Joseph R. Brown Adventurer on the Minnesota Frontier 1820-1849

by Robert Goodman, Nancy Goodman

Adventurer in reference to Joseph Renshaw Brown, includes careers as soldier, fur trader, entrepreneur, lumberman, founder of cities, politician, speculator, legislator, editor, Indian agent, Minnesota promoter, opportunist and optimist. He was there when Minnesota was the roaring frontier. He often found himself 200 miles from the law, a newspaper on the road. He was praised, denounced, investigated, applauded, threatened and shot at. This book is a chronicle of life, free enterprise and politics on the frontier a lively, dangerous and different frontier. This story is not only about hard-won successes, whose monuments still stand, but of hard-lost failures that left little trace.

346 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1996

About the author

Robert N Goodman is Professor of Brain and Behavioural Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, King's College London.

Reviews

[Shevek · Rating 4 out of 5]

I hadn't heard of Joseph R Brown, Adventurer, before seeing the reference to this book in The Street Where You Live, but I had heard of every other person he interacts with throughout his adventures. It was a fun walk in his shoes, looking forward to part II, if it exists.

Also, Good Reads has this linked to another author with the same name and omits Nancy entirely.