Download or read book Citadel in the Wilderness written by Evan Jones and published by . This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1805 Colonel Josiah Snelling erected a stone fortress at the point where the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers merged, on territory secured by Lieutenant Zebulon Pike in a treaty with the Sioux chief Little Crow. Evan Jones describes the intriguing history of Fort Snelling, the Gibraltar of the West, its effect on the Native Americans of the region, and its role in the westward movement.