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Title Border crossings : the Detroit River region in the War of 1812 / edited by Denver Brunsman, Joel Stone, Douglas D. Fisher.
Publication Info. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Historical Society, c2012.

Location Call No. Status Notes
 Purdy-Kresge Library  E 355.1 .D47 B67 2012    DUE 05-10-24
Description x, 302 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Frontiers. Burned! The fire of 1805 and rebuilding of Detroit / Keith A. Killoran -- Fraud on the frontier: the Detroit Bank / John Paris -- Elijah Brush, transnational American / Sharon Tevis Finch -- Town hall: taverns in early Detroit / Kristen Harrell -- "Feeding them when hungry": William Hull's failed Indian relations / Steve Lyskawa -- Detroit's first Black militia / Charlie Keller -- War. Headquarters for invasion: The François Baby House / Justin Wargo -- Lydia Bacon: army wife, intrepid traveler / Kerri Jansen -- "They had won their battle, too": an Odawa narrative of the War of 1812 / Daniel F. Harrison -- The Askins of Sandwich: A family experiences the war / Timothy Marks -- Homestead defense: the British occupation from a woman's perspective / Carly Campbell -- "It was a hideous sight to see": treatment of casualties on the frontier / Scott A. Jankowski -- The outlaw Andrew Westbrook / Meghan McGowan -- Uncommon sailors in the Battle of Lake Erie / Rebecca Russell -- The uneasy occupation of Amherstburg / Joshua Zimberg -- Legacies. A most convenient Indian: the making of Tecumseh / Tim Moran -- Celebrating peace on the Detroit frontier / Merry Ellen Scofield -- A peaceful border: the Rush-Bagot Agreement of 1817 / James M. Shuryan -- Frontier nationalism: President Monroe visits Detroit / Kaitlin Cooper -- "I have been a great looser": John R. Williams and the War of 1812 / Matthew R. Thick -- Recasting Michigan's image: the Darby Treatise / Charles Wilson Goode.
Subject United States -- History -- War of 1812.
Detroit River Valley (Mich. and Ont.) -- History -- 19th century.
Northwest, Old -- History -- War of 1812.
Michigan -- History -- 19th century.
Added Author Brunsman, Denver Alexander, 1975-
Stone, Joel (Joel Lagrou)
Fisher, Douglas D.
Detroit Historical Society.
ISBN 9780615616612
0615616615
OCLC # 800039240
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