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Autore: | Crawford Kim <1957-> |
Titolo: | The daring trader [[electronic resource] ] : Jacob Smith in the Michigan Territory, 1802-1825 / / Kim Crawford |
Pubblicazione: | East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (332 p.) |
Disciplina: | 977.4/03092 |
Soggetto topico: | Pioneers - Michigan |
Fur traders - Michigan | |
Indian agents - Michigan | |
Frontier and pioneer life - Michigan | |
Indians of North America - Michigan - History - 19th century | |
Soggetto geografico: | Flint Region (Mich.) History 19th century |
Michigan History To 1837 | |
Michigan History War of 1812 | |
Michigan Biography | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | A fur trader in the Michigan Territory and confidant of both the U.S. 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The daring trader |
ISBN: | 1-62895-120-6 |
1-60917-315-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910788380003321 |
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