Contents -- Preface: Scholars and the Forty-ninth Parallel -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: 1. Border Crossings: Pattern and Processes along the Canada-United States Boundary West of the Rockies -- I: The Permeable Border -- 2. No Parallel: American Miner-Soldiers at War with the Nlaka'pamux of the Canadian West -- 3. Work, Sex, and Death on the Great Thoroughfare: Annual Migrations of "Canadian Indians" to the American Pacific Northwest -- 4. Borders and Identities among Italian Immigrants in the Pacific Northwest, 1880-1938 -- 5. Nationalist Narratives and Regional Realities: The Political Economy of Railway Development in Southeastern British Columbia, 1895-1905 -- II: Negotiating the International Boundary -- 6. The Historical Roots of the Canadian-American Salmon Wars -- 7. Who Will Defend British Columbia? Unity of Command on the West Coast, 1934-42 -- 8. That Long Western Border: Canada, the United States, and a Century of Economic Change -- III: National Distinctions -- 9. Borders of the Past: The Oregon Boundary Dispute and the Beginnings of Northwest Historiography -- 10. Wild, Tame, and Free: Comparing Canadian and U.S. Views of Nature -- 11. Sleeping with the Elephant: Reflections of an American-Canadian on Americanization and Anti-Americanism in Canada -- Contributors -- Index.