Howey-In-The-Hills - Paperback

by Peggy Clark (Author)

The High Ridge in Lake County is a timber wilderness with roaming cattle that was forever changed in 1916 when 40-year-old William John Howey arrived. At age 16, Howey left the family farm in Odin, Illinois, to sell insurance, automobiles, railroad lands,

Author Biography

Author Peggy Beucher Clark discovered Howey-in-the-Hills in 1964, when her father purchased the golf course. She has served on the town's historic preservation board for 20 years, and her selected images recapture the essence of the era.