The Fox Wars: The Mesquakie Challenge to New France. (book reviews)

This book is a welcome addition to our growing knowledge and understanding of the Indian people living within the region that the French called the pays d `en haut. Picking up where Richard White's The Middle Groundleft off, Edmunds and Peyser examine the Foxes' uneasy and fateful relationship with the French. The result is an interesting and convincing study of "the people of the red earth". (p. 32).

While this study covers almost three centuries of Fox history, the authors focus primarily on the years between 1701 and 1740. In these years the authors see the roots of ...

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