The Race of Vagabonds--"Yankee Enterprise"--The Virginia
Emigrant--The Western Creeks and Bridges--An Adventure in
Botany--Unnatural Rebellion--Christian Retaliation--Vandalia--
"First Impressions"--The Patriotic Bacchanal--The High-priest--
A Distinction Unmerited--The Cause--Vandalia--Situation--
Public Edifices--Square--Church--Bank--Land-office--"Illinois
Magazine"--Tardy Growth--Removal of Government--Adventures of
the First Legislators--The Northern Frontier--Magic of Sixteen
Years--Route to Carlisle--A Buck and Doe--An old Hunter--
"Hurricane Bottom"--Night on the Prairies--The Emigrant's
Bivouac--The Prairie-grass--Carlisle--Site--Advantages--
Growth--"Mound Farm" 238