| Description |
1 online resource (417 pages) |
| Contents |
Contested Boundaries; Contents; List of Illustrations; Authors Biographies; Preface and acknowledgments; Introduction; Notes; Part I Clash of Cultures; 1 Important dates and events; 1 Early Encounters; Ships logs tell of a clash of cultures; British pursue "every branch" of Puget Sound; "Mean huts and wretched sheds" greet explorers; Understanding European misconceptions; Robert Gray braves entrance to Columbia River; Lewis and Clark arrive by land, 1804 to 1806; Meeting with Shoshone turns tense; Assessing the Corps of Discovery; The time of the people; Sacagawea: heroism in perspective |
|
Explore moreBooks; Online; Museums; Questions for further discussion; Notes; 2 Trade Among Equals; Slow beginning for fur trade; An "astronomical" tale; 'Single-minded' pursuit of otter skins; Traders establish permanent presence in interior; Hudsons Bay Company takes charge; Aggressive tactics create "fur deserts"; British diversify beyond furs; HBC-Native relations -- the ties that bind trade; From 'bad to worse' and the end of an era; Explore more; Books; Online; Museums; What do you think?; Notes; 3 Making a Christian Farmer; In search of a holy life; Seeking the "book of heaven." |
|
Promising start in Gods workProtestants and Catholics compete for converts; A day of reckoning at Waiilatpu; Indian Removal Act of 1830 -- a portent of trouble for Northwest natives; Beyond the written word -- the drawings of Father Nicolas Point; Explore more; Books; Online; Museums; Questions for further discussion; Notes; 4 Building an American Northwest; Americans look West; Experiencing the Oregon Trail; Forging American institutions in Oregon; Taming a 'wilderness'; Nothing settled -- Indian reservations and war; "Seeing the Elephant" -- the Catherine Sager story |
|
Mother Joseph -- a Northwest builderFederal boarding schools challenge cultural boundaries; Explore more; Books; Online; Museums; What do you think?; Notes; Important Dates and Events; Part II People and Place; 5 Riding the Railroad Rollercoaster; Unlimited opportunity, limited markets; Frenzy of railroad construction; Big ideas from flawed men; Marketing the "wasteland" as a "friendly place"; Making and breaking cities; Extraction industry finally on wheels; Not all is rosy in rail town; Panic exposes poor management; James J. Hill: from empire builder to noxious weed |
|
Cashing in on the Klondike Gold RushExplore more; Books; Online; What do you think?; Notes; 6 Seeking Dignity in Labor; Making sense of the Progressive Era; Divided union struggles for power; At the mercy of predatory "job sharks"; A rough and tumble lumber business; Arrest and expulsion in Aberdeen; Running the gauntlet in Everett; A parade of violence in Centralia; Looking for answers in a violent past; The beginning of the end; R.D. Hume, "pygmy monopolist" on the economic frontier; Explore more; Books; Online; Museums; What do you think?; Notes; 7 Dismantling a Racial Hierarchy |
|
African Americans -- seeking haven from racial oppression |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Northwest, Pacific -- History
|
| Subject |
Pacific Northwest
|
| Genre/Form |
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Norberg, David
|
| ISBN |
9781119065517 |
|
1119065518 |
|
