Snowshoe Country is an Environmental and Cultural History of Winter in the colonial Northeast, closely examining indigenous and settler knowledge of snow, ice, and life in the cold.
To keep surviving the Winter year after year and decade after decade, English colonists relied on Native assistance, borrowed indigenous.
Indigenous communities in this region were more knowledgeable about the cold than European newcomers from temperate climates, and English settlers were especially slow to adapt.
Snowshoe Country is an Environmental and Cultural History of Winter in the colonial Northeast, closely examining indigenous and settler knowledge of snow, ice, and life in the cold