From Furs to Farms : : The Transformation of the Mississippi Valley, 1762–1825 / / John Reda.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (212 p.) :; 3 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Colonial Eighteenth Century in the Illinois Country
- 2 The Louisiana Purchase, Territorial Government, and Contested Lands
- 3 From Tippecanoe to Portage des Sioux: The Wars of 1812
- 4 Statehood for Illinois and Missouri
- 5 After Statehood: Indian Removal, the Fur Trade, and Slavery
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index