| Rendezvous at the Straits: Fur Trade and Military Activities at Fort de Buade and Fort Michilimackinac, 1669-1781 (2 Volume Set) |  | Author: Timothy J. Kent
Publisher: Silver Fox Enterprises
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
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Pages: 679
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.8
Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 8.8 x 1.9
ISBN: 0965723046
Dewey Decimal Number: 977.4923
EAN: 9780965723046
ASIN: 0965723046
Publication Date: January 2004
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For well over a century during the colonial era, the Straits of Mackinac, at the junction of Lakes Huron and Michigan, served as the very epicenter of activities in the northern interior of North America. At this locale, great numbers of Native people and Europeans congregated each summer to trade. In addition, Fur-trade personnel acquired birchbark canoes, equipment, and provisions here for their far-flung journeys to other regions, and here they stored large amounts of westbound merchandise and eastbound furs and hides. From this central location at the Straits, Native and European forces were dispatched on numerous occasions over the decades to fight military campaigns far afield. Many expeditions intent upon exploration or missionary efforts were launched from Mackinac. Timothy J. Kent has located and translated large numbers of original French documents concerning these various activities, while he has also gathered most of the previously published ones as well. Through this extensive research, Kent has woven a highly detailed, year-by-year chronicle of these many events, which focused upon the Mackinac area but occurred in the vast region that stretched from the home colony along the St. Lawrence Valley to the distant west and northwest. He has likewise compiled a similarly through account of the first two decades after British forces took control of North America in 1760. During this latter period, the fur trade of the French era actively continued, with gradually increasing British participation. More than fifty original French documents are translated and published for the first time in this work. These include legal agreements, outfitters' ledgers, letters from traders, officers, and missionaries, inventories of trading stores and military forts, official government ordinances, and lists of material for Native allies. Interweaving these documents with hundreds of previously published government and military reports, fur-trade licenses, and travel accounts, Kent clearly presents the history of the period and exposes many little-known aspects of life during this era ranging from rampant prostitution to widespread trade in Native slaves, from the huge amounts of illegal commerce to the realities of French-Native relations.
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 Advertisning a product they don't have. September 23, 2008
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Amazon and many other book Sellers are advertising and actually completing transactions for a book that they don't have. There is a error in the cataloging system with a Steven King collection. There doesn't seem to be a method of contacting any person or agency responsible for the universal cataloging system. You will eventually receive a excuse and apology along with a refund to your credit card.
 Outstanding August 30, 2008
This set of volumes has been long overdo from the historians. Frankly there was not much available to learn about the specific duties, people (not just the famous ones) & articles of trade in this area. Books on the fur trade in general are rare & often hard to find so this was a total delight to see. The research is meticulous, as always from this author, and covers documents that many of us from the non-French speaking world have not had translated for us until now. No effort is spared in articulating every nuance of life in that place & time & no doubt this book will become an extremely valuable classic in the years to come. The price is worth every penny. Two thumbs up! The book is NOT out of print as Amazon says, it is just not in their inventory. The retail is well worth it.
NOTICE**There is a mixup between this book & another, 'A Haunting of Hill House'. If you see any in the Amazon Marketplace assume they are the wrong book--these sellers don't even look at anything but the ISBN before they mail it to you. Amazon appears to be unwilling to fix that error in their marketplace. I have been in contact with both publishers & Timothy Kent is a friend of mine. The ISBN 0965723046 belongs to only one book and that is 'Rendezvous at the Straits' however Penguin Publishers in collaboration with Bookspan's Book-Of-The-Month-Club have amazingly stolen that identical number with no apologies or regrets. I asked Penguin to straighten out the error--no response. I asked the contracts manager of Bookspan, Lisa Aliperti who selected the wrong ISBN to straighten out their error but she refused to respond. Her email is [...]. Same response with their lawyers. Her phone is (516) 490-4720. Please feel free to rip HER a new one!
Chilling and strange, better than either of the movies September 5, 2006
A classic example of horror that does not rely on pornographic gore and shock value for its chill-factor. Of the two movies that have been adapted from this book, the 1963 black-and-white version is a greater achievement of film-making, while the 1999 version is more visually stunning. Neither movie, however, can quite contain how weird and wonderful this book is. Shirley Jackson, queen of the not-quite-sane heroine, unfolds a quietly disturbing piece that makes the reader question how much of the weirdness is external and how much of it is inside the narrator's head. Excellent companion piece for We Have Always Lived In the Castle, which puts a different spin on the same unreliable narrator technique.
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