William Deverell is Professor of History and Chair of the Department at USC and Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. He has published numerous books on the history of California and the American West, including Whitewashed Adobe, Blackwell Companion to Los Angeles, and The Blackwell Companion to California. Anne F. Hyde is Professor of History at Colorado College. She has published widely in the history of the American West. Her most recent book, Empires, Nations and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800-1860 won the Bancroft Prize and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

• CHAPTER ONE: A Vast Native World    1. ORIGIN STORIES FROM THE SOUTHWEST, PACIFIC COAST, AND GREAT LAKES2. DEBATES OVER ANCESTRAL PUEBLOANS3. MISSISSIPPIAN KINGDOMS 4. VARIETIES OF NATIVE LIFECHAPTER TWO: First Encounters: Expectation and Cultural Difference  5. ENFORCING CHRISTIANITY ON ANOTHER WORLD6. AN AZTEC VIEW OF EUROPEANS7. QUESTIONING CONQUEST     8. MYTHICAL WEALTH9. THE MISSIONARY EFFORT IN NEW FRANCE10. A MICMAC INDIAN QUESTIONS FRENCH HABITS CHAPTER THREE: Conquest and Revolt: 17th Century Wars on Two Frontiers  11. WAMPUM AND THE SIX NATIONS:12. A WHITE WOMAN'S TALE OF CAPTIVITY13. THE GREAT PUEBLO REVOLT         14. AN INDIAN VIEW OF THE PUEBLO REVOLT          CHAPTER FOUR: New Worlds For All: Conquest and Accommodation in the Eighteenth Century  15. EXPANDING COMMUNITIES          16. THE WORLD OF THE BACKCOUNTRY      17.  FAMILY DYNAMICS IN THE COLONIAL WORLD          18. NEW WORLDS ON THE GREAT PLAINSCHAPTER FIVE: From Middle Ground to Settler Frontier: Trade, Warfare, and Diplomacy19. INDIANS AND ESCAPED SLAVES IN SOUTH CAROLINA20. THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF THE FUR TRADE 21. ECHOES OF THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR     22. THE  INDIAN WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE23. CULTURES  IN CONFLICT  CHAPTER SIX: An Era of Revolution: Many Peoples Demanding Change 24. MISSION REVOLTS IN CALIFORNIA           25. THE GREAT PEACE IN NEW MEXICO26. A BIG NEW WORLD IN THE PACIFIC:27. SUPPRESSING THE  WHISKEY REBELLION           28. MISSIONS, FAMILY AUTHORITY AND NATIVE REBELLION  CHAPTER SEVEN: Creating the United States: Incorporating the First West  29. BOUNDARIES FOR THE NEW NATION      30.  IMAGINING THE ORDERLY REPUBLIC    31. AN INDIAN VIEW OF LAND ISSUES32. LOUISIANA: ENCOUNTERING ANOTHER WEST33. TECUMSEH AND THE WESTERN INDIAN CONFEDERATIONCHAPTER EIGHT: Taking Indian Land: Removal and War in the Age of Jackson    34. CHEROKEE EDUCATION AND ASSIMILATION   35. THE PLACE  OF INDIANS  IN THE REPUBLIC36.  INDIAN REMOVAL AND ITS HUMAN COST        37. WAR IN THE OLD NORTHWEST   CHAPTER NINE: Early Republicans: New Nations Test Their Borders  38. MEXICAN REVOLUTIONS AND U.S. RESPONSES: 1810 REVOLUTION39. LICENSE TO EXPAND40. AMERICANS IN MEXICO: PROMISING ELLEGIANCE AND CREATING REVOLUTION IN TEXAS41. AMERICAN IN MEXICO: REBELLIONS CRUSHED IN NEW MEXICO42. MISSIONARIES ON THE BORDER: NARCISSA WHITMAN IN OREGON  CHAPTER TEN: Slavery, Bondage, and Labor in the West43. WESTERN STATEHOOD AND THE SLAVERY CRISIS        44.  