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On the Cover: Ray stanford Strong, Plough Patterns (Fall Plowing Patterns, Pierce Point), 1941. Oil on canvas, 30 × 36 inches. Courtesy of Tom Adams.

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A Politician Thinking The Creative Mind of James Madison By Jack N. Rakove James Madison presented his most celebrated and studied political ideas in his contributions to The Federalist, the essays that he, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote in 1787–1788 to secure ratification of the U.S. Constitution. As Jack N. Rakove shows in A Politician Thinking, however, those essays do not illustrate the full complexity and vigor of Madison’s thinking. In this book, Rakove pushes beyond what Madison thought to examine how he thought, showing that this founder’s political genius lay less in the content of his published writings than in the ways he turned his creative mind to solving real political problems. Rakove begins his analysis by examining how Madison drew upon his experiences as a member of the Continental Congress and as a Virginia legislator to develop his key ideas. Madison sought to derive lessons of history from his reading and his own experience, but he also thought about politics in terms of what we now recognize as game theory. After discussing Madison’s approach to the challenge of constitutional change, Rakove emphasizes his strikingly modern understanding of legislative deliberation, which he treated as the defining problem of republican government. Rakove also addresses Madison’s deliberation about ways to protect the rights of individuals and political minorities from the rule of “factious majorities.” The book closes by tracing how Madison developed strategies for maintaining long-term constitutional stability and adjusting to the new realities of governance under the Constitution. Engaging and accessible, A Politician Thinking offers new insight concerning a key constitutional thinker and the foundations of the American constitutional system. Having a more thorough understanding of how Madison solved the problems presented in the formation of that system, we better grasp a unique moment of political innovation. Jack N. Rakove is William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and author of James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution.

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RAKOVE A POLITICIAN THINKING

A leading constitutional scholar tracks Madison’s political mind at work

YANG KE TWO HALVES OF THE WORLD APPLE

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Arresting imagery and pointed social commentary by one of China’s leading poets

Two Halves of the World Apple Poems by Yang Ke Translated by Denis Mair, Chao, Simon Patton, Ouyang Yu, and Ning Yang Foreword by Jonathan Stalling An important voice in the “Third Generation” of contemporary Chinese poets— younger poets whose work emerged beginning in the late 1980s—Yang Ke has influenced his country’s literary culture for more than three decades. As the first English-language collection of his poems, Two Halves of the World Apple introduces readers to a prolific and accessible writer at the forefront of Chinese poetry today.

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MEMORIES OF THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION Poems By Luo Ying $14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4917-2 RHAPSODY IN BLACK Poems By Jidi Majia $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4449-8 WINTER SUN Poems By Shi Zhi $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4241-8

Rendered in English translations that deftly capture Yang Ke’s lyrical and idiomatic style, the 73 poems in this volume reflect the depth, breadth, and evolution of the poet’s work. Yang Ke’s poems, praised by literary critics for their use of clear, distinctive language and linguistic and poetic texture, pair arresting imagery with pointed social commentary. Moving across the landscape of classical and modern Chinese poetry, they engage with the natural, social, and moral complexities of the everyday modern world, from evocative portrayals of South China’s Zhuang minority culture to stark, personal depictions of the consequences of globalization. In this imaginative outpouring, the East and the West become two halves of an apple—“a ball struck by God’s bat,” spinning through the cosmos—“yin and yang fish chasing each other’s tails.” Thoughtfully annotated by lead translator Denis Mair and with a foreword by Jonathan Stalling, this collection of poems showcases the best work of one of the leading lights of China’s contemporary literary scene. Yang Ke is the award-winning author of eleven collections of poetry. He lives in Guangzhou, China. Denis Mair has translated the work of numerous Chinese poets into English, including Jidi Majia’s Rhapsody in Black: Poems. Chao, a pen name, is a translator and professor in the School of English, Guangzhou Foreign Languages University, China. Simon Patton teaches Chinese-English translation at the University of Queensland, Australia, and is the translator of numerous Chinese literary works into English. Ouyang Yu, a prolific Chinese-Australian author, is editor and translator of In Your Face: Contemporary Chinese Poetry in English Translation. Ning Yang is a translator, poet, and Associate Professor in the College of Foreign Languages at Beijing Language and Cultural University. Jonathan Stalling is Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma and Deputy Editor-inChief of Chinese Literature Today magazine.

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Live from Medicine Park By Constance Squires Documentary filmmaker Ray Wheeler is down on his luck. Embroiled in a lawsuit, he is reeling from the consequences of a near-fatal shooting on his last film, and has just lost his teaching gig. Broke and beleaguered, he can’t afford to be particular about his next project. So when a former student invites him to film the comeback of Lena Wells, an iconic rock-and-roll singer who hit it big in the seventies, three decades earlier, he reluctantly agrees—even though he doesn’t like her music. When Ray arrives at Lena’s hometown of Medicine Park, Oklahoma, a defunct resort community, he is determined to approach his topic with the professional detachment that has guided his career. His work ethic is modeled on the prime directive of Star Trek: never interfere with an alien civilization. But with only five days left before Lena’s comeback concert, Ray quickly runs afoul of his subject, who places him on a one-week probation. The terms: impress her or else. It doesn’t take long before Ray violates his own ethical standards. Drawn romantically toward Lena, he also fails to prevent himself from interfering with the lives of the people closest to her, including her only son, Gram, whose paternity is a mystery even to himself; her daughter-in-law, Jettie; and the enigmatic guitar player Cyril Dodge. When disaster strikes Ray’s set again, this time in Medicine Park, he must face truths he has avoided for too long—about love, relationships, and responsibility. An ode to both southwestern Oklahoma and rock music, Live from Medicine Park is a bittersweet reflection on the search for identity and purpose amid tragedy. As the novel reaches its climax, Ray sets out on one last adventure to set things right. Redemption may be possible—but only on its own terms. Constance Squires is the award-winning author of Along the Watchtower: A Novel and Wounding Radius and Other Stories. Her numerous short stories have appeared in Guernica, Shenandoah, Atlantic Monthly, and other magazines. She teaches creative writing at the University of Central Oklahoma.

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SQUIRES LIVE FROM MEDICINE PARK

A fast-paced novel blending the colorful world of rock and roll with one man’s quest for redemption

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GIOIA, BLACK, CHÁVEZ, HAYES, LIPPARD, NUNN, PADILLA BORDERLESS

The first full-length study of an innovative Chicano sculptor

Borderless The Art of Luis Tapia Foreword by Dana Gioia Introduction by Charlene Villaseñor Black Contributions by Denise Chávez, Edward Hayes Jr., Lucy R. Lippard, and Tey Marianna Nunn Edited by Carmella Padilla

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Born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1950, sculptor Luis Tapia is a pioneering Chicano artist who for forty-five years has pushed the art of polychrome wood sculpture to new levels of craftsmanship and social and political commentary. Tapia’s works speak to the complexity of Latino/Hispano/Chicano identity, history, and contemporary culture, offering compelling insights and challenging perspectives on life in the barrio, on the border, and beyond. Rooted in a folk art tradition established in seventeenth-century New Mexico, Tapia’s work at once honors its origins, reinterprets traditional subject matter, and revitalizes age-old techniques. As an artist and activist whose works have been internationally exhibited and collected, Tapia informs and educates non-Hispanic viewers about the Chicano and Nuevomexicano experience. At the same time, he transcends cultural and ethnic borders through the elegance of his craft and commentary. In this first publication devoted to Tapia’s artistic legacy, leading art historians, curators, and literary figures consider Tapia’s art both inside and outside the local and regional contexts in which it is made. With more than 100 photographic reproductions, Borderless illuminates Tapia’s relevance and vitality within the broader national and international artistic conversation. Dana Gioia is the Poet Laureate of California. Charlene Villaseñor Black is Professor of Art History and Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Lucy R. Lippard is author of 24 books on contemporary art and cultural criticism. Tey Marianna Nunn is Museum Director and Chief Curator of the National Hispanic Cultural Center. Denise Chávez is a southern New Mexico performance writer, novelist, and teacher. Edward Hayes is curator of exhibitions at the Museum of Latin American Art. Carmella Padilla is a Santa Fe journalist, author, and editor.

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HASSRICK THE BEST OF PROCTOR’S WEST

A close examination of the artistry and science behind iconic western sculptures

The Best of Proctor’s West An In-Depth Study of Eleven of Proctor’s Bronzes By Peter H. Hassrick Contributions by Karen B. McWhorter and Allison Rosenthal The Buffalo Bill Center of the West is home to the most extensive collection of material related to sculptor Alexander Phimister Proctor (1860–1950). The museum’s unrivaled holdings include the artist’s papers, personal effects, studio paraphernalia, and original works of art. Vast archival collections are made available for research through the Center’s McCracken Research Library, and a wide selection of Proctor’s bronze, marble, and plaster sculptures and paintings, drawings, and prints are presented within the Whitney Western Art Museum. These rich resources informed and inspired The Best of Proctor’s West project, an in-depth study of eleven of the artist’s most celebrated bronzes. Comprising a scholarly publication and a searchable online database, the project weds connoisseurship and science. Bronzes studied include Fawn (first and second models), Stalking Panther (multiple variations), Arab Stallion, Indian Warrior (large and small versions), Moose, Elk, Q Street Buffalo, Buckaroo (multiple variations), Pursued (1914 and 1928 versions), Buffalo Hunt, and On the War Path. A new, richly illustrated catalogue, The Best of Proctor’s West: An In-Depth Study of Eleven of Proctor’s Bronzes, contains extended interpretive essays by Peter H. Hassrick on each of the selected bronzes. Allison Rosenthal discusses recent scientific examinations of Proctor’s bronzes using X-ray florescence (XRF) spectrometry. Karen B. McWhorter adds an introduction about the Center’s Proctor Studio Collection and offers a brief biography of the artist. The online database complements and expands upon the publication. Peter H. Hassrick is Director Emeritus and Senior Scholar at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of many publications, including Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonné II, Painted Journeys: The Art of John Mix Stanley, and In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein. Karen B. McWhorter is the Scarlett Curator of Western American Art for the Whitney Western Art Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming. Allison Rosenthal is the Advanced Conservation Research Fellow at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West.

