Henry Hastings Sibley: Divided Heart

by Rhoda R. Gilman

Book Overview

A full-scale biography of Henry Hastings Sibley--congressman, army general, and Minnesota's first governor.

Congressman, governor, military leader, and senior statesman--few people had a longer or more influential role in the shaping of the state of Minnesota than Henry Hastings Sibley (1811-91). Sibley's history reveals universal tensions about the duality of the nineteenth-century frontiersman who is at once a trade partner of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681342804
• ISBN13: 9781681342801
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"