INDIAN SLAVERY IN UTAH45. CHEROKEE SLAVERY, 1830s46. UNFREE LABOR ON THE SEASCHAPTER 11: The U.S. Mexico War47.  OPPOSING VIEWS OF EXPANSION INTO MEXICO       48.  CREATING A GLORIOUS WAR IN CALIFORNIA49. THE COST OF CONQUEST: A NEW INDIAN WAR50.  Disaster in New Mexico,CHAPTER TWELVE: Westward Migration: Gold, Land, and Ambition 51. A GOLD RUSH FOR SOME52. THE  MORMON TREK            53. A SCOTSMAN’S ACCOUNT OF THE MALE WORLD OF GOLD RUSH CALIFORNIA54. A FAMILY MEASURES THE  COST OF AMBITION            CHAPTER THIRTEEN:  The 1850: A Sectional Crisis and a Crisis of Authority             55. THE COMPROMISE OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY56.  GUERILLA WAR IN KANSAS FROM OPPOSING  PERSPECTIVES       57. INVASIONS AND FILIBUSTERS IN CALIFORNIA AND NICARAGUA 58.  AN ACCOUNT OF THE MORMON WAR      CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Civil Wars Spread Over the West59.  THE CONFEDERACY IMAGINES A WESTERN EMPIRE60.  DAKOTA WAR IN 186261.  ACCOUNTS OF THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE, 1864CHAPTER FIFTEEN: War and Reconstruction: Limiting the Empire for Liberty62. THE GOVERNMENT CREATES THE WEST: THE HOMESEAD ACT AND THE PACIFIC RAILWAY ACTS, 1862           63. INVENTING THE RESERVATION: ELDERS REMEMBER THE NAVAJOS’ LONG WALK, 1864-186864. EXODUSTERS: OKLAHOMA AND KANSAS65. WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE, WYOMING, 1870

William Deverell is Professor of History and Chair of the Department at USC and Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. He has published numerous books on the history of California and the American West, including Whitewashed Adobe, Blackwell Companion to Los Angeles, and The Blackwell Companion to California. Anne F. Hyde is Professor of History at Colorado College. She has published widely in the history of the American West. Her most recent book, Empires, Nations and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800-1860 won the Bancroft Prize and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

• CHAPTER ONE: A Vast Native World    1. ORIGIN STORIES FROM THE SOUTHWEST, PACIFIC COAST, AND GREAT LAKES2. DEBATES OVER ANCESTRAL PUEBLOANS3. MISSISSIPPIAN KINGDOMS 4. VARIETIES OF NATIVE LIFECHAPTER TWO: First Encounters: Expectation and Cultural Difference  5. ENFORCING CHRISTIANITY ON ANOTHER WORLD6. AN AZTEC VIEW OF EUROPEANS7. QUESTIONING CONQUEST     8. MYTHICAL WEALTH9. THE MISSIONARY EFFORT IN NEW FRANCE10. A MICMAC INDIAN QUESTIONS FRENCH HABITS CHAPTER THREE: Conquest and Revolt: 17th Century Wars on Two Frontiers  11. WAMPUM AND THE SIX NATIONS:12. A WHITE WOMAN'S TALE OF CAPTIVITY13. THE GREAT PUEBLO REVOLT         14. AN INDIAN VIEW OF THE PUEBLO REVOLT          CHAPTER FOUR: New Worlds For All: Conquest and Accommodation in the Eighteenth Century  15. EXPANDING COMMUNITIES          16. THE WORLD OF THE BACKCOUNTRY      17.  