Western Illinois Regional Studies - a publication that included articles about the history and culture of west central Illinois. Titles of articles in each issue are listed below.
William Cullen Bryant: Illinois Landowner; The Garden Myth In "The Prairies"; Recollections of an Illinois Woman; Carl Sandburg's Influence on Modern Poetry; The Regional Essays of Jerry Klein
Bishop Hill: Swedish Development of the Western Illinois Frontier; Emigrant Letters by Bishop Hill Colonists from Nora Parish; "A Romantic and Miraculous City" Shapes Three M id western Writers
Etienne Cabet and the Icarians; "Mon Cher Emile": The Cabet-Baxter Letters, 1854-1855; Utopias That Failed: the Antebellum Years; The Proper Pilot: A New Look at "Old Times on the Mississippi"; Vache! Lindsay and the Chicago Herald
A Slave's Autobiography Retold; Quincy and Meredosia in 1842: Charles Carter Langdon's Travel Letters; An Addition to the John Hay Canon: A New Castilian Letter; Coming to Terms with County Histories; Lindsay's 1908 Walking Trip; Imitations of Spoon River: An Overview
Perception of Land Quality and the Settlement of Northern Pike County 1821-1836; Land Speculation in Fulton County 1817-1832; Archeological Explorations at Jubilee College Historic Site; Three Antislavery Leaders of Bureau County; The Men's Literary Clubs of Jacksonville
Primitivism and Paternalism: Early Denonninational Approaches in Western Illinois; The Black Hawk Purchase: Stimulus to the Settlement of Iowa, 1832-1851; Wyatt Earp Was Born Here: Monmouth and the Earps, 1845-1859; Robert G. Ingersoll and the Sensual Gods: An Unpublished Letter; Mine Union Radicalism in Macoupin and Montgomery Counties
The Memoir of William T. Brooking, McDonough County Pioneer (Part 1); Two Houses of the Lower Illinois River Valley; The Sorority Movement at Monmouth College; Recollections of the Hennepin Canal; Region as Metaphor in the Plays of Susan Glaspell
The Naming of Spoon River; Sarah Fenn Burton's Diary of a Journey to Illinois; The Memoir of William T. Brooking, McDonough County Pioneer (Part 2); Tornadoes of Western Illinois Prior to 1875; Illinois Grassroots Politics of the 1890's in Brand Whitlock's Fiction; Louis William Rodenberg, an Illinois Poet
Reverend George Moore Comments on Nauvoo, the Mormons, and Joseph Smith; The Triumph of Mobocracy in Hancock County, 1844-1846; Ellis Parker Butler: Popular Humorist at the Turn of the Century; Language Variation in the Military Tract; Foreign Ownership of Farmland in Western Illinois
Selected Letters from the Bishop Chase Correspondence; The Midwestern Poetry of Eliza Snow; Occupational Distribution of Frontier Towns in Pike County: An 1850 Census Survey; Forgotten Images: Nineteenth-Century Gravestone Motifs in Peoria County; Slater Burgesser and His Famous Spring
Joseph Smith III and the Mormon Succession Crisis, 1844-1846; Utopian Fraternity: Ideal and Reality in Icarian Recreation; John Hay on Garfield's Deathbed Latin; The Legal Philosophy of Robert G. Ingersoll; Quad Cities Writers: A Group Portrait
Military Arrests of Lawyers in Illinois During the Civil War; Legal Processes and Judicial Challenges: Black Land Ownership in Western Illinois; The Crime, Trial, and Execution of William W. Lee of East Burlington, Illinois; Dark Faces on the Antebellum West Central Illinois Landscape
Western Illinois in Charlevoix's History and Journal; "Old Dick" Richardson, the Other Senator from Quincy; John Hay and the Western School of Literature; Edgar Lee Masters' Paternal Ancestry: A Pioneer Heritage and Influence; Wind Engines in Western Illinois
Special Issue: Waterways in Western Illinois: The Warsaw Boat Yard; The Way It Used To Be: Folklore of the River Men; The Night of the Prairie Belle; The Hennepin Canal: New Life for an Old Waterway; Tanning the Rapids of the Upper Mississippi; The Illinois Waterway
Early Western Illinois Town Advertisements: A Geographical Inquiry; American Home Missionary Society Ministers and Mormon Nauvoo: Selected Letters; Joseph Smith's Visits to Henderson County; The Uncertain Death of Charles Wilson; The Background of Lindsay's "The Chinese Nightingale"
