54-40 or FightThe Floating Press, 2011 M06 1 - 309 pages For much of the nineteenth century, the boundaries of the United States were in flux. Frontier lawyer turned Western writer Emerson Hough takes on the topic of one such border controversy in the novel 54-40 or Fight, an action-packed account of the campaign to wrest control of the Pacific Northwest from the British. |
Contents
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Chapter VI The Boudoir of the Baroness | 39 |
Chapter VII Regarding Elisabeth | 58 |
Chapter XX The Lady from Mexico | 176 |
Chapter XXI Politics Under Cover | 184 |
Chapter XXII But Yet a Woman | 193 |
Chapter XXIII Success in Silk | 201 |
Chapter XXIV The WhoaHaw Trail | 205 |
Chapter XXV Oregon | 212 |
Chapter XXVI The Debated Country | 216 |
Chapter XXVII In the Cabin of Madam | 223 |
Chapter VIII Mr Calhoun Accepts | 71 |
Chapter IX A Kettle of Fish | 82 |
Chapter X Mixed Duties | 93 |
Chapter XI Who Giveth this Woman | 99 |
Chapter XII The Marathon | 104 |
Chapter XIII On Secret Service | 109 |
Chapter XIV The Other Woman | 113 |
Chapter XV With Madam the Baroness | 131 |
Chapter XVI Déjeûner à la Fourchette | 135 |
Chapter XVII A Hunter of Butterflies | 149 |
Chapter XVIII The Missing Slipper | 158 |
Chapter XIX The Gentleman from Tennessee | 165 |
Chapter XXVIII When a Woman Would | 245 |
Chapter XXIX In Exchange | 249 |
Chapter XXX Counter Currents | 253 |
Chapter XXXI The Payment | 260 |
Chapter XXXII Pakenhams Price | 267 |
Chapter XXXIII The Story of Helena Von Ritz | 275 |
Chapter XXXIV The Victory | 290 |
Chapter XXXV The Proxy of Pakenham | 301 |
Chapter XXXVI The Palo Alto Ball | 314 |
Epilogue | 325 |
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