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American West
CONTENTS
American Indian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Art & Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Biography & Memoir. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
The Arthur H. Clark Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
New in Paperback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
For more than eighty-five years, the University of Oklahoma Press
has published award-winning books about the American West
and we are proud to bring to you our latest catalog. The catalog
features the newest titles from both the University of Oklahoma
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American Indian
A Field of Their Own
Women and American Indian History, 18301941
By John M. Rhea
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5227-1 312 Pages
Rheas wide-ranging approach goes beyond existing compensatory
histories to illuminate the national consequences of womens centurylong predominance over American Indian scholarship. In the process, his
thoughtful study also chronicles Indigenous womens long and ultimately
successful struggle to transform the way that historians portray American
Indian peoples and their pasts.
Imagining Sovereignty
Self-Determination in American Indian Law and Literature
By David J. Carlson
$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5197-7 242 Pages
In Imagining Sovereignty, Carlson explores sovereignty as a discursive middle
ground between tribal communities and the United States as a settler-colonial
power. His work reveals the complementary ways in which legal and literary
texts have generated politically significant representations of the world, which
in turn have produced particular effects on readers and advanced the cause of
tribal self-determination.
Ioway Life
Reservation and Reform, 18371860
By Greg Olson
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5211-0 184 Pages
Ioway Life offers a complex and nuanced picture of the Ioways efforts to retain
their tribal identity within the constrictive boundaries of the Great Nemaha
Agency. Drawing on diaries, newspapers, and correspondence from the
agencys files and Presbyterian archives, Olson offers a compelling case study
in U.S. colonialism and Indigenous resistance.
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Drawn to Yellowstone
Artists in Americas First National Park
Revised Edition
By Peter H. Hassrick
$25.00 Paper 978-0-9896405-4-1 160 Pages
Distributed for the Buffalo Bill Center of the West
The first national park in the world, from the moment of its inception in 1872
Yellowstone National Park has been perceived as a vast visual spectacle. By
the 1890s it was known as the Nations Art Gallery. Peter Hassrick traces
the artistic history of the park from its earliest explorers to the present day
in this new edition ofDrawn to Yellowstone, a richly illustrated account of the
artists who traveled to and were inspired by Yellowstone.
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Picher, Oklahoma
Catastrophe, Memory, and Trauma
Photography by Todd Stewart
Essay by Alison Fields
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-5165-6 224 Pages
Recounting the towns dissolution and documenting its remaining traces,
Picher, Oklahoma tells the story of an unfolding ghost town. With shades of
Pichers past lives lingering at every intersection, memories of its proud history
and sad decline inhere in the relics, artifacts, personal treasures, and broken
structures abandoned in disasters wake.
Art in Motion
Native American Explorations of Time, Place, and Thought
Edited by John P. Lukavic and Laura Caruso
$25.00s Paper 978-0-914738-63-3 108 Pages
Distributed for Denver Art Museum
In the summer of 2012, the Denver Art Museum hosted a symposium titled
Art in Motion: Native American Explorations of Time, Place, and Thought, which
brought artists Charlene Holy Bear, Leena Minifie, and Kent Monkman
together with scholars Kristin Dowell, Aldona Jonaitis, and Daniel C. Swan
to discuss American Indian art, using the idea of motion as a unifying theme.
The perspectives explored in this volume reveal how scholars and artists with
different backgrounds can employ overarching themes, such as motion, to
investigate topics in arts and culture.
A Contested Art
Modernism and Mestizaje in New Mexico
By Stephanie Lewthwaite
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4864-9 304 Pages
In A Contested Art, historian Stephanie Lewthwaite examines the complex
Hispano response to the arrival of avant-garde writers and artists in
New Mexico and their influence on the twentieth-century marketplace.
She suggests that cultural encounters and appropriation produced not
only conflict and loss but also transformations in Hispano art as artists
experimented with colonial art forms and modernist trends in painting,
photography, and sculpture.
A Strange Mixture
The Art and Politics of Painting Pueblo Indians
By Sascha T. Scott
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4484-9 280 Pages
Many early-twentieth-century artists depicted Pueblo peoples, places, and
culture in paintings. These artists encounters with Pueblo Indians fostered
their awareness of Native political struggles and lead them to join with Pueblo
communities to champion Indian rights. In this book, art historian Sascha T.
Scott examines the ways in which non-Pueblo and Pueblo artists advocated
for American Indian cultures by confronting some of the cultural, legal, and
political issues of the day.
