A gathering of rivers Indians, Métis, and mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737-1832 - Murphy, Lucy Eldersveld (University of Nebraska Press, 2000)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-225) and index
In A Gathering of Rivers, Lucy Eldersveld Murphy traces the histories of Indian, multiracial, and mining communities in the western Great Lakes region during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For a century the Winnebagos (Ho-Chunks), Mesquakies (Fox), and Sauks successfully confronted waves of French and British immigration by diversifying their economies and commercializing lead mining