Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- PART I: Company and Colony -- 1. Dwellers Along the Shore -- 2. Tide of Empire -- 3. "This Miserable Affair" -- 4. The Smouldering Volcano -- PART II: Putting Out Fires -- 5. Policy Making -- 6. Of Slaves and Liquor -- 7. Among the Vikings of the North Pacific -- 8. Piracy and Punishment -- 9. Policing the Passage -- 10. The Pulls of Alaska -- PART III: Extending the Frontier -- 11. The "Customary Authority" Under Dominion Auspices -- 12. At Heaven's Command -- 13. New Zones of Influence: Nass, Kimsquit, and Skeena -- 14. Retrospect -- Appendix -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.