Reuben Gold Thwaites
American historian, editor, and librarian; longtime secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Best known for editing The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Early Western Travels, and the journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, shaping scholarship on early American frontier and Great Lakes history.
Books
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1. The Jesuit Relations And Allied Documents 1610 To 1791
Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610–1791
A multivolume collection of translated letters, reports, and travel narratives by Jesuit missionaries in New France, spanning the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It chronicles encounters with Indigenous nations, missionary strategies, conversions and martyrdoms, wars, epidemics, and the fur trade, while recording geography, flora and fauna, and detailed ethnographic observations. Editorial notes, maps, and allied documents provide context that frames a vivid, often harrowing portrait of colonial ambitions, cultural exchange, and the making of early North American history.
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