About the Book
Long out of print and much sought after by collectors, Lansden’ s classic 1910 history of Cairo remains valuable for the early history of the city. Its reprinting here, with a new Foreword by Clyde C. Walton, former Illinois State Historian, thus makes available again one of the finest examples of local history ever written, stressing as it does Cairo’ s important relations with its area and with the country— in Lansden’ s words, “ this part of the Valley of the Mississippi— this Illinois Country.”