Fellow Travelers: Indians and Europeans Contesting the Early American Trail

by Philip Levy

When Europeans first arrived on North American shores, they came to a continent crisscrossed by a well-trodden network of native trails. The traders, missionaries, diplomatists, and naturalists who traveled these trails depended in no small measure on the skills, knowledge, and goodwill of the native people who were squarely in colonization's crosshairs. This study of 16th- to 19-century native and European travel companions, or "fellow travelers,"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813030587
• ISBN13: 9780813030586
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"