A True Picture of Emigration

by Rebecca Burlend and Edward Burlend

On a frosty day in November 1831, Rebecca Burlend and her husband, John, and their five children debarked at New Orleans after a long voyage from England. They took a steamboat up the Mississippi to St. Louis and from there went to the wilds of western Illinois. It was a whole new world for a family that had never been more than fifty miles from home in rural Yorkshire. Rebecca's narrative, written with the help of her son, was first published in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803211988
• ISBN13: 9780803211988
• Release Date: March 1987
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 167 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.3" x 8.0"