The Ancestry, Life, and Times of Hon. Henry Hastings Sibley

by Nathaniel West

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616 pages, Paperback

First published January 2, 2010

About the author

See also Nathanael West, whose name was sometimes misspelled Nathaniel West.

See also Nathaniel West Williams.

Reviews

[Blake · Rating 3 out of 5]

An entertaining, if fawning and uneven, biography of a Hemingwayesque figure who was still around to read it, written in an era when none of his life’s accomplishments were yet regarded as complicated.

Minnesota’s foremost founding father eschewed the Law for a life of adventure and found himself rapidly successful in the fur trade, a paternalistic aide to the eastern Dakota while living in a hunting and fishing Valhalla, the only Justice of the Peace for an area larger than most European nations, a prolific writer, the first governor of Minnesota, and eventually the Colonel leading the expeditionary force to put down Little Crow’s 1862 uprising.

In other words, he was *busy*, and even after getting a positively framed look at what he was up to over the course of his storied life, it’s tough to know how exactly to feel about him.

I think I might prefer a modern analysis.