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American West
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CONTENTS

American Indian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Art & Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Biography & Memoir. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Forthcoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

For more than eighty-five years, the University of Oklahoma Press has
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On the front and in the catalog:: William F. Cody Seated with Quirt and Rifle, Elliott and Fry (photographers), London,
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American Indian
American Indian Education, 2nd Edition
A History
By Jon Reyhner and Jeanne Eder
$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5776-4 408 Pages
The history of American Indian education from colonial times to the present
relates how Euro-Americans disrupted and suppressed Native cultural
practices, and Indians actively pursued and preserved them. American Indian
Education recounts that history from early missionary and government schools
to recent efforts to return school control to Indigenous peoples.

Both Sides of the Bullpen

Navajo Trade and Posts
By Robert S. McPherson
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5745-0 376 Pages
Between 1880 and 1940, Navajo and Ute families and westward-trending
Anglos met in bullpens of southwestern trading posts to barter for goods,
and a wealth of cultural knowledge also changed hands. McPherson reveals
how Navajo tradition defined trading practices in the Four Corners area of
southeastern Utah and southwestern Colorado.

Thats What They Used to Say

Reflections on American Indian Oral Traditions
By Donald L. Fixico
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5775-7 272 Pages
Fixico invites readers to learn how storytelling, legends and prophecies, oral
histories, and creation myths knit together and explain the Indian world. His
stories conjure war heroes and ghosts, inspire fear and laughter, explain the
past and foresee the futureand skillfully connect personal, familial, tribal,
and Native history.

The Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma

Resilience through Adversity
Edited by Stephen Warren
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5744-3 384 Pages
Non-Indians have amassed records of Shawnee leaders dating back to the
French and Indian War and War of 1812, but their descendants stories are
largely ignored. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century experiences,
Warren presents a new brand of history made possible by tribal community
research centers and digital age resources.

Land Too Good for Indians

Northern Indian Removal
By John P. Bowes
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5965-2 320 Pages
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5212-7 320 Pages
In expanding the context of removal to include the Old Northwest, and
adding a portrait of Native communities there before, during, and after
removal, Bowes paints a more accurateand complicatedpicture of
American Indian history in the nineteenth century. Land Too Good for Indians
reveals the deeper complexities of this crucial time in American history.
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Webs of Kinship
Family in Northern Cheyenne Nationhood
By Christina Gish Hill
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5601-9 400 Pages
Hill focuses on Cheyennes who lived alongside Dull Knife, Little Wolf, Little
Chief, and Two Moons to reveal the role of kinship in the tribes navigation of
U.S. colonial policy during removal and the early reservation period. Kinship
safeguarded Cheyenne political autonomy in the face of U.S. encroachment,
allowing them to shape their own story.

Crow Jesus
Personal Stories of Native Religious Belonging
Edited by Mark Clatterbuck
Foreword by Jace Weaver
$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5587-6 280 Pages
Clatterbuck explores contemporary Native Christianity by listening as
indigenous voices narrate their stories on their own terms. His collection
reveals a tribe that has adopted Christian beliefs and practices in such a way
that simple designations of religious belongingwhether Christian, Sun
Dancer, or Peyotistare seldom, if ever, adequate.

Reservation Politics
Historical Trauma, Economic Development, and Intratribal Conflict
By Raymond I. Orr
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5391-9 256 Pages
For American Indians, tribal politics are paramount, determining standards
for tribal enrollment, guiding negotiations with outside governments, and
helping set economic and cultural goals. Exploring how different tribes
politics and internal conflicts have evolved, Reservation Politics offers insight
into the role of historical experience in the political lives of American Indians.

The Erosion of Tribal Power

The Supreme Courts Silent Revolution
By Dewi Ioan Ball
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5565-4 400 Pages
The Erosion of Tribal Power shines much-needed light on crucial changes to
federal Indian law between 1959 and 2001 and discusses how tribes have
dealt with the political and economic consequences of the Courts decisions.
Proponents of tribal sovereignty now consider the U.S. Supreme Court to
be the most dangerous branch of government. In The Erosion of Tribal Power,
Dewi Ball explains why. He shows how the Courts decisions have stripped
tribal governments of significant criminal, civil, and taxation authority, with
devastating effects in Indian Country.Blake Watson, author of Buying
American from the Indians: Johnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native Land Rights

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.
In Ioway Life, Greg Olson does a superb job of filling in important gaps left
by previous scholars regarding the outcome of federal paternalistic policy
implemented among the Ioways on their reservation from 1837 to 1860.
William E. Unrau, author of The Rise and Fall of Indian Country, 18251855
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Red Bird, Red Power

The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-a
By Tadeusz Lewandowski
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5178-6 288 Pages
Red Bird, Red Power tells the story of one of the most influentialand
controversialAmerican Indian activists of the twentieth century. Zitkala-a
(18761938), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a highly gifted
writer, editor, and musician who dedicated her life to achieving justice for
Native peoples.

Serving the Nation

Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 18001907
By Julie L. Reed
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5224-0 376 Pages
Offering insights gleaned from reconsidered and overlooked historical
sources, this book enhances our understanding of the history and workings of
social welfare policy and services, not only in the Cherokee Nation but also in
the United States.

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 century-
long 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.

Art & Photography

Paul Pletka
Imagined Wests
By Amy Scott
Contributions by Paul Pletka
Foreword by James K. Ballinger
$65.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-5721-4 248 Pages
Paul Pletkas paintings owe much to the West of his childhood, and more
to the West of his imagination. Here readers encounter more than eighty
color reproductions, including images of warriors and shamans paired with
depictions of George Armstrong Custer, Christian saints, and the lost gods of
North and South America.
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Walter Ufer
Rise, Fall, Resurrection
By Dean A. Porter
$29.95 Paper 978-0-932154-74-3 112 pages
Porter examines the life and work of one of Americas most talented artists,
relatively unknown outside a circle of collectors and scholars. Born in
Germany, Ufer became a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists.
His career, spanning nearly forty years, was filled with success, failure, and
adversity.