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REINKING OKLAHOMA WINTER BIRD ATLAS

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A richly illustrated guide to birds that winter in the state

Oklahoma Winter Bird Atlas By Dan L. Reinking Beautifully illustrated with color photographs, maps, graphs, and tables, the Oklahoma Winter Bird Atlas offers ornithologists and amateur birders alike a wealth of easy-to-read information about the status of bird species in Oklahoma. A companion to the Oklahoma Breeding Bird Atlas, this landmark volume by biologist Dan L. Reinking provides a detailed portrait of more than 250 species, from the oft-spotted Red-tailed Hawk, Dark-eyed Junco, and Northern Flicker to the rarely seen Blue-headed Vireo, Cassin’s Finch, and Verdin.

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The atlas—one of the first of its kind for winter birds—uses a combination of species accounts, grouped by scientific order, and illustrations to provide a systematic inventory of winter bird distribution across Oklahoma’s counties. Each species account includes a photograph of the featured bird in winter plumage, along with a brief description outlining the times of year it appears in the state, its habitat, its distribution across the state’s counties, and its behavior. Maps indicate surveyed locations in which the species was spotted, while charts and tables further describe the bird’s abundance. The data compiled in this volume represent the work of more than 75 volunteers who conducted bird counts in both early and late winter for the George M. Sutton Avian Research Center. The data span five winters, 2003 to 2008, and 577 blocks of land. Comprehensively researched and thoughtfully presented, the Oklahoma Winter Bird Atlas will prove an invaluable resource for evaluating trends in bird populations that change over time due to such factors as urban expansion, rural development, and climate change. Dan L. Reinking is a biologist at the George M. Sutton Avian Research Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and editor of the Oklahoma Breeding Bird Atlas.

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ANSCHUTZ OUT WHERE THE WEST BEGINS, VOLUME 2

An engaging account of lives that form a unique tapestry of human experience

Out Where the West Begins, Volume 2 Creating and Civilizing the American West By Philip F. Anschutz In1790, it was not a given that the young United States, bruised and healing from its struggle for independence and populated by fewer than 4 million inhabitants, would even survive, much less flourish. But the great adventure that came next— the exploration and settlement of the lands lying to the west and stretching to the Pacific Ocean—would build a nation where only a patchwork of eastern seaboard colonies had existed before. The first book in this series, Out Where the West Begins: Profiles, Visions, & Strategies of Early Western Business Leaders, profiled fifty individuals who made significant contributions to the economic development of a young nation. This second volume follows the saga of more than one hundred influential men and women—political and military leaders, religious thinkers, civil rights proponents, suffragettes, African American pioneers, writers and artists, explorers and surveyors, architects, inventors, innovators, medical professionals, and conservationists—who together wove the story of early western frontier America. The engaging account of their lives forms a unique tapestry of human experience.

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In the words of the author, “Understanding our distinctive past helps us better comprehend who we are now and who we wish to become.”

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Philip F. Anschutz is owner of The Anschutz Corporation, Denver, Colorado, whose major business interests are in communications, transportation, natural and renewable resources, real estate, lodging, and entertainment. A native of Kansas, he graduated from the University of Kansas in 1961 with a degree in business. He started The Anschutz Corporation in 1965. He has served on boards and committees of various charitable, civic, industry, and financial organizations. Among Mr. Anschutz’s personal interests is the collecting of paintings of the early American West.

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Blood on the Marias

Walking the Llano

The Baker Massacre By Paul R. Wylie

A Texas Memoir of Place By Shelley Armitage

A thorough retelling of the Piegan massacre of 1870

A lyrical ecomemoir set in the Texas Panhandle

ARMITAGE WALKING THE LLANO

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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 women, children, and old men, many afflicted with smallpox. 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 inebriated commander, Major Eugene Baker, had ignored guides who said he was on the wrong trail.

When American 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. In Walking the Llano, Shelley Armitage charts a unique rediscovery of the largely unknown land, a journey at once deeply personal and farreaching in its exploration of the connections between memory, spirit, and place.

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Author Paul R. Wylie plumbs the history of Euro-American involvement with the Piegans, members of the Blackfeet Confederacy. As American fur traders and trappers moved into the region, the U.S. government soon followed, making treaties it did not honor. When the U.S. Army arrived with the gold rush in the 1860s, pressure from Montana citizens to control the Piegans and make the territory safe for settlers led Generals William Tecumseh Sherman and Philip H. Sheridan to send Baker and the 2nd Cavalry, with tragic consequences.

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. For Armitage, the llano holds not only the beauty of ecological surprises but a renewed realization of kinship in a world ever changing.

Baker’s inept command sparked the 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. OCTOBER $29.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-5157-1 $21.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-5974-4 336 PAGES, 6 × 9 40 B&W ILLUS., 5 MAPS U.S. HISTORY/MILITARY HISTORY

Reminiscent of the work of Terry Tempest Williams and John McPhee, Walking the Llano is 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. JULY $24.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-5162-5 $19.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-5963-8 216 PAGES, 5.5 × 8.5 30 B&W ILLUS., 1 MAP MEMOIR

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PORTER WALTER UFER

A retrospective on one of the Taos Society of Artists’ founding members

Walter Ufer Rise, Fall, Resurrection By Dean A. Porter Walter Ufer’s artistic legacy, like that of other Taos Society artists, went largely unappreciated for several decades following World War II. A few discerning patrons acquired Ufer’s artwork for private holdings and prospective museums collections. However, art critics and scholars paid little heed to him or the Southwest genre of art until the 1980s, when a series of major scholarly publications regarding the Taos Society of Artists begin to stimulate interest. Walter Ufer: Rise, Fall, Resurrection examines the life and artistic career of one of America’s most talented artists, relatively unknown outside a small circle of collectors and scholars. Born in Germany to parents who had immigrated to Louisville, Kentucky, Ufer became a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists. His career, spanning nearly forty years, was filled with success, failure, and adversity. Between 1916 and 1926, Ufer earned several prestigious awards including membership in the National Academy of Design in New York and recognition by the Art Institute of Chicago. During that time, his paintings were added to permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. During this period, the support of William Henry Klauer, a wealthy businessman, provided him with the critical financial support he needed to continue his career. Ufer was highly political and concerned with social injustice. His artistic expression and social concerns often came together on canvases depicting Pueblo Indians in the harsh realities of their everyday life. Unfortunately, his personal life was also troubled by chronic alcoholism and constant indebtedness during this period. Dean Porter, Director Emeritus of The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, is a guest curator, lecturer, artist, and respected scholar, especially regarding the Taos Society of Artists. He is the author of Victor Higgins, An American Master and coauthor of Taos Artists and Their Patrons,1898-1950.

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SCOTT PAUL PLETKA

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A true original in the rich artistic landscape of the American West

Paul Pletka Imagined Wests By Amy Scott Contributions by Paul Pletka Foreword by James K. Ballinger

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Born in San Diego in 1946 and raised in the American Southwest, painter Paul Pletka has created a body of work that owes much to the West of his childhood, and more to the West of his imagination. Infused with an operatic sense of theater and drama, his paintings conjure scenes from the cultures, history, and religions of the American West and Mexico—diffused, as Pletka writes, “through the lens of personal experiences, dreams, research, and ancestral memory.” In Paul Pletka: Imagined Wests, the first book on this major American artist in over thirty years, readers will encounter the full range of Pletka’s oeuvre through more than eighty color reproductions of his best-known and most influential works. Images of warriors and shamans are paired with depictions of George Armstrong Custer, Christian saints, and the lost gods of North and South America, their forms rendered in a distinctive style that mixes classical drawing and expressionist distortion with elements of surrealism and European symbolism. An artist statement and notes on selected paintings provide rare insight into Pletka’s creative process, and an introductory essay by art historian Amy Scott discusses how Pletka’s studies of indigenous cultures of the American West and Mexico, as well as art historical and critical influences, have informed his work. Complex, mysterious, and mesmerizing, Pletka’s paintings are designed to make it almost impossible to look away. In their boldly conceived subject matter, vivid color, and ethnographic detail, these works—and their creator—are true originals in the rich artistic landscape of the American West. Amy Scott is Chief Curator and Marilyn B. and Calvin B. Gross Curator of Visual Arts at the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles, California. She is the author of The Taos Society of Artists: Masters and Masterworks and Len Chmiel: An Authentic Nature. James K. Ballinger is Director Emeritus of the Phoenix Art Museum and author of Frederic Remington.

