Local writers tell the histories of the towns of the old Northwest and the Mississippi valley: Marietta as the Plymouth of the West, Cincinnati, Detroit, Mackinac, Vincennes, Chicago, Madison, the Twin Cities, Des Moines and St. Louis. Each chapter traces French traders, frontier forts, land rushes, booms and busts up to the turn of the twentieth century.
The closing volume of Powell’s Historic Towns series, a readable portrait of how the Midwest’s cities came to be. Download the free EPUB.