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The Best of Proctors West
An In-Depth Study of Eleven of Proctors Bronzes
By Peter H. Hassrick
Contributions by Karen B. McWhorter and Allison Rosenthal
$25.00 Paper 978-0-931618-71-0 112 Pages
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West houses an extensive collection of material
on sculptor Alexander Phimister Proctor (18601950), which inspired this
study of eleven of his most celebrated bronzes: Fawn, Stalking Panther, Arab
Stallion, Indian Warrior, Moose, Elk, Q Street Buffalo, Buckaroo, Pursued, Buffalo
Hunt, and On the War Path.

Lakota Performers in Europe

Their Culture and the Artifacts They Left Behind
By Steve Friesen
With Francois Chladiuk
Foreword by Walter Littlemoon
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5696-5 304 Pages
In 1935 Belgium fifteen Lakotas, wearing beaded moccasins and eagle-
feather headdresses, set up tepees, danced, and demonstrated marksmanship
and horse taming for twenty million visitors to the Brussels International
Exposition, leaving behind 157 pieces of Lakota culture. Friesen tells the story
of these forgotten artifacts, and the Lakota performers.

Smoke over Oklahoma

The Railroad Photographs of Preston George
By Augustus J. Veenendaal
Foreword by Bob L. Blackburn
Afterword by Burnis George Argo
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-5568-5
Oklahoma was in the Great Depression when Preston George took his first
Kodak photographs of steam locomotives. Later, George used a Graflex
camera to capture moving trains. With over 150 images and a wealth of
history, Smoke Over Oklahoma is a visual documentary of steam railroadings
glorious heyday in the American Southwest.

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Frederick Weygold
Artist and Ethnographer of North American Indians
Edited by Christian F. Feest and C. Ronald Corum
$29.95s Cloth 978-3-9818412-0-6 272 Pages
Frederick Weygold (18701941), American artist and self-trained
ethnographer, became fascinated with American Indians, taught himself
the Lakota language, and began his lifelong study of Native American art.
This lavishly illustrated volume features his work as a painter, illustrator,
photographer, and collector of American Indian art and artifacts.
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Picturing Indian Territory

Portraits of the Land That Became Oklahoma, 18191907
Edited by B. Byron Price
$34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-5577-7 160 Pages
Some of the artworks featured in this volume have never before been
displayed. Many were completed by illustrators on-site, while other artists
relied on written accounts and vivid imaginations. Whatever their origin, these
depictions of the people, places, and events of Indian Country defined
the region for contemporary American and European audiences. Today they
provide a rich visual record of a key era of western and Oklahoma history
and of the ways that art has defined this important cultural crossroads.

Wild Spaces, Open Seasons

Hunting and Fishing in American Art
Edited by Kevin Sharp
$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5463-3 204 Pages
In their depictions of the hunt or the catch, American artists connected
a dynamic and developing nation to its past and its future. Through the
examination of major works of art, Wild Spaces, Open Seasons brings to light an
often-overlooked theme in American painting and sculpture.

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 high-
quality photographs that have not been seen before, Portrait of Route 66 will be
irresistible to all who are interested in American history and culture.

Shifting Views and Changing Places

The Photographs of Rick Dingus
By Rick Dingus
Edited by Peter S. Briggs
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5281-3 224 Pages
Landscape is always with us, deceptively simple, yet capable of providing
something much more. By examining the rich variety of Dinguss work and
reflecting on the evolution of ideas that lie behind it, Shifting Views and Changing
Places invites readers to critically examine the pursuit of seeing.

Our Indian Summer in the Far West

An Autumn Tour of Fifteen Thousand Miles in Kansas, Texas,
New Mexico, Colorado, and the Indian Territory
By Samuel Nugent Townshend
Edited by Alex Hunt and Kristin Lloyd
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-8702-0 200 Pages
The recovery and republication of this extremely rare volume, an artifact of
the Victorian American West, make available an important primary document
of a brief but pivitol moment connecting the American West and British
Empire.

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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
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.

Frederic Remington
A Catalogue Raisonn II
Edited by Peter H. Hassrick
$75.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-5208-0 328 Pages
One of Americas most popular and influential American artists, Frederic
Remington (18611909) is renowned for his depictions of the Old West.
Through paintings, drawings, and sculptures, he immortalized a dynamic
world of cowboys and American Indians, hunters and horses, landscapes
and wildlife. Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonn II is a comprehensive
presentation of the artists body of flat work, both in print and on this books
companion website.

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

Narrating the Landscape

Print Culture and American Expansion in the Nineteenth Century
By Matthew N. Johnston
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5223-3 248 Pages
Revealing the crucial role of print and visual culture in shaping the nineteenth-
century United States, Narrating the Landscape offers fresh insight into the
landscapes Americans beheld and imagined in this formative era.

Photographing Custers Battlefield

The Images of Kenneth F. Roahen
By Sandy Barnard
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5159-5 280 Pages
In Photographing Custers Battlefield, Sandy Barnard, an expert on Custer and the
Little Big Horn, presents the work of the sites most dedicated photographer,
U.S. Fish and Game agent Kenneth F. Roahen (18881976), revealing further
mysteries of the battlefield and showing how it has changed.
Kenneth Roahens photography is a significant record, and Sandy Barnards
presentation and assessment of it make Photographing Custers Battlefield rich,
enlightening, and thoroughly rewarding.Jerome A. Greene, author of
Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn since 1876
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PROVO, UTAH, AND THE STARK MUSEUM OF ART, ORANGE, TEXAS.

