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A history of the Chicago portage : the crossroads that made Chicago and helped make America
- Title
- A history of the Chicago portage : the crossroads that made Chicago and helped make America / Benjamin Sells.
- Author
- Sells, Benjamin
- Publication
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- 251 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This fascinating account explores the significance of the Chicago Portage, one of the most important-and neglected-sites in early US history"--
- Series Statement
- Second to none: Chicago stories
- Uniform Title
- Second to none: Chicago stories.
- Subject
- Portages > Illinois > Chicago > History
- Navigation > Illinois > Chicago > History
- Navigation > Great Lakes (North America) > History
- Navigation
- Portages
- Chicago (Ill.) > History
- Illinois and Michigan Canal (Ill.) > History
- Chicago Portage National Historic Site (Ill.) > History
- Great Lakes
- Illinois > Chicago
- Illinois > Chicago Portage National Historic Site
- Illinois > Illinois and Michigan Canal
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. Key to the Continent -- From Glaciers to Industrious Beavers -- Prehistoric Chicago -- Commerce and the Cross -- The Eighteenth-Century Background -- Fort Dearborn -- The Me̹tis Effect -- Chicago, Wisconsin? -- The Portage in Transition -- The Coming of the Canal -- Where was the Chicago Portage? -- "A History of Chicanery" -- The Past and Future of a National Historic Site -- Epilogue. The Past Embedded -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A: Communication of John C. Calhoun with Excerpts from Reports of Stephen Long, R. Graham, and Joseph Philips -- Appendix B: Report of William Keating on the Chicago Portage (1823) -- Appendix C: Designation for Chicago Portage National Historic Site -- Appendix D: Chronology.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-187
- ISBN
- 9780810143906
- 0810143909
- LCCN
- 2021006558
- 40030709536
- OCLC
- 1223017049
- Author
- Sells, Benjamin, author.
- Title
- A history of the Chicago portage : the crossroads that made Chicago and helped make America / Benjamin Sells.
- Publisher
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Second to none: Chicago storiesSecond to none: Chicago stories.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030709536
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-187