2014 American West Catalog

American West
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS
American West
Contents
American Indian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Art and Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Biography and Memoir. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 The Arthur H. Clark Company .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 New in Paperback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
For more than eighty 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 Press and the Arthur H. Clark Company. For a complete list of titles available from OU Press or the Arthur H. Clark Company, please visit our website at oupress.com. We hope you enjoy this catalog and appreciate your continued support of the University of Oklahoma Press. Price and availability subject to change without notice.
On the cover: Guy Porter and Pipp across the street from V. H. Porters dry goods store (1958). Photograph by Guy Gillette, from A Family of the Land: The Texas Photography of Guy Gillette by Andy Wilkinson, see page 7.

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Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 18201906
By James W. Parins $34.95s Cloth 296 Pages 12 b&w illus. In Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 18201906, James W. Parins traces the rise of bilingual literacy and intellectual life in the Cherokee Nation during the nineteenth centurya time of intense social and political turmoil for the tribe.
Warrior Nations
The United States and Indian Peoples By Roger L. Nichols $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4382-8 256 Pages During the century following George Washingtons presidency, the United States fought at least forty wars with various Indian tribes. Warrior Nations is Roger L. Nichols response to the question, Why did so much ghting take place? Examining eight of the wars between the 1780s and 1877, Nichols explains what started each conict and what the eight had in common as well as how they differed.
A Cheyenne Voice
The Complete John Stands In Timber Interviews By John Stands In Timber and Margot Liberty $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4379-8 504 Pages Rarely does a primary source become available that provides new and signicant information about the history and culture of a famous American Indian tribe. With A Cheyenne Voice, readers now have access to a vast ethnographic and historical trove about the Cheyenne peoplemuch of it previously unavailable.
Transforming Ethnohistories
Narrative, Meaning, and Community Edited by Sebastian Felix Braun $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4394-1 272 Pages Anthropologists need history to understand how the past has shaped the present. Historians need anthropology to help them interpret the past. Where anthropologists and historians needs intersect is ethnohistory. Transforming Ethnohistories comprises ten new avenues of ethnohistorical research ranging in topic from ddling performances to environmental disturbance and spanning places from North Carolina to the Yukon.
Claiming Tribal Identity

The Five Tribes and the Politics of Federal Acknowledgement By Mark E. Miller $29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4378-1 480 Pages In this revealing study, Mark Edwin Miller describes how and why dozens of previously unrecognized tribal groups in the southeastern states have sought, and sometimes won, recognition, often to the dismay of the Five Tribesthe Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles.
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A Gathering of Statesmen
Records of the Choctaw Council Meetings, 18261828 By Peter Perkins Pitchlynn Translated and Edited by Marcia Haag and Henry Willis $29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4349-1 180 Pages The early decades of the nineteenth century brought intense political turmoil and cultural change for the Choctaw Indians. While they still lived on their native lands in central Mississippi, they would soon be forcibly removed to Oklahoma. This book makes available for the rst time a key legal document from this turbulent period in Choctaw history.
Native American Placenames of the Southwest

A Handbook for Travelers By William Bright $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4311-8 176 Pages This user-friendly guidecovering Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texasprovides fascinating information about the meaning and origins of southwestern placenames. With its unique regional approach and compact design, the handbook is especially suitable for curious travelers.
Arapaho Womens Quillwork

Motion, Life, and Creativity By Jeffery D. Anderson $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4283-8 256 Pages In Arapaho Womens Quillwork, Jeffrey D. Anderson brings this distinctly female art form out of the darkness and into its rightful spotlight within the realms of both art history and anthropology. Beautifully illustrated with more than 50 color and black-and-white images, this book is the rst comprehensive examination of quillwork within Arapaho ritualized traditions.
Contours of a People
Metis Family, Mobility, and History Edited by Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4279-1 456 Pages What does it mean to be Metis? How do the Metis understand their world, and how do family, community, and location shape their consciousness? Such questions inform this collection of essays on the northwestern North American people of mixed European and Native ancestry. Volume editors Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall go beyond the concern with race and ethnicity to offer new ways of thinking about Metis identity.
Blackfoot Redemption
A Blood Indians Story of Murder, Connement, and Imperfect Justice By William E. Farr $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4287-6 344 Pages In 1879, a Canadian Blackfoot known as Spopee, or Turtle, shot and killed a white man. Captured as a fugitive, Spopee narrowly escaped execution, instead landing in an insane asylum in Washington, D.C., where he fell silent. Spopee thus disappeared for more than thirty years, until a delegation of American Blackfeet discovered him and exacted a pardon from President Woodrow Wilson. After re-emerging into society like a modern-day Rip Van Winkle, Spopee spent the nal year of his life on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, in a world that had changed irrevocably from the one he had known before his connement.
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Native Performers in Wild West Shows

From Buffalo Bill to Euro Disney By Linda Scarangella McNenly $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4281-4 280 Pages Drawing on interviews with contemporary Native performers and descendants of twentieth-century Native performers, Linda Scarangella McNenly elicits insider perspectives to suggest new interpretations of their performances in Wild West shows.
From the Hands of a Weaver

Olympic Peninsula Basketry through Time Edited by Jacilee Wray $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4245-6 304 Pages For millennia, Native artists on Olympic Peninsula, in what is now northwestern Washington, have created coiled and woven baskets using tree roots, bark, plant stemsand meticulous skill. From the Hands of a Weaver presents the traditional art of basket making among the peninsulas Native peoples and describes the ancient, historic, and modern practices of the craft.
Buying America from the Indians

Johnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native Land Rights By Blake A. Watson $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4244-9 254 Pages The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Johnson v. McIntosh established the basic principles that govern American Indian property rights to this day. Blake A. Watsons examination of this case and its impact offers a comprehensive historical and legal overview of Native land rights since the European discovery of the New World.
American Indians and the Mass Media

Edited by Meta G. Carstarphen and John P. Sanchez $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4234-0 312 Pages Most American Indians today live in urban areas, but the mass media still rely on Indian imagery stuck in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The essays collected in American Indians and the Mass Media explore Native experience and the mainstream medias impact on American Indian histories, cultures, and communities.
Telling Stories in the Face of Danger

Language Renewal in Native American Communities Edited by Paul V. Kroskrity $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4227-2 288 Pages The contributors to this volume explore Native American storytelling both as a response to and a symptom of language endangerment. The essays show how traditional stories, and their nontraditional written descendants, such as poetry and graphic novels, help to maintain Native cultures and languages.
Fort Clark and Its Indian Neighbors

A Trading Post on the Upper Missouri By W. Raymond Wood, William J. Hunt, Jr., and Randy H. Williams $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4213-5 328 Pages Fort Clark was a thriving trading post between 1830 and 1860 in what is today western North Dakota. It also served as a way station for artists, scientists, and other western chroniclers, including Maximilian of Wied, Karl Bodmer, and George Catlin, whose works are primary sources on the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians in the area. This book, by a team of anthropologists, is the rst to integrate new archaeological evidence with the historical record.
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Red Power Rising

The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism By Bradley Shreve $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4178-7 288 Pages During the 1960s, American Indian youth were swept up in a movement called Red Powera civil rights struggle fueled by intertribal activism. While some dene the movement as militant and others see it as peaceful, there is one common assumption about its history: Red Power began with the Indian takeover of Alcatraz in 1969. Or did it?
Wives and Husbands

Gender and Age in Southern Arapaho History By Loretta Fowler $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4116-9 400 Pages In Wives and Husbands, distinguished anthropologist Loretta Fowler deepens readers understanding of the gendered dimension of cultural encounters by exploring how the Arapaho gender system affected and was affected by the encounter with Americans as government ofcials, troops, missionaries, and settlers moved west into Arapaho country. Through the life stories of individual Arapahos, she vividly illustrates the experiences and actions of each cohort during a time when Americans tried to impose gender asymmetry and to undermine the Arapahos hierarchical age relations.
War Party in Blue

Pawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army By Mark van de Logt $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4139-8 368 Pages Between 1864 and 1877, during the height of the Plains Indian wars, Pawnee Indian scouts rendered invaluable service to the United States Army. They led missions deep into contested territory, tracked resisting bands, spearheaded attacks against enemy camps, and on more than one occasion saved American troops from disaster on the eld of battle. In War Party in Blue, Mark van de Logt tells the story of the Pawnee scouts from their perspective, detailing the battles in which they served and recounting hitherto neglected episodes.
Choctaw Crime and Punishment, 18841907

By Devon Abbott Mihesuah $32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4052-0 352 Pages During the decades between the Civil War and the establishment of Oklahoma statehood, Choctaws suffered almost daily from murders, thefts, and assaultsusually at the hands of white intruders, but increasingly by Choctaws themselves. This book focuses on two previously unexplored murder cases to illustrate the intense factionalism that emerged among tribal members during those lawless years as conservative Nationalists and proassimilation Progressives fought for control of the Choctaw Nation.
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Chronicling the West for Harpers
Coast to Coast with Frenzeny & Tavernier in 18731874 By Claudine Chalmers $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4376-7 272 Pages The opening of the West after the Civil War drew a ood of Americans and immigrants to the frontier. Among the liveliest records of the westering of the 1870s is the series of prints collected for the rst time in this book. Chronicling the West for Harpers showcases 100 illustrations made for the magazine by French artists Paul Frenzeny and Jules Tavernier on a cross-country assignment in 1873 and 1874.
A Family of the Land

The Texas Photography of Guy Gillette By Andy Wilkinson $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4404-7 144 Pages Since he rst dreamed of a career in photography, Guy Gillette has traveled regularly to his wifes familys ranch, located outside the small town of Crockett, Texas. When Gillette rst came to the Porter Place, as the ranch has always been known, he began to photograph the Porter family and their land. Thanks to Gillettes sense of composition, these wonderful black-andwhite photographs, dating from the 1940s, led to his career as a magazine photographer. Collected here for the rst time, they document small-town life in East Texas, where Guy Gillettes sons, the musical duo the Gillette Brothers, still run cattle. A Family of the Land offers a portrait of a community over a half century during which remarkably little has changed.
Painters and the American West, Vol. II

Contributions by Sarah A. Hunt, James P. Ronda, Joan Carpenter Troccoli and John Wilmerding $80.00 Cloth 978-0-9881774-0-6 344 Pages Distributed for American Museum of Western Art Anschutz Collection In 2010, the Anschutz Collection became the American Museum of Western ArtThe Anschutz Collection, a public museum. Painters and the American West, Volume II is a companion and sequel to the award-winning Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection, published in 2000. The present volume includes the nest works featured in the earlier book, along with major recent acquisitions.
Woody Crumbo
Contributions by Minisa Crumbo Halsey, Ruthe Blalock Jones, Carole Klein, Robert Perry, and Kimberly Roblin Photographs by Robert S. Cross $24.95s Paper 978-0-9819799-5-3 148 Pages Distributed for Gilcrease Museum The Gilcrease Museum has the honor of possessing the largest extant body of Woodrow Wilson Crumbos delightful and nely crafted work, which is celebrated and interpreted within the pages of this book.
A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country

