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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Acknowledgments: Adventures in the Land of the Dead
Introduction: The Geography of Empire in 1804
St. Louis
Michilimackinac
Santa Fe
The Pacific Coast
Family Stories
“Died Single”
Why Fur and Why Families?
Sources and Definitions
Maps and Signposts
Part I: Replacing a State: The Continental Web of Family Trade
Chapter 1
The Chouteau Family and the Missouri River World
“Middle Ground” or “Native Ground”?
“Tough Love” and Family Loyalty
On the Trail of Wealth and Opportunity
The Sublette Brothers and Their Family Business
Chasing Fortune and Family
Americans in Mexico, Californios in America
Dangerous Places
Chapter 2
Cogs in the Fur Trade
The Local and Global Communities of the Columbia
The Métis World of John McLoughlin
The Tentacles of International Trade
The McLoughlins and the Company
Life and Work on the Columbia
Global Ambitions
The Fine Mesh of the Family Network
Immigrants, Nations, and the Loss of a Family Empire
Murder at Fort Stikine and Suicide in California
Chapter 3
William Bent’s Border World
Bent’s Fort and Its Neighborhood
Omens and Weddings
Norteños and Yanquis in Alta California
Captain Sutter’s New Helvetia
Dinner and Diplomacy in Northern California
Portents of Change
Stephen Austin’s Border World
Planting Colonies in Texas
Austin’s Fractious Neighborhood
Part II: Americans All: The Mixed World of Indian Country
Chapter 4
Cherokee, Shawnee, and Osage
The View from Fort Osage
The View from St. Louis
Change, Loss, and Warfare on the Missouri
The Arikara War
Métis and Half-Breed in an Anglo West
Chapter 5
Counting Indians
Expanding Power
The Santa Fe Trail
Native Nations and Texas Revolution
Retrenchment and Resistance
The Osages and Accommodation on the Arkansas
Good Fathers and the Fur Trade
Captivity Tales and Epidemic Disease
Part III: From Nations to Nation: Imposing a State, 1840–1865
Chapter 6
What If Guadalupe Boggs Married Teresina Carson?
Questions of Citizenship and Identity
Joseph Smith and the Origins of Mormonism
Mexican Revolutions
Continental Rumor Factories
The Bent Family and the Vagaries of War
Bent’s Choice
Brigham Young and the Choices of War
Hard Choices in California
The McLoughlins’ Choice
Chapter 7
The Evolving Fur Trade World
Postwar Family and Business on the Arkansas
Indian Wars in the Pacific Northwest
Oregon’s Bloody Legacy
The Failure of Warfare and Washington’s Native Nations
Nation Building in the Southwest
Raising Families and Fighting Wars
Chapter 8
Civil Threats and the Mormons
The Personal Politics of Polygamy and Theocracy
The Almost War and the Massacre in Utah
Conquest and Chaos in California
A Nation of Squatters
While Kansas Bled and Native People Fled
The Pesky Details of Popular Sovereignty
A National Horror Show
The Minnesota Uprising of 1862
Sand Creek and the Bent Family Nightmare
Epilogue: How It All Turned Out
Sonoma
Los Angeles
Taos
The Arkansas River
Oregon
St. Louis
Kawsmouth
Notes
Bibliography
In the History of the American West Series
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