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KARL BODMER’S AMERICA REVISITED

A FAMILY OF THE LAND

The Peninsular Campaigns, at Home

By Margaret Supplee Smith

Landscape Views Across Time

The Texas Photography of Guy Gillette

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THE OLD MAN’S LOVE STORY

The Life of an American Artist

By Rudolfo Anaya

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DRAGOONS IN APACHELAND

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Conquest and Resistance in Southern

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FORTY-SEVENTH STAR New Mexico’s Struggle for Statehood

New Mexico, 1846–1861 By William S. Kiser $29.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4314-9

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On the cover: Abandoned cars, Route 66, Arizona. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

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The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane By Richard W. Etulain 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, guntoting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American West, fiction and legend have largely obscured the facts of her life. 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. Before Calamity Jane became a legend, she was Martha Canary, orphaned when she was only eleven years old. From a young age she traveled fearlessly, worked with men, smoked, chewed tobacco, and drank. By the time she arrived in the boomtown of Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876, she had become Calamity Jane, and the real Martha Canary had disappeared under a landslide of purple prose. Calamity became a hostess and dancer in Deadwood’s saloons and theaters. She imbibed heavily, and she might have been a prostitute, but she had other qualities, as well, including those of an angel of mercy who ministered to the sick and the down-and-out. Journalists and dime novelists couldn’t get enough of either version, nor, in the following century, could filmmakers. Sorting through the stories, veteran western historian Richard W. Etulain’s account begins with a biography that offers new information on Calamity’s several “husbands” (including one she legally married), her two children, and a woman who claimed to be the daughter of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity, a story Etulain discredits. In the second half of the book, Etulain traces the stories that have shaped Calamity Jane’s reputation. Some Calamity portraits, he says, suggest that she aspired to a quiet life with a husband and family. As the 2004–2006 HBO series Deadwood makes clear, well more than a century after her first appearance as a heroine in the Deadwood Dick dime novels, Calamity Jane lives on—raunchy, unabashed, contradictory, and ambiguous as ever. Richard W. Etulain is Professor Emeritus of History and former director of the Center for the American West at the University of New Mexico. Former editor of the New Mexico Historical Review, he is the author or editor of more than 50 books, including Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West and Telling Western Stories: From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry.

VOLUME 29 IN THE OKLAHOMA WESTERN BIOGRAPHIES SERIES

SEPTEMBER $24.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4632-4 416 PAGES, 5.5 × 8.5 61 B&W ILLUS. BIOGRAPHY

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CALAMITY JANE The Woman and the Legend By James D. McLaird $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4251-7 THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF ANNIE OAKLEY By Glenda Riley $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3506-9 ANNIE OAKLEY By Shirl Kasper $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-2418-6 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3244-0

ETULAIN THE LIFE AND LEGENDS OF CALAMITY JANE

A fresh look at the real Martha Canary and the legends of Calamity Jane

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A LEGACY IN ARMS American Firearm Manufacture, Design, and Artistry, 1800–1900 by RICHARD C. RATTENBURY Foreword by R. L. Wilson · Collection Photography by Ed Muno

VOLUME 10 IN THE THE WESTERN LEGACIES SERIES

OCTOBER $59.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4477-1 248 PAGES, 9.875 × 12 68 B&W AND 241 COLOR ILLUS. U.S. HISTORY

“A good deal more than a nicely illustrated book about guns in American history, A Legacy in Arms perceptively integrates the technical and aesthetic dimensions of the subject and offers a compelling synthesis that will be of great interest to general readers, devoted collectors, and serious scholars.”

M E R R I T T RO E S M I T H author of Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology: The Challenge of Change

The history of American firearms is inseparable from the history of the United States, for firearms have played crucial roles in the nation’s 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. With more than 200 images—almost all in full color—A Legacy in Arms not only documents the inspiration and innovation of arms makers from individual artisans to mass producers, but also describes the development of decorative expression in the gun maker’s art.

In an account both entertaining and enlightening, Richard C. Rattenbury details the development of commercial arms making, from the genesis of the Kentucky rifle to the arms of such iconic manufacturers as Colt, Remington, Smith & Wesson, Sharps, Marlin, and Winchester. Into this narrative he weaves the particulars of design evolution and the impact of mass production via the “American System.” The accompanying photographs and illustrations stand as eloquent testimony to the range and richness of the gun maker’s craft—and its rightful place in the story of American industry and culture.

Richard C. Rattenbury is Curator of History at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum and the author of Hunting the American West; The Art of American Arms Makers; Packing Iron: Gunleather of the Frontier West; and Arena Legacy: The Heritage of American Rodeo. R. L. Wilson is a freelance consultant in the fields of Americana, firearms, and engraving and the author of more than 50 books, including benchmark works on Colt and Winchester. Ed Muno is former Curator of Art at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum and a widely published photographer of fine western art and historic artifacts.

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RATTENBURY A LEGACY IN ARMS

Of Related Interest A WESTERN LEGACY The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum Contributions by Steven L. Grafe, Susan Hallsten McGarry, Charles E. Rand, Richard C. Rattenbury and Don Reeves $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3731-5

LANTERNS ON THE PRAIRIE The Blackfeet Photographs of Walter McClintock Edited by Steven L. Grafe $60.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4022-3 $34.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4029-2

ARENA LEGACY The Heritage of American Rodeo By Richard C. Rattenbury $65.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-4084-1

WATTLEY A STEP TOWARD BROWN

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The courageous woman who fought to integrate the University of Oklahoma Law School

A Step toward Brown v. Board of Education Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher and Her Fight to End Segregation By Cheryl Elizabeth Brown Wattley In 1946 a young woman named Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher (1924–1995) was denied admission to the University of Oklahoma College of Law because she was African American. The OU law school was an all-white institution in a town where African Americans could work and shop as long as they got out before sundown. But if segregation was entrenched in Norman, so was the determination of black Oklahomans who had survived slavery to stake a claim in the territory. This was the tradition that Ada Lois Sipuel sprang from, a tradition and determination that would sustain her through the slow, tortuous path of litigation to gaining admission to law school. A Step toward Brown v. Board of Education—the first book to tell Fisher’s full story—is at once an inspiring biography and a remarkable chapter in the history of race and civil rights in America. OCTOBER $24.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4545-7 256 PAGES, 6 × 9 20 B&W ILLUS. U.S. HISTORY/LAW

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RACE AND THE UNIVERSITY A Memoir By George Henderson $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4129-9 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4655-3 BOOKS ON TRIAL Red Scare in the Heartland By Shirley A. Wiegand and Wayne A. Wiegand $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3868-8 A MATTER OF BLACK AND WHITE The Autobiography of Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher By Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-2819-1

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. Hers was a test case organized by the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) to go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and, as precedent, strike another blow against “separate but equal” public education. Fisher served as both a litigant, with Thurgood Marshall for counsel, and, later, a litigator; both a plaintiff and an advocate for the NAACP; and both a student and, ultimately, a teacher of the very history she’d help to write. In telling Fisher’s story, Wattley also reveals a time and a place undergoing a profound transformation spurred by one courageous woman taking a bold step forward. Cheryl Elizabeth Brown Wattley is Professor of Law and Director of Experiential Learning at the University of North Texas, Dallas, College of Law. She began her research of Fisher’s life and legal case while Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma.

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Father of Route 66 The Story of Cy Avery By Susan Croce Kelly If it weren’t for Cy Avery’s dreams of better roads through his beloved Tulsa, the United States would never have gotten Route 66. This book is the story of Avery, his times, and the legendary highway he helped build. In this engaging biography of a remarkable man, author 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 road—U.S. Highway 66—became a fixture in the imagination of America and the world. Father of Route 66 transports readers to the years when the United States was moving from steam to internal combustion engines and traces Avery’s life from his birth in Stevensville, Pennsylvania, to his death more than ninety years later. Avery came west in a covered wagon, grew up in Indian Territory, and spent his adult years in oil-rich Tulsa, where fifty millionaires sat on the Chamber of Commerce board and the builder of the Panama Canal dropped in to size up a local water project. Cy Avery was a farmer, teacher, real estate professional, oil man, and politician, but throughout his long life he remained a champion for better roads across America. He stood up to the Oklahoma Ku Klux Klan, hatched plans for a municipal airport, and helped build a 55-mile water pipeline for Tulsa. The centerpiece of his story— and this book—however, is Avery’s role in designing the national highway system, his monumental fight with the governor of Kentucky over a road number, and his promotional efforts that turned his U.S. 66 into an American icon. Father of Route 66 is the first in-depth exploration of Cy Avery’s life and his impact on the movement that transformed twentieth-century America. It is a must-read for anyone fascinated by Route 66 and America’s early car culture. Susan Croce Kelly is the award-winning author of Route 66: The Highway and Its People. She has written extensively about the history of U.S. Highway 66.

SEPTEMBER $24.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4499-3 288 PAGES, 6 × 9 23 B&W ILLUS. BIOGRAPHY

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ALONG ROUTE 66 By Quinta Scott $26.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3250-1 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3383-6 TRAVELING ROUTE 66 By Nick Freeth $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3326-3 ROUTE 66 The Highway and Its People By Susan Croce Kelly $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2291-5

KELLY FATHER OF ROUTE 66

How one man’s dreams of better roads spurred the transformation of twentieth-century America

ESTLEMAN THE WISTER TRACE

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A western writer’s guide to the best fiction on the American West

The Wister Trace Assaying Classic Western Fiction Second Edition By Loren D. Estleman A master practitioner’s 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 McCarthy’s career had not yet taken off. Loren D. Estleman’s long-overdue update connects these new masters with older writers, assesses the genre’s past, present, and future, and takes account of the renaissance of western movies, as well.

OCTOBER $19.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-4481-8 240 PAGES, 5.5 × 8.5 LITERATURE

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BRET HARTE Opening the American Literary West By Gary Scharnhorst $19.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3254-9 THE ESSENTIAL WEST Collected Essays By Elliott West $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4296-8 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4653-9 BOUND LIKE GRASS A Memoir from the Western High Plains By Ruth McLaughlin $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4137-4 $16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4326-2

Estleman’s title indicates the importance he assigns Owen Wister’s 1902 classic, The Virginian. Wister was not the first writer of Westerns, but he defined the genre, contrasting chivalry with the lawlessness of the border and introducing such lines as “When you call me that, smile!” Estleman tips his hat to Wister’s predecessors, among them Ned Buntline, the inventor of the dime novel, and Buffalo Bill. His assessments of Wister’s successors—Zane Grey, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, and Louis L’Amour, to name but three—soon make clear the impossibility of differentiating great western writing from great American writing. Especially important in this new edition is the attention to women writers. The author devotes a chapter each to Dorothy Johnson—author of “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”—and Annie Proulx, whose Wyoming stories include “Brokeback Mountain.” In his discussion of movies, Estleman includes a list of film adaptations that will guide readers to movies, and moviegoers to books. An appendix draws readers’ attention to authors not covered elsewhere in the volume—some of them old masters like Bret Harte and Jack London, but many of them fascinating outliers ranging from Clifford Irving to Joe R. Lansdale. Loren D. Estleman is the award-winning author of nearly 70 novels and hundreds of short stories in the crime and Western genres, including his popular Amos Walker and Page Murdock series.

