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Congratulations to our Recent Award Winners

H COLORADO BOOK AWARDS

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IN TLINGIT COUNTRY

TOM HORN IN LIFE AND LEGEND

Vincent Soboleff in Alaska

By Larry Ball

OUTDOORS IN THE SOUTHWEST

By Sergei Kan

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SOUTH PASS

An Adventure Anthology

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978-0-8061-5175-5

Gateway to a Continent

Edited by Andrew Gulliford

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H CO-FOUNDERS BEST BOOK

Westerners International

By Will Bagley

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THE GREAT MEDICINE ROAD, Part 1

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Narratives of the Oregon, California,

Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher and Her

New Mexico Book Association

and Mormon Trails, 1840–1848

Fight to End Segregation

Edited by Michael L. Tate

By Cheryl Elizabeth Brown Wattley

A LEGACY IN ARMS

My Mother’s Memories of Imprisonment,

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American Firearm Manufacture,

Immigration, and a Life Remade

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Design, and Artistry, 1800–1900

By Barbara Rylko-Bauer

By Richard C. Rattenbury

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A POLISH DOCTOR IN THE NAZI CAMPS

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ON THE FRONT: TIMBER CREEK BRIDGE, WESTERN OKLAHOMA. PHOTOGRAPH BY JIM ROSS.


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Route 66 Crossings Historic Bridges of the Mother Road By Jim Ross Route 66 is a beloved and much studied symbol of twentieth-century America. But until now, no book has focused on the bridges that spanned the rivers, creeks, arroyos, and railroads between Chicago and Santa Monica. In this handsome volume, Route 66 authority and veteran writer and photographer Jim Ross examines the origins and history of the bridges of America’s most famous highway, structures designed to overcome obstacles to travel, many of them engineered with architectural aesthetics now lost to time. Featuring hundreds of Ross’s own photographs, Route 66 Crossings showcases bridges ranging in design from timber to steel and concrete, and provides schematics, maps, and global coordinates to help readers identify and locate them. Ross’s comprehensive accounting of structures along the Mother Road’s various alignments includes bridges still in use, those that have vanished or have been abandoned, and the few consciously preserved as monuments. He also recognizes ancillary structures that enhanced safety and helped facilitate traffic, such as railway grade separations, tunnels, and pedestrian underpasses.

FEBRUARY $29.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-5199-1 208 PAGES, 11 × 8 596 COLOR AND 134 B&W ILLUS., 24 LINE DRAWINGS, 24 MAPS U.S. HISTORY

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Ross seeks to encourage ongoing preservation of the structures that remain. In brilliant color and precise detail, Route 66 Crossings expands our knowledge of the bridges that linked America’s first all-weather national highway. Writer, photographer, and leading authority on the history of Route 66, Jim Ross is the author or coauthor of eight books, including Oklahoma Route 66 and Route 66 Sightings, and is cocreator of the Route 66 Map Series. Ross is also an Oklahoma Route 66 Hall of Fame inductee and has been awarded both the John Steinbeck and Will Rogers Awards for historic preservation. He lives near Arcadia, Oklahoma.

ALONG ROUTE 66 By Quinta Scott $26.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3250-1 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3383-6 FATHER OF ROUTE 66 The Story of Cy Avery By Susan Croce Kelly $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4499-3 ROUTE 66 The Highway and Its People By Susan Croce Kelly Photographs by Quinta Scott $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2291-5

ROSS ROUTE 66 CROSSINGS

A colorful tour of an American roadside engineering museum


GRILLOT, MESSITTE BUON GIORNO, AREZZO

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A multidimensional portrait of an Italian city

Buon Giorno, Arezzo A Postcard from Tuscany Edited by Suzette R. Grillot and Zach P. Messitte Foreword by David L Boren, Giuseppe Fanfani, and Cindy Simon Rosenthal

MAY $24.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-5280-6 192 PAGES, 9 × 10 169 COLOR ILLUS., 1 MAP WORLD HISTORY

In the heart of Tuscany stands the city of Arezzo, beckoning those who would know more of the real Italy. A spectacular medieval town of 100,000 residents, Arezzo invites travelers to see its sights and sample its considerable charms. It reserves a special warmth for those who wish to stay a while and truly experience life under the Tuscan sun. In a similar fashion, Buon Giorno, Arezzo invites visitors to make themselves at home. The authors and photographers featured here are kindred spirits—Americans, Europeans, students, and scholars—all touched by Arezzo’s magic and eager to share their experience with newcomers. Buon Giorno, Arezzo sketches the city’s unique history, from ancient Italy to the present day, with beautifully illustrated forays into its rich tradition of architecture and art—including the masterwork of Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca. Contributors offer insight into Arezzo’s language, introducing visitors to speech patterns and accents harking back to the Etruscans, as well as distinct dialects that put the region—the birthplace of Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch), a godfather of the Italian language—at the very “center of the Italian language universe.” Italians are known internationally for their contributions to music, fashion, film, and wine— and Arezzo’s significant influence in each of these areas comes to light and life as the authors explore the city’s vibrant modern culture and economy. A congenial companion and knowledgeable guide, steeped in history and replete with photographs of Arezzo’s visual delights, Buon Giorno, Arezzo is an essential resource for any traveler hoping to immerse themselves in the daily rhythms and cultural depths of this incomparable Italian city. Suzette R. Grillot is Dean of the College of International Studies, Vice Provost for International Programs, and William J. Crowe, Jr., Chair in Geopolitics at the University of Oklahoma. Zach P. Messitte is President of Ripon College in Wisconsin. Messitte and Grillot are co-editors of Understanding the Global Community. David L. Boren is President of the University of Oklahoma. Giuseppe Fanfani is former mayor of Arezzo. Cindy Simon Rosenthal is Mayor of Norman, Oklahoma, sister city to Arezzo.


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Path to Excellence Building the University of Oklahoma, 1890–2015 By John R. Lovett, Jacquelyn Slater Reese, and Bethany R. Mowry Preface by David L Boren Founded by determined pioneers in 1890, the University of Oklahoma is one of the nation’s most beautiful universities. The institution’s visual attractions on its three thriving campuses are matched only by its outstanding reputation for academic excellence. Published in celebration of the University’s quasquicentennial, Path to Excellence is a stunning photographic history of OU’s 125 years of remarkable growth and revitalization. When the University’s first president, David Ross Boyd, looked out at the vast “stretch of prairie” where the territorial school would be built, he envisioned great possibilities. The University’s first steps on the path to excellence were not always easy, however. Challenges and trials marked its early years. Yet through the perseverance and dedication of students, alumni, faculty, and staff, the modern University took shape. Showcasing both historical and contemporary photographs, Path to Excellence takes the reader on a captivating journey. We see stately academic buildings known for their fine architectural details. We see lush green lawns, colorful garden spaces, and sculptures by renowned artists. And as these memorable landmarks take root and develop before our eyes, we see the University become the strong institution it is today, reaching for ever higher levels of scholarship, community service, and academic achievement. John R. Lovett is Curator of the Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries, and William J. Welch Professor of Bibliography. Jacquelyne Slater Reese is Librarian at the Western History Collections and Assistant Professor of Bibliography, University of Oklahoma. Bethany R. Mowry is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, University of Oklahoma. David L. Boren is President of the University of Oklahoma.

JANUARY $34.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-9978-8 168 PAGES, 10 × 11 171 COLOR AND B&W ILLUS. U.S. HISTORY

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THE SOONER STORY The University of Oklahoma, 1890–2015 By Anne Barajas Harp $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-9977-1 THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA A History: Volume 1, 1890–1917 By David W. Levy $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3976-0 THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA A History, Volume II: 1917–1950 By David W. Levy $75.00s Leather 978-0-8061-5161-8 $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4903-5

LOVETT, REESE, MOWRY PATH TO EXCELLENCE

A spectacular photographic history of the University’s three campuses


WYLIE BLOOD ON THE MARIAS

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A thorough retelling of the Piegan massacre of 1870

Blood on the Marias The Baker Massacre By Paul R. Wylie On the morning of January 23, 1870, troops of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry attacked a Piegan Indian village on the Marias River in Montana Territory, killing many more than the army’s count of 173, most of them women, children, and old men. The village was afflicted with smallpox. Worse, it was the wrong encampment. Intended as a retaliation against Mountain Chief’s renegade band, the massacre sparked public outrage when news sources revealed that the battalion had attacked Heavy Runner’s innocent village—and that guides had told its inebriated commander, Major Eugene Baker, he was on the wrong trail, but he struck anyway. Remembered as one of the most heinous incidents of the Indian Wars, the Baker Massacre has often been overshadowed by the better-known Battle of the Little Bighorn and has never received full treatment until now. FEBRUARY $29.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-5157-1 336 PAGES, 6 × 9 40 B&W ILLUS., 5 MAPS U.S. HISTORY/MILITARY HISTORY

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BLACKFOOT REDEMPTION A Blood Indian’s Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice By William E. Farr $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4287-6 $21.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4464-1 AMERICAN CARNAGE Wounded Knee, 1890 By Jerome A. Greene $34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4448-1 WASHITA The U.S. Army and the Southern Cheyennes, 1867–1869 By Jerome A. Greene $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3885-5

Author Paul R. Wylie plumbs the history of Euro-American involvement with the Piegans, who were members of the Blackfeet Confederacy. His research shows the tribe was trading furs for whiskey with the Hudson’s Bay Company before Meriwether Lewis encountered them in 1806. As American fur traders and trappers moved into the region, the U.S. government soon followed, making treaties it did not honor. When the gold rush started in the 1860s and the U.S. Army arrived, pressure from Montana citizens to control the Piegans and make the territory safe led Generals William Tecumseh Sherman and Philip H. Sheridan to send Baker and the 2nd Cavalry, with tragic consequences. Although these generals sought to dictate press coverage thereafter, news of the cruelty of the killings appeared in the New York Times, which called the massacre “a more shocking affair than the sacking of Black Kettle’s camp on the Washita” two years earlier. While other scholars have written about the Baker Massacre in related contexts, Blood on the Marias gives this infamous event the definitive treatment it deserves. Baker’s inept command lit the spark of violence, but decades of tension between Piegans and whites set the stage for a brutal and too-often-forgotten incident. Paul R. Wylie, a retired attorney and now an independent researcher and writer, is author of The Irish General: Thomas Francis Meagher. He lives in Bozeman, Montana.


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Kill Jeff Davis The Union Raid on Richmond, 1864 By Bruce M. Venter The ostensible goal of the controversial Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid on Richmond (February 28–March 3, 1864) was to free some 13,000 Union prisoners of war held in the Confederate capital. But orders found on the dead body of the raid’s subordinate commander, Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, point instead to a plot to capture or kill Confederate president Jefferson Davis and set Richmond ablaze. What really happened, and how and why, are debated to this day. Kill Jeff Davis offers a fresh look at the failed raid and mines newly discovered documents and little-known sources to provide definitive answers. In this detailed and deeply researched account of the most famous cavalry raid of the Civil War, author Bruce M. Venter describes an expedition that was carefully planned but poorly executed. A host of factors foiled the raid: bad weather, poor logistics, inadequate command and control, ignorance of the terrain, the failures of supporting forces, and the leaders’ personal and professional shortcomings. Venter delves into the background and consequences of the debacle, beginning with the political maneuvering orchestrated by commanding brigadier general Judson Kilpatrick to persuade President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton to approve the raid. Venter’s examination of the relationship between Kilpatrick and Brigadier General George A. Custer illuminates the reasons why the flamboyant Custer was excluded from the Richmond raid.

VOLUME 51 IN THE CAMPAIGNS AND COMMANDERS SERIES

JANUARY $29.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-5153-3 384 PAGES, 6 × 9 15 B&W ILLUS., 7 MAPS MILITARY HISTORY/U.S. HISTORY

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In a lively narrative describing the multiple problems that beset the raiders, Kill Jeff Davis uncovers new details about the African American guide whom Dahlgren ordered hanged; the defenders of the Confederate capital, who were not just the “old men and young boys” of popular lore; and General Benjamin F. Butler’s expedition to capture Davis, as well as Custer’s diversionary raid on Charlottesville. Venter’s thoughtful reinterpretations and well-reasoned observations put to rest many myths and misperceptions. He tells, at last, the full story of this hotly contested moment in Civil War history. Bruce M. Venter is an independent historian and the author of The Battle of Hubbardton: The Rear Guard Action That Saved America.

THE UNCIVIL WAR Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861–1865 By Robert R. Mackey $21.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3736-0 THREE DAYS IN THE SHENANDOAH Stonewall Jackson at Front Royal and Winchester By Gary Ecelbarger $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3886-2 $21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5186-1 THE EARLY MORNING OF WAR Bull Run, 1861 By Edward G. Longacre $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4498-6

VENTER KILL JEFF DAVIS

The full story of a hotly contested moment in Civil War history


VÉA THE MEXICAN FLYBOY

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A broken man attempts to rewrite history in this imaginative new novel

The Mexican Flyboy By Alfredo Véa What if we could travel back in time to save our heroes from painful deaths? What if we could rewrite history to protect and reward the innocent victims of injustice? In Alfredo Véa’s daring new novel, one man does just that, taking readers on a series of remarkable journeys.

VOLUME 16 IN THE CHICANA AND CHICANO VISIONS OF THE AMÉRICAS SERIES

JUNE $19.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-8703-7 384 PAGES, 5.5 × 8.5 FICTION

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Abandoned as a child, brooding and haunted as an adult, Simon Vegas, “the Mexican Flyboy,” toils for years to repair a time machine that fell into his hands in Vietnam. With the help of his friend, eccentric Hephaestus Segundo, Simon uses the device to fly through time. Wherever acts of human cruelty take place, in the past or in the present, the machine lets him lift the suffering away and deliver them to a utopian afterlife. Blending magical realism, science fiction, history, and comic-book fantasy, The Mexican Flyboy swoops readers from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the vineyards of Northern California, from Ethel Rosenberg’s execution to Joan of Arc’s pyre, in a tale of justice, trauma, regret, and redemption. The dead pass through the narrative in a parade at once heartbreaking and hopeful, among them Vincent van Gogh and Malcolm X, Ernest Hemingway and Amadou Diallo. But the living—Simon’s pregnant wife, Elena, his old friend Ezekiel Stein, prisoner Lenny Hudson—all throw doubt onto Simon’s story. Is Simon truly a “magus,” transporting martyrs to a shared community in paradise? Or is he just a man broken by loss, guilt, and the trauma of war, hopelessly lost in an illusion of his own making? Crossing genres and blending comedy with tragedy, Alfredo Véa imagines a world where we can rewrite our pasts and heal the wounds inflicted by history. Inviting comparisons to the work of James Joyce and Victor Borges, Junot Díaz and Michael Chabon, this powerful book is like nothing else you have ever read.

THE KING AND QUEEN OF COMEZÓN By Denise Chávez $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4483-2 CROSSING VINES A Novel By Rigoberto Gonzalez $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3528-1 THE BLOCK CAPTAIN’S DAUGHTER By Demetria Martinez $14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4291-3

Alfredo Véa is a criminal defense lawyer in San Francisco and author of three other novels, La Maravilla, The Silver Cloud Café, and Gods Go Begging.


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The Sorrows of Young Alfonso By Rudolfo Anaya “The world is full of sorrow,” Agapita whispered to Alfonso. Did she stamp those words into his destiny? The story of Alfonso, a Nuevo Mexicano, begins with his birth, when the curandera Agapita delivers these haunting words into his infant ear. What then unfolds is an elegiac song to the llanos of New Mexico where Alfonso comes of age. As this exquisite novel charts Alfonso’s life journey from childhood through his education and evolution as a writer, renowned Chicano author Rudolfo Anaya invites readers to reflect on the truths and mysteries of the human condition. Because Alfonso “didn’t write his own biography,” it falls to his childhood friend, the anonymous narrator here, to tell his story, through a series of letters addressed to a mysterious figure named K. The narrator depicts young Alfonso caught between dual influences: his beloved, devout Catholic mother, Rafaelita, and the folk healer Agapita. After suffering a terrible accident that leaves him physically handicapped, Alfonso faces intellectual crises during his university years, all of which move him down the path of his destiny. In describing these events, the “old man” writing the letters interweaves Alfonso’s experiences with fragments of his own life and of the New Mexican llano that both men have called home. The trajectory of Alfonso’s life in turn mirrors the history of New Mexico and the turbulent beginnings of the Chicano movement in which the young protagonist plays a trailblazing role. As story builds upon story, the commonality of traits among the narrator, his subject, and perhaps Anaya himself appears more than coincidental. Permeated by Anaya’s trademark religious and mythological imagery, The Sorrows of Young Alfonso is a luminous meditation on memory, reality, and the human experience. Rudolfo Anaya is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico and author of numerous books, including Poems from the Río Grande. He has received myriad literary awards, including the Premio Quinto Sol and a National Medal of Arts.

