Rising Up from Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago by Ann Durkin Keating

Rising Up from Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago

Ann Durkin Keating

320 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history reflective slow-paced
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In August 1812, under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people from the isolated outpost of Fort Dearborn to Fort Wayne, hundreds of miles away. The group included several dozen soldiers, as well ...

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