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Grace Lee Nute (1895–1990)

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Syntymäaika
1895-10-13
Kuolinaika
1990-05-04
Sukupuoli
female
Kansalaisuus
USA
Syntymäpaikka
North Conway, New Hampshire, USA
Kuolinpaikka
Menlo Park, California, USA
Asuinpaikat
Walnut Creek, California, USA
Koulutus
Smith College (B.A. American Literature 1917)
Radcliffe College (M.A. 1918)
Harvard University (Ph.D. American History 1921)
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professor
historian
curator
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Hamline University
Minnesota Historical Society
Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
Guggenheim Fellowship (1934-35)
Honorary Litt.D., Hamline University (1943)
Ford Foundation grant (1945)
Award of Merit, Western History Association (1981)
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Grace Lee Nute was born in North Conway, New Hampshire. She earned a bachelor's degree in American literature from Smith College in 1917, a master's from Radcliffe College in 1918, and a doctoral degree in American history from Harvard University in 1921. She moved to Minnesota in 1921 and began her career as the curator of the Minnesota Historical Society's manuscripts collection, a position she held until 1946. She served as a research associate from 1946 to 1957. She also taught Minnesota history at Hamline University from 1927 to 1960, rising to the rank of professor, and was a visiting professor at Macalester College. Dr. Nute pioneered the use of microfilm and photocopies to preserve manuscripts and make them more accessible to scholars. She wrote manuals on collection preservation and organization and also wrote books and articles on the fur trade and the exploration of Minnesota, including The Voyageur (1931) and Caesars of the Wilderness (1943). Beginning in 1957, she served on the editorial board of The Naturalist, the Natural History Society of Minnesota magazine.

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The Voyageur examines the folkways, character, and tremendous skill of the French-Canadian men who enabled the exploitation and exploration of the Canadian West and Northwest. Wherever possible Nute uses direct sources - descriptions by others of the voyageur temperament and actions. Neither the great fur trading company emperors (like John Jacob Astor) nor the renowned explorers like Mackenzie, Fraser and Franklin would have gotten far without the toil of these men. Born of the French-Canadian stock around Montreal (many of them descended from the small group of men who had originally accompanied the early expeditions with Champlain and those immediately after him) these men knew how to build a canoe, hunt, run rapids, build a fort - their abilities are seemingly endless. What makes them so appealing, however, is their character, which Nute tries to capture: a very un-Anglo combination of gallic insouciance and charm combined with fierce competitiveness and a lack of personal ambition. They were wild and free and you couldn't order them to do anything, but you could offer a challenge, ask them to prove themselves better than some other, and that would provoke an immediate response. I think Nute successfully balances the temptation to romanticize this very charismatic and contradictory group with the realities of who they really were and their extraordinary achievements. The chapter on their songs, their penchant for singing while paddling, the fact that when approaching a destination they would stop to bathe and clean up in order tomake a fine entrance if possible, offered more proof and insight of how marvelous and unique they were, approaching even the hardest life possible with unimaginable gaiety and joie de vivre. The most important take-away however, is that this group opened the Northwest of Canada and that their 'maniere de vivre' is a deeply-rooted part of the Canadian character and very different from our own driven, self-absorbed and, by comparison, morose and intolerant selves below the 49th. ****… (lisätietoja)
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