Table of Contents
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Prologue Morning of Fire 1
PART I The Journey Outward 9
Chapter 1 Out of a Time of Great Peril 11
Chapter 2 Passage to the Underworld 25
Chapter 3 Spain's Frontier 35
Chapter 4 Refuge 47
Chapter 5 Halting the Incursion 66
PART II Lufinite Wilderness 73
Chapter 6 Nootka 75
Chapter 7 Seizure 99
Chapter 8 The Golden Fleece 119
Chapter 9 Divided Dreams 137
Chapter 10 A Place of Skulls 150
PART III Odyssey 155
Chapter 11 Volatile Paradise 157
Chapter 12 House of Cards 179
Chapter 13 Columbia's Homecoming 199
Chapter 14 An American Presence 217
Chapter 15 Long-Awaited Return 239
PART IV Edge of Empire 251
Chapter 16 A Soft War 253
Chapter 17 Survival and Seduction 280
Chapter 18 A rising Tide 300
Chapter 19 Possession 317
Chapter 20 Last Season 334
Chapter 21 The Fire's Reach 345
Epilogue Legacy for a New Nation 362
Acknowledgments 371
A Note on the Sources 375
Notes 377
Bibliography 427
Index 445