Vincent Soboleff in Alaska By Sergei Kan $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4290-6 288 Pages This book is a rich record of life in small-town southeastern Alaska in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It is the rst book to showcase the photographs of VincentSoboleff, an amateur Russian American photographer whose community included Tlingit Indians from a nearby village as well as Russian Americans.
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Karl Bodmers America Revisited

Landscape Views Across Time Photography by Robert M. Lindholm $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3831-2 192 Pages Less than thirty years after Lewis and Clark completed their epic journey, Prince Maximilian of Wied set off on his own expedition across North America. Accompanying the prince on this voyage Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, whose drawings and watercolors now rank among the great treasures of nineteenth-century American art. This lavishly illustrated book juxtaposes Bodmers landscape images with modern-day photographs of the same views, allowing readers to see what has changed, and what seems unchanged, since the time Maximilian and Bodmer made their storied trip up the Missouri River.
A President in Yellowstone
The F. Jay Haynes Photographic Album of Chester Arthurs 1883 Expedition By Frank H. Goodyear III $36.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4355-2 192 Pages On the morning of July 30, 1883, President Chester A. Arthur embarked on a trip of historic proportions. His destination was Yellowstone National Park, established by an act of Congress only eleven years earlier. Arthurs host and primary guide would be Philip H. Sheridan, the famed Union general. Also slated to join the expedition was a young photographer, Frank Jay Haynes. This elegantand fascinatingbook showcases Hayness remarkable photographic album from their six-week journey.
The James T. Bialac Native American Art Collection

Selected Works With essays by Christina E. Burke, W. Jackson Rushing III, Rennard Strickland, Christy Vezolles, Edwin L. Wade, and Mark Andrew White $60.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-4299-9 $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4304-0 240 Pages Published in cooperation with the Fred Jones Jr.Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma One of the most important collections of modern Native American art assembled by one individual, the James T. Bialac Native American Art Collection is an encyclopedic compilation of easel paintings and three-dimensional works. Showcased in this stunning catalogue, the collection comprises nearly four thousand items, including drawings, sculptures, prints, kachinas, jewelry, ceramics, rattles, baskets, and textiles. Along with its rich sampling of works from the Bialac Collection, this catalogue offers informative essays by art historians, who draw on their areas of expertise to explain the signicance of the artwork.
Elevating Western American Art

Developing an Institute in the Cultural Capital of the Rockies Edited by Thomas Brent Smith $34.95 Cloth 978-0-914738-72-5 $24.95 Paper 978-0-914738-71-8 320 Pages Distributed for Denver Art Museum Unprecedented in size and scope, this special issue of Western Passages celebrates the full range of the western American art holdings at the Denver Art Museum. Published to mark the tenth anniversary of the Denver Art Museums Petrie Institute of Western American Art, Elevating Western American Art: Developing an Institute in the Cultural Capital of the Rockies includes thirty essays by art historians from across the United States and Canada as well as a comprehensive history of the growth of Denvers impressive collection of art of the American West.
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Scenery, Curiosities, and Stupendous Rocks

William Quesenburys Overland Sketches, 18501851 By David Royce Murphy With contributions by Michael L. Tate and Michael Farrell $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4219-7 304 Pages Long before Hollywood brought the landscapes of the American West to movie screens, clever impresarios invented ways of simulating the experience of western travel and selling it to mass audiences. In 1851, entrepreneur John Wesley Jones hired artist William Quesenbury to join such a venture. Quesenbury and other artists traveled the overland trails through Nebraska Territory to sketch the scenery, curiosities, and stupendous rocks they encountered. Scenery, Curiosities, and Stupendous Rocks gathers 71 of Quesenburys sketches from the Jones expedition illuminated by eyewitness accounts from the period, modern maps, contemporary photographs, and descriptive notes.
Plains Indian Art

The Pioneering Work of John C. Ewers Edited by Jane Ewers Robinson $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3061-3 224 Pages The study of Plains Indian art has been shaped by the expertise, wisdom, and inspired leadership of John Caneld Ewers (190997). Ewerss publications have long been required reading for anyone interested in art and the cultures of the Plains peoples. This vividly illustrated collection of Ewerss writings presents studies rst published in American Indian Art Magazine and other periodicals between 1968 and 1992.
The Eugene B. Adkins Collection

Selected Works With contributions by Jane Ford Aebersold, Christina E. Burke, James Pick, B. Byron Price, W. Jackson Rushing III, Mary Jo Watson, and Mark A. White $60.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-4100-8 $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4101-5 304 Pages A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Eugene B. Adkins (19202006) spent nearly four decades acquiring his extraordinary collection of Native American and American southwestern art, including paintings, photographs, jewelry, baskets, textiles, and ceramics by many renowned artists and artisans. This stunning volume features full-color reproductions of signicant works from the Adkins Collection.
Arapaho Journeys
Photographs and Stories from the Wind River Reservation By Sara Wiles $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4158-9 256 Pages In what is now Colorado and Wyoming, the Northern Arapahos thrived for centuries, connected by strong spirituality and kinship and community structures that allowed them to survive in the rugged environment. Wiles captures that life on lm and in words in Arapaho Journeys, an inside look at thirty years on the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming.
Life at the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Agency

The Photographs of Annette Ross Hume By Kristina L. Southwell and John R. Lovett $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4138-1 256 Pages Anadarko, Oklahoma, bills itself today as the Indian Capital of the Nation, but it was a drowsy frontier village when budding photographer Annette Ross Hume arrived in 1890. Home to a federal agency charged with serving the many American Indian tribes in the area, the town burgeoned when the U.S. government auctioned off building lots at the turn of the twentieth century. Hume faithfully documented its explosive growth and the American Indians she encountered. Her extraordinary photographs are collected here for the rst time.
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Visions of the Big Sky

Painting and Photographing the Northern Rocky Mountain West By Dan Flores $45.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-3897-8 248 Pages From the Wind River Range to the Canadian border, the northern Rocky Mountain West is an outsized land of stunning dimensions and emotive power. In Visions of the Big Sky, Dan Flores revisits the Northern Rockies artistic tradition to explore its diversity and richness. In his essays about the artists, photographers, and thematic historical imagery of the region, he blends art and cultural history with personal reection to assess the formation of the regions character.
Charles Deas and 1840s America

By Carol Clark $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4030-8 248 Pages Charles Deas (181867), an enigmatic gure on the edge of mainstream artistic circles in mid-nineteenth-century New York, went west to explore new opportunities and subjects in 1840. From his adopted hometown of St. Louis, Deas sent his iconic paintings of fur trappers and Indians back east for exhibition and sale, briey winning the recognition that had earlier eluded him.
Wildlife in American Art

Masterworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art By Adam D. Harris $55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4015-5 $35.00 Paper 978-0-8061-4099-5 320 Pages For more than two decades, the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming, has honored and sustained the tradition of wildlife in American art by assembling the most comprehensive collection of paintings and sculptures portraying North American wildlife in the world. Wildlife in American Art presents for the rst time a generous sampling of the museums holdings, charts the history of this enduring theme in American art, and explores the evolving relationship between Americans and the natural resources of this continent.
Faces of the Frontier

Photographic Portraits from the American West, 18451924 By Frank H. Goodyear III $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4082-7 320 Pages Faces of the Frontier showcases more than 120 photographic portraits of leaders, statesmen, soldiers, laborers, activists, criminals, and others, all posed before the cameras that made their way to nearly every mining shantytown and frontier outpost on the prairie. Drawing primarily on the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, this book depicts many of the people who helped transform the West between the end of the Mexican War and passage of the Indian Citizenship Act.
The West of the Imagination

Second Edition By William H. Goetzmann and William N. Goetzmann $65.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-3533-5 640 Pages A landmark overview of western American art, the original edition of The West of the Imagination brought the region to wide public attention as a companion to a popular PBS series of the same name. This book, signicantly expanded and updated, shows that the West is a vibrant mirror of American cultural diversity. Through 450 illustrationsmore than 300 in colorthe authors trace the visual evolution of the myth of the American West, from unknown frontier to repository of American values, covering popular and high arts alike.
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The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell

A Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture By Joan C. Troccoli $65.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-4081-0 $39.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4097-1 304 Pages In the decades bracketing the turn of the twentieth century, Charles M. Russell depicted the American West in a fresh, personal, and deeply moving way. This handsome booka companion volume to the acclaimed Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonn, edited by B. Byron Priceshowcases many of the artists bestknown works and chronicles the sources and evolution of his style.
Biography and Memoir

Under the Eagle
Samuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker By Samuel Holiday and Robert S. Mcpherson $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4389-7 288 Pages Samuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by the Marine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit secret communications on the battleeld. Based on extensive interviews with Robert S. McPherson, Under the Eagle is Holidays vivid account of his own story. It is the only book-length oral history of a Navajo code talker in which the narrator relates his experiences in his own voice and words.
Conversations with Barry Lopez

Walking the Path of Imagination By William E. Tydeman $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4407-8 232 Pages Known as an advocate for the endangered earth, Barry Lopez is one of Americas preeminent writers on nature. This invigorating book invites readers to sit down with Lopez and his friend William E. Tydeman to engage with their conversations about activism, the life of the mind, and all things literary. Even readers who think they know everything there is to know about Lopez will learn much from this richly informative book, both from Tydemans concise biography of Lopez and from the dialogue about Lopezs ideas and experiences.
Red Dirt Women

At Home on the Oklahoma Plains By Susan Kates $14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4359-0 152 Pages In Red Dirt Women, Susan Kates challenges one-dimensional characterizations of women by exploringand celebratingthe lives of contemporary Oklahoma women whose experiences are anything but predictable.
Buffalo Bill on the Silver Screen

