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Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835: A Study of the Evolution of the ...

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This volume by history professor Milo Quaife was intended as a readable popular history and also an up-to-date (early 20th century) scholarly explanation of the significant place of Chicago in the struggle for the Northwest.

Chapter headings:

The Chicago Portage
Chicago in the Seventeenth Century
The Fox Wars: A Half-Century of Conflict
Chicago in the Revolution
The Fight for the Northwest
The Founding of Fort Dearborn
Nine years of Garrison Life
The Indian Utopia
The Outbreak of War
The Battle and Defeat
The Fate of the Survivors
The New Fort Dearborn
The Indian Trade
War and the Plague
The Vanishing of the Red Man

There are nine appendixes containing accounts of the Fort Dearborn massacre, and a 20-page annotated bibliography.

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