Contested Empire

Peter Skene Ogden and The Snake River Expeditions

By: John Phillip Reid, Martin Ridge (Foreword by)

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Hardcover | 15 May 2002

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John Phillip Reid's Contested Empire explores the 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 primarily 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. Ogden and his American counterparts implicitly 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 with his insights about the unspoken sense of law that existed, despite the lack of any formalized authorities, in what has otherwise been considered a "lawless" time.

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History History of the Americas Travel & Holidays Travel Writing Classic Travel Writing Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning Geography Geographical Discovery & Exploration Economics Economic History

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