Contact & Conflict Book situated him in all the

situated him in all the right and wrong places at all the right and wrong times

This publication is a collection of both Thornton's colorful portraits and the fascinating story behind each one

believing deeply in its healing and spiritual powers

she discovered Indians who were very different from those she had known on the Prairies

Contact & Conflict Book situated him in all theOriginally published in 1977, Contact and Conflict has remained an important book, which has inspired numerous scholars to examine further the relationships between the Indians and the Europeans fur traders as well as settlers. For this edition, Robin Fisher has written a new introduction in which he surveys the literature since 1977 and comments on any new insights into these relationships. Fisher contends that the fur trade had originally brought