THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS 



PUBLICATIONS OF THE CHICAGO 



HISTORICAL SOCIETY 



The University of Chicago Press has become the publishing 

 and distributing agent for the following books of the Chicago 

 Historical Society: 



Masters of the Wilderness. By Charles B. Reed. ("Fort 



Dearborn Series") 



156 pages, i6mo, doth; $1.00, postage extra (weight 12 oz.) 



In reproducing these romantic episodes of our exploration 

 era the author has neither exaggerated the color nor distorted 

 the facts of that intensely human period. The opening essay, 

 which gives its title to the volume, is a highly interesting and 

 carefully wrought account of the origin and upgrowth of the 

 Hudson's Bay Company, with a portrayal of its powerful influ- 

 ence on the development of Canada. "The Beaver Club," the 

 second essay in the volume, is closely allied to the first, and con- 

 cerns a social club of Montreal the members of which were drawn 

 from the partners and factors of the Northwestern Fur Company, 

 for many years a rival of the Hudson's Bay Company. For 

 forty years this club dominated the commercial, political, and 

 social life of Canada. The concluding essay, "A Dream of Em- 

 pire," recounts with many fresh details the adventures of Tonty 

 in Old Louisiana. 



The book as a whole is a successful attempt to awaken 

 interest in some of the remarkable episodes of our early history. 

 It is not analytical but narrative, not a sequence of annals but a 

 series of picturesque activities. 



COLLECTIONS 



Vol. I. History of the English Settlement in Edwards County, Illinois. 

 By George Flower. 402 pages, royal 8vo, cloth; out of print. 



Vol. n. Biographical Sketch of Enoch Long, an Illinois Pioneer. By 

 Harvey Reid. 134 pages, royal 8vo, cloth; $1.00, postage extra 

 (weight 1 lb. 6 oz.). 



Vol. HI. The Edwards Papers. Edited by E. B. Washburne. 662 

 pages, royal 8 vo, cloth ; $3.50, postage extra (weight 4 lbs.) . 



Vol. IV. Early Chicago and Illinois. Edited by Edward Gay Mason. 

 538 pages, royal 8vo, cloth; $3.00, postage extra (weight 3 lbs. 9 02.). 



Vol. V. The Settlement of Illinois. By Arthur Clinton Boggess. 

 268 pages, royal 8vo, cloth; $2.00, postage extra (weight 2 lbs. 5 oz.). 



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