Branding the American West

Paintings and Films, 19001950
Edited by Marian Wardle and Sarah E. Boehme
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5291-2 240 Pages
Artists and filmmakers in the early twentieth century reshaped our vision
of the American West. In particular, the Taos Society of Artists and the
California-based artist Maynard Dixon departed from the legendary depiction
of the Wild West and fostered new images, or brands, for western art. This
volume, illustrated with more than 150 images, examines select paintings
and films to demonstrate how these artists both enhanced and contradicted
earlier representations of the West.

A Place in the Sun

The Southwest Paintings of Walter Ufer and E. Martin Hennings
By Thomas Brent Smith
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-5198-4 208 Pages
Connoisseurs of southwestern art have long admired the masterworks of
Ufer and Hennings. By offering a rich sampling of their paintings alongside
informative essays by noted art historians, A Place in the Sun ensures that their
significant contributions to American art will be long remembered.

Biography & Memoir

Portrait of a Prospector
Edward Schieffelins Own Story
Edited by R. Bruce Craig
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5773-3 136 Pages
Edward Ed Schieffelin (18471897) was an American frontiersman. A
former Indian scout, he discovered the legendary Tombstone, Arizona, silver
lode in 1877. Unlike typical prospectors futilely panning for gold, Schieffelin
led an epic life of wealth and adventure. Craig tells Schieffelins story in his
own words.

Woody Guthries Modern World Blues

By Will Kaufman
$32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5761-0 328 Pages
Mention Woody Guthrie, and people are likely to think of the Okie Bard.
Here Kaufman brings to the fore Guthries essays, visual art, letters, verse,
fiction, and notebook entries to reveal his profoundly modern sensibilities.
Woody Guthries Modern World Blues offers a unique new perspective on a
musical icon.

Orozco
The Life and Death of a Mexican Revolutionary
By Raymond Caballero
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5755-9 352 Pages
On August 31, 1915, a Texas posse lynched five horse thieves. One was
General Pascual Orozco Jr., military hero of the Mexican Revolution. Was
he a desperado or a hero? Orozcos death proved as controversial as his
storied life, a career of mysterious contradictions that Caballero reveals in this
biography.
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Ernest Haycox and the Western

By Richard W. Etulain
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5730-6 200 Pages
Western fans may not recognize the name Ernest Haycox (18991950),
but John Ford turned one of his stories into the iconic film Stagecoach. Here
Etulain tells of Haycoxs rise through the ranks of popular magazine and serial
fiction to become one of the Westerns most successful creators.

Walking the Llano

A Texas Memoir of Place
By Shelley Armitage
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-5963-8 216 Pages
$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-5162-5 216 Pages
Reminiscent of the work of memoirists Terry Tempest Williams and John
McPhee, Walking the Llano is both a celebration of an oft-overlooked region
and a soaring testimony to the power of the landscape to draw us into greater
understanding of ourselves and others by experiencing a deeper connection
with the places we inhabit.
In Walking the Llano, Shelley Armitage does for the Staked Plains what John
McPhee did for the Northern Plains in Rising from the Plains. She carefully mines
the history, character, and geology of the Llano Estacado and combines it
with a compelling personal narrative to create an account that flows with
lyricism, authenticity, and wisdom. A splendid and clear-eyed book.
Nancy Curtis, coeditor of Leaning into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of
the West

Emory Upton
Misunderstood Reformer
By David J. Fitzpatrick
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5720-7 344 Pages
Emory Upton (18391881) worksThe Armies of Asia and Europe and The
Military Policy of the United Statesfueled army changes in the late nineteenth
century and Secretary of War Elihu Roots reforms in the early 1900s.
Fitzpatrick radically revises our view of this important figure in American
military thought.

Most American
Notes from a Wounded Place
By Rilla Askew
Foreword by Susan Kates
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-5717-7 184 Pages
In her first nonfiction collection, Askew casts an unflinching eye on American
history, past and present. With a gift for storytelling, she portrays a place and
its people: resilient and ruthless, decent but self-deceiving, generous yet filled
with prejudicethe best and the worst of what it means to be American.

Frank Little and the IWW

The Blood That Stained an American Family
By Jane L. Botkin
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5500-5 512 Pages
Franklin Henry Little (18781917), an organizer for Western Federation of
Miners and Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), fought in some of the
early twentieth centurys most contentious labor and free-speech struggles.
Jane Little Botkin chronicles her great-granduncles fascinating life, revealing
connections to American labor history and the Red Scare.
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J. C. Penney
The Man, the Store, and American Agriculture
By David Delbert Kruger
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5716-0 360 Pages
What is now JCPenney started out as a small-town Main Street store, fusing its
founders interests in agriculture, retail business, religion, and philanthropy. This
biography of James Cash Penney, and story of the company he started in 1902,
reveals the agrarian roots of an American department store chain.

John Joseph Mathews

Life of an Osage Writer
By Michael Snyder
Foreword by Russ Tall Chief
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5609-5 280 Pages
John Joseph Mathews (18941979), Osage Indian and revered Oklahoma
author, was one of the first Indigenous writers to gain national renown. Yet his
fame did not come easily. Snyder tells the story of one remarkable individual,
the Osage Nation, state of Oklahoma, and twentieth-century Native America.

House Built on Ashes

A Memoir
By Jos Antonio Rodrguez
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-5501-2 208 Pages
The year, 2009, and Jos Antonio Rodrguez is packing to spend Thanksgiving
with his parents in South Texas. He soon learns that a drug cartel has overtaken
the Mexican border village where he was born. Poignant and lyrical, House
Built on Ashes contemplates the promises, limitations, and contradictions of the
American Dream.

Americas Best Female Sharpshooter

The Rise and Fall of Lillian Frances Smith
By Julia Bricklin
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5633-0 224 Pages
California Girl Lillian Frances Smith (18711930) was Annie Oakleys chief
competitor in the world of Wild West shows female shooters. But the two
women were quite different. This lively first biography chronicles the Wild West
show biz life Smith led and explores the talents that made her a star.

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 down-
home 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.

