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American West

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2014

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American West
CONTENTS
American Indian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Art & Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Biography and Memoir. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
The Arthur H. Clark Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
New in Paperback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

For more than eighty-five years, the University of Oklahoma Press


has published award-winning books about the American West
and we are proud to bring to you our latest catalog. The catalog
features the newest titles from both the University of Oklahoma
Press and the Arthur H. Clark Company.
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American Indian
Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian
The Crime That Should Haunt America
By Gary Clayton Anderson
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4421-4 472 Pages
In Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian, Anderson uses ethnic cleansing as an
analytical tool to challenge the alluring idea that Anglo-American colonialism
in the New World constituted genocide. Beginning with the era of European
conquest, Anderson employs definitions of ethnic cleansing developed by the
United Nations and the International Criminal Court to reassess key moments
in the Anglo-American dispossession of American Indians.

American Indians in U.S. History


Second Edition
By Roger L. Nichols
$24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4367-5 216 Pages
This second edition, drawing on the most recent research, adds information
about Indian social, economic, and cultural issues in the twenty-first century.
American Indians in U.S. History, Second Edition includes new, brief biographies
of important Native figures, an overall chronology, and updated suggested
readings for each period of the past four hundred years.

Progressive Traditions
Identity in Cherokee Literature and Culture
By Joshua B. Nelson
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4491-7 296 Pages
Progressive Traditions identifies an indigenous anarchism, a pluralist,
community-centered political philosophy that looks to practices that
preceded and surpass the nation-state as ways of helping Cherokee people
prosper. This critique of the common call for expansion of tribal nations
sovereignty over their citizens represents a profound shift in American Indian
critical theory and challenges contemporary indigenous people to rethink
power among nations, communities, and individuals.

Scalping Columbus and Other Damn Indian Stories


Truths, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies
By Adam Fortunate Eagle
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4428-3 216 Pages
Adam Fortunate Eagle has been called many things: social activist, serious
joke medicine, contrary warrior, national treasure, enemy of the state, living
history. Characterizing his style as Fortunate Eagle meets Mark Twain, Indian
style, the author relates the traditions, joys, and frustrations of his own
Native American experience in tones ranging from gut-busting laughter to
pissed-off anger.

Americans Recaptured
Progressive Era Memory of Frontier Captivity
By Molly K. Varley
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4493-1 240 Pages
Revealing how the recitation and interpretation of these captivity narratives
changed over timewith shifting emphasis on brutality, gender, and
ethnographic and historical accuracyAmericans Recaptured shows that tales
of Indian captivity were no more fixed than American identity, but were
consistently used to give that identity its own useful, ever-evolving shape.

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Chiefs and Challengers


Indian Resistance and Cooperation in Southern California, 17691906
Second Edition
By George Harwood Phillips
$26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4490-0 384 Pages
Long recognized as a pioneering work in the ethnohistory of California,
Chiefs and Challengers, when it first appeared, overturned the stereotype of
Indian victimhood and revealed a complex political landscape in which
Native peoples interacted with one another as much as they did with
non-Indians intruding into their territories. This new edition describes the
indigenous cultures of southern California and offers a detailed history of the
repercussions of Euro-American colonization.

Cochise
Firsthand Accounts of the Chiricahua Apache Chief
By Edwin R. Sweeney
$49.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4432-0 336 Pages
Much of what we know of Cochise has come down to us in military reports,
eyewitness accounts, letters, and numerous interviews the usually reticent
chief granted in the last decade of his life. Cochise: Firsthand Accounts of the
Chiricahua Apache Chief brings together the most revealing of these documents
to provide the most nuanced, multifaceted portrait possible of the Apache
leader.

The Darkest Period


The Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 18461873
By Ronald D. Parks
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4430-6 328 Pages
In The Darkest Period, Ronald D. Parks tells the story of those years of decline
in Kanza history following the loss of the tribes original homeland in
northeastern and central Kansas. Parks makes use of accounts by agents,
missionaries, journalists, and ethnographers in crafting this tale. He addresses
both the big picturethe effects of Manifest Destinyand local particulars
such as the devastating impact on the tribe of the Santa Fe Trail.

The Students of Sherman Indian School


Education and Native Identity since 1892
By Diana Meyers Bahr
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4443-6 192 Pages
Sherman Indian High School, as it is known today, began in 1892 as Perris
Indian School on eighty acres south of Riverside, California, with nine
students. Its mission, like that of other off-reservation Indian boarding
schools, was to civilize Indian children, which meant stripping them of their
Native culture and giving them vocational training. This book offers the first
full history of Sherman Indian Schools 100-plus years, a history that reflects
federal Indian education policy since the late nineteenth century.

