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955192
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b709562
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Reid, John Phillip.
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Contested empire : : Peter Skene Ogden and the Snake River expeditions /\ John Phillip Reid ; foreword by Martin Ridge.
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Norman :: University of Oklahoma Press,, ©2002.
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xiii, 258 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm
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0806133740
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: 0806149329
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: 9780806133744
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: 9780806149325
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-246) and index.
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| Contents
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List of Maps -- Foreword / by Martin Ridge -- Chapter 1: To prevent disputes and differences -- Chapter 2: The wild and untrammelled life -- Chapter 3: One of the most unprincipled men -- Chapter 4: We hold this country by so slight a tenure -- Chapter 5: They are too lazy to come in with their furs -- Chapter 6: No money would induce me to risk again -- Chapter 7: Let rules be made they will soon be broken -- Chapter 8: We must endeavour to annoy them -- Chapter 9: Do you know in whose country you are? -- Chapter 10: Go we will where we shall be paid -- Chapter 11: They are now to be found in all parts of the Snake Country -- Chapter 12: The cheapest shop will carry the day -- Chapter 13: It is a lottery with all expeditions -- Chapter 14: Our own people are now perfectly satisfied -- Chapter 15: The country virtually falls into our keeping -- Notes -- Short title list -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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"Do law and legal procedures exist only so long as there is an official authority to enforce them? Or do we have an unspoken sense of law and ethics?" "To answer these questions, John Phillip Reid's Contested Empire explores the implicit notions of law shared by American and British fur traders in the Snake River country of Idaho and surrounding areas in the early nineteenth century. Both the United States and Great Britain had claimed this region, and passions were intense. Focusing mainly on Canadian explorer and trader Peter Skene Ogden, Reid finds that both sides largely avoided violence and other difficulties because they held the same definitions of property, contract, conversion, and possession." "In 1824, the Hudson's Bay Company directed Ogden to decimate the fur-bearing animal population of the Snake River country, thus making the region a "fur desert." With this mandate, Great Britain hoped to neutralize any interest American furtrappers could have in the area. Such a mandate set British and American fur men on a collision course, but Ogden and his American counter-parts implicity followed a kind of law and procedure and observed a mutual sense of property and rights even as the two sides vied for control of the fur trade." "Failing to take legal culture into consideration, some previous accounts have depicted these conflicts as mere episodes of lawless frontier violence. Reid expands our understanding of the West by considering the unspoken sense of law that existed, despite the lack of any formalized authorities, in what has otherwise been considered a "lawless" time."--Jacket.
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Ogden, Peter Skene,1790-1854-- Relations with Americans.
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Ogden, Peter Skene,1790-1854-- Relations with Indians.
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Ogden, Peter Skene,1790-1854-- Travel-- Snake River Valley (Wyo.-Wash.)
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Ogden, Peter Skene,1790-1854
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Ogden, Peter Skene.
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Hudson's Bay Company
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Hudson's Bay Company.
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Frontier and pioneer life-- Snake River Valley (Wyo.-Wash.)
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Fur trade-- Social aspects-- Snake River Valley (Wyo.-Wash.)-- History-- 19th century.
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Fur traders-- Canada, Biography.
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Indians of North America-- Snake River Valley (Wyo.-Wash.)-- History-- 19th century.
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Ethnic relations.
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Frontier and pioneer life.
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Fur trade-- Social aspects.
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Fur traders.
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Indians of North America.
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Pelzhandel
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Relations with Americans.
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Relations with Indians.
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Travel.
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Bonthandel.
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Expedities.
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Indianen.
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Snake River Valley (Wyo.-Wash.), Description and travel.
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Snake River Valley (Wyo.-Wash.), Ethnic relations.
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Canada.
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Indianer.
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Snake River
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United States, Snake River Valley.
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| Dewey Classification
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979.6/1
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| LC Classification
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F752.S7R46 2002
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15.85bcl
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cci1icclacc
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