Table of contents : Contents List of Illustration List of Tables Preface Abbreviations Introduction 1. Culture and Family on the Borderland Frontier 2. California's International Frontier, 1819-1846 3. "Saved so Much as Possible for Labour:" New Helvetia's Indian Work Force 4. Indians in the Service of Manifest Destiny 5. "Conciliate the Inhabitants" Federal Indian Administration during the Mexican War 6. A Regional Perspective on Indians in the Gold Rush 7. "Extermination or Domestication" The Dilemma of California Indian Policy 8. Indian Labor and Population in the 1850s 9. "Between Two Grizzlies' Paws:" Indian Women in the 1850s 10. Uncertain Refuge: The Household and Indian Survival in 1860 Conclusion Sources Index