Title: Citadel in the wilderness
Description: Recounts the Minnesota Fort's role in shaping the lives of westerners between 1824 and 1840 and Lawrence Taliaferro's efforts to stop the fur-traders' exploitation of the Indians.
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life, History, United states, history, local
Places: Fort Snelling (Minn.), Minnesota, Old Northwest
Time periods: 1775-1865