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 THE LAMAR SERIES IN WESTERN HISTORY
The Lamar Series in Western History includes scholarly books of general public interest
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history of the American West.

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Howard R. Lamar, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus, Past President of Yale University
William J. Cronon, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Philip J. Deloria, University of Michigan
John Mack Faragher, Yale University
Jay Gitlin, Yale University
George A. Miles, Beinecke Library, Yale University
Martha A. Sandweiss, Amherst College
Virginia J. Scharff, University of New Mexico
Robert M. Utley, Former Chief Historian, National Park Service
David J. Weber, Southern Methodist University

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 The Bourgeois Frontier

French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion

Jay Gitlin
Copyright © 2009. Yale University Press. All rights reserved.

Yale University Press

New Haven & London

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Yale University, and with assistance from the Annie Burr Lewis Fund and the
income of the Frederick John Kingsbury Memorial Fund.

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Gitlin, Jay.
The bourgeois frontier : French towns, French traders,
and American expansion / Jay Gitlin.
p. cm. (Lamar series in Western history)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Copyright © 2009. Yale University Press. All rights reserved.

ISBN 978-0-300-10118-8 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. French—West (U.S.)—History

2. French Americans—West (U.S.)—History. 3. West (U.S.)—Ethnic relations.
4. Frontier and pioneer life—West (U.S.) 5. West (U.S.)—History. I. Title.
F596.3.F8G585 2009
978′.01—dc22 2009015230

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 For Ginny and Basie
And for Howard

And in memory of my wonderful parents:

Benjamin Gitlin and Libby Graff Gitlin
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