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APRIL $24.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-5226-4 224 PAGES, 6 × 9 FICTION

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THE OLD MAN’S LOVE STORY By Rudolfo Anaya $14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4648-5 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 POEMS FROM THE RÍO GRANDE By Rudolfo Anaya $16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4866-3

ANAYA THE SORROWS OF YOUNG ALFONSO

A luminous meditation on memory, reality, and the human experience


HARRIS HEARTBEAT, WARBLE, AND THE ELECTRIC POWWOW

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A celebration of traditional and contemporary American Indian music

Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electric Powwow American Indian Music By Craig Harris Despite centuries of suppression and oppression, American Indian music survives today as a profound cultural force. Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electric Powwow celebrates, in depth, the vibrant soundscape of Native North America, from the “heartbeat” of intertribal drums and “warble” of Native flutes to contemporary rock, hip-hop, and electronic music. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews with musicians, producers, ethnographers, and record-label owners, author and musician Craig Harris conjures an aural tapestry in which powwow drums and end-blown woodwinds resound alongside operatic and symphonic strains, jazz and reggae, country music, and blues.

MAY $24.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-5168-7 288 PAGES, 6 × 9 21 B&W ILLUS. AMERICAN INDIAN

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CHOCTAW MUSIC AND DANCE By James H. Howard and Victoria Lindsay Levine $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2913-6 INDIAN BLUES American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879–1934 By John W. Troutman $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4269-2 SINGING THE SONGS OF MY ANCESTORS The Life and Music of Helma Swan, Makah Elder By Linda J. Goodman $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3451-2

Harris begins with an exploration of the powwow, from sacred ceremonies to intertribal gatherings. He examines the traditions of the Native American flute and its revival with artists such as two-time Grammy winners R. Carlos Nakai and Mary Youngblood. Singers and songwriters, including Buffy Sainte-Marie, Keith Secola, and Joanne Shenandoah, provide insights into their music and their lives as American Indians. Harris also traces American Indian rock, reggae, punk, and pop over four decades, punctuating his survey with commentary from such artists as Tom Bee, founder of Native America’s first rock band, XIT. Grammy-winner Taj Mahal recalls influential guitarist Jesse Ed Davis; ex-bandmates reflect on Rock Hall of Fame inductee Redbone; Robbie Robertson, Pura Fe, and Rita Coolidge describe how their groundbreaking 1993 album, Music for the Native Americans, evolved; and DJs A Tribe Called Red discuss their melding of archival powwow recordings into fiery dance music. The many voices and sounds that weave throughout Harris’s engaging, accessible account portray a sonic landscape that defies stereotyping and continues to expand. Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electric Powwow is the story—told by those who live it—of resisting a half-millennium of cultural suppression to create new sounds while preserving old roots. ◆ LISTEN IN! Visit this book’s page on the oupress.com website for a link to the book’s Spotify playlist. Percussionist, writer, and educator Craig Harris is author of The New Folk Music and The Band: Pioneers of Americana Music. He runs an award-winning music program, Drum Away the Blues, for children and adults and co-hosts a weekly music show for the Vision 7 Radio Network with the Gaea Star Band.


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The Trial of Tom Horn By John W. Davis For weeks in 1902 it commanded headlines. All of Wyoming and much of the West followed the trial of Tom Horn for the murder of a fourteen-year-old boy. John W. Davis’s book, the only full-length account of the trial, places it in perspective as part of a larger struggle for control of Wyoming’s grazing land. Davis also portrays an enigmatic defendant who, more than a century after his conviction and hanging, perplexes us still. Tom Horn was one of the most fascinating figures in the history of the West. Employed as a Pinkerton and then as a range detective, he had a reputation as a loner and a braggart with a brutal approach to law enforcement even before he was accused of murdering young Willie Nickell. Cattlemen saw Horn as protecting their way of life, but most people in Wyoming saw him as a hired assassin, an instrument of oppression by cattle barons willing to use violent intimidation to protect their assets. The story began on July 18, 1901, when Willie Nickell was shot by a gunman lying in ambush; the killer was apparently after Willie’s father, who had brought sheep into the area. Six months later Tom Horn was arrested. The trial pitted the Laramie County district attorney against a crack team of defense lawyers hired by big cattlemen. Against all predictions, the jury found Horn guilty of first-degree murder. Despite appeals that went all the way to the state supreme court and the governor, Horn was hanged in Cheyenne in 1903. The trial and conviction of Tom Horn marked a major milestone in the hard-fought battle against vigilantism in Wyoming. Davis, himself a trial lawyer, has mined court documents and newspaper articles to dissect the trial strategies of the participating attorneys. His detailed account illuminates a larger narrative of conflict between the power of wealth and the forces of law and order in the West. John W. Davis, who resides in Worland, Wyoming, practiced law in the Big Horn Basin for more than forty years. He is the author of Goodbye, Judge Lynch: The End of a Lawless Era in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin and Wyoming Range War: The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County.

MARCH $29.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-5218-9 376 PAGES, 6.125 × 9.25 23 B&W ILLUS., 2 MAPS U.S. HISTORY

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TOM HORN IN LIFE AND LEGEND By Larry D. Ball $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-5175-5 LIFE OF TOM HORN Government Scout and Interpreter By Tom Horn $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1044-8 WYOMING RANGE WAR The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County By John W. Davis $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4261-6

DAVIS THE TRIAL OF TOM HORN

The most sensational criminal case ever tried in Wyoming—and one of the most consequential


BRUCHAC CHENOO

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A page-turner of a detective story by the acclaimed Abenaki storyteller

Chenoo A Novel By Joseph Bruchac Jacob Neptune, a wise-cracking, two-fisted Penacook private investigator with a checkered past, lives in upstate New York—four hundred miles from his tribal community on Abenaki Island. Then one night the phone rings. “We . . . got . . . trouble,” Neptune’s cousin Dennis says from the other end. And trouble is where it all starts in this brilliant, often hilarious novel by acclaimed Abenaki storyteller Joseph Bruchac.

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MAY $16.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-5207-3 208 PAGES, 6 × 9 FICTION/AMERICAN INDIAN

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FIELD OF HONOR A Novel By D. L. Birchfield $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3608-0 THE MARRIAGE OF SAINTS A Novel By Dawn Karima Pettigrew $19.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3787-2 A PIPE FOR FEBRUARY A Novel By Charles H. Red Corn $16.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3454-3 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3726-1

Attacked by bikers before he can even board his plane, Neptune—“Podjo” to his friends—quickly begins to realize just how much trouble surrounds his people’s ancestral home. Guided by his sense of duty to his homeland, he agrees to help protect Dennis and other Penacooks as they stage a takeover of a state campground on land that should have reverted to their tribe. But encroaching developers, government operators, and even fellow Penacooks eager to build a casino each pose a threat to the Abenaki lands—and all have reasons to want Neptune out of the picture. Podjo greets each challenge with self-deprecating humor—but it’s difficult to shake his increasingly disturbing dreams, and an unsettled feeling when his return leads to a reunion with a long-ago love interest. As he and Dennis contend with hired guns, police, and security, a far greater threat appears: someone, or something, is brutally killing people in the woods. It will take all of Neptune’s skills as a martial arts fighter and the wisdom gained from tribal elders to battle the forces that threaten the sacred land—and his and his people’s lives. Bruchac ratchets the tension from the first page to the last in this detective novel that pairs comedy and action with serious consideration of corporate greed, environmental destruction, cultural erosion, and other modern-day issues pressing Native peoples. Joseph Bruchac, an Abenaki writer, poet, and storyteller, has written more than 130 books during his distinguished career. His best-selling Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children is used in classrooms across the country.


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Walking the Llano A Texas Memoir of Place By Shelley Armitage When European explorers crossed the Texas Panhandle, they dubbed it part of the “Great American Desert.” A “sea of grass,” the llano appeared empty, flat, and barely habitable. Contemporary developments—cell phone towers, oil rigs, and wind turbines—have only added to this stereotype. Yet in this lyrical ecomemoir, Shelley Armitage charts a unique rediscovery of the largely unknown land, a journey at once deeply personal and far-reaching in its exploration of the connections between memory, spirit, and place. Armitage begins her narrative with the intention to walk the llano from her family farm thirty meandering miles along the Middle Alamosa Creek to the Canadian River. Along the way, she seeks the connection between her father and one of the area’s first settlers, Ysabel Gurule, who built his dugout on the banks of the Canadian. Armitage, who grew up nearby in the small town of Vega, finds this act of walking inseparable from the act of listening and writing. “What does the land say to us?” she asks as she witnesses human alterations to the landscape—perhaps most catastrophic the continued drainage of the land’s most precious resource, the Ogallala Aquifer. Yet the llano’s wonders persist: dynamic mesas and canyons, vast flora and fauna, diverse wildlife, rich histories. Armitage recovers the voices of ancient, Native, and Hispano peoples, their stories interwoven with her own: her father’s legacy, her mother’s decline, a brother’s love. The llano holds not only the beauty of ecological surprises but a renewed realization of kinship in a world ever changing. Reminiscent of the work of Terry Tempest Williams and John McPhee, Walking the Llano is both a celebration of an oft-overlooked region and a soaring testimony to the power of the landscape to draw us into greater understanding of ourselves and others by experiencing a deeper connection with the places we inhabit. Shelley Armitage is Professor Emerita of English and American Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her numerous publications include Bones Incandescent: The Pajarito Journals of Peggy Pond Church and John Held, Jr.: Illustrator of the Jazz Age.

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ARMITAGE WALKING THE LLANO

A lyrical ecomemoir set in the Texas Panhandle


JIA PINGWA RUINED CITY

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A masterpiece of Chinese satire, presented in English for the first time

Ruined City A Novel By Jia Pingwa Translated by Howard Goldblatt When originally published in 1993, Ruined City (Fei Du) was promptly banned by China’s State Publishing Administration, ostensibly for its explicit sexual content. Since then, award-winning author Jia Pingwa’s vivid portrayal of contemporary China’s social and economic transformation has become a classic, viewed by critics and scholars of Chinese literature as one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Howard Goldblatt’s deft translation now gives English-speaking readers their first chance to enjoy this masterpiece of social satire by one of China’s most provocative writers.

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While eroticism, exoticism, and esoteric minutiae—the “pornography” that earned the opprobrium of Chinese officials—pervade Ruined City, this tale of a famous contemporary writer’s sexual and legal imbroglios is an incisive portrait of politics and culture in a rapidly changing China. In a narrative that ranges from political allegory to parody, Jia Pingwa tracks his antihero Zhuang Zhidie through progressively more involved and inevitably disappointing sexual liaisons. Set in a modern metropolis rife with power politics, corruption, and capitalist schemes, the novel evokes an unrequited romantic longing for China’s premodern, rural past, even as unfolding events caution against the trap of nostalgia. Amid comedy and chaos, the author subtly injects his concerns about the place of intellectual seriousness, censorship, and artistic integrity in the changing conditions of Chinese society. Rich with detailed description and vivid imagery, Ruined City transports readers into a world abounding with the absurdities and harshness of modern life.

SANDALWOOD DEATH A Novel By Mo Yan $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4339-2 CHUTZPAH! New Voices from China Edited by Ou Ning and Austin Woerner $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4870-0 RHAPSODY IN BLACK Poems By Jidi Majia $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4449-8

Jia Pingwa is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. His novels include Shang State, White Night, I Am a Farmer, and Shaanxi Opera, which won the Mao Dun Literature Prize. Howard Goldblatt is an award-winning translator of numerous works of contemporary Chinese literature, including seven novels by Mo Yan, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.


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Touring the West with Leaping Lena, 1925 By W. C. Clark Edited by David Dary Driving across the country in the early twentieth century was high adventure. In 1925 Willie Chester Clark and his family piled into a modified Chevrolet touring car, affectionately named Leaping Lena, and took off for the West. Clark’s account of the journey will acquaint readers with cross-country travel at a time when Americans were just inventing the road trip. Editor David Dary discovered a copy of Clark’s account among his grandfather’s personal papers. Dary introduces the tale of how Leaping Lena clocked some 12,000 miles in five months, starting from West Virginia and traveling to the Northwest, down the Pacific Coast to Southern California, through the Desert Southwest, and back home via the Southern Plains. Among the highlights of the trip were visits to Yellowstone, Yosemite, Mount Rainier, and Crater Lake. Writing while sitting on a camp stool, his typewriter resting on the car’s front bumper, W. C. Clark turned out lively descriptions of the family’s experiences with all the wit and panache of his later journalism career. Clark details road conditions, the quality of accommodations, the cost of gas and food, user fees at national parks, and the number and variety of fellow tourists his party encountered. He also describes the pitfalls of life on the road. Flat tires were a daily occurrence, mechanical breakdowns almost as frequent, and the crude, mostly unpaved roads were named but not yet numbered, and only intermittently marked. And if the Clarks were not lucky enough to stay with friends, they had to camp. Framed by an introduction and annotations that set the story in context, and illustrated with photographs of gas stations, roadside attractions, and roadsters typical of the day, Touring the West with Leping Lena gives a firsthand glimpse into the early days of cross-country automobile trips. Readers will enjoy its historical detail even as they realize that when it comes to family road trips, some things haven’t changed. David Dary is Professor Emeritus and former head of what is now the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of more than 20 books, including Red Blood and Black Ink; The Oregon Trail: An American Saga; and Stories of Old-Time Oklahoma.

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CLARK, DARY TOURING THE WEST WITH LEAPING LENA, 1925

A firsthand glimpse of cross-country automobile trips long before interstate highways


STEWART, FIELDS PICHER, OKLAHOMA

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A haunting photographic record of a former boomtown and the lives it contained

Picher, Oklahoma Catastrophe, Memory, and Trauma Photography by Todd Stewart Essay by Alison Fields

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PLACING MEMORY A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment By Todd Stewart and Karen J. Leong $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3951-7 GHOST TOWNS OF OKLAHOMA By John W. Morris $21.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1420-0 MAIN STREET OKLAHOMA Stories of Twentieth-Century America Edited by Linda W. Reese and Patricia Loughlin $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4401-6

On May 10, 2008, a tornado struck the northeastern Oklahoma town of Picher, destroying more than one hundred homes and killing six people. It was the final blow to a onetime boomtown already staggering under the weight of its history. The lead and zinc mining that had given birth to the town had also proven its undoing, earning Picher in 2006 the distinction of being the nation’s most toxic Superfund site. Recounting the town’s dissolution and documenting its remaining traces, Picher, Oklahoma tells the story of an unfolding ghost town. With shades of Picher’s past lives lingering at every intersection, memories of its proud history and sad decline inhere in the relics, artifacts, personal treasures, and broken structures abandoned in disaster’s wake. In Todd Stewart’s haunting photographs, faded snapshots and letters, well-worn garments, and books and toys give harrowing and elegiac testimony of constancy and dislocation. Empty buildings and bared foundations stand in silent witness to the homes, schools, churches, and businesses that once defined life in Picher. As these photographs and Alison Fields’s accompanying essays explore the otherworldly town teetering over massive sinkholes, they reveal how memory, embedded in everyday objects, can be dislocated and reframed through both chronic and acute instances of environmental trauma. Though hardly known outside the Three Corners Region of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri, the fate of Picher echoes well beyond its borders. Picher, Oklahoma reflects the broader intersections of memory, time, material objects, and changing environments, demanding our attention even as it resists easy interpretation. Todd Stewart is Art, Technology, and Culture Associate Professor, School of Art and Art History, University of Oklahoma. He is author-photographer of Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment, and his work has been shown nationally in more than twenty exhibitions. Alison Fields is the Mary Lou Milner Carver Professor of Art of the American West and Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Oklahoma.


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Branding the American West Paintings and Films, 1900–1950 Edited by Marian Wardle and Sarah E. Boehme With contributions by Jimmy L. Bryan, Jr., LeAnne Howe, Elizabeth Hutchinson, John Ott, Dean Rader, Susan S. Rugh, and Ann Hartvigsen Artists and filmmakers in the early twentieth century reshaped our vision of the American West. In particular, the Taos Society of Artists and the California-based artist Maynard Dixon departed from the legendary depiction of the “Wild West” and fostered new images, or brands, for western art. This volume, illustrated with more than 150 images, examines select paintings and films to demonstrate how these artists both enhanced and contradicted earlier representations of the West. Prior to this period, American art tended to portray the West as a wild frontier with untamed lands and peoples. Renowned artists such as Henry Farny and Frederic Remington set their work in the past, invoking an environment immersed in conflict and violence. This trademark perspective began to change, however, when artists enamored with the Southwest stamped a new imprint on their paintings. The contributors to this volume illuminate the complex ways in which earlytwentieth-century artists, as well as filmmakers, evoked a southwestern environment not just suspended in time but also permanent rather than transient. Yet, as the authors also reveal, these artists were not entirely immune to the siren call of the vanishing West, and their portrayal of peaceful yet “exotic” Native Americans was an expansion rather than a dismissal of earlier tropes. Both brands cast a romantic spell on the West, and both have been seared into public consciousness. Branding the American West is published in association with the Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, Utah, and the Stark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas. Marian Wardle, Curator of American Art at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art, is editor and co-author of The Weir Family, 1820–1920: Expanding the Traditions of American Art and American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910–1945, and author of Minerva Teichert: Pageants in Paint. Sarah E. Boehme is Curator at the Stark Museum of Art and author of contributions to Shaping the West: American Sculptors in the 19th Century; In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein; and Forging an American Identity: The Art of William Ranney.

