The Bourgeois Frontier
French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion
Contents
Acknowledgments.........................................................................................................ix
Maps....................................................................................................................xv
Introduction. The Vanquished and the Vanishing..........................................................................1
ONE Constructing the House of Chouteau: St. Louis.......................................................................13
TWO "We are well off that there are no Virginians in this quarter": The Two Wests from 1763 to 1803.....................26
THREE Surviving the Transition to American Rule.........................................................................47
FOUR How the West Was Sold..............................................................................................68
FIVE Beyond St. Louis: Negotiating the Course of Empire.................................................................83
SIX Managing the Tribe of Chouteau............................................ ... read full excerpt from Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion ebook
