Claiming the American wilderness : international rivalry in the trans-Mississippi West, 1528-1803 /

Claiming the American wilderness : international rivalry in the trans-Mississippi West, 1528-1803 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Janin, Hunt, 1940-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, [2006]
Subjects:
Indians of North America > First contact with Europeans > West (U.S.)
Explorers > West (U.S.) > History.
Pioneers > West (U.S.) > History.
Indians of North America > West (U.S.) > History.
West (U.S.) > History > To 1848.
West (U.S.) > International status > History.
West (U.S.) > Discovery and exploration.
United States > Territorial expansion > History.
United States > Foreign relations > Europe.
Europe > Foreign relations > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • The Indians : coping with the Europeans and Americans
  • The Spaniards : children of the sun
  • The French : lords of rivers and lakes
  • The British : from Rupert's Land to the Pacific
  • The Russians : "soft gold"-the richest fur in the world
  • The Americans : to all points West
  • Epilogue : the six rivals, a summing-up
  • Selected chronology, 1492-1804
  • The Lewis and Clark Expedition
  • Mirrors of the trans-Mississippi West : George Catlin and Karl Bodmer
  • The coming of the horse
  • Firearms on the early frontiers
  • Protecting northern New Spain from the Apaches
  • A Spanish requerimiento
  • The Treaty of San Ildefonso
  • Coureurs de bois and voyageurs: the men and their boats.