The Fort Dearborn Massacre and the Birth of Chicago

by J James, L Helm, N Gordon, et al.

The present-day Midwest American city of Chicago was, at the time of its founding in the early 1800s, on the extreme western frontier of the then expanding United States of America. As such, it was on the frontline of the great race war between Europeans and American Indians-and as this book powerfully demonstrates, became symbolic of that bloody and brutal conflict. The first major construction in the city was the large timber-framed Fort Dearborn-and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0368877752
• ISBN13: 9780368877759
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Blurb
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"