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The Early Morning of War Bull Run, 1861 By Edward G. Longacre When Union and Confederate forces squared off along Bull Run on July 21, 1861, the Federals expected this first major military campaign would bring an early end to the Civil War. But when Confederate troops launched a strong counterattack, both sides realized the war would be longer and costlier than anticipated. First Bull Run, or First Manassas, set the stage for four years of bloody conflict that forever changed the political, social, and economic fabric of the nation. It also introduced the commanders, tactics, and weaponry that would define the American way of war through the turn of the twentieth century. This crucial campaign receives its most complete and comprehensive treatment in Edward G. Longacre’s The Early Morning of War. A magisterial work by a veteran historian, The Early Morning of War blends narrative and analysis to convey the full scope of the campaign of First Bull Run—its drama and suspense as well as its practical and tactical underpinnings and ramifications. Also woven throughout are biographical sketches detailing the backgrounds and personalities of the leading commanders and other actors in the unfolding conflict. Longacre has combed previously unpublished primary sources, including correspondence, diaries, and memoirs of more than four hundred participants and observers, from ranking commanders to common soldiers and civilians affected by the fighting. In weighing all the evidence, Longacre finds correctives to long-held theories about campaign strategy and battle tactics and questions sacrosanct beliefs—such as whether the Manassas Gap Railroad was essential to the Confederate victory. Longacre shears away the myths and persuasively examines the long-term repercussions of the Union’s defeat at Bull Run, while analyzing whether the Confederates really had a chance of ending the war in July 1861 by seizing Washington, D.C. Brilliant moves, avoidable blunders, accidents, historical forces, personal foibles: all are within Longacre’s compass in this deftly written work that is sure to become the standard history of the first, critical campaign of the Civil War. Edward G. Longacre is a retired U.S. Department of Defense Historian and the author of numerous articles and books on the Civil War and U.S. military history, including The Cavalry at Gettysburg, winner of the Fletcher Pratt Award, and Gentleman and Soldier: A Biography of Wade Hampton III, recipient of the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award.

VOLUME 46 IN THE CAMPAIGNS AND COMMANDERS SERIES

NOVEMBER $29.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4498-6 648 PAGES, 6 × 9 30 B&W ILLUS., 12 MAPS MILITARY HISTORY

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LEE’S CAVALRYMEN A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861–1865 By Edward G. Longacre $26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4230-2 LINCOLN’S CAVALRYMEN A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of the Potomac, 1861–1865 By Edward G. Longacre $26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4229-6 RETURN TO BULL RUN The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas By John J. Hennessy $26.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3187-0

LONGACRE THE EARLY MORNING OF WAR

A definitive history that shears away the myths about First Bull Run

NICHOLS AMERICAN INDIANS IN U.S. HISTORY

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A concise survey of American Indians over the past five hundred years

American Indians in U.S. History Second Edition By Roger L. Nichols This concise survey, tracing the experiences of American Indians from their origins to the present, has proven its value to both students and general readers in the decade since its first publication. Now the second edition, drawing on the most recent research, adds information about Indian social, economic, and cultural issues in the twenty-first century. Useful features include new, brief biographies of important Native figures, an overall chronology, and updated suggested readings for each period of the past four hundred years.

OCTOBER $24.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-4367-5 216 PAGES, 6.125 Ă&#x2014; 9.25 13 B&W ILLUS., 4 MAPS AMERICAN INDIAN

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THE AMERICAN INDIAN Past and Present Edited by Roger L. $39.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3856-5 WARRIOR NATIONS The United States and Indian Peoples By Roger L. Nichols $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4382-8 AMERICAN INDIANS Answers to Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Questions By Jack Utter $26.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3309-6

The author traces tribal experiences through four eras: Indian America prior to the European invasions; the colonial period; the emergence of the United States as the dominant power in North America and its subsequent invasion of Indian lands; and the years from 1900 to the present. Nichols uses both Euro-American sources and tribal stories to illuminate the problems Indian people and their leaders have dealt with in every generation. Roger L. Nichols is Professor Emeritus of History and Affiliate Professor of Indian Studies at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Warrior Nations: The United States and Indian Peoples and editor of The American Indian: Past and Present, Sixth Edition.

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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca American Trailblazer By Robin Varnum In November 1528, almost a century before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the remnants of a Spanish expedition reached the Gulf Coast of Texas. By July 1536, eight years later, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490–1559) and three other survivors had walked 2,500 miles from Texas, across northern Mexico, to Sonora and ultimately to Mexico City. Cabeza de Vaca’s account of this astonishing journey is now recognized as one of the great travel stories of all time and a touchstone of New World literature. But his career did not begin and end with his North American ordeal. Robin Varnum’s biography, the first single-volume cradle-to-grave account of the explorer’s life in eighty years, tells the rest of the story. During Cabeza de Vaca’s peregrinations through the American Southwest, he lived among and interacted with various Indian groups. When he and his nonIndian companions finally reconnected with Spaniards in northern Mexico, he was horrified to learn that his compatriots were enslaving Indians there. His Relación (1542) advocated using kindness and fairness rather than force in dealing with the native people of the New World. Cabeza de Vaca went on to serve as governor of Spain’s province of Río de La Plata in South America (roughly modern Paraguay). As a loyal subject of the king of Spain, he supported the colonialist enterprise and believed in Christianizing the Indians, but he always championed the rights of native peoples. In Río de La Plata he tried to keep his men from robbing the Indians, enslaving them, or exploiting them sexually—policies that caused grumbling among the troops. When Cabeza de Vaca’s men mutinied, he was sent back to Spain in chains to stand trial before the Royal Council of the Indies. Drawing on the conquistador’s own reports and on other sixteenth-century documents, both in English translation and the original Spanish, Varnum’s lively narrative braids eyewitness testimony of events with historical interpretation benefiting from recent scholarship and archaeological investigation. As one of the few Spaniards of his era to explore the coasts and interiors of two continents, Cabeza de Vaca is recogn‚ized today above all for his more humane attitude toward and interactions with the Indian peoples of North America, Mexico, and South America. Robin Varnum is Associate Professor of English at American International College, Springfield, Massachusetts.

SEPTEMBER $26.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4497-9 376 PAGES, 6.125 × 9.25 12 B&W ILLUS., 4 MAPS BIOGRAPHY

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INDIAN ALLIANCES AND THE SPANISH IN THE SOUTHWEST, 750–1750 By William B. Carter $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4302-6 PEDRO MOYA DE CONTRERAS Catholic Reform and Royal Power in New Spain, 1571–1591 Second Edition By Stafford Poole $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4171-8 RETURN TO AZTLAN Indians, Spaniards, and the Invention of Nuevo México By Danna A. Levin Rojo $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4434-4

VARNUM ÁLVAR NÚÑEZ CABEZA DE VACA

A complete biography that follows the explorer through North and South America

CHÁVEZ THE KING AND QUEEN OF COMEZÓN

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A mystery love story set on the U.S.-Mexico border

The King and Queen of Comezón By Denise Chávez Comezón: It’s more than an itch. It’s a long-standing desire that will never be fulfilled. And, in this novel by award-winning author Denise Chávez, it is also a border town in New Mexico whose denizens’ longings are as powerful as they are, all too often, impossible. But in the feverish dance of life that seizes Comezón during its two annual fiestas, all things seem possible. As the townspeople revel in the freedom of the fiestas, their stories unfold in all manner of mystery, drama, and comic charm. In the middle of it all is Arnulfo P. Olivárez, master of ceremonies and befuddled patriarch of a less-than-tractable family. At the moment, he is calculating his chances of becoming mayor, as well as pondering the fate of his beautiful disabled daughter, Juliana. VOLUME 13 IN THE CHICANA AND CHICANO VISIONS OF THE AMÉRICAS SERIES

SEPTEMBER $19.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-4483-2 328 PAGES, 5.5 × 8.5 1 FIGURE FICTION

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THE OLD MAN’S LOVE STORY By Rudolfo Anaya $19.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4357-6 $14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4648-5 THE BLOCK CAPTAIN’S DAUGHTER By Demetria Martinez $14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4291-3 RANDY LOPEZ GOES HOME A Novel By Rudolfo Anaya $19.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4189-3 $14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4457-3

Arnulfo’s daughters (“the half and the whole,” he deems them) are the Fiesta Queen, Lucinda, a lovely, lost and wild girl, and Juliana, her half sister, wheelchairbound but with soaring dreams of love for the local priest, El Padre Manolito. Their mother, the saintly Doña Emilia, attends to all her children, including Arnulfo, with grace. Lucinda’s unsuitable suitor, Ruley Terrazas, a tall, bumpy-skinned boy, is not to be trusted, nor is his father, Cuco “Matamosca” Terrazas, the local chief of police. And Rey Suárez, owner of the Mil Recuerdos Lounge, is haunted by his former incarnation as an immigration officer, an expert in spotting fake IDs. Between New Mexico and México, between Cinco de Mayo and the 16th of September, between the dreams and the realities of Comezón’s 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 Chávez this tragicomic novel gives unerringly: pleasure, surprise, and the satisfaction of a tale well told. Denise Chávez is author of The Last of the Menu Girls, Face of an Angel, Loving Pedro Infante, and A Taco Testimony: Meditations on Family, Food, and Culture. She serves as Executive Director of the Border Book Festival in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

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CARVELL RUNNING WITH THE ANTELOPE

Running with the Antelope Life, Fitness, and Grit on the Northern Plains By Melanie Carvell Foreword by Clay S. Jenkinson 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 Melanie’s remarkable journey, from the agricultural village of Mott (population 732) to world duathlon and triathlon competitions, then a notable career as a physical therapist, director of the Sanford Women’s Health Center in Bismarck, North Dakota, and a widely sought-after motivational speaker. Melanie learned to run on the northern Great Plains, where the winters are long and harsh and the wind tests the human spirit. She attributes her national and international success to her agrarian roots and the challenge of biking, running, and swimming in one of the most formidable landscapes of America. Her motivational philosophy is, “If I can do these things, given the modesty of my upbringing and the harshness of the Dakota climate, so can you.” Running with the Antelope will inspire readers to begin a program of athletic training, weight loss, or general self-improvement. Written in a humble and accessible style, with loving anecdotes about her life as a top athlete and her work as a physical therapist, Running with the Antelope is part self-help book, part prairie memoir, and part song of love to North Dakota, which is undergoing a rapid transformation from its agrarian past to a carbon extraction industrial future. Melanie Carvell is a physical therapist and Director of the Sanford Women’s Health Center in Bismarck, North Dakota. She is also an accomplished triathlete who is a five-time All American, representing USA Triathlons on eight World Championship teams and having won a bronze medal in Germany in 1999. Clay S. Jenkinson is the editor of The Dakota Institute Press and author of For the Love of North Dakota And Other Essays, The Character of Meriwether Lewis, and A Free and Hardy Life.

