{"product_id":"a-fur-trader-on-the-upper-missouri-the-journal-and-description-of-jeanbaptiste-truteau-17941796-9780803244276","title":"A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri  The Journal","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers the first annotated scholarly edition of Jean-Baptiste Truteau's journal of his voyage on the Missouri River in the central and northern Plains from 1794 to 1796 and of his Description of the Upper Missouri. This fully modern edition of this essential journal surpasses all previous editions in assisting scholars and general readers to understand Truteau's travels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The result of several decades of collaboration, \u003ci\u003eA Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri\u003c\/i\u003e merits cover-to cover reading. . . . Original manuscripts in French (and Spanish) are considered inaccessible by many students of the fur trade and of colonial St. Louis. For that reason, one important and potentially long-lasting benefit of this bilingual volume is that it can ease and even encourage further French-language study of various aspects of the fur trade, which is by no means yet fully explored.\"—Sharon K. Person, \u003ci\u003eMissouri Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a \u003ci\u003echef d'œuvre \u003c\/i\u003ein ethnography, a work of love that spans nearly three generations of scholars. For anyone wanting to read a firsthand, in depth, intelligent account by a French fur trader whose two year long journal and his later conceived description of the upper Missouri about the Indians who lived there and their inter-tribal relations, this book is not to be missed.\"—Michael McCafferty, \u003ci\u003eLe Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the most complete, well-edited, and best ethnographic and geographical late eighteenth-century fur trading accounts to ever be published. . . . A must-read for First Nation people, historians, ethnologists, linguists, historical reenactors, and professional and laypersons alike and will continue to be the \u003ci\u003ealler á\u003c\/i\u003e for historical reference work for the Upper Missouri River fur trade era for generations to come.\"—Kenneth Carstens, \u003ci\u003eMichigan Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This volume is remarkable in its scope and scholarship. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of the fur trade in the disciplines of history, geography, anthropology, historical linguistics, and Native American studies.\"—Rob Bozell, \u003ci\u003eNebraska History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is the first comprehensive critical edition of documents related to Truteau's two-year sojourn among Indian nations of the Upper Missouri a decade before Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery arrived at the Mandan villages. Superbly translated, edited, indexed, and annotated, the book eclipses previous efforts. Side-by-side French and English transcriptions offer easy access to Truteau's narrative, and an opportunity for readers to develop a feel for the early eighteenth-century French that fur traders spoke in the \u003ci\u003epays d'en haut\u003c\/i\u003e, the \"upriver country.” . . . This superb book reflects the talents of top-flight scholars who gave Truteau's significant narrative the attention it merits. An impressive example of \"best practices\" in fur trade scholarship, it makes compelling reading and is highly recommended.\"—Barton H. Barbour, \u003ci\u003eGreat Plains Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This excellent new volume of Truteau's writings is required reading for anyone with either a serious or passing interest in the history of the indigenous inhabitants of the Upper Missouri River or the fur trade that so dramatically changed their lives.\"—Greg Olson, \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Iowa Archeological Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"While it is fascinating enough to consider Truteau's journal as a primary source on the late-eighteenth-century fur trade, his journal not only provides a detailed description of the Upper Missouri but also an intriguing firsthand look into the culture, customs, traditions, beliefs, and ritualistic ceremonies of the region's Native Americans. . . . This book is a reference resource that will satisfy the needs of historians and linguists alike.\"—Eileen M. Angelini, \u003ci\u003eFrench Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri\u003c\/i\u003e is a historically rich translated edition of crucial texts that explore and reflect on the cultures and environment along the Missouri River from Saint Louis to North Dakota. . . . Truteau's manuscripts are substantial, and the editor Douglas Parks's introductory essay is equally useful.\"—Aaron Luedke, \u003ci\u003ePacific Northwest Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Raymond J. DeMallie, Douglas R. Parks and Robert Vézina have just published a remarkable contribution to this effort to make known and situate in its socio-cultural context a variety of French that remains undoubtedly still enigmatic for many Romanists.\"—\u003ci\u003eRevue de linguistique romane\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With \u003ci\u003eA Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri\u003c\/i\u003e, DeMallie, Parks, and Vézina set a new standard for a critical and textual edition of a fur trade journal, providing the most complete versions of the Truteau journals in English and the original French. During Truteau's day Native Americans dominated the Northern Plains. The journals are rich in eyewitness descriptions of interactions among Truteau, his party, members of various bands and tribes, some qualified allies, and many unrelenting adversaries. \u003ci\u003eA Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri\u003c\/i\u003e also provides the necessary resources for a reader to begin to appreciate ways that Truteau's text is at many levels mediated by practices of the French fur trade society of the time.\"—David W. Dinwoodie, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Anthropological Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations    \u003cbr\u003e Explanation of Editorial Method    \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e Introduction   Douglas R. Parks\u003cbr\u003e Extract from the Journals of the Voyage of Jean-Baptiste Truteau on the Upper Missouri\u003cbr\u003e From St. Louis to the Arikara Villages, June 7, 1794–May 14, 1795    \u003cbr\u003e At the Arikara Villages, May 24–July 20, 1795    \u003cbr\u003e From the Arikara Villages to St. Louis, July 22, 1795–June 4, 1796    \u003cbr\u003e Abridged Description of the Upper Missouri        \u003cbr\u003e First Notebook    \u003cbr\u003e Second Notebook    \u003cbr\u003e Third Notebook    \u003cbr\u003e Instructions Given to Truteau by the Company of the Upper Missouri    \u003cbr\u003e Account of the Indian Trade    Jacques Clamorgan\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 1: The Language of Truteau   Robert Vézina\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 2: A Glossary of Voyageur French    Robert Vézina\u003cbr\u003e Notes    \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography    \u003cbr\u003e Index    ","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405256597847,"sku":"9780803244276","price":74.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803244276.jpg?v=1730489302","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-fur-trader-on-the-upper-missouri-the-journal-and-description-of-jeanbaptiste-truteau-17941796-9780803244276","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}