Painted Journeys
The Art of John Mix Stanley
By Peter H. Hassrick and Mindy N. Besaw
$54.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4829-8 308 Pages
$34.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5155-7 308 Pages
Artist-explorer John Mix Stanley (18141872), one of the most celebrated
chroniclers of the American West in his time, was in a sense a victim of his
own success. This volume, featuring a comprehensive collection of Stanleys
extant art, reproduced in full color, offers an opportunityand ample
reasonto rediscover the remarkable accomplishments of this outsize figure
of nineteenth-century American culture.
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Picturing Migrants
The Grapes of Wrath and New Deal Documentary Photography
By James R. Swensen
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4827-4 272 Pages
As time passes, personal memories of the Great Depression die with
those who lived through the desperate 1930s. In the absence of firsthand
knowledge, John Steinbecks The Grapes of Wrath and the photographs
produced for the New Deals Farm Security Administration (FSA) now provide
most of the images that come to mind when we think of the 1930s. Fully
exploring this complex connection for the first time, Picturing Migrants offers
new insight into Steinbecks novel and the FSAs photographyand into the
circumstances that have made them enduring icons of the Depression.
Surviving Desires
Making and Selling Native Jewellery in the American Southwest
By Henrietta Lidchi
$34.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4850-2 272 Pages
Published in Cooperation with the British Museum
Lavishly illustrated with 300 color photographs of jewellery in the British
Museum, the National Museums Scotland, and major collections in the
United States, Surviving Desires presents many previously unpublished pieces
and showcases works by Native American jewellers who include the bestknown names in the field today. The volume is a visually stunning exploration
of the symbolic, economic, and communal value of jewellery in the American
Southwest.
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Horseback Schoolmarm
Montana, 19531954
By Margot Liberty
$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-5388-9 144 Pages
In 1953, Margot Pringle, newly graduated from Cornell University, took a
job as a teacher in a one-room school in rural eastern Montana, sixty miles
southeast of Miles City. Miss Margot, as her students called her, would
teach at the school for one year. This book is the memoir she wrote then,
published here for the first time, under her married name. Filled with humor
and affection for her students, Horseback Schoolmarm recounts Libertys coming
of age as a teacher, as well as what she taught her students.
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Sign Talker
Hugh Lenox Scott Remembers Indian Country
Edited by R. Eli Paul
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5354-4 272 Pages
As historians continue to debate the details of the Indian wars, and as we
critically examine our nations current foreign policy, the unique legacy of
General Scott provides a model of military leadership. Sign Talker restores an
undervalued diplomat to well-deserved prominence in the story of U.S.-Indian
relations.
American Mythmaker
Walter Noble Burns and the Legends of
Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaqun Murrieta
By Mark J. Dworkin
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4685-0 288 Pages
Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaqun Murrieta are fixed in the American
imagination as towering legends of the Old West. But that has not always
been the case. There was a time when these men were largely forgotten relics
of a bygone era. Then, in the early twentieth century, an obscure Chicago
newspaperman changed all that. A long-overdue biography of a writer
who shaped our idea of western history, American Mythmaker documents in
fascinating detail the fashioning of some of the greatest American legends.
Brummett Echohawk
Pawnee Thunderbird and Artist
By Kristin M. Youngbull
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4826-7 224 Pages
A true American hero who earned a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, and a
Congressional Gold Medal, Brummett Echohawk was also a Pawnee on the
European battlefields of World War II. He used the Pawnee language and
counted coup as his grandfather had done during the Indian wars of the
previous century. This first book-length biography depicts Echohawk as a
soldier, painter, writer, humorist, and actor profoundly shaped by his Pawnee
heritage and a man who refused to be pigeonholed as an Indian artist.
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Clyde Warrior
Tradition, Community, and Red Power
By Paul R. McKenzie-Jones
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4705-5 256 Pages
The phrase Red Power, coined by Clyde Warrior (19391968) in the 1960s,
introduced militant rhetoric into American Indian activism. In this first-ever
biography of Warrior, historian Paul R. McKenzie-Jones presents the Ponca
leader as the architect of the Red Power movement, spotlighting him as one
of the most significant and influential figures in the fight for Indian rights.
