Working from firsthand sources-and through the bias and prejudices of his time-noted American historian and writer Francis Parkman produced, in 1867, this prodigious history of the Jesuit priesthood in North America during the early decades of the European colonization. With reports, memoirs, journals, letters, and other papers both official and private serving as his background, Parkman details the Catholics' attempts to convert the Huron, Algonquin, and Iroquois, as well as the resulting Iroquois war on the converted tribes in 1670s. But Parkman, unlike his fellow contemporary historians, also explores the ways and traditions of the tribes themselves. FRANCIS PARKMAN (1823-1893) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a wealthy family whose fortune allowed him the freedom to pursue his twin scholarly passions of horticulture and history. A founder of the Archaeological Institute of America, he authored The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and the eight-volume France and England in North America, both considered among the great masterpieces of historical literature.
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"[Parkman] remains one of the greatest historians, an imaginative writer who demonstrated that narrative history can be both captivating to the reader and historically accurate."-Howard Lamar, Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West (Howard Lamar Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West )
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Relation des Hurons, Sainte Marie, Three Rivers, New France, Madame de la Peltrie, Father Superior, Tobacco Nation, New York, Pioneers of France, New England, Dollier de Casson, Neutral Nation, Fort Orange, Feast of the Dead, Lake George, Society of Jesus, Allumette Island, Father Vimont, Lake Erie, Jean Baptiste, Jesuit Relations, Lake Champlain, Lake Ontario, Lake Superior, Mademoiselle Mance New!
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- League of the Iroquois: A Classic Study of an American Indian Tribe With Original Illustrations by Lewis Henry Morgan on page 16, and page 222
- Last of the Mohicans (Now Illus Ser III) by James F. Cooper on page 219
- Notes on the Iroquois by Henry R. Schoolcraft on page 60
- Lake Michigan And Other Poems by Jared Smith on page 2
- The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics) by James Fenimore Cooper on page 219
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- The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization (Institute of Early American History & Culture) by Daniel K. Richter in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Catholic Higher Education in Protestant America: The Jesuits and Harvard in the Age of the University by Kathleen A. Mahoney on page 54, and Back Matter
- The Penobscot Dance of Resistance: Tradition in the History of a People (Revisiting New England) by Pauleena MacDougall in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Henry James' Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Beverly Haviland in Back Matter
- New World Orders: Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas (Early American Studies) by John Smolenski in Back Matter
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