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The Upper Country: French Enterprise In The Colonial Great Lakes, Claiborne A. Skinner Jr. Feb 2015

The Upper Country: French Enterprise In The Colonial Great Lakes, Claiborne A. Skinner Jr.

Claiborne A. Skinner Jr.

The Upper Country melds myth and conventional history to provide a memorable tale of French designs in the middle of what became the United States. Putting the reader on the battlefields, at the trading posts, and on the rivers with voyageurs and their allies from the Indian nations, Claiborne Skinner reveals the saintly missionaries and jolly fur traders of popular myth as agents of a hard-nosed, often ruthless, imperial endeavor. Skinner's engaging narrative takes the reader through daily life at posts like Forts Saint Louis and Michilimakinac, illuminates the complexities of interracial marriage with the courtship of Michel Aco at …


Rethinking The Fur Trade: Cultures Of Exchange In An Atlantic World, Claiborne A. Skinner Feb 2015

Rethinking The Fur Trade: Cultures Of Exchange In An Atlantic World, Claiborne A. Skinner

Claiborne A. Skinner Jr.

Review of: "Rethinking the Fur Trade: Cultures of Exchange in an Atlantic World," edited by Susan Sleeper-Smith.


Illinois And The American Revolution, Claiborne Skinner Feb 2015

Illinois And The American Revolution, Claiborne Skinner

Claiborne A. Skinner Jr.

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