Rising Up from Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago
ISBN-13:
9780226428963
ISBN-10:
0226428966
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Ann Durkin Keating
Publication date:
2012
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Format:
Hardcover
320 pages
Category:
Native American
,
Americas History
,
State & Local
,
United States History
,
United States
,
Military History
,
War of 1812
FREE US shipping
on ALL non-marketplace orders
Marketplace
from $19.50
USD
Marketplace offers
Seller
Condition
Note
Seller
Condition
Used - Very Good
Hardcover in very good condition. Dust jacket in plastic. Cover in great shape. Signed by author to previous owner + previous owner's stamp inside. No other markings. Pages in great condition. Our feedback says it all! Feel confident when you order from Hilltop Book Shop.
Book details
ISBN-13:
9780226428963
ISBN-10:
0226428966
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Ann Durkin Keating
Publication date:
2012
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Format:
Hardcover
320 pages
Category:
Native American
,
Americas History
,
State & Local
,
United States History
,
United States
,
Military History
,
War of 1812
Summary
Rising Up from Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago (ISBN-13: 9780226428963 and ISBN-10: 0226428966), written by authors
Ann Durkin Keating, was published by University of Chicago Press in 2012.
With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other
Native American
(Americas History, State & Local, United States History, United States, Military History, War of 1812) books. You can easily purchase or rent Rising Up from Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago (Hardcover) from BooksRun,
along with many other new and used
Native American
books
and textbooks.
And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.41.
Description
In August 1812, under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people from the isolated outpost of Fort Dearborn to Fort Wayne. The group included several dozen soldiers, as well as nine women and eighteen children. After traveling only a mile and a half, they were attacked by five hundred Potawatomi warriors. In under an hour, fifty-two members of Heald’s party were killed, and the rest were taken prisoner; the Potawatomi then burned Fort Dearborn before returning to their villages.
These events are now seen as a foundational moment in Chicago’s storied past. With Rising up from Indian Country, noted historian Ann Durkin Keating richly recounts the Battle of Fort Dearborn while situating it within the context of several wider histories that span the nearly four decades between the 1795 Treaty of Greenville, in which Native Americans gave up a square mile at the mouth of the Chicago River, and the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, in which the American government and the Potawatomi exchanged five million acres of land west of the Mississippi River for a tract of the same size in northeast Illinois and southeast Wisconsin. In the first book devoted entirely to this crucial period, Keating tells a story not only of military conquest but of the lives of people on all sides of the conflict. She highlights such figures as Jean Baptiste Point de Sable and John Kinzie and demonstrates that early Chicago was a place of cross-cultural reliance among the French, the Americans, and the Native Americans. Published to commemorate the bicentennial of the Battle of Fort Dearborn, this gripping account of the birth of Chicago will become required reading for anyone seeking to understand the city and its complex origins.We would LOVE it if you could help us and other readers by reviewing the book
Book review
Congratulations! We have received your book review.
{user}
{createdAt}
by {truncated_author}