Chief O'Neill's Sketchy Recollections of an Eventful Life in Chicago
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This remarkable memoir of immigration and assimilation provides a rare view of urban life in Chicago in the late 1800s by a newcomer to the city and the Midwest, and the nation as well. Francis O'Neill left Ireland in 1865. After five years traveling the world as a sailor, he and his family settled in Chicago just shortly before the Great Fire of 1871. As O'Neill looked back on his life, writing in Chicago at the age of 83, he could give...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0810124653
ISBN13:9780810124653
Release Date:January 2008
Publisher:Northwestern University Press
Length:336 Pages
Weight:1.58 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"
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