Pioneer Days in Illinois (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Pioneer Days in Illinois Similar stories are told in Vermilion County. When lots were offered for sale in Danville on April 1, 1827, a fine spring day, so many rattlers came out of their winter quarters that the sale had to be postponed. On this occasion it is said that 75 snakes were killed, some of them six feet long. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.