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The Boundaries Between Us: Natives And Newcomers Along The Frontiers Of The Old Northwest Territory, 1750-1850, John Bowes

John P. Bowes

Of the eleven essays included in The Boundaries between Us, only the final two fail to reference Richard White’s The Middle Ground in their endnotes. This does not come as a surprise, because this collection revolves around the Old Northwest Territory and because White’s interpretive framework has loomed so large over American Indian historiography in the fifteen years since its publication. Yet the strength and popularity of the middle ground as a concept might be viewed as both a blessing and a curse.