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Title:

The borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests : essays on regional history of the forty-ninth parallel / edited by Sterling Evans.

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xxv, 386 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Regionalism--Northern boundary of the United States.
Regionalism--West (U.S.)
Regionalism--Canada, Western.
Group identity--West (U.S.)
Group identity--Canada, Western.
United States--Relations--Canada.
Canada--Relations--United States.
Northern boundary of the United States--Social conditions.
West (U.S.)--Social conditions.
Canada, Western--Social conditions.

Other Authors:

Evans, Sterling, 1959-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Comparing Western borderlands and their future study / Sterling Evans. Afterword : The case for cross-national and comparative history : the Northwestern Plains as bioregion / Theodore Binnema -- The Pacific Coast borderlands and frontier / Leonard J. Evenden and Daniel E. Turbeville III -- Conceptual and practical boundaries : West Coast Indians/First Nations on the border of contagion in the post-9/11 era / Bruce Granville Miller -- pt. 2. Colonizing the borderlands with trails, the law, and ranching. The trail to the North in Whoop-Up Country / Paul F. Sharp -- Above the blue line : policing the frontier in the Canadian and American West, 1870-1900 / Marian C. McKenna -- Does the border matter? : cattle ranching and the forty-ninth parallel / Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov -- "Their own country" : race, gender, landscape, and colonization around the forty-ninth parallel, 1862-1900 / Sheila McManus -- pt. 3. Seeking sanctuary on both sides of the line. The border, the buffalo, and the Métis of Montana / Gerhard J. Ens -- Crossing the line : race, nationality, and the deportation of the "Canadian" Crees in the Canada-U.S. borderlands, 1890-1900 / Michel Hogue -- Charles Ora Card and Mormon settlement on the Northwestern Plains borderlands / Peter S. Morris -- pt. 4. Farming, industry, and labor interactions in the borderlands. The twine line : Mexican henequen, U.S.-Canadian relations, and binder twine in the Northern Plains and Prairie Provinces, 1890-1950 / Sterling Evans -- Hoboes across the border : itinerant cross-border laborers between Montana and Western Canada / Evelyne Stitt Pickett -- "Nature's garden and a possible utopia" : farming for fruit and industrious men in the transboundary Pacific Northwest, 1895-1914 / Jason Patrick Bennett -- pt. 5. Crossing the medicine line in the twentieth century. Refugees from Volstead : cross-boundary tourism in the Northwest during Prohibition / Stephen T. Moore -- Hoods across the border : the Ku Klux Klan and the Far Right in the American and Canadian Wests / Eckard V. Toy, Jr. -- Fugitives from injustice : Vietnam War draft dodgers and deserters in British Columbia / Renée G. Kasinsky -- Addendum : Seeking refuge for medical marijuana use in the early twenty-first century / Sterling Evans -- pt. 6. Natural resources, conservation, and environmental issues in the borderlands. Fishing the line : political boundaries and border fluidity in the Pacific Northwest borderlands, 1880-1930s / Lissa Wadewitz -- "The geology recognizes no boundaries" : shifting borders in Waterton Lakes National Park / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands -- Whoa! Canada : environmental issues and activism along the Alberta-Montana border / Todd Wilkinson -- Afterword : Comparing Western borderlands and their future study / Sterling Evans.

ISBN:

0803218265 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780803218260 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)62172622

LCCN:

2005029572

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)