| Description |
1 online resource (266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Series |
A Bur oak book |
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Bur oak book.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 riverbank. Regardless of their size and function-William Whittaker and his contributors include any compound that was historically called a fort, whether stockaded or not, as well as all military installations-all sought to control and manipulate Indians to the advantage of European and American trade |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Fortification -- Iowa
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Historic sites -- Iowa.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Iowa
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Indians of North America -- Iowa -- History
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HISTORY -- State & Local.
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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Antiquities
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Fortification
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Frontier and pioneer life
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Historic sites
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Indians of North America
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| SUBJECT |
Iowa -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067849
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Iowa -- History, Military -- 19th century
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| Subject |
Iowa
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Military history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Whittaker, William E., 1971-
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| ISBN |
9781587298820 |
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1587298821 |
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