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The Fist in the Wilderness.
The story of the American fur trade has been told many times from different viewpoints, but David Lavender was the first to place it within the overall contest for empire between Britain and the United States. Rather than offering a simple hagiography of men like Jedediah Smith, Kit Carson, Jim Brid...
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Lincoln :
UNP - Nebraska Paperback,
2013.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Introduction; Contents; Maps; Prologue; 1. Michilimackinac: The Key and the Door; 2. Robert Dickson and the Ways of the Trade; 3. The Americans Stir; 4. Citizenship by Necessity; 5. The Meeting at La Charette; 6. Bold Hopes; 7. Frustrations; 8. Ripostes; 9. By Sea; 10. And by Land; 11. The Harrowing; 12. The Pawns of War; 13. Small Fights for Large Stakes; 14. Sweet Fruits of Defeat; 15. Bright New Vistas, American Style; 16. Taste of Power; 17. The Breath of Failure; 18. The Fist Closes; 19. Pressures; 20. Triumph; 21. Defeats; 22. Tensions. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 23. The Colossus24. Strangling the Missouri; 25. The Spasms of Change; A Note on the Bibliography and Acknowledgments; Bibliography and Notes. | |
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