Viewing the Ancestors


Perceptions of the Anaasz, Mokwic, and Hisatsinom
By Robert S. McPherson
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4429-0 256 Pages
Archaeologists have long studied the American Southwest, but as historian
Robert McPherson shows in Viewing the Ancestors, their findings may not tell
the whole story. McPherson maintains that combining archaeology with
knowledge derived from the oral traditions of the Navajo, Ute, Paiute, and
Hopi peoples yields a more complete history.

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Literacy and Intellectual Life in the


Cherokee Nation, 18201906
By James W. Parins
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4399-6 296 Pages
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 century-a 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 fighting take
place? Examining eight of the wars between the 1780s and 1877, Nichols
explains what started each conflict 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
significant 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 fiddling 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 first 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 guide-covering Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and
Texas-provides 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 first comprehensive
examination of quillwork within Arapaho ritualized traditions.

Art & Photography


Charles M. Russell
Photographing the Legend
By Larry Len Peterson
$60.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-4473-3 328 Pages
$350.00n Leather (Limited edition of 250) 978-0-8061-4485-6 328 Pages
Almost as familiar as the images of the American West he painted and
sculpted is the figure of Charles M. Russell himself. What is not so well known
is the story that unfolds in the myriad photographs of Russell, pictures that
document a remarkable life while also reflecting the evolution of photography
and the depiction of the American West at the turn of the twentieth century.
This biography makes use of hundreds of images of Russell, many never
before published, to explore the role of photography in shaping the artists
public image and the making and selling of his art.

San Francisco Lithographer


African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown
By Robert J. Chandler
$36.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4410-8 264 Pages
This biography by a distinguished California historian gives an
underappreciated artist and his work recognition long overdue. Focusing
on Grafton Tyler Browns lithography and his life in nineteenth-century San
Francisco, Robert J. Chandler offers a study equally fascinating as a business
and cultural history and as an introduction to Brown the artist.

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Guide to Photographs in the Western History


Collections of the University of Oklahoma
Second Edition
By Kristina L. Southwell and Jacquelyn Reese
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4455-9 254 pages
This guide has been compiled to make the photographs in the collections
more accessible. The second edition adds descriptions of 165 new collections
comprising 159,000 photographs. The 826 photograph collections that this
guide thus details encompass Native American culture; frontier and pioneer
life in Oklahoma and Indian territories; Wild West shows; the range cattle
industry; the petroleum industry; and gunfighters, outlaws, and lawmen.

Red
The Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, 2013
Edited by Jennifer Complo McNutt and Ashley Holland
$30.00s Paper 978-0-9798495-7-2 136 pages
Distributed for the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
Red: The Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, 2013, the eighth iteration of the
Eiteljorg Museums acclaimed biennial art series, documents the strength,
drama, determination, and humor of contemporary Native art and the
artists who create it. Celebrating the work of Invited Artist Lawrence Paul
Yuxweluptun (Coast Salish/Okanagan) and Eiteljorg Fellows Julie Buffalohead
(Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma), Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit/Aleut), Shan Goshorn
(Eastern Band of Cherokee), and Meryl McMaster (Plains Cree/Blackfoot),
Red declares that any person who lives with the idea that Native people are
vanishing, weak, or failing to thrive needs simply to look at their art.

Decades
An Expanded Context for Western American Art, 19001940
Contributions by Charles C. Eldredge, Betsy Fahlman,
Randall R. Griffey, and Ron Tyler
$10.95 Paper 978-0-914738-89-3 80 Pages
Distributed for the Denver Art Museum
This ninth volume of Western Passages explores western American art within
the context of the first four decades of the twentieth century.Decades divides
the period from 1900 to 1940 into ten-year increments to investigate major
artistic movements and important figures in western American art across
mediums, styles, and subjects.In four wide-ranging essays, art historians
examine western American art alongside concurrent events in American art
and history.

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 flood 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 first 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.

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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 first 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 first 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 first 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 ArtAnschutz 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 finest 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 finely 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 first book to showcase the photographs
of Vincent Soboleff, an amateur Russian American photographer whose
community included Tlingit Indians from a nearby village as well as Russian
Americans.

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 nineteenthcentury 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.

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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 978-0-8061-4299-9 240 Pages
$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 threedimensional 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 significance of the artwork.

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.

