Title

Seeking a Newer World: The Fort Osage Journals and Letters of George Sibley, 1808-1811

Authors

George C. Sibley

Editor

Jeffrey E. Smith

Files

Description

Seeking a Newer World: The Fort Osage Journals and Letters of George Sibley, 1808-1811 includes the writings and correspondence of George Sibley. It provides an eye-witness account of American expansion, relations between Native American tribes and with the United States Government in Missouri and beyond, the legacies of the Lewis and Clark expedition,, and the transformation of the Missouri Territory from a region where Native Americas early settlers, and fur traders all lived into a growing state.

Publication Date

2003

Publisher

Lindenwood University Press

City

St. Charles, Missouri

Keywords

George Sibley, Fort Osage, Native Americans, United States government trade relations

Disciplines

Diplomatic History | Native American Studies

Comments

Jeffrey Smith is Senior Professor of History and author of The Rural Cemetery Movement: Places of Paradox in Nineteenth-Century America. He is a cultural historian who writes and speaks about cemeteries and historical deathways, and is a contributor to the Washington Post and the History News Network.

Recommended Citation

Sibley, George C., "Seeking a Newer World: The Fort Osage Journals and Letters of George Sibley, 1808-1811" (2003). Lindenwood Books. 1.
https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/lu_press/1

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