List of Illustrations
PrefaceA Note on MapsIntroduction: The Methye Portage1. Provincial
Soldier2. A Connecticut Yankee’s Pathway to Detroit3. The Great
Lakes Trade4. Imagining and Exploring a Continent5. Mississippi
Trader6. Partners and Rivals7. Saskatchewan River Trader8. North to
Athabasca9. Back East10. The Churchill River and Athabasca,
1781–1784 11. Observing the Northwest12. Voyages, Schemes, and
Petitions13. Athabasca, 1785–178814. Final Explorations15.
Return16. A New WorldList of AbbreviationsNoteBibliographyIndex
David Chapin is the author of Exploring Other Worlds: Margaret Fox, Elisha Kent Kane, and the Antebellum Culture of Curiosity.
"Pond was a significant figure in early mapping and the northern fur trade, and bridged a very important period in its history while contributing to his contemporaries' understandings of northwestern North America. Freshwater Passages draws together a wide range of sources and information to present a fresh, multidimensional portrait of Pond that greatly enhances our understanding of this complex and rather mysterious personality." - Jennifer S. H. Brown, professor of history emeritus at the University of Winnipeg and co-editor of A. Irving Hallowell's, Contributions to Ojibwe Studies: Essays, 1934-1972 "As an American engaged in the Canadian fur trade, Peter Pond contributed to the development and expansion of fur trade commerce among the native people of the Great Lakes region and the Canadian Northwest. There is nothing of its depth and breadth available and especially brings to life the earliest days of the North West Company." - Theresa Schenck, associate professor of life sciences communications and American Indian studies and folklore at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and editor of The Ojibwe Journals of Edmund F. Ely, 1833-1849
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