| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade. By Carolyn Podruchny. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xxiv, 414 pp. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978–0-8032–8790–7.)
Carolyn Podruchny's book analyzes the society of the voyageurs, the French-speaking travelers who carried out much of the North American fur trade between the late seventeenth century and the mid-nineteenth century. Her study provides a welcome examination of the society and cultural dynamics of this well-known but over-romanticized group of people who have suffered from generations of inaccurate stereotyping.	1
She has overcome some severe limitations of historical sources: most significantly, the fact that very few of the voyageurs were literate. She has made careful and judicious use of business records and written accounts composed by others, which have survived in a diversity of locations in Canada, the United States, and Great Britain. Her considerable efforts have enabled her to present a vivid sense of the voyageurs' world, including much that is intriguing about their values, behaviors, and beliefs. While there is necessarily some interpolation and speculation, it is well reasoned and strikes a note of authenticity.	. . .

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