The Films of William F. Cody By Sandra K. Sagala $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4361-3 232 Pages For more than thirty years, William F. Buffalo Bill Cody entertained audiences across the United States and Europe with his Wild West show. Scores of books have been written about Codys fabled career as a showman, but his involvement in the lm industryfollowing the dissolution of his traveling showis less well known. In Buffalo Bill on the Silver Screen, Sandra K. Sagala chronicles the fascinating story of Codys venture into lmmaking during the early cinema period.
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Rough Breaks
A Wyoming High Country Memoir By Laurie Wagner Buyer $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4375-0 256 Pages When twenty-eight-year-old Laurie Wagner hired on at the O Bar Y Ranch in western Wyoming, she was a novice to ranching life but no stranger to isolated locations. As revealed in her celebrated memoir When I Came West, Laurie had already spent years living in a rustic cabin in the Montana wilderness with a troubled Vietnam veteran. Rough Breaks recounts the next chapter in her life, beginning with her painful break from Bill Atkinson, and unfolding into a modern day saga of life on a remote cattle ranch.
Miera y Pacheco
A Renaissance Spaniard in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico By John L. Kessell $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4377-4 232 Pages Remembered today as an early cartographer and prolic religious artist, don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco engaged during his lifetime in a surprising array of other pursuits: engineer and militia captain on Indian campaigns, district ofcer, merchant, debt collector, metallurgist, luckless silver miner, presidial soldier, dam builder, and rancher. This long-overdue, richly illustrated biography recounts Mieras complex life in cinematic detail, from his birth in Cantabria, Spain, to his death in Santa Fe at age seventy-one.
Ernest L. Blumenschein
The Life of an American Artist By Robert W. Larson and Carole B. Larson $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4334-7 344 Pages Few who appreciate the visual arts or the American Southwest can behold the masterpieces Sangre de Cristo Mountains or Haystack, Taos Valley, 1927 or Bend in the River, 1941 and come away without a vivid image burned into memory. This biography examines the character and life experiences that made Ernest L. Blumenschein one of the foremost artists of the twentieth century.
Gunghter in Gotham
Bat Mastersons New York City Years By Robert K. DeArment $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4263-0 304 Pages The legend of Bat Masterson as the heroic sheriff of Dodge City, Kansas, began in 1881 when an acquaintance duped a New York Sun reporter into writing Masterson up as a man-killing gunghter. That he later moved to New York City to write a widely followed sports column for eighteen years is one of historys great ironies, as Robert K. DeArment relates in this engaging new book.
When Law Was in the Holster

The Frontier Life of Bob Paul By John Boessenecker $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4285-2 464 Pages One of the great lawmen of the Old West, Bob Paul (18301901) cast a giant shadow across the frontiers of California and Arizona Territory for nearly fty years. Today he is remembered mainly for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his involvement in the stirring events surrounding the famous 1881 gunght near the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. This long-overdue biography lls crucial gaps in Pauls story and recounts a life of almost constant adventure.
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That Fiend in Hell

Soapy Smith in Legend By Catherine Holder Spude $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4280-7 304 Pages As the Klondike gold rush peaked in spring 1898, adventurers and gamblers rubbed shoulders with town-builders and gold-panners in Skagway, Alaska. The ow of riches lured condence men, tooamong them Jefferson Randolph Soapy Smith (186098), who with an entourage of bunco-men conned and robbed the stampeders. Soapy, though, a common enough criminal, would go down in legend as the Robin Hood of Alaska, remembered for his charm and generosity, even for calming a lynch mob. He was later killed in a shootout over a card game. That Fiend in Hell: Soapy Smith in Legend is a tour de force of historical debunking that documents Smiths elevation to western hero.
Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand Creek

By Louis Kraft $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4226-5 336 Pages When Edward W. Wynkoop arrived in Colorado Territory during the 1858 gold rush, he was one of many ambitious newcomers seeking wealth in a promising land mostly inhabited by American Indians. After he worked as a miner, sheriff, bartender, and land speculator, Wynkoops life drastically changed after he joined the First Colorado Volunteers to ght for the Union during the Civil War. This sympathetic but critical biography centers on his subsequent efforts to prevent war with Indians during the volatile 1860s.
Our Centennial Indian War and the Life of General Custer

By Frances Fuller Victor $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4173-2 208 Pages Published even before the Great Sioux War had ended, this book was the rst contemporary and comprehensive account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Victor also offered one of the earliest biographical assessments of Custer.
Open Range
The Life of Agnes Morley Cleaveland By Darlis A. Miller $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4117-6 192 Pages Agnes Morley Cleaveland found lasting fame after publishing her memoir, No Life for a Lady, in 1941. Her account of growing up on a cattle ranch in west-central New Mexico captivated readers from coast to coast. In her book, Cleaveland memorably portrayed herself and other ranch women as capable workers and independent thinkers. Her life, however, was not limited to the ranch. In Open Range, Miller shows how a young girl who was a fearless risktaker grew up to be a prolic author and well-known social activist.
Bandido
The Life and Times of Tiburcio Vasquez By John Boessenecker $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4127-5 496 Pages Tiburcio Vasquez is, next to Joaquin Murrieta, Americas most infamous Hispanic bandit. After he was hanged as a murderer in 1875, the Chicago Tribune called him the most noted desperado of modern times. Yet questions about him still linger. Why did he become a bandido? Why did so many Hispanics protect him and his band? Was he a common thief and heartless killer who got what he deserved, or was he a Mexican American Robin Hood who suffered at the hands of a racist government? In this engrossing biography, John Boessenecker provides denitive answers. Boessenecker is . . . the countrys leading authority on Vasquez, and his new book, Bandido, tells the story. . . . Vasquez was as famous as Jesse James in his day. San Francisco Chronicle.
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A Pair of Shootists
The Wild West Story of S. F. Cody and Maud Lee By Jerry Kuntz $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4149-7 224 Pages A Pair of Shootists is the exuberant and sometimes heartbreaking story of the elusive S. F. Cody and his rst wife, Maud Lee. Recounting their many dramatic exploits, this biography also overturns the frequently romanticized view of Wild West shows.
Best of Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2

Emigrant Girls on the Overland Trails By Kenneth Holmes $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4104-6 256 Pages The diaries and letters of women on the overland trails in the mid- to late nineteenth century are treasured documents. These eleven selections drawn from the multivolume Covered Wagon Women series present the best rst-person trail accounts penned by women in their teens who traveled west between 1846 and 1898. Ranging in age from eleven to nineteen, unmarried and without children of their own, these diarists had experiences different from those of older women who carried heavier responsibilities with them on the trail. These letters and diaries reect both the unique perspective of youthful optimism and the experiences common among all female emigrants.
Chief Loco
Apache Peacemaker By Bud Shapard $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4047-6 376 Pages Jlin-tay-i-tith, better known as Loco, was the only Apache leader to make a lasting peace with both Americans and Mexicans. Yet most historians have ignored his efforts, and some Chiricahua descendants have branded him as fainthearted despite his well-known valor in combat. In this engaging biography, Bud Shapard tells the story of this important but overlooked chief against the backdrop of the harrowing Apache wars and eventual removal of the tribe from its homeland to prison camps in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma.
A Rough Ride to Redemption

The Ben Daniels Story By Robert K. DeArment and Jack DeMattos $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4112-1 264 Pages If you want to understand the Code of the West, A Rough Ride to Redemption is a good place to start. Historians Robert K. DeArment and Jack DeMattos brilliantly trace gunman Ben Danielss amazing career from the Wyoming Territorial Penitentiary to Dodge City to charging up Kettle Hill with Teddy Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War. A marvelous book! Douglas Brinkley author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
N. Scott Momaday
Remembering Ancestors, Earth, and Traditions An Annotated Bio-bibliography By Phyllis S. Morgan $60.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4054-4 400 Pages N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of House Made of Dawn (1969) and National Medal of Arts awardee, is the elder statesman of Native American literature and a major twentieth-century American author. This volume marks the most comprehensive resource available on Momaday. Along with an insightful new biography, it offers extensive, up-to-date bibliographies of his own work and the work of others about him.
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When I Came West

By Laurie Wagner Buyer $14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4059-9 200 Pages As a young college student in the early 1970s, Laurie Wagner had never camped out, never gone hiking, and never lived without electricity or indoor plumbing. Yet she walked away from these comforts and headed for the wildest reaches of Montana to live with a man she had not met in person. When I Came West is Laurie Wagner Buyers account of her terrifying and exhilarating years in Montana as she changes from a girl too squeamish to touch a dead mouse to a toughened frontierswoman unafraid to butcher a domestic animal.
Fiction
Animal Stories
A Lifetime Collection By Max Evans Illustrated by Keith Walters $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4366-8 440 Pages Legendary western author Max Evans has spent his entire life working with cows and horses. These rangeland animals, and other creatures both domestic and wild, play pivotal roles in his stories. This magnicent collection, beautifully illustrated by cowboy artist Keith Walters, showcases twenty-six animal tales penned by Evans during his long and celebrated career.
The Dig
In Search of Coronados Treasure By Sheldon Russell $16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4360-6 246 Pages Sheldon Russell ratchets the tension and mystery as two desperate quests interweave in an historical-meets-modern adventure story. This thrill ride builds to an Indiana Jonesstyle standoff and forces its charactersand readersto grapple with an age-old proverb: all that glitters is not gold.
Boneland
Linked Stories By Nance Van Winckel $16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4391-0 196 Pages Lynette is recuperating from botched Lasik surgery. Her eyesight is damaged, but as she looks back on the events of her past, she realizes she may not have seen them correctly when she was actually living them. Her husbands death . . . was it a suicide? The bones unearthed on her uncles Montana ranchare they of a steer? a mastodon? a dinosaur? Her beloved cousin Jessiedid she slip into addiction, and if so, where did the addict life take her? The dots of Lynettes past are blurry, but she tries to focus and connect them and to feel her way toward a more accurate vision of the person she has been and may become.
The Old Mans Love Story

By Rudolfo Anaya $19.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4357-6 176 Pages There was an old man who dwelt in the land of New Mexico, and he lost his wife. From that opening line, this tender novella is at once universal and deeply personal. In The Old Mans Love Story, master storyteller Rudolfo Anaya crafts the tale of a lifelong love that ultimately transcends death.
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Randy Lopez Goes Home

A Novel By Rudolfo Anaya $19.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4189-3 152 Pages When he was a young man, Randy Lopez left his village in northern New Mexico to seek his fortune. Since then, he has learned some of the secrets of success in the Anglo worldand even written a book called Life Among the Gringos. But something has been missing. Now he returns to Agua Bendita to reconnect with his past and to nd the wisdom the Anglo world has not provided. In this allegorical account of Randys nal journey, master storyteller Rudolfo Anaya tackles lifes big questions with a light touch.
History
Banking in Oklahoma Before Statehood
By Michael J. Hightower $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4388-0 368 Pages This lively book takes Oklahoma history into the world of Wild West capitalism. It begins with a useful survey of banking from the early days of the American republic until commercial patterns coalesced in the East. It then follows the course of American expansion westward, tracing the evolution of commerce and banking in Oklahoma from their genesis to the eve of statehood in 1907.
New Mexico
A History By Joseph P. Snchez, Robert L. Spude, and Art Gmez $26.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4256-2 376 Pages New Mexico: A History is a vital source for anyone seeking to understand the complex interactions of the indigenous inhabitants, Spanish settlers, immigrants, and their descendants who have created New Mexico and who shape its future.
Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud

Custer, the Press, and the Little Bighorn By James E. Mueller $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4398-9 272 Pages In Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud, James E. Mueller draws on exhaustive research of period newspapers to explore press coverage of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. As he analyzes a wide range of accountssome grim, some circumspect, some even laced with humorMueller offers a unique take on the dramatic events that so shook the American public.
Main Street Oklahoma

Stories of Twentieth-Century America Edited by Linda W. Reese and Patricia Loughlin $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4401-6 288 Pages Oklahoma historian Angie Debo once observed that all the forces of United States history have come to bear in the development of the Sooner State. This collection of essays provides a series of snapshots reecting both the singularity of the Oklahoma experience and the states connections to Americas broader history.
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American Ski Resort

