A True Picture of Emigration

"In 1831 Rebecca Burlend and her husband John disposed of their small Yorkshire farm in England and planned their migration to North American. With their small children, the Burlends embarked on the vessel Home, bound for New Orleans. Their eventual destination was Pike County in Illinois. The stormy voyage in steerage was only a prelude to the rigors of the wagon-train journey that would bring them to the semi-wilderness which was to be their new home. This volume, narrated by Mrs. Burlend and written and edited by her son Edward, is the detailed account of the family's establishment of a farm and a new life on the Illinois plains. Mrs. Burlend's original intention in writing their story was to provide a helpful guide for other emigrants who might wish to follow the Burlends' trail. In this she was successful, for others joined them in Pike County in considerable numbers. But Mrs. Burlend has also provided us with an authentic classic of Americana which draws a vivid picture of life in the Midwest in the eighteen-thirties"--Jacket flap.