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On the front: Pavilion for Japanese Art, designed by architect Bruce Goff, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Photograph by Arn Henderson.
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Mestizos Come Home! Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity By Robert Con Davis-Undiano Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano has described U.S. and Latin American culture as continually hobbled by amnesia—unable, or unwilling, to remember the influence of mestizos and indigenous populations. In Mestizos Come Home! author Robert Con Davis-Undiano documents the great awakening of Mexican American and Latino culture since the 1960s that has challenged this omission in collective memory. He maps a new awareness of the United States as intrinsically connected to the broader context of the Americas. At once native and new to the American Southwest, Mexican Americans have “come home” in a profound sense: they have reasserted their right to claim that land and U.S. culture as their own. Mestizos Come Home! explores key areas of change that Mexican Americans have brought to the United States. These areas include the recognition of mestizo identity, especially its historical development across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the re-emergence of indigenous relationships to land; and the promotion of Mesoamerican conceptions of the human body. Clarifying and bridging critical gaps in cultural history, Davis-Undiano considers important artifacts from the past and present, connecting the casta (caste) paintings of eighteenth-century Mexico to modern-day artists including John Valadez, Alma López, and Luis A. Jiménez Jr. He also examines such community celebrations as Day of the Dead, Cinco de Mayo, and lowrider car culture as examples of mestizo influence on mainstream American culture. Woven throughout is the search for meaning and understanding of mestizo identity. A large-scale landmark account of Mexican American culture, Mestizos Come Home! shows that mestizos are essential to U.S. national culture. As an argument for social justice and a renewal of America’s democratic ideals, this book marks a historical cultural homecoming. Robert Con Davis-Undiano is Neustadt Professor and Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma and Executive Director of World Literature Today. Among his many publications are The Paternal Romance: Reading God-the-Father in Early Western Culture and Criticism and Culture: The Role of Critique in Modern Literary Theory.
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A CONTESTED ART Modernism and Mestizaje in New Mexico By Stephanie Lewthwaite $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4864-9 CONTOURS OF A PEOPLE Metis Family, Mobility, and History Edited by Nichole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4487-0 THE ESSAYS By Rudolfo Anaya $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4023-0
DAVIS-UNDIANO MESTIZOS COME HOME!
How Mexican Americans are creating a home for themselves and a better future for America
RODRÍGUEZ HOUSE BUILT ON ASHES
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A compelling meditation on the immigrant experience
House Built on Ashes A Memoir By José Antonio Rodríguez The year is 2009, and José Antonio Rodríguez, a doctoral student at Binghamton University in upstate New York, is packing his suitcase, getting ready to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with his parents in South Texas. He soon learns from his father that a drug cartel has overtaken the Mexican border village where he was born. Now, because of the violence there, he won’t be able to visit his earlychildhood home. Instead, his memories will have to take him back.
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RANDY LOPEZ GOES HOME A Novel By Rudolfo Anaya $14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4457-3 CROSSING VINES A Novel By Rigoberto González $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3528-1 CONFESSIONS OF A BERLITZ-TAPE CHICANA By Demetria Martínez $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3722-3
Thus, Rodríguez begins a meditative journey into the past. Through a series of vignettes, he mines the details of a childhood and adolescence fraught with deprivation but offset by moments of tenderness and beauty. Suddenly he is four years old again, and his mother is feeding him raw sugarcane for the first time. With the sweetness still on his tongue, he runs to a field, where he falls asleep under a glowing pink sky. The conditions of rural poverty prove too much for his family to bear, and Rodríguez moves with his mother and three of his nine siblings across the border to McAllen, Texas. Now a resident of the “other side,” Rodríguez experiences the luxury of indoor toilets and gazes at television commercials promising more food than he has ever seen. But there is no easy passage into this brighter future. Poignant and lyrical, House Built on Ashes contemplates the promises, limitations, and contradictions of the American Dream. Even as it tells a deeply personal story, it evokes larger political, cultural, and social realities. It speaks to what America is and what it is not. It speaks to a world of hunger, prejudice, and far too many boundaries. But it speaks, as well, to the redemptive power of beauty and its lifesustaining gift of hope. José Antonio Rodríguez, Assistant Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Texas–Rio Grande Valley, is the author of The Shallow End of Sleep and Backlit Hour.
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Most American Notes from a Wounded Place By Rilla Askew Foreword by Susan Kates In her first nonfiction collection, award-winning novelist Rilla Askew casts an unflinching eye on American history, both past and present. As she traverses a line between memoir and social commentary, Askew places herself—and indeed all Americans—in the role of witness to uncomfortable truths about who we are. Through nine linked essays, Most American: Notes from a Wounded Place evokes a vivid impression of the United States: police violence and gun culture, ethnic cleansing and denied history, spellbinding landscapes and brutal weather. To render these conditions in the particulars of place, Askew spotlights the complex history of her home state. From the Trail of Tears to the Tulsa Race Riot to the Murrah Federal Building bombing, Oklahoma appears as a microcosm of our national saga. Yet no matter our location, Askew argues, we must own our contradictory selves—our violence and prejudices, as well as our hard work and generosity—so the wounds of division in our society can heal. In these writings, Askew traces a personal journey that begins with her early years as an idealistic teenager mired in what she calls “the presumption of whiteness.” Later she emerges as a writer humble enough to see her own story as part of a larger historical and cultural narrative. With grace and authority she speaks honestly about the failures of the dominant culture in which she grew up, even as she expresses a sense of love for its people. In the wake of increasing gun violence and heightened national debate about race relations and social inequality, Askew’s reflections could not be more relevant. With a novelist’s gift for storytelling, she paints a compelling portrait of a place and its people: resilient and ruthless, decent but self-deceiving, generous yet filled with prejudice—both the best and the worst of what it means to be American. Rilla Askew, born and raised in eastern Oklahoma, is the award-winning author of four novels, The Mercy Seat, Fire in Beulah, Harpsong, and Kind of Kin, and a collection of linked stories, Strange Business. She teaches creative writing at the University of Oklahoma. Susan Kates is Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma and author of Red Dirt Women: At Home on the Oklahoma Plains.
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HARPSONG By Rilla Askew $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3823-7 $14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3928-9 STRANGE BUSINESS By Rilla Askew $14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4028-5 RED DIRT WOMEN At Home on the Oklahoma Plains By Susan Kates $14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4359-0
ASKEW MOST AMERICAN
Timely reflections on our divided society, written with grace and authority
VALDEZ CÁRDENAS, MEADE THE TAKEN
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Firsthand—and uniquely human—accounts of the drug war in Mexico
The Taken True Stories of the Sinaloa Drug War By Javier Valdez Cárdenas Translated and with an introduction by Everard Meade A massive wave of violence has rippled across Mexico over the past decade. In the western state of Sinaloa, the birthplace of modern drug trafficking, ordinary citizens live in constant fear of being “taken”—kidnapped or held against their will by armed men, whether criminals, police, or both. This remarkable collection of firsthand accounts by prize-winning journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas provides a uniquely human perspective on life in Sinaloa during the drug war.
JANUARY $19.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-5576-0 320 PAGES, 6 × 9 LATIN AMERICA
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The reality of the Mexican drug war, a conflict fueled by uncertainty and fear, is far more complex than the images conjured in popular imagination. Often missing from news reports is the perspective of ordinary people—migrant workers, schoolteachers, single mothers, businessmen, teenagers, petty criminals, police officers, and local journalists—people whose worlds center not on drugs or illegal activity but on survival and resilience, truth and reconciliation. Building on a rich tradition of testimonial literature, Valdez Cárdenas recounts in gripping detail how people deal not only with the constant threat of physical violence but also with the fear, uncertainty, and guilt that afflict survivors and witnesses. Mexican journalists who dare expose the drug war’s inconvenient political and social realities are censored and smeared, murdered, and “disappeared.” This is precisely why we need to hear from seasoned local reporters like Valdez Cárdenas who write about the places where they live, rely on a network of trusted sources built over decades, and tell the stories behind the headline-grabbing massacres and scandals.
