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A History of Illinois,
From the Commencement as a State in 1814 to 1847,
Containing a Full Account of the Black Hawk War, the Rise, Progress and Fall of Mormonism, the Alton and Lovejoy Riots, and Other Important and Interesting Events

By Gov. Thomas Ford

Chicago: S. C. Griggs & Co., 1854 (1st edition)
 

Thomas Ford was the eighth Governor of Illinois, and served from 1842 to 1846. A Democrat, he is remembered largely for his involvement in the death of Joseph Smith, and the subsequent Illinois Mormon War.

Bound in embossed green boards with gilt-stamped spine titles and Illinois state insignia. Yellow endpapers. 447 pages + publisher's ads. 8" x 5.25".