This building occupies the site of old Fort Dearborn which extended a little across Mich. Ave. and somewhat into the River as it now is. The Fort was built in 1803 & 4. Forming our outmost defense. By order of Gen. Hull it was evacuated Aug. 15, 1812 after its stores and provisions had been distributed among the Indians. Very soon after the Indians attacked and massacred about fifty of the troops and a number of citizens including women and children and next day burned the Fort. In 1816 it was re-built, but after the Black-hawk War it went into gradual disuse and in May 1857 when it was torn down, excepting a single building, which stood upon this site till the Great Fire of Oct. 9, 1871. At the suggestion of the Chicago Historical Society this tablet was erected by Nov. 1889. W. M. Hoyt. | ||||||||||
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