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Crawford Kim <1957-> |
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Titolo |
The daring trader [[electronic resource] ] : Jacob Smith in the Michigan Territory, 1802-1825 / / Kim Crawford |
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East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-62895-120-6 |
1-60917-315-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (332 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Pioneers - Michigan |
Fur traders - Michigan |
Indian agents - Michigan |
Frontier and pioneer life - Michigan |
Indians of North America - Michigan - History - 19th century |
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Flint Region (Mich.) History 19th century |
Michigan History To 1837 |
Michigan History War of 1812 |
Michigan Biography |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Witness to Murder : Saginaw, 1802 -- The Saginaw Trail -- Trouble in Detroit -- War Clouds -- War in the Michigan Territory -- The Arrest of Jacob Smith -- I Pray You Inform Me ... : The Character of Jacob Smith -- Abduction to Saginaw -- The Return of the Boyer Children -- Jacob Smith versus Louis Campau, 1815 -- Peace -- Conclude a Treaty for the Country upon the Saginac Bay -- The Treaty Councils Begin -- He Was Smart as Steel -- Mounting Trouble, Mounting Debt -- U.S. vs. Jacob Smith -- He Was Dissipated and Bad in His Habits -- It Is the Last Stir of the Dying Wind -- No One Was More Anxious to Secure Advantage Than Smith -- The White Man Takes Away What He Bought of the Indians. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A fur trader in the Michigan Territory and confidant of both the U.S. |
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government and local Indian tribes, Jacob Smith could have stepped out of a James Fenimore Cooper novel. Controversial, mysterious, and bold during his lifetime, in death Smith has not, until now, received the attention he deserves as a pivotal figure in Michigan's American period and the War of 1812. This is the exciting and unlikely story of a man at the frontier's edge, whose missions during both war and peace laid the groundwork for Michigan to accommodate settlers and farmers moving west. The book investigates Smith's |
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