From Furs to Farms the Transformation of the Mississippi Valley, 1762-1825 /
This original study tells the story of the Illinois Country, a collection of French villages that straddled the Mississippi River for nearly a century before it was divided by the treaties that ended the Seven Years' War in the early 1760s. Spain acquired the territory on the west side of the r...
| Main Author: | Reda, John, |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Dekalb :
NIU Press,
2016.
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| Physical Description: |
xiii, 201 pages : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series: |
Early American places.
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Table of Contents:
- The colonial eighteenth century in the Illinois Country
- The Louisiana purchase, territorial government, and contested lands
- From Tippecanoe to Portage des Sioux: the Wars of 1812
- Statehood for Illinois and Missouri
- After statehood: Indian removal, the fur trade, and slavery.