Architecture, Style, Experience By Margaret Supplee Smith $45.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-4295-1 352 Pages In this magnicent book, architectural historian Margaret Supplee Smith traces the evolution of the ski resort in North America. Brimming with photographs of spectacular scenery, intriguing buildings, and colorful personalities, American Ski Resort is the rst book to explore the combined phenomena of skiing, tourism, and architecture from a national perspective.
Assassination and Commemoration

JFK, Dallas, and The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza By Stephen Fagin $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4358-3 272 Pages The shots that killed President John F. Kennedy in November 1963 were red from the sixth oor of a nondescript warehouse at the edge of Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas. That oor in the Texas School Book Depository became a museum exhibit in 1989 and was designated part of a National Historic Landmark District in 1993. This book recounts the slow and painful process by which a city and a nation came to terms with its collective memory of the assassination and its aftermath.
Cotton and Conquest

How the Plantation System Acquired Texas By Roger G. Kennedy $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4346-0 352 Pages This sweeping work of history explains the westward spread of cotton agriculture and slave labor across the South and into Texas during the decades before the Civil War. Cotton and Conquest weaves international commerce, American party politics, technological innovation, Indian-white relations, frontier surveying practices, and various social, economic, and political events into the tapestry of Texas history.
Empire on Display
San Franciscos Panama-Pacic International Exposition of 1915 By Sarah J. Moore $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4348-4 256 Pages The worlds fair of 1915 celebrated both the completion of the Panama Canal and the rebuilding of San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake and re. The exposition spotlighted the canal and the city as gateways to the Pacic. Empire on Display is the rst book to examine the Panama-Pacic International Exposition through the lenses of art history and cultural studies, focusing on the events expansionist and masculinist symbolism.
Oklahomas Indian New Deal

By Jon S. Blackman $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4351-4 192 Pages This rst book-length history of the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act explains the laws origins, enactment, implementation, and impact, and shows how the act played a unique role in the Indian New Deal.
Columns of Vengeance
Soldiers, Sioux, and the Punitive Expeditions, 18631864 By Paul N. Beck $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4344-6 320 Pages Drawing on a wealth of rsthand accounts and linking the Punitive Expeditions of 1863 and 1864 to the overall Civil War experience, Columns of Vengeance offers fresh insight into an important chapter in the development of U.S. military operations against the Sioux.
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Regionalists on the Left

Radical Voices from the American West Edited by Michael C. Steiner $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4340-8 328 Pages Although regionalism in the American West has often been characterized as an inherently conservative, backward-looking force, regionalist impulses have in fact taken various forms throughout U.S. history. The essays collected in Regionalists on the Left uncover the tradition of left-leaning western regionalism during the 1930s and 1940s.
Los Angeles in Civil War Days, 18601865

By John W. Robinson $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4312-5 204 Pages Most accounts of Californias role in the Civil War focus on the northern part of the state, San Francisco in particular. In Los Angeles in Civil War Days, John W. Robinson looks to the southern half and offers an enlightening sketch of Los Angeles and its people, politics, and economic trends from 1860 to 1865. Drawing on contemporary reports in the Los Angeles Star, Southern News, and other sources, Robinson shows how the war came to Los Angeles and narrates the struggle between the pro-southern faction and the Unionists.
Custer, Cody, and Grand Duke Alexis

Historical Archaeology of the Royal Buffalo Hunt By Douglas D. Scott, Peter Bleed, and Stephen Damm $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4347-7 232 Pages On a chilly January morning in 1872, the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia arrived in North Platte, Nebraska for a grand buffalo hunt. In this fascinating book, Douglas D. Scott, Peter Bleed, and Stephen Damm combine archaeological and historical research to offer an expansive and accurate portrayal of this singular diplomatic event.
Dragoons in Apacheland
Conquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 18461861 By William S. Kiser $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4314-9 376 Pages In the fteen years prior to the American Civil War, the U.S. Army established a presence in the Apache Indian homeland of southern New Mexico. In Dragoons in Apacheland, Kiser recounts the conicts that ensued and examines how both Apache warriors and American troops shaped the future of the Southwest Borderlands.
Uncovering History
Archaeological Investigations at the Little Bighorn By Douglas D. Scott $32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4350-7 272 Pages In Uncovering History, renowned archaeologist Douglas D. Scott offers a comprehensive account of investigations at the Little Bighorn, from the earliest collecting efforts to early-twentieth-century ndings. Scott expands our understanding of the battle, its protagonists, and the enduring legacy of the battleeld as a national memorial.
By All Accounts
General Stores and Community Life in Texas and Indian Territory By Linda English $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4352-1 256 Pages The general store in late-nineteenth-century America was often the economic heart of a small town. Cash-poor farmers relied on merchants for their economic well-being just as the retailers needed customers to purchase their wares. In describing the social status of store owners and their economic and political roles in both small and large towns, English eshes out the fascinating history of daily life in Indian Territory and Texas in a time of transition.
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New Perspectives in Mormon Studies

Creating and Crossing Boundaries Edited by Quincy D. Newell and Eric F. Mason $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4313-2 248 Pages Scholarship in Mormon studies has often focused on a few key events and individuals in Mormon history. One of the main purposes of this volume is to dene and cross boundaries. The essays collected by Quincy D. Newell and Eric F. Mason in this interdisciplinary volume expand the conversation.
An Aristocracy of Color
Race and Reconstruction in California and the West, 18501890 By D. Michael Bottoms $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4335-4 288 Pages White Californians saw in Reconstruction legislation a threat to the racial hierarchy they had imposed on the states legal system during the 1850s. But nonwhite Californians recognized an opportunity to reshape the states race relations. Drawing on court records, political debates, and eyewitness accounts, Bottoms brings to life the monumental battle that followed.
Quilts
California Bound, California Made, 18401940 By Sandi Fox $40.00 Paper 978-0-9719184-0-5 208 Pages Distributed for Sandi Fox The richly diverse legacy of Californias quilts is beautifully chronicled in words and images in this extraordinary collection spanning a century of quiltmaking. Here is the story of Californias quilts, from those California boundcarried on the backs of mules and horses, in covered wagons, by ship or by trainto those California made, created on the farms and in villages and cities across the state.
Quest for Flight

John J. Montgomery and the Dawn of Aviation in the West By Craig S. Harwood and Gary B. Fogel $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4264-7 256 Pages The Wright brothers have long received the lions share of credit for inventing the airplane. But a California scientist succeeded in ying gliders twenty years before the Wrights powered ights at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Quest for Flight reveals the amazing accomplishments of John J. Montgomery, a prolic inventor who piloted the glider he designed in 1883 in the rst controlled ights of a heavier-than-air craft in the Western Hemisphere.
The Essential West

Collected Essays By Elliott West $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4296-8 336 Pages This collection of essays by distinguished historian and accomplished writer, Elliott West, weaves the western story into that of the nation and the world beyond, from Kansas and Montana to Haiti, Africa, and the court of Louis XV.
With Golden Visions Bright Before Them

Trails to the Mining West, 18491852 By Will Bagley $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4284-5 $150.00s Leather 978-0-87062-418-6 480 Pages During the mid-nineteenth century, a quarter of a million travelers followed the road across the plains to gold rush California. This magnicent chronicle captures the danger, excitement, and heartbreak of Americas rst great rush for riches and its enduring consequences.
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VOLUME ONE May 1832April 1833 $295.00n Leather Bound 978-87062-365-3 544 Pages $85.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3888-6
VOLUME TWO AprilSeptember 1833 $295.00n Leather Bound 978-0-87062-366-0 612 Pages $85.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3923-4
Forty-Seventh Star
New Mexicos Struggle for Statehood By David V. Holtby $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4282-1 384 Pages The most complete, original, readable, and lively account of the sixty-year struggle between pro-statehood leaders and equally powerful anti-statehood forces, both in New Mexico and Washington, D.C., that I have ever read. Howard R. Lamar, Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University
Gunght at the Eco-Corral

Western Cinema and the Environment By Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4246-3 272 Pages Most lm critics point to classic conictsgood versus evil, right versus wrong, civilization versus savageryas dening themes of the American Western. In this provocative examination of Westerns from Tumbleweeds (1925) to Rango (2011), Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann argue for a more expansive view that moves beyond traditional conicts to encompass environmental themes and struggles.
Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
Edited by Matthew L. Harris and Jay H. Buckley $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4243-2 256 Pages In life and in death, fame and glory eluded Zebulon Montgomery Pike. The ambitious young military ofcer and explorer, best known for a mountain peak that he neither scaled nor named, was destined to live in the shadows of more famous contemporaries. This collection of thought-provoking essays rescues Pike from his undeserved obscurity.
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of Prince Maximilian of Wied

ew historical chronicles are as informative and eloquent as the journal written by Prince Maximilian of Wied as a record of his journey into the North American interior in 1833, following the route Lewis and Clark had taken almost thirty years earlier. Maximilians memorable descriptions of topography, Native peoples, and natural history were further brought to life through the now-familiar watercolors and sketches of Karl Bodmer, the young Swiss artist who accompanied him. Volume One of the North American Journals recounts the princes journey from Europe to St. Louisthen the edge of the frontier. Volume Two vividly narrates his experiences on the upper Missouri and offers an unparalleled view of the region and the peoples native to it. In Volume Three, Maximilian vividly narrates his extended stay at Fort Clark (near todays Bismarck, North Dakota) and his return journey eastward across America and on to his home in Germany. This book is published with the assistance of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
VOLUME THREE September 1833August 1834 $295.00n Leather Bound 978-0-87062-367-7 544 Pages $85.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3924-1
A Toast to Eclipse
Arpad Haraszthy and the Sparkling Wine of Old San Francisco By Brian McGinty $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4248-7 256 Pages The sparkling wines of California rival the best French Champagnes today, but their place at our tables came about through careful craftsmanship that began more than a century ago. The predecessor of todays California bubbly was Eclipse Champagne, the rst commercially successful California sparkling wine, produced by Arpad Haraszthy in the mid- to late nineteenth century. In A Toast to Eclipse, Brian McGinty offers a denitive history of the wine, exploring Californias winemaking past and two of the people who put the states varietal wines on the map: Arpad and his father Agoston Haraszthy, the legendary father of California viticulture.
The Character of Meriwether Lewis

