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Illustrations

Prologue: Opening the Oregon Country

Part One: Post Farming: Hudson's Bay Company Agriculture
This Side The Mountains

1. Governor Simpson'e Economy: The Origins of Post Farming

2. Governor Simpson's Reward: The Results of Post Farming

3. Physical Extremes: The Problems of Post Farming

Part Two: Company Farming: Puget's Sound Agricultural
Company Operations on the Cowlitz Portage

4. Grain for Alaska and Wool for England: The Origins of the
Puget's Sound Agricultural Company

5. Success and Failure: The Performance of the Puget's Sound
Agricultural Company

6. Half Shares and Mean Lands: The Problems of the Puget's Sound
Agricultural Company

Part Three: Homestead Farming: Pioneer Agriculture in the
Willamette Valley

7. The Promised Land: The Formation of the Willamette Settlement

8. The "Garden of the Columbia": The Success of Homestead
Farming

Part Four: Mission Farming: Protestant and Catholic
Husbandry on the Lower Columbia

9. The "Macedonian Cry": The Advent of Missionaries

10. The Fruit of the Faithful: The Outcome of Mission Farming

11. Divine Testing or Demonic Tempting: The Obstacles to Mission
Farming

12. From Noble Savage to Sturdy Yeoman: Indian Farming

Epilogue: Dividing the Oregon Country

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Notes

Index