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261 Certain frequently cited works in the notes have been abbreviated as follows. Amherst Papers. Jeffery Amherst Papers. National Archives, UK. Amherst Papers, Clements Library. Sir Jeffery Amherst Papers. Clements Library. Aspinwall Papers. Thomas Aspinwall Papers. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 4th series, vol. 9. Boston: The Society, 1871. BHC. Burton Historical Collection. Detroit Public Library. Bouquet Papers. Henry Bouquet Papers. British Library, London. Clements Library. William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. DCB. Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966–. DRCNY. E. B. O’Callaghan, ed. Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York. 15 vols. Albany: Weed, Parsons, 1853–87. Gage Papers, AS. Thomas Gage Papers, American Series. Clements Library. Gage Papers, ES. Thomas Gage Papers, English Series. Clements Library. JP. James Sullivan, et. al, eds. The Papers of Sir William Johnson. 14 vols. Albany: University of the State of New York, 1921–1962. LAC. Library and Archives Canada. MPHC. Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections. 40 vols. Lansing: Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, 1874–1929. National Archives, UK. The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK. Northeast.Bruce Trigger, ed. Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 15: Northeast. Washington. D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1978. RAPQ, 1931–32. Rapport de L’Archiviste de la Province de Québec Pour 1931–1932. [Quebec]: Ls-A. Proulx, 1932. RAPQ, 1932–33. Rapport de L’Archiviste de la Province de Québec pour 1932–1933. [Quebec]: Ls-A. Proulx, 1933. Sterling Letterbook. James Sterling Letterbook. Clements Library. WHC. Reuben Gold Thwaites, ed. Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. 20 vols. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1855–1911. introduction 1. Alexander Henry, Travels and Adventures in Canada and the Indian Territories, between the Years 1760 and 1776 (New York: I. Riley, 1809) and Francis Parkman, The Conspiracy of Pontiac (New York: Collier Books, 1962; originally published, 1851). 2. Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991); Gregory Evans Dowd, War under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire (Baltimore: Johns notes 262 notes to pages xviii–xix Hopkins University Press, 2002); Richard Middleton, Pontiac’s War: Its Causes, Course and Consequences (New York: Routledge, 2007); and Howard H. Peckham, Pontiac and the Indian Uprising (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994; originally published 1947). 3. David L. Preston, The Texture of Contact: European and Indian Settler Communities on the Frontiers of Iroquoia, 1667–1783 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009); and Joshua Piker, Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004). 4. Michael A. McDonnell’s study of the Odawa communities at L’Arbre Croche is expected to be published in 2014. 5. Michael N. McConnell, Army and Empire: British Soldiers on the American Frontier, 1758–1775 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004; Stephen Brumwell, Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755–1763 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Paths of Glory: The Life and Death of General James Wolfe (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006); Daniel Ingram, Indians and British Outposts in Eighteenth-Century America (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012); and Alexander V. Campbell, The Royal American Regiment: An Atlantic Microcosm, 1755–1772 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010). 6. Jacqueline L. Peterson, “The People in Between: Indian-White Marriage and the Genesis of a Métis Society and Culture in the Great Lakes Region, 1680–1830,” PhD diss., University of Illinois–Chicago, 1981; and Susan Sleeper-Smith, Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001). 7. Donald P. Heldman, Excavations at Fort Michilimackinac, 1976: The Southeast and South Southeast Row Houses, Archaeological Completion Report Series, Number 1 (Mackinac Island: Mackinac Island State Park Commission, 1977) (hereafter Southeast and South Southeast Row Houses), Excavations at Fort Michilimackinac, 1977: House One of the South Southeast Row House, Archaeological Completion Report Series, Number 2 (Mackinac Island: Mackinac Island State Park Commission, 1978) (hereafter House One), and Archaeological Investigations at French Farm Lake in Northern Michigan, 1981–1982: A British Colonial Farm Site, Archaeological Completion Report Series, Number 6 (Mackinac Island: Mackinac Island State Park Commission, 1983); Donald P. Heldman and Roger T. Grange Jr., Excavations at Fort Michilimackinac: 1978–1979, the Rue de la Babillarde, Archaeological Completion Report Series, Number 3 (Mackinac Island: Mackinac Island State Park Commission, 1981) (hereafter Rue...

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