Junpero Serra
California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary
By Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4868-7 514 Pages
Franciscan missionary friar Junpero Serra (17131784) was one of early
Californias most influential inhabitants. Focusing on Serras religious identity
and his relations with Native peoples, Beebe and Senkewicz intersperse their
narrative with new and accessible translations of many of Serras letters and
sermons, which allows his voice to be heard in a more direct and engaging
fashion.
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Loren Miller
Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist
By Amina Hassan
$26.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4916-5 312 Pages
Loren Miller was one of the nations most prominent civil rights attorneys
from the 1940s through the early 1960s, particularly in the fields of housing
and education. Loren Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist recovers this
remarkable figure from the margins of history and for the first time fully
reveals his life for what it was: an extraordinary American story and a critical
chapter in the annals of racial justice.
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History
The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield
Overland Mail, 18581861
By Glen Sample Ely
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5221-9 440 Pages
This is the story of Texass antebellum frontier, from the Red River to El Paso,
a raw and primitive country punctuated by chaos, lawlessness, and violence.
During this time, the federal government and the State of Texas often worked
at cross purposes, their confused and contradictory policies leaving settlers
on their own to deal with vigilantes, lynchings, raiding Native Americans, and
Anglo-American outlaws.
Bitter Waters
The Struggles of the Pecos River
By Patrick Dearen
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5201-1 256 Pages
The first book-length environmental study ever produced on the 926-mile
Pecos River, this work combines a historical overview of the river from the
first arrival of European explorers and settlers in the sixteenth century with an
investigation of the environmental issues facing the river today.
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Dirty Deeds
Land, Violence, and the 1856 San Francisco Vigilance Committee
By Nancy J. Taniguchi
$32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5398-8 320 Pages
Dirty Deeds tells the real story, in which a band of men took over a city in an
attempt to control the most valuable land on the West Coast. Ranging far
beyond San Francisco, the 1856 Vigilance Committees activities affected
events on the East Coast, in Central America, and in courts throughout the
United States even after the Civil War.
Fort Bascom
Soldiers, Comancheros, and Indians in the Canadian River Valley
By James Bailey Blackshear
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5209-7 272 Pages
In Fort Bascom, James Bailey Blackshear presents the definitive history of this
critical outpost in the American Southwest, along with a detailed view of army
life on the late-nineteenth-century western frontier. Blackshear shows the
difficulties of maintaining a post in a harsh environment where scarce water
and forage, long supply lines, poorly constructed facilities, and monotonous
duty tested soldiers endurance.
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Portrait of Route 66
Images from the Curt Teich Postcard Archives
By T. Lindsay Baker
$34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-5341-4 280 Pages
This book will interest historians of art and design as well as the worldwide
audiences of Route 66 aficionados and postcard collectors. For its mining of
an invaluable and little-known photographic archive and depiction of highquality photographs that have not been seen before, Portrait of Route 66 will be
irresistible to all who are interested in American history and culture.
Nicodemus
Post-Reconstruction Politics and Racial Justice in Western Kansas
By Charlotte Hinger
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5217-2 280 Pages
Nicodemus, Kansas, was a microcosm of all the issues facing black Americans
in the late nineteenth century, and three of the towns black homesteaders,
Abram Thompson Hall, Jr., Edward Preston McCabe, and John W. Niles are
archetypes for powerful philosophies that have persisted into the twenty-first
century. This study of their ideas and the ways they shaped Nicodemus offers
a novel perspective on the most famous postCivil War African American
community in the West.
Powder River
Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War
By Paul L. Hedren
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5383-4 472 Pages
Powder River: Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War recounts the wintertime
Big Horn Expedition and its singular great battle, along with the stories of the
Northern Cheyennes and their elusive leader Old Bear. Historian Paul Hedren
tracks both sides of the conflict through a rich array of primary source
material, including the transcripts of Colonel Joseph H. Reynoldss courtmartial and Indian recollections.
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Route 66 Crossings
Historic Bridges of the Mother Road
By Jim Ross
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-5199-1 208 Pages
In this handsome volume, Route 66 authority and veteran writer and
photographer Jim Ross examines the origins and history of the bridges of
Americas most famous highway, structures designed to overcome obstacles
to travel, many of them engineered with architectural aesthetics now lost
to time. Featuring hundreds of photographs, Route 66 Crossings showcases
bridges between Chicago and Santa Monica and provides schematics, maps,
and global coordinates to help readers identify and locate them.