VOICES FROM EXILE Violence and Survival in Modern Maya History By Victor Montejo $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3171-9 $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3985-2 CRISIS OF GOVERNANCE IN MAYA GUATEMALA Indigenous Responses to a Failing State Edited by John P. Hawkins, James H. McDonald, and Walter Randolph Adams $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4345-3 VIOLENCE AND CRIME IN LATIN AMERICA Representations and Politics Edited by Gema Santamaría $29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5574-6
In his informative introduction to the volume, translator Everard Meade orients the reader to the broader armed conflict in Mexico and explains the unique role of Sinaloa as its epicenter. Reports on border politics and infamous drug traffickers may obscure the victims’ suffering. The Taken helps ensure that their stories will not be forgotten or suppressed. Javier Valdez Cárdenas is an award-winning journalist and author who covers drug trafficking and organized crime in Mexico. His numerous articles have been published throughout Mexico and in such periodicals as National Geographic. His many published books include Miss Narco. Everard Meade is Director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego’s Kroc School of Peace Studies and its certificate programs in Applied Peace Education in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico. A BOOK IN THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN ARTS AND CULTURE INITIATIVE, SUPPORTED BY THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION
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Arredondo Last Spanish Ruler of Texas and Northeastern New Spain By Bradley Folsom In this biography of Joaquín de Arredondo, historian Bradley Folsom brings to life one of the most influential and ruthless leaders in North American history. Arredondo (1776–1837), a Bourbon loyalist who governed Texas and the other interior provinces of northeastern New Spain during the Mexican War of Independence, contended with attacks by revolutionaries, U.S. citizens, generals who had served in Napoleon’s army, pirates, and various American Indian groups, all attempting to wrest control of the region. Often resorting to violence to deal with the provinces’ problems, Arredondo was for ten years the most powerful official in northeastern New Spain. Folsom’s lively account shows the challenges of governing a vast and inhospitable region and provides insight into nineteenth-century military tactics and Spanish viceregal realpolitik. When Arredondo and his army—which included Arredondo’s protégé, future president of Mexico Antonio López de Santa Anna—arrived in Nuevo Santander in 1811, they quickly suppressed a revolutionary upheaval. Arredondo went on to expel an army of revolutionaries and invaders from the United States who had taken over Texas and declared it an independent republic. In the Battle of Medina, the bloodiest battle ever fought in Texas, he crushed the insurgents and followed his victory with a purge that reduced Texas’s population by half. Over the following eight years, Arredondo faced fresh challenges to Spanish sovereignty ranging from Comanche and Apache raids to continued American incursion. In response, Arredondo ignored his superiors and ordered his soldiers to terrorize those who disagreed with him. Arredondo’s actions had dramatic repercussions in Texas, Mexico, and the United States. His decision to allow Moses Austin to colonize Texas with Americans would culminate in the defeat of Santa Anna in 1836, but not before Santa Anna had made good use of the lessons in brutality he had learned so well from his mentor. Bradley Folsom is Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Texas– Arlington.
A BOOK IN THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN ARTS AND CULTURE INITIATIVE, SUPPORTED BY THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION
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JUAN BAUTISTA DE ANZA The King’s Governor in New Mexico By Carlos R. Herrera $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4644-7 MIERA Y PACHECO A Renaissance Spaniard in EighteenthCentury New Mexico By John L. Kessell $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5187-8 THE JAR OF SEVERED HANDS Spanish Deportation of Apache Prisoners of War, 1770–1810 By Mark Santiago $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4177-0
FOLSOM ARREDONDO
An engaging portrait of one of New Spain’s most ruthless and effective leaders
HULL, MOYNES MASQUERADE
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A masterful work of historical research exposing a trail of subterfuge and deception
Masquerade Treason, the Holocaust, and an Irish Impostor By Mark M. Hull and Vera Moynes Phyllis Ursula James. Nora O’Mara. Róisín Ní Mhéara. Like her name, the life of Rosaleen James changed many times as she followed a convoluted path from abandoned child, to foster daughter of an aristocratic British family, to traitor during World War II, to her emergence as a full Irish woman afterward. In Masquerade, authors Mark M. Hull and Vera Moynes tell James’s story as it unfolds against the backdrop of the most important events of the twentieth century. James’s life—both real and imagined—makes for an incredible but true story.
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MORONI AND THE SWASTIKA Mormons in Nazi Germany By David Conley Nelson $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4668-3 GOING FOR BROKE Japanese American Soldiers in the War against Nazi Germany By James M. McCaffrey $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4337-8 A POLISH DOCTOR IN THE NAZI CAMPS My Mother’s Memories of Imprisonment, Immigration, and a Life Remade By Barbara Rylko-Bauer $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-5191-5
By altering her identity to suit the situation, James manipulated almost everyone she encountered: the German intelligence service, the Nazi propaganda broadcasting service, British intelligence, and various Irish cultural groups. She was in a liaison with Irish writer Francis Stuart and, with him, provided a voice for Nazi radio programs aimed at neutral Ireland, served as the pseudo-Irish expert for German espionage missions, and participated in the failed, almost comical effort to recruit Irish prisoners of war to join the Nazis against Great Britain—quite a series of performances, considering her only contact with Ireland had been a weeklong visit in 1937. Immediately after the war, James was wanted by British intelligence as a “renegade” (traitor), but her case was quickly squelched by the British government. Drawing on an assumed wartime persona, she became fluent in Irish Gaelic and organized a number of conferences for which she won grants from the Irish government. James garnered wider attention in 1992 with her autobiography, published in Gaelic, in which she claimed that the Holocaust was a myth—a belief she maintained until her death in 2013. In documenting James’s life of deception, Hull and Moynes masterfully analyze how an intellectually gifted child turned traitor to her country and convincingly rebranded herself as an Irish patriot and intellectual, while denying historical reality. The story of Rosaleen James reminds us that reality may be much less—or more— than what meets the eye and ear. Mark M. Hull, Associate Professor of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, an attorney, and the author of Irish Secrets: German Espionage in Wartime Ireland, 1939–1945. Vera Moynes is a historian and archivist with the National Archives of Ireland.
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Nine Days in May The Battles of the 4th Infantry Division on the Cambodian Border, 1967 By Warren K. Wilkins Moving through the jungle near the Cambodian border on May 18, 1967, a company of American infantry observed three North Vietnamese Army regulars, AK-47s slung over their shoulders, walking down a well-worn trail in the rugged Central Highlands. Startled by shouts of “Lai day, lai day” (“Come here, come here”), the three men dropped their packs and fled. The company commander, a young lieutenant, sent a platoon down the trail to investigate. Those few men soon found themselves outnumbered, surrounded, and fighting for their lives. Their first desperate moments marked the beginning of a series of bloody battles that lasted more than a week, one that survivors would later call “the nine days in May border battles.” Nine Days in May is the first full account of these bitterly contested battles. Part of Operation Francis Marion, they took place in the Ia Tchar Valley and the remote jungle west of Pleiku. Fought between three American battalions and two North Vietnamese Army regiments, this prolonged, deadly encounter was one of the largest, most savage actions seen by elements of the storied 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam. Drawing on interviews with the participants, Warren K. Wilkins recreates the vicious fighting in gripping detail.
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This is a story of extraordinary courage and sacrifice displayed in a series of battles that were fought and won within the context of a broader, intractable strategic stalemate. When the guns finally fell silent, an unheralded American brigade received a Presidential Unit Citation and earned three of the twelve Medals of Honor awarded to soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam. Warren K. Wilkins is the author of Grab Their Belts to Fight Them: The Viet Cong’s Big-Unit War against the U.S., 1965–1966. His articles have been published in Vietnam magazine, the Argentina Independent, and the Spanish military-political history journal Desperata Ferro. He also served as a consultant for the American Heroes Channel documentary Warrior POV-Search and Destroy.
