Civil War wests : testing the limits of the United States

333 Pages·2015·3.957 MB·English

by  Arenson, Adam, Graybill, Andrew R

Civil War Wests
testing the limits of the united states
edited by
Adam Arenson and Andrew R. Graybill
university of california press
Civil War Wests
Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements
Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University
Civil War Wests
testing the limits of the united states
edited by
Adam Arenson and Andrew R. Graybill
university of california press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Civil War wests : testing the limits of the United States / edited by Adam
Arenson and Andrew R. Graybill.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978–0–520–28378–7 (cloth : alk. paper) — isbn 0–520–28378–3
(cloth : alk. paper) — isbn 978–0–520–28379–4 (pbk. : alk. paper) —
ISBN 0–520–28379–1 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978–0–520–95957–6
(ebook) — ISBN 0–520–95957–4 (ebook)
  1. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865–1877)—West (U.S.)
2. United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865. 3. West (U.S.)—
History—1860–1890. I. Arenson, Adam, 1978- editor. II. Graybill,
Andrew R., 1971- editor.
e668.c57 2015
 973.7—dc23 2014024850
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contents
Introduction 1
Adam Arenson
Part One
Borderlands in Conflict
1 Th warting Southern Schemes and British Bluster in
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the Pacifi c Northwest 15
James Robbins Jewell
2 Death in the Distance: Confederate Manifest Destiny
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and the Campaign for New Mexico, 1861–1862 33
Megan Kate Nelson
3 Kit Carson and the War for the Southwest: Separation and
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Survival along the Rio Grande, 1862–1868 53
Lance R. Blyth
4 Scattered People: Th e Long History of Forced Eviction in the
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Kansas-Missouri Borderlands 71
Diane Mutti Burke
Part Two
The Civil War Is Not Over
5 “Th e Future Empire of Our Freedmen”: Republican Colonization
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Schemes in Texas and Mexico, 1861–1865 95
Nicholas Guyatt
6 Th ree Faces of Sovereignty: Governing Confederate, Mexican,
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and Indian Texas in the Civil War Era 118
Gregory P. Downs
7 Redemption Falls Short: Soldier and Surgeon in the Post–Civil
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War Far West 139
William Deverell
8 Still Picture, Moving Stories: Reconstruction Comes to
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Indian Country 158
Martha A. Sandweiss
Part Three
Borders of Citizenship
9 Race, Religion, and Naturalization: How the West Shaped
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Citizenship Debates in the Reconstruction Congress 181
Joshua Paddison
10 Broadening the Battlefi eld: Confl ict, Contingency, and the
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Mystery of Woman Suff rage in Wyoming, 1869 202
Virginia Scharff
11 “Dis Land Which Jines Dat of Ole Master’s”: Th e Meaning
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of Citizenship for the Choctaw Freedpeople 224
Fay A. Yarbrough
12 “Citizen’s Clothing”: Reconstruction, Ho-Chunk Persistence,
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and the Politics of Dress 242
Stephen Kantrowitz
Epilogue 265
Steven Hahn
Acknowledgments 275
Secondary Bibliography 279
Contributor Affi liations 307
Index 000
vi • contents

Key Locations and Sites of Confl ict in Civil War–Era North America.