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The daring trader : Jacob Smith in the Michigan Territory, 1802-1825 / Kim Crawford.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crawford, Kim, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pioneers--Michigan--Biography.
- Pioneers.
- Fur traders--Michigan--Biography.
- Fur traders.
- Indian agents--Michigan--Biography.
- Indian agents.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Michigan.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Indians of North America--Michigan--History--19th century.
- Indians of North America.
- Flint Region (Mich.)--History--19th century.
- Flint Region (Mich.).
- Michigan Territory--History.
- Michigan Territory.
- Michigan--History--War of 1812.
- Michigan.
- Michigan--Biography.
- Smith, Jacob, 1773-1825.
- Smith, Jacob.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (332 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A fur trader in the Michigan Territory and confidant of both the U.S. government and local Indian tribes, Jacob Smith could have stepped out of a James Fenimore Cooper novel. Controversial, mysterious, and bold during his lifetime, in death Smith has not, until now, received the attention he deserves as a pivotal figure in Michigan's American period and the War of 1812. This is the exciting and unlikely story of a man at the frontier's edge, whose missions during both war and peace laid the groundwork for Michigan to accommodate settlers and farmers moving west. The book investigates Smith's
- Contents:
- Witness to Murder : Saginaw, 1802
- The Saginaw Trail
- Trouble in Detroit
- War Clouds
- War in the Michigan Territory
- The Arrest of Jacob Smith
- I Pray You Inform Me ... : The Character of Jacob Smith
- Abduction to Saginaw
- The Return of the Boyer Children
- Jacob Smith versus Louis Campau, 1815
- Peace
- Conclude a Treaty for the Country upon the Saginac Bay
- The Treaty Councils Begin
- He Was Smart as Steel
- Mounting Trouble, Mounting Debt
- U.S. vs. Jacob Smith
- He Was Dissipated and Bad in His Habits
- It Is the Last Stir of the Dying Wind
- No One Was More Anxious to Secure Advantage Than Smith
- The White Man Takes Away What He Bought of the Indians.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-62895-120-6
- 1-60917-315-5
- OCLC:
- 794490754
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