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Download or read book A History of the City of Cairo, Illinois written by John M. Lansden and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long out of print and much sought after bycollectors, 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 itdoes 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.”