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Author Hyde, Anne Farrar, 1960- author.

Title Born of lakes and plains : mixed-descent peoples and the making of the American West / Anne F. Hyde.

Publication Info. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022]
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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  978.02 HYDE    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  978 HYDE    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  978.02 HYD    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  978 HYD    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  978.02 HYDE    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  978.02 HYDE    Check Shelf
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Edition First edition.
Description xix, 442 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-421) and index.
Contents Ozhaguscodaywayquay and John Johnston : mixing blood in the fur trade, 1670-1790 -- Wintering families and corporate war, 1770-1810 -- Fur trade migrants : Pacific McKays and Canadian Johnstons, 1800-1820 -- "This kind of business will make trouble" : remaking the fur trade, 1810-1830 -- From the Sault to the Oregon Country : mingling blood and land, 1818-1838 -- Forging peace on the southern plains, 1821-1840 -- Rivers of trouble in Indian Country, 1831-1843 -- "Marked for slaughter" : borderland violence in the 1840s -- Surviving war and peace in the 1850s -- Civil wars in the West, 1860-1865 -- Reconstructing race on western reservations, 1866-1885 -- "A mighty pulverizing engine" : allotment policy and blood quantum, 1880-1907 -- Epilogue: The twentieth century.
Summary "A revealing history of the West that pivots on Native peoples and the mixed families they made with European settlers. There is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using marriage to link communities and protect people within circles of kin. These family circles took in European newcomers who followed the fur trade into Indian Country from the Great Lakes to the Columbia River. Vividly combining the panoramic and the particular, Anne F. Hyde's pathbreaking history follows five mixed-descent families whose lives were inscribed by history: corporate battles over control of the fur trade, the extension of American power into the West, the ravages of imported disease, the violence triggered by Indian removal, the incessant battles for land with encroaching American settlement, and the mix of opportunity and disaster in post-Civil War reservations and allotment. Occupying a dangerous intermediate ground in a continent of conflict, mixed-descent families were pivotal in the events that made the West"-- Provided by publisher
Subject Indians of North America. (OCoLC)fst00969633
Fur traders -- West (U.S.) -- History.
West United States. (OCoLC)fst01243255
Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
Racially mixed people. (OCoLC)fst01086595
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
Subject West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
Fur traders. (OCoLC)fst00936416
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject Whites -- Relations with Indians. (OCoLC)fst01174826
HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Racially mixed people -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Subject White people -- Relations with Indians.
ISBN 9780393634099 (hardcover)
0393634094 (hardcover)
9780393634105 (epub)
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