This grand study surveys the emergence of Chicago from the swamps of southern Lake Michigan to the expulsion of the last Indian settlements. Pioneering historian Quaife, the first to document Chicago's founding by a black man, traces Chicago from an outpost on the frontier to being the crossroads of American commerce.
- ISBN10 1110811071
- ISBN13 9781110811076
- Publish Date 28 May 2009 (first published 12 April 2001)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country US
- Imprint BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research)
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 516
- Language English