Explorer in the Wilderness By Clay S. Jenkinson $29.95 Cloth 978-0-9825597-2-7 $19.95 Paper 978-0-9825597-3-4 250 Pages Distributed for The Dakota Institute Meriwether Lewis commanded the most important exploration mission in the early history of the United States. Clay S. Jenkinson takes a fresh look at Lewis, not to offer a paper cutout hero but to describe and explain a hyperserious young man of great complexity who found the wilderness of Upper Louisiana as exacting as it was exhilarating.
Alaska
A History By Claus M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick $39.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4040-7 420 Pages The largest by far of the fty states, Alaska is also the state of greatest mystery and diversity. And, as Claus-M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick show in this comprehensive survey, the history of Alaskas peoples and the development of its economy have matched the diversity of its land and seascapes.
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After Custer
Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country By Paul L. Hedren $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4216-6 272 Pages Between 1876 and 1877, the U.S. Army battled Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians in a series of vicious conicts known today as the Great Sioux War. After the defeat of Custer at the Little Big Horn in June 1876, the army responded to its stunning loss by pouring fresh troops and resources into the war effort. In the end, the U.S. Army prevailed, but at a signicant cost. In this unique contribution to American western history, Paul L. Hedren examines the wars effects on the culture, environment, and geography of the northern Great Plains, their Native inhabitants, and the Anglo-American invaders.
An Archaeology of Desperation
Exploring the Donner Partys Alder Creek Camp Edited by Kelly J. Dixon, Julie M. Schablitsky, and Shannon A. Novak With Contributions by Will Bagley, Kelsey Gray, Donald L. Hardesty, Kristin Johnson, Sean McMurry, Jo Ann Nevers, Gwen Robbins, Penny Rucks, and G. Richard Scott $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4210-4 384 Pages The Donner Party is almost inextricably linked with cannibalism. In truth, we know remarkably little about what actually happened to the starving travelers stranded in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 184647. Combining the approaches of history, ethnohistory, archaeology, bioarchaeology, and social anthropology, this innovative look at the Donner Partys experience at the Alder Creek Camp offers insights into many long-unsolved mysteries.
Deep Trails in the Old West

A Frontier Memoir By Frank Clifford Edited by Frederick Nolan $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4186-2 336 Pages Cowboy and drifter Frank Clifford lived a lot of livesand raised a lot of hellin the rst quarter of his life. Cliffords memoir paints a picture of how ranchers and ordinary folk lived, worked, and stayed alive during those tumultuous years. Written in 1940, Deep Trails in the Old West is likely one of the last eyewitness histories of the old West ever to be discovered.
A Free and Hardy Life

Theodore Roosevelts Sojourn in the American West By Clay S. Jenkinson $45.00 Cloth 978-00982559-78-9 176 Pages Theodore Roosevelt ventured into the American West to seek authentic frontierexperience and the strenuous life. The New York aristocrat traveled to western Dakota Territory in 1883 to kill his rst buffalo. He got his buffalo, but he also fell in love with the badlands of what is now North Dakota. This book contains 70 stories, many set in Dakota Territory, about Roosevelts life as an adventurer, politician, and man of letters, lavishly illustrated with more than 100 photographs, some never previously published.
Violent Encounters
Interviews on Western Massacres By Deborah Lawrence and Jon Lawrence $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4126-8 336 Pages Merciless killing in the nineteenth-century American West, as this unusual book shows, was not as simple as depicted in dime novels and movie Westerns. The scholars interviewed here, experts on violence in the West, embrace a wide range of approaches and perspectives and challenge both traditional views of western expansion and politically correct ideologies. Scholars and students of history and historiography will be fascinated by the nuts-and-bolts information about the practice of history revealed in these interviews.
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The Bronco Bill Gang

By Karen Holliday Tanner and John D. Tanner, Jr. $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4165-7 280 Pages The short, bloody career of Bronco Bill Walters and his gang captures the devil-may-care violence of the Wild West. In this detailed narrative of the gangs crime spree in territorial New Mexico and Arizona, two experts in outlaw history offer a gunshot-by-gunshot account of how some especially dangerous outlaws plied their trade in 1898.
Assault on the Deadwood Stage

Road Agents and Shotgun Messengers By Robert K. DeArment $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4182-4 272 Pages In the 1870s, Deadwood was a thrivingand largely lawlessboomtown. And as any fan of western history and lms knows, stagecoach robberies were a regular feature of life in this fabled region of Dakota Territory. Now, for the rst time, Robert K. DeArment tells the story of the good guys and bad guys behind these violent crimes: the road agents who wreaked havoc on Deadwoods roadways and the shotgun messengers who battled to protect stagecoach passengers and their valuable cargo.
Western Heritage
A Selection of Wrangler AwardWinning Articles Edited by Paul A. Hutton $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4206-7 292 Pages The enduring fascination of the American West marks this collection of essays by distinguished historians, investigative reporters, a novelist, and a celebrated screenwriter. All of these articles have won Wrangler Awards the western equivalent of the Oscarspresented annually by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.
The Jar of Severed Hands

The Spanish Deportation of Apache Prisoners of War, 17701810 By Mark Santiago $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4177-0 264 Pages More than two centuries after the Coronado Expedition rst set foot in the region, the northern frontier of New Spain in the late 1770s was still under attack by Apache raiders. Mark Santiagos gripping account of Spanish efforts to subdue the Apaches illuminates larger cultural and political issues in the colonial period of the Southwest and northern Mexico.
Shot In Oklahoma
A Century of Sooner State Cinema By John Wooley $16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4174-9 320 Pages When Thomas Edison wanted to capture western magic on lm in 1904, where did he send his crew? To Oklahomas 101 Ranch near Ponca City. And when Francis Ford Coppola readied young actors Tom Cruise and Matt Dillon to portray teen class strife in the 1983 movie The Outsiders, he took cast and crew to Tulsa, the setting of S. E. Hintons acclaimed novel. From Edison to Coppola and beyond, Oklahoma has served as both backdrop and home base for cinematic productions. Shot in Oklahoma explores the variety, spunk, and ingenuity of movie-making in the Sooner State over more than a century.

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Arena Legacy
The Heritage of American Rodeo By Richard C. Rattenbury $65.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-4084-1 400 Pages From its roots in cowboy and vaquero culture to the big-business excitement of todays National Finals competitions, rodeo has embodied the rugged individualism and competitive spirit of the American West. Now the long trajectory of rodeo culture comes fully alive in Arena Legacy. Showcasing the unrivaled collections of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, this lavishly illustrated volume is the rst to depict rodeos material and graphic heritage.
A Perfect Gibraltar
The Battle for Monterrey, Mexico, 1846 By Christopher D. Dishman $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4140-4 344 Pages For three days in the fall of 1846, U.S. and Mexican soldiers fought ercely in the picturesque city of Monterrey, turning the northern Mexican town, known for its towering mountains and luxurious gardens, into one of the nineteenth centurys most gruesome battleelds. Led by Brigadier General Zachary Taylor, graduates of the U.S. Military Academy encountered a city almost perfectly protected by mountains, a river, and a vast plain. Monterreys ideal defensive position inspired more than one U.S. soldier to call it a perfect Gibraltar. Christopher D. Dishman conveys in a vivid narrative the intensity and drama of the Battle of Monterrey.
Beyond the American Pale

The Irish in the West, 18451910 By David M. Emmons $34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4128-2 540 Pages Convention has it that Irish immigrants in the nineteenth century conned themselves mainly to industrial cities of the East and Midwest. The truth is that Irish Catholics went everywhere in America and often had as much of a presence in the West as in the East. In Beyond the American Pale, David M. Emmons examines this multifaceted experience of westering Irish and, in doing so, offers a fresh and discerning account of Americas westward expansion.
So Rugged and Mountainous

Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 18121848 By Will Bagley $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4103-9 480 Pages The story of Americas westward migration is a powerful blend of fact and fable. Over the course of three decades, almost a million eager fortunehunters, pioneers, and visionaries transformed the face of a continentand displaced its previous inhabitants. The people who made the long and perilous journey over the Oregon and California trails drove this swift and astonishing change. In this magisterial volume, Will Bagley tells why and how this massive emigration began.
Prairie Republic
The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879-1889 By Jon K. Lauck $32.95s 978-0-8061-4110-7 256 Pages Seldom is a major aspect of a historical period researched, written, and interpreted as brilliantly as Jon Lauck has done here. This very important book not only adds much to South Dakota history but also demonstrates methods and approaches that could well be used in studying other pioneer territories in the Midwest.Gilbert C. Fite, author of The Farmers Frontier, 18651900
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The Steamboat Bertrand and Missouri River Commerce
By Ronald R. Switzer $45.00 Cloth 978-0-87062-426-1 376 Pages On April 1, 1865, the steamboat Bertrand hit a snag in the Missouri River and sank twenty miles north of Omaha. For more than a century thereafter, the Bertrand remained buried until it was discovered by treasure hunters, its cargo largely intact. This book categorizes some 300,000 artifacts recovered from the Bertrand in 1968, and also describes the invention, manufacture, marketing, distribution, and sale of these products and traces their route to the frontier mining camps of Montana Territory.
Dale Morgan on the Mormons

Collected Works, Part 2, 19491970 By Dale Morgan Edited by Richard Saunders $45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-423-0 Dale L. Morgan (19141971) remains one of the most respected historians of the American Westand his broad and inuential career one of the least understood. Among todays scholars his reputation rests largely on his studies of the fur trade and overland trails, yet throughout his life, Morgans perennial goal was to complete a history of the Latter Day Saints. In this volumethe second of a two-part setMorgans writings on the Mormons nally receive the attention and analysis they merit.
Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey

A Documentary History Edited by M. John Lubetkin $34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-422-3 320 Pages Encompassing the saga of transcontinental railroading, cultural conict on the northern plains, and an array of important Indian and Anglo-American characters, Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey will fascinate Custer fans and anyone interested in the history of the American West.
California through Russian Eyes, 18061848

Compiled, translated, and edited by James R. Gibson $45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-421-6 506 Pages In the early nineteenth century, Russia established a colony in California that lasted until the Russian-American Company sold Fort Ross and Bodega Bay to John Sutter in 1841. This annotated collection of Russian accounts of Alta California, many of them translated here into English from Russian for the rst time, presents richly detailed impressions by visiting Russian mariners, scientists, and Russian-American Company ofcials regarding the environment, people, economy, and politics of the province. Gathered from Russian archival collections and obscure journals, these testimonies represent a major contribution to the little-known history of Russian America.
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This Far-Off Wild Land
The Upper Missour Letters of Andrew Dawson By Lesley Wischmann, Andrew Erskine Dawson $39.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-419-3 336 Pages In the mid-1800s, Andrew Dawson, self-exiled from his home in Scotland, joined the upper Missouri River fur trade and rose through the ranks of the American Fur Company. A headstrong young man, he had come to America at the age of twenty-four after being dismissed from his second job in two years. His poignant sense of isolation is evident throughout his letters home between 1844 and 1861. In This Far-Off Wild Land, Lesley Wischmann and Andrew Erskine Dawsona relative of this colorful gurecouple an engaging biography of Dawson with thirty-seven of his previously unpublished letters from the American frontier.
Robert Newton Baskin and the Making of Modern Utah

By John Gary Maxwell $45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-420-9 392 Pages Robert Newton Baskins promotion of federal legislation against polygamy and his work to bring the Mormon territory into a republican form of government were pivotal in Utahs achievement of statehood.The result of hisefforts also contributed to the acceptance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by the American public. In this engaging biography, Maxwell presents Baskin as the unsung father of modern Utah.
Dale Morgan on the Mormons

