Reviewed by Michael A. LaCombe | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 28.1

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Fellow Travelers: Indians and Europeans Contesting the Early American Trail. By Philip Levy. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. xii + 199 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95 (cloth).

Rather than focusing on a specific Native group, European settlement, geographical region, or even time period, Philip Levy's Fellow Travelers traces the paths, people, and experiences that connected all of them. For Levy, "the trail" describes occasions when Native people and Europeans traveled together but was more broadly a "contentious arena of colonization" characterized by the "continuing intersection of European need and Native ability" (p. 2). Since Europeans needed Native knowledge of landscapes, languages, plants, animals, and people to get from place to place safely, and as Indians wanted the items Europeans offered in return, both sides had an interest in sustaining communication and interaction.

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