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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 [First Page] [-7], (1) Lines: 0 to 102 ——— 16.79996pt ——— Normal Page * PgEnds: PageBreak [-7], (1) Contents List of Illustrations ix List of Tables x Foreword by John Herd Thompson xi Preface xv Acknowledgments xxiii Duty-Free: An Introduction to the Practice of Regional History along the Forty-ninth Parallel Thomas D. Isern and R. Bruce Shepard xxvii Part 1. Defining the Region, Defining the Border 1 1. The Case for Cross-National and Comparative History: The Northwestern Plains as Bioregion Theodore Binnema 17 2. The Pacific Coast Borderlands and Frontier Leonard J. Evenden and Daniel E. Turbeville III 42 3. Conceptual and Practical Boundaries: West Coast Indians/First Nations on the Border of Contagion in the Post-9/11 Era Bruce Granville Miller 49 Part 2. Colonizing the Borderlands with Trails, the Law, and Ranching 67 4. The Trail to the North in Whoop-Up Country Paul F. Sharp 75 5. Above the Blue Line: Policing the Frontier in the Canadian and American West, 1870–1900 Marian C. McKenna 81 viii | Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 [-8], (2) Lines: ——— 2.39993pt ——— Normal PgEnds: [-8], (2) 6. Does the Border Matter? Cattle Ranching and the Forty-ninth Parallel Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov 107 7. “Their Own Country”: Race, Gender, Landscape, and Colonization around the Forty-ninth Parallel, 1862–1900 Sheila McManus 117 Part 3. Seeking Sanctuary on Both Sides of the Line 131 8. The Border, the Buffalo, and the Métis of Montana Gerhard J. Ens 139 9. Crossing the Line: Race, Nationality, and the Deportation of the “Canadian” Crees in the Canada–U.S. Borderlands, 1890–1900 Michel Hogue 155 10. Charles Ora Card and Mormon Settlement on the Northwestern Plains Borderlands Peter S. Morris 172 Part 4. Farming, Industry, and Labor Interactions in the Borderlands 183 11. The Twine Line: Mexican Henequen, U.S–Canadian Relations, and Binder Twine in the Northern Plains and Prairie Provinces, 1890–1950 Sterling Evans 189 12. Hoboes across the Border: Itinerant Cross-Border Laborers between Montana and Western Canada Evelyne Stitt Pickett 203 13. “Nature’s Garden and a Possible Utopia”: Farming for Fruit and Industrious Men in the Transboundary Pacific Northwest, 1895–1914 Jason Patrick Bennett 222 Part 5. Crossing the Medicine Line in the Twentieth Century 14. Refugees from Volstead: Cross-Boundary Tourism in the Northwest during Prohibition Stephen T. Moore 247 [3.145.156.46] Project MUSE (2024-04-17 21:20 GMT) Contents | ix 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 [-9], (3) Lines: 237 to ——— 13.19995pt ——— Normal Page PgEnds: TEX [-9], (3) 15. Hoods across the Border: The Ku Klux Klan and the Far Right in the American and Canadian Wests Eckard V. Toy Jr. 262 16. Fugitives from Injustice: Vietnam War Draft Dodgers and Deserters in British Columbia Renée G. Kasinsky 270 Addendum: Seeking Refuge for Medical Marijuana Use in the Early Twenty-first Century 290 Sterling Evans Part 6. Natural Resources, Conservation, and Environmental Issues in the Borderlands 293 17. Fishing the Line: Political Boundaries and Border Fluidity in the Pacific Northwest Borderlands, 1880–1930s Lissa Wadewitz 299 18. “The Geology Recognizes No Boundaries”: Shifting Borders in Waterton Lakes National Park Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands 309 19. Whoa! Canada: Environmental Issues and Activism along the Alberta-Montana Border Todd Wilkinson 334 Afterword: Comparing Western Borderlands and Their Future Study Sterling Evans 345 Contributors 365 Index 371 Illustrations 1. The four subregions of the borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests xvi 2. Oregon Country and the extension of the forty-ninth parallel from the Rockies to the Pacific, 1819–46 2 3. The northwestern plains of North America 21 ...