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| List of Illustrations | |
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| List of Maps | |
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| Acknowledgments: Adventures in the Land of the Dead | |
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| Introduction: The Geography of Empire in 1804 | |
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| St. Louis | |
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| Mchilimackinac | |
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| Santa Fe | |
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| The Pacific Coast | |
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| Family Stories | |
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| "Died Single" | |
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| Why Fur and Why Families? | |
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| Sources and Definitions | |
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| Maps and Signposts | |
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| Replacing a State: The Continental Web of Family Trade | |
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| Families and Fur: The Personal World of the Early American West | |
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| The Chouteau Family and the Missouri River World | |
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| "Middle Ground" or "Native Ground"? | |
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| "Tough Love" and Family Loyalty | |
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| On the Trail of Wealth and Opportunity | |
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| The Sublette Brothers and Their Family Business | |
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| Chasing Fortune and Family | |
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| Americans in Mexico, Californios in America | |
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| Dangerous Places | |
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| Fort Vancouver's Families: The Custom of the Country | |
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| Cogs in the Fur Trade | |
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| The Local and Global Communities of the Columbia | |
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| The M�tis World of John McLoughlin | |
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| The Tentacles of International Trade | |
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| The McLoughlins and the Company | |
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| Life and Work on the Columbia | |
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| Global Ambitions | |
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| The Fine Mesh of the Family Network | |
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| Immigrants, Nations, and the Loss of a Family Empire | |
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| Murder at Fort Stikine and Suicide in California | |
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| Three Western Places: Regional Communities and Vecinidad | |
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| William Bent's Border World | |
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| Bent's Fort and Its Neighborhood | |
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| Omens and Weddings | |
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| Norte�os and Yanquis in Alta California | |
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| Captain Sutter's New Helvetia | |
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| Dinner and Diplomacy in Northern California | |
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| Portents of Change | |
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| Stephen Austin's Border World | |
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| Planting Colonies in Texas | |
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| Austin's Fractious Neighborhood | |
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| Americans All: The Mixed World of Indian Country | |
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| The Early West: The Many Faces of Indian Country | |
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| Cherokee, Shawnee, and Osage | |
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| The View from Fort Osage | |
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| The View from St. Louis | |
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| Change, Loss, and Warfare on the Missouri | |
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| The Arikara War | |
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| M�tis and Half-Breed in an Anglo West | |
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| Empires in Transition: Indian Country at Midcentury, 1825-1860 | |
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| Counting Indians | |
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| Expanding Power | |
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| The Santa Fe Trail | |
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| Native Nations and Texas Revolution | |
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| Retrenchment and Resistance | |
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| The Osages and Accommodation on the Arkansas | |
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| Good Fathers and the Fur Trade | |
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| Captivity Tales and Epidemic Disease | |
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| From Nations to Nation: Imposing a State, 1840-1865 | |
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| Unintended Consequences: Families, Nations, and the Mexican War | |
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| What If Guadalupe Boggs Married Teresina Carson? | |
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| Questions of Citizenship and Identity | |
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| Joseph Smith and the Origins of Mormonism | |
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| Mexican Revolutions | |
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| Continental Rumor Factories | |
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| The Bent Family and the Vagaries of War | |
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| Bent's Choice | |
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| Brigham Young and the Choices of War | |
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| Hard Choices in California | |
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| The McLoughlins' Choice | |
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| Border Wars: Disorder and Disaster in the 1850s | |
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| The Evolving Fur Trade World | |
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| Postwar Family and Business on the Arkansas | |
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| Indian Wars in the Pacific Northwest | |
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| Oregon's Bloody Legacy | |
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| The Failure Of Warfare and Washington's Native Nations | |
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| Nation Building in the Southwest | |
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| Raising Families and Fighting Wars | |
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| The State and Its Handmaidens: Imposing Order | |
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| Civil Threats and the Mormons | |
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| The Personal Politics of Polygamy and Theocracy | |
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| The Almost War and the Massacre in Utah | |
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| Conquest and Chaos in California | |
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| A Nation of Squatters | |
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| While Kansas Bled and Native People Fled | |
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| The Pesky Details of Popular Sovereignty | |
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| A National Horror Show | |
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| The Minnesota Uprising of 1862 | |
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| Sand Creek and the Bent Family Nightmare | |
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| Epilogue: How It All Turned Out | |
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| Sonoma | |
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| Los Angeles | |
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| Taos | |
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| The Arkansas River | |
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| Oregon | |
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| St. Louis | |
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| Kawsmouth | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |