The Edge of the Woods

is is an important book that promises to change the way we think about the Iroquois experience during the period of European settlement. It is a welcome nod toward a new history that considers mobility, as much as the bounded town or village, an important facet of both Native American history and colonialism.
--Katherine Grandjean, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History

Jon Parmenter’s e Edge of the Woods is a superb volume and will come to be seen as an indispensable reference source for Iroquoian history. It should occupy a prominent place on the book shelf of every serious scholar who is interested in the Aboriginal history of eastern North America.
--Gary Warrick, Ontario History

is volume, with its extensive research, clear writing and graphics, and day-to-day, often moment-by-moment, chronicle of events, individuals, and groups that flowed back and forth across regions that become the United States and Canada, is a useful and interesting addition to the literature of the history, anthropology, political studies, and geography of the collision of natives and Europeans in eastern North America before the French and Indian Wars of the 1750s and later.
--Thomas A. Rumney, American Review of Canadian Studies