A History of the Chicago Portage
The Crossroads That Made Chicago and Helped Make America
by Benjamin Sells
This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
Send NetGalley books directly to your Kindle or Kindle app
1
To read on a Kindle or Kindle app, please add kindle@netgalley.com as an approved email address to receive files in your Amazon account. Click here for step-by-step instructions.
2
Also find your Kindle email address within your Amazon account, and enter it here.
Pub Date 15 Aug 2021 | Archive Date 20 Aug 2021
Talking about this book? Use #AHistoryoftheChicagoPortage #NetGalley. More hashtag tips!
Description
This fascinating account explores the significance of the Chicago Portage, one of the most important—and neglected—sites in early US history. A seven-mile-long strip of marsh connecting the Chicago and Des Plaines Rivers, the portage was inhabited by the earliest indigenous people in the Midwest and served as a major trade route for Native American tribes. A link between the Mississippi River and the Atlantic Ocean, the Chicago Portage was a geopolitically significant resource that the French, British, and US governments jockeyed to control. Later, it became a template for some of the most significant waterways created in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The portage gave Chicago its name and spurred the city’s success—and is the reason why the metropolis is located in Illinois, not Wisconsin.
A History of the Chicago Portage: The Crossroads That Made Chicago and Helped Make America is the definitive story of a national landmark.
Advance Praise
"A History of the Chicago Portage is an important resource for anyone interested in the development of the region. It tells the fascinating story of the waterway that made Chicago possible. Meticulously researched and illustrated with detailed maps and illustrations, this study details the portage’s importance in history providing a key to the continent and unlocking the vast resources of the Midwest.” —Dominic A. Pacyga, author of Chicago: A Biography
"Benjamin Sells offers a lively and wide-ranging account of the history of the Chicago Portage from the time of the glaciers to the present. He makes clear that no place is as significant to our understanding the history of this region and that more attention should be given to the Chicago Portage National Historic Site." —Ann Durkin Keating, author of The World of Juliette Kinzie: Chicago Before the Fire
"There is a place for this book on the Chicago History shelf." —Theodore Karamanski, author of Civil War Chicago: Eyewitness to History
Marketing Plan
-Advance Review Copy mailing
-Outreach to national print outlets; local and regional print and online; local and regional radio and TV
-Book launch and virtual events
-Advance Review Copy mailing
-Outreach to national print outlets; local and regional print and online; local and regional radio and TV
-Book launch and virtual events
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780810143906 |
| PRICE | US$21.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 256 |
Readers who liked this book also liked:
Georgina Ferry, Katalin Kariko, Mary Lou Jepsen, Sheri Graner Ray, Amalia Ballarino, Anna Oliveira, Anaïs Engelmann and Meghan Hale, Anda Waluyo Sapardan, Anna Lukasson-Herzig, Brenda Romero, Clarice Phelps, Claudia Brind -Woody, Coty Craven, Emily Holmes, Erica Kang, Gretchen Andrew, Ida Tin, Kasia Gora, Maria Carolina Fujihara, Marita Cheng, Mary Agbesanwa, Morenike Fajemisin, Rumman Chowdhury, Stephanie Willerth, Tan Le, Yewande Akinola
Biographies & Memoirs, Computers & Technology, Science
