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Formatted Contents Note:
The Indians of the Northwest -- Spanish and English explorations -- Maritime fur trade : international rivalries -- Maritime fur trade : the Americans in the Northwest -- Continental fur trade and exploration -- Americans and British cross the Rockies -- Nor'westers and Astorians -- The Hudson's Bay Company in the Pacific Northwest -- The American Rocky Mountain fur trade -- Diplomacy of the nations -- Missions and missionaries -- The problem of law and order : the provisional government -- Westward movement and the boundary settlement -- Crisis of the provisional government -- Territorial government and territorial problems -- Oregon statehood and the division of Washington Territory -- Economic and social foundations of territories and states -- The magic of the steel rails -- The boom of the eighties -- The statehood movement in Washington and Idaho -- Years of agrarian protest -- Politics of the Progressive Era -- New developments in agriculture -- The lumber industry -- Harvests from the sea -- Metal in the mountains -- Building the metropolitan centers -- Patterns of commerce and manufacturing -- Cultural activities in the Northwest cities -- Problems of industrial development -- Water for a thirsty land -- The progress of reclamation -- The early conservation movement -- Advances in forestry -- The conservation of North Pacific fisheries -- Forty years of politics, 1916-1956 -- Mid-century appraisal : a survey of cultural trends.
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