About the Author

Jennifer S.H. Brown, professor emeritus of history, University of Winnipeg, earned a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago, and went on to teach and write extensively on aboriginal people, fur traders, and missionaries in northern North America; among the best known of her several books is Strangers in Blood: Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country (1980). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Of Canadian parentage and holding dual citizenship, she, with her husband Wilson Brown, enjoy retirement in Denver, Colorado. Besides continuing to edit and publish original documents bearing on the aboriginal history of northern North America, she curates and researches a rich legacy of family records left by four generations of letter-writers and authors, published and unpublished. Wilson B. Brown earned a Ph.D. in international affairs at the Fletcher School, Tufts University, and taught economics and business at several universities, retiring from the University of Winnipeg in 2004. He held Fulbright grants to Lima Peru, and Chiang Mai, Thailand, and has published several texts and articles on international economics and business-notably, Markets, Organizations, and Information (1992). An avocational botanist and photographer of old New Jersey stock, he is a skilled and experienced family historian who advises and consults widely with a network of genealogists across North America on families of mutual interest, always with a view to answering questions new and old, and setting the stories and records straight to whatever extent possible.