Narrative Of The Massacre At Chicago, August 15, 1812, And Of Some Preceding Events
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
06.04.2021
Verlag
Alpha EditionsSeitenzahl
38
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/0.2 cm
Gewicht
72 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-93-5450-540-9
Chicago begins in a blaze. A single August morning reshaped a frontier outpost forever. In Narrative Of The Massacre At Chicago, August 15, 1812, And Of Some Preceding Events., John H. Kinzie offers a gripping historical narrative nonfiction drawn from early testimony and family memory around the Fort Dearborn massacre. Written with the immediacy of a primary source account, it reads as frontier history memoir and as a clear guide through War of 1812 events on the 1812 Chicago frontier. Kinzie places the tragedy within the pressures of the Great Lakes frontier and the Old Northwest Territory, tracing how fear, diplomacy, and misunderstanding hardened into violence. For readers seeking Native American conflict history without modern varnish, the narrative preserves period perspectives and the complicated realities of borderland life. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Its afterlife in print has shaped popular memory, yet the work stays rooted in firsthand testimony and local geography. Read for the human stakes of settlement, and for the earliest contours of a national story, even now. It is a foundational document for Chicago local history research and a rewarding companion for US history students, offering context for how a city remembers its origins. Presented as a complete text edition, it also belongs on the shelf of classic-literature collectors who value scarce, enduring witnesses to the American past.
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