In this Remote Country: French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780-1860When Anglo-Americans looked west after the Revolution, they hoped to see a blank slate upon which to build their continental republic. However, French settlers had inhabited the territory stretching from Ohio to Oregon for over a century, blending into Na |
Contents
The Word Paisible | 1 |
The Leaden Plates Exploration and Ownership | 23 |
Habitants and the American Way of Doing Things | 55 |
Gentle as a Woman though Braver Than a Lion Voyageurs Coureurs de Bois and American Masculinities | 91 |
Monstrous Exceptions Anglo Patriarchs French Families and Metis Americans | 129 |
Nous Autres Catholiques Nativism and the Memory of the Jesuits | 181 |
Such Were the Place and the Kind of People | 219 |
Notes | 227 |
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