The Daring Trader: Jacob Smith in the Michigan Territory, 1802-1825
Autor Kim Crawforden Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2012
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 many pursuits, including his role as an advisor to the Indians, from whom the federal government would gradually gain millions of acres of land, due in large part to Smith’s work as an agent of influence. Crawford paints a colorful portrait of a complicated man during a dynamic period of change in Michigan’s history.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781611860269
ISBN-10: 1611860261
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 19
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Michigan State University Press
Colecția Michigan State University Press
ISBN-10: 1611860261
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 19
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Michigan State University Press
Colecția Michigan State University Press
Notă biografică
Kim Crawford is a veteran Michigan newspaper reporter and the author of a previous regimental history.
Cuprins
Contents
Introduction
Chapter One: Witness to Murder: Saginaw, 1802
Chapter Two: The Saginaw Trail
Chapter Three: Trouble in Detroit
Chapter Four: War Clouds
Chapter Five: War in the Michigan Territory
Chapter Six: The Arrest of Jacob Smith
Chapter Seven: I Pray You Inform Me . . . the Character of Jacob Smith
Chapter Eight: Abduction to Saginaw
Chapter Nine: The Return of the Boyer Children
Chapter Ten: Jacob Smith versus Louis Campau, 1815
Chapter Eleven: Peace
Chapter Twelve: Conclude a Treaty for the Country upon the Saginac Bay
Chapter Thirteen: The Treaty Councils Begin
Chapter Fourteen: He Was Smart as Steel
Chapter Fifteen: Mounting Trouble, Mounting Debt
Chapter Sixteen: U.S. vs. Jacob Smith
Chapter Seventeen: He Was Dissipated and Bad in His Habits
Chapter Eighteen: It Is the Last Stir of the Dying Wind
Chapter Nineteen: No One Was More Anxious to Secure Advantage Than Smith
Chapter Twenty: The White Man Takes Away What He Bought of the Indians
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
Kim Crawford is a first-class investigative reporter and researcher with a wonderfully clear writing style. He uses all those talents to bring to life a fascinating but previously untold world of fur traders, Indians, and British and American soldiers plying the Michigan wilderness in the early 1800s. Crawford fills a gaping hole in Michigan history by documenting the eventful life of Jacob Smith, an adventurer, entrepreneur, Indian interpreter and American spy, and the first white settler of what is now Flint.
—Lawrence R. Gustin, author, Billy Durant: Creator of General Motors and David Buick’s Marvelous Motor Car: The Men and the Automobile That Launched General Motors
Crawford digs deeply into little-used archival sources to illuminate an important era in Michigan’s history as the frontier of a burgeoning United States of America. The Daring Trader adds tremendously to the literature of the fur trade and the War of 1812.
—David Lee Poremba, author and book reviewer
Descriere
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. Crawford paints a colorful portrait of a complicated man during a dynamic period of change in Michigan’s history.