54-40 or Fight

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The 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

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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