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A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: The Journal and Description of Jean-Baptiste Truteau, 1794–1796 (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians)

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A Fur Trader at the Upper Missouri offers the first annotated scholarly edition of Jean-Baptiste Truteau’s journal of his voyage at the Missouri River within the central and northern Plains from 1794 to 1796 and of his description of the upper Missouri. This fully brand new and magisterial edition of this very important journal surpasses all previous editions in assisting scholars and general readers in understanding Truteau’s travels and encounters with the a lot of Native peoples of the region, including the Arikaras, Cheyennes, Lakotas-Dakotas-Nakotas, Omahas, and Pawnees. Truteau’s writings constitute the very foundation to our understanding of the late eighteenth-century fur trade within the region right away preceding the expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson in 1803.


An unparalleled number one source for its descriptions of Native American tribal customs, beliefs, rituals, material culture, and physical appearances, A Fur Trader at the Upper Missouri can be a classic among scholars, students, and general readers alike.


Together with this new translation by Mildred Mott Wedel, Raymond J. DeMallie, and Robert Vézina, which includes facing French-English pages, the editors shed new light on Truteau’s description of the upper Missouri and acknowledge his journal as the foremost account of Native peoples and the fur trade throughout the eighteenth century. Vézina’s essay at the language used and his glossary of voyageur French also provide unique insight into the language of an educated French Canadian fur trader.
 

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