Contested Empire: Peter Skene Ogden and the Snake River Expeditions.
Reid, John Phillip. Contested Empire: Peter Skene Ogden and the Snake River Expeditions. Norman, [OK]: University of Oklahoma Press, [2002]. xiii, 258 pp. Hardcover in fine dust jacket. Internally clean and bright. $20. * Contents: List of Maps; Foreword, by Martin Ridge; Chapter 1: To Prevent Disputes and Differences; Chapter 2: The Wild and Untrammelled Life; Chapter 3: One of the Most Unprincipled Men; Chapter 4: We Hold this Country by so Slight a Tenure; Chapter 5: They are Too Lazy to Come in with Their Furs; Chapter 6: No Money Would Induce Me to Risk Again; Chapter 7: Let Rules be Made They Will Soon be Broken; Chapter 8: We Must Endeavour to Annoy Them; Chapter 9: Do You Know in Whose Country You Are?; Chapter 10: Go We Will Where We Shall Be Paid; Chapter 11: They Are Now to be Found in All Parts of the Snake Country; Chapter 12: The Cheapest Shop Will Carry the Day; Chapter 13: It is a Lottery with All Expeditions; Chapter 14: Our Own People are Now Perfectly Satisfied; Chapter 15: The Country Virtually Falls into Our Keeping; Notes; Short Title List; Acknowledgments; Index.
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