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Ray Stanford Strong, West Coast Landscape Artist By Mark Humpal Throughout his long and prolific career, Ray Stanford Strong (1905–2006) strove to capture the essence of the western American landscape. An accomplished painter who achieved national fame during the New Deal era, Strong is best known for his depiction of landscapes in California and Oregon, rendered in his signature plein air style. This beautiful volume, featuring more than 100 color and black-and-white illustrations, is the first comprehensive exploration of Strong’s life and artistry. Through family papers, archives, photographs, and a two-year series of interviews conducted with the artist personally, Mark Humpal traces Strong’s journey from his childhood on an Oregon berry farm to his artistically formative years in New York and San Francisco. After moving back to the West Coast, Strong produced important works for the WPA, executed major diorama projects for two world expositions, helped organize the Santa Barbara Art Institute, and served as teacher and mentor for a new generation of plein air artists. But, as Humpal emphasizes, Strong distinguished himself by resisting the drumbeat of the avant-garde. During an era when many artists were experimenting with abstract expressionism, Strong never relinquished his personal vision and adherence to a more traditional style. With his outgoing personality, he forged friendships and associations with such prominent artists as Frank Vincent DuMond, Maynard Dixon, Ansel Adams, Frank Lloyd Wright, and John Steinbeck. Ultimately, Strong had little concern for his place in the sweep of art history. The proficiency he achieved through years of formal and informal study allowed him to craft a personal style difficult to categorize but unique and engaging. By expanding our understanding and appreciation of Strong’s artistic contributions, this book offers a fitting tribute to one of America’s finest landscape artists. Mark Humpal is an art historian, independent curator, and gallerist in Portland, Oregon. He is the coauthor, with Margaret E. Bullock, of Coast to Cascades: C. C. McKim’s Impressionist Vision, and his articles on Oregon artists have appeared in the Oregon Historical Quarterly and other journals.

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Rewrites the life story of the “Dust Bowl Balladeer”

Woody Guthrie’s Modern World Blues By Will Kaufman Mention Woody Guthrie, and people who know the name are likely to think of the “Okie Bard,” dust storms behind him, riding a boxcar or walking a red-dirt road, a battered guitar strapped to his back. But unlock Guthrie from the confines of rural folk and Hollywood mythology, as Will Kaufman does here, and you’ll find an abstract painter and sculptor who wrote about atomic energy and Ingrid Bergman and developed advanced theories of dialectical materialism and human engineering—in short, a folk singer who was deeply engaged with the art, ideas, and issues of his time.

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LISTENING TO ROSITA The Business of Tejana Music and Culture, 1930–1955 By Mary Ann Villarreal $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4852-6 $24.95s Paperback 978-0-8061-5779-5 TALKING MACHINE WEST A History and Catalogue of Tin Pan Alley's Western Recordings, 1902–1918 By Michael A. Amundson $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5604-0 SING ME BACK HOME Southern Roots and Country Music By Bill C. Malone $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5586-9

Guthrie may have been born in the Oklahoma hills, but his most productive years were spent in the metropolitan centers of Los Angeles and New York. Machines and their physics were among his favorite metaphors, fast cars were his passion, and airplanes and even flying saucers were his frequent subjects. His career-long immersion in radio, recording, and film inspired trenchant observations concerning mass media and communication, and he contributed to modern art as a prolific abstract painter, graphic artist, and sculptor. This book explores how, through multiple artistic forms, Guthrie thought and felt about the scientific method, atomic power, and war technology, as well as the shifting dynamics of gender and race. Drawing on previously unpublished archival sources, Kaufman brings to the fore what Guthrie’s insistently folksy popular image obscures: the essays, visual art, letters, verse, fiction, and voluminous notebook entries that reveal his profoundly modern sensibilities. Woody Guthrie emerges from these pages as a figure whose immense artistic output reflects the nation’s conflicted engagement with modernity. Capturing the breathtaking social and technological changes that took place during his extraordinarily productive career, Woody Guthrie’s Modern World Blues offers a unique and much-needed new perspective on a musical icon. Will Kaufman is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Central Lancashire, England, and author of American Culture in the 1970s and Woody Guthrie, American Radical.

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Portrait of a Prospector Edward Schieffelin’s Own Story Edited by R. Bruce Craig Edward “Ed” Schieffelin (1847–1897) was the epitome of the American frontiersman. A former Indian scout, he discovered what would become known as the legendary Tombstone, Arizona, silver lode in 1877. His search for wealth followed a path well-trod by thousands who journeyed west in the mid to late nineteenth century to try their luck in mining country. But unlike typical prospectors who spent decades futilely panning for gold, Schieffelin led an epic life of wealth and adventure. In Portrait of a Prospector, historian R. Bruce Craig pieces together the colorful memoirs and oral histories of this singular individual to tell Schieffelin’s story in his own words. Craig places the prospector’s family background and times into context in an engaging introduction, then opens Schieffelin’s story with the frontiersman’s accounts of his first prospecting attempts at ten years old, his flight from home at twelve to search for gold, and his initial wanderings in California, Nevada, and Utah. In direct, unsentimental prose, Schieffelin describes his expedition into Arizona Territory, where army scouts assured him that he “would find no rock . . . but his own tombstone.” Unlike many prospectors who simply panned for gold, Schieffelin took on wealthy partners who invested the enormous funds needed for hard rock mining. He and his co-investors in the Tombstone claim became millionaires. Restless in his newfound life of wealth and leisure, Schieffelin soon returned to exploration. Upon his early death in Oregon he left behind a new strike, the location of which remains a mystery. Collecting the words of an exceptional figure who embodied the western frontier, Craig offers readers insight into the mentality of prospector-adventurers during an age of discovery and of limitless potential. R. Bruce Craig is an independent historian and biographer. He is the author of Treasonable Doubt: The Harry Dexter White Spy Case and The Apprenticeship of Alger Hiss. Craig lives in Canada, where he teaches American History at the University of Prince Edward Island.

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ETULAIN ERNEST HAYCOX AND THE WESTERN

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A twentieth-century giant in the Western novel’s development

Ernest Haycox and the Western By Richard W. Etulain Western fans today may not recognize the name Ernest Haycox (1899–1950), but they know his work. John Ford turned one of his stories into the iconic film Stagecoach, and the whole Western literary genre still follows conventions that Haycox deftly mastered and reshaped. In this new book about Haycox’s literary career, Richard W. Etulain tells the engrossing story of his rise through the ranks of popular magazine and serial fiction to become one of the Western’s most successful creators. After graduating from the University of Oregon in 1923 with a degree in journalism, Haycox began his quest to break into New York’s pulp magazine scene, submitting dozens of stories before he began to make a living from his writing. By the end of the 1920s he had become a top writer for Western Story, Short Stories, and Adventure, among other popular weeklies and monthlies. SEPTEMBER $29.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-5730-6 200 PAGES, 6 × 9 16 B&W ILLUS. BIOGRAPHY/LITERATURE

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BUGLES IN THE AFTERNOON By Ernest Haycox Sr. $9.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3566-3 ON A SILVER DESERT The Life of Ernest Haycox By Ernest Haycox Jr. $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3564-9 OWEN WISTER AND THE WEST By Gary Scharnhorst $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4675-1

Ernest Haycox and the Western traces Haycox’s path from rank beginner, to crack pulp writer, to regular contributor to Collier’s and the Saturday Evening Post. Etulain shows how Haycox experimented with techniques to deepen and broaden his Westerns, creating more introspective protagonists (Hamlet heroes), introducing new types of heroines (the brunette vixen, the blonde Puritan), and weaving greater historical realism into his plots. After reaching the height of success with his bestselling Custer novel, Bugles in the Afternoon (1944), Haycox moved away from the financially rewarding but artistically constricting Western formula—only to achieve his final coup with The Earthbreakers, a historical novel about the end of the Oregon Trail, published posthumously in 1952. Reconstructing the career of a popular literary giant, Ernest Haycox and the Western restores Haycox to his rightful place in the history of Western literature. Richard W. Etulain is Professor Emeritus of History and has served as director of the Center for the American West at the University of New Mexico. Former editor of the New Mexico Historical Review, he is the author or editor of more than 50 books, including Telling Western Stories: From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry and The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane.

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Orozco The Life and Death of a Mexican Revolutionary By Raymond Caballero On August 31, 1915, a Texas posse lynched five “horse thieves.” One of them, it turned out, was General Pascual Orozco Jr., military hero of the Mexican Revolution. Was he a desperado or a hero? Orozco’s death proved as controversial as his storied life, a career of mysterious contradictions that Raymond Caballero puzzles out in this book. A long-overdue biography of a significant but little-known and less understood figure of Mexican history, Orozco tells the full story of this revolutionary’s meteoric rise and ignominious descent, including the purposely obscured circumstances of his death at the hands of a lone, murderous lawman. That story—of an unknown muleteer of Northwest Chihuahua who became the revolution’s most important military leader, a national hero and idol, only to turn on his former revolutionary ally Francisco Madero—is one of the most compelling narratives of early-twentiethcentury Mexican history. Without Orozco’s leadership, Madero would likely have never deposed dictator Porfirio Díaz. And yet Orozco soon joined Madero’s hated assassin, the new dictator, Victoriano Huerta, and espoused progressive reforms while fighting on behalf of reactionaries. Whereas other historians have struggled to make sense of this contradictory record, Caballero brings to light Orozco’s bizarre appointment of an unknown con man to administer his rebellion, a man whose background and character, once revealed, explain many of Orozco’s previously baffling actions. The book also delves into the peculiar history of Orozco’s homeland, offering new insight into why Northwest Chihuahua, of all places in Mexico, produced the revolution’s military leadership, in particular a champion like Pascual Orozco. From the circumstances of his ascent, to revelations about his treachery, to the true details of his death, Orozco at last emerges, through Caballero’s account, in all his complexity and significance. Raymond Caballero is an independent historian whose research has long focused on Mexico, especially the Mexican Revolution.

