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AudioThe French Régime in Wisconsin and the Northwest
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LibriVox recording of The French Régime in Wisconsin and the Northwest by Louisa Phelps Kellogg. Read in English by Ted Lienhart. Few Americans today realize that Michigan and Wisconsin were once part of French Canada. French influence in the region continued through the eighteenth century, decades after France ceded Canada to Great Britain at the end of the Seven Years’ War in 1763. In this volume, Wisconsin’s French past is recounted by historian Louise Phelps Kellogg. Born in Milwaukee, Kellogg earned her Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1901, where she studied under the noted historian Frederick Jackson Turner. She spent much of her career at the Wisconsin Historical Society, conducting research and publishing books and articles on the history of the American Northwest. Kellogg begins with the European discovery and early settlement of New France, then gradually shifts attention during the seventeenth century to the western frontier in northern Michigan and Wisconsin. This rugged region became one of the centers of New France’s principal industry; the fur trade with Native American tribes. Through the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries,…
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Louisa Phelps Kellogg
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librivox; audiobooks;American history; old; northwest; wisconsin - history; french - wisconsin; wisconsin territory - history; america - discovery and exploration - french; new france - history; french-canadian fur trade; northwest territory - history
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