Unsettled boundaries

by Robert E. Ficken

"Unsettled Boundaries is the chronicle of how a collection of crude trading outposts, spurred on by the gold rush of 1858, grew into a fully functioning society. This absorbing history details how opposing forces and governments struggled to gain the upper hand along an arbitrary line, the 49th parallel, and how eventually, the groundwork was laid to change wild, primitive country into civilization."--Jacket.