Montanas Pioneer Naturalist

Morton J. Elrod
By George M. Dennison
$26.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5436-7 280 Pages
In this biography of a prominent scientist now almost forgotten, George M.
Dennisonlongtime president of the University of Montanademonstrates how
Elrods scholarship and philosophy regarding science and nature made him one
of Montanas most distinguished naturalists, conservationists, and educators.
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New Deal Cowboy

Gene Autry and Public Diplomacy
By Michael Duchemin
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5392-6 328 Pages
New Deal Cowboy enhances our understanding of Gene Autry as a western folk
hero who, during critical times of economic recovery and international crisis,
readily assumed the role of public diplomat, skillfully using his talents to
persuade a marginalized populace to embrace a nationalist agenda.

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.

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.

Fiction
The Book of Archives and Other Stories from
the Mora Valley, New Mexico
By A. Gabriel Melndez
Foreword by Robert Con Davis-Undiano
Paper 978-0-8061-5584-5 248 Pages
In the shadow of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexicos Mora Valley
harbors the ghosts of history: troubadours and soldiers, Plains Indians,
settlers, families fleeing and finding home. Villagers collect their history in
The Book of Archives. In this pathbreaking dual-language volume, Melndez
retells Mora Valleys tales for our time.

Frank on the Prairie

By Harry Castlemon
Illustrated by Charles M. Russell
Introduction by Thomas A. Petrie
Notes by Thomas Minckler
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-5743-6 280 Pages
In 1903 famed Cowboy Artist Charles M. Russell gave his nephew Austin
the boys adventure book Frank on the Prairie with extraordinary enhancements.
Actually, Uncle Charlie had borrowed Austins copy, adding original
illustrations. This facsimile edition of that rare book features little-known
works by the artist.
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The Mexican Flyboy

By Alfredo Vea
$19.95 Paper 9780806187037 384 Pages
What if we could travel back in time to save our heroes from painful deaths
or rewrite history? The Mexican Flyboy swoops readers from the jungles
of Southeast Asia to the vineyards of Northern California, from Ethel
Rosenbergs execution to Joan of Arcs pyre, in a tale of justice, regret, and
redemption.
[Alfredo] Va dives into magical realism headfirst in this hallucinatory
fantasy that reads like a blend of John Steinbeck and Robert A. Heinlein. It's
a dizzying novel that combines Vas solid prose style with a vivid imagination
and an authentic cultural brio. A lush fantasy in which a man must unwind
time itself to right the world's wrongs.Kirkus Reviews

The Sorrows of Young Alfonso

By Rudolfo Anaya
$24.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-5226-4 232 Pages
The world is full of sorrow, Agapita whispered to Alfonso. Alfonsos story
begins when the curandera Agapita delivers these haunting words into his
infant ear. Charting Alfonsos journey from childhood through his education
and evolution as a writer, Anaya invites readers to reflect on mysteries of the
human condition.

History
The Popular Frontier
Buffalo Bills Wild West and Transnational Mass Culture
Edited by Frank Christianson
$32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5894-5 264 Pages
William F. Cody introduced his Wild West exhibition to European audiences
in 1887. With its colorful portrayal of cowboys, Indians, and taming the
frontier, Buffalo Bills Wild West popularized a myth of American identity that
shaped European perceptions. Christianson explores the transnational impact
and mass-cultural appeal of Codys Wild West.

Women of Empire
Nineteenth-Century Army Officers Wives in India and the U.S. West
By Verity McInnis
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5774-0 296 Pages
Although their roles were circumscribed, wives of army officers stationed
in British India and the U.S. West commanded considerable influence.
Redefining officers wives as power holders and active contributors to
national prestige, McInnis opens a nuanced perspective on the colonial
experienceand the nexus of gender, race, and imperial practice.

Dukes of Duval County

The Parr Family and Texas Politics
By Anthony R. Carrozza
$32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5771-9 440 pages
The notorious Parr family manipulated local politics in South Texas for
more than seventy years. In this first comprehensive study of the Parr family,
Carrozza reveals the innermost workings of the Parr dynasty, a political
machine that drove South Texas politics and critically influenced the course of
the nation.
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Blood on the Marias

The Baker Massacre
By Paul R. Wylie
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-5157-1 336 Pages
$21.95 Paper 978-0-8061-5974-4 336 Pages
While other scholars have written about the Baker Massacre in related
contexts, Blood on the Marias gives this infamous event the definitive treatment
it deserves. Bakers inept command lit the spark of violence, but decades of
tension between Piegans and whites set the stage for a brutal and too-often-
forgotten incident.

From Praha to Prague

Czechs in an Oklahoma Farm Town
By Philip D. Smith
$21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5746-7 208 Pages
Around the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Czechs left their
homelands in Bohemia and Moravia and came to the United States. Smith
examines how the Czechs who founded and settled in Prague, Oklahoma,
embraced the economic and cultural activities of their American hometown
while maintaining their ethnic identity

Wars for Empire

Apaches, the United States, and the Southwest Borderlands
By Janne Lahti
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5742-9 328 Pages
After the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, the Southwest Borderlands remained
hotly contested. Over decades, the U.S. government exerted control by
containing, destroying, and deporting indigenous peoplesconducting
a military campaign to capture Geronimo and forcefully remove the
Chiricahua Apaches in 1886. Lahti offers a new perspective on one of
Americas longest wars.

Writing Arizona, 19122012

A Cultural and Environmental Chronicle
By Kim Engel-Pearson
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5738-2 308 Pages
From Arizonas statehood to its 2012 centennial, narratives of Arizona and
its landscape have revealedand reconfiguredthe states image. Through
state and federal publications, newspapers, novels, poetry, autobiographies,
and magazines, Engel-Pearson examines Arizona narratives that reflect both a
century of Euro-American dominance and a diverse and multilayered cultural
landscape.