FAMILY DYNAMICS IN THE COLONIAL WORLD          18. NEW WORLDS ON THE GREAT PLAINSCHAPTER FIVE: From Middle Ground to Settler Frontier: Trade, Warfare, and Diplomacy19. INDIANS AND ESCAPED SLAVES IN SOUTH CAROLINA20. THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF THE FUR TRADE 21. ECHOES OF THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR     22. THE  INDIAN WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE23. CULTURES  IN CONFLICT  CHAPTER SIX: An Era of Revolution: Many Peoples Demanding Change 24. MISSION REVOLTS IN CALIFORNIA           25. THE GREAT PEACE IN NEW MEXICO26. A BIG NEW WORLD IN THE PACIFIC:27. SUPPRESSING THE  WHISKEY REBELLION           28. MISSIONS, FAMILY AUTHORITY AND NATIVE REBELLION  CHAPTER SEVEN: Creating the United States: Incorporating the First West  29. BOUNDARIES FOR THE NEW NATION      30.  IMAGINING THE ORDERLY REPUBLIC    31. AN INDIAN VIEW OF LAND ISSUES32. LOUISIANA: ENCOUNTERING ANOTHER WEST33. TECUMSEH AND THE WESTERN INDIAN CONFEDERATIONCHAPTER EIGHT: Taking Indian Land: Removal and War in the Age of Jackson    34. CHEROKEE EDUCATION AND ASSIMILATION   35. THE PLACE  OF INDIANS  IN THE REPUBLIC36.  INDIAN REMOVAL AND ITS HUMAN COST        37. WAR IN THE OLD NORTHWEST   CHAPTER NINE: Early Republicans: New Nations Test Their Borders  38. MEXICAN REVOLUTIONS AND U.S. RESPONSES: 1810 REVOLUTION39. LICENSE TO EXPAND40. AMERICANS IN MEXICO: PROMISING ELLEGIANCE AND CREATING REVOLUTION IN TEXAS41. AMERICAN IN MEXICO: REBELLIONS CRUSHED IN NEW MEXICO42. MISSIONARIES ON THE BORDER: NARCISSA WHITMAN IN OREGON  CHAPTER TEN: Slavery, Bondage, and Labor in the West43. WESTERN STATEHOOD AND THE SLAVERY CRISIS        44.  INDIAN SLAVERY IN UTAH45. CHEROKEE SLAVERY, 1830s46. UNFREE LABOR ON THE SEASCHAPTER 11: The U.S. Mexico War47.  OPPOSING VIEWS OF EXPANSION INTO MEXICO       48.  CREATING A GLORIOUS WAR IN CALIFORNIA49. THE COST OF CONQUEST: A NEW INDIAN WAR50.  Disaster in New Mexico,CHAPTER TWELVE: Westward Migration: Gold, Land, and Ambition 51. A GOLD RUSH FOR SOME52. THE  MORMON TREK            53. A SCOTSMAN’S ACCOUNT OF THE MALE WORLD OF GOLD RUSH CALIFORNIA54. A FAMILY MEASURES THE  COST OF AMBITION            CHAPTER THIRTEEN:  The 1850: A Sectional Crisis and a Crisis of Authority             55. THE COMPROMISE OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY56.  GUERILLA WAR IN KANSAS FROM OPPOSING  PERSPECTIVES       57. INVASIONS AND FILIBUSTERS IN CALIFORNIA AND NICARAGUA 58.  AN ACCOUNT OF THE MORMON WAR      CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Civil Wars Spread Over the West59.  THE CONFEDERACY IMAGINES A WESTERN EMPIRE60.  DAKOTA WAR IN 186261.  ACCOUNTS OF THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE, 1864CHAPTER FIFTEEN: War and Reconstruction: Limiting the Empire for Liberty62. THE GOVERNMENT CREATES THE WEST: THE HOMESEAD ACT AND THE PACIFIC RAILWAY ACTS, 1862           63. INVENTING THE RESERVATION: ELDERS REMEMBER THE NAVAJOS’ LONG WALK, 1864-186864. EXODUSTERS: OKLAHOMA AND KANSAS65. WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE, WYOMING, 1870