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

by Ann Durkin Keating

Book Overview

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. The group included several dozen soldiers, as well as nine women and eighteen children. After traveling only a mile and a half, they were attacked by five hundred Potawatomi warriors. In under an hour, fifty-two members of Heald's party were killed, and the rest were taken prisoner;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226428966
• ISBN13: 9780226428963
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.1"