JULY $29.95 CLOTH 978-0-9916041-0-4 256 PAGES, 6 × 9 27 COLOR, 2 B&W PHOTOS MEMOIR

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The Old Man’s Love Story

Dear Jay, Love Dad Bud Wilkinson’s Letters to His Son By Jay Wilkinson Foreword by Mike Krzyzewski

By Rudolfo Anaya A deeply personal tale of love and loss

ANAYA THE OLD MAN’S LOVE STORY

WILKINSON DEAR JAY, LOVE DAD

Fatherly love and advice from the legendary football coach

“This is a book for everyone who has ever loved, for everyone who has grieved, and for everyone who has ever hoped, in the darkest night, that what is essential goes on. . . . I love this book, and you will, too.”—Luis Alberto Urrea, author of Queen of America “Part memoir, part poetry, all heart, The Old Man’s Love Story questions life, love, death, eternity and all parts in between. . . . A must read.”—Roundup Magazine “There was an old man who dwelt in the land of New Mexico, and he lost his wife.” From this opening line, Rudolfo Anaya crafts a tender novella at once universal and deeply personal. The narrator, a writer, shares intimate thoughts about his wife, their life together, and her death. The old man’s story captures the heartaches and ironies of old age as he proceeds through days of grief and memory. He talks with his wife along the way. A year passes. He longs to care for someone, but—to love again? Anaya’s reflections point to the power and importance of love at every stage of life. Lyrical and earthy, sad yet suffused with humor, The Old Man’s Love Story will speak to all readers, especially those who have loved and lost. Rudolfo Anaya is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico. He has received numerous literary awards, including the Premio Quinto Sol and a National Medal of Arts. Anaya resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico. JULY $19.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4357-6 $14.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-4648-5 184 PAGES, 6 × 9 FICTION VOLUME 12 IN THE CHICANA AND CHICANO VISIONS OF THE AMÉRICAS SERIES

“A timeless guide for all of us.”—Bill Cosby, comedian and author of Fatherhood “The genius of Bud Wilkinson as a football coach becomes apparent in these remarkable letters to his son Jay. . . . He treated his players like family members, and it showed.”—Barry Switzer, former head coach, University of Oklahoma and Dallas Cowboys College football fans need no introduction to Bud Wilkinson, but few know the great University of Oklahoma football coach as a devoted father. In Dear Jay, Love Dad, Bud’s son Jay shares forty-seven letters his father wrote to him while he was in college and graduate school. Spanning the early to mid-1960s, these letters reveal Bud’s deep love for his son, as well as the philosophy and values that led to his remarkable success in sports and in life. Beginning with the first letter Bud wrote when Jay left home, this collection shows a father guiding his son toward his own path while stressing the importance of service to others. He mixes encouragement with intellectual discussions, and he writes about his own challenges. Bud Wilkinson’s thoughts on ethics in business and politics are as inspiring today as when he wrote them a half-century ago. Jay Wilkinson, a recipient of the NCAA’s prestigious Silver Anniversary Award, is a noted motivational speaker and the author of Bud Wilkinson: An Intimate Portrait of an American Legend.Mike Krzyzewski is Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Duke University. AUGUST $24.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4247-0 $16.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-4651-5 208 PAGES, 5.5 × 8.5 15 B&W ILLUS. MEMOIR

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New Mexico

Alaska

A History By Joseph P. Sánchez, Robert L. Spude and Arthur R. Gómez

A History By Claus M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick

The first comprehensive history of the region, people, and state in more than 30 years

A comprehensive history of our largest state

Since the earliest days of Spanish exploration and settlement, New Mexico has been known for lying off the beaten track. But this new history reminds readers that the world has been beating paths to New Mexico for hundreds of years, via the Camino Real, Santa Fe Trail, railroads, Route 66, interstate highway system, and now the Internet.

In Alaska: A History, Claus-M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick show that the history of Alaska’s peoples and the development of its economy match the diversity of its land. They describe the region’s geography and the Native peoples who inhabited it before Europeans arrived. Russians claimed northern North America in 1741, but “Russian America” was little more than a fur trading outpost. When the czar sold the territory to the United States in 1867, nobody knew what to do with “Seward’s Folly.”

The first complete history of New Mexico in more than a generation, this volume begins with prehistoric cultures, then traces the state’s growth from the arrival of Spanish explorers in the sixteenth century to the 2012 statehood centennial. This book shows that the transformation from frontier territory to modern state really began not with statehood, but during World War II, when Atomic Era technological advancements propelled New Mexico to the forefront of scientific research. Covering the state’s historical and cultural geography; the economics of mining and ranching, irrigation and agriculture; and the impact of Native activism and tribe-owned casinos, New Mexico: A History is a vital source for anyone seeking to understand the land and its people.

Gold strikes brought a rush of gold seekers to Yukon Territory, and in 1906 Congress gave Alaska Territory a delegate. During World War II, Alaska established its military importance, which was underscored during the Cold War. Not until 1959 was Alaska’s goal of statehood realized. The discovery of huge oil and natural-gas deposits gave the state a measure of economic security. Alaska: A History addresses the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, the economic effect of the oil industry and trans-Alaska pipeline, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and Alaska politics through the early 2000s.

Joseph P. Sánchez is the author of Between Two Rivers: The Atrisco Land Grant in Albuquerque History, 1692–1968. Retired park historian Robert L. Spude has published several books on Southwest history. Art Gómez is coauthor of New Mexico: Images of a Land and Its People.

Claus-M. Naske (1935–2014) was Professor of History at the University of Alaska. Long a resident of the state, he is the author of many works on Alaska history. Herman E. Slotnick (1917–2002) was for many years head of the Department of History at the University of Alaska. Naske and Slotnick coauthored Alaska: A History of the 49th State.

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“An unmitigated triumph. . . . A book that will effectively tell Alaska’s story for some time to come.”—Alaska History

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“A new standard sourcebook and chronology of New Mexico events of the past 500 years.”—True West

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Blackfoot Redemption

Oil Man

A Blood Indian’s Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice By William E. Farr

The Story of Frank Phillips and the Birth of Phillips Petroleum By Michael Wallis The story of oil wildcatter Frank Phillips and the legendary empire he created

The haunting story of Spopee, who “disappeared” for more than thirty years

FARR BLACKFOOT REDEMPTION

WALLIS OIL MAN

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In 1879, a Canadian Blackfoot known as Spopee, or Turtle, shot and killed a white man. Captured as a fugitive, Spopee narrowly escaped execution, landing in an insane asylum in Washington, D.C., where he fell silent. Spopee “disappeared” for more than thirty years, until a delegation of American Blackfeet discovered him and, aided by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 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. Blackfoot Redemption is the riveting account of Spopee’s haunting story. In revealing both certainties and ambiguities in Spopee’s story, William E. Farr relates a larger story about racial dynamics and prejudice, while poignantly evoking the turbulent final days of the buffalo-hunting Indians before their confinement, loss of freedom, and confusion that came with the wrenching transition to reservation life. William E. Farr is a Senior Fellow at the O’Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West and Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Montana, Missoula. He is the author of The Reservation Blackfeet, 1882–1945: A Photogaphic History of Cultural Survival and Julius Seyler and the Blackfeet: An Impressionist at Glacier National Park. JULY $29.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4287-6 $21.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-4464-1 312 PAGES, 6 × 9 35 B&W ILLUS., 2 MAPS BIOGRAPHY

This rich, rousing gusher of a biography captures the life and times of an American hero and the birth of the modern oil empire he created. Frank Phillips, founder of Phillips Petroleum, was one of the most prominent self-made business tycoons of the twentieth century. In Oil Man, Michael Wallis, a best-selling historian of the West, presents Phillips against a pageant of luminaries and outlaws that includes Will Rogers, Harry Truman, Edna Ferber, J. Paul Getty, and Pretty Boy Floyd. Spanning the final days of America’s frontier West through the Roaring Twenties and two world wars, Oil Man is a bold, colorful biography of the original American entrepreneur. A classic work that continues to gather accolades since its original publication in 1988, the book captures the life and times of an American hero. Michael Wallis is the award-winning author of fourteen books, including Route 66: The Mother Road and Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd. He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. SEPTEMBER $19.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-4676-8 218 PAGES, 6 × 9 BIOGRAPHY

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The Second Pearl Harbor The West Loch Disaster, May 21, 1944 By Gene Salecker In May 1944, with American forces closing in on the Japanese mainland, the Fifth Fleet Amphibious Force was preparing to invade Saipan. Control of this island would put enemy cities squarely within range of the B-29 bomber. The navy had assembled a fleet of landing ship tanks (LSTs) in the West Loch section of Pearl Harbor. On May 21, an explosion tore through the calm afternoon sky, spreading fire and chaos through the ordnance-packed vessels. When the fires had been brought under control, six LSTs had been lost, many others were badly damaged, and more than 500 military personnel had been killed or injured. To ensure the success of those still able to depart for the invasion—miraculously, only one day late—the navy at once issued a censorship order, which has kept this disaster from public scrutiny for seventy years. The Second Pearl Harbor is the first book to tell the full story of what happened on that fateful day. Military historian Gene Salecker recounts the events and conditions leading up to the explosion, then re-creates the drama directly afterward: men swimming through flaming oil, small craft desperately trying to rescue the injured, and subsequent explosions throwing flaming debris everywhere. With meticulous attention to detail the author explains why he and other historians believe that the official explanation for the cause of the explosion, that a mortar shell was accidentally detonated, is wrong.

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This in-depth account of a little-known incident adds to our understanding of the dangers during World War II, even far from the front, and restores a missing chapter to history. Gene Eric Salecker is a military historian whose published work includes Disaster on the Mississippi: The Sultana Explosion, April 27, 1865 and Blossoming Silk against the Rising Sun: U.S. and Japanese Paratroopers in the Pacific in World War II.

BATTLESHIP OKLAHOMA By Jeff Phister, Thomas Hone, and Paul Goodyear $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3917-3 $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3936-4 WAR IN THE PACIFIC Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay By Bernard C. Nalty $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3199-3 VICTORY AT PELELIU The 81st Infantry Division’s Pacific Campaign By Bobby C. Blair and John Peter DeCioccio $34.95 Hardcover 978-0-8061-4154-1

SALECKER THE SECOND PEARL HARBOR

Chronicles a series of unexpected explosions at Pearl Harbor on the eve of the Saipan invasion

WARREN CONNECTICUT UNSCATHED

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A revisionary approach to King Philip’s War— and how one colony persevered

Connecticut Unscathed Victory in the Great Narragansett War, 1675–1676 By Jason W. Warren The conflict that historians have called King Philip’s War still ranks as one of the bloodiest per capita in American history. An Indian coalition ravaged much of New England, killing six hundred colonial fighting men (not including their Indian allies), obliterating seventeen white towns, and damaging more than fifty settlements. The version of these events that has come down to us focuses on Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay—the colonies whose commentators dominated the storytelling. But because Connecticut lacked a chronicler, its experience has gone largely untold. As Jason W. Warren makes clear in Connecticut Unscathed, this imbalance has generated an incomplete narrative of the war.

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Dubbed King Philip’s War after the Wampanoag architect of the hostilities, the conflict, Warren asserts, should more properly be called the Great Narragansett War, broadening its context in time and place and indicating the critical role of the Narragansetts, the largest tribe in southern New England. With this perspective, Warren revises a key chapter in colonial history. In contrast to its sister colonies, Connecticut emerged from the war relatively unharmed. The colony’s comparatively moderate Indian policies made possible an effective alliance with the Mohegans and Pequots. These Indian allies proved crucial to the colony’s war effort, Warren contends, and at the same time denied the enemy extra manpower and intelligence regarding the surrounding terrain and colonial troop movements. And when Connecticut became the primary target of hostile Indian forces—especially the powerful Narragansetts—the colony’s military prowess and its enlightened treatment of Indians allowed it to persevere. Connecticut’s experience, properly understood, affords a new perspective on the Great Narragansett War—and a reevaluation of its place in the ongoing conflict between the Narragansetts and the Mohegans of Connecticut, and in American history. Major Jason W. Warren, U.S. Army, received his doctorate in history from The Ohio State University and served as an Assistant Professor of History at West Point. He is currently a strategist at the Army War College.

