| Contents |
The Indians : coping with the Europeans and Americans -- The Spaniards : children of the sun -- The French : lords of rivers and lakes -- The British : from Rupert's Land to the Pacific -- The Russians : "soft gold"-the richest fur in the world -- The Americans : to all points West -- Epilogue : the six rivals, a summing-up -- Selected chronology, 1492-1804 -- The Lewis and Clark Expedition -- Mirrors of the trans-Mississippi West : George Catlin and Karl Bodmer -- The coming of the horse -- Firearms on the early frontiers -- Protecting northern New Spain from the Apaches -- A Spanish requerimiento -- The Treaty of San Ildefonso -- Coureurs de bois and voyageurs: the men and their boats. |
| Abstract |
"Beginning with the 1528 shipwreck of Spanish conquistador Cabeza de Vaca and ending with the negotiation of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, this volume presents a broadly based general survey of the events that took place in the Trans-Mississippi West during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-264) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006007708 |
| ISBN | 0786425512 (softcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780786425518 |
