Frontier forts of Iowa : Indians, traders, and soldiers, 1682-1862 /

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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 ri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Whittaker, William E., 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2009.
Colección:Bur oak book.
Temas:
1800-1899
Fortification > Iowa.
Historic sites > Iowa.
Frontier and pioneer life > Iowa.
Indians of North America > Iowa > History.
Peuples autochtones > Iowa > Histoire.
HISTORY > State & Local.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Antiquities
Fortification
Frontier and pioneer life
Historic sites
Indians of North America
Iowa > Antiquities.
Iowa > History, Military > 19th century.
Iowa > Antiquités.
Iowa > Histoire militaire > 19e siècle.
Iowa
History
Military history
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Forts around Iowa / William E. Whittaker
  • Historical tribes and early forts / Cynthia L. Peterson
  • Cementing American control, 1816-1853 / Kathryn E.M. Gourley
  • Native American perspectives on forts / Lance M. Foster
  • Fort Madison, 1808-1813 / Marshall B. McKusick
  • Fort Shelby, Fort McKay, and the first Fort Crawford, 1814-1831 / Vicki L. Twinde-Javner
  • Fort Johnson, Cantonment Davis, and Fort Edwards, 1814-1824 / David J. Nolan
  • Fort Armstrong, 1816-1836 / Regena Jo Schantz
  • Fort Atkinson, Nebraska, 1820-1827, and other Missouri river sites / Gayle F. Carlson
  • Second Fort Crawford, 1829-1856 / Vicki L. Twinde-Javner
  • Fort Des Moines No. 1, 1834-1837 / Kathryn E.M. Gourley
  • Fort Atkinson, Iowa, 1840-1849 / Jeffrey T. Carr, William E. Whittaker
  • Fort Des Moines No. 2, 1843-1846 / Christopher M. Schoen, William E. Whittaker, Kathryn E.M. Gourley
  • Other forts of the Dragoon Era, 1837-1853 / Cindy L. Nagel
  • Northern border brigade forts, 1857-1863 / Leah D. Rogers
  • Visiting forts / Cynthia L. Peterson.

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