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Soldiers in the Army of Freedom The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War’s First African American Combat Unit By Ian Michael Spurgeon It was 1862, the second year of the Civil War, though Kansans and Missourians had been fighting over slavery for almost a decade. For the 250 Union soldiers facing down rebel irregulars on Enoch Toothman’s farm near Butler, Missouri, this was no battle over abstract principles. These were men of the First Kansas Colored Infantry, and they were fighting for their own freedom and that of their families. They belonged to the first black regiment raised in a northern state, and the first black unit to see combat during the Civil War. 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. Composed primarily of former slaves, the First Kansas Colored saw major combat in Missouri, Indian Territory, and Arkansas. Ian Michael Spurgeon draws upon a wealth of little-known sources—including soldiers’ pension applications—to chart the intersection of race and military service, and to reveal the regiment’s role in countering white prejudices by defying stereotypes. Despite naysayers’ bigoted predictions—and a merciless slaughter at the Battle of Poison Spring—these black soldiers proved themselves as capable as their white counterparts, and so helped shape the evolving attitudes of leading politicians, such as Kansas senator James Henry Lane and President Abraham Lincoln. A long-overdue reconstruction of the regiment’s remarkable combat record, Spurgeon’s book brings to life the men of the First Kansas Colored Infantry in their doubly desperate battle against the Confederate forces and skepticism within Union ranks. Ian Michael Spurgeon holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Southern Mississippi. He is currently a historian in the World War II Division of the Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office in Washington, D.C. He has written numerous articles on U.S. political, military, and African American history and is the author of Man of Douglas, Man of Lincoln: The Political Odyssey of James Henry Lane.

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SPURGEON SOLDIERS IN THE ARMY OF FREEDOM

Brings to life a doubly desperate battle against Confederate forces and within Union ranks

KIMBALL, GAFF, GAFF A CORPORAL’S STORY

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Broadens our understanding of a soldier’s experience in the Civil War

A Corporal’s Story Civil War Recollections of the Twelfth Massachusetts By George Kimball Edited by Alan D. Gaff and Donald H. Gaff

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When George Kimball (1840–1916) joined the Twelfth Massachusetts in 1861, he’d been in the newspaper trade for five years. When he mustered out three years later, having been wounded at Fredericksburg and again at Gettysburg (mortally, it was mistakenly assumed at the time), he returned to newspaper life. There he remained, working for the Boston Journal for the next four decades. A natural storyteller, Kimball wrote often about his military service, always with a newspaperman’s eye for detail and respect for the facts, relating only what he’d witnessed firsthand and recalled with remarkable clarity. Collected in A Corporal’s Story, Kimball’s writings form a unique narrative of one man’s experience in the Civil War, viewed through a perspective enhanced by time and reflection. With the Twelfth Massachusetts, Kimball saw action at many of the most critical and ferocious battles in the eastern theater of the war, such as Second Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Petersburg—engagements he vividly renders from the infantry soldier’s point of view. Aware that his readers might not be familiar with what he and comrades had gone through, he also describes many aspects of army life, from the most mundane to the most dramatic. In his accounts of the desperate action and immediate horrors of war, Kimball clearly conveys to readers the cost of preserving the Union. Never vindictive toward Confederates, he embodies instead the late nineteenth-century’s spirit of reconciliation. Editors Alan D. Gaff and Donald H. Gaff have added an introduction and explanatory notes, as well as maps and illustrations, to provide further context and clarity, making George Kimball’s memoir one of the most complete and interesting accounts of what it was to fight in the Civil War—and what that experience looked like through the lens of time. Alan D. Gaff is an independent scholar and the author of several books, including Bayonets in the Wilderness: Anthony Wayne’s Legion in the Old Northwest, Blood in the Argonne: The “Lost Battalion” in World War I, and On Many a Bloody Field: Four Years in the Iron Brigade. Donald H. Gaff, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Northern Iowa, is the author of numerous articles and scholarly contributions to books and reports in anthropology and archaeology.

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Women in the Peninsular War By Charles J. Esdaile In the iconography of the Peninsular War of 1808–14, women are well represented—both as heroines, such as Agustina Zaragosa Domenech, and as victims, whether of starvation or of French brutality. In history, however, with its focus on high politics and military operations, they are invisible—a situation that Charles J. Esdaile seeks to address. In Women in the Peninsular War, Esdaile looks beyond the iconography. While a handful of Spanish and Portuguese women became Agustina-like heroines, a multitude became victims, and here both of these groups receive their due. But Esdaile reveals a much more complicated picture in which women are discovered to have experienced, responded to, and participated in the conflict in various ways. While some women fought or otherwise became involved in the struggle against the invaders, others turned collaborator, used the war as a means of effecting dramatic changes in their situation, or simply concentrated on staying alive. Along with Agustina Zaragoza Domenech, then, we meet French sympathizers, campfollowers, pamphleteers, cross-dressers, prostitutes, amorous party girls, and even a few protofeminists. Esdaile examines many social spheres, ranging from the pampered daughters of the nobility, through the cloistered members of Spain’s many convents, to the tough and defiant denizens of the Madrid slums. And we meet not just the women to whom the war came but also the women who came to the war—the many thousands who accompanied the British and French armies to the Iberian peninsula. Thanks to his use of copious original source material, Esdaile rescues one and all from, as E. P. Thompson put it, “the enormous condescension of posterity.” And yet all these women remain firmly in their historical and cultural context, a context that Esdaile shows to have emerged from the Peninsular War hardly changed. Hence the subsequent loss of these women’s story, and the obscurity from which this book has at long last rescued them. Charles J. Esdaile is Professor in History at the University of Liverpool. His numerous publications include Napoleon’s Wars: An International History, The Peninsular War: A New History, and Fighting Napoleon: Guerrillas, Bandits and Adventurers in Spain.

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ESDAILE WOMEN IN THE PENINSULAR WAR

The experiences of women in the conflict between Spain and Napoleonic France

VARLEY AMERICANS RECAPTURED

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How Americans used stories of Indian captivity to redefine the nation as the frontier disappeared

Americans Recaptured Progressive Era Memory of Frontier Captivity By Molly K. Varley It was on the frontier, where “civilized” men and women confronted the “wilderness,” that Europeans first became Americans—or so authorities from Frederick Jackson Turner to Theodore Roosevelt claimed. But as the frontier disappeared, Americans believed they needed a new mechanism for fixing their collective identity; and they found it, historian Molly K. Varley suggests, in tales of white Americans held captive by Indians.

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For Americans in the Progressive Era (1890–1916) these stories of Indian captivity seemed to prove that the violence of national expansion had been justified, that citizens’ individual suffering had been heroic, and that settlers’ contact with Indians and wilderness still characterized the nation’s “soul.” Furthermore, in the act of memorializing white Indian captives—through statues, parks, and reissued narratives—small towns found a way of inscribing themselves into the national story. By drawing out the connections between actual captivity, captivity narratives, and the memorializing of white captives, Varley shows how Indian captivity became a means for Progressive Era Americans to look forward by looking back. Local boosters and cultural commentators used Indian captivity to define “Americanism” and to renew those frontier qualities deemed vital to the survival of the nation in the post-frontier world, such as individualism, bravery, ingenuity, enthusiasm, “manliness,” and patriotism. In Varley’s analysis of the Progressive Era mentality, contact between white captives and Indians represented a stage in the evolution of a new American people and affirmed the contemporary notion of America as a melting pot. Revealing how the recitation and interpretation of these captivity narratives changed over time—with shifting emphasis on brutality, gender, and ethnographic and historical accuracy—Americans 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. Molly K. Varley holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Montana. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Chiefs and Challengers Indian Resistance and Cooperation in Southern California, 1769–1906 Second Edition By George Harwood Phillips 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. Although historian George Harwood Phillips did not shy away from chronicling the mistreatment of Indians, he moved beyond that approach to examine Indian-white interactions from both Indian and white perspectives. This new edition describes the indigenous cultures of southern California and offers a detailed history of the repercussions of Euro-American colonization. Because there was no geographical frontier in California separating Indians and whites, the interaction varied significantly from region to region in California. In the south, conflict reached a climax in 1851 when Antonio Garra led a pan-Indian revolt that sent shock waves throughout California, forcing the Americans to take counteractions that affected themselves as much as the Indians. In this second edition of Chiefs and Challengers, Phillips brings the story into the twentieth century by drawing upon recent historical and anthropological scholarship and upon seldom-used documentary evidence. After 1865, Indians faced new problems, including settler encroachment and the imposition of the reservation system. That some Indians succeeded in holding onto their ancestral lands, Phillips shows, is evidence of their strategic efforts to survive. His narrative includes numerous eloquent testimonies from Indians, among them a student at a government-run school who wrote to the U.S. president: “The white people call San Jacinto rancho their land and I don’t want them to do it. We think it is ours, for God gave it to us first.” George Harwood Phillips is retired as Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of numerous articles and books on California and its Native peoples, including Vineyards and Vaqueros: Indian Labor and the Economic Expansion of Southern California, 1771–1877.

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PHILLIPS CHIEFS AND CHALLENGERS

A standard-setting work on California Indian history, updated and with six new chapters

COWELL, MOSS, C’HAIR ARAPAHO STORIES, SONGS, AND PRAYERS

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The most comprehensive collection of early Arapaho oral literature yet assembled

Arapaho Stories, Songs, and Prayers A Bilingual Anthology By Andrew Cowell, Alonzo Moss, Sr., and William J. C’Hair

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A bison and a bobtailed horse race across the sky, raising a trail of dust behind them—leaving it, the Milky Way, to forever mark their path. An unknown Arapaho teller shared this account with an ethnographer in 1893, explaining how the race determined which animal would be ridden, which would be food. Traditional American Indian oral narratives, ranging from origin stories to trickster tales and prayers, constitute part of the great heritage of each tribe. Many of these narratives, gathered in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, were obtained or published only in English translation. Although this is the case with many Arapaho stories, extensive Arapaho-language texts exist that have never before been published—until now. Arapaho Stories, Songs, and Prayers gives new life to these manuscripts, celebrating Arapaho oral narrative traditions in all the richness of their original language. Working with Alonzo Moss, Sr., and William J. C’Hair, two fluent native speakers of Arapaho, Andrew Cowell retranscribes these texts—collected between the early 1880s and the late 1920s—into modern Arapaho orthography, and retranslates and annotates them in English. Masterpieces of oral literature, these texts include creation accounts, stories about the Arapaho trickster character Nih’oo3oo, animal tales, anecdotes, songs, prayers, and ceremonial speeches. In addition to a general introduction, the editors offer linguistic, stylistic, thematic, and cultural commentary and context for each of the texts. More than any other work, this book affords new insights into Arapaho language and culture. It expands the Arapaho lexicon, discusses Arapaho values and ethos, and offers a uniquely informed perspective on Arapaho storytelling. An unparalleled work of recovery and preservation, it will at once become the reference guide to the Arapaho language and its texts. Andrew Cowell is Professor and Chair of Linguistics and the Department of French and Italian at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is an expert on the Arapaho language and author of numerous books and articles, including Remedies for a New West: Healing Landscapes, Histories, and Cultures (ed. with Patricia Nelson Limerick and Sharon Collinge) and The Arapaho Language (with Alonzo Moss, Sr.). Alonzo Moss, Sr., is a cochair of the Northern Arapaho Language and Culture Commission in Wyoming. William J. C’Hair is a cochair of the Northern Arapaho Language and Culture Commission in Wyoming.

