Empires, Nations, and Families

Informationen zum Autor Anne F. Hyde is a professor of history at Colorado College. She is the author of An American Vision: Far Western Landscape and National Culture and coauthor, with William Deverell, of The West in the History of the Nation. Klappentext Anne F. Hyde is a professor of history at Colorado College. She is the author of An American Vision: Far Western Landscape and National Culture and coauthor, with William Deverell, of The West in the History of the Nation.To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little difference: the United States was just another imperial overlord to be assessed and manipulated. However, this was not, as Empires, Nations, and Families makes clear, virgin wilderness discovered by virtuous Anglo entrepreneurs. Rather, the United States was a newcomer in a place already complicated by vying empires. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations List of MapsAcknowledgments: Adventures in the Land of the DeadIntroduction: 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 SignpostsPart I: Replacing a State: The Continental Web of Family TradeChapter 1: Families and Fur: The Personal World of the Early American West The Chouteau Family and 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 PlacesChapter 2: Fort Vancouver's Families: The Custom of the Country 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 CaliforniaChapter 3: Three Western Places: Regional Communities and Vecinidad 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 NeighborhoodPART II: Americans All: The Mixed World of Indian CountryChapter 4: The Early West: The Many Faces of Indian Country 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 WestChapter 5: Empires in Transition: Indian Country at Midcentury, 1825-1860 Counting Indians Expanding Power The Santa Fe Trail Native Nations and Texas Revolution Retrenchment and Resistance The Osage and Accommodation on the Arkansas Good Fathers and the Fur Trade Captivity Tales and Epidemic DiseasePART III: From Nations to Nation: Imposing a State, 1840-1865 Chapter 6: Unintended Consequences: Families, Nations, and the Mexican War What if Guadelupe 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' ChoiceChapter 7: Border Wars: Disorder and Disaster in the 1850s The Evolving Fur Trade World Postwar Family and Business on the Arkansas Indian War in the Pa...

Résumé
To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little difference: the United States was just another imperial overlord to be assessed and manipulated. However, this was not, as Empires, Nations, and Families makes clear, virgin wilderness discovered by virtuous Anglo entrepreneurs. Rather, the United States was a newcomer in a place already complicated by vying empires.

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List of Illustrations
List of MapsAcknowledgments: 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: Families and Fur: The Personal World of the Early American West
The Chouteau Family and 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: Fort Vancouver's Families: The Custom of the Country
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: Three Western Places: Regional Communities and *Vecinidad

• 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: The Early West: The Many Faces of Indian Country
  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: Empires in Transition: Indian Country at Midcentury, 1825-1860
  Counting Indians
  Expanding Power
  The Santa Fe Trail
  Native Nations and Texas Revolution
  Retrenchment and Resistance
  The Osage 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: Unintended Consequences: Families, Nations, and the Mexican War
  What if Guadelupe 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: Border Wars: Disorder and Disaster in the 1850s
  The Evolving Fur Trade World
  Postwar Family and Business on the Arkansas
  Indian War 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: The State and its Handmaidens: Imposing Order
  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
  BibliographyIndex