Civil War Wests

Adam Arenson is Associate Professor of History and Director of Urban Studies at Manhattan College, author of The Great Heart of the Republic: St. Louis and the Cultural Civil War (2011), and coeditor of Frontier Cities: Encounters at the Crossroads of Empire (2013). Andrew R. Graybill is Professor of History and Director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University, author of Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875--1910 (2007), and coeditor of Bridging National Borders in North America: Transnational and Comparative Histories (2010).

• Introduction (Adam Arenson) Part One: Borderlands in Conflict 1. Thwarting Southern Schemes and British Bluster in the Pacific Northwest (James Robbins Jewell) 2. Death in the Distance: Confederate Manifest Destiny and the Campaign for New Mexico, 1861--1862 (Megan Kate Nelson) 3. Kit Carson and the War for the Southwest: Separation and Survival along the Rio Grande, 1862--1868 (Lance R. Blyth) 4.Scattered People: The Long History of Forced Eviction in the Kansas-Missouri Borderlands (Diane Mutti Burke) Part Two: The Civil War Is Not Over 5. "The Future Empire of Our Freedmen": Republican Colonization Schemes in Texas and Mexico, 1861-1865 (Nicholas Guyatt) 6. Three Faces of Sovereignty: Governing Confederate, Mexican, and Indian Texas in the Civil War Era (Gregory P. Downs) 7. Redemption Falls Short: Soldier and Surgeon in the Post--Civil War Far West (William Deverell) 8. Still Picture, Moving Stories: Reconstruction Comes to Indian Country (Martha A. Sandweiss) Part Three: Borders of Citizenship 9. Race, Religion, and Naturalization: How the West Shaped Citizenship Debates in the Reconstruction Congress (Joshua Paddison) 10. Broadening the Battlefield: Conflict, Contingency, and the Mystery of Woman Suffrage in Wyoming, 1869 (Virginia Scharff) 11. "Dis Land Which Jines Dat of Ole Master's": The Meaning of Citizenship for the Choctaw Freedpeople (Fay A. Yarbrough) 12. "Citizen's Clothing": Reconstruction, Ho-Chunk Persistence, and the Politics of Dress (Stephen Kantrowitz) Epilogue (Steven Hahn) Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

"Excellent in every respect, from superbly qualified writers." -- D. Steeples CHOICE "Timely ... Civil War Wests very effectively extends Reconstruction into the West... The volume makes clear the value of dramatically reframing our understanding of both the Civil War and the American West," The Journal of American History "This excellent collection expands our understanding of the Civil War and the Reconstruction era... This is that rare collection of essays that engage one another; are of uniformly high quality and accessibility; add a new dimension to two related, though disparate, histories and historiographies; and offer scholars multiple points of departure for integrating western history in this period into a larger national and international context." -- Michael A. Morrison Western Historical Quarterly