Isaac I. Stevens: Young Man in a Hurry - Softcover

Richards, Kent D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0874223385 ISBN 13: 9780874223385

Verlag: WASHINGTON STATE UNIV PR, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

"Isaac Stevens was most often in the center of activity, providing leadership, spewing out orders and ideas, shaping events, or creating controversy. He was a man either loved or hated."--Kent D. Richards.

Washington Territory's first governor remains as controversial today as he was to his frontier contemporaries during the Pacific Northwest's most turbulent era--the mid-1850s. Indian wars, martial law, and bitter political disputes, as well as the establishment of a new, sound governmental system, characterized Isaac I. Stevens's years as governor (1853-1857).

Richards's definitive biography is one of the essential works on the history of early Washington, as well as northern Idaho and western Montana. An 1839 West Point graduate, Stevens pursued an exciting and useful career for his country. He was as much at ease on horseback in the wilderness as he was in government halls at the nation's capitol. With the possible exception of the Flathead Council, Richards counters the popular misconception that Stevens acted with haste in forcing treaties on regional tribes, thus precipitating the hostilities in 1855.

In addition to serving as Washington's territorial governor, superintendent of Indian affairs, and, eventually, delegate to the U.S. Congress, Stevens also distinguished himself in the Mexican War, the Coast Survey, and as head of the Northern Pacific transcontinental railroad survey. In the early years of the Civil War, he was appointed a major general in the Union Army. Dying as flamboyantly as he had lived, Stevens fell while charging with banner in hand toward rebel fortifications on the very battlefield where his son lay wounded. He left an indelible mark on the destiny of the Pacific Northwest. This revised edition offers a new preface.

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Kent D. Richards is an emeritus professor of history at Central Washington University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: WASHINGTON STATE UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0874223385
• ISBN 13: 9780874223385
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 464
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