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Peter Skene Ogden and the Snake River expeditions

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An edition of Contested empire (2002)

Contested empire

Peter Skene Ogden and the Snake River expeditions

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"Do law and legal procedures exist only so long as there is an official authority to enforce them? Or do we have an unspoken sense of law and ethics?".

"To answer these questions, John Phillip Reid's Contested Empire explores the implicit notions of law shared by American and British fur traders in the Snake River country of Idaho and surrounding areas in the early nineteenth century. Both the United States and Great Britain had claimed this region, and passions were intense.

Focusing mainly on Canadian explorer and trader Peter Skene Ogden, Reid finds that both sides largely avoided violence and other difficulties because they held the same definitions of property, contract, conversion, and possession.".

"In 1824, the Hudson's Bay Company directed Ogden to decimate the fur-bearing animal population of the Snake River country, thus making the region a "fur desert." With this mandate, Great Britain hoped to neutralize any interest American furtrappers could have in the area.

Such a mandate set British and American fur men on a collision course, but Ogden and his American counter-parts implicity followed a kind of law and procedure and observed a mutual sense of property and rights even as the two sides vied for control of the fur trade.".

"Failing to take legal culture into consideration, some previous accounts have depicted these conflicts as mere episodes of lawless frontier violence. Reid expands our understanding of the West by considering the unspoken sense of law that existed, despite the lack of any formalized authorities, in what has otherwise been considered a "lawless" time."--BOOK JACKET.

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: List of Maps ix
Foreword by Martin Ridge xi
Chapter 1: To Prevent Disputes and Differences 3
Chapter 2: The Wild and Untrammelled Life 13
Chapter 3: One of the Most Unprincipled Men 19
Chapter 4: We Hold This Country by So Slight a Tenure 36
Chapter 5: They Are Too Lazy To Come In with Their Furs 49
Chapter 6: No Money Would Induce Me to Risk Again 62
Chapter 7: Let Rules Be Made They Will Soon Be Broken 75
Chapter 8: We Must Endeavour to Annoy Them 87
Chapter 9: Do You Know in Whose Country You Are? 101
Chapter 10: Go We Will Where We Shall Be Paid 114
Chapter 11: They Are Now to Be Found in All Parts
of the Snake Country 135
Chapter 12: The Cheapest Shop Will Carry the Day 148
Chapter 13: It Is a Lottery with All Expeditions 161
Chapter 14: Our Own People Are Now Perfectly Satisfied 171
Chapter 15: The Country Virtually Falls into Our Keeping 191
Notes 205
Short Title List 231
Acknowledgments 247
Index 249.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-246) and index.

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Biography.

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Dewey Decimal Class
979.6/1
Library of Congress
F752.S7 R46 2002, F752.S7R46 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 258 p. :
Number of pages
258

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Open Library
OL3953866M
Internet Archive
contestedempirep00reid
ISBN 10
0806133740
LCCN
2001052223
OCLC/WorldCat
48140773
Goodreads
1495610

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