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Biography and Memoir


Tom Horn in Life and Legend
By Larry D. Ball
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4425-2 568 Pages
Some of the legendary gunmen of the Old West were lawmen, but more,
like Billy the Kid and Jesse James, were outlaws. Tom Horn (18601903)
was both. Lawman, soldier, hired gunman, detective, outlaw, and assassin,
this darkly enigmatic figure has fascinated Americans ever since his death by
hanging the day before his forty-third birthday. In this masterful historical
biography, Larry Ball, a distinguished historian of western lawmen and
outlaws, presents the definitive account of Horns career.

The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane


By Richard W. Etulain
$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4632-4 400 Pages
Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie
and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an
adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. This lively, concise, and exhaustively
researched biography traces the real person from the Missouri farm where
she was born in 1856 through the development of her notorious persona as a
Wild West heroine.

Father of Route 66
The Story of Cy Avery
By Susan Croce Kelly
$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4499-3 288 Pages
In this engaging biography of a remarkable man, Susan Croce Kelly begins
by describing the urgency for good roads that gripped the nation in the
early twentieth century as cars multiplied and mud deepened. Avery was one
of a small cadre of men and women whose passion carried the Good Roads
movement from boosterism to political influence to concrete-on-the-ground.
While most stopped there, Avery went on to assure that one roadU.S.
Highway 66became a fixture in the imagination of America and the world.

Following Oil
Four Decades of Cycle-Testing Experiences and What
They Foretell about U.S. Energy Independence
By Thomas A. Petrie
$26.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4420-7 272 Pages
In Following Oil, Petrie shares useful lessons he has learned about domestic and
global trends in population and economic growth, a maturing resource base,
variable national energy policies, and dynamic changes in geopolitical forces
and how these variables affect energy markets. More important, he applies
those lessons to charting a course of energy development for the nation
through the twenty-first century and beyond.

lvar Nez Cabeza de Vaca


American Trailblazer
By Robin Varnum
$26.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4497-9 384 Pages
In July 1536, lvar Nez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 14901559) and three other
survivors walked 2,500 miles from Texas, across northern Mexico, to Sonora
and ultimately to Mexico City. Cabeza de Vacas account of this astonishing
journey is now recognized as one of the great travel stories of all time. Robin
Varnums biography, the first single-volume cradle-to-grave account of the
explorers life in eighty years, tells the rest of the story.

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Oil Man
The Story of Frank Phillips and the Birth of Phillips Petroleum
By Michael Wallis
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4676-8 552 Pages
The bestselling historian of the West, Michael Wallis captures the life and
times of an American heroand depicts the modern oil empire he created
in this rousing biography of Frank Phillips, one of the greatest self-made
business tycoons of the twentieth century.

Outlaw Woman
A Memoir of the War Years, 19601975
Revised Edition
By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
$22.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4479-5 396 Pages
Dunbar-Ortizs odyssey from Oklahoma poverty to the urban New Left gives
a working-class, feminist perspective on a time and a movement that forever
changed American society. In a new afterword, the author reflects on her
fast-paced life fifty years ago, in particular as a movement activist and in
relationships with men.

Running with the Antelope


Life, Fitness, and Grit on the Northern Plains
By Melanie Carvell
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-9916041-0-4 256 Pages
Distributed for the Dakota Institute Press
Melanie Carvell is a gifted athlete who grew up in a small town in
southwestern North Dakota in the 1970s. This beautiful memoir tells the
story of Melanies remarkable journey, from the agricultural village of Mott
(population 732) to world duathlon and triathlon competitions, a splendid
career as a physical therapist, director of the Sanford Womens Health Center
in Bismarck, North Dakota, and widely sought after motivational speaker.

When Money Grew on Trees


A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron
By Greg Gordon
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4447-4 504 Pages
Born in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond built an empire of wood that
stretched from Puget Sound to Arizonaand in the process had reshaped the
American West and the nations way of doing business. When Money Grew on
Trees follows Hammond from the rough-and-tumble world of mid-nineteenthcentury New Brunswick to frontier Montana and the forests of Northern
Californiafrom lowly lumberjack to unrivaled timber baron.

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 battlefield. 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.

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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 exploring-and celebrating-the 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 film 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
filmmaking during the early cinema period.

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 prolific 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
officer, 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.

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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.

Gunfighter in Gotham
Bat Mastersons New York City Years
By Robert K. DeArment
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4263-0 304 Pages
In Gunfighter in Gotham, DeArment tells how Bat Masterson built a second
career from a column in the New York Morning Telegraph. Bats articles not
only covered sports but also reflected his outspoken opinions on war,
crime, politics, and a changing society. As his renown as a boxing expert
grew, his opinions were picked up by other newspaper editors and reprinted
throughout the country and abroad. He counted President Theodore
Roosevelt among his friends and readers.

