The Mad Trapper, by Rudy Wiebe

ARCTIC ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard C. Davis
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1979 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-238
Author(s):  
Delbert E. Wylder
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Polar Record ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 37 (200) ◽  
pp. 5-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard C. Davis

AbstractGreenstockings was the name that the members of Sir John Franklin's first Arctic Land Expedition gave to a young Dene woman during their winter residence at Fort Enterprise in 1820–21. All the officers' journals remark on her physical beauty, a reputed beauty that subsequently put her at the centre of numerous rumours and accounts. Historians know little about her other than her physical attractiveness and her age, although Greenstockings might have borne a child to one of Franklin's officers, and male jealousy over her might have put the expedition at serious risk. In spite of the paucity of factual information, Greenstockings has been cast as a central character in a poem by Franklin's first wife and in an award-winning book by Canadian novelist Rudy Wiebe. These and other pieces of information show the way that different perspectives can allow for different representations of historical figures.


1991 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Om P. Juneja ◽  
M. F. Salat ◽  
Chandra Mohan
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