Contents -- Foreword: On the Saltwater Margins of a Northern Frontier -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Fishermen's Frontier in Southeast Alaska -- 1. First Fishermen: The Aboriginal Salmon Fishery -- 2. The Industrial Transformation of the Indian Salmon Fishery, 1780s-1910s -- 3. Federal Conservation, Fish Traps, and the Struggle to Control the Fishery, 1889-1959 -- 4. Work, Nature, Race, and Culture on the Fishermen's Frontier, 1900s-1950s -- 5. The Closing of the Fishermen's Frontier, 1950s-2000s -- Epilogue: Endangered Species? -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.