Henry Hastings Sibley: Divided Heart

by Rhoda R. Gilman

Book Overview

Congressman, governor, military leader, and senior statesman--no 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 nineteenth 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087351484X
• ISBN13: 9780873514842
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"