Sea of Sand
A History of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
By Michael M. Geary
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5210-3 296 Pages
Sculpted into graceful contours by countless centuries of wind and water, the
Great Sand Dunes sprawl along the eastern fringes of the vast San Luis Valley
of south-central Colorado. In Sea of Sand, Michael M. Geary guides readers on
a historical journey through this unique ecosystem, which includes an array of
natural and cultural wonders, from the main dunefield and verdant wetlands
to the summits of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
Show Town
Theater and Culture in the Pacific Northwest, 18901920
By Holly George
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5435-0 280 Pages
Like many western boomtowns at the turn of the twentieth century,
Spokane, Washington, enjoyed a lively theatrical scene, ranging from plays,
concerts, and operas to salacious variety and vaudeville shows. Lucidly
written and meticulously researched, Show Town is a groundbreaking work of
cultural history. By examining one citys theatrical scenein all its complex
dimensionsthis book expands our understanding of the forces that shaped
the urban American West.
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Twentieth-Century Oklahoma
Reflections on the Forty-Sixth State
By Richard Lowitt
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4910-3 424 Pages
Whether discussing environmental and cultural ecology or plumbing the
politics of Fort Sills entry into the missile age, Lowitts articles are broad
in scope and unsparing in detail. All based on the authors research in the
Western History Collections at the University of Oklahoma, these essays
form an invaluable historical repository, put into clarifying context by one of
Oklahomas most respected historians.
Wyoming Grasslands
Photographs by Michael P. Berman and William S. Sutton
By Frank H. Goodyear, Jr., and Charles R. Preston
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4853-3 232 Pages
In eloquent words and pictures, including a foreword by environmental
historian Dan Flores, Wyoming Grasslands offers dramatic proof of how the
land that inspired the likes of Audubon and Bierstadt, while having altered
over time, still holds and demands our attention.
Calamity Jane
A Readers Guide
By Richard W. Etulain
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4871-7 280 Pages
Richard W. Etulain, renowned western-U.S. historian and the author of a
recent biography of this charismatic figure, enumerates and assesses the most
valuable sources on Calamity Janes life and legend in newspapers, magazines,
journals, books, and movies, as well as historical and government archives.
Californio Portraits
Baja Californias Vanishing Culture
By Harry W. Crosby
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4869-4 304 Pages
This updated and expanded version of Crosbys now-classic Last of the
Californios incorporates the fruits of further investigation into the Californios
lives and history, by Crosby and others. Californio Portraits combines history
and sociology to provide an in-depth view of a culture that has managed to
survive dramatic changes.
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Colorado
A Historical Atlas
By Thomas J. Noel
Cartography by Carol Zuber-Mallison
$39.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4184-8 368 Pages
This is a thoroughly revised edition of the Historical Atlas of Colorado, which was
coauthored by Tom Noel and published in 1994. Chock-full of the best and
latest information on Colorado, this new edition features thirty new chapters,
updated text, more than 100 color maps and 100 color photos, and a bestof listing of Colorado authors and books, as well as a guide to hundreds of
tourist attractions.
Imagined Frontiers
Contemporary America and Beyond
By Carl Abbott
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4836-6 270 Pages
In Imagined Frontiers, urban historian and popular culture scholar Carl Abbott
looks at the work of American artists who have used novels, film, television,
maps, and occasionally even performance art to explore frontiersthe
metropolitan frontier of suburban development, the classic continental
frontier of American settlement, and the yet unrealized frontiers beyond
Earth.
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Life in a Corner
Cultural Episodes in Southeastern Utah, 18801950
By Robert S. McPherson
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4691-1 304 Pages
Robert S. McPherson, the regions leading historian, draws on oral history
and personal archives to write about cowboys and homesteaders, loggers
and sawmill operators, law enforcement officers and bootleggers, miners
and midwives, trappers and builders. In Life in a Corner, he shapes their stories
into a fascinating mosaic of cultural and environmental history unique to this
region.
Listening to Rosita
The Business of Tejana Music and Culture, 19301955
By Mary Ann Villarreal
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4852-6 216 Pages
In Listening to Rosita, Villarreal seeks answers by pursuing the story of a small
group of Tejana singers and entrepreneurs in Corpus Christi, Houston,
and San Antoniothe Texas Triangleduring the mid-twentieth century.
Ultimately she recovers a social world and cultural landscape in central south
Texas where Mexican American women negotiated the shifting boundaries of
race and economics to assert a public presence.
