This week we take a look at an article called "Thwarting Southern Schemes and British Bluster in the Pacific Northwest" by James Robbins Jewell. The author contends the Pig War, which we covered in our fourth episode, was meant to divert troops out west during the build-up to the Civil War. Further, he discusses British plots for taking over a large chunk of the Pacific Northwest, as well as how the Brits were encouraging pro-Southern sympathies among the Southerners living in B.C. and Vancouver. And of course, we can't do a Civil War episode without speculating on how our old friend Jeff Standifer was connected to all of this. 

Special thanks to Angie Davis at the Idaho State Archives.