Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Culture and Family on the Borderland Frontier
  • 2. California's International Frontier, 1819-1846
  • 3. "Saved so Much as Possible for Labour": New Helvetia's Indian Work Force
  • 4. Indians in the Service of Manifest Destiny
  • 5. "Conciliate the Inhabitants": Federal Indian Administration during the Mexican War
  • 6. A Regional Perspective on Indians in the Gold Rush
  • 7. "Extermination or Domestication": The Dilemma of California Indian Policy
  • 8. Indian Labor and Population in the 1850s
  • 9. "Between Two Grizzlies' Paws": Indian Women in the 1850s
  • 10. Uncertain Refuge: The Household and Indian Survival in 1860
  • Conclusion.