Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-259) and index.
Contents:
The Russians are coming. -- Soft gold: Aleuts and Russians in Alaska -- A war for independence: the San Diego uprising -- First contact: colonizing San Francisco -- Across the Colorado Plateau -- The continental divide -- A forest transformed: the Hudson's Bay Company and Cumberland House -- The discovery: the Blacks Hills and the Lakota nation -- An invasion of malefactors: Osage Country -- Surrounded: the deep South interior.
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