Excerpt from The Peoria Directory, for 1844: Containing an Account of the Early Discovery of the Country, With a History of the Town, Down to the Present Time An Indian yell was given - the ball was knocked over the pickets, and the Indians', rushed after it, and at once commenced the r savage slaughter - the English 'were cut, down and scalped indiscriminately - many were held between the knees of the Indi ans and scalped while alive, and British blood was drank from the hollows of joined hands. Many bodies of the slain were boil ed and eaten. Seventyof the English troops. 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.

The guide provides Research Publications' fiche and reel numbers, with their contents, for City directories of the United States in microform; segment 1 (pre 1860), segment 2 (1861-1881) and segment 3 (1882-1901).