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Creative Alliances The Transnational Designs of Indigenous Women’s Poetry By Molly McGlennen Tribal histories suggest that Indigenous peoples from many different nations continually allied themselves for purposes of fortitude, mental and physical health, and creative affiliations. Such alliance building, Molly McGlennen tells us, continues in the poetry of Indigenous women, who use the genre to transcend national and colonial boundaries and to fashion global dialogues across a spectrum of experiences and ideas. One of the first books to focus exclusively on Indigenous women’s poetry, Creative Alliances fills a critical gap in the study of Native American literature. McGlennen, herself an Indigenous poet-critic, traces the meanings of gender and genre as they resonate beyond nationalist paradigms to forge transnational forms of both resistance and alliance among Indigenous women in the twenty-first century. McGlennen considers celebrated Native poets such as Kimberly Blaeser, Ester Belin, Diane Glancy, and Luci Tapahonso, but she also takes up lesser-known poets who circulate their work through social media, spoken-word events, and other “nonliterary” forums. Through this work McGlennen reveals how poetry becomes a tool for navigating through the dislocations of urban life, disenrollment, diaspora, migration, and queer identities. McGlennen’s Native American Studies approach is inherently interdisciplinary. Combining creative and critical language, she demonstrates the way in which women use poetry not only to preserve and transfer Indigenous knowledge but also to speak to one another across colonial and tribal divisions. In the literary spaces of anthologies and collections and across social media and spoken-word events, Indigenous women poets are mapping cooperative alliances. In doing so, they are actively determining their relationship to their nations and to other Indigenous peoples in uncompromised and uncompromising ways. Molly McGlennen is Assistant Professor of English and Native American Studies at Vassar College in New York. She is the author of articles focused on Native American women’s poetry and a collection of poetry, Like Fried Fish and Flour Biscuits.

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THE PEOPLE WHO STAYED Southeastern Indian Writing After Removal Edited by Geary Hobson, Janet McAdams, and Kathryn Walkiewicz $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4136-7 ART AS PERFORMANCE, STORY AS CRITICISM Reflections on Native Literary Aesthetics By Craig S. Womack $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4064-3 $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4065-0 REASONING TOGETHER The Native Critics Collective Contributions by Craig S. Womack $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3887-9

MCGLENNEN CREATIVE ALLIANCES

Reveals how Indigenous women poets transcend national and colonial boundaries to fashion global dialogues

NELSON PROGRESSIVE TRADITIONS

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An argument for broader conceptions of American Indian identity in literature

Progressive Traditions Identity in Cherokee Literature and Culture By Joshua B. Nelson According to a dichotomy commonly found in studies of American Indians, some noble Native people defiantly defend their pristine indigenous traditions in honor of their ancestors, while others in weakness or greed surrender their culture and identities to white American economies and institutions. This traditionalist-versusassimilationist divide is, Joshua B. Nelson argues, a false one. To make his case that American Indians rarely if ever conform to such simplistic identifications, Nelson considers the literature and culture of many Cherokee people.

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REASONING TOGETHER The Native Critics Collective Contributions by Craig S. Womack $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3887-9 LITERACY AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE IN THE CHEROKEE NATION, 1820–1906 By James W. Parins $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4399-6 THE CHEROKEE SYLLABARY Writing the People’s Perseverance By Ellen Cushman $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4220-3 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4373-6

Exploring a range of linked cultural practices and beliefs through the works of Cherokee thinkers and writers from the nineteenth century to today, Nelson finds ample evidence that tradition can survive through times of radical change: Cherokees do their cultural work both in progressively traditional and traditionally progressive ways. Studying individuals previously deemed either “traditional” or “assimilationist,” Nelson presents a more nuanced interpretation. Among the works he examines are the political rhetoric of Elias Boudinot, a forefather of American Indian literature, and of John Ross, the principal chief during the Removal years; the understudied memoirs of Catharine Brown, a nineteenth-century Cherokee convert to Christianity; and the novel Kholvn, by contemporary traditionalist Sequoyah Guess, a writer of peculiarly Cherokee science fiction. Across several genres—including autobiography, fiction, speeches, laws, and letters—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. Joshua B. Nelson is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, he has published a number of articles and book chapters on American Indian literature and film.

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Little-known firsthand accounts of early overland trail journeys to the West

The Great Medicine Road, Part 1 Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, 1840–1848 Edited by Michael L. Tate With Will Bagley and Richard Rieck 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 memoirs—many previously unpublished—accompanied by biographical information and historical background. Beginning with Father Pierre-Jean de Smet’s letters relating his encounters with Plains Indians, and ending with an account of a Mormon gold miner’s journey from California to Salt Lake City, these narratives tell varied and vivid stories. Some travelers fled hard times: religious persecution, the collapse of the agricultural economy, illness, or unpredictable weather. Others looked ahead, attracted by California gold, the verdant Willamette Valley of Oregon, or the prospect of converting Native people to Christianity. Although many welcomed the adventure and adjusted to the rigors of trail life, others complained in their accounts of difficulty adapting.

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Remembrances of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails have yielded some of the most iconic images in American history. This and forthcoming volumes in The Great Medicine Road series present the pioneer spirit of the original overlanders supported by the rich scholarship of the past century and a half. Michael L. Tate, Professor Emeritus of Western History, University of Nebraska, Omaha, is the author of The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West and Indians and Emigrants: Encounters on the Overland Trail. Will Bagley is the author of many books on the American West, including So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848 and With Golden Visions Bright Before Them: Trails to the Mining West, 1849–1852. Richard Rieck, Professor Emeritus of Geography at Western Illinois University, has published articles on the Overland Trails.

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RICH FORT WORTH

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An invaluable resource for anyone interested in Fort Worth or urban history and development

Fort Worth Outpost, Cowtown, Boomtown By Harold Rich From its beginnings as an army camp in the 1840s, Fort Worth has come to be one of Texas’s—and the nation’s—largest cities, a thriving center of culture and commerce. But along the way, the city’s 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.

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DODGE CITY The Early Years, 1872–1886 By Wm. B. Shillingberg $49.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-378-3 INVENTING LOS ALAMOS The Growth of an Atomic Community By Jon Hunner $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3891-6 OUR BETTER NATURE Environment and the Making of San Francisco By Philip J. Dreyfus $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3958-6

Harold Rich takes up the story in 1880, when Fort Worth found itself in the crosshairs of history as the cattle drives that had been such an economic boon became a thing of the past. He explores the hard-fought struggle that followed— with its many stops, failures, missteps, and successes—beginning with a singleminded commitment to attracting railroads. Rail access spurred the growth of a modern municipal infrastructure, from paved streets and streetcars to waterworks, and made Fort Worth the transportation hub of the Southwest. Although the Panic of 1893 marked another setback, the arrival of Armour and Swift in 1903 turned the city’s fortunes once again by expanding its cattle-based economy to include meatpacking. With a rich array of data, Fort Worth documents the changes wrought upon Fort Worth’s economy in succeeding years by packinghouses and military bases, the discovery of oil and the growth of a notorious vice district, Hell’s Half Acre. Throughout, Rich notes the social trends woven inextricably into this economic history and details the machinations of municipal politics and personalities that give the story of Fort Worth its unique character. The first thoroughly researched economic history of the city’s early years in more than five decades, this book will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Fort Worth, urban history and municipal development, or the history of Texas and the West. Harold Rich received his Ph.D. in history from Texas Christian University and taught history at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Texas. His articles have appeared in the West Texas Historical Association Yearbook and the East Texas Historical Journal.

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Discovering Texas History Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud, Light Townsend Cummins, and Cary D. Wintz 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. In two sections, arranged topically and chronologically, some of the most prominent authors in the field survey the major works and most significant interpretations in the historical literature. Topical essays take up historical themes ranging from Native Americans, Mexican Americans, African Americans, and women in Texas to European immigrant history; literature, the visual arts, and music in the state; and urban and military history. Chronological essays cover the full span of Texas historiography from the Spanish era through the Civil War, to the Progressive Era and World Wars I and II, and finally to the early twenty-first century. Critical commentary on particular books and articles is the unifying purpose of these contributions, whose authors focus on analyzing and summarizing the subjects that have captured the attention of professional historians in recent years. Together the essays gathered here will constitute the standard reference on Texas historiography for years to come, guiding readers and researchers to future, ever deeper discoveries in the history of Texas. Bruce A. Glasrud is retired Arts and Sciences Dean, Sul Ross State University, and author or editor of twenty-six books, including West Texas: A History of the Giant Side of the State. Light Townsend Cummins is Bryan Professor of History at Austin College and the author or editor of eleven books, including A Guide to the History of Texas. Cary D. Wintz is Distinguished Professor of History at Texas Southern University and the author or editor of fifteen books, including Texas: The Lone Star State.

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TEXAS A Historical Atlas By A. Ray Stephens $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4307-1 WEST TEXAS A History of the Giant Side of the State Edited by Paul H. Carlson $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4444-3 THE CONQUEST OF TEXAS Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820–1875 By Gary Clayton Anderson $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3698-1

GLASRUD, CUMMINS, WINTZ DISCOVERING TEXAS HISTORY

Surveys the major trends in the study of Texas history since 1990

GRUEN MANIFEST DESTINATIONS

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Forges a new interpretation of western tourism

Manifest Destinations Cities and Tourists in the Nineteenth-Century American West By J. Philip Gruen Tourists started visiting the American West in sizable numbers after the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads were completed in 1869. Contemporary travel brochures and guidebooks of the 1870s sold tourists on the spectacular scenery of the West, and depicted its cities as extensions of the natural landscape—as well as places where efficient business operations and architectural grandeur prevailed—all now easily accessible thanks to the relative comfort of transcontinental rail travel. Yet as people flocked to western cities, it was the everyday life that captured their interest—the new technologies, incessant clatter, and all the upheaval of modern metropolises.

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OUR BETTER NATURE Environment and the Making of San Francisco By Philip J. Dreyfus $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3958-6

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. Guidebooks made Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco seem like picturesque environments sprinkled with civilized buildings and refined people. But Gruen’s research in diaries, letters, and traveler narratives shows that tourists were interested—as tourists usually are—in the unexpected encounters that characterize city life. Visitors relished the cities’ unfamiliar storefronts and advertising, public transit systems, ethnic diversity, and multiple dwellings in all their urban messiness. They thrust themselves into the noise, danger, and cacophony. Western cities did not always live up to the marketing strategies of guidebooks, but the western cities’ fast pace and many novelties held extraordinary appeal to visitors from the East Coast and abroad.

NATIVE AMERICAN PLACENAMES OF THE SOUTHWEST A Handbook for Travelers By William Bright $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4311-8

In recounting lively anecdotes, and by focusing on tourist perceptions of everyday life in western cities, Gruen shows how these cities developed the economy of tourism to eventually encompass both the urban and the natural West.

