Table of Contents

Preface
     Acknowledgments

Chapter One
     The Fort

Chapter Two
     The Columbian Trading Network

Chapter Three
     Tribes of the District

Chapter Four
     Indian Society, Polity, and Religion

Chapter Five
     A Register of Noted Men

Chapter Six
     Bourgeois

Chapter Seven
     The Fort as a Social System

Chapter Eight
     Gardins, Tribes,and Company

Chapter Nine
     Routines

Chapter Ten
     Trading at the Fort: The Company Perspective

Chapter Eleven
     Trading Operations in Fort and Field

Chapter Twelve
     Trade and Order

Chapter Thirteen
     The Political Events of 1831-1832

Chapter Fourteen
     Concluding Remarks

     Notes
     Bibliography
     Index