Frontier Forts of Iowa
Indians, Traders, and Soldiers, 1682-1862
Published on 3. September 2009
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-58729-831-8 (ISBN)
Description
At least fifty-six frontier forts once stood in, or within view of, what is now the state of Iowa. The earliest date to the 1680s, while the latest date to the Dakota uprising of 1862. Some were vast compounds housing hundreds of soldiers; others consisted of a few sheds built by a trader along a riverbank.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
15 colour illustrations, 25 b&w photos, 10 drawings, 41 maps
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58729-831-8 (9781587298318)
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Person
Author of articles in such venues as the Journal of the Iowa Archeological Society, Plains Anthropologist, Historical Archaeology, Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, and North American Archaeologist, William Whittaker is a staff archaeologist at the Office of the State Archaeologist in Iowa City.