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WARDLE, BOEHME BRANDING THE AMERICAN WEST

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a comprehensive presentation of the artist’s extant work One of America’s most popular and influential American artists, Frederic Remington (1861–1909) is renowned for his depictions of the Old West. Through paintings, drawings, and sculptures, he immortalized a dynamic world of cowboys and American Indians, hunters and horses, landscapes and wildlife. Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonné II is a comprehensive presentation of the artist’s body of flat work, both in print and on this book’s companion website. Beautifully illustrated with more than 150 figures and 100 color plates, this book offers insightful essays by notable art historians who explore Remington’s experiences in Taos, New Mexico, and other parts of the West. The chapters include analyses of Remington’s artistic development from an illustrator to a fine art painter, his search for and understanding of “men with the bark on,” his relationship with the famed illustrator Howard Pyle, and the shared imagery of Remington and “Buffalo Bill” Cody. A chapter considering Remington’s enduring bond with the horse and its representation in his paintings follows an examination of Remington’s ties to Theodore Roosevelt that reveals how the two men helped move the American

conscience toward wildlife preservation. An assessment of the authentication process for evaluating Remington’s works opens the collection: Remington is perhaps the most frequently faked American artist. The book features a unique keycode granting access to a companion website that brings together more than 3,000 reproductions of the artist’s flat works, including the complete original 1996 edition of the Catalogue Raisonné and nearly 300 previously unknown or relocated pieces. Each entry includes the title, date, medium, size, inscriptions, provenance, and exhibition and publication history of the work, as well as select commentary. The online catalogue is fully searchable and will be continuously updated as new information becomes available. Based on decades of scholarship and research, the revised Remington Catalogue Raisonné is an essential resource for scholars, collectors, museum curators, historians of the American West, and anyone seeking definitive information on the art of Frederic Remington.

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Peter H. Hassrick is Director Emeritus and Senior Scholar at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. He is the author or coauthor of numerous publications, including Painted Journeys: The Art of John Mix Stanley and In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein. Bruce B. Eldredge is Executive Director and CEO of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonné II is published in cooperation with the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming.

IMAGE CREDITS: (FACING) FREDERIC REMINGTON, THE PUNCHER (DETAIL), 1895, COURTESY SID RICHARDSON MUSEUM, FORT WORTH, TEXAS (SWR 32); (RIGHT) UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER, FREDERIC REMINGTON ON HORSE (DETAIL), C. 1890, COURTESY FREDERIC REMINGTON ART MUSEUM, OGDENSBURG, NEW YORK (1918.76.160.344)

CHARLES M. RUSSELL A Catalogue Raisonné Edited by B. Byron Price $125.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3836-7 THE MASTERWORKS OF CHARLES M. RUSSELL A Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture Edited by Joan Carpenter Troccoli $39.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4097-1 SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY The Art of Alfred Jacob Miller By Lisa Strong $45.00s Cloth 978-0-88360-105-1


SMITH A PLACE IN THE SUN

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An unprecedented exploration of two German American artists and their artistic legacy

A Place in the Sun The Southwest Paintings of Walter Ufer and E. Martin Hennings Edited by Thomas Brent Smith Foreword by Christoph Heinrich With Contributions by Susanne Boeller, Peter H. Hassrick, Karen Brooks McWhorter, James C. Moore, Dean A. Porter, Thomas Brent Smith, and Catherine Whitney

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IN CONTEMPORARY RHYTHM The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein By Peter H. Hassrick and Elizabeth J. Cunningham $34.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3948-7 PAINTED JOURNEYS The Art of John Mix Stanley By Peter H. Hassrick $54.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4829-8 $34.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5155-7 A PLACE OF REFUGE Maynard Dixon’s Arizona By Thomas Brent Smith $49.95s Cloth 978-0-911611-36-6

Of the hundreds of foreign students who attended the Munich Art Academy between 1910 and 1915, Walter Ufer (1876–1936) and E. Martin Hennings (1886–1956) returned to the United States to foster the development of a national art. They ultimately established their reputations in the American Southwest. The two German American artists shared much in common, and both would gain membership in the celebrated Taos Society of Artists. Featuring nearly 150 color plates and historical photographs, A Place in the Sun is a long-overdue tribute to the lives, achievements, and artistic legacy of these two important artists. In tracing the lifelong friendship and intersecting careers of Ufer and Hennings, the contributors to this volume explore the social and artistic implications of the artists’ German heritage and training. Following their training in Munich, both men hoped to build careers in the spirited art environment of Chicago. Both were sponsored by wealthy businessmen, many of German descent. The support of these patrons allowed Ufer and Hennings to travel to the American Southwest, where they—like so many other talented artists—fell under the spell of Taos and its picturesque scenery. They also encountered the region’s Native peoples and Hispanic culture that inspired many of their paintings. Despite their mutual interests, Ufer and Hennings were not identical by any means. Each artist had a distinct artistic style and, as the essays in this volume reveal, the two men could not have had more different personalities or career trajectories. Connoisseurs of southwestern art have long admired the masterworks of Ufer and Hennings. By offering a rich sampling of their paintings alongside informative essays by noted art historians, A Place in the Sun ensures that their significant contributions to American art will be long remembered. A Place in the Sun is published in cooperation with the Denver Art Museum. Thomas Brent Smith, Curator of Western American Art and Director of the Petrie Institute of Western American Art at the Denver Art Museum, is author of A Place of Refuge: Maynard Dixon’s Arizona. Christoph Heinrich is the Frederick and Jan Mayer Director of the Denver Art Museum and author of Nature As Muse: Inventing Impressionist Landscape.


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Narrating the Landscape Print Culture and American Expansion in the Nineteenth Century By Matthew N. Johnston The American nineteenth century saw a largely rural nation confined to the Eastern Seaboard conquer a continent and spawn increasingly dense commercial metropolises. This time of unprecedented territorial and economic growth has long been thought to find its most sweeping visual equivalent in the period’s landscape paintings. But, as Matthew N. Johnston shows, the age’s defining features were just as clearly captured in, and motivated by, visual material mass-produced through innovations in printing technology. Illustrated railroad and steamboat guidebooks, tourist literature, reports of geological surveys, ethnographic studies: all of these new print vehicles brought new meanings to the interplay of time, space, and place as American continental expansion peaked.

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Instrumental to that project of national and industrial growth, these commercial and scientific publications introduced readers, travelers, and citizens to a changing North American landscape made more accessible by new travel routes blazed between 1825 and 1875. More fundamentally, as Johnston shows in his nuanced analysis, by simulating new temporal frameworks through their presentation of landscape, these print materials established new models of consumption and new kinds of knowledge critical to expansion.

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Johnston relates these sources to traditional art historical subjects—the landscapes of the Hudson River school, luminist paintings by John Kensett and William Trost Richards, Native portraits painted by George Catlin, and photographs by Timothy O’Sullivan—to show how key discourses associated with expansion shifted away from picturesque strategies pairing imagery and narrative toward entirely new forms that gave temporal structure to viewers’ experience of an emerging modernity.

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Revealing the crucial role of print and visual culture in shaping the nineteenthcentury United States, Narrating the Landscape offers fresh insight into the landscapes Americans beheld and imagined in this formative era. Matthew N. Johnston is Associate Professor of Art History at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

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JOHNSTON NARRATING THE NATION

How illustrated books shaped early U.S. territorial and economic growth


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PIERCE, WILSON FRICK COMPANION TO GLITTERATI

An outstanding example of painting, decorative arts, silver and goldwork, and jewelry from across Latin America

Companion to Glitterati Portraits and Jewelry from Colonial Latin America at the Denver Art Museum By Donna Pierce and Julie Wilson Frick During the Spanish Colonial period in Latin America (1521–1850), precious gold and silver were crafted into elegant jewelry, then embellished with emeralds from Colombia, coral from Mexico, and pearls from Venezuela. To demonstrate their wealth and status, people were painted wearing their finest dress and elaborate jewelry. Selecting from its permanent collection, the Denver Art Museum installed the long-running exhibition Glitterati: Portraits and Jewelry in Colonial Latin America in its Spanish Colonial galleries in December 2014. This lavishly illustrated publication serves as a companion to the Glitterati exhibition and, on a larger scale, to the collection of Spanish Colonial jewelry and portraiture at the museum. DISTRIBUTED FOR DENVER ART MUSEUM

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The Spanish Colonial collection at the Denver Art Museum is the most comprehensive of its kind in the United States and one of the best in the world with outstanding examples of painting, sculpture, furniture, decorative arts, silver and goldwork, and jewelry from all over Latin America during the time of the Spanish colonies. The Stapleton Foundation of Latin American Colonial Art, made possible by the Renchard family, gifted art acquired by the intrepid Daniel C. Stapleton between 1895 and 1914, when he worked in Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela overseeing plantations and emerald mines. Frederick and Jan Mayer worked closely with museum curators to build a collection of Mexican colonial art rich in many subjects and media, notably portrait paintings. Examples from both of these major collections are augmented by other pieces of jewelry and portraiture from the museum’s permanent collection in the Glitterati exhibition and in this volume. Dr. Donna Pierce is Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator of Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum and Head of the New World Department. Julie Wilson Frick is the Mayer Center Program Coordinator and Junior Scholar in the New World Department at the Denver Art Museum.


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Photographing Custer’s Battlefield The Images of Kenneth F. Roahen By Sandy Barnard In the 140 years since the defeat of George Armstrong Custer and his troops at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, scholars and other visitors have combed the site of today’s Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument for evidence that might clarify the controversial events of June 1876. In Photographing Custer’s Battlefield, Sandy Barnard, an expert on Custer and the Little Big Horn, presents the work of the site’s most dedicated photographer, U.S. Fish and Game agent Kenneth F. Roahen (1888–1976), revealing further mysteries of the battlefield and showing how it has changed. Barnard opens by introducing readers to Roahen, who spent the last phase of his career and his retirement years in Montana, where he made it his personal mission from the 1930s to the 1970s to photograph what was then called Custer Battlefield. Among Roahen’s most useful images are his photographs of the Crow’s Nest, the Morass, and Girard’s Knoll—places whose precise locations have long been debated. He also made a series of pioneering aerial photographs of the Little Big Horn and its surrounding landscape. When paired with Barnard’s modern-day photographs, maps, and thorough analysis, Roahen’s images provide valuable information for visitors to the monument as well as for historians, biologists, engineers, and other government employees who interpret, preserve, and protect the battlefield and its surrounding terrain. In addition to showing sites associated with the fighting, Roahen’s photographs depict mid-twentieth-century roadwork, archaeological surveys and restorations, and construction of the visitor center, park housing, and maintenance facilities. Barnard’s matching photographs, taken in 2012 and 2013, help to identify additional subtle but significant landscape modifications. The numerous debates surrounding the Battle of the Little Big Horn have made onthe-ground evidence especially important. Roahen’s photographic legacy, explored here in more than 300 historic and contemporary images, offers fresh insight into the battlefield’s ever-changing landscape, helping visitors old and new to better understand the history beneath their feet. Sandy Barnard, a retired journalism professor at Indiana State University, is author or coauthor of numerous books on the Battle of Little Big Horn, including Where Custer Fell: Photographs of the Little Bighorn Battlefield Then and Now.

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BARNARD PHOTOGRAPHING CUSTER’S BATTLEFIELD

The Little Big Horn battlefield in mid-century and modern-day photos


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Three attempts to reach the North Pole—and why they failed

The Greatest Show in the Arctic The American Exploration of Franz Josef Land, 1898–1905 By P. J. Capelotti In Gilded Age America, Arctic explorers were fabulous celebrities—assured of riches and near-immortality so long as they reached the North Pole first. Of the many attempts to meet that goal, three American expeditions, launched from the Russian archipelago of Franz Josef Land, ended in abject failure, their exploits consigned to near-oblivion. Even so, these ventures—the Wellman expedition (1898–99), the Baldwin-Ziegler (1901–2), and the Fiala-Ziegler (1903–5)—have much to tell us about the personalities, politics, and economics of exploration in their day. In The Greatest Show in the Arctic, the first book to chronicle all three expeditions, P. J. Capelotti explores what went right and what, in the end, went tragically wrong. VOLUME 82 IN THE AMERICAN EXPLORATION AND TRAVEL SERIES

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The cast of colorful characters from the Franz Josef Land forays included Walter Wellman, a Chicago journalist and bon vivant running from debts, his mistress, and an illegitimate daughter; Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, a deranged meteorologist with a fetish for balloons and a passion for Swedish conserves; and Anthony Fiala, a pious photographer in search of God in the Arctic. Featuring an international cast of supporting characters worthy of a three-ring circus, The Greatest Show in the Arctic follows each of the three expeditions in turn, from spectacular feats of financing to their bitter ends. Along the way, the explorers accumulated considerable geographic knowledge and left a legacy of place-names. Through close study of the expeditions’ journals, Capelotti reveals that the Franz Josef Land endeavors foundered chiefly because of poor leadership and internal friction, not for lack of funding, as historians have previously suspected. Presenting tales of noble intentions, novel inventions, and epic miscalculations, The Greatest Show in the Arctic brings fresh life to a unique and underappreciated story of American exploration. P. J. Capelotti, Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University, is author or editor of numerous books on history and archaeology, including Shipwreck at Cape Flora: The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England’s Forgotten Arctic Explorer and Life and Death on the Greenland Patrol, 1942.


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The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858–1861 By Glen Sample Ely This is the story of Texas’s antebellum frontier, from the Red River to El Paso, a raw and primitive country punctuated by chaos, lawlessness, and violence. During this time, the federal government and the State of Texas often worked at cross purposes, their confused and contradictory policies leaving settlers on their own to deal with vigilantes, lynchings, raiding Native Americans, and Anglo-American outlaws. Before the Civil War, the Texas frontier was a sectional transition zone, where southern ideology clashed with western perspectives, and where diverse cultures with differing worldviews collided. This is also the tale of the Butterfield Overland Mail, which carried passengers and mail west from St. Louis to San Francisco through Texas. While it operated, the transcontinental mail line intersected and influenced much of Texas’s frontier history. Through meticulous research, including visits to all the sites he describes, Glen Sample Ely uncovers the fascinating story of the Butterfield Overland Mail in Texas. Until the U.S. Army and Butterfield built West Texas’s infrastructure, the region’s primitive transportation network hampered its development. As Ely shows, the Butterfield Overland Mail Company and the army jump-started growth, serving together as both the economic engine and the advance agent for European American settlement. Used by soldiers, emigrants, freighters, and stagecoaches, the Overland Mail Road was the nineteenth-century equivalent of the modern interstate highway system, stimulating passenger traffic, commercial freighting, and business. Although most of the action takes place within the Lone Star State, this is in many respects an American tale. The same concerns that challenged frontier residents confronted citizens across the country. Written in an engaging style that transports readers to the rowdy frontier and the bustle of the overland road, The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail offers a rare view of Texas’s antebellum past. Glen Sample Ely is a Texas historian and documentary producer. Ely earned his Ph.D. from Texas Christian University and is the author of Where the West Begins: Debating Texas Identity.

