Catton Rainy Lake House

Twilight of Empire on the Northern Frontier
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4214-2293-0
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

A fateful encounter between three backwoodsmen on the British–American–Indian frontier leads to the pursuit of wealth—and tragedy.

In September 1823, three men met at Rainy Lake House, a Hudson’s Bay Company trading post near the Boundary Waters. Dr. John McLoughlin, the proprietor of Rainy Lake House, was in charge of the borderlands west of Lake Superior, where he was tasked with opposing the petty traders who operated out of US territory. Major Stephen H. Long, an officer in the US Army Topographical Engineers, was on an expedition to explore the wooded borderlands west of Lake Superior and the northern prairies from the upper Mississippi to the forty-ninth parallel. John Tanner, a “white Indian” living among the Ojibwa nation, arrived in search of his missing daughters, who, Tanner believed, were at risk of being raped by the white traders holding them captive at a nearby fort.

Rainy Lake House weaves together the captivating stories of these men who cast their fortunes in different ways with the western fur trade. Drawing on their combined experiences, Theodore Catton creates a vivid depiction of the beautiful and dangerous northern frontier from a collision of vantage points: American, British, and Indian; imperial, capital, and labor; explorer, trader, and hunter. At the center of this history is the deeply personal story of John Tanner’s search for kinship: first among his adopted Ojibwa nation; then in the search for his white family of origin; and finally in his quest for custody of his half-Indian children.

Rainy Lake House is a character-driven narrative about ambition, adventure, alienation, and revenge. Catton deftly crafts one grand narrative out of three and reveals the perilous lives of the white adventurers and their Indian families, who lived on the fringe of empire.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Catton, Theodore

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Maps
Timeline
Introduction: Rainy Lake House, 1823
Part I: Leave-Takings
Chapter 1. The Explorer
Chapter 2. The Hunter
Chapter 3. The Trader
Part II: Long
Chapter 4. "The English Make Them More Presents"
Chapter 5. Encounters with the Sioux
Chapter 6. Race and History
Chapter 7. To Civilize the Osage
Part III: Tanner
Chapter 8. Westward Migration
Chapter 9. "Six Beaver Skins for a Quart of Mixed Rum"
Chapter 10. The Test of Winter
Chapter 11. Red Sky of the Morning
Chapter 12. Warrior
Part IV: McLoughlin
Chapter 13. Fort William
Chapter 14. Marriage à la façon du pays
Chapter 15. Bad Birds
Chapter 16. The Restive Partnership
Chapter 17. The Pemmican War
Chapter 18. The Battle of Seven Oaks
Chapter 19. The Surrender of Fort William
Chapter 20. Lord Selkirk's Prisoner
Chapter 21. Time of Reckoning
Chapter 22. London
Part V: Long
Chapter 23. The Wonder of the Steamboat
Chapter 24. A Christian Marriage
Chapter 25. Up the Missouri
Chapter 26. To the Rocky Mountains
Chapter 27. Mapmaker
Chapter 28. The Northern Expedition
Part VI: Tanner
Chapter 29. The Coming of The Prophet
Chapter 30. A Loathsome Man
Chapter 31. Sorcery and Sickness
Chapter 32. Taking Fort Douglas
Chapter 33. Rough Justice
Chapter 34. In Search of Kin
Chapter 35. Between Two Worlds
Part VII: McLoughlin
Chapter 36. Chief Factor
Chapter 37. Providence
Chapter 38. Opposing the Americans
Part VIII: Collision
Chapter 39. Working for Wages
Chapter 40. Children of the Fur Trade
Chapter 41. The Ambush
Chapter 42. The Pardon
Chapter 43. "We met with an American"
Chapter 44. The Onus of Revenge
Chapter 45. Journeys Home
Epilogue: Mackinac, 1824 – and After
Postscript: John Tanner as a Source
Acknowledgements
Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Catton, Theodore
Theodore Catton is an associate research professor of history at the University of Montana. He is the author of Inhabited Wilderness: Indians, Eskimos, and Alaska’s National Parks and American Indians and National Forests.