Sells Benjamin Sells

History of the Chicago Portage (eBook, ePUB)

The Crossroads That Made Chicago and Helped Make America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Seven muddy miles transformed a region and a nationThis fascinating account explores the significance of the Chicago Portage, one of the most important-and neglected-sites in early US history. A seven-mile-long strip of marsh connecting the Chicago and Des Plaines Rivers, the portage was inhabited by the earliest indigenous people in the Midwest and served as a major trade route for Native American tribes. A link between the Mississippi River and the Atlantic Ocean, the Chicago Portage was a geopolitically significant resource that the French, British, and US governments jockeyed to control. Later, it became a template for some of the most significant waterways created in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The portage gave Chicago its name and spurred the city's success-and is the reason why the metropolis is located in Illinois, not Wisconsin. A History of the Chicago Portage: The Crossroads That Made Chicago and Helped Make America is the definitive story of a national landmark.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780810143913
• Artikelnr.: 72330907

Autorenporträt

BENJAMIN SELLS is the author of the The Tunnel under the Lake: The Engineering Marvel That Saved Chicago, also published by Northwestern University Press. His other books include The Soul of the Law, which was recently reissued in a twentieth-anniversary edition; The Essentials of Style: A Handbook for Seeing and Being Seen; Order in the Court: Crafting a More Just World in Lawless Times; and The Soul of Sailing.