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Rainy Lake House
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Author : Theodore Catton
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2017-09-21
Rainy Lake House written by Theodore Catton and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“Focuses on three men from vastly different backgrounds and serves as a vehicle for exploring the rigors of the fur trade . . . lyrical and transcendent.” —American Historical Review In September 1823, three men met at Rainy Lake House, a Hudson’s Bay Company trading post near the Boundary Waters. Dr. John McLoughlin, the proprietor of Rainy Lake House, was in charge of the borderlands west of Lake Superior, where he was tasked with opposing the petty traders who operated out of US territory. Major Stephen H. Long, an officer in the US Army Topographical Engineers, was on an expedition to explore the wooded borderlands west of Lake Superior and the northern prairies from the upper Mississippi to the forty-ninth parallel. John Tanner, a white man living among the Ojibwa nation, arrived in search of his missing daughters, who, Tanner believed, were at risk of being raped by the white traders holding them captive at a nearby fort. Drawing on their combined experiences, Theodore Catton creates a vivid depiction of the beautiful and dangerous northern frontier from a collision of vantage points: American, British, and Indigenous; imperial, capital, and labor; explorer, trader, and hunter. At the center of this history is the deeply personal story of John Tanner’s search for kinship: first among his adopted Ojibwa nation; then in the search for his white family of origin; and finally in his quest for custody of his multiracial children. “Written with clarity and energy, this book tells its story through the remarkable device of a triple biography.” —Gregory Evans Dowd, author of Groundless
Rainy Lake House
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Author : Theodore Catton
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2017-09-15
Rainy Lake House written by Theodore Catton and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-15 with Business & Economics categories.
"Exiles in Indian Country weaves together the biographies of three men who cast their fortunes with the Western fur trade in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. John Tanner was a 'white Indian' who was taken captive and raised by Ottawa, and lived among the Ottawa and Ojibwa for thirty years, hunting across the northern forests and plains of present-day Ontario, Manitoba, and northern Minnesota. Dr. John McLoughlin fled the law in Quebec at the age of eighteen to work for the Hudson's Bay Company in the Lake Superior region during its two decades of war with the North West Company. Major Stephen H. Long explored the northern borderlands in a time when the United States aimed to take over British-Indian trade in its new western territories. The three men met at the HBC's Rainy Lake House near the Boundary Waters in 1823 after Tanner was badly wounded while trying to take his daughters out of Indian country, to save them from being raped by the white traders. Foregrounding this incident, Theodore Catton examines the events leading up to this fateful encounter through a Rashomon-like tale about the British-American-Indian frontier. Through these three colliding vantage points, the book describes the world of the fur trade: American, British, and Indian; imperial, capital, and labor; explorer, trader, and hunter. In its competing viewpoints, Exiles in Indian Country deftly crafts one grand narrative out of three and reveals the perilous lives of the white adventurers and their Indian families who lived on the fringe--truly the hands of empire"--Provided by publisher.
Level Of Rainy Lake
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Level of Rainy Lake Convention
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1939
Level Of Rainy Lake written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Level of Rainy Lake Convention and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with Rainy Lake (Minn. and Ont.) categories.
Level Of Rainy Lake
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1939
Level Of Rainy Lake written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with categories.
Rainy Lake
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Author : Mary François Rockcastle
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 1996-03-01
Rainy Lake written by Mary François Rockcastle and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-03-01 with Fiction categories.
In Rainy Lake, author Mary Rockcastle invites the reader to savor the sights, sounds, and smells of summer at her parents' lopsided lakefront cabin during the 1960s. From the landscape of her memory, Danielle Fillian paints a sensitive and wise family portrait of summers filled with fly-fishing, swimming, water-skiing, new friendships, and a deepening first love. But with the intrusion of the Vietnam War and the rumblings of the civil rights movement growing steadily nearer, this sheltered vacation community is forced to acknowledge the harsh realities of the wider world.
Hearings Reports And Prints Of The House Committee On Interior And Insular Affairs
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Hearings Reports And Prints Of The House Committee On Interior And Insular Affairs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Legislative hearings categories.
Joint Report Upon The Survey And Demarcation Of The Boundary Between The United States And Canada
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Author : International Boundary Commission
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1931
Joint Report Upon The Survey And Demarcation Of The Boundary Between The United States And Canada written by International Boundary Commission and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1931 with Canada categories.
Final Report Of The International Joint Commission On The Lake Of The Woods Reference
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Author : International Joint Commission
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1917
Final Report Of The International Joint Commission On The Lake Of The Woods Reference written by International Joint Commission and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1917 with Lake of the Woods categories.
Illustrations include : Lumbering in northern Minnesota, Log driving, Kawishiwi River, Paper mill at Fort Frances, Regina MIne, Sultana Mine, Winnipeg electric railway power plant, Fort Frances canal, Lift bridge International Falls, Koochiching Falls dam, Northwest angle survey, Rat Portage 1857, H.B.C post at Fort Frances.
The Travels Of David Thompson
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Author : Sean T. Peake
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2011-07-22
The Travels Of David Thompson written by Sean T. Peake and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
At age 75, David Thompson began to write about his life of exploration and surveying in western North America from 1784 to 1812. At this point, how-ever, the odds of ?nishing were slim; his eyesight was failing, his body was worn out after years of strain on portages and mountain passes. For ?ve years he toiled with rewrites and revisions, never able to set the ?nal account in order. On 16 January 1851 he put his papers to right in one last attempt to ?nish his work. By 28 February 1851, no longer able to see, he gave up his pen as well as any hope of completing his Travels. Like a true surveyor, though, he left a well-blazed trail for others to follow. Drawing from the four surviving manuscripts and Thompsons 77 notebooks ?lled with daily journals, reports, essays, and anecdotes, Sean Peake ?nished what Thompson set out to achieve: a full account that encompasses the extent of the forests, of the great Plains, the animals, birds, ?shes &c &c peculiar to each section; the various tribes of Indians which inhabit these countries, their several languages, their religious opinions, manners and mode of life, place and extent of hunting grounds, and the changes which have taken place, by the fortune of war or other causes... a curious and extensive collection of all that can fall under the observation of a traveller. This edition of The Travels of David Thompson is a landmark publication in Canadian history, fully deserving of a place on the bookshelf of anyone interested in a ?rst-hand account of the tumultuous struggle for control of western North America.
House Documents
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
House Documents written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with categories.