Collected Works Part 1, 19391951 Edited by Richard L. Saunders $45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-416-2 Dale L. Morgan (19141971) remains one of the most respected historians of the American Westand his career, one of the least understood. Among todays scholars his reputation rests largely on his studies of the fur trade and overland trails, yet throughout his life, Morgans primary interest was the history of the Latter Day Saints. In this volumethe rst of a two-part set Morgans writings on the Mormons nally receive the attention and analysis they merit.
Custer, the Seventh Cavalry, and the Little Big Horn

A Bibliography By Michael OKeefe $125.00s Cloth/2 Volume Set 978-0-87062-404-9 720 Pages Since the shocking news rst broke in 1876 of the Seventh Cavalrys disastrous defeat at the Little Big Horn, fascination with the battleand with Lieutenant George Armstrong Custerhas never ceased. Widespread interest in the subject has spawned a vast outpouring of literature, which only increases with time. This two volume bibliography of Custer literature is the rst to be published in some twenty ve years and the most complete ever assembled.
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Edward Hunter Snow

PioneerEducatorStatesman By Thomas G. Alexander $34.95 Cloth 978-0-87062-415-5 432 Pages Edward Hunter Snow played and instrumental role in the development of southern Utah and in the growth of the Mormon church during a period of rapid change. In this rst biography of the man, Alexander presents Snow as a servant of family, church, state, and nation.
The Indianization of Lewis and Clark

By William R. Swagerty $90.00s Cloth/2 Volume Set 978-0-87062-413-1 836 Pages The Indianization of Lewis and Clark retraces the well-known trail of Americas most famous explorers as a journey into the heart of Native Americaa case study of successful material adaptation and cultural borrowing.
Weapons of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

By Jim Garry $32.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-412-4 208 Pages When Meriwether Lewis began shopping for supplies and rearms to take on the Corps of Discoverys journey west, his rst stop was a federal arsenal. For the following twenty-nine months, from the time the Lewis and Clark expedition left Camp Dubois with a cannon salute in 1804 until it announced its return from the West Coast to St. Louis with a volley in 1806, weapons were a crucial component of the participants tool kit. In Weapons of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, historian Jim Garry describes the arms and ammunition the expedition carried and the use and care those weapons received.
Terrible Justice
Sioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 18541868 By Doreen Chaky $39.95 Cloth 978-0-87062-414-8 400 Pages Doreen Chaky offers the rst complete picture of the conicts between Sioux warriors and the American military in the mid-nineteenth century, the period bookended by the Siouxs rst major military conicts with the U.S. Army and the creation of the Great Sioux Reservation.
Gold-Mining Boomtown
People of White Oaks, Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory By Roberta Key Haldane $45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-410-0 336 Pages The town of White Oaks, New Mexico Territory, was born in 1879 when prospectors discovered gold at nearby Baxter Mountain. In GoldMining Boomtown, Roberta Key Haldane offers an intimate portrait of the southeastern New Mexico community by proling more than forty families and individuals who made their homes there during its heyday.
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Contest for California
From Spanish Colonization to the American Conquest By Stephen G. Hyslop $39.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-411-7 448 Pages Californias early history was both colorful and turbulent. In Contest for California, Stephen G. Hyslop draws on a wide array of primary sources to weave an elegant narrative of this epic struggle for control of the territory that many saw as a beautiful, sprawling land of promise.
Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, 1792

Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra and the Nootka Sound Controversy By Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra Translation by Freeman M. Tovell $34.95 Cloth 978-0-87062-408-7 192 Pages This book offers the rst published English translation of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra journal, a remarkable account of his travels along the Northwest Coast of America, encounters with Native peoples and the friendship that developed between Bodega and his British counterpart, George Vancouver.
West from Salt Lake

Diaries from the Central Overland Trail Edited by Jesse G. Petersen $34.95 Cloth 978-0-87062-407-0 320 Pages Rich in anecdotes on the challenges of the overland crossing, West from Salt Lake reveals excerpts from the diaries of settlers traveling the Central Overland Trail from Salt Lake City to California. Trail enthusiasts and students of westering migration history will welcome this detailed view of the previously neglected Central Overland Trail.
Bonanzas and Borrascas

By Richard E. Lingenfelter Vol. 1: Gold Lust and Silver Sharks, 1848-1884 Vol. 2: Copper Kings and Stock Frenzies, 1885-1918 (Gold Lust and Silver Sharks) $40.00 Cloth 978-0-87062-405-6 448 Pages (Copper Kings and Stock Frenzies) $40.00 Cloth 978-0-87062-406-3 600 Pages This two-volume study of the heyday of gold, silver, and copper mining in the American West is unique in both scope and approach. Here is a saga of mines and money, of the richly protable bonanzas and crushingly protless borrascas of the West. Richard E. Lingenfelter describes how miners, managers, investors, and speculators produced enormous wealthspurring the American economy, attracting myriads of Argonauts and settlers, and transforming the West and the nation.
Playing with Shadows

Voices of Dissent in the Mormon West Edited by Polly Aird, Jeff Nichols, and Will Bagley $45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-380-6 496 Pages This collection of narratives by four individuals who abandoned Mormonism apostates, as Brigham Young and other Latter-day Saint leaders labeled themprovides an overview of dissent from the beginning of the religion to the early twentieth century and presents a wide range of disaffection with the faith or its leaders.
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Parley P. Pratt and the Making of Mormonism

Edited and with contributions by Gregory K. Armstrong, Matthew J. Grow, and Dennis J. Siler $45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-401-8 352 Pages Parley P. Pratt joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1830 and was murdered in 1857 by the estranged husband of his twelfth plural wife. An original member of the Churchs Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Pratts writings helped dene Mormon theology and identity, and his hymns remain popular today. This collection of essays uses Pratts life and writings as a means for gaining insight on early Latter-day Saint history, including the Churchs initial internationalization, vibrant print culture, development of a unique theology, family dynamics, and the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
Forging a Fur Empire

Expeditions in the Snake River Country, 18091824 By John Phillip Reid $29.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-402-5 240 Pages Alexander Ross, the pioneer recorder of the early fur trade in the far northern West, led a beaver trapping expedition in 1824 into the vast, unfamiliar territory east of trading posts in the Pacic Northwest. He and his men ventured deep into Snake River country in present-day Idaho and Montana. In this narrative, based on the accounts left by Ross and others, historian and legal scholar John Phillip Reid describes the experiences of the earliest Hudsons Bay Company fur-trapping expeditionsventures usually overlooked by historiansand explores the interaction between the diverse cultures of the Pacic Northwest.
Justinian Caire and Santa Cruz Island

The Rise and Fall of a California Dynasty By Frederic Caire Chiles $34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-400-1 240 Pages Santa Cruz was once the largest privately owned island off the coast of the continental United States. This account traces the islands history from its aboriginal Chumash population to its acquisition by The Nature Conservancy at the end of the twentieth century. The heart of the book, however, is a family saga: the story of French migr Justinian Caire and his descendants, who owned and occupied the island for more than fty years. The author, descended from Caire, uses family archives unavailable to earlier historians to recount the previously untold story.
In the Whirlpool
The Pre-Manifesto Letters of President Wilford Woodruff to the William Atkin Family, 18851890 Edited by Reid L. Neilson Contributions by Thomas G. Alexander and Jan Shipps $29.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-390-5 224 Pages Political and religious turmoil in the late 1800s plagued the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its leaders. As Utah statehood loomed, Congress aggressively moved against Mormons who engaged in polygamy. One of those who went into hiding in 1879 was Wilford Woodruff, who became church president in 1887. This never-before-published collection of Woodruffs letters to the Atkins, edited by Reid L. Neilson, reveals the church leaders political and spiritual conicts in the ve years leading up to his 1890 Manifesto, which ofcially disallowed polygamy.
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Valentine T. Mcgillycuddy
Army Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux By Candy Moulton $34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-389-9 288 Pages On a September day in 1877, hundreds of Sioux and soldiers at Camp Robinson crowded around a fatally injured Lakota leader. A young doctor forced his way through the crowd, only to see the victim fading before him. It was the famed Crazy Horse. From intense moments like this to encounters with such legendary western gures as Calamity Jane and Red Cloud, Valentine T. McGillycuddys life encapsulated key events in American history that changed the lives of Native people forever. In Valentine T. McGillycuddy award-winning author Candy Moulton explores McGillycuddys fascinating experiences on the northern plains.
New England to Gold Rush California

The Journal of Alfred and Chastina W. Rix, 18491854 Edited Lynn A. Boneld $45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-392-9 384 Pages On July 29, 1849, two young schoolteachers were married in a small town in northern Vermont. Their story could easily have been lost to history, except that Alfred and Chastina Rix had the foresight to begin recording their observations in a joint journal. Their unique husband-and-wife account, which captures the turbulence of life and events during the gold rush era, is also a personaland compellingchronicle of a singular familys separation and reunion.
With Anza to California, 17751776

The Journal of Pedro Font, O.F.M. By Pedro Font Translated and edited by Alan K. Brown $55.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-375-2 472 Pages Juan Bautista de Anza led the Spanish colonizing expedition in 177576 that opened a trail from Arizona to California and established a presidio at San Francisco Bay. Franciscan missionary Fray Pedro Font accompanied Anza. As chaplain and geographer, Font kept a detailed daily record of the expeditions progress that today is considered one of the fundamental documents of exploration in the American Southwest. This edition is the most complete account of the Anza expedition and a foundational primary source in California and Southwest history.
Red Clouds War

The Bozeman Trail, 18661868 (2 Vols.) By John D. McDermott $225.00s Leather Bound 978-0-87062-377-6 $75.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-376-9 704 Pages On a cold December day in 1866, Captain William J. Fetterman disobeyed orders and spurred his men across Lodge Trail Ridge in pursuit of a group of retreating Lakota Sioux, Arapahos, and Cheyennes. He saw a perfect opportunity to punish the tribes for harassing travelers on the Bozeman Trail and attacking wood trains sent out from nearby Fort Phil Kearny. In a sudden turn of events, his command was, within moments, annihilated. John D. McDermotts spellbinding narrative offers a cautionary tale of hubris and miscalculation.
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Patrick Connors War

