Table of Contents:
  • From Blackfoot country to borderlands
  • Troublesome topography : mapping the West in the nineteenth century
  • "Brought within reasonable distance" : managing the West, proving the border
  • "Their own country" : drawing lines in Blackfoot territory
  • "Bringing them more prominently into notice" : managing Aboriginal peoples in the borderlands
  • "A land where there is room for all" : immigration, nation building, and nonaboriginal communities in the borderlands
  • "I must have been the discoverer" : White women's perceptions of life in the borderlands
  • Just "ink on a map?"