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Wahb
The Biography of a Grizzly
By Ernest Thompson Seton
Edited by Jeremy M. Johnston and Charles R. Preston
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-5082-6 240 Pages
First published more than a century ago, The Biography of a Grizzly recounts
the life of a fictitious bear named Wahb who lived and died in the Greater
Yellowstone region. This new edition combines Ernest Thompson Setons
classic tale and original illustrations with historical and scientific context for
Wahbs story, providing a thorough understanding of the setting, cultural
connections, biology, and ecology of Setons best-known book.
Winters Hawk
Red-tails on the Southern Plains
By James Lish
$24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4835-9 192 Pages
Winters Hawk introduces the reader to the Red-tailed Hawks biology, social
behavior, and useful role in limiting destructive rodent populations. In sharing
many anecdotes from his long experience in the field, Lish describes the
hunting techniquesof Red-tails, their competition with other raptors, and
their behavior in the presence of human observers.
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Literature
Chenoo
A Novel
By Joseph Bruchac
$16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-5207-3 224 Pages
Bruchac ratchets the tension from the first page to the last in this detective
novel that pairs comedy and action with serious consideration of corporate
greed, environmental destruction, cultural erosion, and other modern-day
issues pressing Native peoples.
Poke a Stick at It
Unexpected True Stories
By Connie Cronley
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-5395-7 256 Pages
In this collection of true stories, Cronley pokes fun at everythingincluding
herselfas she delights in the world around her. With her trademark downhome humor, Cronley takes on a range of subjects as broad as the Oklahoma
prairies. No subject is off-limits as the author casts her curious eye on vampire
literature, gay insects, air-dried laundry, Emily Post etiquette, and impossible
dogs. As she says, Its a big world and theres a lot to know.
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Wil Usdi
Thoughts from the Asylum, a Cherokee Novella
By Robert J. Conley
$14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4659-1 160 Pages
Adopted into the Cherokee tribe as a teenager, William Holland Thomas
(18051893), known to the Cherokees as Wil Usdi (Little Will), went on to
have a distinguished career as lawyer, politician, and soldier. He spent the last
decades of his life in a mental hospital, where the pioneering ethnographer
James Mooney interviewed him extensively about Cherokee lifeways. The true
story of Wil Usdis life forms the basis for this historical novella, the final
published work of fiction by the late award-winning Cherokee author Robert
J. Conley.
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At Swords Point, Part 2
A Documentary History of the Utah War, 18581859
Edited by William P. MacKinnon
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-386-8 704 Pages
Drawing on author-editor William P. MacKinnons half-century of research
and a wealth of carefully selected new material, At Swords Point presents
the first full history of the conflict through the voices of participants
leaders, soldiers, and civilians from both sides. MacKinnons lively narrative,
continued in this second volume, links and explains these firsthand accounts
to produce the most detailed, in-depth, and balanced view of the war to date.
Road to War
The 1871 Yellowstone Surveys
Edited by M. John Lubetkin
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-429-2 312 Pages
Road to War tells the fascinating story of the inevitable clash of wills between
a fierce, proud people fighting to retain their traditional way of life and
a devout man who, with the full support of President Ulysses S. Grants
administration and the U.S. Army, was intent on carrying out what he
believed to be Gods will and Americas destiny.
Before Custer
Surveying the Yellowstone, 1872
Edited by M. John Lubetkin
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-431-5 328 Pages
The firsthand accounts of the Northern Pacific Railroads 1872 survey of the
Yellowstone Valley, compiled by M. John Lubetkin, document the surveys
three-month struggle with the Lakotas and other Plains Indian people. Before
Custer tells the story of a military and public relations disaster. Much to the
surprised dismay of U.S. Army strategists and railroad executives, the Indians
repeatedly harrassed army forces of nearly a thousand men.
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Californio Lancers
The 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry in the Far West, 18631866
By Tom Prezelski
$32.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-436-0 248 Pages
More than 16,000 Californians served as soldiers in the Union Army during the
Civil War. One California unit, the 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry, consisted
largely of Californio Hispanic volunteers from the Cow Counties of Southern
California and the Central Coast. Out-of-work vaqueros who enlisted after
drought decimated the herds they worked, the Native Cavalrymen lent the
army their legendary horsemanship and carried lances that evoked both the
romance of the Californios and the Spanish military tradition. Californio Lancers,
the first detailed history of the 1st Battalion, illuminates their role in the
conflict and brings new diversity to Civil War history.