When Law Was in the Holster


The Frontier Life of Bob Paul
By John Boessenecker
$29.95s 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 fifty
years. Today he is remembered mainly for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and
his involvement in the stirring events surrounding the famous 1881 gunfight
near the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. This long-overdue biography fills
crucial gaps in Pauls story and recounts a life of almost constant adventure.

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 flow of riches lured confidence 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.

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The Wister Trace
Assaying Classic Western Fiction
By Loren D. Estleman
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4481-8 232 Pages
A master practitioners view of his craft, this classic survey of the fiction of the
American West is part literary history, part criticism, and entertaining throughout.
The first edition of The Wister Trace was published in 1987, when Larry McMurtry
had just reinvented himself as a writer of Westerns and Cormac McCarthys career
had not yet taken off. Loren D. Estlemans long-overdue update connects these new
masters with older writers, assesses the genres past, present, and future, and takes
account of the renaissance of western movies, as well.

The King and Queen of Comezn


By Denise Chvez
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4483-2 320 Pages
Comezn: Its more than an itch. Its a longstanding desire that will never be fulfilled.
And, in this novel by award-winning author Denise Chvez, it is also a border town
in New Mexico whose denizens longings are as powerful as they are, all too often,
impossible. Between New Mexico and Mxico, between Cinco de Mayo and the
16th of September, between the dreams and the realities of Comezns characters,
something has to give. Each character is attempting to find love in this feverish
fiesta called Life. And in the deft hands of Denise Chvez this tragicomic novel gives
unerringly: pleasure, surprise, and the satisfaction of a tale well told.

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 magnificent 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.

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History
American Carnage
Wounded Knee, 1890
Jerome A. Greene
$34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4448-1 648 Pages
In this gripping tale, Jerome A. Greenerenowned specialist on the Indian
warsexplores why the bloody engagement happened and demonstrates
how it became a brutal massacre. Drawing on a wealth of sources, including
previously unknown testimonies, Greene examines the events from both
Native and non-Native perspectives, explaining the significance of treaties,
white settlement, political disputes, and the Ghost Dance as influential
factors in what eventually took place.

A Legacy in Arms
American Firearm Manufacture, Design, and Artistry, 18001900
By Richard C. Rattenbury
Photographs by Ed Muno
$59.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4477-1 248 Pages
The history of American firearms is inseparable from the history of the
United States, for firearms have played crucial roles in the nations founding,
westward expansion, and industrial, economic, and cultural development.
This history unfolds in compelling words and images in A Legacy in Arms, a
volume that draws upon the collections of the National Cowboy & Western
Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City to trace the business and art of gun
making from the early national period to the turn of the twentieth century.

Battles and Massacres on the Southwestern Frontier


Historical and Archaeological Perspectives
Edited by Ronald K. Wetherington and Frances Levine
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4440-5 260 Pages
This unique study centers on four critical engagements between AngloAmerican and American Indians on the southwestern frontier: the Battle
of Cieneguilla (1854), the Battle of Adobe Walls (1864), the Sand Creek
Massacre (1864), and the Mountain Meadows Massacre (1857). Editors
Ronald K. Wetherington and Frances Levine juxtapose historical and
archaeological perspectives on each event to untangle the ambiguity and
controversy that surround both historical and more contemporary accounts
of each of these violent outbreaks.

Black Spokane
The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest
By Dwayne A. Mack
$26.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4489-4 216 Pages
In 1981, decades before mainstream America elected Barack Obama, James
Chase became the first African American mayor of Spokane, Washington,
with the overwhelming support of a majority-white electorate. Chases
win failed to capture the attention of historiansas had the centurylong evolution of the black community in Spokane. In Black Spokane: The
Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest, Dwayne A. Mack corrects this
oversightand recovers a crucial chapter in the history of race relations and
civil rights in America.

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Creating the American West


Boundaries and Borderlands
By Derek R. Everett
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4446-7 320 Pages
Boundarieslines imposed on the landscapeshape our lives, dictating
everything from which candidates we vote for to what schools our children
attend to the communities with which we identify. In Creating the American
West, historian Derek Everett examines the function of these internal lines in
American history generally and in the West in particular. Drawing lines to
create states in the trans-Mississippi West, he points out, imposed a specific
form of political organization that made the West truly American.

Discovering Texas History


Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud, Light Townsend Cummins, and Cary D. Wintz
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4619-5 352 Pages
The most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to Texas historiography of
the past quarter-century, this volume of original essays will be an invaluable
resource and definitive reference for teachers, students, and researchers of
Texas history. Conceived as a follow-up to the award-winning A Guide to the
History of Texas (1988), Discovering Texas History focuses on the major trends in
the study of Texas history since 1990.

