Record details

• ISBN: 0803283083
• ISBN: 9780803283084
• ISBN: 0803232373
• ISBN: 9780803232372
• ISBN: 0888644345
• ISBN: 9780888644343
• Physical Description: xxiii, 236 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
• Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-230) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

From Blackfoot country to borderlands -- Troublesome topography : mapping the West in the nineteenth century -- "Brought within reasonable distance" : managing the West, proving the border -- "Their own country" : drawing lines in Blackfoot territory -- "Bringing them more prominently into notice" : managing Aboriginal peoples in the borderlands -- "A land where there is room for all" : immigration, nation building, and nonaboriginal communities in the borderlands -- "I must have been the discoverer" : White women's perceptions of life in the borderlands -- Just "ink on a map?"

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Subject:

Borderlands > Canada.
Borderlands > United States.
Montana > Social conditions > 19th century.
Montana > Race relations.
Alberta > Social conditions > 19th century.
Alberta > Race relations.
Siksika Indians > Social conditions > 19th century.
Sex role > Northern boundary of the United States > History > 19th century.
National characteristics, Canadian.
National characteristics, American.
Borderlands.
National characteristics, American.
National characteristics, Canadian.
Race relations.
Sex role.
Social conditions.
Alberta.
Canada.
Montana.
United States.
United States > Northern boundary of the United States.

Genre:

History.

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• Race and ethnicity in the American West
• Race and ethnicity in the American West.