Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: “The Appearance of the Settlement Is Very Smiling” 1
5. 1. “In Time This City Will Become Conspicuous”: The Development of Non-Fur-Trade Commerce 8
6. 2. “The Inhabitants Are Well Supplied with Provisions of Every Description” 41
7. 3. “Altogether Preferable to Shoes”: The Fashioning of Moccasins 71
8. 4. “Detroit, Politically . . . Remains . . . an Isolated Moral Mass” 106
9. 5. “Advisable to Improve the Arrangement of the Town”: Rebuilding after the Great Fire of 1805 137
10. 6. “Sinister Conduct”: The Pervasion of Staples Smuggling 169
11. Epilogue: “Exceedingly Well Situated for a Commercial Port” 198
12. Notes 205
13. Index 265