frontier indiana

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About the Book:Frontier IndianaAndrew R. L. Cayton”The research and scholarship that went into the work are excellent; so good, in fact, that the book should be on the required text list for all Transappalachian frontier courses.” –HistoryCayton’s lively new history of the frontier period in Indiana puts the focus on people, on how they lived, how they viewed their world, and what motivated them. Here are the stories of Sieur de Vincennes, John Francis Hamtramck, Little Turtle, Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison, Tenskwatawa, Calvin Fletcher–along with many more familiar (and not so familiar) early Hoosiers.Sales territory is worldwideA History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier1996; 360 pages, 20 b&w photos, 2 maps, index, 6 x 9cloth0-253-33048-3$39.95 L / 28.50paper0-253-21217-0$18.95 t / 13.50