INVASION OF LAOS, 1971 Lam Son 719 By Robert D. Sander $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4437-5 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4840-3 AFTER MY LAI My Year Commanding First Platoon, Charlie Company By Gary W. Bray $16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4045-2 ONCE UPON A TIME IN WAR The 99th Division in World War II By Robert E. Humphrey $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4454-2
WILKINS NINE DAYS IN MAY
The definitive account of one of the 4th Infantry Division’s largest and deadliest actions in Vietnam
MELÉNDEZ THE BOOK OF ARCHIVES AND OTHER STORIES FROM THE MORA VALLEY, NEW MEXICO
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Fact and fiction intertwine in this story of a place and its people, told in English and Spanish
The Book of Archives and Other Stories from the Mora Valley, New Mexico By A. Gabriel Meléndez Foreword by Robert Con Davis-Undiano
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APRIL $19.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-5584-5 248 PAGES, 5.5 × 8.5 FICTION
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THE OLD MAN’S LOVE STORY By Rudolfo Anaya $14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4648-5 THE BLOCK CAPTAIN’S DAUGHTER By Demetria Martínez $14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4291-3 RANDY LOPEZ GOES HOME A Novel By Rudolfo Anaya $14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4457-3
In the shadow of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico’s Mora Valley harbors the ghosts of history: troubadours and soldiers, Plains Indians and settlers, families fleeing and finding home. There, more than a century ago, villagers collect scraps of paper documenting the valley’s history and their identity—military records, travelers’ diaries, newspaper articles, poetry, and more—and bind them into a leather portfolio known as “The Book of Archives.” When a bomb blast during the Mexican-American War scatters the book’s contents to the wind, the memory of the accounts lives on instead in the minds of Mora residents. Poets and storytellers pass down the valley’s traditions into the twentieth century, from one generation to the next. In this pathbreaking dual-language volume, author A. Gabriel Meléndez joins their ranks, continuing the retelling of Mora Valley’s tales for our time. A native of Mora with el don de la palabra, the divine gift of words, Meléndez mines historical sources and his own imagination to reconstruct the valley’s story, first in English and then in Spanish. He strings together humorous, tragic, and quotidian vignettes about historical events and unlikely occurrences, creating a vivid portrait of Mora, both in cultural memory and present reality. Local gossip and family legend intertwine with Spanish-language ballads and the poetry of New Mexico’s most famous dueling troubadours, Old Man Vilmas and the poet García. Drawing on New Mexican storytelling tradition, Meléndez weaves a colorful duallanguage representation of a place whose irresistible characters and unforgettable events, and the inescapable truths they embody, still resonate today. A. Gabriel Meléndez is Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and author of several books, including Spanish-Language Newspapers in New Mexico, 1834–1958 and Hidden Chicano Cinema: Film Dramas in the Borderlands. Robert Con Davis-Undiano is Executive Director of World Literature Today and Neustadt Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oklahoma.
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Franciscan Frontiersmen How Three Adventurers Charted the West By Robert A. Kittle Pious and scholarly, the Franciscan friars Pedro Font, Juan Crespí, and Francisco Garcés may at first seem improbable heroes. Beginning in Spain, their adventures encompassed the remote Sierra Gorda highlands of Mexico, the deserts of the American Southwest, and coastal California. Each man’s journey played an important role in Spain’s eighteenth-century conquest of the Pacific coast, but today their names and deeds are little known. Drawing on the diaries and correspondence of Font, Crespí, and Garcés, as well as his own exhaustive field research, Robert A. Kittle has woven a seamless narrative detailing the friars’ striking accomplishments. Starting with a harrowing transatlantic voyage, all three traveled through uncharted lands and found themselves beset by raiding Indians, marauding bears, starvation, and scurvy. Along the way, they made invaluable notes on indigenous peoples, flora and fauna, and prominent eighteenth-century European colonial figures. Font, the least celebrated of the three, recorded the daily events of the 1775–76 colonizing expedition of Juan Bautista de Anza while serving as its chaplain. Font’s legacy includes some of the earliest accurate maps of California between San Diego Bay and San Francisco Bay. Garcés, an itinerant missionary, developed close relationships with Indians in Sonora and California. He learned their languages and lived and traveled with them, usually as the only white man, and brokered dozens of peace agreements before he was killed in a Yuma uprising. Crespí, who traveled up the California coast with Father Junípero Serra, kept meticulous journals of an expedition to reconnoiter the San Francisco Bay area, the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, and the northern reaches of California’s central valley. This enthralling narrative elevates these Spanish friars to their rightful place in the chronicle of American exploration. It brings their exploits out of the shadow of the American Revolution and Lewis & Clark expedition while also illuminating encounters between European explorers and missionaries and the American Indians who had occupied the Pacific coast for millennia. Robert A. Kittle is an award-winning journalist who served for nearly two decades as the editorial page editor of the San Diego Union-Tribune. Now an independent historian, he lives in La Jolla, California.
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JUNÍPERO SERRA California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary By Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz $34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4868-7 WITH ANZA TO CALIFORNIA, 1775–1776 The Journal of Pedro Font, O.F.M. By Pedro Font Translated and edited by Alan K. Brown $55.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-375-2 JUAN BAUTISTA DE ANZA The King’s Governor in New Mexico By Carlos R. Herrera $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4644-7
KITTLE FRANCISCAN FRONTIERSMEN
Elevates three Spanish friars to their rightful place alongside Lewis and Clark as explorers
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CASTLEMON, RUSSELL FRANK ON THE PRAIRIE
A full-color reproduction of a popular boy’s novel with rarely seen illustrations by Charles M. Russell
Frank on the Prairie By Harry Castlemon Illustrated by Charles M. Russell Introduction by Thomas A. Petrie Collector’s Perspective by Thomas Minckler In 1903 the famed “Cowboy Artist,” Charles M. Russell, presented his nephew Austin with a copy of the boy’s adventure book Frank on the Prairie with some extraordinary enhancements. Actually, the volume already belonged to Austin, and his Uncle Charlie had borrowed it to add to its pages a series of original illustrations. This new facsimile edition of that copy, among the rarest of rare books, features little-known works of art by the artist.
DISTRIBUTED FOR THE C.M. RUSSELL MUSEUM
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CHARLES M. RUSSELL The Life and Legend of America’s Cowboy Artist By John Taliaferro $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3495-6 CHARLES M. RUSSELL Photographing the Legend By Larry Len Peterson $350.00n Leather 978-0-8061-4485-6 $60.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-4473-3 THE MASTERWORKS OF CHARLES M. RUSSELL A Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture Edited by Joan Carpenter Troccoli $39.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4097-1
The prolific author of the novel Frank on the Prairie, Charles Austin Fosdick (1842–1915), who went by the pen name Harry Castlemon, was one of Russell’s favorite storytellers. Castlemon’s book, which first appeared in 1868 as part of the Gunboat Series of Books for Boys, recounts the adventures of young Frank and his friend Archie as they travel across the Old West. Clearly inspired by the story line, Russell produced eleven watercolors for his nephew’s 1893 copy. They are beautifully reproduced here in full color, along with a single pencil sketch of mounted horsemen departing a fort. As Montana art collector Thomas Minckler explains in his essay, the extraillustrated Frank on the Prairie displays the full range of Russell’s signature subjects and themes: the regal American Indian, a pitched Indian battle of counting coup, the fur trader, an iconic buffalo hunt, the outlaw, a nighttime camp scene, a tomahawk peace pipe, and a herd of wild horses. All of these images, meticulously drawn and painted, are replicated in this facsimile version exactly as they first appeared in Austin’s personal copy of the book. Frank on the Prairie was only one of a handful of books to which Russell added illustrations during his career. It is one of even fewer to contain watercolors. Showcasing Russell’s artistry and his perspective on the American West, the volume is, in Minckler’s words, “one of Russell’s most personalized works of art.” Thomas A. Petrie is Chairman of Petrie Partners, LLC, in Denver and Vice Chairman of the C.M. Russell Museum Board of Directors. Thomas Minckler, a collector, dealer, and appraiser of rare books, artwork, photographs, manuscripts, and artifacts, is the author of In Poetic Silence: The Floral Paintings of Joseph Henry Sharp.