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CABALLERO OROZCO

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FITZPATRICK EMORY UPTON

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Provides a better understanding of a key figure in American military thought

Emory Upton Misunderstood Reformer By David J. Fitzpatrick Emory Upton (1839–1881) is widely recognized as one of America’s most influential military thinkers. His works—The Armies of Asia and Europe and The Military Policy of the United States—fueled the army’s intellectual ferment in the late nineteenth century and guided Secretary of War Elihu Root’s reforms in the early 1900s. Yet as David J. Fitzpatrick contends, Upton is also widely misunderstood as an antidemocratic militaristic zealot whose ideas were “too Prussian” for America. In this first full biography in nearly half a century, Fitzpatrick, the leading authority on Upton, radically revises our view of this important figure in American military thought.

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A devout Methodist farm boy from upstate New York, Upton attended the United States Military Academy at West Point and served in the Civil War. His use of a mass infantry attack to break the Confederate lines at Spotsylvania Courthouse in 1864 identified him as a rising figure in the U.S. Army. Upton’s subsequent work on military organizations in Asia and Europe, commissioned by Commanding General William T. Sherman, influenced the army’s turn toward a European, largely German ideal of soldiering as a profession. Yet it was this same text, along with Upton’s Military Policy of the United States, that also propelled the misinterpretations of Upton—first by some contemporaries, and more recently by noted historians Stephen Ambrose and Russell Weigley. By showing Upton’s dedication to the ideal of the citizen-soldier and placing him within the context of contemporary military, political, and intellectual discourse, Fitzpatrick shows how Upton’s ideas clearly grew out of an American military-political tradition. Emory Upton: Misunderstood Reformer clarifies Upton’s influence on the army by offering a new and necessary understanding of the military’s intellectual direction at a critical juncture in American history.

THE RIVER WAS DYED WITH BLOOD Nathan Bedford Forrest and Fort Pillow By Brian Steel Wills $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4453-5 PATHFINDER John Charles Frémont and the Course of American Empire By Tom Chaffin $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4474-0 GEORGE CROOK From the Redwoods to Appomattox By Paul Magid $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4441-2

David J. Fitzpatrick is Professor of History at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His articles have been published in the Journal of Military History.

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Firsthand accounts of overland journeys to the West after the gold rush

The Great Medicine Road, Part 3 Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, 1850–1855 Edited by Michael L. Tate Contributions by Kerin Tate, Will Bagley, and Richard Rieck In the years after the discovery of gold in California, thousands of fortune seekers made their way west, joining the greatest mass migration in American history. The gold fields were only one destination, as emigrants pushed across the Great Plains, Great Basin, and Oregon Territory in unprecedented numbers, following the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails to the verdant Willamette Valley or Mormon settlements in the Salt Lake Valley. “Seeing the Elephant” they often called the journey, referring to the wondrous sights and endless adventures met along the way. The firsthand accounts of those who made the trip between 1850 and 1855 that are collected in this third volume in a four-part series speak of wonders and adventures, but also of disaster and deprivation. Traversing the ever-changing landscape, these pioneers braved flooded rivers, endured cholera and hunger, and had encounters with Indians that were often friendly and sometimes troubled. Rich in detail and diverse in the experiences they relate, these letters, diary excerpts, recollections, and reports capture the voices of women and men of all ages and circumstances, hailing from states far and wide, and heading west in hope and desperation. Their words allow us to see the grit and glory of the American West as it once appeared to those who witnessed its transformation. Michael L. Tate begins the volume with an introduction to this middle phase of the trails’ history. A headnote and annotations for each document sketch the author’s background and reasons for undertaking the trip and correct and clarify information in the original manuscript. The extensive bibliography identifies sources and suggests further reading. Michael L. Tate is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and author of The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West and Indians and Emigrants: Encounters on the Overland Trails. Kerin Tate is an editor and researcher who specializes in western-U.S. history. Will Bagley is the author or editor of numerous books on the American West, including With Golden Visions Bright Before Them: Trails to the Mining West, 1849–1852 and South Pass: Gateway to a Continent. Richard L. Rieck is Professor Emeritus of Geography at Western Illinois University.

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Features more than six hundred original government documents and local records

Utah and the American Civil War The Written Record Edited by Kenneth L. Alford When Fort Sumter was attacked in April 1861, hundreds of soldiers were stationed at the U.S. Army’s Camp Floyd, forty miles southwest of Salt Lake City. The camp, established in June 1858, was the nation’s largest military post. Utah and the American Civil War presents a wealth of primary sources pertaining to the territory’s participation in the Civil War—material that until now has mostly been scattered, incomplete, or difficult to locate. Organized and annotated for easy use, this rich mix of military orders, dispatches, letters, circulars, battle and skirmish reports, telegraph messages, command lists, and other correspondence shows how Utah’s wartime experience was shaped by a peculiar blend of geography, religion, and politics. AUGUST $60.00s CLOTH 978-0-87062-441-4 864 PAGES, 7 × 10 1 MAP U.S. HISTORY/MILITARY HISTORY

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AT SWORD’S POINT, PART 2 A Documentary History of the Utah War, 1858–1859 Edited by William P. MacKinnon $150.00n Leather 978-0-87062-387-5 $45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-386-8 THE CIVIL WAR YEARS IN UTAH The Kingdom of God and the Territory That Did Not Fight By John Gary Maxwell $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4911-0 BLOOD OF THE PROPHETS Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows By Will Bagley $26.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3639-4

Editor Kenneth L. Alford opens the collection with a year-by-year summary of important events in Utah Territory during the war, with special attention paid to the army’s recall from Utah in 1861, the Lot Smith Utah Cavalry Company’s 107-day military service, the Union army’s return in 1862, and relations between the military and Mormons. Readers will find accounts of an 1861 attempt to court-martial a Virginia-born commander for treason, battle reports from the January 1863 Bear River Massacre, documents from the army’s high command authorizing Governor James Doty to enlist additional Utah troops in October 1864, and evidence of Colonel Patrick Edward Connor’s personal biases against Native Americans and Mormons. A glossary of nineteenth-century phrases, military terms, and abbreviations, along with a detailed timeline of key historical events, places the records in historical context. Collected and published together for the first time, these records document the unique role Utah played in the Civil War and reveal the war’s influence, both subtle and overt, on the emerging state of Utah. Kenneth L. Alford is Professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, a retired U.S. Army Colonel, and editor of Civil War Saints.

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Dukes of Duval County The Parr Family and Texas Politics By Anthony R. Carrozza The notorious Parr family manipulated local politics in South Texas for decades. Archie Parr, his son George, and his grandson Archer relied on violence and corruption to deliver the votes that propelled their chosen candidates to office. The influence of the Parr political machine peaked during the 1948 senatorial primary, when election officials found the infamous Ballot Box 13 six days after the polls closed. That box provided a slim eighty-seven-vote lead to Lyndon B. Johnson, initiating the national political career of the future U.S. president. Dukes of Duval County begins with Archie Parr’s organization of the Mexican American electorate into a potent voting bloc, which marked the beginning of his three-decade campaign for control of every political office in Duval County and the surrounding area. Archie’s son George, who expanded the Parrs’ dominion to include jobs, welfare payments, and public works, became a county judge thanks to his father’s influence—but when George was arrested and imprisoned for accepting payoffs, only a presidential pardon advocated by then-congressman Lyndon Johnson allowed George to take office once more. Further legal misadventures haunted George and his successor, Archer, but in the end it took the combined force of local, state, and federal governments and the courageous efforts of private citizens to overthrow the Parr family.

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In this first comprehensive study of the Parr family’s political activities, Anthony R. Carrozza reveals the innermost workings of the Parr dynasty, a political machine that drove South Texas politics for more than seventy years and critically influenced the course of the nation. After a career in mainframe computer programming, Anthony R. Carrozza began writing novels and biographies, including William D. Pawley: The Extraordinary Life of the Adventurer, Entrepreneur, and Diplomat Who Cofounded the Flying Tigers. He lives in upstate New York.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON AND MODERN AMERICA By Kevin J. Fernlund $14.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4077-3 SILVER FOX OF THE ROCKIES Delphus E. Carpenter and Western Water Compacts By Daniel Tyler $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3515-1 THE TEXAS SHERIFF Lord of the County Line By Thad Sitton $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3471-0

CARROZZA DUKES OF DUVAL COUNTY

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CHRISTIANSON THE POPULAR FRONTIER

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Explores the impact of Cody’s Wild West exhibition in Europe

The Popular Frontier Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Transnational Mass Culture Edited by Frank Christianson When William F. Cody introduced his Wild West exhibition to European audiences in 1887, the show soared to new heights of popularity and success. With its colorful portrayal of cowboys, Indians, and the taming of the North American frontier, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West popularized a myth of American national identity and shaped European perceptions of the United States. The Popular Frontier is the first collection of essays to explore the transnational impact and mass-cultural appeal of Cody’s Wild West.

