Frontier Forts of Iowa: Indians, Traders, and Soldiers, 1682-1862

by William E. Whittaker

Overview

At least fifty-six frontier forts once stood in, or within view of, what is now the state of Iowa. All sought to control and manipulate Indians to the advantage of European and American traders, governments, and settlers. Frontier Forts of Iowa draws extensively upon archaeological and historical records to document this era of transformation from the seventeenth-century fur trade until almost all Indians had been removed from the region. Also included is a section on visiting original and reconstructed forts today.

Author of articles in such venues as the Journal of the Iowa Archaeological 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781587298318
Publisher:	University of Iowa Press
Publication date:	09/28/2009
Pages:	266
Sales rank:	1,070,656
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

1 Forts around Iowa William E. Whittaker 1

2 Historical Tribes and Early Forts Cynthia L. Peterson 12

3 Cementing American Control, 1816-1853 Kathryn E. M. Gourley 30

4 Native American Perspectives on Forts Lance M. Foster 42

5 Fort Madison, 1808-1813 Marshall B. McKusick 55

6 Fort Shelby, Fort McKay, and the First Fort Crawford, 1814-1831 Vicki L. Twinde-Javner 75

7 Fort Johnson, Cantonment Davis, and Fort Edwards, 1814-1824 David J. Nolan 85

8 Fort Armstrong, 1816-1836 Regena Jo Schantz 95

9 Fort Atkinson, Nebraska, 1820-1827, and Other Missouri River Sites Gayle F. Carlson 104

10 The Second Fort Crawford, 1829-1856 Vicki L. Twinde-Javner 121

11 Fort Des Moines No. 1, 1834-1837 Kathryn E. M. Gourley 133

12 Fort Atkinson, Iowa, 1840-1849 Jeffrey T. Carr William E. Whittaker 146

13 Fort Des Moines No. 2, 1843-1846 Christopher M. Schoen William E. Whittaker Kathryn E. M. Gourley 161

14 Other Forts of the Dragoon Era, 1837-1853 Cindy L. Nagel 178

15 Northern Border Brigade Forts, 1857-1863 Leah D. Rogers 193

16 Visiting Forts Cynthia L. Peterson 207

Notes on Contributors 221

Bibliography 223

Index 259