Charlevoix, P. de. Histoire et description générale de la Nouvelle France, avec le journal historique d'un voyage fait par ordre du roi dans l'Amérique Septentrionale (Paris, 1744). 6 vols.
One of the best of the seventeenth-century accounts of New France. The first four volumes comprise the Histoire ... de la Nouvelle France: the last two constitute the journal and bear the separate title Journal d'un voyage fait par ordre du Roi dans l'Amérique Septentrionale; addresse à Madame la Duchesse de Lesdiguières. The Histoire has been translated into English by John G. Shea (q.v.) and there are two English editions of the Journal.
Charlevoix, Father. Letters to the Duchess of Lesdiguières; Giving an Account of a Voyage to Canada and Travels through That Vast Country, and Louisiana, to the Gulf of Mexico. Undertaken by order of the present king of France (London, 1763).
Chicago Historical Society. Collections (Chicago, 1882-1910), Vols. I-IX.
Unlike the usual series of collections of historical societies, the contents of each of these volumes pertain in most cases to a single subject. Those which have been of use in the preparation of this work will be cited under their separate titles.
Chittenden, Hiram Martin. The American Fur Trade of the Far West. A history of the pioneer trading posts and early fur companies of the Missouri Valley and the Rocky Mountains and of the overland commerce with Santa Fe (New York, 1902). 3 vols.
The standard authority for the subject treated; contains a chapter on the abolition of the government factory system.
Cooley, Thomas McIntyre. Michigan, a History of Governments (Boston, 1895).
Craig, Oscar J. "Ouiatanon," in Indiana Historical Society Publications, Vol. II, No. 8.
Davidson, Alexander, and Bernard Stuvé. A Complete History of Illinois, from 1673 to 1884 (Springfield, Ill., 1884).