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A TEXAS FRONTIER The Clear Fork Country and Fort Griffin, 1849–1887 By Ty Cashion $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-2791-0 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2855-9 ASSAULT ON THE DEADWOOD STAGE Road Agents and Shotgun Messengers By Robert K. DeArment $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4182-4 THE OVERLAND MAIL 1849–1869 By LeRoy R. Hafen $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3600-4

ELY THE TEXAS FRONTIER AND THE BUTTERFIELD OVERLAND MAIL, 1858–1861

Offers a compelling journey across Texas’s antebellum frontier


GEARY SEA OF SAND

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The definitive history of an incomparable landscape

Sea of Sand A History of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve By Michael M. Geary Sculpted into graceful contours by countless centuries of wind and water, the Great Sand Dunes sprawl along the eastern fringes of the vast San Luis Valley of southcentral Colorado. Covering an area of nearly thirty square miles, they are the tallest aeolian, or wind-produced, dunes in North America, towering 750 feet above the valley floor. With the addition of the enormous Baca Ranch and other adjacent lands, the dunes—originally designated as a National Monument in 1932—attained official National Park status in 2004. In Sea of Sand, Michael M. Geary guides readers on a historical journey through this unique ecosystem, which includes an array of natural and cultural wonders, from the main dunefield and verdant wetlands to the summits of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. VOLUME 2 IN THE PUBLIC LANDS HISTORY SERIES

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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 THE NATURAL WEST Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains By Dan Flores $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3304-1 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3537-3 RAINBOW BRIDGE TO MONUMENT VALLEY Making the Modern Old West By Thomas J. Harvey $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4190-9 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4321-7

Described by explorer Zebulon Pike as “a sea in a storm” and by frontier photographer William Henry Jackson as “a curious and very singular phase of nature’s freak,” the Great Sand Dunes are a nexus of more than 10,000 years of human history, from Paleolithic big-game hunters to nomadic Native Americans, from Spanish conquistadores and transcontinental explorers to hard-rock miners and modern-day tourists in motor homes. Like these successive waves of visitors, Sea of Sand follows the water, analyzing its critical role in the settlement and development of the region. Geary also describes the profound impact that waves of human use and settlement have had on the land—which ultimately inspired the early grassroots efforts by San Luis Valley citizens to protect the dunes from further exploitation. He examines as well the more recent legislative effort led by an unprecedented coalition of local, state, and federal agencies and organizations, including The Nature Conservancy and the National Park Service, to secure the Great Sand Dunes’ national park designation. Amply illustrated, Sea of Sand is the definitive history of the natural, cultural, and political forces that helped shape this incomparable landscape. Michael M. Geary, author of A Quick History of Grand Lake, is currently a writer, researcher, and historian. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.


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Bitter Waters The Struggles of the Pecos River By Patrick Dearen Rising at 11,750 feet in the Sangre de Cristo range and snaking 926 miles through New Mexico and Texas to the Rio Grande, the Pecos River is one of the most storied waterways in the American West. It is also one of the most troubled. In 1942, the National Resources Planning Board observed that the Pecos River basin “probably presents a greater aggregation of problems associated with land and water use than any other irrigated basin in the Western U.S.” In the twenty-first century, the river’s problems have only multiplied. Bitter Waters, the first booklength study of the entire Pecos, traces the river’s environmental history from the arrival of the first Europeans in the sixteenth century to today. Running clear at its source and turning salty in its middle reach, the Pecos River has served as both a magnet of veneration and an object of scorn. Patrick Dearen, who has written about the Pecos since the 1980s, draws on more than 150 interviews and a wealth of primary sources to trace the river’s natural evolution and man’s interaction with it. Irrigation projects, dams, invasive saltcedar, forest proliferation, fires, floods, flow decline, usage conflicts, water quality deterioration—Dearen offers a thorough and clearly written account of what each factor has meant to the river and its prospects. As fine-grained in detail as it is sweeping in breadth, the picture Bitter Waters presents is sobering but not without hope, as it also extends to potential solutions to the Pecos River’s problems and the current efforts to undo decades of damage. Combining the research skills of an accomplished historian, the investigative techniques of a veteran journalist, and the engaging style of an award-winning novelist, this powerful and accessible work of environmental history may well mark a turning point in the Pecos’s fortunes. Patrick Dearen, winner of the Spur Award, is an authority on the Pecos and Devils Rivers and the author of ten nonfiction books and twelve novels, including The Big Drift, The Illegal Man, To Hell or the Pecos, and Crossing Rio Pecos.

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DEAREN BITTER WATERS

An environmental history that marks a turning point in the Pecos River’s fortunes


HOWKINS, ORSI, FIEGE, NATIONAL PARKS BEYOND THE NATION

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A panoptic view of the similarities and differences between national parks worldwide

National Parks beyond the Nation Global Perspectives on “America’s Best Idea” Edited by Adrian Howkins, Jared Orsi, and Mark Fiege “The idea of a national park was an American invention of historic consequences marking the beginning of a worldwide movement,” the U.S. National Park Service asserts in its 2006 Management Policies. National Parks beyond the Nation brings together the work of fifteen scholars and writers to reveal the tremendous diversity of the global national park experience—an experience sometimes influencing, sometimes influenced by, and sometimes with no reference whatever to the United States.

VOLUME 1 IN THE PUBLIC LANDS HISTORY SERIES

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CREATING THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE The Missing Years By Horace M. Albright and Marian Albright Schenck $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3155-9 THE YELLOWSTONE WOLF A Guide and Sourcebook Edited by Paul Schullery $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3492-5 RESTORING A PRESENCE American Indians and Yellowstone National Park By Peter Nabokov and Lawrence Loendorf $29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5346-9

Writer and historian Wallace Stegner once called national parks “America’s best idea.” The contributors to this volume use that exceptionalist claim as a starting point for thinking about an international history of national parks. They explore the historical interactions and influences—intellectual, political, and material— within and between national park systems in Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Indonesia, Antarctica, Brazil, and other countries. What is the role of science in the history of these preserves? Of politics? What purposes do they serve: Conservation? Education? Reverence toward nature? Tourist pleasure? People have thought differently about national parks at different times and in different places; and neat physical boundaries have been disrupted by wandering animals, human movements, the spread of disease, and climate change. Viewing parks around the world, at various scales and across national frontiers, these essays offer a panoptic view of the common and contrasting cultural and environmental features of national parks worldwide. If national parks are, as Stegner said, “absolutely American,” they are no less part of the world at large. National Parks beyond the Nation tells us as much about the multifarious and changing ideas of nature and culture as about the framing of those ideas in geographic, temporal, and national terms. Adrian Howkins is Associate Professor of History at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, and author of The Polar Regions: An Environmental History. Jared Orsi is Professor of History at Colorado State University and author of Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles and Citizen Explorer: The Life of Zebulon Pike. Mark Fiege is Professor of History at Colorado State University and author of Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West and The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States. All three are council members of the Public Lands History Center.


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Contesting the Borderlands Interviews on the Early Southwest By Deborah Lawrence and Jon Lawrence Conflict and cooperation have shaped the American Southwest since prehistoric times. For centuries indigenous groups and, later, Spaniards, French, and AngloAmericans met, fought, and collaborated with one another in this border area stretching from Texas through southern California. To explore the region’s complex past from prehistory to the U.S. takeover, this book uses an unusual multidisciplinary approach. In interviews with ten experts, Deborah and Jon Lawrence discuss subjects ranging from warfare among the earliest ancestral Puebloans to intermarriage and peonage among Spanish settlers and the Indians they encountered. The scholars interviewed form a distinguished array of archaeologists, anthropologists, ethnohistorians, and historians: Juliana Barr, Brian DeLay, Richard and Shirley Flint, John Kessell, Steven LeBlanc, Mark Santiago, Polly Schaafsma, David J. Weber, and Michael Wilcox. All speak forthrightly about complex and controversial issues, and they do so with minimal academic jargon and temporizing, bringing the most reliable information to bear on every subject they discuss. Themes the authors address include the origin and scope of conflicts between ethnic groups and the extent of accommodation, cooperation, and cross-cultural adaptation that also ensued. Seven interviews explore how Indians forced colonizers to modify their behavior. All of the experts explain how they deal with incomplete or biased sources to achieve balanced interpretations. As the authors point out, no single discipline provides a complete, accurate historical picture. Spanish documents must be sifted for political and ideological distortion, the archaeological record is incomplete, and oral traditions erode and become corrupted over time. By assembling the most articulate practitioners of all three approaches, the authors have produced a book that will speak to general readers as well as scholars and students in a variety of fields. Deborah Lawrence is an emeritus faculty member in the English Department, California State University, Fullerton, and author of Writing the Trail: Five Women’s Frontier Narratives. Jon Lawrence is retired as Professor of Physics at the University of California, Irvine. The Lawrences coedit Desert Tracks, the quarterly of the Southern Trails chapter of the Oregon-California Trail Association, and are coauthors of Violent Encounters: Interviews on Western Massacres.

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LAWRENCE, LAWRENCE CONTESTING THE BORDERLANDS

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LOWITT TWENTIETH-CENTURY OKLAHOMA

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Essays on post–World War II politics, environment, civil rights, and much more

Twentieth-Century Oklahoma Reflections on the Forty-Sixth State By Richard Lowitt Few writers have written as thoughtfully and extensively on Oklahoma politics and culture as Richard Lowitt. His work of the past six decades moves with ease among historical topics as various as agriculture, health, industry, labor, and the environment, offering an informed and enlightened perspective. Collected for the first time in one volume, Lowitt’s articles on post–World War II Oklahoma and notable Oklahomans reveal a remarkable range of the state’s political, environmental, agricultural, civil rights, and Native American history in the Cold War era.

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MAIN STREET OKLAHOMA Stories of Twentieth-Century America Edited by Linda W. Reese and Patricia Loughlin $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4401-6 AN OKLAHOMA I HAD NEVER SEEN BEFORE Alternative Views of Oklahoma History By Davis D. Joyce $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2945-7 ALTERNATIVE OKLAHOMA Contrarian Views of the Sooner State Edited by Davis D. Joyce $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3819-0

Nowhere else, for example, is the controversy stirred up by Congressman Mike Synar recounted so well, and Lowitt’s analysis of the decades-long battle over grazing rights on federal land clarifies the issues surrounding a topic still in the news today. Likewise, Lowitt’s analysis of Oklahoma’s farm crisis in the 1970s and ’80s extends far beyond the state’s borders, illuminating significant and subtle aspects of an artificially engineered agricultural disaster whose consequences are still felt. His probing of the “enigma of Mike Monroney,” U.S. senator from Oklahoma during the McCarthy period, yields valuable insights into the political nature of the politician, the state, and the times. Other articles span decades, from the development of the Grand River Dam Authority (1935–1964) to the damming of the Arkansas River to create Kaw Reservoir (1957–1976) and efforts to improve Indian health in Oklahoma (1954–1980). Whether discussing environmental and cultural ecology or plumbing the politics of Fort Sill’s entry into the missile age, Lowitt’s articles are broad in scope and unsparing in detail. All based on the author’s research in the Western History Collections at the University of Oklahoma, these essays form an invaluable historical repository, put into clarifying context by one of Oklahoma’s most respected historians. Richard Lowitt is retired as Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma and is the author of numerous books, including a three-volume biography of George W. Norris, American Outback: The Oklahoma Panhandle in the Twentieth Century, and The New Deal and the West.


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Epics of Empire and Frontier Alonso de Ercilla and Gaspar de Villagrá as Spanish Colonial Chroniclers By Celia López-Chávez First published in 1569, La Araucana, an epic poem written by the Spanish nobleman Alonso de Ercilla, valorizes the Spanish conquest of Chile in the sixteenth century. Nearly a half-century later in 1610, Gaspar de Villagrá, Mexican-born captain under Juan de Oñate in New Mexico, published Historia de la Nueva México, a historical epic about the Spanish subjugation of the indigenous peoples of New Mexico. In Epics of Empire and Frontier—a deft cultural, ethnohistorical reading of these two colonial epics, both of which loom large in the canon of Spanish literature—Celia LópezChávez reveals new ways of thinking about the themes of empire and frontier. Employing historical and literary analysis that goes from the global to the regional, and from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, López-Chávez considers Ercilla and Villagrá not only as writers but as citizens and subjects of the powerful Spanish empire. Although frontiers of conquest have always been central to the regional histories of the Americas, this is the first work to approach the subject through epic poetry and the main events in the poets’ lives. López-Chávez also investigates the geographical spaces and landmarks where the conquests of Chile and New Mexico took place, the natural landscape of each area as both the Spanish and the natives saw it, and the characteristics of the expedition in both regions, with special attention to the violence of the invasions. In her discussion of law, geography, and frontier, López-Chávez carries the poems’ firsthand testimony on the political, cultural, and social resistance of indigenous people into present-day debates about regional and national identity. An interdisciplinary, comparative postcolonial interpretation of the history found in two poetic narratives of conquest, Epics of Empire and Frontier brings fresh understanding to the role that poetry plays in regional and national memory and culture. Celia López-Chávez is Associate Professor in the Honors College at the University of New Mexico and author of Con la cruz y con el dinero: los jesuitas del San Juan colonial (With the Cross and Money: Jesuits in Colonial San Juan).

A BOOK IN THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN ARTS AND CULTURE INITIATIVE, SUPPORTED BY THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION

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LÓPEZ-CHÁVEZ EPICS OF EMPIRE AND FRONTIER

Conquest and resistance in Chile and New Mexico as conveyed by Spanish epic poetry


LENDER, STONE FATAL SUNDAY

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A new explanation of George Washington’s rise to preeminence

Fatal Sunday George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle By Mark Edward Lender and Garry Wheeler Stone Historians have long considered the Battle of Monmouth one of the most complicated engagements of the American Revolution. Fought on Sunday, June 28, 1778, Monmouth was critical to the success of the Revolution. It also marked a decisive turning point in the military career of George Washington. Without the victory at Monmouth Courthouse, Washington’s critics might well have marshaled the political strength to replace him as the American commander-in-chief. Authors Mark Edward Lender and Garry Wheeler Stone argue that in political terms, the Battle of Monmouth constituted a pivotal moment in the War for Independence.

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Viewing the political and military aspects of the campaign as inextricably entwined, this book offers a fresh perspective on Washington’s role in it. Drawing on a wide range of historical sources—many never before used, including archaeological evidence—Lender and Stone disentangle the true story of Monmouth and provide the most complete and accurate account of the battle, including both American and British perspectives. In the course of their account it becomes evident that criticism of Washington’s performance in command was considerably broader and deeper than previously acknowledged. In light of long-standing practical and ideological questions about his vision for the Continental Army and his ability to win the war, the outcome at Monmouth—a hard-fought tactical draw—was politically insufficient for Washington. Lender and Stone show how the general’s partisans, determined that the battle for public opinion would be won in his favor, engineered a propaganda victory for their chief that involved the spectacular court martial of Major General Charles Lee, the second-ranking officer of the Continental Army. Replete with poignant anecdotes, folkloric incidents, and stories of heroism and combat brutality; filled with behind-the-scenes action and intrigue; and teeming with characters from all walks of life, Fatal Sunday gives us the definitive view of the fateful Battle of Monmouth. Mark Edward Lender is Professor Emeritus of History at Kean University in Union, New Jersey, and the coauthor of A Respectable Army: The Military Origins of the Republic and Citizen Soldier: The Revolutionary War Journal of Joseph Bloomfield. Garry Wheeler Stone is retired as Regional Historian for the State Park Service and Historian for the Monmouth Battlefield State Park with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.


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The Man Who Captured Washington Major General Robert Ross and the War of 1812 By John McCavitt and Christopher T. George An Irish officer in the British Army, Major General Robert Ross (1766–1814) was a charismatic leader widely admired for his bravery in battle. Despite a military career that included distinguished service in Europe and North Africa, Ross is better known for his actions than his name: his 1814 campaign in the Chesapeake Bay resulted in the burning of the White House and Capitol and the unsuccessful assault on Baltimore, immortalized in “The Star Spangled Banner.” The Man Who Captured Washington is the first in-depth biography of this important but largely forgotten historical figure. Drawing from a broad range of sources, both British and American, military historians John McCavitt and Christopher T. George provide new insight into Ross’s career prior to his famous exploits at Washington, D.C. Educated in Dublin, Ross joined the British Army in 1789, earning steady promotion as he gained combat experience. The authors portray him as an ambitious but humane commanding officer who fought bravely against Napoleon’s forces on battlefields in Holland, southern Italy, Egypt, and the Iberian Peninsula. Following the end of the war in Europe, while still recovering from a near-fatal wound, Ross was designated to lead an “enterprise” to America, and in August 1814 he led a small army to victory in the Battle of Bladensburg. From there his forces moved to the city of Washington, where they burned public buildings. In detailing this campaign, McCavitt and George clear up a number of misconceptions, including the claim that the British burned the entire city of Washington. Finally, the authors shed new light on the long-debated circumstances surrounding Ross’s death on the eve of the Battle of North Point at Baltimore. Ross’s campaign on the shores of the Chesapeake lasted less than a month, but its military and political impact was enormous. Considered an officer and a gentleman by many on both sides of the Atlantic, the general who captured Washington would in time fade in public memory. Yet, as McCavitt and George show, Ross’s strategies and achievements during the final days of his career would shape American defense policy for decades to come. John McCavitt is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author of Sir Arthur Chichester: Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1605–1616 and The Flight of the Earls. Christopher T. George, an independent historian, is Vice President of the 1812 Consortium and founding editor of the Journal of the War of 1812. He is the author of Terror on the Chesapeake: The War of 1812 on the Bay.