Fort Worth
Outpost, Cowtown, Boomtown
By Harold Rich
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4492-4 288 Pages
From its beginnings as an army camp in the 1840s, Fort Worth has come to
be one of Texassand the nationslargest cities, a thriving center of culture
and commerce. But along the way, the citys future, let alone its present
prosperity, was anything but certain. Fort Worth tells the story of how this
landlocked outpost on the arid plains of Texas made and remade itself in its
early years, setting a pattern of boom-and-bust progress that would see the
city through to the twenty-first century.

West Texas
A History of the Giant Side of the State
Edited by Paul H. Carlson and Bruce A. Glasrud
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4444-3 320 Pages
Texas is as well known for its diversity of landscape and culture as it is for
its enormity. But West Texas, despite being popularized in film and song,
has largely been ignored by historians as a distinct and cultural geographic
space. In West Texas: A History of the Giant Side of the State, Paul H. Carlson and
Bruce A. Glasrud rectify that oversight. This volume assembles a diverse set of
essays covering the grand sweep of West Texas history from the ancient to the
contemporary.

Outdoors in the Southwest


An Adventure Anthology
Edited by Andrew Gulliford
$26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4260-9 440 Pages
More college students than ever are majoring in Outdoor Recreation,
Outdoor Education, or Adventure Education, but fewer and fewer Americans
spend any time in thoughtful, respectful engagement with wilderness. While
many young people may think of adrenaline-laced extreme sports as prime
outdoor activities, with Outdoors in the Southwest, Andrew Gulliford seeks to
promote appreciation for and discussion of the wild landscapes where those
sports are played.

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Manifest Destinations
Cities and Tourists in the Nineteenth-Century American West
By J. Philip Gruen
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4488-7 312 Pages
In Manifest Destinations, J. Philip Gruen examines the ways in which tourists
experienced Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco between 1869
and 1893, a period of rapid urbanization and accelerated modernity. Gruen
pays particular attention to the contrast between the way these cities were
promoted and the way visitors actually experienced them.

Lewis and Clark Among the Nez Perce


Strangers in the Land of the Nimiipuu
By Allen V. Pinkham and Steven R. Evans
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-9834059-8-6 332 Pages
Distributed for Dakota Institute Press
Nez Perce historians Allen Pinkham and Steve Evans have examined the
journals of Lewis and Clark with painstaking care to tease out new insights
about what Lewis and Clark wrote about their hosts the Nez Perce. Pinkham
and Evans evaluate both what Lewis and Clark understood and what they
misunderstood in the Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) lifeway and political structure.
More particularly they have re-examined the journals for clues about how the
Nez Perce reacted to the bearded strangers.

Soldiers in the Army of Freedom


The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil Wars First African American Combat Unit
By Ian Michael Spurgeon
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4618-8 456 Pages
Soldiers in the Army of Freedom is the first published account of this largely
forgotten regiment and, in particular, its contribution to Union victory in the
trans-Mississippi theater of the Civil War. As such, it restores the First Kansas
Colored Infantry to its rightful place in American history.

South Pass
Gateway to a Continent
By Will Bagley
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4442-9 328 Pages
Wallace Stegner called South Pass one of the most deceptive and impressive
places in the West. Nowhere can travelers cross the Rockies so easily as
through the high, treeless valley in Wyoming immediately south of the Wind
River Mountains. That place, South Pass, has received much attention in lore
and memory but attracted no serious book-length studyuntil now. In this
narrative, award-winning author Will Bagley explains the significance of South
Pass to the nations history and to the development of the American West.

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 magnificent
chronicle captures the danger, excitement, and heartbreak of Americas first
great rush for riches and its enduring consequences.

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A Step toward Brown v. Board of Education


Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher and Her Fight to End Segregation
By Cheryl Elizabeth Brown Wattley
$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4545-7 256 Pages
Cheryl Elizabeth Brown Wattley gives us a richly textured picture of the blackand-white world from which Ada Lois Sipuel and her family emerged. Against
this Oklahoma background Wattley shows Sipuel (who married Warren Fisher
a year before she filed her suit) struggling against a segregated educational
system. Her legal battle is situated within the history of civil rights litigation
and race-related jurisprudence in the state of Oklahoma and in the nation.

Uninvited Neighbors
African Americans in Silicon Valley, 17691990
By Herbert G. Ruffin II
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4436-8 352 Pages
Uninvited Neighbors is the first book to explore fully the history of African
Americans in Santa Clara Valley. Herbert G. Ruffin examines black life
and political thought in the valley from its earliest days as part of Spanish
California (when the black population approached 25 percent) to the
complexities of race relations in the valleys current incarnation as a suburban,
tech-oriented business center.

