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Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment

Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment collection includes 385 sources documenting the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. The collection focuses on personal accounts from a range of perspectives, including traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women. The project includes detailed searching and access to published and unpublished accounts, including narratives, diaries, journals, and letters..

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Detailed Description - Early Encounters in North America

Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. The collection of 385 documents focuses on personal accounts and provides unique perspectives from all of the protagonists, including traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women. The project brings full-text searching of over 100,000 pages from published and unpublished accounts, including narratives, diaries, journals, and letters.