{"product_id":"gichi-bitobig-grand-marais-early-accounts-of-the-anishinaabeg-and-the-north-shore-fur-trade-9781517905934","title":"Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais: Early Accounts of the Anishinaabeg and the North Shore Fur Trade","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe journals of two clerks of the American Fur Company recall a lost moment in the history of the fur trade and the Anishinaabeg along Lake Superior's North Shore \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Long after the Anishinaabeg first inhabited and voyageurs plied Lake Superior's North Shore in Minnesota, and well before the tide of Scandinavian immigrants swept in, Bela Chapman, a clerk of John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company, fetched up in Gichi Bitobig--a stony harbor now known as Grand Marais. Through the year that followed, Chapman recorded his efforts on behalf of Astor's enterprise: setting up a working post to compete with the Hudson Bay Company, establishing trading relationships with the local Anishinaabeg, and steering a crew of African-Anishinaabeg, Yankee, Virginian, and M tis boatmen. The young clerk's journal, and another kept by his successor, George Johnston, provides a window into a story largely lost to history. Using these and other little known documents, Timothy Cochrane recreates the drama that played out in the cold weather months in Grand Marais between 1823 and 1825.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn its portrayal of the changing fur trade on the great lake, \u003ci\u003eGichi Bitobig, Grand Marais\u003c\/i\u003e offers a rare glimpse of the Anishinaabeg--especially the leader Espagnol--as astute and active trading partners, playing the upstart Americans for competitive advantage against their rivals, even as the company men contend with the harsh geographic realities of the North Shore. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the words of long-ago witnesses, the book recovers both the too-often overlooked Anishinaabeg roots and corporate origins of Grand Marais, a history deeper and more complex than is often told. \u003ci\u003eGichi Bitobig, Grand Marais\u003c\/i\u003e recalls a time in northern Minnesota when men of the American Fur Company and the Anishinaabeg navigated the shifting course of progress, negotiating the new perils and prospects of commerce's westward drift.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Timothy Cochrane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/13\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.7lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517905934","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42794150002825,"sku":"9781517905934","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_c7acbfa0-0b61-4662-b87a-23a049370194.jpg?v=1721106179","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/gichi-bitobig-grand-marais-early-accounts-of-the-anishinaabeg-and-the-north-shore-fur-trade-9781517905934","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}