Economic Beginnings of the Far West: How We Won the Land beyond the Mississippi - Vol. 1

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Preface vii
• Contents xi
• List of Illustrations xv
• Part I - The Spanish Occupation (1542-1846) 1
• Chapter I - The Explorers 3
• Chapter II - The Colonizers 28
• Part II Exploration and the Fur Trade 191
• Chapter I - The Northwest Coast 193
• Chapter II - The Overland Search for the Western Sea 222
• Chapter III - The Fur Trade 289
• Notes 377
• Books by the Same Author 421
• The Purchasing Power of Money - A Study of the Causes Determining The General Level of Prices An Explanation of the Rise in the Cost of LIving Between 1896 and 1910 422
• Books on Economics, Finance, Etc. 423