Introduction : a whole country in commotion / Patrick G. Williams
Lewis and Clark : kidnappers / Elliott West
Jefferson's grand expedition and the mystery of the Red River / Dan Flores
Could Louisiana have become an Hispano-Indian republic? / Kathleen DuVal
A shifting middle ground : Arkansas's frontier exchange economy and the Louisiana Purchase / Jeannie M. Whayne
Jeffersonian Indian removal and the emergence of Arkansas Territory / S. Charles Bolton
"Outcasts upon the world" : the Louisiana Purchase and the Quapaws / Joseph Patrick Key
The Louisiana Purchase and the Black experience / Charles F. Robinson II
The first years of American justice : courts and lawyers on the Arkansas frontier / Lynn Foster
Dancing into the past : colonial legacies in modern Caddo Indian ceremony / George Sabo III.
