CONTENTS

Chapter Page
Preface vii
I. Royal Robes and Beaver Hats 1
II. Vikings and Skraelings in Vinland 16
III. Codfish Land Spawns a Fur Frontier 24
IV. Samuel de Champlain Lights a Blaze of Red Terror 37
V. England Moves to Extend Her Realm 44
VI. Captain John Smith Takes to Trade 57
VII. The Dutch Profit by a Mutiny 67
VIII. Conception of New England 82
IX. The Pilgrims Rely on God and Beaver 91
X. A Border Fixed on the Coast of Maine 107
XI. The Bay of Virginia 114
XII. Kent Island and the Backside of Virginia 124
XIII. New Netherland’s South River 135
XIV. Swedish Interlude on the Delaware 147
XV. New Netherland Threatened Without and Within 164
XVI. The English Close Their Coastal Ranks 180
XVII. Westward the Fur Frontier of America 186
Bibliography and Acknowledgements 205
Index 209