Frontier Indiana
by Cayton, Andrew R. L.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-09-01
Publisher(s): Indiana Univ Pr
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Frontier IndianaAndrew R. L. Cayton"The research and scholarship that went into the work are excellent; so good, in fact, that the book should be on the required text list for all Transappalachian frontier courses." -- HistoryCayton's lively new history of the frontier period in Indiana puts the focus on people, on how they lived, how they viewed their world, and what motivated them. Here are the stories of Sieur de Vincennes, John Francis Hamtramck, Little Turtle, Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison, Tenskwatawa, Calvin Fletcher -- along with many more familiar (and not so familiar) early Hoosiers.Sales territory is worldwideA History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier1996; 360 pages, 20 b& w photos, 2 maps, index, 6 x 9cloth 0-253-33048-3 $39.95 L / 28.50paper 0-253-21217-0 $18.95 t / 13.50
Table of Contents
| Foreword | |
| The World of the Miami, 1700-1754 | |
| The World of George Croghan, 1750-1777 | |
| The Village of Vincennes, 1765-1777 | |
| The World of George Rogers Clark, 1778-1787 | |
| The World of Josiah Harmar John Francis Hamtramck, 1787-1790 | |
| The World of Little Turtle, 1790-1795 | |
| The World of Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison, 1795-1810 | |
| The World of Tenskwatawa, 1795-1811 | |
| The World of Jonathan Jennings, 1800-1816 | |
| The End of the Frontier, 1816-1850 | |
| Epilogue: OThis Country of LibertyO | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Essay on Sources | |
| Index | |
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