Contents -- Tables -- Figures and Maps -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Reading the Rural with a Microhistorical Eye -- 1 Land Policies and the Agricultural Vision in British Columbia -- 2 Settling Up the Wild Lands -- 3 The Main Support of the Colony: How Pre-emptors Met Policy-Makers' Goals -- 4 Commercial Farmers? -- 5 Appropriating the Land System: Pre-emption Behaviour as Rural Culture -- 6 Political Economy and Household Structure on Saltspring Island
""7 The African-American Murders: Violence, Racism, and Community on Saltspring Island, 1859�1871""""8 Cohesion and Fracture in Saltspring Island Society""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""