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A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Métis, and Mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737-1832
by Murphy, Lucy Eldersveld
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0803232101
- ISBN 13
- 9780803232105
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. Scholarly study of the Fox River valley and what became south-western Wisconsin & adjacent parts of Illinois and Iowa, where Native Americans controlled lucrative lead-mining regions, trading with the French & British, co-existing in such communities as Green Bay and Prairie du Chien, how they were able to maintain control for nearly a century, and how they finally lost out. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear, bookplate & rubberstamp (of museum director & author Edward F. Finch) on free endsheet. Text clean; xviii, [2], 233 pages; index, notes, note on sources, maps, illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- u0297
- Title
- A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Métis, and Mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737-1832
- Author
- Murphy, Lucy Eldersveld
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0803232101
- ISBN 13
- 9780803232105
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Place of Publication
- Lincoln
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Wisconsin, Lead Mining, Ho-Chunk, Mesquakie, Sauk, Winnebago, Fox, Native Americans, Indians, Immigrants, Colonialism, Colonization, Economics
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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