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Civil War Wests testing the limits of the united states edited by Adam Arenson and Andrew R. Graybill university of california press Civil War Wests Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University Civil War Wests testing the limits of the united states edited by Adam Arenson and Andrew R. Graybill university of california press University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Its activities are supported by the UC Press Foundation and by philanthropic contributions from individuals and institutions. For more information, visit www.ucpress.edu. University of California Press Oakland, California © 2015 by Th e Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Civil War wests : testing the limits of the United States / edited by Adam Arenson and Andrew R. Graybill. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978–0–520–28378–7 (cloth : alk. paper) — isbn 0–520–28378–3 (cloth : alk. paper) — isbn 978–0–520–28379–4 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 0–520–28379–1 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978–0–520–95957–6 (ebook) — ISBN 0–520–95957–4 (ebook) 1. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865–1877)—West (U.S.) 2. United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865. 3. West (U.S.)— History—1860–1890. I. Arenson, Adam, 1978- editor. II. Graybill, Andrew R., 1971- editor. e668.c57 2015 973.7—dc23 2014024850 Manufactured in the United States of America 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 In keeping with a commitment to support environmentally responsible and sustainable printing practices, UC Press has printed this book on Natures Natural, a fi ber that contains 30% post-consumer waste and meets the minimum requirements of ansi/niso z39.48–1992 (r 1997) (Permanence of Paper). contents Introduction 1 Adam Arenson Part One Borderlands in Conflict 1 Th warting Southern Schemes and British Bluster in • the Pacifi c Northwest 15 James Robbins Jewell 2 Death in the Distance: Confederate Manifest Destiny • and the Campaign for New Mexico, 1861–1862 33 Megan Kate Nelson 3 Kit Carson and the War for the Southwest: Separation and • Survival along the Rio Grande, 1862–1868 53 Lance R. Blyth 4 Scattered People: Th e Long History of Forced Eviction in the • Kansas-Missouri Borderlands 71 Diane Mutti Burke Part Two The Civil War Is Not Over 5 “Th e Future Empire of Our Freedmen”: Republican Colonization • Schemes in Texas and Mexico, 1861–1865 95 Nicholas Guyatt 6 Th ree Faces of Sovereignty: Governing Confederate, Mexican, • and Indian Texas in the Civil War Era 118 Gregory P. Downs 7 Redemption Falls Short: Soldier and Surgeon in the Post–Civil • War Far West 139 William Deverell 8 Still Picture, Moving Stories: Reconstruction Comes to • Indian Country 158 Martha A. Sandweiss Part Three Borders of Citizenship 9 Race, Religion, and Naturalization: How the West Shaped • Citizenship Debates in the Reconstruction Congress 181 Joshua Paddison 10 Broadening the Battlefi eld: Confl ict, Contingency, and the • Mystery of Woman Suff rage in Wyoming, 1869 202 Virginia Scharff 11 “Dis Land Which Jines Dat of Ole Master’s”: Th e Meaning • of Citizenship for the Choctaw Freedpeople 224 Fay A. Yarbrough 12 “Citizen’s Clothing”: Reconstruction, Ho-Chunk Persistence, • and the Politics of Dress 242 Stephen Kantrowitz Epilogue 265 Steven Hahn Acknowledgments 275 Secondary Bibliography 279 Contributor Affi liations 307 Index 000 vi • contents Key Locations and Sites of Confl ict in Civil War–Era North America.
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