Rough Diamond: The Life of Colonel William Stephen Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton's Forgotten Son

Fielding, A. K.

ISBN 10: 0253053943 / ISBN 13: 9780253053947

Published by Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 2021

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2021 1st Printing Fine Hardback Book with No Dust Jacket. An as new copy that is inscribed by the author. 8vo. 121pp. (Uu).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rough Diamond: The Life of Colonel William Stephen Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton's Forgotten Son
• Publisher: Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253053943
• ISBN 13: 9780253053947
• Binding: Hardcover
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
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Synopsis

Solider, politician, miner, pioneer, scion of a Founding Father, William Stephen Hamilton led a prolific life. Rough Diamond: The Life of Colonel William Stephen Hamilton examines the tumultuous early Republic period of American history through the life of Alexander Hamilton's son.

Born in New York in 1797, the fifth son of Alexander Hamilton, he was only seven when his father was infamously killed in a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr. After resigning from West Point, Hamilton moved to frontier Illinois in 1817. The famous name of Hamilton that may have acquired him rank and prestige at one time was meaningless in a Midwestern frontier society driven by the Jacksonians. Yet, despite being hurled into a clash of economic, political, and cultural cultures, Hamilton determined to live his life by his own rules. A veteran of the Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, Hamilton was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives before moving to the Wisconsin territory, where he founded the mining town of Hamilton's Diggings (Wiota, WI). When gold was discovered in California in 1848, he traveled west, where he would die in Sacramento in 1850.

In Rough Diamond: The Life of Colonel William Stephen Hamilton, author A. K. Fielding expands the story of the Hamilton family. Hamilton's life offers a firsthand account of the formation of the Midwestern states, the realities of life on the frontier, and mass migration caused by the California Gold Rush.

About the Author

A.K. Fielding is an independent historian and an artist. She writes about early American topics so she can buy materials with which to paint subjects from that period. The author of numerous historical articles, she is the author of the "A Little Book of Revolutionary Quotes" series. She lives in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Visit https://trehanstreasures.com/ for more information and news from A. K. Fielding.