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Smoke over Oklahoma The Railroad Photographs of Preston George By Augustus J. Veenendaal Jr. Foreword by Bob L. Blackburn Afterword by Burnis George Argo Oklahoma was in the throes of the Great Depression when Preston George acquired a cheap Kodak folding camera and took his first photographs of steam locomotives. As depression gave way to world war, George kept taking pictures, now with a Graflex camera that could capture moving trains. In this first book devoted solely to George’s work, his black-and-white photographs constitute a striking visual documentary of steam-driven railroading in its brief but glorious heyday in the American Southwest. The pictures also form a remarkable artistic accomplishment in their own right. Prominent among the magnificent action images collected here are the engines that were George’s passion—steam locomotives pulling long freights or strings of gleaming passenger cars through open country. But along with the fireworks of the heavier steam engines slogging through the mountains near the Arkansas border on the Kansas City Southern or climbing Raton Pass in New Mexico on the Santa Fe, George’s photographs also record humbler fare, such as the short trains of the Frisco and Katy piloted by ancient light steamers, and the final years of that state’s interurban lines. Augustus J. Veenendaal Jr.’s brief history of railroads in the Sooner State puts these images into perspective, as does a reminiscence by George’s daughter Burnis on his life and his pursuit of railroad photography. With over 150 images and a wealth of historical and biographical information, this volume makes accessible to an audience beyond the most avid railfans the extent of Preston George’s extraordinary achievement. Augustus J. Veenendaal Jr. is retired as Senior Research Scholar at the Institute of Netherlands History in The Hague and the author of numerous works on U.S. and European railroad history, including Slow Train to Paradise: How Dutch Investment Helped Build American Railroads and American Railroads in the Nineteenth Century. Bob L. Blackburn is Executive Director of the Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City. Writer Burnis George Argo is the daughter of Preston George.
JANUARY $29.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-5568-5 216 PAGES, 11 × 8 160 B&W ILLUS., 2 MAPS PHOTOGRAPHY/U.S. HISTORY
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JAY COOKE’S GAMBLE The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873 By M. John Lubetkin $22.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4468-9 WORKIN’ ON THE RAILROAD Reminiscences from the Age of Steam By Richard Reinhardt $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3525-0 THEN CAME THE RAILROADS The Century from Steam to Diesel in the Southwest By Ira G. Clark $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4799-4
VEENENDAAL SMOKE OVER OKLAHOMA
A retrospective of this masterful steamera photographer’s best work
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MORTON-CAIN, THURMAN CHEROKEE NATIONAL TREASURES
Honors Cherokees reviving and preserving Cherokee arts and culture
Cherokee National Treasures In Their Own Words Edited by Shawna Morton-Cain and Pamela Jumper Thurman “The legend says that a long time ago we lived on land surrounded by water that we couldn’t drink . . .”—Traditional beginning to Cherokee stories
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BUILDING ONE FIRE Art and World View in Cherokee Life By Chad Corntassel Smith, Rennard Strickland, and Benny Smith $24.95 Cloth 978-1-61658-960-8 LITERACY AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE IN THE CHEROKEE NATION, 1820–1906 By James W. Parins $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4399-6 PROGRESSIVE TRADITIONS Identity in Cherokee Literature and Culture By Joshua B. Nelson $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4491-7
Cherokee origin stories have been handed down over thousands of years. They intertwine to form a rich history of oral and artistic traditions that tell the Cherokee story. The vast array of art objects unearthed from prehistoric mounds throughout the southeastern United States evidence the antiquity of this rich cultural history. To some, these may be artifacts, but to the Cherokee people, they are tribal history: objects that were touched by ancestors, ancestors who have continued to teach their skills through gifts they left behind to be discovered. Stories in this book reflect how history has woven itself into the fabric of the present. The stories are intimate and told by the artists, by family members, by friends in their own words. The telling will make you feel as though you are fortunate enough to sit in the presence of the Cherokee artists, who intimately share the story of themselves, of their art, who their family was, how they came to be artists, who and what influenced them, and how their art reflects who they are as Cherokee people. They are the Cherokee National Treasures. The Cherokee National Treasure Award was established in 1988 by the Cherokee Nation and the Cherokee National Historical Society. Currently, there are ninetyfour individuals who have been designated Cherokee National Treasures. They have all been recognized not only for their roles as artisans, but also for their roles as teachers, mentors, and advocates. The award recipients have preserved and perpetuated traditional and contemporary artistic methods and practices, ensuring that their arts and skills are not lost. These powerful stories of Cherokee National Treasures are captivating and leave lasting impressions of Cherokee life, values, and artistic traditions—cultural treasures that continue into the twenty-first century. Shawna Morton-Cain, Cherokee, is a Ford Fellow and doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of Arkansas. Her research is funded by the American Philosophical Society, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Academies of the Sciences, and focuses upon Cherokee Art and the ecological and environmental impact of modern society upon Indigenous peoples. Pamela Jumper Thurman is the granddaughter of three original Dawes Commission enrollees and has spent much of her life living and working in the Cherokee Nation. Thurman holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and is a published author of over eighty articles, book chapters, manuals, and curricula on various cultural and health topics.
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The 1928 Bunion Derby A Historical Tour and Driving Guide, Chicago to New York City By James R. Powell The historic 1928 “Bunion Derby” was a cross-country footrace from Los Angeles to New York City. In a supreme test of human endurance and fortitude, runners pounded the pavement for 84 straight days, covering more than 3,400 miles. Starting in Los Angeles, the competitors tracked the path of old Route 66 to Chicago. From there they followed a twisting 1,000-mile trail to New York City. That journey is the subject of this book. While previous books and articles have been written about the race, most have concentrated on the promoter, C. C. “Cash and Carry” Pyle, his runners, or the Route 66 portion of the race. In The 1928 Bunion Derby: A Historical Tour and Driving Guide, Chicago to New York City, author James R. Powell takes a more robust approach—including a turn-by-turn driving guide from Chicago to New York with historical background on the route and the racers. Powell not only portrays the runners and the intensity of such a race, but also explains important events that transpired in the years leading up to the Bunion Derby. His historical tour describes surviving sites along the route and offers stories reminiscent of American life in the late 1920s. More than 200 illustrations—including period photographs, postcard images, and maps—enliven the story of this landmark race. The 1928 Bunion Derby is highlighted by tales of the torturous path runners followed to reach each overnight stop. And reports from period newspapers add color and a sense of the moment to the historic images and stories, both harrowing and heartwarming. A glimpse back in time, with a look at the places along that historic route today and a description of how to get there, The 1928 Bunion Derby has something for everyone—from historians to runners and from road warriors to armchair travelers. James R. Powell, founder of the Route 66 Association of Missouri, has been recognized for his knowledge of the highway and the Bunion Derby. He has spent years working toward the development, preservation, and revival of Route 66 and has written magazine articles about Route 66 and the Lincoln Highway.