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McCAVITT, GEORGE THE MAN WHO CAPTURED WASHINGTON

The first in-depth biography of this major military figure


LINDERMAN REDISCOVERING IRREGULAR WARFARE

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Traces twentieth-century doctrines of unconventional warfare to their roots

Rediscovering Irregular Warfare Colin Gubbins and the Origins of Britain’s Special Operations Executive By A. R. B. Linderman

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SPECIAL OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II British and American Irregular Warfare By Andrew L. Hargreaves $36.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4396-5 CARRYING THE WAR TO THE ENEMY American Operational Art to 1945 By Michael R. Matheny $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4324-8 CLASH OF ARMS How the Allies Won in Normandy By Russell A. Hart $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3605-9

Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE), which conducted sabotage campaigns and supported resistance movements in Axis-occupied Europe and in Asia, is often described as Winston Churchill’s brainchild. But as A. R. B. Linderman reveals in this engrossing history, the real genius behind Britain’s clandestine warriors was Colin Gubbins, a British officer who forged the SOE by drawing on lessons learned in irregular conflicts around the world. Following Gubbins through operations he studied and participated in, Linderman maps the evolution of the SOE from its origins to its doctrine to its becoming a critical institution. Part biography, part intellectual and organizational history, Rediscovering Irregular Warfare is the first book to explore the origins of a substantial force in the Allies’ victory in World War II. Although popular history holds that Britain entered World War II with no prior knowledge of or experience with underground warfare, Rediscovering Irregular Warfare tells us otherwise. Linderman finds ample precedent in the clearly documented work of Gubbins and his fellow clandestine organizers. He traces Gubbins’s career from 1914 through World War I and such irregular conflicts as the Allied intervention in Russia, the Irish Revolution, and conflicts in British India. To these firsthand experiences, Gubbins added the insights of colleagues who had served with him and in Iraq, as well as what he learned from the Second Anglo-Boer War, the Arab Revolt led byT. E. Lawrence, the German guerrilla war in East Africa, the revolt in Palestine between the world wars, the Spanish Civil War, and the Second Sino-Japanese War. The two booklets that Gubbins wrote based on his accumulated knowledge offered the first synthesis of British unconventional warfare doctrine: practical guides that emphasized the centrality of local populations; the collection, protection, and use of intelligence; the necessity of cooperating with conventional forces; and the use of speed, surprise, and escape in ambush operations. In 1940, when Gubbins joined the newly created SOE, the experience and know-how codified in his guides formed the basis of Britain’s approach to irregular warfare. The history of the SOE’s doctrinal origins is Colin Gubbins’s story. By telling that story, Rediscovering Irregular Warfare amplifies and clarifies our understanding of the Second World War—and of doctrines of unconventional warfare in the twentieth century. A. R. B. Linderman is a historian of modern Britain and the British Empire. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Texas A&M University.


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Titan British Power in the Age of Revolution and Napoleon By William R. Nester When the leaders of the French Revolution executed Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in 1793, they sent a chilling message to the hereditary ruling orders in Europe. Believing that monarchy anywhere presented a threat to democratic rule in France, the leaders of the revolution declared war on European aristocracies, including those of Great Britain. For more than twenty years thereafter, France and England waged a protracted war that ended in British victory. In Titan, William R. Nester offers a deeply informed and thoroughly fascinating narrative of how England accomplished this remarkable feat. Between 1789 and 1815, British leaders devised, funded, and led seven coalitions against the revolutionary and Napoleonic governments of France. In each enterprise, statesmen and generals searched for order amid a complex welter of bureaucratic, political, economic, psychological, technological, and international forces. Nester combines biographies of great men—the likes of William Pitt, Horatio Nelson, and Arthur Wellesley—with an explanation of the critical decisions they made in Britain’s struggle for power and his own keen analysis of the forces that operated beyond their control. Their efforts would eventually crush France and Napoleon and establish a system of European power relations that prevented a world war for nearly a century. The interplay of individuals and events, the importance of conjunctures and contingency, the significance of Britain’s island character and resources: all come into play in Nester’s exploration of the art of British military diplomacy. The result is a comprehensive and insightful account of the endeavors of statesmen and generals to master the art of power in a complex battle for empire. William Nester is the acclaimed author of more than thirty books on international relations, military history, and the nature of power, including The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France and the award-winning George Rogers Clark: “I Glory in War.”

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SICKNESS, SUFFERING, AND THE SWORD The British Regiment on Campaign, 1808–1815 By Andrew Bamford $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4343-9 THE WAR OF 1812 IN THE AGE OF NAPOLEON By Jeremy Black $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4078-0 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4458-0 ARCHITECTS OF EMPIRE The Duke of Wellington and His Brothers By John Severn $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3810-7

NESTER TITAN

How British statesmen and generals mastered the use of power in England’s battle for empire


DE LA TEJA LONE STAR UNIONISM, DISSENT, AND RESISTANCE

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The Civil War, and other wartime conflicts in Texas, from the other side’s perspective

Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance Other Sides of Civil War Texas Edited by Jesús F. de la Teja Most histories of Civil War Texas—some starring the fabled Hood’s Brigade, Terry’s Texas Rangers, or one or another military figure—depict the Lone Star State as having joined the Confederacy as a matter of course and as having later emerged from the war relatively unscathed. Yet as the contributors to this volume amply demonstrate, the often neglected stories of Texas Unionists and dissenters paint a far more complicated picture. Ranging in time from the late 1850s to the end of Reconstruction, Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance restores a missing layer of complexity to the history of Civil War Texas.

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DISCOVERING TEXAS HISTORY Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud, Light Townsend Cummins, and Cary D. Wintz $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4619-5 LOS ANGELES IN CIVIL WAR DAYS, 1860–1865 By John W. Robinson $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4312-5 AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN CONFRONT THE WEST, 1600–2000 Edited by Shirley Ann Wilson Moore and Quintard Taylor $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3979-1

The authors—all noted scholars of Texas and Civil War history—show that slaves, freedmen and freedwomen, Tejanos, German immigrants, and white women all took part in the struggle, even though some never found themselves on a battlefield. Their stories depict the Civil War as a conflict not only between North and South but also between neighbors, friends, and family members. By framing their stories in the analytical context of the “long Civil War,” Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance reveals how friends and neighbors became enemies and how the resulting violence, often at the hands of secessionists, crossed racial and ethnic lines. The chapters also show how ex-Confederates and their descendants, as well as former slaves, sought to give historical meaning to their experiences and find their place as citizens of the newly re-formed nation. Concluding with an account of the origins of Juneteenth—the nationally celebrated holiday marking June 19, 1865, when emancipation was announced in Texas— Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance challenges the collective historical memory of Civil War Texas and its place in both the Confederacy and the United States. It provides material for a fresh narrative, one including people on the margins of history and dispelling the myth of a monolithically Confederate Texas. Jesús F. de la Teja is Jerome H. and Catherine E. Supple Professor of Southwestern Studies, Regents’ Professor of History, and Director of the Center for the Study of the Southwest at Texas State University in San Marcos. Editor of numerous books, he is author of San Antonio de Béxar: A Community on New Spain’s Northern Frontier.


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MAXWELL THE CIVIL WAR YEARS IN UTAH

A provocative exploration of the Civil War period in Utah Territory

The Civil War Years in Utah The Kingdom of God and the Territory That Did Not Fight By John Gary Maxwell In 1832 Joseph Smith, Jr., the Mormons’ first prophet, foretold of a great war beginning in South Carolina. In the combatants’ mutual destruction, God’s purposes would be served, and Mormon men would rise to form a geographical, political, and theocratic “Kingdom of God” to encompass the earth. Three decades later, when Smith’s prophecy failed with the end of the American Civil War, the United States left torn but intact, the Mormons’ perspective on the conflict—and their inactivity in it—required palliative revision. In The Civil War Years in Utah, the first full account of the events that occurred in Utah Territory during that war, John Gary Maxwell contradicts the patriotic mythology of Mormon leaders’ version of this dark chapter in Utah history. While the Civil War spread death, tragedy, and sorrow across the continent, Utah Territory remained virtually untouched. Although the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—and its faithful—proudly praise the service of an 1862 Mormon cavalry company during the Civil War, Maxwell’s research exposes the relatively inconsequential contribution of these Nauvoo Legion soldiers. Active for a mere ninety days, they patrolled overland trails and telegraph lines. Furthermore, Maxwell finds indisputable evidence of Southern allegiance among Mormon leaders, despite their claim of staunch, long-standing loyalty to the Union. Men at the highest levels of Mormon hierarchy were in close personal contact with Confederate operatives. In seeking sovereignty, Maxwell contends, the Saints engaged in blatant and treasonous conflict with Union authorities, the California and Nevada Volunteers, and federal policies, repeatedly skirting open warfare with the U.S. government. Collective memory of this consequential period in American history, Maxwell argues, has been ill-served by a one-sided perspective. This engaging and longoverdue reappraisal finally fills in the gaps, telling the full story of the Civil War years in Utah Territory. John Gary Maxwell is author of Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake: George R. Maxwell, Civil War Hero and Federal Marshal among the Mormons and Robert Newton Baskin and the Making of Modern Utah.

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BLACKSHEAR FORT BASCOM

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The definitive history of this critical outpost in the American Southwest

Fort Bascom Soldiers, Comancheros, and Indians in the Canadian River Valley By James Bailey Blackshear Motorists traveling along State Highway 104 north of Tucumcari, New Mexico, may notice a sign indicating the location of Fort Bascom. The post itself is long gone, its adobe walls washed away. In 1863, the United States, fearing a second Confederate invasion of New Mexico Territory from Texas, built Fort Bascom. Until 1874, the troops stationed at this site on the Eroded Plains along the Canadian River defended Hispanic and Anglo-American settlements in eastern New Mexico and far western Texas against Comanches and other Southern Plains Indians.

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THE COMANCHERO FRONTIER A History of New Mexican–Plains Indian Relations By Charles L. Kenner $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2670-8 FORT BOWIE, ARIZONA Combat Post of the Southwest, 1858–1894 By Douglas C. McChristian $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3781-0 FORT LARAMIE Military Bastion of the High Plains By Douglas C. McChristian and Paul L. Hedren $45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-360-8

In Fort Bascom, James Bailey Blackshear presents the definitive history of this critical outpost in the American Southwest, along with a detailed view of army life on the late-nineteenth-century western frontier. Located in the middle of what General William T. Sherman called “an awful country,” Fort Bascom’s hardships went beyond the army’s efforts to control the Comanches and Kiowas. Blackshear shows the difficulties of maintaining a post in a harsh environment where scarce water and forage, long supply lines, poorly constructed facilities, and monotonous duty tested soldiers’ endurance. Fort Bascom also describes the social aspects of a frontier assignment and the impact of the Comanchero trade on military personnel and objectives, showing just how difficult it was for the army to subdue the Southern Plains Indians. Crucial to this enterprise were logistics, including procurement from civilian contractors of everything from beef to hay. Blackshear examines the strong links between New Mexican Comancheros and Comanches, detailing how the lure of illegal profits drew ex-military personnel into this black-market economy and revealing the influence of the Comanchero trade on Southwestern history. This first full account of the unique challenges soldiers faced on the Texas frontier during and after the Civil War restores Fort Bascom to its rightful place in the history of the U.S. military and of U.S.-Indian relations in the American Southwest. James Bailey Blackshear, Associate Faculty Professor of History at Collin College in Plano, Texas, is the author of Honor and Defiance: A History of the Las Vegas Land Grant in New Mexico.


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Somewhere Over There The Letters, Diary, and Artwork of a World War I Corporal By Francis H. Webster Edited by Darrek D. Orwig Decades before Americans became familiar with the term “embedded journalist,” a young cartoonist named Francis Webster embodied that role when he served as a volunteer infantryman during World War I. Using his skills as an illustrator, he documented firsthand the harsh realities of combat life and regularly submitted visual dispatches of his experiences back to an Iowa newspaper. The first published collection of Webster’s wartime chronicles, Somewhere Over There, presents a unique view of World War I through a rare compilation of letters, diary entries, cartoons, sketches, and watercolors. As editor Darrek D. Orwig explains in his introduction, Webster gained valuable trai ning as an illustrator when he worked for famed political cartoonist Jay “Ding” Darling during the early years of World War I. When the United States entered the conflict in 1917, Webster volunteered with the Iowa National Guard as it prepared for deployment on the western front. His regiment would be part of the Forty-Second Rainbow Division, one of the first American units to arrive in France. Webster’s accounts, rendered in words and pictures, capture the daily life of a citizen-soldier who trained in stateside camps, traversed the submarine-infested waters of the Atlantic Ocean, fought in muddy trenches, and recovered in hospitals from poisonous gas exposure. Webster suffered a mortal wound during the MeuseArgonne Offensive in 1918, when he placed a fellow soldier’s safety before his own. Webster’s illustrations for the Des Moines Capital helped readers of the time learn what American soldiers were experiencing “over there” by bringing news from the western front to the home front. For nearly ninety years following his death, Webster’s family treasured his collection of artwork and writings before donating it to the Iowa Gold Star Military Museum at Camp Dodge, where it resides today. This wartime assemblage is amplified by Orwig’s enlightening commentary based on extensive research that places Webster’s story within the wider narrative of American involvement in the “war to end all wars.” Darrek D. Orwig is the Executive Director of Main Street of Menomonie, Inc., a non-profit charitable organization based in Menomonie, Wisconsin. He is the author of Story City.

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WEBSTER, ORWIG SOMEWHERE OVER THERE

A rare compilation of wartime illustrations and writings


SIVILICH MUSKET BALL AND SMALL SHOT IDENTIFICATION

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The first-ever guide to identifying musket balls on the battlefield

Musket Ball and Small Shot Identification A Guide By Daniel M. Sivilich Foreword by David Gerald Orr Introduction by Douglas D. Scott Appendix by Henry M. Miller

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UNCOVERING HISTORY Archaeological Investigations at the Little Bighorn By Douglas D. Scott $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4350-7 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4662-1 ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIGHORN By Douglas D. Scott, Richard A. Fox, Jr., Melissa A. Connor, and Dick Harmon $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3292-1 CUSTER, CODY, AND GRAND DUKE ALEXIS Historical Archaeology of the Royal Buffalo Hunt By Douglas D. Scott, Peter Bleed, and Stephen Damm $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4347-7

In the past, an excavated musket ball might simply have been catalogued as either a “spherical lead bullet” or an “impacted bullet.” But each recovered ball, far from being a mere lump of lead, is a part of history and has a story to tell. With the help of new equipment and research techniques, and an increase in discoveries, these narratives can finally contribute exacting detail to the historical record. Battlefield archaeologist Daniel M. Sivilich provides readers with the tools and techniques to unlock the stories of small shot in this book, the first definitive guide to identifying musket balls, from the oldest formed to those fired in the early nineteenth century. Musket Ball and Small Shot Identification: A Guide traces the history of musket balls and small shot, and explores their uses as lethal projectiles and in nonlethal alterations. Sivilich asks—and answers—a variety of questions to demonstrate how a musket ball found in a military context can help to interpret the site: Was it fired? What did it hit? What type of gun is it associated with? Has it been chewed, and if so, by whom or what? Was it hammered into gaming pieces? By equipping historians and archaeologists with the information necessary for answering these questions, Sivilich’s accessible work opens new views into firing lines, casualty areas, and military camps. It dispels long-held misperceptions about lead shot having been bitten by humans, offers examples of shot altered to improve lethality, and discusses balls made of materials other than lead, such as pewter. Coupling detailed analysis with more than 300 color and black-and-white illustrations for comparison and identification, this guide will prove indispensable to historians, battlefield archeologists, and collectors. It is a critical resource for understanding the full story of firepower. Daniel M. Sivilich is a battlefield archaeologist with more than thirty years’ experience in the field. He has authored numerous scholarly and popular articles on Revolutionary War–era historical archaeology. Foreworder David Gerald Orr, retired as Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Temple University, is coeditor of Huts and History: The Historical Archaeology of Military Encampment during the American Civil War. Douglas D. Scott is author or coauthor of numerous publications, including Uncovering History: Archaeological Investigations at the Little Bighorn. Henry M. Miller, a historical archaeologist, serves as Director of Research and Maryland Heritage Scholar for Historic St. Mary’s City, Maryland.


