Edwin Thompson Denig, for more than twenty years a fur trader on
the Upper Missouri and married to an Assiniboine woman, was an
acute and objective observer of Indian manners and customs. He
assisted Audubon and the Culbertsons in collecting Missouri River
fauna, supplied information on the Indians to Father De Smet, who
encouraged him to write, and provided Henry Schoolcraft with an
Assiniboine vocabulary as well as a detailed "Report on the Indian
Tribes of the Upper Missouri," which was not published until 1930,
seventy-six years after it was written, and then only in parts.
Denig's writings on the Sioux, Arickaras, Assiniboines, Crees,
and Crows, comprising the Denig manuscript in the Missouri
Historical Society, are published together for the first time in
this book. The manuscript long had been referred to as the
"Culbertson Manuscript" because it had been purchased from a
descendant of the fur-trader naturalist Alexander Culbertson. But
in 1949, handwriting experts identified it as the work of
Denig.
General
Imprint: |
University of Oklahoma Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
The Civilization of the American Indian Series |
Release date: |
May 2019 |
First published: |
December 1975 |
Authors: |
Edwin Thompson Denig
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
272 |
Edition: |
New Ed |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8061-1308-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
|
LSN: |
0-8061-1308-1 |
Barcode: |
9780806113081 |
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