Banking in Oklahoma, 19072000


By Michael J. Hightower
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4495-5 504 Pages
The story of banking in twentieth-century Oklahoma is also the story of
the Sooner States first hundred years, as Michael J. Hightowers new book
demonstrates. Oklahoma statehood coincided with the Panic of 1907,
and both events signaled seismic shifts in state banking practices. Much
as Oklahoma banks shed their frontier persona to become more tightly
integrated in the national economy, so, too, was decentralized banking
revealed as an anachronism, utterly unsuited to an increasingly global
economy.

Banking in Oklahoma Before Statehood


By Michael J. Hightower
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4388-0 408 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.

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.

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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 reflecting both the
singularity of the Oklahoma experience and the states connections to
Americas broader history.

American Ski Resort


Architecture, Style, Experience
By Margaret Supplee Smith
$45.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-4295-1 352 Pages
In this magnificent 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 first 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 fired
from the sixth floor of a nondescript warehouse at the edge of Dealey Plaza
in downtown Dallas. That floor 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-Pacific 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 fire.
The exposition spotlighted the canal and the city as gateways to the Pacific.
Empire on Display is the first book to examine the Panama-Pacific International
Exposition through the lenses of art history and cultural studies, focusing on
the events expansionist and masculinist symbolism.

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Oklahomas Indian New Deal


By Jon S. Blackman
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4351-4 192 Pages
This first 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.

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.

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 fleshes out the fascinating
history of daily life in Indian Territory and Texas in a time of transition.

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 films knows, stagecoach robberies were
a regular feature of life in this fabled region of Dakota Territory. Now, for
the first 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
Deadwood's roadways and the shotgun messengers who battled to protect
stagecoach passengers and their valuable cargo.

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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
define and cross boundaries. The essays collected by Quincy D. Newell and Eric
F. Mason in this interdisciplinary volume expand the conversation.

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 flying gliders twenty years
before the Wrights powered flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Quest for Flight reveals
the amazing accomplishments of John J. Montgomery, a prolific inventor who
piloted the glider he designed in 1883 in the first controlled flights of a heavierthan-air craft in the Western Hemisphere.

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

Gunfight 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 film critics point to classic conflictsgood versus evil, right versus wrong,
civilization versus savageryas defining 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 conflicts 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 officer 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.

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 conflicts known today as the Great
Sioux War. 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.

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The Great Medicine Road, Part 1


Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, 18401848
Edited by Michael L Tate
With Will Bagley and Richard Rieck
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-428-5 356 Pages
Between 1841 and 1866, more than 500,000 people followed trails to
Oregon, California, and the Salt Lake Valley in one of the greatest mass
migrations in American history. This collection of travelers accounts of their
journeys in the 1840s, the first volume in a new series of trail narratives,
comprises excerpts from pioneer and missionary letters, diaries, journals,
and memoirsmany previously unpublishedaccompanied by biographical
information and historical background.

The Steamboat Bertrand and Missouri River Commerce


By Ronald R. Switzer
$45.00s 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 1, 19391951
Edited by Richard L. Saunders
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-416-2 520 Pages
Dale L. Morgan (19141971) remains one of the most respected historians of
the American West-and 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 first of a two-part setMorgans writings
on the Mormons finally receive the attention and analysis they merit.

Dale Morgan on the Mormons


Collected Works, Part 2, 19491970
Edited by Richard Saunders
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-423-0 480 Pages
Dale L. 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 finally receive the attention and analysis they merit.

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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 conflict 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 first time, presents richly detailed impressions by visiting Russian
mariners, scientists, and Russian-American Company officials 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.

This Far-Off Wild Land


The Upper Missour Letters of Andrew Dawson
By Lesley Wischmann and 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 figurecouple 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
his efforts 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.

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The Arthur H. Clark Company


Custer, the Seventh Cavalry, and the Little Big Horn
A Bibliography
By Michael OKeefe
$125.00s Cloth two-volume set 978-0-87062-404-9 720 Pages
Since the shocking news first 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 first to be
published in some twenty-five years and the most complete ever assembled.

Edward Hunter Snow


Pioneer-Educator-Statesman
By Thomas G. Alexander
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-415-5 432 Pages
Edward Hunter Snow played an instrumental role in the development of
southern Utah and in the growth of the Mormon church during a period of
rapid change. In this first 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 two-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 firearms to take
on the Corps of Discoverys journey west, his first 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.

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
One of the fabled Channel Islands of Southern California, Santa Cruz was
once the largest privately owned island off the coast of the continental
United States. This multifaceted 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 fifty years.