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A Field of Their Own Women and American Indian History, 1830–1941 By John M. Rhea One hundred and forty years before Gerda Lerner established women’s history as a specialized field in 1972, a small group of women began to claim American Indian history as their own domain. A Field of Their Own examines nine key figures in American Indian scholarship to reveal how women came to be identified with Indian history and why they eventually claimed it as their own field. From Helen Hunt Jackson to Angie Debo, the magnitude of their research, the reach of their scholarship, the popularity of their publications, and their close identification with Indian scholarship makes their invisibility as pioneering founders of this specialized field all the more intriguing. Reclaiming this lost history, John M. Rhea looks at the cultural processes through which women were connected to Indian history and traces the genesis of their interest to the nineteenth-century push for women’s rights. In the early 1830s evangelical preachers and women’s rights proponents linked American Indians to white women’s religious and social interests. Later, pre-professional women ethnologists would claim Indians as a special political cause. Helen Hunt Jackson’s 1881 publication, A Century of Dishonor, and Alice Fletcher’s 1887 report, Indian Education and Civilization, foreshadowed the emerging history profession’s objective methodology and established a document-driven standard for later Indian histories. By the twentieth century, historians Emma Helen Blair, Louise Phelps Kellogg, and Annie Heloise Abel, in a bid to boost their professional status, established Indian history as a formal specialized field. However, enduring barriers continued to discourage American Indians from pursuing their own document-driven histories. Cultural and academic walls crumbled in 1919 when Cherokee scholar Rachel Caroline Eaton earned a Ph.D. in American history. Eaton and later indigenous historians Anna L. Lewis and Muriel H. Wright would each play a crucial role in shaping Angie Debo’s 1940 indictment of European American settler colonialism, And Still the Waters Run. Rhea’s wide-ranging approach goes beyond existing compensatory histories to illuminate the national consequences of women’s century-long hegemony over American Indian scholarship. In the process, his thoughtful study also chronicles indigenous women’s long and ultimately successful struggle to transform the way that historians portray American Indian peoples and their pasts. John M. Rhea holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Oklahoma, Norman. He is the editor of the Great Plains Journal.

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RHEA A FIELD OF THEIR OWN

Reveals how a small group of remarkable women created the specialized field of American Indian history


CARLSON IMAGINING SOVEREIGNTY

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Examines how varied discourses of sovereignty reflect diverse political contexts

Imagining Sovereignty Self-Determination in American Indian Law and Literature By David J. Carlson “Sovereignty” is perhaps the most ubiquitous term in American Indian writing today—but its meaning and function are anything but universally understood. This is as it should be, David J. Carlson suggests, for a concept frequently at the center of various—and often competing—claims to authority. In Imagining Sovereignty, Carlson explores sovereignty as a discursive middle ground between tribal communities and the United States as a settler-colonial power. His work reveals the complementary ways in which legal and literary texts have generated politically significant representations of the world, which in turn have produced particular effects on readers and advanced the cause of tribal self-determination. VOLUME 66 IN THE AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURE AND CRITICAL STUDIES SERIES

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Drawing on western legal historical sources and American Indian texts, Carlson traces a dual genealogy of sovereignty. Imagining Sovereignty identifies the concept as a marker, one that allows both the colonizing power of the United States and the resisting powers of various American Indian nations to organize themselves and their various claims to authority. In the process, sovereignty also functions as a point of exchange where these claims compete with and complicate one another. To this end, Carlson analyzes how several contemporary American Indian writers and critics have sought to fuse literary practices and legal structures into fully formed discourses of self-determination. After charting the development of the concept of sovereignty in natural law and its permutations in federal Indian policy, Carlson maps out the nature and function of sovereignty discourses in the work of contemporary Native scholars such as Russel Barsh, Gerald Taiaiake Alfred, D’Arcy McNickle, and Vine Deloria, and in the work of more expressly literary American Indian writers such as Craig Womack, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Gerald Vizenor, and Francisco Patencio. Often read in opposition, the writings of these indigenous authors emerge in Imagining Sovereignty as a coherent literary and political tradition—one whose varied discourse of sovereignty aptly reflects American Indian people’s diverse political contexts. David J. Carlson is Professor of English at California State University–San Bernardino and the author of Sovereign Selves: American Indian Autobiography and the Law.


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Serving the Nation Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 1800–1907 By Julie L. Reed Well before the creation of the United States, the Cherokee people administered their own social policy—a form of what today might be called social welfare— based on matrilineal descent, egalitarian relations, kinship obligations, and communal landholding. The ethic of gadugi, or work coordinated for the social good, was at the heart of this system. Serving the Nation explores the role of such traditions in shaping the alternative social welfare system of the Cherokee Nation, as well as their influence on the U.S. government’s social policies. Faced with removal and civil war in the early and mid-nineteenth century, the Cherokee Nation asserted its right to build institutions administered by Cherokee people, both as an affirmation of their national sovereignty and as a community imperative. The Cherokee Nation protected and defended key features of its traditional social service policy, expanded social welfare protections to those deemed Cherokee according to citizenship laws, and modified its policies over time to continue fulfilling its people’s expectations. Julie L. Reed examines these policies alongside public health concerns, medical practices, and legislation defining care and education for orphans, the mentally ill, the differently abled, the incarcerated, the sick, and the poor. Changing federal and state policies and practices exacerbated divisions based on class, language, and education, and challenged the ability of Cherokees individually and collectively to meet the social welfare needs of their kin and communities. The Cherokee response led to more centralized national government solutions for upholding social welfare and justice, as well as to the continuation of older cultural norms. Offering insights gleaned from reconsidered and overlooked historical sources, this book enhances our understanding of the history and workings of social welfare policy and services, not only in the Cherokee Nation but also in the United States. Serving the Nation is published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. Julie L. Reed is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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REED SERVING THE NATION

Enhances our understanding of social welfare policy and services


OLSON IOWAY LIFE

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A compelling case study in U.S. colonialism and Indigenous resistance

Ioway Life Reservation and Reform, 1837–1860 By Greg Olson In 1837 the Ioways, an Indigenous people who had called most of present-day Iowa and Missouri home, were suddenly bound by the Treaty of 1836 with the U.S. federal government to restrict themselves to a two-hundred-square-mile parcel of land west of the Missouri River. Forcibly removed to the newly created Great Nemaha Agency, the Ioway men, women, and children, numbering nearly a thousand, were promised that through hard work and discipline they could enter mainstream American society. All that was required was that they give up everything that made them Ioway. In Ioway Life, Greg Olson provides the first detailed account of how the tribe met this challenge during the first two decades of the agency’s existence. VOLUME 275 IN THE CIVILIZATION OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN SERIES

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Within the Great Nemaha Agency’s boundaries, the Ioways lived alongside the U.S. Indian agent, other government employees, and Presbyterian missionaries. These outside forces sought to manipulate every aspect of the Ioways’ daily life, from their manner of dress and housing to the way they planted crops and expressed themselves spiritually. In the face of the white reformers’ contradictory assumptions—that Indians could assimilate into the American mainstream, and that they lacked the mental and moral wherewithal to transform—the Ioways became adept at accepting necessary changes while refusing religious and cultural conversion. Nonetheless, as Olson’s work reveals, agents and missionaries managed to plant seeds of colonialism that would make the Ioways susceptible to greater government influence later on—in particular, by reducing their self-sufficiency and undermining their traditional structure of leadership. Ioway Life offers a complex and nuanced picture of the Ioways’ efforts to retain their tribal identity within the constrictive boundaries of the Great Nemaha Agency. Drawing on diaries, newspapers, and correspondence from the agency’s files and Presbyterian archives, Olson offers a compelling case study in U.S. colonialism and Indigenous resistance. Greg Olson is Curator of Exhibits and Special Projects at the Missouri State Archives and author of Voodoo Priests, Noble Savages, and Ozark Gypsies: The Life of Folklorist Mary Alicia Owen and The Ioway in Missouri.


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Land Too Good for Indians Northern Indian Removal By John P. Bowes The history of Indian removal has often followed a single narrative arc, one that begins with President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830 and follows the Cherokee Trail of Tears. In that conventional account, the Black Hawk War of 1832 encapsulates the experience of tribes in the territories north of the Ohio River. But Indian removal in the Old Northwest was much more complicated—involving many Indian peoples and more than just one policy, event, or politician. In Land Too Good for Indians, historian John P. Bowes takes a long-needed closer, more expansive look at northern Indian removal—and in so doing amplifies the history of Indian removal and of the United States. Bowes focuses on four case studies that exemplify particular elements of removal in the Old Northwest. He traces the paths taken by Delaware Indians in response to Euro-American expansion and U.S. policies in the decades prior to the Indian Removal Act. He also considers the removal experience among the SenecaCayugas, Wyandots, and other Indian communities in the Sandusky River region of northwestern Ohio. Bowes uses the 1833 Treaty of Chicago as a lens through which to examine the forces that drove the divergent removals of various Potawatomi communities from northern Illinois and Indiana. And in exploring the experiences of the Odawas and Ojibwes in Michigan Territory, he analyzes the historical context and choices that enabled some Indian communities to avoid relocation west of the Mississippi River. In expanding the context of removal to include the Old Northwest, and adding a portrait of Native communities there before, during, and after removal, Bowes paints a more accurate—and complicated—picture of American Indian history in the nineteenth century. Land Too Good for Indians reveals the deeper complexities of this crucial time in American history. John P. Bowes is Associate Professor of History at Eastern Kentucky University and author of several books on Indian removal, including Exiles and Pioneers: Eastern Indians in the Trans-Mississippi West.

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LEWANDOWSKI RED BIRD, RED POWER

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The first-ever biography of the prominent American Indian activist and writer

Red Bird, Red Power The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-Ša By Tadeusz Lewandowski Red Bird, Red Power tells the story of one of the most influential—and controversial—American Indian activists of the twentieth century. Zitkala-Ša (1876–1938), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a highly gifted writer, editor, and musician who dedicated her life to achieving justice for Native peoples. Here, Tadeusz Lewandowski offers the first full-scale biography of the woman whose passionate commitment to improving the lives of her people propelled her to the forefront of Progressive-era reform movements.

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Lewandowski draws on a vast array of sources, including previously unpublished letters and diaries, to recount Zitkala-Ša’s unique life journey. Her story begins on the Dakota plains, where she was born to a Yankton Sioux mother and a white father. Zitkala-Ša, whose name translates as “Red Bird” in English, left home at age eight to attend a Quaker boarding school, eventually working as a teacher at Carlisle Indian Industrial School. By her early twenties, she was the toast of East Coast literary society. Her short stories for the Atlantic Monthly (1900) are, to this day, the focus of scholarly analysis and debate. In collaboration with William F. Hanson, she wrote the libretto and songs for the innovative Sun Dance Opera (1913). And yet, as Lewandowski demonstrates, Zitkala-Ša’s successes could not fill the void of her lost cultural heritage, nor dampen her fury toward the Euro-American establishment that had robbed her people of their land. In 1926, she founded the National Council of American Indians with the aim of redressing American Indian grievances. Zitkala-Ša’s complex identity has made her an intriguing—if elusive—subject for scholars. In Lewandowski’s sensitive interpretation, she emerges as a multifaceted human being whose work entailed constant negotiation. In the end, Lewandowski argues, Zitkala-Ša’s achievements distinguish her as a forerunner of the Red Power movement and an important agent of change. Tadeusz Lewandowski is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anglophone Cultures at the University of Opole, Poland. A native of New York City, he is the author of Dwight Macdonald on Culture: The Happy Warrior of the Mind, Reconsidered.


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South Eastern Huastec Narratives A Trilingual Edition Translated and edited by Ana Kondic South Eastern Huastec, a Mayan language from Mexico, has never before been written down. Although the master storytellers of the language are long gone, today’s older generations preserve the vast knowledge of their cultural heritage in speech. That spoken heritage in South Eastern Huastec—ranging from traditional house-building techniques to herbal remedies and funerary practices—is gathered here and transcribed for the first time. Collected and recorded by Ana Kondic in the village of San Francisco Chontla in La Sierra de Otontepec, Veracruz, Mexico, between 2007 and 2011, and translated into English and Spanish, the accounts in this landmark trilingual collection provide a rare opening into South Eastern Huastec traditions, oral literature, and daily life. Kondic divides South Eastern Huastec Narratives into five thematic sections: traditional practices, contemporary life, stories, songs, and customary foodways. Within these categories, eighteen Huastec narrators describe local beliefs, religion, rituals, and cosmology as observed in cleansing ceremonies and celebrations. They detail building methods and traditional craftsmanship, the care of children, daily routines, and use of the South Eastern Huastec language itself. They recount stories and legends—of killer coyotes, drunken horsemen, and encounters with death—and explain the preparation of tamales, coffee, and hand-pressed tortillas. Wherever possible, Kondic retains in her transcriptions the unique characteristics of each speaker’s voice—the self-corrections, repetitions, and pauses. Her morphological analysis of South Eastern Huastec will help experts understand the language more deeply. An accompanying audio-video DVD-ROM allows readers the rare chance to hear and see these narrators tell their stories in their own language. Of the approximately 100,000 people who speak the Huastec language, only about 12,000 use the South Eastern variety presented here. As the only book recording and analyzing this endangered language, this collection of narratives is a crucial document for preserving the South Eastern Huastec language, and the remarkable culture it conveys. The book includes a CD-ROM with both audio and video tracks. Ana Kondic is Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Language and Culture Research Center at James Cook University, Australia, and author of journal articles and book chapters on the Huastec language.

Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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THE HUASTECA Culture, History, and Interregional Exchange Edited by Katherine A. Faust and Kim N. Richter $55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4704-8 COLONIAL CH’OLTI’ The Seventeenth-Century Morán Manuscript By John S. Robertson, Danny Law, and Robbie A. Haertel $65.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4118-3 THE DOG WHO SPOKE AND MORE MAYAN FOLKTALES El perro que habló y más cuentos mayas Edited by James D. Sexton and Fredy Rodríguez-Mejía $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4130-5

KONDIC SOUTH EASTERN HUASTEC NARRATIVES

One Mayan people’s cultural heritage, presented in their language for the first time


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CREWS, STARBUCK RECORDS OF THE MORAVIANS AMONG THE CHEROKEES

Uses original diaries, minutes, reports, and correspondence from the Moravian Archives in North Carolina

Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees Volume Six: March to Removal, Part 1, Safe in the Ancestral Homeland, 1821–1824 Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck The ominous subtitle, March to Removal, opens a new series of Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees that will take us up to 1838 and the tragic Trail of Tears. Volume 6 covers the years 1821–1824.

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RECORDS OF THE MORAVIANS AMONG THE CHEROKEES Volume Five: The Anna Rosina Years, Part 3, Farewell to Sister Gambold, 1817–1821 Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck $50.00s Cloth 978-0-9826907-6-5 RECORDS OF THE MORAVIANS AMONG THE CHEROKEES Volume Four: The Anna Rosina Years, Part 2 Warfare on the Horizon, 1810–1816 Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck $50.00s Cloth 978-0-9826907-5-8 RECORDS OF THE MORAVIANS AMONG THE CHEROKEES Volume Three: The Anna Rosina Years, Part 1, Success in School and Mission, 1805–1810 Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck $50.00s Cloth 978-0-9826907-4-1

Despite the loss of teacher Anna Rosina Gambold, the Moravians open a second mission station near Oochgeelogy Creek, thirty miles south of Springplace, their first station. Meanwhile, confident of its future, the Cherokee Nation sets about building a civilization of its own with a national capital, legislature, code of laws, and diplomatic negotiations with Washington. Now, all the Cherokee Nation needs is a syllabary to write its own language—a goal that will be achieved during the time period covered in volume 7 of Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees. Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees uses original diaries, minutes, reports, and correspondence in the Moravian Archives in North Carolina to provide a firsthand account of daily life among the Cherokee throughout the nineteenth century. Though written by missionaries from their perspective, these records provide much insight into Cherokee culture, society, customs, and personalities. C. Daniel Crews, an ordained minister and Archivist of the Moravian Church, Southern Province, is the author of several publications on Moravian history and theology. Richard W. Starbuck, a former writer and editor for the WinstonSalem Journal-Sentinel newspapers, serves as editor for the Moravian Archives. He is coauthor with Dr. Crews of With Courage for the Future: The Story of the Moravian Church, Southern Province.


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Nicodemus Post-Reconstruction Politics and Racial Justice in Western Kansas By Charlotte Hinger Pushed out of the South as Reconstruction ended and as white landowners, employers, and “Redeemer” governments sought to reestablish the constraints of slavery, thousands of African Americans migrated west in search of better opportunities. As the first well-known all-black community on the plains, Nicodemus, Kansas, became a national exemplar of black self-improvement. But Nicodemus also embodied many of the problems facing African Americans during this time. Diverging philosophies within the community, Charlotte Hinger argues, foretold the differences that continue to divide black politicians and intellectuals today. At the time Nicodemus was founded, politicians underestimated the power of African American voters. But three of the town’s black homesteaders—Abram Thompson Hall, Jr., Edward Preston McCabe, and John W. Niles—exerted extraordinary influence over county, state, and national politics. Hinger examines their divergent strategies for leading their community and for relating to white people, which reflected emerging black worldviews across the United States as African Americans grappled with the responsibilities accompanying their new freedom. Hall supported racial uplift, McCabe insisted on achieving equality through politics and legislation, and Niles advocated reparations for slavery. Hall and McCabe, both northerners, had distinguished educations, while Niles, a former slave, was a gifted orator. Their differing approaches to creating a new civilization on the prairie, seeking justice for blacks, and improving the situation of Nicodemus citizens roiled Kansas politics, already in turmoil over temperance and woman’s suffrage. Nicodemus was a microcosm of all the issues facing black Americans in the late nineteenth century, and Hall, McCabe, and Niles are archetypes for powerful philosophies that have persisted into the twenty-first century. This study of their ideas and the ways they shaped Nicodemus offers a novel perspective on the most famous post–Civil War African American community in the West. Award-winning novelist and independent historian Charlotte Hinger is the author of several articles and encyclopedia entries on African American history in the West and the novels Come Spring, Deadly Descent, Lethal Lineage, and Hidden Heritage.

