About Early Encounters in North America (primary sources)

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Reveals the the relationships among peoples and the environment in North America 1534-1850.
Provides letters, diaries, memoirs, prints, drawings, paintings, maps, bibliographies, photographs, and original facsimile pages.
Focuses on personal accounts and provides unique perspectives from traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women.
The collection is centered on present-day Canada and the United States, with some coverage of Mexico.
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