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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
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-408-7 192 Pages
This book offers the first published English translation of Juan Francisco
de la Bodega y Quadra's 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
$34.95s 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, 18481884
Vol. 2: Copper Kings and Stock Frenzies, 18851918
(Gold Lust and Silver Sharks) $40.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-405-6 448 Pages
(Copper Kings and Stock Frenzies) $40.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-406-3 600 Pages
$72.00s two-volume set 978-0-87062-950-1 1,048 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 profitable bonanzas and crushingly profitless
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.

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Full-Court Quest
The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions of the World
By Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3973-9 496 Pages
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4469-6 496 Pages
Playing like lambent flames across the polished floors of dance halls,
armories, and gymnasiums, the girls from Fort Shaw stormed the state to
emerge as Montanas first basketball champions. Taking their game to the
1904 St. Louis Worlds Fair, these young women introduced an international
audience to the fledgling game and returned home with a trophy declaring
them champions.

New Mexico
A History
By Joseph P. Snchez, Robert L. Spude, and Art Gmez
$26.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4256-2 384 Pages
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4663-8 384 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.

Uncovering History
Archaeological Investigations at the Little Bighorn
By Douglas D. Scott
$32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4350-7 264 Pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4662-1 264 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 findings. Scott expands
our understanding of the battle, its protagonists, and the enduring legacy of
the battlefield as a national memorial.

Bandido
The Life and Times of Tiburcio Vasquez
By John Boessenecker
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4127-5 496 Pages
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4681-2 496 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. In this engrossing biography, John
Boessenecker provides definitive answers.

Randy Lopez Goes Home


A Novel
By Rudolfo Anaya
$19.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4189-3 168 Pages
$14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4457-3 168 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 find the wisdom the Anglo world has
not provided. In this allegorical account of Randys final journey, master
storyteller Rudolfo Anaya tackles lifes big questions with a light touch.

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The Old Mans Love Story


By Rudolfo Anaya
$19.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4357-6 184 Pages
$14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4648-5 184 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.

Pathfinder
John Charles Frmont and the Course of American Empire
By Tom Chaffin
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4474-0 612 Pages
John C. Frmonts expeditions between 1838 and 1854 captured the publics
imagination, inspired Americans to accept their nations destiny as a vast
continental empire, and earned him his enduring sobriquet, The Pathfinder.
This biography demonstrates Frmonts vital importance to the history
of American empire, and his role in shattering long-held myths about the
ecology and habitability of the American West.

A Texas Cowboys Journal


Up the Trail to Kansas in 1868
By Jack Bailey
Edited by David Dary
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3737-7 160 Pages
$14.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4647-8 160 Pages
We travel with Bailey as he encounters Indians, U.S. soldiers, Mexicans, freed
slaves, and cowboys working other drives. The journal contains surprises for
readers steeped in romantic cowboy lore and cattle drive legend. Baileys time
on the trail was hardly lonely, and crews included African Americans and, at
least on the early drives, women and children.

Alaska
A History
By Claus M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick
$39.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4040-7 520 Pages
$24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4666-9 520 Pages
The largest by far of the fifty 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 landand seascapes.
Alaska: A History begins by examining the regions geography and the Native
peoples who inhabited it for thousands of years before the first Europeans
arrived.

Columns of Vengeance
Soldiers, Sioux, and the Punitive Expeditions, 18631864
By Paul N. Beck
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4344-6 328 Pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4596-9 328 Pages
Drawing on a wealth of firsthand 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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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
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4649-2 288 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.

Blackfoot Redemption
A Blood Indians Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice
By William E. Farr
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4287-6 312 Pages
$21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4464-1 312 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 final 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 confinement.

Civil War Arkansas, 1863


The Battle for a State
By Mark K. Christ
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4087-2 336 Pages
$19.95 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 first detailed military assessment of parallel events in Arkansas, describing
their consequences for both Union and Confederate powers.

Dragoons in Apacheland
Conquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 18461861
By William S. Kiser
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4314-9 368 Pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4650-8 368 Pages
In the fifteen 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 conflicts that ensued and examines
how both Apache warriors and American troops shaped the future of the
Southwest Borderlands.

Hancocks War
Conflict on the Southern Plains
By William Y. Chalfant
$59.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-371-4 548 Pages
$26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4459-7 548 Pages
William Y. Chalfant has devoted years of research to produce a detailed
narrative covering the entire scope of Hancocks Expedition for the Plains.
This first thorough scholarly history of the ill-conceived expedition offers
an unequivocal evaluation of military strategies and a culturally sensitive
interpretation of Indian motivations and reactions.