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HINGER NICODEMUS

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BULLOCK, GADDIE, WERT THE RISE AND FALL OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT

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How the Voting Rights Act has shaped America

The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act By Charles S. Bullock III, Ronald Keith Gaddie, and Justin J. Wert On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Shelby County v. Holder, invalidating a key provision of voting rights law. The decision— the culmination of an eight-year battle over the power of Congress to regulate state conduct of elections—marked the closing of a chapter in American politics. That chapter had opened a century earlier in the case of Guinn v. United States, which ushered in national efforts to knock down racial barriers to the ballot. A detailed and timely history, The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act analyzes changing legislation and the future of voting rights in the United States.

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In tracing the development of the Voting Rights Act from its inception, Charles S. Bullock III, Ronald Keith Gaddie, and Justin J. Wert begin by exploring the political and legal aspects of the Jim Crow electoral regime. Detailing both the subsequent struggle to enact the law and its impact, they explain why the Voting Rights Act was necessary. The authors draw on court cases and election data to bring their discussion to the present with an examination of the 2006 revision and renewal of the act, and its role in shaping the southern political environment in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, when Barack Obama was chosen. Bullock, Gaddie, and Wert go on to closely evaluate the 2013 Shelby County decision, describing how the ideological makeup of the Supreme Court created an appellate environment that made the act ripe for a challenge. Rigorous in its scholarship and thoroughly readable, this book goes beyond history and analysis to provide compelling and much-needed insight into the ways voting rights legislation has shaped the United States. The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act illuminates the historical roots—and the human consequences—of a critical chapter in U.S. legal history. Charles S. Bullock III is the Richard B. Russell Professor of Political Science and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia. Ronald Keith Gaddie is President’s Associates Presidential Professor and Department Chair of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma. Bullock and Gaddie are coauthors of The Triumph of Voting Rights in the South. Justin J. Wert is Associates Second Century Presidential Professor of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma and author of Habeas Corpus in America: The Politics of Individual Rights.


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Acts of Compassion in Greek Tragic Drama By James Franklin Johnson The ability of human beings to feel compassion or empathy for one another—and express that emotion by offering comfort or assistance—is an important antidote to violence and aggression. In ancient Greece, the epics of Homer and the tragic dramas performed each spring in the ater of Dionysus offered citizens valuable lessons concerning the necessity and proper application of compassionate action. This book is the first full-length examination of compassion (eleos or oiktos in Greek) as a dramatic theme in ancient Greek literature. Through careful textual analysis, James F. Johnson surveys the treatment of compassion in the epics of Homer, especially the Iliad, and in the works of the three great Athenian tragedians: Aischylos, Euripedes, and Sophokles. He emphasizes reciprocity, reverence, and retribution as defining features of Greek compassion during the Homeric and Archaic periods. In framing his analysis, Johnson distinguishes compassion from pity. Whereas in English the word “pity” suggests an attitude of superiority toward the sufferer, the word “compassion” has a more positive connotation and implies equality in status between subject and object. Although scholars have conventionally translated eleos and oiktos as “pity,” Johnson argues that our modern-day notion of compassion comes closest to encompassing the meaning of those two Greek words. Beginning with Homer, eleos normally denotes an emotion that entails action of some sort, whereas oiktos usually refers to the emotion itself. Johnson also draws associations between compassion and the concepts of fear and pity, which Aristotle famously attributed to tragedy. Because the Athenian plays are tragedies, they mainly show the disastrous consequences of a world where compassion falls short. At the same time, they offer glimpses into a world where compassion can generate a more beneficial—and therefore more hopeful—outcome. Their message resonates with today’s readers as much as it did for fifth-century Athenians. James F. Johnson is Professor Emeritus of Classics at Austin College, Sherman, Texas, and is coeditor of Workbooks I and II to accompany Athenaze, a textbook series for learning ancient Greek.

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JOHNSON ACTS OF COMPASSION IN GREEK TRAGIC DRAMA

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LARMOUR THE ARENA OF SATIRE

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Offers a new appreciation of the art and complexity of Juvenal’s satires

The Arena of Satire Juvenal’s Search for Rome By David H. J. Larmour In this first comprehensive reading of Juvenal’s satires in more than fifty years, David H. J. Larmour deftly revises and sharpens our understanding of the secondcentury Roman writer who stands as the archetype for all later practitioners of the satirist’s art.

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The enduring attraction of Juvenal’s satires is twofold: they not only introduce the character of the “angry satirist” but also offer vivid descriptions of everyday life in Rome at the height of the Empire. In Larmour’s interpretation, these two elements are inextricably linked. The Arena of Satire presents the satirist as flaneur traversing the streets of Rome in search of its authentic core—those distinctly Roman virtues that have disappeared amid the corruption of the age. What the vengeful, punishing satirist does to his victims, as Larmour shows, echoes what the Roman state did to outcasts and criminals in the arena of the Colosseum. The fact that the arena was the most prominent building in the city and is mentioned frequently by Juvenal makes it an ideal lens through which to examine the spectacular and punishing characteristics of Roman satire. And the fact that Juvenal undertakes his search for the uncorrupted, authentic Rome within the very buildings and landmarks that make up the actual, corrupt Rome of his day gives his sixteen satires their uniquely paradoxical and contradictory nature. Larmour’s exploration of “the arena of satire” guides us through Juvenal’s search for the true Rome, winding from one poem to the next. He combines close readings of passages from individual satires with discussions of Juvenal’s representation of Roman space and topography, the nature of the “arena” experience, and the network of connections among the satirist, the gladiator, and the editor—or producer—of Colosseum entertainments. The Arena of Satire also offers a new definition of “Juvenalian satire” as a particular form arising from the intersection of the body and the urban landscape—a form whose defining features survive in the works of several later satirists, from Jonathan Swift and Evelyn Waugh to contemporary writers such as Russian novelist Victor Pelevin and Irish dramatist Martin McDonagh. David H. J. Larmour is Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Classics at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. He is editor of the American Journal of Philology and has numerous published titles, including The Sites of Rome: Time, Space, Memory; Stage and Stadium: Drama and Athletics in Classical Greece; and Rethinking Sexuality: Foucault and Classical Antiquity.


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Gunfighter in Gotham

From POW to Blue Angel

Bat Masterson’s New York City Years By Robert K. DeArment

The Story of Commander Dusty Rhodes By Jim Armstrong Foreword by Roy M. Voris

After the famed ex-lawman put his gun in his desk drawer and became a sportswriter

Robert K. DeArment is author of the definitive biography, Bat Masterson: The Man and the Legend, also published by the University of Oklahoma Press. MARCH $29.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4263-0 $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4414-6 304 PAGES, 5.5 × 8.5 15 B&W ILLUS. BIOGRAPHY

Jim Armstrong draws on extensive interviews and Dusty’s scrapbooks and flight logs to produce a rare account of the Blue Angels in the late 1940s. Readers experience the stress of practice and exhilaration of air shows, when Armstrong takes them inside Dusty’s cockpit as the Blues perfect their trademark formations and maneuvers. A moving account of the degradation Rhodes suffered for three years as a prisoner of war includes his rare, ground observer’s view of the firebombings of Tokyo and Yokohama. And Armstrong poignantly captures Dusty’s return to postwar America and a tour of duty in Korea as a fighter pilot. An intimate story of service and survival that will carve a place in naval aviation history, From POW to Blue Angel will inspire all who keep their eyes skyward. Jim Armstrong is Professor Emeritus of English at Fullerton College, Fullerton, California. The late Roy M. “Butch” Voris (Captain, U.S. Navy) formed the Blue Angels in 1946 and served twice as their leader. JANUARY $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5342-1 320 PAGES, 6 × 9 25 B&W ILLUS. AND 2 MAPS BIOGRAPHY

ARMSTRONG FROM POW TO BLUE ANGEL

William Barclay “Bat” Masterson became a legend in the Old West from Texas to Kansas to Colorado. In Denver he was drawn to prizefighting—first as a gambler, later as a promoter and referee. Ultimately, Bat stumbled into writing a sports column for the New York Morning Telegraph, also voicing his opinions on war, crime, politics, and society. As Masterson’s columns were reprinted nationally and abroad, he counted President Theodore Roosevelt among his friends and readers.

As the third fighter pilot to lead the Blue Angels, Raleigh E. “Dusty” Rhodes helped develop the most famous aerobatics team ever formed. From POW to Blue Angel is a fast-paced drama that captures the tenacity of a true American hero.

D eARMENT GUNFIGHTER IN GOTHAM

The legend of Bat Masterson as heroic sheriff of Dodge City, Kansas, began in 1881 when a New York reporter wrote him up as a man-killing gunfighter. Gunfighter in Gotham reveals the final chapter of Masterson’s storied life, after the famed ex-lawman put his gun in his desk drawer and became a sportswriter.

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Alex Swan and the Swan Companies

William F. Cody’s Wyoming Empire

By Lawrence M. Woods

The Buffalo Bill Nobody Knows By Robert E. Bonner

BONNER WILLIAM F. CODY’S WYOMING EMPIRE

WOODS ALEX SWAN AND THE SWAN COMPANIES

A compelling portrait of the wealthiest man in Wyoming Territory

The story of Cody’s efforts as a town builder and irrigation entrepreneur

The Swan name is inseparable from the history of Wyoming and the West, and when Swan made his mark in Wyoming in the 1880s, ranching was king. The Swan Land and Cattle Company, Ltd., was one of the largest livestock companies in the American West, and it survived long after Swan’s financial debacle in the winter of 1886–87.

Celebrated showman of the Old West, William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody took on another role unknown to most Americans, that of the western land developer and town promoter. In this captivating study, Robert E. Bonner demonstrates that the skills Cody acquired from decades in show business failed to prepare him for the demanding arena of business and finance.

Lawrence M. Woods has combed the surviving corporate records, and other documents in the United States and abroad, to relate the life of Alex Swan and offer a complete history of the Swan companies. At the height of his financial life, Swan was said to be the richest man in Wyoming Territory, and his influence extended beyond business affairs to community service, both in Wyoming and in Iowa. The Swan companies continued operation into the mid-twentieth century.

Cody spent huge sums, bullied partners, patronized state officials, and exercised his charm in developing the high plains east of Yellowstone National Park. His efforts helped shape the city of Cody and the Big Horn Basin and connected his little Wyoming town with the wealth of the East through personal hospitality and travel.

Alex Swan and the Swan Companies is an important portrait of the inner workings of the western cattle industry and its leaders. Lawrence M. Woods, an attorney and certified public accountant, is the author of several books, including British Gentlemen in the Wild West. JANUARY $34.95s CLOTH 978-0-87062-346-2 $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5402-2 300 PAGES, 6 × 9 12 B&W ILLUS., 1 MAP U.S. HISTORY VOLUME 22 IN THE WESTERN LANDS AND WATERS SERIES

Laced with engaging anecdotes and photographs, William F. Cody’s Wyoming Empire is a much needed look at an overly mythologized character. There was more to William F. Cody than the Wild West show—and we cannot construct a full picture of the man without understanding his entrepreneurial activities in Wyoming. Robert E. Bonner is Professor Emeritus of History at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. His numerous articles have appeared in such journals as the Western Historical Quarterly and Montana: The Magazine of Western History. JANUARY $24.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-3829-9 $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5418-3 368 PAGES, 6.125 × 9.25 23 B&W ILLUS., 3 MAPS BIOGRAPHY


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Alfalfa Bill Murray

Joseph Reddeford Walker and the Arizona Adventure

Blackfoot War Art

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William H. (“Alfalfa Bill”) Murray is one of the most important figures in Oklahoma’s political history. During the struggle for statehood Murray waged a hard battle over the constitution, taking on President Theodore Roosevelt and Secretary of War William Howard Taft. As Oklahoma governor, Murray challenged the oil industry, newspapers, and the state of Texas, enforcing his programs with the National Guard. Flamboyant, unpredictable, and stubborn, Alfalfa Bill became a legend. Keith L. Bryant, Jr., Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Akron, is the author of Culture in the American Southwest: The Earth, the Sky, the People.

Joseph Reddeford Walker trapped beaver in the Rockies, bartered with Plains Indians, drove cattle and horses, and guided emigrants and explorers. En route from Colorado to Arizona in 1861, Daniel Ellis Conner joined Walker’s party and kept a four-year travel diary, relating his hair-raising adventures with the mountain man. Conner includes tales of the Apache wars and countless episodes of action and violence that make fictional accounts pale in comparison. Donald J. Berthrong (1922–2012) was Professor of History, Purdue University, and is author of The Southern Cheyennes and The Cheyenne and Arapaho Ordeal: Reservation and Agency Life in the Indian Territory, 1875–1907. MARCH $24.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5286-8 400 PAGES, 6 × 9 8 B&W ILLUS., 1 MAP U.S. HISTORY VOLUME 22 IN THE AMERICAN EXPLORATION AND TRAVEL SERIES

Pictographs of the Reservation Period, 1880–2000 By L. James Dempsey When the Blackfoot Indians were confined to reservations in the late nineteenth century, their pictographic representations of warfare kept alive the rituals associated with war, essential facets of Blackfoot culture. Their war ethic unified the tribes of the Blackfoot Nation—Siksika, Blood, and North and South Piegan. In this visually stunning survey, L. James Dempsey skillfully weaves together pictures, people, and histories to convey a fascinating view of this warrior art from a Blood perspective. L. James Dempsey, a member of the Blood tribe of the Blackfoot Indians, is Associate Professor of the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. JANUARY $45.00s CLOTH 978-0-8061-3804-6 $39.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5415-2 518 PAGES, 8 × 10 170 B&W ILLUS. ART/AMERICAN INDIAN

BLACKFOOT WAR ART

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By Daniel Ellis Conner Edited by Donald J. Berthrong

JOSEPH REDDEFORD WALKER AND THE ARIZONA ADVENTURE

By Keith L. Bryant, Jr.


BORROWED SOLDIERS

THE UNKECHAUG INDIANS OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND

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The Seminole Freedmen

Borrowed Soldiers

A History By Kevin Mulroy

Americans under British Command, 1918 By Mitchell A. Yockelson Foreword by John S. D. Eisenhower

The Unkechaug Indians of Eastern Long Island

Known as “Black Seminoles,” descendants of the Seminole freedmen of Indian Territory are unique. Kevin Mulroy traces the emergence of Seminole-black identity from their eighteenth-century Florida origins to the present. Arguing that the Seminole freedmen are neither Seminoles, Africans, nor “black Indians,” Mulroy describes the freedmen’s experiences as runaways from southern plantations, slaves of American Indians, participants in the Seminole Wars, and emigrants to the West.

THE SEMINOLE FREEDMEN

Kevin Mulroy, A. J. McFadden Dean of Claremont Colleges Library, La Crescenta, California, is author of Freedom on the Border: The Seminole Maroons in Florida, the Indian Territory, Coahuila, and Texas. JANUARY $36.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-3865-7 $29.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5347-6 480 PAGES, 6 × 9 39 B&W ILLUS., 4 MAPS AMERICAN INDIAN VOLUME 2 IN THE RACE AND CULTURE IN THE AMERICAN WEST SERIES

The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign of World War I, an offensive that hastened the war’s end. This comprehensive study of the first time American and British soldiers fought together as a coalition force—more than twenty years before D-Day—shows how the British and American military relationship evolved both strategically and politically. Mitchell A. Yockelson is an investigative archivist with the National Archives and Records Administration. John S. D. Eisenhower was the author of Yanks: The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I. JANUARY $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5349-0 332 PAGES, 6 × 9 15 B&W ILLUS., 8 MAPS MILITARY HISTORY/WORLD HISTORY VOLUME 17 IN THE CAMPAIGNS AND COMMANDERS SERIES

A History By John A. Strong Few people may realize that New York’s Long Island is still home to American Indians, the region’s original inhabitants. This first comprehensive history of the tribe traces the story of the Unkechaugs from their ancestral past to the present day. Drawing on archaeological and documentary sources and extensive testimony from tribal members, John A. Strong brings the Unkechaugs out of the shadows and records their struggle to survive as a distinct community. John A. Strong, Professor Emeritus of History and American Studies, Long Island University, is the author of numerous publications, including The Montaukett Indians of Eastern Long Island. FEBRUARY $29.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4212-8 $21.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5413-8 352 PAGES, 5.5 × 8.5 24 B&W ILLUS., 4 MAPS AMERICAN INDIAN VOLUME 269 IN THE CIVILIZATION OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN SERIES


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We Know Who We Are

Framing the Sacred

Métis Identity in a Montana Community By Martha Harroun Foster

The Indian Churches of Early Colonial Mexico By Eleanor Wake

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Revitalization and Identity By Christopher Wetzel

Examining a Métis community, Foster combines social, political, and economic analysis to show how people adapt to changing conditions while retaining their culture and traditions. This pathbreaking work reveals the difficulties of ethnic identification encountered by all peoples of mixed descent.

