Congressman, goverr, military leader, and senior statesman -- person played a longer, more influential or more varied role in the shaping of Minnesota than Henry Hastings Sibley (1811-91). Yet Sibley's history reveals universal tensions about the duality of the 19th century frontiersman who is at once an accommodating trade partner of the Indian/European/Metis worlds and the conquering government official of the ever-expanding West. Rhoda Gilman has spent over thirty years examining Sibley -- through hints and fragments of stories that Sibley himself left in articles, an unfinished autobiography, and scores of family letters -- and uncovers in this perceptive and balanced biography the complexities of a man who embodied these clashing extremes.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.
ISBN-10
087351484x
ISBN-13
9780873514842
eBay Product ID (ePID)
104743691
Product Key Features
Author
Rhoda R. Gilman
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Biography: Historical, Political & Military
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
ST Paul
Content Note
30 B/w Photos
Author Biography
Rhoda Gilman is a founding member of Women Historians of the Midwest and a former candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota on the Green Party ticket.