A History of the Chicago Portage: The Crossroads That Made Chicago and Helped Make America

ISBN-13: 9780810143906 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 256 str.

Benjamin Sells

Spis treści

• Introduction: Key to the Continent
• 1. From Glaciers to Industrious Beavers        
• 2. Prehistoric Chicago
• 3. Commerce and the Cross
• 4. The Eighteenth-Century Background
• 5. Fort Dearborn
• 6. The MÉtis Effect
• 7. Chicago, Wisconsin?
• 8. The Portage in Transition
• 9. The Coming of the Canal
• 10. Where was the Chicago Portage?
• 11. “A History of Chicanery”
• 12. The Past and Future of a National Historic Site
• Epilogue: The Past Imbedded        
• Acknowledgments
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Notes
• Index