{"product_id":"henry-hastings-sibley","title":"Henry Hastings Sibley","description":"\u003ch2\u003eDivided Heart\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor Rhoda Gilman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.mnhs.org\/collections\/browse-mnhs-press-titles\"\u003eMinnesota Historical Society Press\u003c\/a\u003e (\u003cspan class=\"date-display-single\"\u003eApril 12, 2004\u003c\/span\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first full-scale biography of Henry Hastings Sibley, congressman, army general, and Minnesota’s first governor.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ch2\u003eDescription\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eCongressman, governor, military leader, and senior statesman—no person played a longer, more influential, or more varied role in the shaping of Minnesota than Henry Hastings Sibley (1811–91). Yet Sibley’s history reveals universal tensions about the duality of the nineteenth century frontiersman who is at once an accommodating trade partner of the Indian\/European\/Métis worlds and the conquering government official of the ever-expanding West. Rhoda Gilman has spent over thirty years examining Sibley—through hints and fragments of stories that Sibley himself left in articles, an unfinished autobiography, and scores of family letters—and uncovers in this perceptive and balanced biography the complexities of a man who embodied these clashing extremes.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eGilman sets the controversial but altogether human Sibley against the tapestry of trade, politics, frontier expansion, and intercultural relations in the Upper Mississippi valley, and reminds us that throughout his life Sibley was poised to become a national figure but always chose to remain in the place he loved and had helped to name “Minnesota.”\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ch2\u003eAuthor information\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRhoda R. Gilman\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Story of Minnesota’s Past \u003c\/em\u003e(MNHS Press) and co-author of \u003cem\u003eThe Red River Trails \u003c\/em\u003e(MNHS Press). She is a founding member of Women Historians of the Midwest and a former candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota on the Green Party ticket.\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003chr\u003e \u003cul\u003e  \u003cli\u003e320 pages\u003c\/li\u003e  \u003cli\u003e6.25 x 9.25 inches\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eISBN: 9780873514842\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"MNHS PRESS \/ INGRAM","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":39593092743348,"sku":"1567","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0260\/6261\/8702\/products\/Gilman_9780873514842.jpg?v=1618343439","url":"https:\/\/mnhs-shop-test.myshopify.com\/products\/henry-hastings-sibley","provider":"mnhs_shop_test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}