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