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The Great Medicine Road, Part 3
Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails,
18501855
Edited by Michael L. Tate
Contributions by Kerin Tate, Will Bagley, and Richard Rieck
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-435-3 312 Pages
After the discovery of gold in California, thousands of fortune seekers headed
west, joining the greatest mass migration in American history. The firsthand
accounts of travelers between 1850 and 1855 collected in this volume (the
third in a four-part series) speak of wonders and adventures, but also disaster
and deprivation.
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Depredation and Deceit

The Making of the Jicarilla and Ute Wars in New Mexico
By Gregory F. Michno
$32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5769-6 336 Pages
Trade and Intercourse Acts passed by Congress (17961834) set up a system
for individuals to receive monetary compensation from the government
for property stolen or destroyed by American Indians. As Michno reveals,
by the end of the Mexican-American War, both Anglo-Americans and
Nuevomexicanos became experts in exploiting this system.

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Out Where the West Begins, Volume 2
Creating and Civilizing the American West
By Philip F. Anschutz
$34.95 Cloth 978-0-9905502-1-1 392 Pages
The second volume in this saga follows more than one hundred influential
men and womenpolitical and military leaders, religious thinkers, civil
rights proponents, suffragettes, African American pioneers, writers and
artists, explorers and surveyors, architects, inventors, innovators, medical
professionals, and conservationistswho together wove the story of western
frontier America.

Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight

Indian Views
Edited by John H. Monnett
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5582-1 248 Pages
On December 21, 1866, a force of 1,500 to 2,000 Oglala, Lakota, Northern
Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors annihilated a detachment of 79 infantry and
cavalry soldiers. With no U.S. military survivors, the only eyewitness accounts
came from Lakotas and Cheyennes. Monnett presents these Native views and
newly discovered interviews with Oglala and Cheyenne warriors and leaders.

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Utah and the American Civil War
The Written Record
Edited by Kenneth L. Alford
$60.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-441-4 864 Pages
When Fort Sumter was attacked in April 1861, hundreds of soldiers were
stationed at the U.S. Armys Camp Floyd, southwest of Salt Lake City. The
camp, established in June 1858, was the nations largest military post. Alford
presents a wealth of primary sources on the territorys participation in the
Civil War.

Frontiers of Evangelization
Indians in the Sierra Gorda and Chiquitos Missions
By Robert H. Jackson
$36.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5772-6 208 Pages
Spain wanted native peoples in its American territories to be evangelized and
facilitated the establishment of Catholic missions. Drawing on over three
decades of research, Jacksons analysis of crucial archival material augments
our understanding of the role of missions in colonization, and the fate of
indigenous peoples in Spanish America.
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A Surgeon with Custer at the Little Big Horn

James DeWolfs Diary and Letters, 1876
Edited by Todd E. Harburn
Foreword by Paul A. Hutton
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5694-1 288 Pages
In spring 1876, physician James Madison DeWolf became a contract surgeon
for the Seventh Cavalry, accompanying Custers battalion at the Battle of
the Little Big Horn. Killed in the early stages of battle, DeWolf might have
become a footnote in chronicles of this epic campaignbut he left behind an
eyewitness account.

Franciscan Frontiersmen
How Three Adventurers Charted the West
By Robert A. Kittle
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-5698-9 296 Pages
Franciscan friars Pedro Font, Juan Cresp, and Francisco Garcs at first
seem improbable heroes, yet each man played an important role in Spains
eighteenth-century conquest of the Pacific coast. Drawing on the friars diaries
and correspondence, and his exhaustive field research, Kittle details the friars
striking accomplishments in American exploration.

Mountain Meadows Massacre

Collected Legal Papers
Edited by Richard E. Turley Jr., Janiece L. Johnson, and LaJean Purcell Carruth
2-Vol. Set: $130.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-5723-8 1,168 Pages
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Vol. 2: $65.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-5722-1 608 Pages
The editors of this two-volume collection of documents combed public and
private manuscript collections across the United States to reconstruct the
complex legal proceedings that occurred after the Mountains Meadows
Massacre. This exhaustively researched compilation covers a nearly forty-year
history of investigation and prosecutionfrom first reports of the massacre to
dismissal of the last indictment in 1896.

Regular Army O!
Soldiering on the Western Frontier, 18651891
By Douglas C. McChristian
Foreword by Robert M. Utley
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-5695-8 768 Pages
Forty miles a day on beans and hay in the Regular Army O! That 1874 song
captures the lot of soldiers in the West after the Civil War. McChristian uses
testimony of enlisted soldiersmore than 350 diaries, letters, and memoirs
to create a vivid picture of army life on the frontier.

Jersey Gold
The Newark Overland Companys Trek to California, 1849
By Margaret Casterline Bowen and Gwendolyn Joslin Hiles
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5714-6 384 Pages
When gold fever struck in 1849, John S. Darcyprominent physician, general,
and president of the New Jersey Railroadassembled a company to travel
overland to California. Jersey Gold tells the story of that colorful company of
some thirty stalwarts and adventurers, vividly recreating a defining chapter in
American history.
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Soldiers in the Southwest Borderlands, 18481886

By Janne Lahti
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5702-3 248 Pages
Most military biographies focus on officers, many of whom left diaries or
wrote letters throughout their lives and careers. This collection offers new
perspectives, comprised of ten biographies focusing on the lives of enlisted
soldiers from a variety of cultural and racial backgrounds, to tell common
soldiers stories.

Talking Machine West

A History and Catalogue of Tin Pan Alleys Western Recordings, 19021918
By Michael A. Amundson
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5604-0 208 Pages
Many associate Roy Rogers and Gene Autry with early western music. But
before radio, Tin Pan Alley songsters wrote the first popular cowboy and
Indian songs, circulated as piano sheet music and recordings played on wind-
up talking machines. Gorgeously illustrated, this book is as entertaining as it
is informative.

