John M. Findlay is Professor Emeritus of History at University of Washington. He is the author of People of Chance: Gambling in American Society from Jamestown to Las Vegas (Oxford University Press, 1986); Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture after 1940 (University of California Press, 1992); and Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West, with Bruce Hevly (University of Washington Press, 2011). He has also co-edited three multi-author volumes that had their origins as symposia at the University of Washington's Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest: The Atomic West, eds. Bruce Hevly and John M. Findlay (1998); Power and Place in the North American West, eds. Richard White and John M. Findlay (1999); and Parallel Destinies: Canadians, Americans, and the Western Border, eds. John M. Findlay and Ken Coates (2002).
Preface: Scholars and the Forty-ninth Parallel
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
Border Crossings: Pattern and Processes along the Canaa-United States
Boundary West of the Rockies
PART ONE: THE PERMEABLE BORDER
No Parallel: American Miner-Soldiers at War with the Nlaka'pamux of the
Canadian West
Work, Sex, and Death on the Greath Thoroughfare: Annual Migrations of
"Canadian Indians" to the American Pacific Northwest
Borders and Identities among Italian Immigrants in the Pacific Northwest,
1880-1938
Nationalist Narratives and regional Realities: The Political Economy of
Railway Development in Southeastern British Columbia, 1895-1905
PART TWO: NEGOTIATING THE INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY
The Historical Roots of the Canadian-American Salmon Wars
Who Will Defend British Columbia?: Unity of Command on the West Coast,
1934-42
That Long Western Border: Canada, the United States, and a Century of
Economic Change
PART THREE: NATIONAL DISTINCTIONS
Borders of the Past: The Oregon Boundary Dispute and the Beginnings of
Northwest Historiography
Wild, Tame, and Free: Comparing Canadian and U.S. Views of Nature
Sleeping with the Elephant: Reflections of an American-Canadian on
Americanization and Anti-Americanism in Canada
Contributors
Index
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