Stories of Springfield

Discover the stories behind the famous characters of Springfield, Illinois, and why some of the city's lesser-known citizens are worthy of fame too. Learn about the first Lincoln museum and its controversial creator, the cholera epidemic that raged through the town and the operators of Springfield's Underground Railroad. Determine whether Lincoln purchased cocaine at a local drugstore, unearth the mystery of a local poet's wrenching death and find out how the local saloonkeepers beat the temperance movement. From the fatal pole wars of 1844 to the invention of dental forceps, local historian Tara McAndrew's careful research splices together the comic, the tragic and the completely unexpected in these chronicles from Lincoln's town.

Foreword	p. 9
Acknowledgements	p. 11
Uniquely Springfield
The Grave Matters of John Krous	p. 13
Springfield by Any Other Name	p. 15
Morality Trumps Cholera	p. 17
Before Corn Dogs and Taffy	p. 19
The Land of Inventors	p. 22
A Poet's Mysterious Death	p. 25
Cleopatra's Springfield Roots	p. 28
Springfield Put the Arson in Arsenal	p. 28
Behaving Badly
Springfield's First Con	p. 35
The Pole Wars	p. 37
Blow-by-Blow Journalism	p. 39
A Capitol Affair	p. 41
Was Springfield Hell?	p. 44
All the News that's Fit to Print	p. 48
The Lincolns
Lincoln and the Thespians	p. 51
The Lincoln Controversy that Wasn't	p. 53
The President Is Shot	p. 56
Springfield's Long Goodbye	p. 59
The Booth Brothers and the Lincolns	p. 63
The Bloodstained Dress	p. 65
The Strange Tale of Lincoln's Son, the Secret Service and Stupid Criminals	p. 68
Mary Lincoln Comes Home	p. 73
The First Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum	p. 76
African Americans
Early African Americans	p. 81
Springfield's Underground Railroad	p. 83
Billy the Barber	p. 89
"No Rope to Hang Him"	p. 92
Suffering
The Millerites' Disappointments	p. 99
Camp Misery	p. 101
Springfield Suffers the Suffragists	p. 103
Coming to the Land of Lincoln	p. 105
Miscellany: From Baseball to UFOs
Town Ball Hits Home	p. 111
Hot Air Over Illinois	p. 114
Did Politics Save New Salem?	p. 116
Ode to a Legislative Husband	p. 118
Bibliography	p. 121
About the Author	p. 127
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