Caesars of the Wilderness: Medard Chouart, Sieur Des Groesilliers and Pierre Espirt Radisson, 1618-1710

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Nute, Grace Lee

Economics

Ayer Co. Pub

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University of Minnesota Press

This classic history of Lake Superior, from the earliest explorations to the explosion of industry on its shores, takes the reader on a tour from Duluth to Isle Royale, from Thunder Bay to Sault Ste. Marie, from Pictured Rocks to the Apostle Islands. Grace Lee Nute tells the fascinating stories of the Native Americans, voyageurs, missionaries, and others who created the way of life that many generations have known on the edge of this magnificent body of water.

Lake Superior

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Americas

Univ. of Minnesota Press

This classic history of Lake Superior, from the earliest explorations to the explosion of industry on its shores, takes the reader on a tour from Duluth to Isle Royale, from Thunder Bay to Sault Ste. Marie, from Pictured Rocks to the Apostle Islands. Grace Lee Nute tells the fascinating stories of the Native Americans, voyageurs, missionaries, and others who created the way of life that many generations have known on the edge of this magnificent body of water.

Sports & Outdoors

Amereon Ltd

The voyageur's highway was the route from Lake Superior along inland waterways to the Minnesota North Country. Countless people—explorers, fur traders, missionaries, map makers, lumberjacks, miners, naturalists—were drawn to the region's woods and lakeshores. Indians, French Canadians,Scandinavians, and Slavs all used the rich resources of the land to follow an old way of life or to find a new one. In a lively, clear style, Grace Lee Nute tells the fascinating story of their adventures and love of the land. The Voyageur's Highway serves as a dependable source of historical information on the fur trade era, the opening of the Iron Range, and the loggers' way of life.

The Voyageur's Highway: Minnesota's Border Lake Land

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Minnesota Historical Society Press

With simplicity and charm, Grace Lee Nute tells the story of the Minnesota-Ontario border country west of the Boundary Waters—the region of the west-flowing Rainy River and the two lakes that it joins, Rainy Lake and Lake of the Woods. In this companion volume to The Voyageur's Highway Nute draws on her broad and thorough knowledge of historical sources to describe the earliest people who passed through the region, the mound builders who followed, and the Indians who lived on or near the river. She brings to life the fascinating succession of traders, prospectors, lumbermen, settlers, and, finally, tourists who called this northern border country home.

Rainy River Country: A Brief History of the Region Bordering Minnesota and Ontario

No novelist could have invented a more colorful or interesting story than the travels and adventures of French explorers Medard Chouart, Sieur des Groseilliers, and Pierre Esprit Radisson. Yet until the publication of this book in 1943, the story of their lives was clouded by confusion and misinformation. It remained for Grace Les Nute to clear up the confusion and present the story in such a logical and entertaining way that this book, long out of print, has become a classic. In a style that satisfies both the general reader and the historian, Caesars of the Wilderness reconstructs the lives of the two men, documenting their origins in France, their early years as fur traders in the Great Lakes area, their many trips between France and England and Europe and North America, and other aspects of their far-flung careers. The role of the two men in founding the Hudson's Bay Company, which inaugurated a new phase of the fur trade leading ultimately to the full development of western Canada, is also described in fascinating detail. Later chapters unravel the complications of the English-French diplomacy during the 1670's and 1680's and describe their influence on the shifting loyalties of both Radisson and Des Groseilliers.

Caesars of the Wilderness: Medard Chouart, Sieur des Groseilliers and Pierre Esprit Radisson, 1618-1710 (Publications of the Minnesota Historical Society)

Travelers & Explorers

uring the period between the publication of Pierre Esprit Radisson's Voyages by the Prince Society of Boston in 1885 and the appearance of Caesars of the Wilderness in 1943, scholarly journals and books were often enlivened by the historical controversy surrounding Radisson and his fellow explorer, Medard Chouart, Sieur Des Groseilliers. Often referred to as the "Radisson problem," the controversy called into question almost every aspect of the two men's lives, from the authenticity of parts of Radisson's narrative to the exact itinerary the men followed in their travels. The publication of Caesars in the Wilderness brought the historical debate to an end. Based on many years of research in repositories throughout France, England, and North America, the books, with its skillful presentation of new evidence, settled many of the questions that had long puzzled scholars.

Caesars of the Wilderness (Publications of the Minnesota Historical Society)

The Voyageur

The Voyageur is the authoritative account of a unique and colorful group of men whose exploits, songs, and customs comprise an enduring legacy. French Canadians who guided and paddled the canoes of explorers and fur traders, the voyageurs were experts at traversing the treacherous rapids and dangerous open waters of the canoe routes from Quebec and Montreal to the regions bordering the Great Lakes and on to the Mackenzie and Columbia Rivers. During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, explorers and fur traders relied on the voyageurs to open up the vast reaches of North America to settlement and trade.

Lake Superior (The American lakes series)

Bobbs-Merrill: Indianapolis, IN

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