At the Hearth of the Crossed Races : A French-Indian Community in Nineteenth-Century Oregon, 1812-1859 /
"Despite the force of Oregon's founding mythology, the Willamette Valley was not an empty Eden awaiting settlement by hardy American pioneers. Rather, it was, as Melinda Jette explores in At the Hearth of the Crossed Races, one of the earliest sites of extensive intercultural contact in th...
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Corvallis :
Oregon State University Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Maps; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1. Native-Fur Trader Relations in the Willamette Valley; Chapter 2. Agrarian Colonization and the Intermittent Fever; Chapter 3. Methodist Missionaries and Community Relations; Chapter 4. Catholic Missionaries and Community Tensions; Chapter 5. American Settlers and Political Initiatives; Chapter 6. Under an Anglo-American Regime; Epilogue; Appendix 1. Pacific Fur Company Personnel in the Columbia Region, 1811-1814; Appendix 2. The First Astorian to the Willamette Valley.
- Appendix 3. NWC Personnel in the Columbia Region, 1814-1820Appendix 4. Individuals Admitted to the Methodist Mission, 1834-1838; Appendix 5. William Slacum's Census of Willamette Valley Settlers, 1837; Notes; Bibliography; Index.