This period is taken up in Parkman’s _Pioneers of France in the New
World_, _The Jesuits in North America_, _La Salle and the Discovery of
the Great West_, and _Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV._
The seventy-three volumes of _Jesuit Relations and Allied Volumes_,
edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites, are the source books for accounts of
the Jesuits. A modern book which covers this period is C. W. Colby’s
_Canadian Types of the Old Régime, 1608–1698_. E. B. O’Callaghan’s
_Documentary History of the State of New York_ (4 vols.), 1849, and
L. H. Morgan’s _League of the Iroquois_ (2 vols.), 1901, give good
accounts of the Indians, while the former has reprints of valuable maps
and documents.
The original accounts of the voyages of the explorers are as follows:
_Voyages of Samuel de Champlain_, translated by C. P. Otis, and edited
by E. F. Slafter (3 vols.) (a handy one-volume edition is that of W. L.
Grant, 1907); _Relation of the Discoveries and Voyages of Cavelier de
La Salle from 1679 to 1681_, translated by M. B. Anderson; and Louis
Hennepin’s _A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America_ (2 vols.),
and Lahontan’s _New Voyages to North America_, both reprinted and
edited by R. G. Thwaites. C. W. Butterfield has written a _History
of Brulé’s Discoveries and Explorations_, 1610–1626. The story of
the pageant of Saint Lusson comes to us from his _Procès-Verbal_ in
the _Wisconsin Historical Collections_, xi, 26, and in Father Claude
Dablon’s account in the _Jesuit Relations_, lv, 105–115.
PART II. _The Struggle for Possession, 1700–1832_
For the struggle between France and England Parkman’s _Half Century of
Conflict_ (2 vols.), _Montcalm and Wolfe_ (2 vols.), and _Conspiracy
of Pontiac_ (2 vols.) give the best connected account. S. Farmer’s
_History of Detroit and Michigan_, A. Hulbert’s _The Niagara River_,
and other local histories of Michigan, New York, Ohio, and Niagara,
as well as chronicles of the war, contribute to this history. Mr.
C. M. Burton has published a very interesting pamphlet on _Cadillac’s
Village, or Detroit under Cadillac_, which is the result of his own
research in the records of this time. Besides Parkman’s two-volume
story of the _Conspiracy of Pontiac_, it is well to read Major
Robert Rogers’ _Journals of the Siege of Detroit_, and _Concise
Account of North America, 1765_, and also a _Diary of the Siege of
Detroit_, edited with other documents by F. B. Hough, and _The Gladwin
Manuscripts_, edited by Charles Moore. Alexander Henry tells his own
story in _Travels and Adventures in Canada and the Indian Territories_,
1809.
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