Born of lakes and plains : mixed-descent peoples and the making of the American West Cover Image

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Born of lakes and plains : mixed-descent peoples and the making of the American West / Anne F. Hyde.

Hyde, Anne Farrar, 1960- (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 9780393634099
ISBN: 0393634094
Physical Description: xix, 442 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2022]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-421) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Ozhaguscodaywaquay and John Johnston : mixing blood in the fur trade, 1670-1790 -- Wintering families and corporate war, 1770-1810 -- Fur trade migrants : Pacific McKays and Canadian Johnstons, 1800-1820 -- "This kind of business will make trouble" : remaking the fur trade, 1810-1830 -- From the Sault to the Oregon Country : mingling blood and land, 1818-1838 -- Forging peace on the southern plains, 1821-1840 -- Rivers of trouble in Indian Country, 1831-1843 -- "Marked for slaughter" : borderland violence in the 1840s -- Surviving war and peace in the 1850s -- Civil wars in the West, 1860-1865 -- Reconstructing race on western reservations, 1866-1885 -- "A mighty pulverizing engine" : allotment policy and blood quantum, 1880-1907 -- Epilogue: The twentieth century.