Title: Isaac I. Stevens :
Authors: Richards, Kent D.,
Date: 1979
Publisher: Brigham Young University Press,
Physical description: xiv, 484 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: F
Abstract: Biography of Isaac Ingalls Stevens (1818-1862), who "... pursued a career in public service as a cadet, an officer in the Army Corps of Engineers, Coast Survey officer, territorial governor, superintendent of Indian affairs, head of a Pacific railroad survey, delegate to congress, and Civil War general." (p. xi). Contemporaries were bitterly divided about how well he met these challenges.
Subject headings (LCSH): Generals--United States--Biography; Governors--Washington (State)--Biography.; Governors--Washington Territory--Biography.; Oregon Territory--History.; Pacific Coast Indians, Wars with, 1847-1865.; Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862; Washington Territory--History