Man-Hunters of the Old West

By Robert K. DeArment
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5585-2 344 Pages
Western settlers were often easy prey for criminals and policing often
amounted to vigilante retaliation. To create a semblance of order, freelance
law enforcers known as man-hunters searched for fugitives. Often portrayed
as ruthless bounty hunters, DeArment redeems their reputations, revealing
the truth behind their fascinating legends.

Mestizos Come Home!

Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity
By Robert Con Davis-Undiano
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-5719-1 336 Pages
A landmark account of Mexican American culture, Mestizos Come Home!
documents the great awakening of Mexican American and Latino culture
since the 1960s. An argument for social justice and a renewal of Americas
democratic ideals, this book marks a historical homecoming, showing that
mestizos are essential to U.S. national culture.

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 court-
martial and Indian recollections.

Travels in North America, 18321834

A Concise Edition of the Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied
Edited by Marsha V. Gallagher
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5579-1 624 Pages
Prince Maximilian of Wieds journals are among the most important
firsthand sources documenting the early American West. This modern edition
presents a narrative of Maximilians expedition from Boston almost to the
headwaters of the Missouri in the Rocky Mountains, and back, highlighting
the expeditions most significant encounters and dramatic events.
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Civil War in the Southwest Borderlands, 18611867

By Andrew E. Masich
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5572-2 464 Pages
During the Civil War, the Southwest Borderlands saw not only Union and
Confederate forces clashing but Indians, Hispanos, and Anglos struggling
for survival, power, and dominance on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
While other scholars have examined individual battles, Masich analyzes these
conflicts as interconnected civil wars
Civil War in the Southwest Borderlands is a landmark achievement, sure to prompt
a rethinking of the transnational dimensions of the Civil War in the Far West
and the unprecedented violence of those years. For scholars and general
readers alike, this is a rare and welcome book.David Fridtjof Halaas, former
Colorado State Historian and consultant to the Northern Cheyenne Tribe

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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.

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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 participantsleaders,
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.

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.

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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Soldiering in the Shadow of Wounded Knee
The 1891 Diary of Private Hartford G. Clark, Sixth U.S. Cavalry
Edited by Jerome A. Greene
$32.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-440-7 216 Pages
Drawing on his extensive knowledge of nineteenth-century military history,
Greene offers a richly annotated version of Private Clarks remarkable original
text, replete with information on the U.S. Armys final occupation of the
American West.

Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums

Horse-Mounted Bands of the U.S. Army, 18201940
By Bruce P. Gleason
$32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5479-4 264 Pages
Noted music historian and former army musician Bruce P. Gleason follows
American horse-mounted bands from the nations military infancy through its
emergence as a world power during World War II. Touching on anthropology,
musicology, and the history of the United States and its military, Sound the
Trumpet, Beat the Drums gives a thorough and satisfying account of mounted
military bands and their cultural significance.

Hitlers Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars

Comparing Genocide and Conquest
By Edward B. Westermann
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5433-6 336 Pages
Comparative history at its best, Westermanns assessment of these two
national projects provides crucial insights into not only their rhetoric and
pronouncements but also the application of policy and ideology on the
ground. His sophisticated and nuanced revelations of the similarities and
dissimilarities between these two cases will inform further study of genocide,
as well as our understanding of the Nazi conquest of the East and the
American conquest of the West.

Sweet Freedoms Plains

African Americans on the Overland Trails, 18411869
By Shirley Ann Wilson Moore
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5562-3 384 Pages
Among the diverse peoples who converged on the western frontier were
African American pioneersmen, women, and children. Whether enslaved or
free, they too were involved in this transformative movement. Sweet Freedoms
Plains is a powerful retelling of the migration story from their perspective.

Black Cowboys in the American West

On the Range, on the Stage, behind the Badge
Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Michael N. Searles
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5406-0 256 Pages
Black cowhands remain an integral part of life in the West, the descendants
of African Americans who ventured west and helped settle and establish black
communities. This long-overdue examination of nineteenth- and twentieth-
century black cowboys ensures that they, and their many stories and
experiences, will continue to be known and told.
A fine book, Black Cowboys in the American West adds significantly to the
history of the American West, cattle ranching history, and African American
studies.Paul H. Carlson, editor of The Cowboy Way: An Exploration of History
and Culture
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Kearnys Dragoons Out West

The Birth of the U.S. Cavalry
By Will Gorenfeld and John Gorenfeld
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5394-0 480 Pages
The promises made in Kearnys well-intentioned treaty making were ultimately
broken. This detailed and in-depth look back at his legacy offers a glimpse
of a lost worldand an intriguing turning point in the history of western
expansion

Prelude to the Dust Bowl

Drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains
By Kevin Z. Sweeney
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5340-7 304 Pages
Before the drought of the early twenty-first century, the dry benchmark in
the American plains was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Prelude to the Dust Bowl
provides new insights into pivotal moments in the settlement of the southern
plains and stands as a timely reminder that drought, as part of a natural
climatic cycle, will continue to figure in the unfolding history of this region.

Mapping the Four Corners

Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875
By Robert S. McPherson and Susan Rhoades Neel
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5385-8 304 Pages
By skillfully weaving the surveyors diary entries, field notes, and
correspondence with newspaper accounts, historians Robert S. McPherson
and Susan Rhoades Neel bring the Hayden Survey to life. Mapping the Four
Corners provides an entertaining, engaging narrative of the teams experiences,
contextualized with a thoughtful introduction and conclusion.

Hang Them All

George Wright and the Plateau Indian War, 1858
By Donald L. Cutler
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5337-7 392 Pages
Col. George Wright had once appeared to respect the Indians of the Upper
Columbia Plateau, but in 1858 he led a brief war noted for its violence,
bloodshed, and summary trials and executions. Today, many critics view
his actions as war crimes, but among white settlers and politicians of the
time, Wright was a patriotic hero who helped open the Inland Northwest
to settlement. Hang Them All offers a comprehensive account of Wrights
campaigns and explores the controversy surrounding his legacy.