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As editor Frank Christianson explains in his introduction, for the first four years after Cody conceived it, the Wild West exhibition toured the United States, honing the operation into a financially solvent enterprise. When the troupe ventured to England for its first overseas booking, its success exceeded all expectations. Between 1887 and 1906 the Wild West performed in fourteen countries, traveled more than 200,000 miles, and attracted a collective audience in the tens of millions. How did Europeans respond to Cody’s vision of the American frontier? And how did European countries appropriate what they saw on display? Addressing these questions and others, the contributors to this volume consider how the Wild West functioned within social and cultural contexts far grander in scope than even the vast American West. Among the topics addressed are the pairing of William F. Cody and Theodore Roosevelt as embodiments of frontier masculinity, and the significance of the show’s most enduring persona, Annie Oakley. An informative and thought-provoking examination of the Wild West’s foreign tours, The Popular Frontier offers new insight into late-nineteenth-century gender politics and ethnicity, the development of American nationalism, and the simultaneous rise of a global mass culture. Frank Christianson is Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean in the College of Humanities, Brigham Young University. He is editor of The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill and The Wild West in England.

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Women of Empire Nineteenth-Century Army Officers’ Wives in India and the U.S. West By Verity McInnis In his Rules for Wife Behavior, Colonel Joseph Whistler summed up his expectations for his new bride: “You will remember you are not in command of anything except the cook.” Although their roles were circumscribed, the wives of army officers stationed in British India and the U.S. West commanded considerable influence, as Verity McInnis reveals in this comparative study of two female populations in two global locations. Women of Empire adds a previously unexplored dimension to our understanding of the connections between gender and imperialism in the nineteenth century. McInnis examines the intersections of class, race, and gender to reveal social spaces where female identity and power were both contested and constructed. Officers’ wives often possessed the authority to direct and maintain the social, cultural, and political ambitions of empire. By transferring and adapting white middle-class cultural values and customs to military installations, they created a new social reality—one that restructured traditional boundaries. In both the British and American territorial holdings, McInnis shows, military wives held pivotal roles, creating and controlling the processes that upheld national aims. In so doing, these women feminized formal and informal military practices in ways that strengthened their own status and identities. Despite the differences between rigid British social practices and their less formal American counterparts, military women in India and the U.S. West followed similar trajectories as they designed and maintained their imperial identity.

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Redefining the officer’s wife as a power holder and an active contributor to national prestige, Women of Empire opens a new, nuanced perspective on the colonial experience—and on the complex nexus of gender, race, and imperial practice.

WOMEN IN THE PENINSULAR WAR By Charles J. Esdaile $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4478-8

Verity McInnis is a Lecturer in History at Texas A&M University in College Station. Her articles have appeared in Military History of the West and Pacific Historical Review.

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McINNIS WOMEN OF EMPIRE

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LAHTI WARS FOR EMPIRE

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Sheds new light on America’s early imperial expansion

Wars for Empire Apaches, the United States, and the Southwest Borderlands By Janne Lahti After the end of the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, the Southwest Borderlands remained hotly contested territory. Over following decades, the United States government exerted control in the Southwest by containing, destroying, segregating, and deporting indigenous peoples—in essence conducting an extended military campaign that culminated with the capture of Geronimo and the forced removal of the Chiricahua Apaches in 1886. In this book, Janne Lahti charts these encounters and the cultural differences that shaped them. Wars for Empire offers a new perspective on the conduct, duration, intensity, and ultimate outcome of one of America’s longest wars.

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CIVIL WAR IN THE SOUTHWEST BORDERLANDS, 1861–1867 By Andrew E. Masich $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5572-2 POWDER RIVER Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War By Paul L. Hedren $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5383-4 AMERICAN CARNAGE Wounded Knee, 1890 By Jerome A. Greene $34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4448-1

Centuries of conflict with Spain and Mexico had honed Apache war-making abilities and encouraged a culture based in part on warrior values, from physical prowess and specialized skills to a shared belief in individual effort. In contrast, U.S. military forces lacked sufficient training and had little public support. The splintered, protracted, and ferocious warfare exposed the limitations of the U.S. military and of federal Indian policies, challenging narratives of American supremacy in the West. Lahti maps the ways in which these weaknesses undermined the U.S. advance. He also stresses how various Apache groups reacted differently to the U.S. invasion. Ultimately, new technologies, the expansion of Euro-American settlements, and decades of war and deception ended armed Apache resistance. By comparing competing martial cultures and examining violence in the Southwest, Wars for Empire provides a new understanding of critical decades of American imperial expansion and a moment in the history of settler colonialism with worldwide significance. Janne Lahti, Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Helsinki, Finland, is the author of Soldiers in the Southwest Borderlands, 1848–1886 and Cultural Construction of Empire: The U.S. Army in Arizona and New Mexico. His articles have been published in numerous journals focusing on southwestern U.S. history.

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Writing Arizona, 1912–2012 A Cultural and Environmental Chronicle By Kim Engel-Pearson From the year of Arizona’s statehood to its centennial in 2012, narratives of the state and its natural landscape have revealed—and reconfigured—the state’s image. Through official state and federal publications, newspapers, novels, poetry, autobiographies, and magazines, Kim Engel-Pearson examines narratives of Arizona that reflect both a century of Euro-American dominance and a diverse and multilayered cultural landscape. Examining the written record at twenty-five-year intervals, Writing Arizona, 1912–2012 shows us how the state was created through the writings of both its inhabitants and its visitors, from pioneer reminiscences of settling the desert to modern stories of homelessness, and from early-twentieth-century Native American “as-told-to” autobiographies to those written in Natives’ own words in the 1970s and 1980s. Weaving together these written accounts, Engel-Pearson demonstrates how government leaders’ and boosters’ promotion of tourism—often at the expense of minority groups and the environment—was swiftly complicated by concerns about ethics, representation, and conservation. Word by word, story by story, Engel-Pearson depicts an Arizona whose narratives reflect celebrations of diversity and calls for conservation—yet, at the same time, a state whose constitution declares only English words “official.” She reveals Arizona to be constructed, understood, and inhabited through narratives, a state of words as changeable as it is timeless. Kim Engel-Pearson is a native of the dry deserts, rugged plateaus, and pine-clad mountains of the American Southwest. She holds a PhD in history from Arizona State University. In addition to serving as a researcher and writer of interpretive signs for central Arizona’s national monuments, she has worked as a freelance editor and writing coach.

SEPTEMBER $24.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5738-2 308 PAGES, 6 × 9 U.S. HISTORY

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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 WINNING THE WEST WITH WORDS Language and Conquest in the Lower Great Lakes By James Joseph Buss $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4214-2 GHOSTWEST Reflections Past and Present By Ann Ronald $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3694-3

ENGEL-PEARSON WRITING ARIZONA, 1912–2012

How the power and meaning of words create and shape a place

SMITH FROM PRAHA TO PRAGUE

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An often overlooked immigrant group that formed a lasting community in the rural West

From Praha to Prague Czechs in an Oklahoma Farm Town By Philip D. Smith Around the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Czechs left their homelands in Bohemia and Moravia and came to the United States. While many settled in major American cities, others headed to rural areas out west where they could claim their own land for farming. In From Praha to Prague, Philip D. Smith examines how the Czechs who founded and settled in Prague, Oklahoma, embraced the economic and cultural activities of their American hometown while maintaining their ethnic identity.

OCTOBER $21.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5746-7 208 PAGES, 6 × 9 13 B&W ILLUS., 1 MAP U.S. HISTORY

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TWENTIETH-CENTURY OKLAHOMA Reflections on the Forty-Sixth State By Richard Lowitt $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4910-3 MAIN STREET OKLAHOMA Stories of Twentieth-Century America Edited by Linda W. Reese and Patricia Loughlin $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4401-6 THE ITALIANS IN OKLAHOMA By Kenny L. Brown $9.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1624-2

