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Title:

A whole country in commotion : the Louisiana Purchase and the American Southwest / edited by Patrick G. Williams, S. Charles Bolton, and Jeannie M. Whayne.

Publisher:

University of Arkansas Press,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

xvii, 228 p. : map ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Louisiana Purchase.
Frontier and pioneer life--Southwest, Old.
Southwest, Old--History--19th century.
Southwest, Old--Ethnic relations.
Louisiana--History--To 1803.
Louisiana--History--1803-1865.
Arkansas--History--19th century.

Other Authors:

Williams, Patrick G., 1957-
Bolton, S. Charles.
Whayne, Jeannie M.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-215) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : a whole country in commotion / Patrick G. Williams -- Lewis and Clark : kidnappers / Elliott West -- Jefferson's grand expedition and the mystery of the Red River / Dan Flores -- Could Louisiana have become an Hispano-Indian republic? / Kathleen DuVal -- A shifting middle ground : Arkansas's frontier exchange economy and the Louisiana Purchase / Jeannie M. Whayne -- Jeffersonian Indian removal and the emergence of Arkansas Territory / S. Charles Bolton -- "Outcasts upon the world" : the Louisiana Purchase and the Quapaws / Joseph Patrick Key -- The Louisiana Purchase and the Black experience / Charles F. Robinson II -- The first years of American justice : courts and lawyers on the Arkansas frontier / Lynn Foster -- Dancing into the past : colonial legacies in modern Caddo Indian ceremony / George Sabo III.

ISBN:

9781557287847 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1557287848 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)57003621

LCCN:

2004025295

Locations:

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

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)