Book chapter
Forts around Iowa
Frontier Forts of Iowa, pp.1-11
University of Iowa Press
09/01/2009
Abstract
Perhaps President Jackson intended his advice to Black Hawk to be avuncular, but it was also the victor taunting the vanquished. Even if it was tactless and blunt, Jackson’s assessment was accurate; in the nineteenth century Europeans spread across North America like leaves in a young forest. The elimination of foreign rivals after the Louisiana Purchase and the War of 1812 led to the rapid spread of American farmers and speculators into southern Illinois and Missouri. By 1830 the northwest frontier pushed into northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin; the fertile lands of the Upper Mississippi were considered too valuable to
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- Title: Subtitle
- Forts around Iowa
- Creators
- WILLIAM E. Whittaker
- Contributors
- William E. Whittaker (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Frontier Forts of Iowa, pp.1-11
- Publisher
- University of Iowa Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/01/2009
- Academic Unit
- Office of the State Archaeologist
- Record Identifier
- 9984622755902771
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