According to Smith, the Czechs of Prague began as a clannish group of farmers who participated in the 1891 land run and settled in east-central Oklahoma. After the town’s incorporation in 1902, settlers from other ethnic backgrounds swiftly joined the fledgling community, and soon the original Czech immigrants found themselves in the minority. By 1930, the Prague Czechs had reached a unique cultural, social, and economic duality in their community. They strove to become reliable, patriotic citizens of their adopted country—joining churches, playing sports, and supporting the Allied effort in World War II—but they also maintained their identity as Czechs through local traditions such as participating in the Bohemian Hall society, burying their dead in the town’s Czech National Cemetery, and holding the annual Kolache Festival, a lively celebration that still draws visitors from around the world. As a result, Smith notes, succeeding generations of Prague Czechs have proudly considered themselves Czech Americans: firmly assimilated to mainstream American culture but holding to an equally strong sense of belonging to a singular ethnic group. As he analyzes the Czech experience in farm-town Oklahoma, Smith explores several intriguing questions: Was it easier or more difficult for Czechs living in a rural town to sustain their ethnic identity and culture than for Czechs living in large urban areas such as Chicago? How did the tactics used by Prague Czechs to preserve their group identity differ from those used in rural areas where immigrant populations were the majority? In addressing these and other questions, From Praha to Prague reveals the unique path that Prague Czechs took toward Americanization. Philip D. Smith is Assistant Professor of History at Tulsa Community College in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Depredation and Deceit The Making of the Jicarilla and Ute Wars in New Mexico By Gregory F. Michno The Trade and Intercourse Acts passed by Congress between 1796 and 1834 set up a system for individuals to receive monetary compensation from the federal government for property stolen or destroyed by American Indians. By the end of the Mexican-American War, both Anglo-Americans and Nuevomexicanos became experts in exploiting this system—and in using the army to collect on their oftenfraudulent claims. As Gregory F. Michno reveals in Depredation and Deceit, their combined efforts created a precarious mix of false accusations, public greed, and fabricated fear that directly led to new wars in the American Southwest between 1849 and 1855. Tasked with responding to white settlers’ depredation claims and gaining restitution directly from Indian groups, soldiers typically had no choice but to search out ofteninnocent Indians and demand compensation or the surrender of the guilty party, turning once-friendly bands into enemy groups whenever these tense encounters exploded in violence. As the situation became more volatile, citizens demanded a greater army presence in the region, and lucrative military contracts became yet another reason to encourage the continuation of frontier violence. Although the records are replete with officers questioning accusations and discovering civilians’ deceit, more often than not the army was forced to act in direct counterpoint to its duties as a constabulary force. And whenever war broke out, the acquisition of more Indian land and wealth began the cycle of greed and violence all over again. The Trade and Intercourse Acts were manipulated by Anglo-Americans who ensured the continuation of the very conflicts that they claimed to abhor, and that the acts were designed to prevent. In bringing these machinations to light, Michno’s book deepens—and darkens—our understanding of the conquest of the American Southwest. Gregory F. Michno is an independent historian and the author of USS Pampanito: Killer Angel; Battle at Sand Creek: The Military Perspective; and Death on the Hellships.

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THE GRAY FOX George Crook and the Indian Wars By Paul Magid $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4706-2 DRAGOONS IN APACHELAND Conquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 1846–1861 By William S. Kiser $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4314-9 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4650-8 NED WYNKOOP AND THE LONELY ROAD FROM SAND CREEK By Louis Kraft $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5188-5

MICHNO DEPREDATION AND DECEIT

Deepens and darkens our understanding of the conquest of the American Southwest

FIXICO “THAT’S WHAT THEY USED TO SAY”

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Explores Native oral traditions from a community and personal perspective

“That’s What They Used to Say” Reflections on American Indian Oral Traditions By Donald L. Fixico As a child growing up in rural Oklahoma, Donald Fixico often heard “hvmakimata”—“that’s what they used to say”—a phrase Mvskoke Creeks and Seminoles use to end stories. In his latest work, Fixico, who is Shawnee, Sac and Fox, Mvskoke Creek, and Seminole, invites readers into his own oral tradition to learn how storytelling, legends and prophecies, oral histories, and creation myths knit together and explain the Indian world.

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A NAVAJO LEGACY The Life and Teachings of John Holiday By John Holiday and Robert S. McPherson $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4176-3 VIEWING THE ANCESTORS Perceptions of the Anaasází, Mokwic, and Hisatsinom By Robert S. McPherson $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4429-0 WILLIAM WAYNE RED HAT JR. Cheyenne Keeper of the Arrows By William Wayne Red Hat Jr. Edited by Sibylle M. Schlesier $21.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3959-3

Interweaving the storytelling and traditions of his ancestors, Fixico conveys the richness and importance of oral culture in Native communities and demonstrates the power of the spoken word to bring past and present together, creating a shared reality both immediate and historical for Native peoples. Fixico’s stories conjure war heroes and ghosts, inspire fear and laughter, explain the past and foresee the future—and through them he skillfully connects personal, familial, tribal, and Native history. Oral tradition, Fixico affirms, at once reflects and creates the unique internal reality of each Native community. Stories possess spiritual energy, and by summoning this energy, storytellers bring their communities together. Sharing these stories, and the larger story of where they come from and how they work, “That’s What They Used to Say” offers readers rare insight into the oral traditions at the very heart of Native cultures, in all of their rich and infinitely complex permutations. Donald L. Fixico (Shawnee, Sac and Fox, Mvskoke Creek, and Seminole) is Distinguished Foundation Professor of History and Distinguished Scholar of Sustainability in the Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University. He is the author or editor of 13 books, including Call for Change: The Medicine Way of American Indian History, Ethos, and Reality.

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Back to the Blanket Recovered Rhetorics and Literacies in American Indian Studies By Kimberly G. Wieser For thousands of years, American Indian cultures have recorded their truths in the narratives and metaphors of oral tradition. Stories, languages, and artifacts, such as glyphs and drawings, all carry Indigenous knowledge, directly contributing to American Indian rhetorical structures that have proven resistant—and sometimes antithetical—to Western academic discourse. It is this tradition that Kimberly G. Wieser seeks to restore in Back to the Blanket, as she explores the rich possibilities that Native notions of relatedness offer for understanding American Indian knowledge, arguments, and perspectives. Back to the Blanket analyzes a wide array of American Indian rhetorical traditions, then applies them in close readings of writings, speeches, and other forms of communication by historical and present-day figures. Wieser turns this pathbreaking approach to modes of thinking found in the oratory of eighteenth-century Mohegan and Presbyterian cleric Samson Occom, visual communication in Laguna Pueblo author Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead, patterns of honesty and manipulation in the speeches of former president George W. Bush, and rhetorics and relationships in the communication of Indigenous leaders such as Ada-gal’kala, Tsi’yugûnsi’ni, and Inoli. Exploring the multimodal rhetorics—oral, written, material, visual, embodied, kinesthetic—that create meaning in historical discourse, Wieser argues for the rediscovery and practice of traditional Native modes of communication—a modernday “going back to the blanket,” or returning to Native practices. Her work shows how these Indigenous insights might be applied in models of education for Native American students, in Native American communities more broadly, and in transcultural communication, negotiation, debate, and decision making. Kimberly G. Wieser is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma and coauthor of Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective.

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

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WIESER BACK TO THE BLANKET

A pathbreaking exploration of Indigenous rhetoric

MCPHERSON BOTH SIDES OF THE BULLPEN

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The history of cultural exchange in the Four Corners through the accounts of Navajos and traders

Both Sides of the Bullpen Navajo Trade and Posts By Robert S. McPherson Between 1880 and 1940, Navajo and Ute families and westward-trending Anglos met in the “bullpens” of southwestern trading posts to barter for material goods. As the products of the livestock economy of Navajo culture were exchanged for the merchandise of an industrialized nation, a wealth of cultural knowledge also changed hands. In Both Sides of the Bullpen, Robert S. McPherson reveals the ways that Navajo tradition fundamentally reshaped and defined trading practices in the Four Corners area of southeastern Utah and southwestern Colorado.

OCTOBER $34.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-5745-0 376 PAGES, 6 × 9 26 B&W ILLUS., 1 MAP AMERICAN INDIAN/U.S. HISTORY

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HUBBELL TRADING POST Trade, Tourism, and the Navajo Southwest By Erica Cottam $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4837-3 PATTERNS OF EXCHANGE Navajo Weavers and Traders By Teresa J. Wilkins $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3757-5 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4354-5 NAVAJO LAND, NAVAJO CULTURE The Utah Experience in the Twentieth Century By Robert S. McPherson $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3357-7 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3410-9

Drawing on oral histories of Native peoples and traders collected over thirty years of research, McPherson explores these interactions from both perspectives, as wool, blankets, and silver crossed the counter in exchange for flour, coffee, and hardware. To succeed, traders had to meet the needs and expectations of their customers, often interpreted through Navajo cultural standards. From the organization of the post building to gift giving, health care and burial services, and a credit system tailored to the Navajo calendar, every feature of the trading post served trader and customer alike. Over time, these posts evolved from ad hoc business ventures or profitable cooperative stores into institutions with a clearly defined set of expectations that followed Navajo traditional practices. Traders spent their days evaluating craft work, learning the financial circumstances of each Native family, following economic trends in the wool and livestock industry back east, and avoiding conflict. In detail and depth, the many voices woven throughout Both Sides of the Bullpen restore an underappreciated era to the history of the American Southwest. They show us that for American Indians and white traders alike in the Four Corners region during the late 1800s and early 1900s, barter was as much a cultural expression as it was an economic necessity. Robert S. McPherson is Professor of History at Utah State University–Eastern and author, coauthor, or editor of numerous books on Navajo and Southwest history, including Under the Eagle: Samuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker.

