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PublisherUniversity of Calgary Press

ISBN-101552381110

ISBN-139781552381113

eBay Product ID (ePID)5920880

Product Key Features

Number of Pages205 Pages

Publication NameJemmy Jock Bird : Marginal Man on the Blackfoot Frontier

LanguageEnglish

SubjectCanada / Pre-Confederation (To 1867), Adventurers & Explorers, Native Americans, North America, Native American

Publication Year2004

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaBiography & Autobiography, History

AuthorJohn C. Jackson

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight11.2 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width5.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2004-401322

Dewey Edition22

Number of Volumes80 vols.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal971.2004973

Table Of ContentAcknowledgements Preface and Acknowledgements In the Gathering Darkness The Floating Community of the Saskatchewan War and Trade The Blackfood Barrier Piikani Summer Muddy Waters on the Upper Missouri A Taste of Corporate Comeuppance A Company Man Again Marginal Man on a Closing Frontier In the Shadow of the Cross Under the Long Knifes White Man's World Métis Politics Prairie Calling Treaty Number Seven In a Gathering Darkness Man or Myth? Bibliography Notes Index

SynopsisThe son of a Cree woman and an English trader employed by the Hudson's Bay Company, Jemmy Jock Bird has become part of the mythology of the mountain man era. In this creative non-fiction account, Jackson meticulously reconstructs the life of this intriguing individual who was caught between opposing sides of a dual Metis heritage., Jemmy Jock Bird, the son of a Cree woman and an English trader employed by the Hudson's Bay Company, has become part of the mythology of the mountain man era. In this creative non-fiction account, Jackson meticulously reconstructs the life of this intriguing individual who was caught between opposing sides of a dual M tis heritage. Closely identified with the Cree and the Peigan, Bird's trading activities and undercover work as a "confidential servant" of the Hudson's Bay Company during the competitive period of the fur trade are explored using materials from the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, the Montana Historical Society, and Bird's descendants living on the American Blackfeet Reserve in Browning. As an interpreter, Bird was later instrumental in negotiating the 1855 Blackfoot peace treaty and the 1877 Canadian Treaty 7. Jackson steeps himself in the sparse documentation of the fur trade era to shed some much-needed light on Jemmy Jock Bird's adventurous career - one that straddled the international borders of the northern plains and mountain west and touched upon many aspects of western development., Jemmy Jock Bird, the son of a Cree woman and an English trader employed by the Hudson's Bay Company, has become part of the mythology of the mountain man era. In this creative non-fiction account, Jackson meticulously reconstructs the life of this intriguing individual who was caught between opposing sides of a dual Métis heritage. Closely identified with the Cree and the Peigan, Bird's trading activities and undercover work as a "confidential servant" of the Hudson's Bay Company during the competitive period of the fur trade are explored using materials from the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, the Montana Historical Society, and Bird's descendants living on the American Blackfeet Reserve in Browning. As an interpreter, Bird was later instrumental in negotiating the 1855 Blackfoot peace treaty and the 1877 Canadian Treaty 7. Jackson steeps himself in the sparse documentation of the fur trade era to shed some much-needed light on Jemmy Jock Bird's adventurous career - one that straddled the international borders of the northern plains and mountain west and touched upon many aspects of western development.

LC Classification NumberE99.M47B565 2003