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William Clark
For three decades following the expedition with Meriwether Lewis for which he is best known, William Clark forged a meritorious public career that contributed even more to the opening of the West: from 1807 to 1838 he served as the U.S. government’s most important representative to western Indians. This biography focuses on Clark’s tenure as Indian agent, territorial governor, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs at St. Louis. Jay H. Buckley shows that Clark had immense influence on Indian-white relations in the trans-Mississippi region specifically and on federal Indian policy generally. As an agent of American expansion, Clark actively promoted the government factory system and the St....
By His Own Hand?
For two centuries the question has persisted: Was Meriwether Lewis’s death a suicide, an accident, or a homicide? By His Own Hand? is the first book to carefully analyze the evidence and consider the murder-versus-suicide debate within its full historical context. The historian contributors to this volume follow the format of a postmortem court trial, dissecting the case from different perspectives. A documents section permits readers to examine the key written evidence for themselves and reach their own conclusions.
Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
In life and in death, fame and glory eluded Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779–1813). The ambitious young military officer and explorer, best known for a mountain peak that he neither scaled nor named, was destined to live in the shadows of more famous contemporaries—explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. This collection of thought-provoking essays rescues Pike from his undeserved obscurity. It does so by providing a nuanced assessment of Pike and his actions within the larger context of American imperial ambition in the time of Jefferson. Pike’s accomplishments as an explorer and mapmaker and as a soldier during the War of 1812 has been tainted by his alleged connection to Aaron Bur...
Unpopular Sovereignty
Newly created territories in antebellum America were designed to be extensions of national sovereignty and jurisdiction. Utah Territory, however, was a deeply contested space in which a cohesive settler group the Mormons sought to establish their own popular sovereignty, raising the question of who possessed and could exercise governing, legal, social, and even cultural power in a newly acquired territory. In "Unpopular Sovereignty," Brent M. Rogers invokes the case of popular sovereignty in Utah as an important contrast to the better-known slavery question in Kansas. Rogers examines the complex relationship between sovereignty and territory along three main lines of inquiry: the implementat...
Bitterroot
Through a retelling of Lewis's life, from his resourceful youth to the brilliance of his leadership and accomplishments as a man, Patricia Tyson Stroud shows that Jefferson's unsubstantiated claim of his protégé's suicide is the long-held bitter root at the heart of the Meriwether Lewis story.
William Dunbar
Scottish-born William Dunbar (1750–1810) is recognized by Mississippi and Southwest historians as one of the most successful planters, agricultural innovators, explorers, and scientists to emerge from the Mississippi Territory. Despite his successes, however, history books abridge his contributions to America's early national years to a few passing sentences or footnotes. William Dunbar: Scientific Pioneer of the Old Southwest rectifies past neglect, paying tribute to a man whose life was driven by the need to know and the willingness to suffer in pursuit of knowledge. From the beginning, research, contemplation, and scholarship formed the template by which Dunbar would structure his life....
By His Own Hand?
The murder-versus-suicide debate over the 1809 death of Meriwether Lewis, then governor of Upper Louisiana, is examined in a volume that analyzes the evidence and considers the strengths and weaknesses of each argument within the full historical context.
Imperial Wine
Introduction -- Writing about wine -- Why Britain? -- Dutch courage : the first wine at the Cape -- First fleet, first flight : creating Australian vineyards -- Astonished by the fruit : New Zealand's first grapes -- Cheap and wholesome : Cape producers and British tariffs -- Echunga hock : colonial wines of the nineteenth century -- Have you any colonial wine? Australian producers and British tariffs -- Planting and pruning : working the colonial vineyard -- Sulphur! phylloxera and other pests -- Served chilled : British consumers in the Victorian era -- From Melbourne to Madras : Wine in India, Cyprus, Malta, and Canada -- Plonk! colonial wine and the First World War -- Fortification : the dominions and the interwar period -- Crude potions : the British market for empire wines -- Doodle bugs destroyed our cellar: wine in the Second World War -- And a glass of wine: colonial wines in the postwar society -- Good fighting wine : colonial wines battle back -- All bar one : the new world conquers the British market -- Conclusions.
Encyclopedia of the American West
"The Encyclopedia focuses on the people and peoples of the West, approaching the region as a collection of multiethnic frontiers and as the spawning ground for an array of industries and enterprises that each gave rise to its own culture and carried with it important ecological consequences."--p. xi.
