The Life of George Rogers Clark, 1752-1818: Triumphs and Tragedies

by Kenneth C. Carstens (Editor), Nancy S. Carstens (Editor)

Overview

The year 2002 marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of General George Rogers Clark. In celebrating Clark's life, this book presents new information and new interpretations of his impact upon the settlement of Kentucky and his control of the Old Northwest Territories. The co-editors— who include traditional historians, social historians, and revisionists—include new details not previously published or found within a single source to bring Clark research into the new century.

Thirteen experts on various aspects of Clark's life and achievements go beyond his military career as a Revolutionary War hero and frontier Indian fighter to detail the whole of his accomplishments. They address his tragedies along with his triumphs in a refreshingly balanced portrayal. Specific topics of interest include Clark's settlement at Fort Jefferson, the myths surrounding his love life, his management of the Kentucky/Ohio Valley frontier, and a collection of portraiture art never before gathered in one volume.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313322174
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/30/2004
Series:	Contributions in American History , #203
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

KENNETH C. CARSTENS is a professor of archaeology, anthropology, and world geography at Murray State University. He has edited nine books and published more than seventy jourbanal articles. He has studied George Rogers Clark and Clark's Fort Jefferson for twenty-five years. His particular areas of academic interest include Clark, Ohio Valley archaeology and frontier history, cave archaeology, and cultural anthropology.

NANCY SON CARSTENS is a doctoral candidate at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She has published in the Filson History Quarterly, Cobblestone American History Magazine, and Current Research in Kentucky Archaeology. She has held positions at The National Scouting Museum, Murray State University, both in Murray, Kentucky, and Adsmore Museum in Princeton, Kentucky. Presently, she is an independent contract archaeologist in Murray, Kentucky.

Table of Contents

Dedication by James Alton James
Acknowledgements
Contributor's Biographies
Foreword by Thomas D. Clark
Introduction by Kenneth Carstens and Nancy Carstens
George Rogers Clark: The Early Years by Lowell Harrison
Clark's Kaskaskia Expedition by Larry Nelson
The French Influence on Clark at Kaskaskia by Margaret Brown
Clark and the Native Americans by James Alexander Thom
The Clark-Teresa "De Leyba" Myth by Nancy Carstens
Victory at Vincennes by Robert Holden
Clark's Obsession with Detroit by Brian Dunnigan
Clark's Fort Jefferson, 1780-1781 by Kenneth Carstens
Clark, the Illinois Battalion and the Slave Trade by Pen Bogert
Clark's Line of Supply by Greg Holm
Clark's 1780 Shawnee Campaign by Martin West
Clark's Ambush at Hoods Point, Virginia, 1781 by Greg Holm
Clark as a Manager of the Kentucky Frontier, 1783-1809 by James Fisher
Clark and the French Conspiracies by Nancy Carstens
Clark's Last Years: Locust Grove, 1809-1818 by Julia Parke
A Forgotten Hero Remembered, Revered, and Revised: The Legacy and Ordeal of George Rogers Clark by James Fisher
An Analysis of Clark Portraits by James Holmberg
A Research Bibliography of George Rogers Clark Materials by Kenneth Carstens