The daring trader [electronic resource] : Jacob Smith in the Michigan Territory, 1802-1825 / Kim Crawford.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Witness to Murder : Saginaw, 1802 -- The Saginaw Trail -- Trouble in Detroit -- War Clouds -- War in the Michigan Territory -- The Arrest of Jacob Smith -- I Pray You Inform Me ... : The Character of Jacob Smith -- Abduction to Saginaw -- The Return of the Boyer Children -- Jacob Smith versus Louis Campau, 1815 -- Peace -- Conclude a Treaty for the Country upon the Saginac Bay -- The Treaty Councils Begin -- He Was Smart as Steel -- Mounting Trouble, Mounting Debt -- U.S. vs. Jacob Smith -- He Was Dissipated and Bad in His Habits -- It Is the Last Stir of the Dying Wind -- No One Was More Anxious to Secure Advantage Than Smith -- The White Man Takes Away What He Bought of the Indians.

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