Reuben Gold Thwaites

Reuben Gold Thwaites (1853-1913) was an American historical writer.

Biography

Thwaites was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He moved to Wisconsin in 1866 where, from 1876 to 1886, he was managing editor of the "Wisconsin State Journal", at Madison. He edited the "Wisconsin Historical Collections" (volumes xi-xix, 1888-1811); "The Jesuit Relations" (73 volumes, 1896-1901); "Early Western Travels, 1748-1846" (32 volumes, 1904-1907); "Original Journals of Lewis and Clark" (7 volumes, 1905); and similar works. In 1899 he was president of the American Library Association.

Publications

He wrote:

*"Down Historic Waterways" (1888; second revised edition, 1902)
*"The Colonies, 1492-1750" (1890)
*"Daniel Boone" (1902)
*"Father Marquette" (1902)
*"George Rogers Clark" (1903)
*"Brief History of Rocky Mountain Exploration" (1904)
*"France in America" (1905)
*"Wisconsin" (1909)
*"School History of the United States" (1912)

He edited:

* Thwaites, Reuben Gold, ed. [http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/relations/ "The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents"] ": Travels and explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in New France, 1610-1791", Cleveland: Burrows Bros. Co., 1896-1901.

*Withers, Alexander Scott, "Chronicles of Border Warfare, or a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State; with Reflections, Anecdotes, &c.", Edited and annotated by Reuben Gold Thwaites, with several notes by Lyman Copeland Draper. (Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company, or Steward and Kidd Publishers, 1895). Reprinted in 1958 by McClain Publishing Company, Parsons, W.Va., ISBN 0-8063-4509-8.

Biography

*F. J. Turner, "Reuben Gold Thwaites" (Madison, 1914)

External links

*Works edited by Thwaites

** [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/lhbtn.06902 Early western travels, 1748-1846] : a series of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel : descriptive of the aborigines and social and economic conditions in the middle and far West, during the period of early American settlement / edited with notes, introduction, index, etc., by Reuben Gold Thwaites.