Ambition: The Remarkable Family of Ethan Allen in Bloomington, MN

Ambition
describes the lives and relationships of Ethan Allen's aspiring extended family of brothers, sisters, wives, children, grandchildren, and associates. Many of these characters helped create the original republic we now know as Vermont.
also dives into the Allens' relationship with the institution of slavery and grapples with their treatment of the Indians on unceded land.