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ROUTE 66 CROSSINGS Historic Bridges of the Mother Road By Jim Ross $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-5199-1 ALONG ROUTE 66 By Quinta Scott $26.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3250-1 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3383-6 ROUTE 66 The Highway and Its People By Susan Croce Kelly Photographs by Quinta Scott $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2291-5
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The Billy the Kid Reader
Victorio
By Frederick Nolan
Apache Warrior and Chief By Kathleen P. Chamberlain
NOLAN THE BILLY THE KID READER
CHAMBERLAIN VICTORIO
More than a century’s worth of essential writing on America’s most famous outlaw
Despite the countless books and films devoted to him, Billy the Kid remains one of the most elusive figures of the Old West. Award-winning western historian Frederick Nolan scoured the published literature to offer this well-rounded compendium on the life and times of William H. Bonney. The Billy the Kid Reader contains some of the best articles on the Kid—including gems no longer in print. From the first dime novel that appeared shortly after his death to the research of today’s historians, these writings bring Bonney’s life into sharp focus. Nolan highlights two distinct schools of Billy the Kid studies: works of popularizers who tended to exaggerate his historical role, and the findings of grassroots researchers who have reassessed our perceptions of the Kid. Dozens of illustrations enhance the text, illuminating the Kid’s career and notoriety. This collection shows that the life of William H. Bonney is not yet a closed book—far from it. The Billy the Kid Reader will satisfy seasoned Kid aficionados and delight readers eager to learn more about the man and the legend. Frederick Nolan is a leading authority on outlaws and gunfighters of the Old West. His award-winning books include The West of Billy the Kid; The Wild West: History, Myth, and the Making of America; and The Lincoln County War: A Documentary History. He resides in England. FEBRUARY $29.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-3849-7 $24.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-5758-0 400 PAGES, 6 × 9 37 B&W ILLUS., 1 MAP BIOGRAPHY/U.S. HISTORY
A thoroughgoing portrait of the feared contemporary of Geronimo
Apache chief Victorio, a steadfast champion of his people during the wars with encroaching Anglo-Americans, deserves historical attention alongside his better-known contemporaries Cochise and Geronimo. Here Kathleen P. Chamberlain presents the story of this nineteenth-century Warm Springs Apache warrior, revealing Victorio’s central role in the Apache wars. Chamberlain’s Victorio is a pragmatic leader and a profoundly spiritual man. Caught in the absurdities of post–Civil War Indian policy, Victorio struggled with the glaring disconnect between the U.S. government’s vision for Indians and the Apaches own physical, psychological, and spiritual needs. There is little documentation of Victorio’s life, outside military records, but Chamberlain uses ethnographic sources to depict traditional Warm Springs Apache childhood and adolescence and tribal social, religious, and economic life. Reconstructing Victorio’s life beyond the Apache wars, Chamberlain interprets his character and actions not only as whites viewed them but as the logical outcome of his upbringing and worldview. Enlivened with historic photographs of Victorio, other Apaches, and U.S. military leaders, this well-balanced biography portrays Victorio as a Native leader who sought a peaceful homeland for his people—and an Apache warrior caught in the conflicts and compromises of the nineteenth-century Southwest. Kathleen P. Chamberlain, Professor Emerita of History at Eastern Michigan University, is the author of In the Shadow of Billy the Kid: Susan McSween and the Lincoln County War and Under Sacred Ground: A History of Navajo Oil, 1922–1982. JANUARY $24.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-3843-5 $21.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-5760-3 272 PAGES, 6 × 9 16 B&W ILLUS. 4 MAPS BIOGRAPHY/AMERICAN INDIAN VOLUME 22 IN THE THE OKLAHOMA WESTERN BIOGRAPHIES
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Talking Machine West A History and Catalogue of Tin Pan Alley’s Western Recordings, 1902–1918 By Michael A. Amundson Many associate early western music with the likes of Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, but America’s first western music craze predates these “singing cowboys” by decades. Written by Tin Pan Alley songsters in the era before radio, the first popular cowboy and Indian songs circulated as piano sheet music and as cylinder and disc recordings that were played on wind-up talking machines. The colorful fantasies of western life depicted in these songs capitalized on popular fascination with the West stoked by Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows, Owen Wister’s novel The Virginian, and Edwin S. Porter’s film The Great Train Robbery. The talking machine music industry, centered in New York City, used state-of-theart recording and printing technology to produce and advertise songs about the American West. Talking Machine West brings together for the first time the variety of cowboy, cowgirl, and Indian music recorded and sold for mass consumption between 1902 and 1918. In the book’s introductory chapters, Michael A. Amundson explains how this music reflected the nostalgic passing of the Indian and the frontier while incorporating modern ragtime music and the racial attitudes of Jim Crow America. Hardly Old West ditties, the songs gave voice to changing ideas about Indians and assimilation, cowboys, the frontier, the rise of the New Woman, and ethnic and racial equality. In the book’s second part, a chronological catalogue of fifty-four western recordings provides the full lyrics and history of each song and reproduces in full color the cover art of extant period sheet music. Each entry also describes the song’s composer(s), lyricist(s), and sheet music illustrator and directs readers to online digitized recordings of each song. Gorgeously illustrated throughout, this book is as entertaining as it is informative, offering the first comprehensive account of popular western recorded music in its earliest form. Michael A. Amundson is Professor of History at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff. His publications include Wyoming Revisited: Rephotographing the Scenes of Joseph E. Stimson and Yellowcake Towns: Uranium Mining Communities in the American West.
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NEW DEAL COWBOY Gene Autry and Public Diplomacy By Michael Duchemin $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5392-6 HEARTBEAT, WARBLE, AND THE ELECTRIC POWWOW American Indian Music By Craig Harris $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-5168-7
AMUNDSON TALKING MACHINE WEST
Features early cowboy, cowgirl, and Indian music recorded and sold for a mass audience
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FEEST, CORUM FREDERICK WEYGOLD
Selected works as a painter, illustrator, photographer, and collector of American Indian art and artifacts.
Frederick Weygold Artist and Ethnographer of North American Indians Edited by Christian F. Feest and C. Ronald Corum Frederick Weygold (1870–1941), American artist and self-trained ethnographer, is today almost unknown outside German-speaking Europe. This book, based upon the voluminous body of his paintings, drawings, and papers held by the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, and upon research in American and European museums and archives, offers for the first time a comprehensive account of Weygold’s life and achievements as an artist, collector, educator, and social activist.
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NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN ART Masterpieces and Museum Collections from the Netherlands Edited by Pieter Hovens $39.95s Cloth 978-3-9811620-8-0 SURVIVING DESIRES Making and Selling Native Jewellery in the American Southwest By Henrietta Lidchi $34.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4850-2 LANTERNS ON THE PRAIRIE The Blackfeet Photographs of Walter McClintock Edited by Steven L. Grafe $60.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4022-3 $34.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4029-2
Born in St. Charles, Missouri, Weygold studied languages and art in Germany and Philadelphia before settling in Louisville in 1908. In Europe, Weygold became fascinated with American Indians, taught himself the Lakota language, and began his lifelong study of Native American art by drawing early objects from the Plains in German museum collections. In Philadelphia he did “fieldwork” with Lakotas working for Wild West shows and collected Lakota texts and drawings. In 1909 he went to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, acquiring Native artifacts for the Museum of Ethnology in Hamburg and documenting in photographs Lakota life and culture, including the first photographic record of the Plains Indian sign language. He later used his ethnographic expertise in a series of oil paintings and to illustrate books by the Dakota author Charles Eastman and by the western writers James Willard Schultz and Stanley Vestal. Weygold also gained local recognition for his painting of the iconic “Old Kentucky Home” and was involved in the movement to save Cumberland Falls from being developed into a source of hydroelectric power. Over time, Weygold built a personal collection of Native American artifacts he later donated to the Speed Museum, which now forms the core of the museum’s holdings. This book features selected examples from his work as a painter, illustrator, photographer, and collector of American Indian art and artifacts. Christian F. Feest was Professor of Anthropology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and Director of the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna. His research interests focus on visual arts and material culture, the history of anthropology, the ethnohistory and historical ethnography of eastern North America, central Mexico and central Brazil, and the anthropology of visual representation. C. Ronald Corum is a research neurophysiologist and the author of numerous medical, scientific, and historical publications. In the 1970s he actively engaged with the Lakotas and their culture, learned their language from a person, who had previously learned it from Weygold, and has researched the artist’s life and work for more than forty years.
