A History of the Chicago Portage: The Crossroads That Made Chicago and Helped Make America - Paperback
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Benjamin SellsSeries:Second to None: Chicago StoriesPublish date:2021-08-15Pages:256
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Northwestern University PressISBN-13:9780810143906ISBN-10:810143909UPC:9780810143906Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, Maritime History & Piracy, North AmericanBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.90 x 5.91 x 0.71 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCT7SWCMSN
Seven muddy miles transformed a region and a nation This 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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Northwestern University PressISBN-13:9780810143906ISBN-10:810143909UPC:9780810143906Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, Maritime History & Piracy, North AmericanBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.90 x 5.91 x 0.71 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCT7SWCMSN
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.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
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