Power and Place in the North American West

Introduction

PART 1: INDIANS AND NON-INDIANS

Coboway's Tale: A Story of Power and Place Along the Columbia

Violence, Justice, and State Power in the New Mexican Borderlands, 1780-1880

Making "Indians" in British Columbia: Power, Race, and the Importance of Place

PART 2: RACE IN THE URBAN WEST

Federal Power and Racial Politics in Los Angeles During World War II

Race, Rhetoric, and Regional Identity: Boosting Los Angeles, 1880-1930

Recasting Identities: American-born Chinese and Nisei in the Era of the Pacific War

PART 3: ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMY

Tourism as Colonial Economy: Power and Place in Western Tourism

Creating Wealth by Consuming Place: Timber Management on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest

"Politics Is at the Bottom of the Whole Thing": Spatial Relations of Power in Oregon Salmon Management

Natures Industries: The Rhetoric of Industrialism in the Oregon Country

PART 4: GENDER IN THE URBAN WEST

Lighting Out for the Territory: Women, Mobility and Western Place

Contributors

Index