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The Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Resilence through Adversity Edited by Stephen Warren Non-Indians have amassed extensive records of Shawnee leaders dating back to the era between the French and Indian War and the War of 1812. But academia has largely ignored the stories of these leaders’ descendants—including accounts from the Shawnees’ own perspectives. The Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma focuses on the nineteenth- and twentieth-century experiences of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe, presenting a new brand of tribal history made possible by the emergence of tribal communities’ own research centers and the resources afforded by the digital age. Offering various perspectives on the history of the Eastern Shawnees, this volume combines essays by leading and emerging scholars of Shawnee history with contributions by Eastern Shawnee citizens and interviews with tribal elders. Editor Stephen Warren introduces the collection, acknowledging that the questions and concerns of colonizers have dominated the themes of American Indian history for far too long. The essays that follow introduce readers to the story of the Eastern Shawnees and consider treaties with the U.S. government, laws impacting the tribe, and tribal leadership. They analyze the Eastern Shawnees’ ways of telling the tribe’s stories, detail Shawnee experiences of federal boarding schools, and recount stories of their chiefs. The book concludes with five tribal members’ life histories, told in their own words. The Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma is the culmination of years of collaboration between tribal citizens and Native as well as non-Native scholars. Providing a fuller, more nuanced, and more complete portrayal of Native American historical experiences, this book serves as a resource for both future scholars and tribal members to reconstruct the Eastern Shawnee past and thereby better understand the present. This book was made possible through generous funding from the Administration for Native Americans. Stephen Warren is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Iowa. He is the author of The Shawnees and Their Neighbors, 1795–1870 and The Worlds the Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early America.

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WARREN THE EASTERN SHAWNEE TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA

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REYHNER, EDER AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATION, 2ND EDITION

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The comprehensive one-volume history of Native education, now thoroughly updated

American Indian Education A History, 2nd Edition By Jon Reyhner and Jeanne Eder Before Europeans arrived in North America, Indigenous peoples spoke more than three hundred languages and followed almost as many distinct belief systems and lifeways. But in childrearing, the different Indian societies had certain practices in common—including training for survival and teaching tribal traditions. The history of American Indian education from colonial times to the present is a story of how Euro-Americans disrupted and suppressed these common cultural practices, and how Indians actively pursued and preserved them.

NOVEMBER $29.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5776-4 408 PAGES, 6.125 × 9.25 24 B&W ILLUS., 8 TABLES AMERICAN INDIAN/HISTORY

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TEACHING AMERICAN INDIAN STUDENTS Edited by Jon Reyhner $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2674-6 THE STUDENTS OF SHERMAN INDIAN SCHOOL Education and Native Identity since 1892 By Diana Meyers Bahr $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4443-6 TO CHANGE THEM FOREVER Indian Education at the Rainy Mountain Boarding School, 1893–1920 By Clyde Ellis $21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3991-3

American Indian Education recounts that history from the earliest missionary and government attempts to Christianize and “civilize” Indian children to the most recent efforts to revitalize Native cultures and return control of schools to Indigenous peoples. Extensive firsthand testimony from teachers and students offers unique insight into the varying experiences of Indian education. Historians and educators Jon Reyhner and Jeanne Eder begin by discussing Indian childrearing practices and the work of colonial missionaries in New France (Canada), New England, Mexico, and California, then conduct readers through the full array of government programs aimed at educating Indian children. From the passage of the Civilization Act of 1819 to the formation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1824 and the establishment of Indian reservations and vocation-oriented boarding schools, the authors frame Native education through federal policy eras: treaties, removal, assimilation, reorganization, termination, and self-determination. Thoroughly updated for this second edition, American Indian Education is the most comprehensive single-volume account, useful for students, educators, historians, activists, and public servants interested in the history and efficacy of educational reforms past and present. Jon Reyhner is Professor of Education at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff. He has taught on the Navajo Reservation and served as a school administrator for the Blackfeet, Fort Peck, Havasupai, White Mountain Apache, and other communities. He is editor of Teaching Indigenous Students: Honoring Place, Community, and Culture. Jeanne Eder (Dakota Sioux) is retired as Professor of History at the University of Alaska and is author of The Dakota Sioux and The Makah.

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Building Yanhuitlan Art, Politics, and Religion in the Mixteca Alta since 1500 By Alessia Frassani Through years of fieldwork in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, art historian and archaeologist Alessia Frassani formulated a compelling question: How did Mesoamerican society maintain its distinctive cultural heritage despite colonization by the Spanish? In Building Yanhuitlan, she focuses on an imposing structure—a sixteenth-century Dominican monastery complex in the village of Yanhuitlan. For centuries, the buildings have served a central role in the village landscape and the lives of its people. Ostensibly, there is nothing indigenous about the complex or the artwork inside. So how does such a place fit within the Mixteca, where Frassani acknowledges a continuity of indigenous culture in the towns, plazas, markets, churches, and rural surroundings? To understand the monastery complex—and Mesoamerican cultural heritage in the wake of conquest—Frassani calls for a shifting definition of indigenous identity, one that acknowledges the ways indigenous peoples actively took part in the development of post-conquest Mesoamerican culture. Frassani relates the history of Yanhuitlan by examining the rich store of art and architecture in the town’s church and convent, bolstering her account with more than 100 color and black-and-white illustrations. She presents the first two centuries of the church complex’s construction works, maintenance, and decorations as the product of cultural, political, and economic negotiation between Mixtec caciques, Spanish encomenderos, and Dominican friars. The author then ties the village’s present-day religious celebrations to the colonial past, and traces the cult of specific images through these celebrations’ history. Cultural artifacts, Frassani demonstrates, do not need pre-Hispanic origins to be considered genuinely Mesoamerican—the processes attached to their appropriation are more meaningful than their having any pre-Hispanic past. Based on original and unpublished documents and punctuated with stunning photography, Building Yanhuitlan combines archival and ethnographic work with visual analysis to make an innovative statement regarding artistic forms and to tell the story of a remarkable community. Alessia Frassani has taught and researched at institutions in Holland, the United States, Colombia, and Ecuador. Her contributions have appeared in Colonial Latin American Review, Ancient Mesoamerica, and Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl, among others.

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JACKSON FRONTIERS OF EVANGELIZATION

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Examines the experiences of indigenous populations in frontier missions

Frontiers of Evangelization Indians in the Sierra Gorda and Chiquitos Missions By Robert H. Jackson The Spanish crown wanted native peoples in its American territories to be evangelized, and to that end facilitated the establishment of missions by various Catholic orders. Focusing on the Franciscan missions of the Sierra Gorda in Northern New Spain (Mexico) and the Jesuit missions of Chiquitos in what is now Bolivia, Frontiers of Evangelization takes a comparative approach to understanding the experiences of indigenous populations in missions on the frontiers of Spanish America.

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Marshaling a wealth of data from sacramental, military, and census records, Robert H. Jackson explores the many factors that influenced the stability of mission settlements, including the indigenous communities’ previous subsistence patterns and family structures, the evangelical techniques of the missionary orders, the social and political organization within the mission communities, and epidemiology in relation to population density and mobility. The two orders, Jackson’s research shows, organized and administered their missions very differently. The Franciscans took a heavy-handed approach and implemented disruptive social policies, while the Jesuits engaged in a comparatively “kinder and gentler” form of colonization. Yet the most critical factor to the missions’ success, Jackson finds, was the indigenous peoples’ existing demographic profile—in particular, their mobility. Nonsedentary populations, like the Pames and Jonaces of the Sierra Gorda, were more prone to demographic collapse once brought into the mission system, whereas sedentary groups, like the Guaraní of Chiquitos, experienced robust growth and greater resistance to disease and natural disaster. Drawing on more than three decades of scholarly work, this analysis of crucial archival material augments our understanding of the role of missions in colonization, and the fate of indigenous peoples in Spanish America. Robert H. Jackson is an independent historian who has published extensively on Latin America and the Southwest Borderlands. Among his many titles are Race, Caste, and Status: Indians in Colonial Spanish America; Indian Population Decline: The Missions of Northwestern New Spain, 1687–1840; and From Savages to Subjects: Missions in the History of the American Southwest.

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The Manuscript Hunter Brasseur de Bourbourg’s Travels through Central America and Mexico, 1854–1859 By Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg Translated and edited by Katia Sainson In two decades of traveling throughout Mexico, Central America, and Europe, French priest Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (1814–1874) amassed hundreds of indigenous manuscripts and printed books, including grammars and vocabularies that brought to light languages and cultures little known at the time. Although his efforts yielded many of the foundational texts of Mesoamerican studies—the pre-Columbian Codex Troana, the only known copies of the Popol Vuh and the indigenous dance drama Rabinal-Achi, and Diego De Landa’s Relación de la cosas de Yucatán—Brasseur earned disdain among scholars for his theories linking Maya writings to the mythical continent of Atlantis. In The Manuscript Hunter, translator Katia Sainson reasserts his standing as the founder of modern Maya studies, presenting three of his travel writings in English for the first time. While civil wars raged throughout Mexico and Central America and foreign interests sought access to the region’s rich resources, Brasseur focused on uncovering Mesoamerica’s mysterious past by examining its ancient manuscripts and living oral traditions. His “Notes from a Voyage in Central America,” “From Guatemala City to Rabinal,” and Voyage across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec document his travels in search of these texts and traditions. Brasseur’s writings weave vivid geographical descriptions of Central America and Mexico during the mid-1800s with keen social and political analysis, all steeped in vast knowledge of the region’s history and interest in its indigenous cultures. Coupled with Sainson’s thoughtful introduction and annotations, these captivating, accessible accounts reveal Brasseur de Bourbourg’s true accomplishments and offer an unrivaled view of the birth of Mesoamerican studies in the nineteenth century. Brasseur’s writings not only depict Central America and Mexico through the eyes of a European traveler at a key moment, but also illuminate the remarkable efforts of one man to understand and preserve Mesoamerica’s cultural traditions for all time. Katia Sainson is Professor of French at Towson University, Maryland, and translator of several books from French into English, including Jules Michelet’s The Sea.

