Frontier forts of Iowa : Indians, traders, and soldiers, 1682-1862 /

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 ri...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Whittaker, William E., 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2009
Series:Bur oak book.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central