On the Trail of Eliza Steele – Virtual Program
ZoomIn July, 1840, New York writer Eliza Steele traveled by stagecoach from Chicago, through Cook, DuPage, Will, Kendall, and LaSalle Counties, to Peru where she boarded a river packet to the Mississippi. Recounted in her 1841 book, "A Summer Journey in the West," she provides vivid details of the people, and of the prairie, on […]