The Fox Wars, Volume 211: The Mesquakie Challenge to New France

by Joseph L. Peyser and R. David Edmunds

Book Overview

This is the saga of the Fox (or Mesquakie) Indians' struggle to maintain their identity in the face of colonial New France during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The Foxes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806125519
• ISBN13: 9780806125510
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

an incredible work

This is THE book on the Fox Wars, the second round in the clash of the French and British Empires over North America. I would recommend reading W.J. Eccles' "Frontenac: The Courtier Governor" before reading this. This is an incredible book. Edmunds and Peyser did a wonderful job. All of their knowledge comes from the records written by the French themseles during the conflict. Recommended to me by an expert on the subject.

Highlights present-day Wisconsin as a battleground

The Fox River/Wisconsin River road between Green Bay and the fur-rich Mississippi River was blocked by Mesquakie toll-collectors in the early 18th century. Here is an account of the French manipulation of trinket-greedy native warriors to break the Mesquakie blockade which eventually degenerates into cannibalistic genocide.