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Bruce Goff Architecture of Discipline in Freedom By Arn Henderson Renowned today as one of the most important architects of the twentieth century, Bruce Goff (1904–1982) was only twelve years old when a Tulsa architectural firm took him on as an apprentice. Throughout his career he defied expectations, not only as a designer of innovative buildings but also as a gifted educator and painter. This beautifully illustrated volume, featuring more than 150 photographs, architectural drawings, and color plates, explores the vast multitude of ideas and themes that influenced Goff’s work. Tracing what he calls Goff’s “path of originality,” Arn Henderson begins by describing two of Goff’s earliest and most significant influences: the architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the French composer Claude Debussy. As Henderson explains, Goff embraced from a young age Wright’s ideal of organic expression, where all elements of a building’s design are integrated into a unified whole. Although Goff’s stylistic dependence on Wright eventually waned, the music of Debussy, with its qualities of mystery and “discipline in freedom,” was a perpetual source of inspiration. Henderson also emphasizes Goff’s identification with the American West, particularly Oklahoma, where he developed most of his ideas and created many of his masterful buildings. Goff served as a professor at the University of Oklahoma between 1947 and 1955, becoming the first chair of its School of Architecture. The new studio course he introduced was a pivotal development, ensuring that his ideas were imparted to the next generation of architects. Part biography of a well-known architect, part analysis of Goff’s work, this book is also a finely woven tapestry of information and interpretation that encompasses the ideas and experiences that shaped Goff’s artistic vision over his lifetime. Based on scores of interviews with Goff’s associates and former students, as well as the author’s firsthand study of Goff’s extant buildings, this volume deepens our appreciation of the great architect’s lasting legacy. Arn Henderson, Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Oklahoma, is the author of Architecture in Oklahoma: Landmark and Vernacular and several collections of poetry.
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AMERICAN SKI RESORT Architecture, Style, Experience By Margaret Supplee Smith $45.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-4295-1 PATH TO EXCELLENCE Building the University of Oklahoma, 1890–2015 By John R. Lovett $34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-9978-8 GOFF ON GOFF Conversations and Lectures Edited by Philip B. Welch $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5603-3
HENDERSON BRUCE GOFF
Explores the legendary architect’s innovative artistry and teaching
MAXIMILIAN OF WIED, GALLAGHER TRAVELS IN NORTH AMERICA, 1832–1834
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A new, accessible version of these enthralling journals
Travels in North America, 1832–1834 A Concise Edition of the Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied Edited by Marsha V. Gallagher The journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied rank among the most important firsthand sources documenting the early-nineteenth-century American West. Published in their entirety as an annotated three-volume set, the journals present a complete narrative of Maximilian’s expedition across the United States, from Boston almost to the headwaters of the Missouri in the Rocky Mountains, and back. This new, concise edition, the only modern condensed version of Maximilian’s full account, highlights the expedition’s most significant encounters and dramatic events.
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THE NORTH AMERICAN JOURNALS OF PRINCE MAXIMILIAN OF WIED May 1832–April 1833 Edited by Stephen S. Witte and Marsha V. Gallagher $85.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3888-6 THE NORTH AMERICAN JOURNALS OF PRINCE MAXIMILIAN OF WIED April–September 1833 Edited by Stephen S. Witte and Marsha V. Gallagher $85.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3923-4 THE NORTH AMERICAN JOURNALS OF PRINCE MAXIMILIAN OF WIED September 1833–August 1834 Edited by Stephen S. Witte and Marsha V. Gallagher $85.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3924-1
The German prince and his party arrived in Boston on July 4, 1832. He intended to explore “the natural face of North America,” observing and recording firsthand the flora, fauna, and especially the Native peoples of the interior. Accompanying him was the young Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, who would document the journey with sketches and watercolors. Together, the group traveled across the eastern United States and up the Missouri River into present-day Montana, spending the winter of 1833–34 at Fort Clark, an important fur-trading post near the Mandan and Hidatsa villages in what is now North Dakota. The expedition returned downriver to St. Louis the following spring, having spent more than a year in the Upper Missouri frontier wilderness. The two explorers experienced the American frontier just before its transformation by settlers, miners, and industry. Featuring nearly fifty color and black-and-white illustrations—including several of Karl Bodmer’s best landscapes and portraits— this succinct record of their expedition invites new audiences to experience an enthralling journey across the early American West. Maximilian Alexander Philipp, prince of Wied (1782–1867), explorer, naturalist, and ethnologist from Neuwied, Germany, first won acclaim for his expedition to Brazil in 1815–17. Marsha V. Gallagher, Director of the Maximilian Journals Project for the Margre H. Durham Center for Western Studies, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, has published several works on Karl Bodmer’s art. William J. Orr was a foreign service officer with the U.S. State Department. Paul Schach was Charles J. Mach University Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Dieter Karch is Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Jack F. Becker is Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Joslyn Art Museum.
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Sing Me Back Home Southern Roots and Country Music By Bill C. Malone For over fifty years, Bill C. Malone has researched and written about the history of country music. Today he is celebrated as the foremost authority on this distinctly American genre. This new collection brings together his significant article-length work from a variety of sources, including essays, book chapters, and record liner notes. Sing Me Back Home distills a lifetime of thinking about country and southern roots music. Malone offers the heartfelt story of his own working-class upbringing in rural East Texas, recounting how in 1939 his family’s first radio, a battery-powered Philco, introduced him to hillbilly music and how, years later, he went on to become a scholar in the field before the field formally existed. Drawing on a hundred years of southern roots music history, Malone assesses the contributions of artists such as William S. Hays, Albert Brumley, Joe Thompson, Jimmie Rodgers, Johnny Gimble, and Elvis Presley. He also explores the intricate relationships between black and white music styles, gospel and secular traditions, and pop, folk, and country music. Author of many books, Malone is best known for his pioneering volume County Music U.S.A., published in 1968. It ranks as the first comprehensive history of American country music and remains a standard reference. This compilation of Malone’s shorter—and more personal—essays is the perfect complement to his earlier writing and a compelling introduction to the life’s work of America’s most respected country music historian. Bill C. Malone is Professor Emeritus of History at Tulane University and the author of numerous books on country music history. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for American Music, he currently resides in Madison, Wisconsin, where he hosts a weekly country music radio show.
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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 INDIAN BLUES American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879–1934 By John W. Troutman $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4269-2 SINGING THE SONGS OF MY ANCESTORS The Life and Music of Helma Swan, Makah Elder By Linda J. Goodman $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3451-2
MALONE SING ME BACK HOME
An engaging collection of writings by the foremost scholar of country music
BRICKLIN AMERICA’S BEST FEMALE SHARPSHOOTER
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The first full-length biography of the sharpshooter who rivaled Annie Oakley
America’s Best Female Sharpshooter The Rise and Fall of Lillian Frances Smith By Julia Bricklin Today, most remember “California Girl” Lillian Frances Smith (1871–1930) as Annie Oakley’s chief competitor in the small world of the Wild West shows’ female shooters. But the two women were quite different: Oakley’s conservative “prairie beauty” persona clashed with Smith’s tendency to wear flashy clothes and keep company with the cowboys and American Indians she performed with. This lively first biography chronicles the Wild West show biz life that Smith led and explores the talents that made her a star.