Special Issue: Other Voices from Western Illinois: Marjorie Allen Seiffert, Moline Poet; Floyd Dell in the Western Illinois Region; The Poetry of John Knoepfle; History and Dramatic Form: The Lake Argyle Project; MVR [Mississippi Valley Review] at Fifteen
"Incidents in tlie Life of an Old Pioneer": The Memoir of Fields Jarvis; An Icarian Embarkation: Le Havre to Nauvoo, 1854; Peoria's Reaction to the Outbreak of the Civil War; John Hay's Lyceum Lectures; Thomas F. Railsback and His Congressional Papers
Special issue: The Frontier in Western Illinois: Editor's Introduction; John Scripps: Circuit Rider and Newspaperman; Log Cabin Hospitality on the Illinois Frontier; Illinois City: 150 Years on the Prairie; Travel on the Western Illinois Frontier: The Memoir of William Dickson; Death at Mormon Nauvoo, 1843-1845
Maps and Their Makers in Early Illinois: The Burr Map and the Peck-Messinger Map; Greenbush Vigilantes: An Organizational Document; The Hennepin Canal as Community; Spoon River Anthology in Estonia: Mats Traat's "Henriette Vestrik"; Selected Letters of Virginia S. Eifert; The Character of New Small Farms in Western Illinois; Bibliography of McDonough County
Special Issue: Art and Architecture in Western Illinois: Editor's Introduction; The Historic Architecture of Rock Island Arsenal; An Early Italianate Mansion in Beardstown; The Photography of Belle Johnson from Monroe City, Missouri; The Contribution of Regional Arts: A Conversation with George M. Irwin of Quincy
The Life and Death of Bloody Island: A Ferry Tale; "Now the wild prairie to the view Appears": Nineteenth-century Illinois Poets of the Prairies; The End of Eric Jansonism: Religious Life in Bishop Hill in the Post-colony Period; The Patterson Family of Oquawka; Circulation and Survival: McClure's Magazine and the Strange Death of Muckraking Journalism; Bibliography of Knox County
Special Issue: Mormon Nauvoo: The Mormon Press in Nauvoo, 1839-1846; Sex Roles, Marriage, and Childrearing at Mormon Nauvoo; The Nauvoo Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1846-1848; The Awesome Responsibility: Joseph Smith III and the Nauvoo Experience; Recent Writing on Mormon Nauvoo
Black Slavery in Illinois, 1720-1765; The Birthplace of Wyatt Earp; Isaac Newton Morris: A Nineteenth-Century Quincy Politician; An Architectural Classification of Third Generation Country Schools in Brown County; J. F. Powers and the Catholic Clergyman
Special Issue: Bishop Hill: Editor's Introduction; Eric Janssonism: Community and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Sweden and America; The Eric-Janssonists and the Shifting Contours of Community; The Bishop Hill Colony: What they Found; The Building of Bishop Hill; Living in Community: Daily Life in the Bishop Hill Colony; The Folk Genre Paintings of Olof Krans as Historical Documents; Bibliography of English Language Publications on Bishop Hill
Uniforms and Equipment of the Black Hawk War and the Mormon War; The Peoria Party; Civil War Accounts as Literature: Illinois Letters, Diaries, and Personal Narratives; Murder in a Rural Setting: Logan County Homicides 1865-1900; Some Family Source Material for Spoon River Anthology
Special Issue: The Region's Communities: Creating a Farm Community: Fountain Green Township, 1825-1840; Illinois River Towns: Economic Units or Melting Pots; The Temperance Movement in Monmouth, 1857-1859; College Towns and Campus Sites in Western Illinois; Community Functions in the Late Nineteenth Century: A Photographic Essay
The 1831 Probate Inventories of Daniel Harris and Morrill Marston: Early Documents of Warren and Hancock Counties; The Pike County Courthouse; The Commercial Failure of the Hennepin Canal; The US 67 Corridor in the WPA's Illinois Tour Guide; Bibliography of Rock Island County
Special Issue: Edgar Lee Masters: Sandridge: A Masters Landscape Revisited; Oakland Cemetery in Petersburg; Oak Hill Cemetery in Lewistown; Edgar Lee Masters' "Finest Achievement": Domesday Book; Missed by Modernism: The Literary Friendship of Arthur Davidson Ficke and Edgar Lee Masters