Christopher Wetzel, Associate Professor of Sociology, Stonehill College, Easton, Massachusetts, is the author of numerous articles on politics, culture, and social movements.

Martha Harroun Foster is Assistant Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

JANUARY $29.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4669-0 $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4692-8 216 PAGES, 6 × 9 16 B&W ILLUS., 4 MAPS, 2 TABLES, 2 GRAPHS AMERICAN INDIAN/SOCIOLOGY Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Eleanor Wake shows how the art and architecture of Mexico’s religious structures reveals indigenous people’s decisions regarding their conversion to and accommodation of Christianity. She also analyzes native ritual practices that assist in the interpretation of the imagery. Eleanor Wake (1948–2013) lectured in Latin American Cultural Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, and wrote numerous scholarly articles on art in colonial Mexico. JANUARY $65.00s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4033-9 $29.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5396-4 368 PAGES, 8 × 10 264 B&W ILLUS., 1 MAP LATIN AMERICA

FRAMING THE SACRED

Christopher Wetzel finds that language revitalization programs promote the exchange of cultural knowledge, affirm collective enterprise, and remind people of their place in a national community. Here, the Potawatomis have the last word, as readers witness conversations that shape the ever-evolving Potawatomi Nation.

Christian churches erected in Mexico during the colonial era represented the triumph of European conquest and religious domination. Yet European authorities failed to recognize the challenge inherent in the pre-Columbian iconography integrated into Christian imagery and altars oriented toward indigenous sacred landmarks.

WE KNOW WHO WE ARE

Following the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, the Potawatomis, once concentrated around southern Lake Michigan, dispersed into nine bands across four states and two countries. How have these scattered people reclaimed their heritage as Potawatomis?

Of primarily Chippewa, Cree, French, and Scottish descent, the Métis people have flourished in Canada and the northwestern United States for nearly two hundred years. Yet their Métis identity is often ignored in the United States, where they have never received federal recognition.


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Cherokee Reference Grammar

The Cherokee Frontier

Codex Chimalpahin

By Brad Montgomery-Anderson

Conflict and Survival, 1740–62 By David H. Corkran

Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahua Altepetl in Central Mexico, Volume 1 By don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin Translated and edited by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder

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CODEX CHIMALPAHIN

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The Cherokees have the oldest American Indian writing system in the United States. Invented by Sequoyah, it was rapidly adopted, leading to nineteenthcentury Cherokee literacy rates as high as 90 percent. The Cherokee syllabary is explained and used throughout this first published grammar of the Cherokee language, with audio clips of examples on the accompanying CD.

CHEROKEE REFERENCE GRAMMAR

The Cherokee Nation has ambitious programs for preserving and revitalizing Cherokee language. This book will be a vital resource in understanding Cherokee history, language, and culture. Brad Montgomery-Anderson is Associate Professor in the Department of Cherokee and Indigenous Studies at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. MARCH $45.00s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4342-2 $29.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4667-6 536 PAGES, 6 × 9 3 FIGURES, 29 TABLES, 2 CDS AMERICAN INDIAN/LANGUAGE Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The Cherokees are celebrated for their political and social achievements. But the fact that the Cherokee nationalism was formulated long before the nineteenth century has been overlooked. From 1740 until 1762 Cherokees in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Virginia were a homogeneous people—until French-English rivalry split the nation into two forces. The story of Cherokee statesmanship in terms of Indian institutions provides fresh insight into this era of colonial and American Indian history. David H. Corkran (d. 1990) is the author of many scholarly articles on the Creeks and Cherokees and The Creek Frontier, 1540–1783. FEBRUARY $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5283-7 328 PAGES, 6 × 9 8 B&W ILLUS., 2 MAPS AMERICAN INDIAN/U.S. HISTORY

This groundbreaking edition of the Codex Chimalpahin makes available in English the transcription of the most comprehensive history of native Mexico by a known Indian. Volume 1 presents heretofore-unknown manuscripts by Chimalpahin. Predominantly annals and dynastic records, it furnishes detailed histories of the formation and development of Nahua societies and polities in central Mexico over an extended period. Arthur J. O. Anderson (d. 1996) was renowned for his and Charles E. Dibble’s translation of the Florentine Codex by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún. Susan Schroeder, Professor Emerita of History, Tulane University, is coeditor of Indian Women of Early Mexico. FEBRUARY $49.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-2921-1 $24.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5414-5 256 PAGES, 7 × 10 3 B&W ILLUS. LATIN AMERICA VOLUME 225 IN THE CIVILIZATION OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN SERIES


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The Indian Trial

The Frontier World of Fort Griffin

The Creek Frontier, 1540–1783

THE INDIAN TRIAL

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Kiowa and Comanche raids on the Southern Plains in 1870–71 terrorized settlers. The raids culminated in the Warren Wagon Train Massacre and the arrest of Satank, Santanta, and Big Tree by General William Tecumseh Sherman. The Jacksboro Indian Trial led to a confrontation between the state of Texas, the federal government, the Kiowa Nation, Comanches, and Cheyennes. This narrative history explores the Little Arkansas and Medicine Lodge Treaties and factions within the Kiowa Nation.

MARCH $14.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5219-6 204 PAGES, 6 × 9 14 B&W ILLUS. U.S. HISTORY/AMERICAN INDIAN

Fort Griffin, Texas, was every bit as tough as Dodge City, Deadwood, and Tombstone. Vigilantes, lynchings, ladies of easy virtue, and lawmen as bad as the outlaws they jailed—Fort Griffin had it all. Sheriff John Larn, a great lawman, was also a cattle thief and killer. Colonel Ranald MacKenzie ended the Indian attacks that had plagued Fort Griffin. Fort Griffin’s story is one of untamed passion, anger, lawlessness, and occasional justice. Charles M. Robinson III authored A Good Year to Die: The Story of the Great Sioux War and General Crook and the Western Frontier, both published by the University of Oklahoma Press. MARCH $14.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5220-2 236 PAGES, 6.125 × 9.25 12 B&W ILLUS. MILITARY HISTORY/WORLD HISTORY

By David H. Corkran The Creek Frontier, 1540–1783 is the first complete history of an American Indian tribe in the colonial period. The Creeks occupied Alabama, Georgia, and northern Florida from the days of Spanish exploration to shortly after the Civil War and were a power to be reckoned with by Spain, France, and Britain. When they gave up neutrality to ally with the British against Americans, the Creeks found themselves completely at the mercy of their victorious enemies. David H. Corkran (d. 1990) is the author of many scholarly articles on the Creeks and Cherokees and The Cherokee Frontier, 1540–1783. FEBRUARY $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5284-4 368 PAGES, 6 × 9 8 B&W ILLUS., 2 MAPS AMERICAN INDIAN/U.S. HISTORY

THE CREEK FRONTIER, 1540–1783

Charles M. Robinson III is the author of A Good Year to Die: The Story of the Great Sioux War and General Crook and the Western Frontier.

The Life and Death of a Western Town By Charles M. Robinson III

THE FRONTIER WORLD OF FORT GRIFFIN

The Complete Story of the Warren Wagon Train Massacre and the Fall of the Kiowa Nation By Charles M. Robinson III


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Restoring a Presence

The Political Economy of North American Indians

Fort Clark and Its Indian Neighbors

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A Trading Post on the Upper Missouri By W. Raymond Wood, William J. Hunt, Jr., and Randy H. Williams

FORT CLARK AND ITS INDIAN NEIGHBORS

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS

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American Indians and Yellowstone National Park By Peter Nabokov and Lawrence Loendorf This account of American Indians in and around Yellowstone draws from archaeological records, Indian testimony, tribal archives, and park artifacts. Restoring a Presence reveals traditional Indian uses of plant, mineral, and animal resources and explores conflicts involving the Nez Perce, Bannock, and Sheep Eater peoples. It also provides ways for the National Park Service to develop effective relationships with Indians in Yellowstone. Peter Nabokov is Professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA and author of A Forest of Time: American Indian Ways of History. Lawrence Loendorf is the author of Thunder and Herds: Rock Art of the High Plains. JANUARY $29.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5346-9 400 PAGES, 7 × 10 47 B&W ILLUS., 2 LINE DRAWINGS, 9 MAPS AMERICAN INDIAN/U.S. HISTORY

This innovative collection of articles approaches American Indian history and culture from a Marxist perspective. The contributors, from the United States and Canada, have jumped the boundaries among the social sciences to consider issues of macroeconomics and intercultural conflict. The result is a stimulating and substantial contribution that will interest any reader concerned with policy affecting North American Indians. John H. Moore, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville, specializes in ethnohistory, kinship, and demography. He is the author of The Cheyenne. APRIL $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5352-0 368 PAGES, 5.5 × 8.5 31 B&W ILLUS., 4 TABLES AMERICAN INDIAN/U.S. HISTORY

A thriving fur trade post between 1830 and 1860, Fort Clark, in today’s North Dakota, served as a way station for artists, scientists, missionaries, soldiers, and other western chroniclers—including German prince-explorer Maximilian of Wied, Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, and American painter-author George Catlin. This account of Fort Clark and the adjacent Mandan/Arikara village integrates new archaeological evidence with the historical record. W. Raymond Wood is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia. William J. Hunt, Jr., is Professor of Anthropology, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Randy H. Williams holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Missouri at Columbia. FEBRUARY $34.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4213-5 $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5416-9 336 PAGES, 6 × 9 37 B&W ILLUS., 9 MAPS AMERICAN INDIAN/ANTHROPOLOGY/U.S. HISTORY


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Of Uncommon Birth

Black Powder and Hand Steel

Eight Generations in a Spanish Village By Richard L. Nostrand

Dakota Sons in Vietnam By Mark St. Pierre

El Cerrito, New Mexico captures the essence of a village that, despite cultural disintegration, sparks the passion of a small number of inhabitants who want to keep it alive. Richard L. Nostrand opens a window into the past of the upper Pecos Valley, revealing the daily life of this small, isolated Hispanic village whose population waxes and wanes in the face of family feuds, settlement struggles, and the ever-encroaching modern world.

This work of creative nonfiction, inspired by the true story of two South Dakota teenagers, draws on interviews and research in military archives to present the harrowing story of two young men—one white, one Indian—caught in the vortex of the Vietnam War.

Miners and Machines on the Old Western Frontier By Otis E. Young, Jr. Contributions by Robert Lenon

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Otis E. Young, Jr., professor emeritus of history at Arizona State University, Tempe, is also the author of Western Mining: An Informal Account of Precious-Metals Prospecting, Placering, Lode Mining. MARCH $14.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5397-1 216 PAGES, 5.5 × 8.5 29 B&W ILLUS., 1 MAP U.S. HISTORY

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Mark St. Pierre has lived among the Lakotas as an educator. He is the author of Madonna Swan: A Lakota Woman’s Story.

OF UNCOMMON BIRTH

Richard L. Nostrand, Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of Oklahoma, is the author of The Hispano Homeland, a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book.

Dale, a middle-class white, joins the army and dreams of serving his country. Frank, a Lakota, joins to flee the circumstances of his life and follow his people’s warrior tradition.

Western mining entered its great era after 1860, the years of bonanza strikes, including Nevada’s Tonopah-Goldfield strike that netted more than one hundred million dollars. Black Powder and Hand Steel describes the life of the miners and the machinery they used. Otis E. Young, Jr., reveals the difficulties of prospecting and mining the West’s most valuable ores—gold and silver—and gives readers a firsthand look at the challenges of working even the most successful strikes.


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The American Cowboy

Fort Union and the Winning of the Southwest

Tombstone, A.T.

TOMBSTONE, A.T.

FORT UNION AND THE WINNING OF THE SOUTHWEST

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The Myth and the Reality By Joe B. Frantz and Julian Ernest Choate, Jr. The cowboy, America’s most popular folk hero, appeals to millions of readers and commands a vast audience on country radio, television, and at the movies, but what exactly is a cowboy? Illustrated with Erwin E. Smith’s great cowboy photographs, The American Cowboy reveals the real, dyed-in-the-wool cowboy as a heroic being from the American past, who richly deserves to be understood in terms of reality, instead of myth. Joe B. Frantz was Professor of History at the University of Texas and a prolific author of Texas and western history. Julian Ernest Choate, Jr., was Professor of English, David Lipscomb College, Nashville, Tennessee. FEBRUARY $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5285-1 264 PAGES, 5.5 × 8.5 16 B&W ILLUS. U.S. HISTORY

By Chris Emmett The story of military operations in the Southwest centers on Fort Union, New Mexico. Founded in 1851, the fort was the supply post and focal point for dealing with Spanish and Indian populations in New Mexico Territory until it was abandoned in 1891. Fort Union was the final Confederate objective in New Mexico. But after the Battle of Glorieta Pass, the fort remained a Union Army stronghold in the West. Later, Fort Union’s charge was maintaining peace among Indian tribes. Chris Emmett practiced law in San Antonio and wrote many articles and several books, including Shanghai Pierce: A Fair Likeness also published by the University of Oklahoma Press. MARCH $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5387-2 472 PAGES, 6.125 × 9.25 17 B&W ILLUS., 7 MAPS MILITARY HISTORY/U.S. HISTORY

A History of Early Mining, Milling, and Mayhem By Wm. B. Shillingberg Once nearly forgotten, Tombstone, Arizona is trapped in myth and legend. Tombstone’s rough and rowdy exploits were reported from San Francisco to New York. Tombstone, A.T. rediscovers the real Tombstone—the rough mining town of boomers and investors, of hard men and women seeking their fortunes, comes to life. William B. Shillingberg’s true tales are filled with the famous and the notorious, including Wyatt Earp and his brothers, Ike Clanton’s gang, Doc Holliday, John Ringo, and Frank Leslie. Wm. B. Shillingberg is retired as president of an international probate research corporation. The author of Dodge City: The Early Years, 1872–1886, he resides in Tucson, Arizona. FEBRUARY $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5399-5 404 PAGES, 6.125 × 9.25 28 B&W ILLUS. HISTORY


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Daschle vs. Thune

Dirty Money and Democracies By David C. Jordan

Anatomy of a High-Plains Senate Race By Jon K. Lauck

The Map Turtle and Sawback Atlas

Drug Politics is by a man who knows this disturbing and dangerous subject. A former U.S. ambassador to Peru (1984–86), David C. Jordan has testified before the U.S. Senate and House Foreign Relations committees and has consulted with government security organizations. His account of government protection of criminal elements challenges the assumptions of current drug policies. Using examples from South America, Mexico, Russia, and the United States, Jordan shows the narcotics problem is not merely one of supply and demand.

The race between Tom Daschle and John Thune in South Dakota, widely acknowledged as “the other big race of 2004,” pitted against each other the rival political ideologies that have animated American politics since the 1960s. In a sign of the strength of political conservatism, Daschle became the first Senate leader in fifty years to lose a reelection bid. Daschle vs. Thune shows how the recent past shapes the ongoing political battles that engage pundits and bloggers.

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Peter V. Lindeman is Professor of Biology at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and author of numerous articles on map turtles and sawbacks. JANUARY $45.00s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4406-1 $39.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4931-8 488 PAGES, 6.125 × 9.25 70 COLOR AND 163 B&W ILLUS., 14 MAPS, 33 TABLES ANIMAL SCIENCE VOLUME 12 IN THE ANIMAL NATURAL HISTORY SERIES

THE MAP TURTLE AND SAWBACK ATLAS

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Lavishly illustrated, Map Turtle and Sawback Atlas is both a scientific treatise and an engaging introduction to a striking group of turtles. Map turtles and sawbacks are found in and along rivers from Texas to Florida and north to the Great Lakes. In lively prose, Lindeman details the habitat, diet, reproduction and life history, natural history, and population of each species, outlining promising avenues for future research— from the effects of climate change to combating expansion of the pet trade.

DASCHLE VS. THUNE

David C. Jordan is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Politics, Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics, University of Virginia.

Jon K. Lauck, Counsel and Senior Advisor to U.S. Senator John Thune, is the author of Prairie Republic: The Political Culture of Dakota Territory.

Ecology, Evolution, Distribution, and Conservation By Peter V. Lindeman Foreword by Anders G. J. Rhodin


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I Imagining Sovereignty, Carlson, 40 Indian Trial, The, Robinson, 57 Ioway Life, Olson, 42

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T Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858–1861, The, Ely, 23 Titan, Nester, 33 Tombstone, A.T., Shillingberg, 60 Touring the West with Leaping Lena, 1925, Clark/Dary, 13 Trial of Tom Horn, The, Davis, 9 Twentieth-Century Oklahoma, Lowitt, 28

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