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THE LIFE AND LEGENDS OF CALAMITY JANE By Richard W. Etulain $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4632-4 THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF ANNIE OAKLEY By Glenda Riley $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3506-9 A PAIR OF SHOOTISTS The Wild West Story of S. F. Cody and Maud Lee By Jerry Kuntz $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4149-7
Drawing on family records, press accounts, interviews, and numerous other sources, historian Julia Bricklin peels away the myths that enshroud Smith’s fifty-year career. Known as “The California Huntress” before she was ten years old, she was a professional sharpshooter by the time she reached her teens, shooting targets from the back of a galloping horse in Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West. Not only did Cody offer $10,000 to anyone who could beat her, but he gave her top billing, setting the stage for her rivalry with Annie Oakley. Being the best female sharpshooter in the United States was not enough, however, to differentiate Lillian Smith from Oakley and a growing number of ladylike cowgirls. So Smith reinvented herself as “Princess Wenona,” a Sioux with a violent and romantic past. Performing with Cody and other showmen such as Pawnee Bill and the Miller brothers, Smith led a tumultuous private life, eventually taking up the shield of a forged Indian persona. The morals of the time encouraged public criticism of Smith’s lack of Victorian femininity, and the press’s tendency to play up her rivalry with Oakley eventually overshadowed Smith’s own legacy. In the end, as author Julia Bricklin shows, Smith cared more about living her life on her own terms than about her public image. Unlike her competitors who shot to make a living, Lillian Smith lived to shoot. Julia Bricklin, an independent historian and lecturer who focuses on the American West, has published in Wild West, Civil War Times, and Financial History. An editor of the journal California History, she lives in Los Angeles.
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J. C. Penney The Man, the Store, and American Agriculture By David Delbert Kruger What is now called JCPenney, a fixture of suburban shopping malls, started out as a small-town Main Street store that fused its founder’s interests in agriculture, retail business, religion, and philanthropy. This book—at once a biography of Missouri farm boy–turned–business icon James Cash Penney and the story of the company he started in 1902—brings to light the little-known agrarian roots of an American department store chain. David Delbert Kruger explores how the company, its stores, and their famous founder shaped rural America throughout the twentieth century. “Most of our stores,” Penney explained in 1931, “are located in agricultural regions where the tide of merchandising rises and falls with the prosperity of the farmers.” Despite the growth of cities in the early twentieth century, Penney maintained his stores’ commitment to serving the needs of farmers and small-town folk. Tracing this dedication to Penney’s rural upbringing, Kruger describes how, from one store in the sheep-ranching and mining town of Kemmerer, Wyoming, J. C. Penney Co. became a familiar chain on Main Street, USA, purveying value, providing good jobs, and marking rites of passage in many an American childhood. Kruger paints a biographical and historical picture of an American business mogul distinctly different from comparable capitalists such as Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, or Sam Walton. Despite his chain’s corporate structure, Penney imbued each store with a Golden Rule philosophy that demanded mutual respect between customers, employees, competitors, suppliers, and communities. By tracing that spirit to its agrarian source, and following it through the twentieth century, J. C. Penney: The Man, the Store, and American Agriculture provides a new perspective on this American cultural institution—and on its founder’s unique brand of American capitalism. David Delbert Kruger is Agricultural Research and Instruction Librarian, William Robertson Coe Library, University of Wyoming, Laramie.
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OUT WHERE THE WEST BEGINS Profiles, Visions, and Strategies of Early Western Business Leaders By Philip F. Anschutz $34.95 Cloth 978-0-9905502-0-4 WHEN MONEY GREW ON TREES A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron By Greg Gordon $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4447-4 DUDE RANCHING IN YELLOWSTONE COUNTRY Larry Larom and Valley Ranch, 1915–1969 By W. Hudson Kensel $29.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-384-4
KRUGER J. C. PENNEY
The development of a retail giant from rural and small-town origins
BOTKIN FRANK LITTLE AND THE IWW
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The life and family legacy of a tireless labor organizer
Frank Little and the IWW The Blood That Stained an American Family By Jane Little Botkin Franklin Henry Little (1878–1917), an organizer for the Western Federation of Miners and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), fought in some of the early twentieth century’s most contentious labor and free-speech struggles. Following his lynching in Butte, Montana, his life and legacy became shrouded in tragedy and family secrets. In Frank Little and the IWW, author Jane Little Botkin chronicles her great-granduncle’s fascinating life and reveals its connections to the history of American labor and the first Red Scare.
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BEYOND THE AMERICAN PALE The Irish in the West, 1845–1910 By David M. Emmons $34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4128-2
Beginning with Little’s childhood in Missouri and territorial Oklahoma, Botkin recounts his evolution as a renowned organizer and agitator on behalf of workers in corporate agriculture, oil, logging, and mining. Frank Little traveled the West to gather workers beneath the banner of the Wobblies (as IWW members were known), making soapbox speeches on city street corners, organizing strikes, and writing polemics against unfair labor practices. His brother and sister-in-law also joined the fight for labor, but it was Frank who led the charge—and who was regularly threatened, incarcerated, and assaulted for his efforts. In his final battles in Arizona and Montana, Botkin shows, Little and the IWW leadership faced their strongest opponent yet as powerful copper magnates countered union efforts with deep-laid networks of spies and gunmen, an antilabor press, and local vigilantes. For a time, Frank Little’s murder became a rallying cry for the IWW. But after the United States entered the Great War and Congress passed the Sedition Act (1918) to ensure support for the war effort, many politicians and corporations used the act to target labor “radicals,” squelch dissent, and inspire vigilantism. Like other wageworking families smeared with the traitor label, the Little family endured raids, arrests, and indictments in IWW trials.
A DECENT, ORDERLY LYNCHING The Montana Vigilantes By Frederick Allen $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3637-0 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4038-4
Having scoured the West for firsthand sources in family, library, and museum collections, Botkin melds the personal narrative of an American family with the story of the labor movements that once shook the nation to its core. In doing so, she throws into sharp relief the lingering consequences of political repression.
ALTERNATIVE OKLAHOMA Contrarian Views of the Sooner State Edited by Davis D. Joyce $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3819-0
Retired from a thirty-year teaching career in Texas public schools, Jane Little Botkin is an independent historian.
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John Joseph Mathews Life of an Osage Writer By Michael Snyder Foreword by Russ Tall Chief John Joseph Mathews (1894–1979) is one of Oklahoma’s most revered twentiethcentury authors. An Osage Indian, he was also one of the first Indigenous authors to gain national renown. Yet fame did not come easily to Mathews, and his personality was full of contradictions. In this captivating biography, Michael Snyder provides the first book-length account of this fascinating figure. Known as “Jo” to all his friends, Mathews had a multifaceted identity. A novelist, naturalist, biographer, historian, and tribal preservationist, he was a true “man of letters.” Snyder draws on a wealth of sources, many of them previously untapped, to narrate Mathews’s story. Much of the writer’s family life—especially his two marriages and his relationships with his two children and two stepchildren—is explored here for the first time. Born in the town of Pawhuska in Indian Territory, Mathews attended the University of Oklahoma before venturing abroad and earning a second degree from Oxford. He served as a flight instructor during World War I, traveled across Europe and northern Africa, and bought and sold land in California. A proud Osage who devoted himself to preserving Osage culture, Mathews also served as tribal councilman and cultural historian for the Osage Nation. Like many gifted artists, Mathews was not without flaws. And perhaps in the eyes of some critics, he occupies a nebulous space in literary history. Through insightful analysis of his major works, especially his semiautobiographical novel Sundown and his meditative Talking to the Moon, Snyder revises this impression. The story he tells, of one remarkable individual, is also the story of the Osage Nation, the state of Oklahoma, and Native America in the twentieth century. Michael Snyder is Professor of English at Oklahoma City Community College and author of scholarly articles on John Joseph Mathews and other American Indian writers. Russ Tall Chief (Osage) is a writer, an educator, and Director of Student Engagement, Inclusion, and Multicultural Programs at Oklahoma City University.
