Historian Patrick McBriarty takes an intimate look at the five months between April and August of 1812 and the events surrounding the remote French and Indian trading outpost known as Chicagou.
Author and historian Patrick McBriarty takes an intimate look at the five months between April and August of 1812 and the events surrounding the remote military, French and Indian trading outpost of Chicagou.
Delve deep into the story of John Kinzie, the area’s leading fur and Indian trader, who is embroiled in intrigue while preserving his family and business amidst Indian Country and caught between the British, Native American tribes, and the land-hungry Americans on the cusp of The War of 1812.
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