Doa Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition

A Seventeenth-Century New Mexican Drama
By Frances Levine
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5336-0 296 Pages
Doa Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition uncovers issues that resonate today:
conflicts between religious and secular authority; the weight of evidence
versus hearsay in court. Doa Teresas voiceset in the context of the history
of the Inquisitionis a powerful addition to the memory of that time.

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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.

Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electric Powwow

American Indian Music
By Craig Harris
$24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-5168-7 280 Pages
The many voices and sounds that weave throughout Harriss engaging,
accessible account portray a sonic landscape that defies stereotyping
and continues to expand. Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electric Powwow is the
storytold by those who live itof resisting a half-millennium of cultural
suppression to create new sounds while preserving old roots.

The Greatest Show in the Arctic

The American Exploration of Franz Josef Land, 18981905
By P. J. Capelotti
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5222-6 648 Pages
Through close study of the expeditions journals, Capelotti reveals that the
Franz Josef Land endeavors foundered chiefly because of poor leadership
and internal friction, not for lack of funding, as historians have previously
suspected. Presenting tales of noble intentions, novel inventions, and epic
miscalculations, The Greatest Show in the Arctic brings fresh life to a unique and
underappreciated story of American exploration.

Contesting the Borderlands

Interviews on the Early Southwest
By Deborah Lawrence and Jon Lawrence
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5194-6 280 Pages
To explore the regions complex past from prehistory to the U.S. takeover,
this book uses an unusual multidisciplinary approach. In interviews with ten
experts, Deborah and Jon Lawrence discuss subjects ranging from warfare
among the earliest ancestral Puebloans to intermarriage and peonage among
Spanish settlers and the Indians they encountered.

Touring the West with Leaping Lena, 1925

By W. C. Clark
Edited by David Dary
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-5228-8 300 Pages
Framed by David Darys introduction and annotations that set the story
in context, and illustrated with photographs of gas stations, roadside
attractions, and roadsters typical of the day, Touring the West with Leaping Lena
gives a firsthand glimpse into the early days of cross-country automobile
trips. Readers will enjoy its historical detail even as they realize that when it
comes to family road trips, some things havent changed.

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National Parks beyond the Nation

Global Perspectives on Americas Best Idea
Edited by Adrian Howkins, Jared Orsi, and Mark Fiege
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5225-7 336 Pages
National Parks beyond the Nation brings together the work of fifteen scholars
and writers to reveal the tremendous diversity of the global national park
experiencean experience sometimes influencing, sometimes influenced by,
and sometimes with no reference whatever to the United States.
This remarkable collection of essays reveals how national parks are so much
more than a federal network of iconic American places. Encouraging us to
consider the important transnational dimensions of park history beyond the
Best Idea paradigm, this sophisticated and nuanced collection will set a
new standard.Andrew Kirk, author of Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth
Catalog and American Environmentalism

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.

The Trial of Tom Horn

By John W. Davis
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-5218-9 368 Pages
The trial and conviction of Tom Horn marked a major milestone in the hard-
fought battle against vigilantism in Wyoming. Davis, himself a trial lawyer, has
mined court documents and newspaper articles to dissect the trial strategies
of the participating attorneys. His detailed account illuminates a larger
narrative of conflict between the power of wealth and the forces of law and
order in the West.

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.

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.
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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.

Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance

Other Sides of Civil War Texas
Edited by Jess F. de la Teja
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5182-3 296 Pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5183-0 296 Pages
Concluding with an account of the origins of Juneteenththe nationally
celebrated holiday marking June 19, 1865, when emancipation was
announced in TexasLone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance challenges
the collective historical memory of Civil War Texas and its place in both the
Confederacy and the United States. It provides material for a fresh narrative,
one including people on the margins of history and dispelling the myth of a
monolithically Confederate Texas.

The Civil War Years in Utah

The Kingdom of God and the Territory That Did Not Fight
By John Gary Maxwell
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4911-0 488 Pages
In The Civil War Years in Utah, the first full account of the events that occurred
in Utah Territory during that war, John Gary Maxwell contradicts the patriotic
mythology of Mormon leaders version of this dark chapter in Utah 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.

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.
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Off Trail
Finding My Way Home in the Colorado Rockies
By Jane Parnell
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-5900-3 144 Pages
In the tradition of Cheryl Strayeds Wild and Tracy Rosss The Source of All
Things, Parnells mountaineering memoir shows us how, by pushing ourselves
to the limits of our physical endurance and by confronting our deepest fears,
we can become whole again.

Prairie Power
Student Activism, Counterculture, and Backlash in Oklahoma, 19621972
By Sarah E. Janda
$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5794-8 232 Pages
Drawing on underground newspapers and declassified FBI documents, as
well as interviews the author conducted with former activists and government
officials, Prairie Power will appeal to those interested in Oklahomas history
Sarah Eppler Janda and the counterculture and political dissent in the 1960s.

Colonial Intimacies
C ol o n i a l In t i m a c i e s Interethnic Kinship, Sexuality, and Marriage in
Interethnic Kinship, Sexuality, and Marriage
in Southern California, 17691885

ER IK A PR EZ
Southern California, 17691885
By Erika Prez
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-5904-1 408 Pages
In Colonial Intimacies, Erika Prez probes everyday relationships, encounters,
and interactions to show how intimate choices about marriage, social
networks, and godparentage were embedded in larger geopolitical concerns.

The Commanders
Civil War Generals Who Shaped the American West
By Robert M. Utley
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5978-2 256 Pages
Taking a novel approach to the military history of the postCivil War West,
distinguished historian Robert M. Utley examines the careers of seven military
leaders who served as major generals for the Union in the Civil War, then as
ROBERT M. UTLEY
brigadier generals in command of the U.S. Armys western departments.

