| Henry Hastings Sibley: Divided Heart Contributor(s): Gilman, Rhoda (Author) |
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ISBN: 087351484X ISBN-13: 9780873514842 Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press OUR PRICE: $31.30 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2004 Annotation: The first full-scale biography of Henry Hastings Sibley (1811-1891), congressman, Army general, and Minnesota's first governor. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Political |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2003026997 |
| Physical Information: 0.99" H x 6.34" W x 9.24" (1.25 lbs) 286 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Midwest - Geographic Orientation - Minnesota |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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/M tis 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. Gilman sets the controversial but altogether human Sibley against the tapestry of trade, politics, frontier expansion, and intercultural relations in the Upper Mississippi valley, and reminds us that throughout his life Sibley was poised to become a national figure but always chose to remain in the place he loved and had helped to name "Minnesota." |