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Daschle vs. Thune
Anatomy of a High-Plains Senate Race
By Jon K. Lauck
$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3850-3 348 Pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5350-6 348 Pages
Daschle vs. Thune moves beyond the nitty-gritty of public policy to deftly show
how the recent past continues to shape the ongoing political battles that
animate pundits and bloggers. It is a compelling story told by a writer who
knows both his home ground and how it fits into the wider U.S. context.
Forty-Seventh Star
New Mexicos Struggle for Statehood
By David V. Holtby
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4282-1 384 Pages
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-5593-7 384 Pages
Forty-Seventh Star recounts in detail, and for the first time, why and how even
so powerful an advocate as Theodore Roosevelt failed to secure New Mexico
statehood whereas his successor Taft prevailed. In the end, the deciding
factor had less to do with the merits of the case than with congressional and
presidential politics.
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Free to Be Mohawk
Indigenous Education at the Akwesasne Freedom School
By Louellyn White
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4865-6 240 Pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5154-0 240 Pages
In 1979, traditional Mohawks asserted their sovereign rights to selfeducation. Concern over the loss of language and culture and clashes with
the public school system over who had the right to educate their children
sparked the birth of the Akwesasne Freedom School (AFS) and its grassroots,
community-based approach. In Free to Be Mohawk, Louellyn White traces
the history of the AFS, a tribally controlled school operated without direct
federal, state, or provincial funding, and explores factors contributing to its
longevity and its impact on alumni, students, teachers, parents, and staff.
Gunfighter in Gotham
Bat Mastersons New York City Years
By Robert K. DeArment
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4263-0 304 Pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4414-6 304 Pages
In Gunfighter in Gotham, DeArment tells how Bat Masterson built a second
career from a column in the New York Morning Telegraph. Bats articles
not only covered sports but also reflected his outspoken opinions on war,
crime, politics, and a changing society. As his renown as a boxing expert
grew, his opinions were picked up by other newspaper editors and reprinted
throughout the country and abroad. He counted President Theodore
Roosevelt among his friends and readers.
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Motoring West
Volume 1: Automobile Pioneers, 19001909
Edited by Peter J. Blodgett
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-383-7 360 Pages
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5595-1 360 Pages
Documenting the very beginning of Americans love affair with the
automobile, the pieces in this volumethe first of a planned multivolume
seriesoffer a panorama of motoring travelers visions of the burgeoning
West in the first decade of the twentieth century.
Restoring a Presence
American Indians and Yellowstone National Park
By Peter Nabokov and Lawrence Loendorf
$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5346-9 400 Pages
Restoring a Presence is illustrated with historical and contemporary
photographs and maps and features narratives on subjects ranging from
traditional Indian uses of plant, mineral, and animal resources to conflicts
involving the Nez Perce, Bannock, and Sheep Eater peoples.
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Tombstone, A.T.
A History of Early Mining, Milling, and Mayhem
By Wm. B. Shillingberg
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5399-5 404 Pages
William B. Shillingberg rediscovers the real Tombstone in this historical tourde-force. The rough mining town of boomers and investors, of hard men and
women seeking their fortunes, comes to life with startling clarity. Tombstone,
A.T.: A History of Early Mining, Milling, and Mayhem relates true tales of those who
founded and built the town, including the infamous Earps and Clantons.
Verne Sankey
Americas First Public Enemy
By Timothy W. Bjorkman
$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3853-4 288 Pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5591-3 288 Pages
Verne Sankey: Americas First Public Enemy is a riveting narrative set amid the
Great Depression. Bjorkmans research painstakingly reveals the life and
times of Verne Sankey, delving into the intriguing story of the family of his
kidnapping victim, Charles Boettcher II, and the stark contrast between
wealth and poverty during some of Americas most harrowing days.
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Bret Harte
Opening the American Literary West
By Gary Scharnhorst
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3254-9 276 Pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5351-3 276 Pages
The first Harte biography in nearly seventy years to be written entirely from
primary sources, this book documents Hartes personal relationships and,
in addition, his negotiations with various publishers, agents, and theatrical
producers as he exploited popular interest in the American West.
Testimonios
Early California through the Eyes of Women, 18151848
Edited and Translated by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
$26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4872-4 508 Pages
Testimonios presents thirteen womens firsthand accounts from the days when
California was part of Spain and Mexico. Having lived through the gold rush
and seen their country change so drastically, these women understood the
need to tell the full story of the people and the places that were
their California.
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American West
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