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The Trader at Rock Island: George Davenport and the Founding of the Quad Cities by Regena Trant Schantz
Call Number: SC 977.769 SCHANTZ
ISBN: 9781647041199
Publication Date: 2020
Your obedient servant George Davenport by Colonel Davenport Historical Foundation
Call Number: SC 977.769 YOU
ISBN: 9780975593431
Publication Date: 2006
The house that courage built [videorecording] by The Colonel Davenport Foundation
Call Number: SC DVD 977.769 HOU
Publication Date: 2007
Davenport family collection, 1819-1923.
Call Number: SC MICROFILM 929.2 Dav V.1-4
Indian trade accounts, settler trade accounts, and correspondence about Indian trade and affairs.
Descendants of Colonel George Davenport by Geraldine Davenport Stemmons
Call Number: SC 929.2 DAVENPORT
Publication Date: 2014
The Davenport house and family on Rock Island : a case study in the transformation on the midwestern frontier to 1858 by Schantz, Regena Jo
Call Number: SC 977.3393 Sch
Publication Date: 1991
Archaeology of the west wing, Colonel Davenport House (11R1521), Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois by Mansberger, Floyd R.
Call Number: SC 977.3393 Man
Publication Date: 1997
Cornucopia (Rock Island, Ill.) by Colonel Davenport Historical Foundation
Call Number: SPECIAL COLLECTIONS MAGAZINE AREA
Publication Date: 1995 - 2022
Davenport, past and present by Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892.
Call Number: SC 977.769 WIL
Publication Date: 1858
Portrait on page 145.
A clearing in the forest by McCoy, Gayle A.
Call Number: SC 977.769 MCC
Publication Date: 1980
Jimtown Mystery by Gloryl Parchert
Call Number: SC FIC Par
ISBN: 1555233511
Publication Date: 1990-12-01
Fiction work based on the murder of George Davenport.
Rock Island, yesterday, today & tomorrow by Elsner, B. J.
Call Number: SC 977.3393 Roc
Publication Date: 1988
Aaron and John Long and Grandville (or Granville) Young - trial for murder of Col. George Davenport. Trial - Rock Island, IL - October 10, 1845. Convicted and sentenced to hang - October 29, 1845. Held County Jail, then located on the alley behind the present Rock Island County building on 15th Street. Gallows built by Elton O. Cropper on what is now Third Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets, Rock Island. Also includes account of the displaying of John Long's skeleton until buried in 1978 in Dickson Cemetery.