In this final visit to Pierre’s Hole, I hope to show how Sioux (and later Blackfoot) attempts to keep Europeans out of the Pacific Northwest through diplomatic slavery became over time an […]
55. Pierre’s Hole 7: A Slave Culture Evolves
52. Pierre’s Hole 4: Some Problems With Using Business to Conduct Diplomacy
Business has always been a primary foundation of the development of the West of North America, with diplomacy being subordinated to it. The development of Cascadia is no exception. It was an […]
51. Pierre’s Hole 3: The Iroquois Road to Pierre’s Hole
Back in the spring I pointed out that during the dominance of New France over the West, the Iroquois trafficked in slaves between the Sioux and the French. This transfer of Indigenous […]
50. Pierre’s Hole 2: How We All Got To Pierre’s Hole
To give you a bit of a road map, we’re walking along here together to Pierre’s Hole, as the first of three critical moents in the transformation of Cascadian culture from a […]
49. Pierre’s Hole 1: What is Pierre’s Hole?
I talked about Pierre’s Hole a while back, but I was too quick about it. Here’s a slower introduction to the fall of the Old West. I’ll start with material I looked […]
49. Pierre’s Hole, Part 1
We’re on our way to Pierre’s Hole: Pierre’s Hole, Looking East to the Grand Tetons. Source Back in 1834, at least one man thought it looked like this: The Battle of Pierre’s […]
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