Presidents Who Shaped the American West

By Glenda Riley and Richard W. Etulain
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Presidents Who Shaped the American West presents startling analyses of chief
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and the West.

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Man-Hunters of the Wild West, Volume 2

By Robert K. DeArment
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5911-9 344 Pages
Noted western historian Robert K. DeArment recounts the remarkable
careers of eight menPat Garrett, John Hughes, Harry Love, Harry Morse,
Frank Norfleet, Bass Reeves, Granville Stuart, and Tom Tobinwho pursued
notorious criminals.

Converting the Rosebud

Catholic Mission and the Lakotas, 18861916
CONVERTING
THE ROSEBUD
By Harvey Markowitz
Catholic Mission and the
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5985-0 320 Pages
LAKOTAS Tracing the mission from its 1886 founding in present-day South Dakota
18861916

to the 1916 fire that reduced it to ashes, Converting the Rosebud unveils the
complex church-state network that guided conversion efforts on the Rosebud
Reservation.
Harvey Markowitz
Ned Christie
The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero
By Devon A. Mihesuah
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-5910-2 272 Pages
Mihesuah draws on hundreds of newspaper accounts, oral histories, court
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of Christies life possible. More than a biography, Ned Christie traces the
making of an American myth.

Freedoms Racial Frontier

African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West
By Herbert G. Ruffin
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5977-5 424 Pages
Freedoms
Racial Frontier
African Americans in the
Twentieth-Century West
The volumes sixteen chapters address the African American experience
within the framework of the West as a multicultural frontier. Established and
Edited by HERBERT G. RUFFIN II and DWAYNE A. MACK
Foreword by QUINTARD TAYLOR

emerging scholars create an anthology that links past, current, and future
generations of African American West scholarship.

A Whirlwind Passed through Our Country

Lakota Voices of the Ghost Dance
By Rani-Henrik Andersson
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-6007-8 400 Pages
A W H I R LW I N D
PA S S E D T H R O U G H
OUR COUNTRY
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Whirlwind Passed through Our Country expands the narrative of the Ghost Dance,
LAK OTA VOICE S
OF TH E GH OS T DANCE
encouraging more nuanced interpretations of this significant moment in
Lakota and American history.
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Forthcoming
Arizonas Deadliest Gunfight
Draft Resistance and Tragedy at the Power Cabin, 1918
By Heidi J. Osselaer
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-6001-6 312 Pages
Weaving together a family-based local history with national themes of
wartime social discord, rural poverty, and dissent, Arizonas Deadliest Gunfight
will be the authoritative account of the 1918 incident and the memorable
events that unfolded in its wake.

Albert Bierstadt
Witness to a Changing West
By Peter H. Hassrick
Albert $60.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-6004-7 228 Pages
Bierstadt
W ITN E S S TO A C H A N G I N G W E S T
$35.00s Paper 978-0-8061-6005-4 228 Pages
Along with its rich sampling of Bierstadts diverse artwork, Albert Bierstadt:
Witness to a Changing West features informative essays by noted curators,
Peter H. Hassrick
Foreword by Bruce B. Eldredge

scholars of art history, and historians of the American West.

A Crooked River
Rustlers, Rangers, and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 18611877
By Michael L. Collins
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-6008-5 376 Pages
During the turbulent years of the Civil War and Reconstruction, a squall of
violence and lawlessness swept through the Nueces Strip and the Rio Grande
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events that reflects perspectives of people on both sides of the Rio Grande.

Transnational Frontiers
The American West in France
By Emily C. Burns
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For French artists and enthusiasts, the West served as a fulcrum for the
construction of an American cultural identity, offering a chance to debate
ideas of primitivism and masculinity that bolstered their own colonialist
T R A N S NAT IONA L F RON T I E R S

The American West in France discourses. By examining this process, Burns reveals the interconnections
between American western art and Franco-American artistic exchange
E M I LY C . B U R N S

between 1865 and 1915.

Plains Indian Buffalo Cultures

Art from the Paul Dyck Collection
By Emma I. Hansen
$50.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-6011-5 208 Pages
$34.95s Paper 978-0-8061-6011-5 208 Pages
Plains Indian Buffalo Cultures
ART FROM THE PAUL DYCK COLLEC TION
From hide clothing, bear claw necklaces, and shields to buffalo robes, tipis,
f
and decorative equipment made for prized horses, the artworks in the Paul
Emma I. HansEn Foreword by arthur amiotte

Dyck Collection provide a firsthand glimpse into the traditions, adaptations,

and innovations of Great Plains Indian cultures.
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Reservations, Removal, and Reform

R E S E R VA T I O N S The Mission Indian Agents of Southern California, 18781903
R E M O VA L
By Valerie Sherer Mathes and Phil Brigandi
AND REFORM
$36.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5999-7 344 Pages
Providing a balanced, comprehensive view of the world these agents
The Mission Indian Agents
temporarily inhabited and the people they were called to serve, Reservations,
of Southern California Removal, and Reform deepens and broadens our understanding of the lives
18781903
VALERIE SHERER MATHES and PHIL BRIGANDI
and history of the Indians of Southern California.

Pioneers of Promotion
How Press Agents for Buffalo Bill, P. T. Barnum, and the Worlds


Columbian Exposition Created Modern Marketing
By Joe Dobrow
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The sophisticated and persuasive marketing tactics that companies use may
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Monsters of Contact
By Mark van de Logt
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O F C O N TA C T
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Mark van de Logt argues in Monsters of Contact that creatures found in the
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An Aide for Custer

The Civil War Letters of Lt. Edward G. Granger
Edited by Sandy Bernard and Thomas E. Singelyn
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-6018-4 352 Pages
Amply illustrated with maps and photographs, An Aide for Custer gives readers
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commanders, and unusual insight into the experience of a staff officer who
served alongside him.
The Civil War Letters of
lt. EDWARD G. GRANGER
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