The daring trader : Jacob Smith in the Michigan Territory, 1802-1825 /

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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 deserve...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crawford, Kim, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, ©2012.
Temas:
Smith, Jacob, > 1773-1825.
Smith, Jacob, > 1773-1825
1800-1899
To 1899
Pioneers > Biography.
Fur traders > Biography.
Indian agents > Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Indians of North America > History > 19th century.
Pionniers > Biographies.
Coureurs de bois > Biographies.
Peuples autochtones > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Frontier and pioneer life
Fur traders
Indian agents
Indians of North America
Pioneers
Michigan Territory > History.
Michigan > History > War of 1812.
Michigan Territory > Biography.
Flint Region (Mich.) > History > 19th century.
Michigan (Territoire) > Histoire.
Michigan > Histoire > 1812, Guerre de.
United States > Michigan Territory
Michigan
Multi-User.
Biographies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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