DISAPPEARING DESERT The Growth of Phoenix and the Culture of Sprawl By Janine Schipper $19.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3955-5

J. Philip Gruen is Associate Professor in the School of Design and Construction at Washington State University, Pullman. He is the author of numerous published articles in American urban history, architecture, and tourism.

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Banking in Oklahoma, 1907–2000 By Michael J. Hightower Foreword by Frank Keating The story of banking in twentieth-century Oklahoma is also the story of the Sooner State’s first hundred years, as Michael J. Hightower’s 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. With creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 and subsequent choice of Oklahoma City as the location for a branch bank, frontier banking began yielding to systems commensurate with the needs of the new century. Through meticulous research and personal interviews with bankers statewide, Hightower has crafted a compelling narrative of Oklahoma banking in the twentieth century. One of the first acts of the new state legislature was to guarantee that depositors in state-chartered banks would never lose a penny. Meanwhile, land and oil speculators and the bankers who funded their dreams were elevating getrich-quick (and often get-poor-quick) schemes to an art form. In defense of country banks, the Oklahoma Bankers Association dispatched armed vigilantes to stop robbers in their tracks. Subsequent developments in Oklahoma banking include adaptation to regulations spawned by the Great Depression, the post–World War II boom, the 1980s depression in the oil patch, and changes fostered by rapid-fire advances in technology and communication. The demise of Penn Square Bank offers one of history’s few unambiguous lessons, and it warrants two chapters—one on the rise, and one on the fall. Increasing regulation of the banking industry, the survival of family banks, and the resilience of community banking are consistent themes in a state that is only a few generations removed from the frontier. Michael J. Hightower is an independent historian and principal researcher for the Oklahoma Bank and Commerce History Project of the Oklahoma Historical Society. He is the author of Inventing Tradition: Cowboy Sports in a Postmodern Age. Frank Keating served as the twenty-fifth governor of Oklahoma (1995–2003) and is currently president and CEO of the American Bankers Association in Washington, D.C.

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BANKING IN OKLAHOMA BEFORE STATEHOOD By Michael J. Hightower $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4388-0 OKLAHOMA A History By W. David Baird and Danney Goble $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4197-8 STORIES OF OLD-TIME OKLAHOMA By David Dary $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4181-7 $16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4419-1

HIGHTOWER BANKING IN OKLAHOMA, 1907–2000

The story of banking in the Sooner State through the twentieth century

MACK BLACK SPOKANE

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Tells the long overdue story of Spokane’s black community

Black Spokane The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest By Dwayne A. Mack 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. Chase’s win failed to capture the attention of historians—as had the century-long evolution of the black community in Spokane. In Black Spokane: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest, Dwayne A. Mack corrects this oversight—and recovers a crucial chapter in the history of race relations and civil rights in America.

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UNINVITED NEIGHBORS African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769–1990 By Herbert G. Ruffin II $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4436-8 AN ARISTOCRACY OF COLOR Race and Reconstruction in California and the West, 1850–1890 By D. Michael Bottoms $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4335-4 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4649-2 RACE AND THE WAR ON POVERTY From Watts to East L.A. By Robert Bauman $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3965-4

As early as the 1880s, Spokane was a destination for black settlers escaping the racial oppression in the South—settlers who over the following decades built an infrastructure of churches, businesses, and social organizations to serve the black community. Drawing on oral histories, interviews, newspapers, and a rich array of other primary sources, Mack sets the stage for the years following World War II in the Inland Northwest, when an influx of black veterans would bring about a new era of racial issues. His book traces the earliest challenges faced by the NAACP and a small but sympathetic white population as Spokane became a significant part of the national civil rights struggle. International superstars such as Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong and Hazel Scott figure in this story, along with charismatic local preachers, entrepreneurs, and lawyers who stepped forward as civic leaders. These individuals’ contributions, and the black community’s encounters with racism, offer a view of the complexity of race relations in a city and a region not recognized historically as centers of racial strife. But in matters of race—from the first migration of black settlers to Spokane, through the politics of the Cold War and the civil rights movement, to the successes of the 1970s and ’80s—Mack shows that Spokane has a story to tell, one that this book at long last incorporates into the larger history of twentieth-century America. Dwayne A. Mack is Carter G. Woodson Chair in Africa American History and Associate Professor of History at Berea College as well as author of numerous articles on African American history.

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Papers from the 2012 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum Edited by Donna Pierce The Denver Art Museum held a symposium in 2012 hosted by the Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art. The museum assembled an international group of scholars specializing in the arts and history of colonial Latin America to present recent research with topics ranging from ephemeral architecture, painting, and sculpture to engravings, decorative arts, costumes and clothing of the period. This volume presents revised and expanded versions of papers presented at the symposium. Barbara Mundy (Fordham University) opens the volume with a discussion of preColumbian dance festivals and their associated costumes and accoutrements, their continuation and reinterpretation in colonial Mexico, and their remaining vestiges in modern times. Gustavo Curiel (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) examines mourning ceremonies and ephemeral monuments executed in Mexico City to commemorate the 1665 death of Philip IV. Beatriz Berndt (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) analyzes extant engravings, written descriptions, and political motivations in the ephemeral façade designed to celebrate the enthronement of Charles IV in Mexico City in 1789. Frances Ramos (University of South Florida) explores celebrations and artworks in honor of Saint Joseph in the city of Puebla, Mexico. Kelly Donahue-Wallace (University of North Texas) closes the festival section with a discussion of ephemeral structures and public art works under the direction of the newly-founded Royal Academy of Art of San Carlos in the late colonial era. Jorge Rivas (Colección Cisneros, Caracas) begins the discussion of daily life by presenting recent research on a uniquely American furniture form, the butaca (easy) chair, tracing its origins in Venezuela and its eventual spread throughout panCaribbean Latin America. Susan Socolow (Emory University) examines women’s quotidian clothing in colonial Argentina based on documentary evidence found in travelers’ descriptions and extant estate inventories. Alexandra Troya-Kennedy (Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador) closes the volume by tracing Ecuadorian costumbrista images of daily life from their origin in colonial-era Enlightenment discourse to their production for the tourist market and use by politicians in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Donna Pierce is the Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator of Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum.

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ASIA AND SPANISH AMERICA Trans-Pacific Artistic and Cultural Exchange, 1500–1850 Edited by Donna Pierce and Ronald Otsuka $39.95s Paper 978-0-8061-9973-3 AT THE CROSSROADS The Arts of Spanish America and Early Global Trade, 1492–1850 Edited by Donna Pierce and Ronald Otsuka $39.95s Paper 978-0-914738-80-0 THE ARTS OF SOUTH AMERICA, 1492–1850 Edited by Donna Pierce $39.95s Paper 978-0-8061-9976-4

PIERCE FESTIVALS AND DAILY LIFE IN THE ARTS OF COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA

Festivals and Daily Life in the Arts of Colonial Latin America

BRUHNS, STOTHERT WOMEN IN ANCIENT AMERICA

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A fully updated examination of gender in the Americas from 12,000 b.c. to 1500 a.d.

Women in Ancient America Second Edition By Karen Olsen Bruhns and Karen E. Stothert This new edition of Women in Ancient America draws on recent advances in the archaeology of gender to reexamine the activities, roles, and relationships of women in the prehistoric Native societies of North, Central, and South America.

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WOMEN IN PREHISTORY By Margaret Ehrenberg $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2237-3 WOMEN AND POWER IN NATIVE NORTH AMERICA By Lillian A. Ackerman and Laura F. Klein $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3241-9 INDIAN WOMEN OF EARLY MEXICO By Susan Schroeder, Stephanie Wood, and Robert Haskett $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2960-0

Women—and women’s work—have been crucial to the survival and success of American peoples since ancient times. And as hunting and foraging societies developed farming techniques and eventually created permanent settlements, women’s roles changed. Karen Olsen Bruhns and Karen E. Stothert consider the various economic adaptations that followed, as well as the ways in which women participated in food production and the specialized industries of their societies. They also look at women’s access to power, both political and religious, paying particular attention to the place of priestesses and goddesses in the spiritual life of ancient peoples. The narrative that unfolds in Women in Ancient America is based on the most recent research, using evidence and examples from a wide range of cultures dating from the Paleoindian period to European invasion. This book, unlike others, treats many different types of societies, as the authors develop arguments sure to provoke thinking about the lives of women who inhabited the Americas in the distant past. Karen Olsen Bruhns is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at San Francisco State University and author of Ancient South America. Karen E. Stothert is Anthropology Research Associate at the University of Texas, San Antonio, and author of more than 75 monographs and scientific papers based on her own anthropological and archaeological research.

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Syntactical Mechanics A New Approach to English, Latin, and Greek By Bruce A. McMenomy Syntax, Bruce McMenomy would like the beleaguered student to know, is not a collection of inconsistent and arbitrary rules, but rather an organic expression of meaning that evolved over time. Aimed at intermediate and advanced students of classical languages, this book shows how understanding grammatical concepts as channels for meaning makes learning them that much easier and, in a word, natural. Syntactical Mechanics systematically defines the basic categories of traditional grammar (parts of speech, subjects and predicates, and types of sentences and subordinate clauses), and then unpacks the most important syntactical structures and markings that shape meaning in a sentence. These grammatical entities evolved, McMenomy asserts, from their common Indo-European ancestors as tools for the expression of meaning, and the continuity of an idea can often be traced through these structures. Accordingly, he examines the elements of English, Latin, and Greek syntax together, exploring how their similarities and differences can disclose something of their underlying rationale. With abundant examples from English as well as Latin and Greek, McMenomy considers the grammatical cases of the noun, and the tenses, moods, and aspects of a verb. In an engaging and accessible manner, McMenomy helps to rationalize the apparent inconsistencies between Latin and Greek and makes the mastery of Latin and Greek constructions that much more meaningful, reasonable, and likely.

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Bruce A. McMenomy is an independent scholar who holds a Ph.D. in classics from the University of California–Los Angeles. He teaches English, Latin, and Greek through Scholars Online, a nonprofit educational corporation.

THE ESSENTIALS OF GREEK GRAMMAR A Reference for Intermediate Readers of Attic Greek By Louise Pratt $16.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4143-5 LATIN ALIVE AND WELL An Introductory Text By P. L. Chambers $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3816-9 A CONCISE GUIDE TO TEACHING LATIN LITERATURE Edited by Ronnie Ancona $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3797-1

MCMENOMY SYNTACTICAL MECHANICS

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The Life and Times of Tiburcio Vasquez By John Boessenecker

The George West Musgrave Story By Karen Holliday Tanner and John D. Tanner, Jr.