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Most Scandalous Woman Magda Portal and the Dream of Revolution in Peru By Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes In 1926 a young Peruvian woman picked up a gun, wrested her infant daughter from her husband, and liberated herself from the constraints of a patriarchal society. Magda Portal, a poet and journalist, would become one of Latin America’s most successful and controversial politicians. In this richly nuanced portrayal of Portal, historian Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of this prominent twentieth-century revolutionary within the broader history of leftist movements, gender politics, and literary modernism in Latin America.

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An early member of bohemian circles in Lima, La Paz, and Mexico City, Portal distinguished herself as the sole female founder of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA). A leftist but non-Communist movement, APRA would dominate Peru’s politics for five decades. Through close analysis of primary sources, including Portal’s own poetry, correspondence, and other writings, Most Scandalous Woman illuminates Portal’s pivotal work in creating and leading APRA during its first twenty years, as well as her efforts to mobilize women as active participants in political and social change. Despite her successes, Portal broke with APRA in 1950 under bitter circumstances. Wallace Fuentes analyzes how sexism in politics interfered with Portal’s political ambitions, explores her relationships with family members and male peers, and discusses the ramifications of her scandalous love life. In charting the complex trajectory of Portal’s life and career, Most Scandalous Woman reveals what moves people to become revolutionaries, and the gendered limitations of their revolutionary alliances, in an engrossing narrative that brings to life Latin American revolutionary politics. Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes, born in Guatemala, is an Associate Professor of History at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia.

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Communication, Love, and Death in Homer and Virgil An Introduction By Stephen Ridd Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid are three of the most important— and influential—works of Western classical literature. Although they differ in subject matter and authorship, these epic poems share a common purpose: to tell the “deeds both of men and of the gods.” Written in an accessible style and ideally suited for classroom use, Communication, Love, and Death in Homer and Virgil offers a unique comparative analysis of these classic works. As author Stephen Ridd explains, the common themes of communication, love, and death respond to “deeply ingrained human needs” and are therefore of perennial interest. Presenting select passages from the original Greek and Latin texts— translated here into modern English—Ridd explores in detail how the characters within the poems communicate on these subjects with one another as well as with the reader. Individual chapters focus on subjects such as the traditions of singing and storytelling, relationships between sons and mothers, the role of Helen of Troy and her ties to the men in her life, and communication with the dead. Throughout his analysis, Ridd treats the three poems on an equal basis, revealing similarities and differences in their handling of prevalent themes. By introducing readers to a new way of reading these abiding classics, Communication, Love, and Death in Homer and Virgil enhances our appreciation of the imaginative world of ancient Greek and Roman epic poetry.

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Northern Indian Removal By John P. Bowes The history of Indian removal has often followed a single narrative arc, from President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830 through 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. In Land Too Good for Indians, historian John P. Bowes focuses on four case studies that exemplify particular elements of removal in the Old Northwest and paints a more accurate picture of American Indian history in the nineteenth century. John P. Bowes is 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. AUGUST $29.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-5212-7 $24.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5965-2 320 PAGES, 6.125 × 9.25 8 B&W ILLUS., 2 MAPS AMERICAN INDIAN/U.S. HISTORY VOLUME 13 IN THE NEW DIRECTIONS IN NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES SERIES

By James Willard Schultz Edited by David C. Andrews At the turn of the twentieth century, James Willard Schultz wrote a series of tales centering on the adventures of a Blackfoot Indian boy and his Anglo friend in the days just prior to the end of the buffalo era on the western plains. Though he was neither a historian nor an ethnologist, Schultz filled his stories with history and with descriptions of Blackfoot daily life and culture from his experiences living among the tribe. In Blackfeet Tales from Apikuni’s World, David C. Andrews has gathered Schultz’s stories and arranged them in the order in which they were written. James Willard Schultz (Apikuni) first encountered the Blackfeet in Montana Territory in 1877 and lived among them for the next seventy years until his death. He wrote forty-four books. AUGUST $24.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-3406-2 $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5975-1 264 PAGES, 5.5 × 8.5 47 B&W ILLUS. AMERICAN INDIAN/FICTION

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Michael Vinson tells the story of how Edward Eberstadt & Sons developed its legendary book collection, which formed the backbone of many of today’s top western Americana archives, including Yale University, the Newberry Library, and the Huntington Library.

After Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, thousands of Americans rushed to military recruitment centers. The U.S. Army initially turned most Japanese Americans away. Then, more than 100,000 Americans of Japanese descent were interned in inland “relocation centers.”

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James M. McCaffrey is retired as Professor of History at the University of Houston–Downtown and is author of several books, including Inside the Spanish-American War: A History Based on First-Person Accounts.

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One of the Channel Islands of Southern California, Santa Cruz was once the largest privately owned island off the coast of the continental United States. In describing daily life on the island from the mid-nineteenth into the twentieth century, Frederic Caire Chiles documents the island’s economic ups and downs and the impact that ranching had on its environment.

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Drawing upon the letters of Edward Eberstadt and his sons and on his own experience in the rare book trade, Vinson gives the reader a vivid sense of how the commerce in rare books and manuscripts unfolded during the era of the Eberstadts, from the early 1900s to the firm’s dissolution in 1975.

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In Nicholas Black Elk, Michael F. Steltenkamp provides the first full interpretive biography of Black Elk, distilling in one volume what is known of this American Indian wisdom keeper, whose life has helped guide others. Steltenkamp explores how a holy-man’s diverse life experiences led to his synthesis of Native and Christian religious practice. The first book to follow Black Elk’s lifelong spiritual journey—from medicine man to missionary and mystic—Steltenkamp’s work provides a much-needed corrective to previous interpretations of this special man’s life story. Jesuit Father Michael F. Steltenkamp is Professor of Religious Studies at Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, West Virginia. He is the author of Black Elk: Holy Man of the Oglala and The Sacred Vision: Native American Religion and Its Practice Today. SEPTEMBER $24.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4063-6 $21.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5967-6 286 PAGES, 5.5 × 8.5 24 B&W ILLUS.,2 MAPS

Worthy Opponents tells the parallel stories of Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston and Union general William Tecumseh Sherman. Their armies clashed repeatedly, so it was only natural for these two commanding offers to become adversaries. Yet, as the war continued, Johnston and Sherman came to respect each other, eventually becoming close friends. Edward G. Longacre masterfully investigates the entwined lives of these two celebrated generals, bringing to life their personalities, their military styles, and their friendship in this fascinating dual biography. Edward G. Longacre, retired as U.S. Department of Defense Historian, is the author of numerous articles and books on the Civil War and U.S. military history, including The Cavalry at Gettysburg and Gentleman and Soldier: A Biography of Wade Hampton III. AUGUST $24.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5909-6 404 PAGES, 6 × 9 60 B&W ILLUS., 8 MAPS MILITARY HISTORY/U.S. HISTORY

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No issue in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has attracted more attention than polygamy. From its secretive beginnings in the 1830s, through almost four decades of bitter conflict with the federal government, to church renunciation of the practice in 1890, this practice helped define a new religious identity, just as it handed Mormons’ enemies the most effective weapon they wielded in their battle against a Mormon theocracy.

Michael W. Homer has collected the writings of diverse European travelers through Mormon settlements in the American West. Providing a counternarrative to typical accounts of encounters with Mormons in such sojourns, these collected tales include such colorful perspectives on the Mormons as those of an outraged Catholic priest, an intrigued German prince, a liberated French woman, an insightful Italian count, and an embittered Danish apostate. Some of the travelers met with Brigham Young, while others encountered more commonplace figures of the West, including fur traders, Indians, and soldiers.

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This annotated and illustrated edition by Wayne R. Kime gives readers access to by far the most detailed account yet of the conflicting interests and populations that converged on the Black Hills before the Great Sioux War of 1876.

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B. Carmon Hardy (1934–2016) was Professor of History at California State University, Fullerton. His book Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage (1992) received the Best Book award from the Mormon Historical Association. AUGUST $29.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5906-5 452 PAGES, 6 × 9 32 B&W ILLUS. U.S. HISTORY/RELIGION

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Wayne R. Kime is retired as Professor of English at Fairmont State College in Fairmont, West Virginia. Among his numerous published works, he is author of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge: The Life and Times of a Career Army Officer.

Doing the Works of Abraham provides the basic documents supporting and challenging the controversial practice, supported by the concise commentary and documentation of editor B. Carmon Hardy.

DOING THE WORKS OF ABRAHAM

In 1875 Lt. Col. Richard Irving Dodge escorted a scientific expedition into the Black Hills to determine the truth of rumors of gold started by Gen. George Armstrong Custer the previous summer. Dodge’s daily journals convey clearly the pleasure he took in that “most delightful summer of my life,” yet he used only a small fraction of those journals in his official communications and publications.

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