This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...erness wanderers, who took the lead in winning and exploring the West, are memorable. This truly characterizes the record of Colonel Dodges military career, which winds through two States of the Old Northwest and through six of the States of the Louisiana Purchase. These activities conduced to a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...erness wanderers, who took the lead in winning and exploring the West, are memorable. This truly characterizes the record of Colonel Dodges military career, which winds through two States of the Old Northwest and through six of the States of the Louisiana Purchase. These activities conduced to a fruition of peace, settlement, and the evolution of Territories into Commonwealths. Henry Dodge saw the domain over which he was appointed Governor in 1836 grow to the magnitude of an empire in population, wealth, and moral resources. This region, embracing within its limits the present States of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota and portions of the Dakotas, furnished nearly 200,000 soldiers to help suppress the War between the States. As a Territorial executive and administrator the name of Governor Dodge will be foiever linked with the political evolution Eoosevelt3 The Winning of the West (Putnam Edition) Vol. IV, p. V. of the Conimonwealths of Iowa and AVis-consin to which he bears the same relation which such Governors as St. Clair, Harrison, and Cass bore to the Old Northwest. These Territories became dowered with nearly fifty years of the political accretions of the Old Northwest, and through the administrations of Governor Dodge partook for several years of the streams of statutes, administrative policies, precedents, and judicial interpretations which had their fountain in the Ordinance of 1787. This book of biography was begun while the writer was holding the position of Ee-search Assistant in The State Historical Society of Iowa. The sources from which the material was obtained are indicated in the Notes and References at the close of the text. In all quotations the original spelling, capitalization, and punctuation have been retained....
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Very Good-with no dust jacket. Gilt bright. Just a bit of very light rubbing to spine extremities and corners. Spine VERY slightly sun-lightened. Front hinge is cracked. Else binding very clean. TEG. Pages are clean.; BIH18B; 265 pages.
