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The borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests : essays on regional history of the forty-ninth parallel  Cover Image Book Book

The borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests : essays on regional history of the forty-ninth parallel

Evans, Sterling, 1959- (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 0803218265 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 97808032182610 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xxxv, 386 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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  • Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2006.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Duty-free : an introduction to the practice of regional history along the forty-ninth parallel / Thomas D. Isern and R. Bruce Shepard -- 1. The case for cross-national and comparative history : the northwestern plains as bioregion / Theodore Binnema -- 2. The Pacific coast borderlands and frontier / Leonard J. Evenden and Daniel E. Turbeville III -- 3. Conceptual and practical boundaries : west coast Indians/first nations on the border of contagion in the post-9/11 era / Bruce Granville Miller -- 4. The trail to the north in whoop-up country / Paul F. Sharp -- 5. Above the blue line : policing the frontier in the Canadian and American West, 1870-1900 / Marian C. McKenna -- 6. Does the border matter? : cattle ranching and the forty-ninth parallel / Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov -- 7. "Their own country" : race, gender, landscape, and colonization around the forty-ninth parallel, 1862-1900 / Sheila McManus -- 8. The border, the buffalo, and the Metis of Montana / Gerhard J. Ens -- 9. Crossing the line : race, nationality, and the deportation of the "Canadian" Crees in the Canada-U.S. borderlands, 1890-1900 / Michel Hogue -- 10. Charles Ora Card and Mormon settlement on the northwestern plains borderlands / Peter S. Morris -- 11. The twine line : Mexican Henequen, U.S-Canadian relations, and binder twine in the northern plains and prairie provinces, 1890-1950 / Sterling Evans -- 12. Hoboes across the border : itinerant cross-border laborers between Montana and Western Canada / Evelyne Stitt Pickett -- 13. "Nature's garden and a possible utopia" : farming for fruit and industrious men in the transboundary Pacific Northwest, 1895-1914 / Jason Patrick Bennett -- 14. Refugees from Volstead : cross-boundary tourism in the northwest during Prohibition / Stephen T. Moore -- 15. Hoods across the border : the Ku Klux Klan and the far right in the American and Canadian Wests / Eckard V. Toy, Jr. 16. Fugitives from injustice : Vietnam War draft dodgers and deserters in British Columbia / Renee G. Kasinsky -- Addendum : seeking refuge for medical marijuana use in the early twenty-first century / Sterling Evans -- 17. Fishing the line : political boundaries and border fluidity in the Pacific Northwest borderlands, 1880-1930s / Lissa Wadewitz -- 18. "The geology recognizes no boundaries" : shifting borders in Waterton Lakes National Park / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands -- 19. Whoa! Canada : environmental issues and activism along the Alberta-Montana border / Todd Wilkinson -- Afterword : comparing western borderlands and their future study / Sterling Evans.
Subject: Canada, Western -- Social conditions
West (U.S.) -- Social conditions
Northern boundary of the United States -- Social conditions
Canada -- Relations -- United States
United States -- Relations -- Canada
Group identity -- Canada, Western
Group identity -- West (U.S.)
Regionalism -- Canada, Western
Regionalism -- West (U.S.)
Regionalism -- Northern boundary of the United States

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