Format:
1 online resource (287 pages)
ISBN:
9781587298820
Series Statement:
Bur Oak Book
Content:
At least fifty-six frontier forts once stood in, or within view of, what is now the state of Iowa. The earliest date to the 1680s, while the latest date to the Dakota uprising of 1862. Some were vast compounds housing hundreds of soldiers; others consisted of a few sheds built by a trader along a riverbank. Regardless of their size and function-William Whittaker and his contributors include any compound that was historically called a fort, whether stockaded or not, as well as all military installations-all sought to control and manipulate Indians to the advantage of European and American traders, governments, and settlers. Frontier Forts of Iowa draws extensively upon the archaeological and historical records to document this era of transformation from the seventeenth-century fur trade until almost all Indians had been removed from the region.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- 1. Forts around Iowa -- 2. Historical Tribes and Early Forts -- 3. Cementing American Control, 1816-1853 -- 4. Native American Perspectives on Forts -- 5. Fort Madison, 1808-1813 -- 6. Fort Shelby, Fort McKay, and the First Fort Crawford, 1814-1831 -- 7. Fort Johnson, Cantonment Davis, and Fort Edwards, 1814-1824 -- 8. Fort Armstrong, 1816-1836 -- 9. Fort Atkinson, Nebraska, 1820-1827, and Other Missouri River Sites -- 10. The Second Fort Crawford, 1829-1856 -- 11. Fort Des Moines No. 1, 1834-1837 -- 12. Fort Atkinson, Iowa, 1840-1849 -- 13. Fort Des Moines No. 2, 1843-1846 -- 14. Other Forts of the Dragoon Era, 1837-1853 -- 15. Northern Border Brigade Forts, 1857-1863 -- 16. Visiting Forts -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781587298318
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781587298318
Language:
English
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=843235
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