The 1865 Powder River Indian Expedition By David E. Wagner $39.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-393-6 $125.00s Special Edition 978-0-87062-395-0 296 Pages The summer of 1865 marked the transition from the Civil War to Indian war on the western plains. With the rest of the countrys attention still focused on the East, the U.S. Army began an often forgotten campaign against the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho. Led by Gen. Patrick Connor, the Powder River Indian Expedition into Wyoming sought to punish tribes for raids earlier that year. Patrick Connors War describes the troops movement into hostile territory while struggling with bad weather, supply shortages, and communication problems.
Hancocks War
Conict on the Southern Plains By William Y. Chalfant $59.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-371-4 296 Pages When General Wineld Scott Hancock led a military expedition across Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska in 1867, his purpose was a show of force that would curtail Indian raiding sparked by the Sand Creek massacre of 1864. But the havoc he and his troops wrought on the plains served only to further incite the tribes and iname passions on both sides, disrupting U.S.Indian relations for more than a decade. One of the most signicant Indian campaigns in American history, Hancocks War is in many ways a microcosm of all the wars between Indians and whites on the high plains. Chalfants sweeping narrative forms the denitive history of a questionable enterprise.
Dodge City
The Early Years, 18721886 By Wm. B. Shillingberg $49.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-378-3 476 Pages The most famous cattle town of the trail-driving era, Dodge City, Kansas, holds a special allure for western historians and enthusiasts alike. Wm. B. Shillingberg now goes beyond the violence for which the town became notorious, more fully documenting its early history by uncovering the economic, political, and social forces that shaped Dodge. The author takes readers back to the southwestern Kansas frontier and traces Dodge Citys evolution from a military site for protecting Santa Fe commerce, to a wild and lawless buffalo hunters rendezvous, to a regional freighting center and the primary shipping point for Texas cattle on the central plains. Along the way, the book offers new perspectives on the exploits of such legendary gures as Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp.
Fort Laramie
Military Bastion of the High Plains By Douglas C. McChristian $45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-360-8 448 Pages Of all the U.S. Army posts in the West, none witnessed more history than Fort Laramie, positioned where the northern Great Plains join the Rocky Mountains. From its beginnings as a trading post in 1834 to its abandonment by the army in 1890, it was involved in the buffalo hide trade, overland migrations, Indian wars and treaties, the Utah War, Confederate maneuvering, and the coming of the telegraph and rst transcontinental railroad. Meticulously researched and gracefully told, this is a long-overdue military history of one of the American Wests most venerable historic places.
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Deliverance from the Little Big Horn
Doctor Henry Porter and Custers Seventh Cavalry By Joan Nabseth Stevenson $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4266-1 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4416-0 232 Pages Of the three surgeons who accompanied Custers Seventh Cavalry on June 25, 1876, only the youngest, twenty-eightyear-old Henry Porter, survived that days ordeal, riding through a gauntlet of Indian attackers and up the steep bluffs to Major Marcus Renos hilltop position. But the story of Dr. Porters wartime exploits goes far beyond the battle itself. In this compelling narrative of military endurance and medical ingenuity, Joan Nabseth Stevenson opens a new window on the Battle of the Little Big Horn by re-creating the desperate struggle for survival during the ght and in its wake.
Gold-Mining Boomtown
People of White Oaks, Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory By Roberta Key Haldane $45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-410-0 $29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4417-7 336 Pages The town of White Oaks, New Mexico Territory, was born in 1879 when prospectors discovered gold at nearby Baxter Mountain. In GoldMining Boomtown, Roberta Key Haldane offers an intimate portrait of the southeastern New Mexico community by proling more than forty families and individuals who made their homes there during its heyday.
Stories of Old-Time Oklahoma

By David Dary $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4181-7 $16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4419-1 288 Pages Most of the stories gathered here rst appeared as newspaper articles during the state centennial in 2007. For this volume Dary has revised and expanded themand added new ones. He begins with an overview of Oklahomas rich and varied history and geography, describing the origins of its trails, rails, and waterways and recounting the many tales of buried treasure that are part of Oklahoma lore.
Devils Gate
Owning the Land, Owning the Story By Tom Rea $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4368-2 320 Pages Tom Reas eloquent and captivating narrative traces the history of the Sweetwater River valley in central Wyominga remote place including Devils Gate, Independence Rock, and other sites along a stretch of the Oregon Trail to show how legal ownership of a place can translate into owning its story.
Indian Tribes of Oklahoma

A Guide By Blue Clark $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4061-2 416 Pages Oklahoma is home to nearly forty American Indian tribes, and it includes the largest Native population of any state. As a result, many Americans think of the state as Indian Country. For more than half a century readers have turned to Muriel H. Wrights A Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma as the authoritative source for information on the states Native peoples. Now Blue Clark, an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, has rendered a completely new guide that reects the drastic transformation of Indian Country in recent years.
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Buffalo Inc.
American Indians and Economic Development By Sebastian Felix Braun $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4372-9 288 Pages Some American Indian tribes on the Great Plains have turned to bison ranching as a culturally and ecologically sustainable economic development program. This book focuses on one enterprise on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation to determine whether such projects have fullled expectations and how they t with traditional and contemporary Lakota values.
Civil War Arkansas, 1863

The Battle for a State By Mark K. Christ $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4433-7 336 Pages The Arkansas River Valley is one of the most fertile regions in the South. During the Civil War, the river also served as a vital artery for moving troops and supplies. In 1863 the battle to wrest control of the valley was, in effect, a battle for the state itself. In spite of its importance, however, this campaign is often overshadowed by the siege of Vicksburg. Now Mark K. Christ offers the rst detailed military assessment of parallel events in Arkansas, describing their consequences for both Union and Confederate powers.
George Crook
From the Redwoods to Appomattox By Paul Magid $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4441-2 408 Pages Renowned for his prominent role in the Apache and Sioux wars, General George Crook (182890) was considered by William Tecumseh Sherman to be his greatest Indian-ghting general. Although Crook was feared by Indian opponents on the battleeld, in defeat the tribes found him a true friend and advocate who earned their trust and friendship when he spoke out in their defense against political corruption and greed. Paul Magids detailed and engaging narrative focuses on Crooks early years through the end of the Civil War.
The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory

By James N. Leiker and Ramon Powers $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4370-5 276 Pages The exodus of the Northern Cheyennes in 1878 and 1879, an attempt to ee from Indian Territory to their Montana homeland, is an important event in American Indian history. In The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory, James N. Leiker and Ramon Powers explore how the event has been remembered, told, and retold.
The Nez Perces in the Indian Territory

Nimiipuu Survival By J. Diane Pearson $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-0982-4 408 Pages Following the Nez Perce War of 1877, federal representatives promised the Nimiipuu who surrendered with Chief Joseph repatriation to their Pacic Northwest homes. Instead, they were driven into exile. This book tells the story of the Nimiipuu captivity and deportation and offers an in-depth analysis of the resistant Nez Perce, Cayuse, and Palus bands during their incarceration.
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A Guide to Americas Indians

By Arnold Marquis $29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-1148-3 280 Pages This book provides basic information about American Indians that every tourist and armchair traveler might need or want. Part One is a brief account of the many different tribes in the lower forty-eight states, detailing their cultures and lifeways, their relations with the federal government, the panIndian movement, and contemporary writings and journalism. Part Two offers helpful advice about visiting reservations and guidance in interpreting ceremonials and dances, buying art and craftwork, and camping on Indian lands. Part Three is a detailed, region-by-region guide to the tribes and reservations, campgrounds, and regularly scheduled events.
Bound Like Grass

A Memoir from the Western High Plains By Ruth McLaughlin $16.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4326-2 200 Pages Bound Like Grass is author Ruth McLaughlins account of her own and her familys struggle to survive on their isolated wheat and cattle farm. With acute observation, she explores her roots as a descendant of Swedish American grandparents who settled in Montana at the turn of the twentieth century with high ambitions, and of parents who barely managed to eke out a living on their own neighboring farm.
The Peyote Road

Religious Freedom and the Native American Church By Thomas C. Maroukis $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061- 4323-1 296 Pages Despite challenges by the federal government to restrict the use of Peyote, the Native American Church, which uses the hallucinogenic cactus as a religious sacrament, has become the largest indigenous denomination among American Indians today. The Peyote Road examines the history of the NAC, including its legal struggles to defend the controversial use of Peyote.
C. C. Slaughter
Rancher, Banker, Baptist By David J. Murrah $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4293-7 198 Pages Born during the infant years of the Texas Republic, C. C. Slaughter (1837 1919) participated in the development of the southwestern cattle industry from its pioneer stages to the modern era. Trail driver, Texas Ranger, banker, philanthropist, and cattleman, he was one of Americas most famous ranchers. David J. Murrahs biography of Slaughter, now available in paperback, still stands as the denitive account of this well-known gure in Southwest history.
Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley

Making the Modern Old West By Thomas J. Harvey $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4321-7 304 Pages The Colorado River Plateau is home to two of the best-known landscapes in the world: Rainbow Bridge in southern Utah and Monument Valley on the Utah-Arizona border. Twentieth-century popular culture made these places icons of the American West, and advertising continues to exploit their signicance today. In Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley, Harvey artfully tells how Navajos and Anglo-Americans created fabrics of meaning out of this stunning desert landscape, space that western novelist Zane Grey called the storehouse of unlived years, where a rugged, more authentic life beckoned.
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Shooting from the Lip

The Life of Senator Al Simpson By Donald Loren Hardy $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4320-0 488 Pages Shortly before Wyomings Alan K. Simpson was elected majority whip of the United States Senate, he decided to keep a journal. Now the senators longtime chief of staff, Donald Loren Hardy, has drawn extensively on Simpsons personal papers and nineteen-volume diary to write this unvarnished account of a storied life and political career. Full of entertaining tales and moments of historical signicance, Shootingfrom the Lip offers a privileged and revealing backstage view of late-twentieth-century American politics.
Great Sioux War Orders of Battle

How the United States Army Waged War on the Northern Plains, 18761877 By Paul L. Hedren $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4322-4 240 Pages The Great Sioux War pitted almost one-third of the U.S. Army against Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyennes. By the time it ended, this war had played out on twenty-seven different battleelds, resulted in hundreds of casualties, cost millions of dollars, and transformed the landscape and the lives of survivors on both sides. In this compelling sourcebook, Paul Hedren uses extensive documentation to demonstrate that the American army adapted quickly to the challenges of ghting this unconventional war and was more effectively led and better equipped than is customarily believed.
WD Farr
Cowboy in the Boardroom By Daniel Tyler $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4328-6 312 Pages Always a better way was WD Farrs motto. As a Colorado rancher, banker, cattle feeder, and expert in irrigation, Farr (19102007) had a unique talent for building consensus and instigating change in an industry known for its conservatism. With his persistent optimism and gregarious personality, Farrs inuence extended from next-door neighbors and business colleagues to U.S. presidents and foreign dignitaries. In this biography, Daniel Tyler chronicles Farrs singular life and career. At the same time, he tells a broader story of sweeping changes in agricultural production and irrigated agriculture in Colorado and across the West during the twentieth century.
Blue Heaven
A Novel By Willard Wyman $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4329-3 200 Pages The year is 1902. A young stock-handler named Fenton Pardee has just survived the train wreck that almost destroyed William F. Codys Wild West show. Surveying the trains smoldering ruinsand what is left of Codys company of stunt-riders, trick-shooters, and stage actorsFenton realizes that turning the West into a circus to thrill the world is no longer thrilling for him.Blue Heaven marks the return of Fenton Pardee, veteran guide and packer, who gured so memorably in High Country, Willard Wymans highly acclaimed rst novel.
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The Mormon Rebellion