The true story of one of America’s most fascinating outlaws

H WINNER, OUTSTANDING BOOK ON WILD WEST HISTORY WILD WEST HISTORY ASSOCIATION H WINNER, INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARDS—BEST BIOGRAPHY

Tiburcio Vasquez is, next to Joaquin Murrieta, America’s most infamous Hispanic bandit. When he was hanged as a murderer in 1875, the Chicago Tribune called him “the most noted desperado of modern times.” Yet his life story is shrouded in myth and mystery: Was he a thief and heartless killer, or a Mexican American Robin Hood who suffered at the hands of a racist government? In Bandido, John Boessenecker provides definitive answers. Boessenecker traces Vasquez’s life from his childhood in Monterey, to the horse rustling and robbery of his young outlaw years. Two terms in San Quentin failed to tame Vasquez, and he instigated four bloody prison breaks that left twenty convicts dead. After his release, he led bandit raids throughout Central and Southern California. His dalliances with women were legion—the last one led to his capture and death on the gallows at age thirty-nine. From dusty court records, memoirs, and newspaper archives, Boessenecker draws a story of violence, banditry, and retribution on the California frontier that is as accurate as it is colorful. A San Francisco attorney, John Boessenecker has authored six books and numerous magazine articles on crime and law enforcement in the Old West. JULY $34.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4127-5 $24.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4681-2 496 PAGES, 6 × 9 68 B&W ILLUS., 4 MAPS BIOGRAPHY

The definitive biography of a turn-of-the-century train robber

“Highly recommended.”—Western Historical Quarterly 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.” Karen Holliday Tanner and John D.Tanner, Jr., recount the colorful life of Musgrave (1877–1947), enduring badman of the American Southwest. Musgrave was a charter member of the High Five or Black Jack gang—responsible for Arizona’s first bank hold-up, numerous post office and stagecoach robberies, and the largest Santa Fe Railroad heist in history. Following a decade-long hunt, he was captured and acquitted of killing a former Texas Ranger. After his brush with execution, he headed for South America, gaining fame as the “Gringo rustler.” In the 1940s, Musgrave’s age and poor health brought an end to his criminal career. Last of the Old-Time Outlaws incorporates newly discovered facts about the career of this frontier outlaw, thoroughly documenting Musgrave’s half-century of crime—from his childhood in the Texas brush country to his final days in Paraguay. Karen Holliday Tanner is the author of Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Wild West History Association. John D. Tanner, Jr., was Professor of History at Palomar College, San Marcos, California. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Wild West History Association. NOVEMBER $39.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-3424-6 $21.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4682-9 388 PAGES, 5.5 × 8.5 35 B&W ILLUS., 2 MAPS BIOGRAPHY

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A Texas Cowboy’s Journal

The Essential West Collected Essays By Elliott West Foreword by Richard White

Up the Trail to Kansas in 1868 By Jack Bailey Edited by David Dary Foreword by Charles P. Schroeder

14 new or revised takes on western subjects by the acclaimed historian-author

“Now you have my travels to Kansas [and] back home. . . . Hope it will interest some people.” So ends the earliest known day-by-day journal kept by a cowboy on a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas following the Civil War. In this rare firsthand account, Jack Bailey, a North Texas farmer, describes what it was like to live and work as a cowboy in the southern plains just after the Civil War.

In a thorough introduction, western historian David Dary establishes Jack Bailey’s identity and puts the journal in historical context. Jack Bailey was most likely John W. Bailey (b. 1831), a farmer from Jack County, Texas. Award-winning writer David Dary is retired as head of what is now the Gaylord College of Journalism at the University of Oklahoma. He has published numerous articles on the Old West and the plains region and authored eighteen previous books, including Cowboy Culture, True Tales of the Prairies and Plains, and Frontier Medicine. Charles P. Schroeder is Executive Director of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. JULY $24.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-3737-7 $14.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4647-8 160 PAGES, 5.5 × 7.5 14 B&W ILLUS., 2 MAPS MEMOIR VOLUME 3 IN THE WESTERN LEGACIES SERIES

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. Capitalizing on West’s wide array of interests, this collection ranges from viruses and the telegraph to children, bison, and Larry McMurtry. 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. His humor is a delightful characteristic of the book, which includes ten previously published essays, newly revised, and four brand-new ones. West is well known for his writings about frontier family life, and fans of his earlier books will relish the stories here. In a final section, he examines the West of myth and imagination. In essays on buffalo, Jesse James, and Lonesome Dove, Elliot West directs his formidable powers to subjects that continue to shape our understanding—and often our misunderstanding—of the American West, past and present. Elliott West, Alumni Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, is the award-winning author of numerous articles and books, including Growing Up with the Country: Childhood on the Far-Western Frontier; The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado; and The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story. Richard White, Margaret Byrne Professor of American History at Stanford University, is author of It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A New History of the American West and Remembering Ahanagran: Storytelling in a Family’s Past. JULY $29.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4296-8 $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4653-9 344 PAGES, 6 × 9 4 B&W ILLUS. U.S. HISTORY

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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. Bailey’s time on the trail was hardly lonely, and crews included African Americans and, at least on the early drives, women and children.

“Elliott West is the best historian of the American West writing today.”—Richard White

BAILEY, DARY A TEXAS COWBOY’S JOURNAL

A rare firsthand accout of an early cattle drive to Kansas and the journey home

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Race and the University

An Aristocracy of Color

A Memoir By George Henderson Foreword by David W. Levy

Race and Reconstruction in California and the West, 1850–1890 By D. Michael Bottoms

HENDERSON RACE AND THE UNIVERSITY

BOTTOMS AN ARISTOCRACY OF COLOR

An African American scholar recalls an academic civil war

A fascinating, disturbing study of Reconstruction in the multiracial West

“Drawing on his courage, persistence, and wisdom, George Henderson . . . provides a vivid and engaging account of his involvement in the struggle for racial equality and integration on campus.”—Journal of Southern History

“Bottoms brings exploration of Reconstruction and changing attitudes about race westward. . . . This is a highly interesting story, and Bottoms tells it well.”—Elliott West, author of The Essential West: Collected Essays

In 1967, George Henderson, the son of uneducated Alabama sharecroppers, accepted a professorship at the University of Oklahoma, despite his mentor’s warning to avoid the “redneck school in a backward state.” Henderson became the university’s third African American professor, a hire that suggested dissolving racial divides. When real estate agents in Norman denied the family their first three home choices, Henderson realized he still faced formidable challenges.

After supporting the Union in the Civil War, white Californians confronted a crisis when asked to ratify the proposed Reconstruction amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Designed to protect the rights of newly freed slaves in the South, the provisions threatened to topple the fragile multiracial hierarchy Anglo-Americans had carefully constructed in California. Federal solutions to the black-white racial conflict in the South triggered decades of social tumult in California as African Americans, Chinese, Native Californians, and other racial and ethnic groups vied for new political privileges.

This stirring memoir recounts Henderson’s formative years at OU, during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He describes obstacles African Americans faced within the university community—a place of “white privilege, black separatism, and campus-wide indifference to bigotry.” An adviser to black students, Henderson found himself at the forefront of efforts to improve race relations at the university. Capturing 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 nation’s most diverse college campuses. George Henderson is Professor Emeritus of Human Relations, Education, and Sociology at the University of Oklahoma, and former Dean of the College of Liberal Studies. David W. Levy, retired Professor of History, University of Oklahoma, is the author of The University of Oklahoma: A History. SEPTEMBER $24.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4129-9 $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4655-3 272 PAGES, 6 × 9 22 B&W ILLUS. MEMOIR

In An Aristocracy of Color, D. Michael Bottoms shows that while many white Californians saw Reconstruction legislation as a threat, nonwhite Californians—blacks and Chinese in particular—recognized an unprecedented opportunity to reshape the state’s race relations. Drawing on court records, political debates, and eyewitness accounts, Bottoms brings to life the monumental battle that followed—and reverberated in other state legal systems throughout the West in the mid- to late 1800s and nationwide in the twentieth century. D. Michael Bottoms earned his doctorate in United States history at the University of California–Los Angeles and has taught at UCLA, the University of Puget Sound, George Mason University, and, most recently, Whitman College. SEPTEMBER $34.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4335-4 $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4649-2 288 PAGES, 6 × 9 14 B&W ILLUS. U.S. HISTORY VOLUME 5 IN THE RACE AND CULTURE IN THE AMERICAN WEST SERIES

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Dragoons in Apacheland

Uncovering History

Conquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 1846–1861 By William S. Kiser

Archaeological Investigations at the Little Bighorn By Douglas D. Scott Foreword by Bob Reece

The antebellum struggle for U.S. control of southern New Mexico

The archaeological history of a legendary battle site

Kiser’s insights into the pre–Civil War conflicts in southern New Mexico are essential to a deeper understanding of the larger U.S.-Apache war that culminated in the heroic resistance of Cochise, Victorio, and Geronimo. William S. Kiser is author of Turmoil on the Rio Grande: The Territorial History of the Mesilla Valley, 1846–1865. AUGUST $29.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4314-9 $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4650-8 368 PAGES, 6 × 9 AMERICAN INDIAN/MILITARY HISTORY

Almost as soon as the last shot was fired in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the battlefield became an archaeological site. For many years afterward, as fascination with the famed 1876 fight intensified, visitors to the area scavenged the many relics left behind. But it took decades before researchers began to tease information from the battle’s debris—and the new field of battlefield archaeology began to emerge. 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 describes how analysis of specific detritus at the Little Bighorn—such as cartridge cases, fragments of camping equipment and clothing, and skeletal remains—allows researchers to reconstruct and reinterpret the history of the conflict. And he demonstrates how major advances in technology, such as metal detection and GPS, have expanded the capabilities of battlefield archaeologists to uncover new evidence and analyze it with greater accuracy. Uncovering History expands our understanding of the battle, its protagonists, and the enduring legacy of the battlefield as a national memorial. Douglas D. Scott, Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, is the author or coauthor of numerous publications, including They Died with Custer: Soldiers’ Bones from the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Bob Reece is President of the Friends of the Little Bighorn Battlefield. OCTOBER $32.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4350-7 $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4662-1 264 PAGES, 6 × 9 52 B&W ILLUS., 2 MAP U.S. HISTORY

SCOTT UNCOVERING HISTORY

Kiser narrates two distinct contests. The Apaches were defending their territory against the encroachment of soldiers and settlers. At the same time, the Anglo-Americans maneuvered against one another in a competition for political and economic power and for Apache territory. Kiser details the experiences of the First and Second United States Dragoons, elite mounted troops better equipped to confront Apache guerrilla warriors, who fought desperately to protect their lands and way of life.

“A standard reference book for every student of the Little Big Horn.”—Battlefield Dispatch

KISER DRAGOONS IN APACHELAND

In the fifteen years prior to the American Civil War, the U.S. Army established a presence in southern New Mexico, the homeland of Mescalero, Mimbres, and Mogollon bands of the Apache Indians. From the army’s perspective, the Apaches presented an obstacle to be overcome in making the region— newly acquired in the Mexican-American War—safe for Anglo settlers. In Dragoons in Apacheland, William S. Kiser recounts the conflicts that ensued and examines how both Apache warriors and American troops shaped the future of the Southwest Borderlands.

