| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

Contested Empire: Peter Skene Ogden and the Snake River Expeditions. By John Phillip Reid. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. xiv, 258 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8061-3374-0.)

John Phillip Reid has authored several books and articles on legal aspects of the nineteenth-century North American fur trade, mainly involving the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), the best-documented fur-trading company. Here Reid examines Peter Skene Ogden's expeditions into the Snake River country between 1824 and 1828, during which time the "Oregon Country" was open to economic exploitation by both Britain and the United States under an 1818 joint occupation treaty. After the 1821 merger of the HBC and the Montreal-based North West Company, the "new" HBC under the aegis of Sir George Simpson attempted to secure and maintain dominance over the region. HBC policy called for stripping the Snake River country of beaver to discourage American trappers' incursions. The attempt to create a "fur desert" buffer zone is a well-known program, but Reid reinterprets its genesis and its success.

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