Americas First Civil War, 18571858 By David L. Bigler and Will Bagley $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4315-6 408 Pages In 1857 President James Buchanan ordered U.S. troops to Utah to replace Brigham Young as governor and restore order to a territory in rebellion. In this compelling narrative, the authors show that the Mormon rebellion was not the result of Buchanans blunder, nor was it an abused religious minority by an unjust and tyrannical government. They argue that Mormon leaders had their own far-reaching ambitions and fully intended to establish an independent nationthe Kingdom of Godin the West.
Wyoming Range War

The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County By John W. Davis $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4261-6 384 Pages John W. Davis retells the story of the Wests most notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land and census records, newspapers, and trial transcripts, Davis has produced an all-new interpretation. He looks at the conict from the perspective of Johnson County residents and nds that, contrary to the received explanation, these people were not thieves and rustlers but legitimate citizens. Wyoming Range War tells a compelling story that redraws the lines between heroes and villains.
Texas A Historical Atlas

By A. Ray Stephens Cartography by Carol Zuber-Mallison $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4307-1 448 Pages Texas: A Historical Atlas accurately reects the Lone Star State at the dawn of the twenty-rst century. Its 86 entries feature 175 full color maps illustrating the most signicant aspects of the states history, geography, and current affairs.
Bob Kuhn
Drawing on Instinct By Adam Duncan Harris $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4301-9 352 Pages Bob Kuhn: Drawing on Instinct presents a generous sampling of his rarely seen sketches alongside the vibrant paintings for which he is best known. Appearing in conjunction with a traveling exhibit mounted by the National Museum of Wildlife Art, in Jackson, Wyoming, this book allows readers to observe the artistic process of one of the greatest wildlife artists of our time.
Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux War, 18541856

By R. Eli Paul $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4275-3 256 Pages In previous accounts, the U.S. Armys rst clashes with the powerful Sioux tribe appear as a set of irrational events with a cast of improbable charactersa Mormon cow, a brash lieutenant, a drunken interpreter, an unfortunate Brul chief, and an incorrigible army commander. R. Eli Paul shows instead that the events that precipitated General William Harneys attack on Chief Little Thunders Brul village foreshadowed the entire history of conict between the United States and the Lakota people.
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Bones in the Well

The Hauns Mill Massacre, 1838 By Beth S. Moore $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4270-8 196 Pages The massacre at Hauns Mill is a dening moment in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Mormons had come to Missouri at the urging of their prophet, Joseph Smith, but found themselves at odds with the original settlers. On October 7, 1838, Governor Lillburn Boggs ordered: The Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the state. On October 30, 1838, Missouri militia attacked the small Mormon settlement at Hauns Mill on Shoal Creek, killing and wounding dozens.
Indian Alliances and the Spanish in the Southwest, 7501750

By William B. Carter $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4302-6 328 Pages When considering the history of the Southwest, scholars have typically viewed Apaches, Navajos, and other Athapaskans as marauders who preyed on Pueblo towns and Spanish settlements. William Carter now offers a multilayered reassessment of historical events and environmental and social change to show how mutually supportive networks among Native peoples created alliances in the centuries before and after Spanish settlement.
Lees Cavalrymen
A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of Northern Virginia, 18611865 By Edward G. Longacre $26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4230-8 484 Pages Since the rst histories of the Civil War appeared after Appomattox, the cavalry has received intermittent, uneven, and even romanticized coverage. Historian Edward G. Longacre has corrected this oversight. Lees Cavalrymen, not only details the organizational and operational history of the mounted arm of the Army of Northern Virginia but also examines the personal experiences of ofcers and men. A provocative analysis of the mounted armys organization, leadership, and tactics, Lees Cavalrymen is a study that no Civil War enthusiast will want to miss.
Lincolns Cavalrymen
A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of the Potomac, 18611865 By Edward G. Longacre $26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4229-4 488 Pages Lincolns Cavalrymen describes the organizational, administrative, and operational history of the mounted arm of Mr. Lincolns Army. Historian Edward G. Longacre consulted at least fty manuscript collections pertaining to general ofcers of cavalry, as well as the unpublished letters and diaries of more than 450 ofcers and enlisted men, representing almost every mounted unit in the Army of the Potomac. The result is the most comprehensive history of the Union cavalry to date.
Military Register of Custers Last Command

By Roger L. Williams $39.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4274-6 432 Pages Military Register of Custers Last Command presents for the rst time the complete military history of every enlisted man on the regimental rolls, with particular attention devoted to the well-known campaigns from the Washita to Wounded Knee. As the rst in-depth analysis of the statistics related to the battle, Military Register of Custers Last Command is the most extensive work available on the 7th Cavalry. With its exhaustive bibliography, it will stand as a denitive resource for historians and enthusiasts and a tribute to all enlisted soldiers on the western frontier.
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Calamity Jane
The Woman and the Legend By James D. McLaird $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4251-7 384 Pages This book is a denitive biography of Martha Canary, the woman popularly known as Calamity Jane. Written by one of todays foremost authorities on this notorious character, it is a meticulously researched account of how an alcoholic prostitute was transformed into a Wild West heroine.
American Windmills
An Album of Historic Photographs By T. Lindsay Baker $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4249-4 168 Pages From the earliest days of European settlement, Americans have cherished the sight of a windmillan instantly recognizable feature of the American landscape. Boasting nearly two hundred striking images, this book is the rst devoted to photographs illustrating historic wind machines throughout North America. T. Lindsay Bakers album contains historic images captured by professional windmiller B. H. Tex Burdick and from corporate archives of windmill manufacturers and depicts windmills in a wide range of settings and uses.
Historical Atlas of Oklahoma, Fourth Edition

By Charles Robert Goins and Danney Goble $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3483-3 304 Pages The Historical Atlas of Oklahoma has been an indispensable reference for longer than four decades. Issued on the eve of the Oklahoma Centennial, this fourth edition of the atlas is much more than an updated version. Oklahoma authors Charles Robert Goins and Danney Goble are joined by seventeen contributing scholars and other professionals to present 119 topics.
Kit Carson
The Life of an American Border Man By David Remley $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1601-3 320 Pages History has portrayed Christopher Kit Carson in black and white. Best known as a nineteenth-century frontier hero, he has been represented more recently as an Indian killer responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Navajos. Biographer David Remley counters these polarized views, nding Carson to be less than a mythical hero, but more than a simpleminded rascal with a rie.
The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War

By Clarissa W. Confer $16.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4267-8 216 Pages No one questions the horric impact of the Civil War on America, but few realize its effect on American Indians. Residents of Indian Territory found the war especially devastating. This book offers a broad overview of the war as it affected the Cherokeesa social history of a people plunged into crisis.
From Cochise to Geronimo

The Chiricahua Apaches, 18741886 By Edwin R. Sweeney $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4272-2 720 Pages In the decade after the death of their revered chief Cochise in 1874, the Chiricahua Apaches struggled to survive as a people and their relations with the U.S. government further deteriorated. In From Cochise to Geronimo, Edwin R. Sweeney builds on his previous biographies of Chiricahua leaders Cochise and Mangas Coloradas to offer a denitive history of the turbulent period between Cochises death and Geronimos surrender in 1886.
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Jedediah Smith
No Ordinary Mountain Man By Barton H. Barbour $26.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4011-7 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4196-1 304 Pages Mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow. He was the rst Anglo-American to travel overland to California via the Southwest, and he roamed through more of the West than anyone else of his era. His adventures quickly became the stuff of legend. Using new information and sifting fact from folklore, Barton H. Barbour now offers a fresh look at this dynamic gure.
Charles Goodnight
Father of the Texas Panhandle By William T. Hagan $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4195-4 168 Pages Charles Goodnight was a pioneer of the early range cattle industryan opinionated and profane but energetic and well-liked rancher. Goodnights story is now re-examined by William T. Hagan in this brief, authoritative account that considers the role of ranching in generaland Goodnight in particularin the development of the Texas Panhandle. The rst major reassessment of his life in seventy years, Charles Goodnight traces its subjects life from hardscrabble farmer to cattle baron, giving close attention to lesser-known aspects of his last thirty years.
Oklahoma
A History By W. David Baird and Danney Goble $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4197-8 360 Pages From the tectonic formation of Oklahomas varied landscape to the recovery and renewal following the Oklahoma City bombing, this readable book includes both the well-known and the not-so-familiar of the states people, events, and places. W. David Baird and Danney Goble offer fresh perspectives on such widely recognized history makers as Sequoyah, the 1889 Land Run, and the Glenn Pool oil strike. But they also give due attention to Black Seminole John Horse, Tulsas Greenwood District, Coach Bertha Frank Teagues 40-year winning streak with the Byng Lady Pirates, and other lesser-known but equally important milestones. The result is a rousing, often surprising, and ever-fascinating story. Enhanced by more than 40 illustrations, including 11 maps, this denitive history of the state ensures that experiences shared by Oklahomans of the past will be passed on to future generations.
The Irish General

Thomas Francis Meagher By Paul R. Wylie $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4185-5 416 Pages Irish patriot, Civil War general, frontier governorThomas Francis Meagher played key roles in three major historical arenas. Today he is hailed as a hero by some, condemned as a drunkard by others. Paul R. Wylie now offers a denitive biography of this nineteenth-century gure who has long remained an enigma. An engaging biography.James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Battle Cry of Freedo

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UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS

Claiming Tribal Identity

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Native American Placenames of the Southwest

Arapaho Womens Quillwork

Native Performers in Wild West Shows

From the Hands of a Weaver

Buying America from the Indians

American Indians and the Mass Media

Telling Stories in the Face of Danger

Fort Clark and Its Indian Neighbors

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Red Power Rising

Wives and Husbands

War Party in Blue

Choctaw Crime and Punishment, 18841907

Art and Photography

A Family of the Land

Painters and the American West, Vol. II

A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country

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Karl Bodmers America Revisited

The James T. Bialac Native American Art Collection

Elevating Western American Art

Scenery, Curiosities, and Stupendous Rocks

Plains Indian Art

The Eugene B. Adkins Collection

Life at the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Agency

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Visions of the Big Sky

Charles Deas and 1840s America

Wildlife in American Art

Faces of the Frontier

The West of the Imagination

A R T A N D P H O T O G R A P H Y / B iog R aphy an D M E moi R

The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell

Biography and Memoir

Conversations with Barry Lopez

Red Dirt Women

Buffalo Bill on the Silver Screen

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When Law Was in the Holster

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That Fiend in Hell

Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand Creek

Our Centennial Indian War and the Life of General Custer

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Best of Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2

A Rough Ride to Redemption

When I Came West

The Old Mans Love Story

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Randy Lopez Goes Home

Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud

Main Street Oklahoma

American Ski Resort

Assassination and Commemoration

Cotton and Conquest

Oklahomas Indian New Deal

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