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Columns of Vengeance

Terrible Justice

Soldiers, Sioux, and the Punitive Expeditions, 1863–1864 By Paul N. Beck

Sioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 1854–1868 By Doreen Chaky

BECK COLUMNS OF VENGEANCE

CHAKY TERRIBLE JUSTICE

Reappraises the Punitive Expeditions through firsthand accounts

“Peppered with fascinating accounts of battles, military life, and glimpses into the participants’ innermost thoughts.”— Kansas History In 1862, Minnesotans found themselves fighting interconnected wars—the first against the rebellious Southern states, the second an internal war against the Dakota Sioux. While the Civil War would decide the future of the United States, the Dakota War of 1862 proved more destructive to the people of Minnesota—both whites and American Indians. It led to U.S. military action against the Sioux, divided the Dakotas over whether to fight, and left hundreds of white settlers dead. Columns of Vengeance reappraises the U.S. Army’s response to the Dakota War, the Punitive Expeditions of 1863 and 1864. Previous accounts approach the Punitive Expeditions as a campaign of the Indian Wars, but Paul N. Beck argues that Civil War strategy and tactics directly affected military action in the West. Beck reveals the devastating impact the expeditions had on the Sioux. Whites viewed the campaign as punishment—“columns of vengeance” against the Dakotas— yet most of the Sioux the army encountered had nothing to do with the 1862 uprising. Drawing on letters, diaries, and personal accounts of common soldiers in the expeditions and rare personal narratives from the Dakotas, Columns of Vengeance offers fresh insight into U.S. military operations against the Sioux. Paul N. Beck is Professor of History at Wisconsin Lutheran College, Milwaukee, and author of Inkpaduta: Dakota Leader. AUGUST $34.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4344-6 $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4596-9 328 PAGES, 5.5 × 8.5 5 B&W ILLUS., 2 MAPS U.S. HISTORY/AMERICAN INDIAN

The first complete account of the events leading to the formation of the Great Sioux Reservation

“A welcome addition to any library on the history of the West.”—Great Plains Quarterly They called themselves Dakota, but the explorers and fur traders who first encountered these people in the sixteenth century referred to them as Sioux, a corruption of the name their enemies called them. That linguistic dissonance foreshadowed a series of bloodier conflicts between Sioux warriors and the American military in the mid-nineteenth century. Doreen Chaky offers the first complete narrative history of the combat on the Upper Missouri in the 1850s and 1860s, the period bookended by the Sioux’s first major military clashes with the U.S. Army and the creation of the Great Sioux Reservation. Chaky reveals how northern, southern, and Minnesota Sioux all became involved in the U.S. invasion, and she ties Upper Missouri and Minnesota Sioux history to better-known Oglala and Brulé Sioux history. Terrible Justice uses soldiers’ letters and journals, military and other official communications, and the speeches of Sioux leaders to illuminate the complex dynamics of this high-stakes contest between cultures with diametrically opposed concepts of justice. Doreen Chaky is a freelance journalist and independent scholar. She resides in Williston, North Dakota. NOVEMBER $39.95s CLOTH 978-0-87062-414-8 $21.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4652-2 408 PAGES, 6 × 9 25 B&W ILLUS., 2 MAPS AMERICAN INDIAN/U.S. HISTORY

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Indians and Emigrants

Speculators in Empire

Encounters on the Overland Trails By Michael L. Tate

Iroquoia and the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix By William J. Campbell

Explores relations between Indians and emigrants on the overland trails

Explores the IroquoisBritish diplomacy leading up to the treaty

In the mid-1850s, Plains tribes began to see their independence and traditions threatened by the flood of white travelers. As buffalo herds dwindled and Indians died from diseases brought by emigrants, violent clashes between wagon trains and Indians became more frequent, and the first Anglo-Indian wars erupted on the plains. Yet, even in the 1860s, most encounters were friendly. Despite thousands of beneficial exchanges between whites and Indians between 1840 and 1870, the image of Plains Indians as the overland pioneers’ worst enemies prevails in American popular culture. Tate seeks to dispel that stereotype. Michael L. Tate is Chair of Graduate Studies and Professor of History and Native American Studies at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and the author of The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West. JULY $29.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-3710-0 $21.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4654-6 352 PAGES, 6 × 9 17 B&W ILLUS., 4 MAPS U.S. HISTORY/AMERICAN INDIAN

Through the treaty, the Iroquois directed the expansion of empire to serve their own needs, while Crown negotiators obtained more territory than they were authorized to accept. Campbell unravels complex intercultural negotiations in which colonial officials, land speculators, traders, tribes, and individual Indians pursued a variety of agendas, with each side possessing considerable understanding of the other’s expectations and intentions. Historians credit British Indian superintendent Sir William Johnson with pulling off the land grab, but Campbell shows that Johnson was one of many players. Speculators in Empire shows that colonial and Native history are unavoidably entwined—and even interdependent. William J. Campbell is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Chico, and author of numerous articles on early North American, Native, and Canadian history. NOVEMBER $39.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4286-9 $24.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4665-2 296 PAGES, 6 × 9 6 B&W ILLUS., 2 MAPS AMERICAN INDIAN/U.S. HISTORY VOLUME 7 IN THE NEW DIRECTIONS IN NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES SERIES

CAMPBELL SPECULATORS IN EMPIRE

In Indians and Emigrants, the first book to focus on relations between Indians and emigrants on the overland trails, Michael L. Tate shows that their encounters were far more often characterized by cooperation than by conflict. Combing hundreds of unpublished sources and Indian oral traditions, Tate finds that Indians and Anglo-Americans continuously traded goods and news, and Indians provided various forms of assistance to overlanders. Both sides normally followed their own best interests and ethics, sometimes creating distrust. But many acts of kindness—by emigrants and Indians—can be attributed to simple human compassion.

At the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the British secured the largest land cession in colonial North America. Crown representatives gained possession of an area claimed but not occupied by the Iroquois that encompassed parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. The Iroquois, however, were far from naïve—and the outcome was not an instance of their simply being dispossessed. In Speculators in Empire, William J. Campbell examines the diplomacy, land speculation, and empire building that led to the treaty. His detailed study overturns assumptions about the Iroquois and British on the eve of the American Revolution.

TATE INDIANS AND EMIGRANTS

“A significant—and readable—book.”—Robert M. Utley, Western Historical Quarterly

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Red Power Rising

Translating Maya Hieroglyphs

SHREVE RED POWER RISING

JOHNSON TRANSLATING MAYA HIEROGLYPHS

The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism By Bradley G. Shreve Foreword by Shirley Hill Witt

By Scott A. J. Johnson A step-by-step guide to reading Maya glyphs

Uncovers the true origins of the Red Power movement

During the 1960s, American Indian youth were swept up in a movement called Red Power—a civil rights struggle fueled by intertribal activism. While some define 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? In this groundbreaking book, Bradley G. Shreve sets the record straight by tracing the origins of Red Power further back in time: to the student activism of the National Indian Youth Council (NIYC), founded in Gallup, New Mexico, in 1961. Unlike other 1960s and ’70s activist groups that challenged the fundamental beliefs of their predecessors, the students who established the NIYC were determined to uphold the cultures and ideals of their elders. Their cornerstone principles of tribal sovereignty, self-determination, treaty rights, and cultural preservation helped ensure their survival, for unlike other activist groups, the NIYC is still in operation today. By uncovering the origins of Red Power, Shreve writes an important new chapter in the history of American Indian activism. Bradley G. Shreve is Managing Editor of the Tribal College Journal, a publication of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium. Shirley Hill Witt is a founder and former vice president of the National Indian Youth Council. A distinguished anthropologist and former foreign service officer, she is a member of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation, Wolf Clan. JULY $34.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4178-7 $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4365-1 296 PAGES, 6 × 9 20 B&W ILLUS. AMERICAN INDIAN VOLUME 5 IN THE NEW DIRECTIONS IN NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES SERIES

The only comprehensive introduction designed specifically for those new to the study, Translating Maya Hieroglyphs uses a hands-on, step-by-step approach to teach readers how to translate ancient Maya glyphs. Scott A. J. Johnson describes how to break down a Mayan text into individual glyphs in the correct reading order, and then explains the different types of glyphs and how they function in the script. Finally, he shows how to systematically convert a Mayan inscription into modern English. More than a reference, this volume functions as an introductory foreign-language textbook. Chapters cover spelling, dates and numbers, basic grammar, and verbs, while worksheets and exercises reinforce the material. Helpful appendices provide quick reference to vocabulary, glyph meanings, and calendrical data. Glyph blocks and phrases drawn from actual monuments illustrate the variety and scribal virtuosity of Maya writing. Scholars have made great strides in deciphering hieroglyphs in the past four decades. Translating Maya Hieroglyphs brings this knowledge to a broader audience, including archaeologists and budding epigraphers. Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scott A. J. Johnson is Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of several articles and book chapters on Maya archaeology and epigraphy. JULY $34.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4333-0 $26.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5121-2 408 PAGES, 8.5 × 11 69 B&W ILLUS., 1 MAP, 27 TABLES LATIN AMERICA

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VICTORY AT PELELIU

Victory at Peleliu

Napoleon and Berlin

No Turning Point

The 81st Infantry Division’s Pacific Campaign By Bobby C. Blair and John Peter DeCioccio

The Franco-Prussian War in North Germany, 1813 By Michael V. Leggiere

The Saratoga Campaign in Perspective By Theodore Corbett

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NO TURNING POINT

Bobby C. Blair, an independent researcher and writer, is retired from Phillips Petroleum Company and now lives in Shawnee, Oklahoma. John Peter DeCioccio (1948–2004) began the research for this book and interviewed most of the veterans. He worked in broadcast journalism and mental health.

NAPOLEON AND BERLIN

The 1st Marine Division’s invasion and capture of Peleliu in the South Pacific in September 1944 took two months and involved some of the bloodiest fighting of the Second World War in the Pacific. But after the 1st Marines were evacuated, the 81st Infantry Division secured the island. Previous battle accounts focused on the 1st Marines. Victory at Peleliu demonstrates that without the 81st’s help, the marines could not have succeeded. Allowing the veterans they interviewed to tell the story, Bobby C. Blair and John Peter DeCioccio give a human face to a brutal battle.

Historians have seen British general John In Napoleon and Berlin, Michael V. Leggiere Burgoyne’s surrender at the conclusion of the Battle of Saratoga in 1777 as a turning explores Napoleon’s almost obsessive desire point in the American Revolution, because it to capture Berlin, a strategy that ultimately convinced France to join the colonies in the lost him all of Germany. Napoleon may war, ensuring American victory. Theodore have hoped to cripple Prussia’s war-making Corbett here reveals that Saratoga and its capacity and morale, but the heavy losses aftermath were part of ongoing conflicts and strategic reverses for the French left among the settlers of New York, Canada, Napoleon’s Grande Armèe vulnerable to and Vermont. Corbett considers not only an Allied coalition that eventually drove enlisted Patriot and Redcoat soldiers but also Napoleon from Central Europe forever. landowners, tenant farmers, townspeople, Napoleon and Berlin shows that Prussia’s victory over the French decisively contributed American Indians, Loyalists, and African Americans. Ethnic and religious strife and to Napoleon’s defeat in 1813 and helped make future Prussian and German armies the conflicting land claims by New York and New Hampshire marked relations among the envy of the world. colonists. No Turning Point complicates—and Michael V. Leggiere, Associate Professor and enriches—our understanding of the difficult Deputy Director, Military History Center, birth of the United States as a nation. University of North Texas, is the author of Theodore Corbett has taught American and Blücher: Scourge of Napoleon. He received British history. He is the author of A Clash the Legion of Merit Award for Outstanding Contributions to Napoleonic Studies from La of Cultures on the Warpath of Nations: The Colonial Wars in the Hudson-Champlain Société Napoléonienne Internationale. Valley and Revolutionary New Castle: The Struggle for Independence. NOVEMBER

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CHARLES M. RUSSELL

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