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Indians and Emigrants


Encounters on the Overland Trails
By Michael L. Tate
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3710-0 352 Pages
$21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4654-6 352 Pages
In the first book to focus on relations between Indians and emigrants on the
overland trails, Michael L. Tate shows that such encounters were far more often
characterized by cooperation than by conflict. Having combed hundreds of
unpublished sources and Indian oral traditions, Tate finds Indians and AngloAmericans continuously trading goods and news with each other, and Indians
providing various forms of assistance to overlanders.

Jay Cookes Gamble


The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873
By M. John Lubetkin
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3740-7 400 Pages
$22.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4468-9 400 Pages
In 1869, Jay Cooke, the brilliant but idiosyncratic American banker, decided to
finance the Northern Pacific, a transcontinental railroad planned from Duluth,
Minnesota, to Seattle. M. John Lubetkin tells how Cookes gamble reignited
war with the Sioux, rescued George Armstrong Custer from obscurity, created
Yellowstone Park, pushed frontier settlement four hundred miles westward, and
triggered the Panic of 1873.

Race and the University


A Memoir
By George Henderson
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4129-9 272 Pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4655-3 272 Pages
In 1967, George Henderson, the son of uneducated Alabama sharecroppers,
accepted a full-time professorship at the University of Oklahoma, despite his
mentors warning to avoid the redneck school in a backward state. Capturing
what was perhaps the most tumultuous era in the history of American higher
education, Race and the University includes valuable recollections of former student
activists who helped transform the University of Oklahoma into one of the
nations most diverse college campuses.

Soldiers West
Biographies from the Military Frontier
Edited by Paul Andrew Hutton and Durwood Ball
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3997-5 416 Pages
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4465-8 416 Pages
From the War of 1812 to the end of the nineteenth century, U.S. Army officers
were instrumental in shaping the American West. They helped explore uncharted
places and survey and engineer its far-flung transportation arteries. Many also
served in the ferocious campaigns that drove American Indians onto reservations.
Soldiers West views the turbulent history of the West from the perspective of fifteen
senior army officersincluding Philip H. Sheridan, George Armstrong Custer, and
Nelson A. Mileswho were assigned to bring order to the region.

Terrible Justice
Sioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 18541868
By Doreen Chaky
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-414-8 408 Pages
$21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4652-2 408 Pages
Doreen Chaky offers the first complete picture of the conflicts between Sioux
warriors and the American military in the mid-nineteenth century, the period
bookended by the Siouxs first major military conflicts with the U.S. Army and
the creation of the Great Sioux Reservation.

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The Essential West


Collected Essays
By Elliott West
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4296-8 344 Pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4653-9 344 Pages
Scholars and enthusiasts of western American history have praised Elliott
West as a distinguished historian and an accomplished writer, and this book
proves them right on both counts. Capitalizing on Wests wide array of
interests, this collection of his essays touches on topics ranging from viruses
and the telegraph to children, bison, and Larry McMurtry.

Last of the Old-Time Outlaws


The George West Musgrave Story
By Karen Holliday Tanner and John D. Tanner, Jr.
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3424-6 388 Pages
$21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4682-9 388 Pages
Soft-spoken, cheerful, handsome, and well dressed, George West Musgrave
looked more like a senator than a cattle rustler. Yet he was a cattle rustler
as well as a bandit, robber, and killer, guilty of more crimes than Billy the Kid
was ever accused of. In Last of the Old-Time Outlaws, Karen Holliday Tanner
and John D. Tanner, Jr., recount the colorful life of Musgrave (18771947),
enduring badman of the American Southwest.

Deliverance from the Little Big Horn


Doctor Henry Porter and Custers Seventh Cavalry
By Joan Nabseth Stevenson
$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 fight and in its wake.

Gold-Mining Boomtown
People of White Oaks, Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory
By Roberta Key Haldane
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-410-0 336 Pages
$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 profiling more than forty families
and individuals who made their homes there during its heyday.

Stories of Old-Time Oklahoma


By David Dary
$16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4419-1 288 Pages
Most of the stories gathered here first 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.

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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
Trailto 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 reflects the drastic transformation of Indian
Country in recent years.

Buffalo Inc.
American Indians and Economic Development
By Sebastian Felix Braun
$26.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4372-9 288 Pages
$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 fulfilled expectations
and how they fit with traditional and contemporary Lakota values.

George Crook
From the Redwoods to Appomattox
By Paul Magid
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4207-4 408 Pages
$24.95s 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-fighting general. Although Crook was feared by Indian opponents
on the battlefield, 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.

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