Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West 163217250X, 9781632172501

A nineteenth-century attack by Native Americans on a Presbyterian mission in what would become the Oregon Territory prov

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Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West
163217250X, 9781632172501

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporaneous accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading

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In the American West, water adjudication lawsuits are adversarial, expensive, and lengthy. Unsettled Waters is the first

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Over the past century, solutions to natural resources policy issues have become increasingly complex. Multiple governmen

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of

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Few topics generate as much heated public debate in the United States today as immigration across our southern border. T

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*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the massacres by survivors and soldiers *Includes bibliographies for further re

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Twenty years on from her critically acclaimed book, 'Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People', Susan McKay t

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