Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface: Scholars and the Forty-ninth Parallel vii
4. Acknowledgments xxi
5. Introduction. Border Crossings: Pattern and Processes along the Canada–United States Boundary West of the Rockies 1
6. PART ONE: THE PERMEABLE BORDER
7. 2 / No Parallel: American Miner-Soldiers at War with the Nlaka’pamux of the Canadian West 31
8. 3 / Work, Sex, and Death on the Great Thoroughfare: Annual Migrations of “Canadian Indians” to the American Pacific Northwest 80
9. 4 / Borders and Identities among Italian Immigrants in the Pacific Northwest, 1880–1938 104
10. 5 / Nationalist Narratives and Regional Realities: The Political Economy of Railway Development in Southeastern British Columbia, 1895–1905 123
11. PART TWO: NEGOTIATING THE INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY
12. 6 / The Historical Roots of the Canadian-American Salmon Wars 155
13. 7 / Who Will Defend British Columbia? Unity of Command on the West Coast, 1934–42 181
14. 8 / That Long Western Border: Canada, the United States, and a Century of Economic Change 203
15. PART THREE: NATIONAL DISTINCTIONS
16. 9 / Borders of the Past: The Oregon Boundary Dispute and the Beginnings of Northwest Historiography 221
17. 10 / Wild, Tame, and Free: Comparing Canadian and U.S. Views of Nature 246
18. 11 / Sleeping with the Elephant: Reflections of an American-Canadian on Americanization and Anti-Americanism in Canada 274
19. Contributors 295
20. Index 297