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TWENTY THOUSAND MORNINGS An Autobiography By John Joseph Mathews $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4253-1 N. SCOTT MOMADAY Remembering Ancestors, Earth, and Traditions An Annotated Bio-bibliography By Phyllis S. Morgan $60.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4054-4 HAUNTED BY HOME The Life and Letters of Lynn Riggs By Phyllis Cole Braunlich $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3510-6
SNYDER JOHN JOSEPH MATHEWS
The first full-length biography of the distinguished Osage author
ROGERS SO LONG FOR NOW
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Firsthand accounts of a sailor in the Pacific theater and his family on the home front
So Long for Now A Sailor’s Letters from the USS Franklin By Jerry L. Rogers Foreword by Robert M. Utley Elden Duane Rogers died on March 19, 1945, one of the eight hundred who perished on the aircraft carrier USS Franklin that day. It was his nineteenth birthday. Write home often, the navy told sailors like Elden, thinking it would keep up morale among sailors and those waiting for them stateside. But they were told not to write anything about where they were, where they had been, where they were going, what they were doing, or even what the weather was like. Spies were presumed everywhere, and loose lips could sink ships. Before a sailor’s letter could be sealed and sent, a censor read it and with a razor blade cut out words that told too much.
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So Long for Now reconstructs the lost world of a sailor’s daily life in World War II, piecing together letters from Elden’s family in Vega, Texas, and from his girlfriend, the untold stories behind Elden’s own letters, and the context of the war itself. Historian Jerry L. Rogers delves past censored letters limited to small talk and local gossip to conjure the danger, excitement, boredom, and sacrifices that sailors in the Pacific theater endured. He follows Elden from enlistment in the navy through every battle the USS Franklin saw. Flight deck crashes, kamikaze hits, and tensions and alliances aboard ship all built to the unprecedented chaos and casualties of the Japanese air attack on March 19. “So long for now,” Elden signed off—never “Goodbye.” This moving work poignantly confronts the horrors of war, giving voice to a young sailor, the country he served, the family and friends he left behind, and the hope that has sustained them.
FINDING A FALLEN HERO The Death of a Ball Turret Gunner By Bob Korkuc $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3892-3 HERO STREET, U.S.A. The Story of Little Mexico’s Fallen Soldiers By Marc Wilson $19.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4012-4 IN LOVE AND WAR The World War II Courtship Letters of a Nisei Couple By Melody M. Miyamoto Walters $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4820-5
Jerry L. Rogers is retired from the National Park Service, which he served as Associate Director for Cultural Resources and Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places. He was six years old when his brother Elden was reported missing in action after the attack on the USS Franklin. Robert M. Utley, former chief historian for the National Park Service, is the author of numerous books on the history of the American West.
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Flying to Victory Raymond Collishaw and the Western Desert Campaign, 1940–1941 By Mike Bechthold Canadian-born flying ace Raymond Collishaw (1893–1976) served in Britain’s air forces for twenty-eight years. As a pilot in World War I he was credited with sixtyone confirmed kills on the Western Front. When World War II began in 1939, Air Commodore Collishaw commanded a Royal Air Force group in Egypt. It was in Egypt and Lybia in 1940–41, during the Britain’s Western Desert campaign, that he demonstrated the tenets of an effective air-ground cooperation system. Flying to Victory examines Raymond Collishaw’s contribution to the British system of tactical air support—a pattern of operations that eventually became standard in the Allied air forces and proved to be a key factor in the Allied victory. The British Army and Royal Air Force entered the war with conflicting views on the issue of air support that hindered the success of early operations. It was only after the chastening failure of Operation Battleaxe in June 1941, fought according to army doctrine, that Winston Churchill shifted strategy on the direction of future air campaigns—ultimately endorsing the RAF’s view of mission and target selection. This view adopted principles of air-ground cooperation that Collishaw had demonstrated in combat. Author Mike Bechthold traces the emergence of this strategy in the RAF air campaign in Operation Compass, the first British offensive in the Western Desert, in which Air Commodore Collishaw’s small force overwhelmed its Italian counterpart and disrupted enemy logistics.
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Flying to Victory details the experiences that prepared Collishaw so well for this campaign and that taught him much about the application of air power, especially how to work effectively with the army and Royal Navy. As Bechthold shows, these lessons learned altered the Allied approach to tactical air support and, ultimately, changed the course of the Second World War. Mike Bechthold teaches history at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, and is acquisitions editor for military history at Wilfrid Laurier University Press. His research focuses on air power in World War II and Canadian military history. He has also coauthored a number of guides to World War II battlefields.
A MILITARY HISTORY OF THE COLD WAR, 1944–1962 By Jonathan M. House $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4262-3 BRACKETING THE ENEMY Forward Observers in World War II By John R. Walker $21.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4380-4 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4843-4 CARRYING THE WAR TO THE ENEMY American Operational Art to 1945 By Michael R. Matheny $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4324-8
BECHTHOLD FLYING TO VICTORY
Examines the origins of the British system of tactical air support
VAN BUSKIRK STANDING IN THEIR OWN LIGHT
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How black soldiers fought for American independence and their own freedom
Standing in Their Own Light African American Patriots in the American Revolution By Judith L. Van Buskirk The Revolutionary War encompassed at least two struggles: one for freedom from British rule, and another, quieter but no less significant fight for the liberty of African Americans, thousands of whom fought in the Continental Army. Because these veterans left few letters or diaries, their story has remained largely untold, and the significance of their service largely unappreciated. Standing in Their Own Light restores these African American patriots to their rightful place in the historical struggle for independence and the end of racial oppression.
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WITH ZEAL AND WITH BAYONETS ONLY The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775–1783 By Matthew H. Spring $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4152-7 ALL CANADA IN THE HANDS OF THE BRITISH General Jeffery Amherst and the 1760 Campaign to Conquer New France By Douglas R. Cubbison $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4427-6 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4849-6 NO TURNING POINT The Saratoga Campaign in Perspective By Theodore Corbett $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4661-4
Revolutionary era African Americans began their lives in a world that hardly questioned slavery; they finished their days in a world that increasingly contested the existence of the institution. Judith L. Van Buskirk traces this shift to the wartime experiences of African Americans. Mining firsthand sources that include black veterans’ pension files, Van Buskirk examines how the struggle for independence moved from the battlefield to the courthouse—and how personal conflicts contributed to the larger struggle against slavery and legal inequality. Black veterans claimed an American identity based on their willing sacrifice on behalf of American independence. And abolitionists, citing the contributions of black soldiers, adopted the tactics and rhetoric of revolution, personal autonomy, and freedom. Van Buskirk deftly places her findings in the changing context of the time. She notes the varied conditions of slavery before the war, the different degrees of racial integration across the Continental Army, and the war’s divergent effects on both northern and southern states. Her efforts retrieve black patriots’ experiences from historical obscurity and reveal their importance in the fight for equal rights—even though it would take another war to end slavery in the United States. Judith L. Van Buskirk is Professor of History at the State University of New York, Cortland, and the author of Generous Enemies: Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New York.
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Regular Army O! Soldiering on the Western Frontier, 1865–1891 By Douglas C. McChristian Foreword by Robert M. Utley “The drums they roll, upon my soul, for that’s the way we go,” runs the chorus in a Harrigan and Hart song from 1874. “Forty miles a day on beans and hay in the Regular Army O!” The last three words of that lyric aptly title Douglas C. McChristian’s remarkable work capturing the lot of soldiers posted to the West after the Civil War. At once panoramic and intimate, Regular Army O! uses the testimony of enlisted soldiers—drawn from more than 350 diaries, letters, and memoirs—to create a vivid picture of life in an evolving army on the western frontier. After the volunteer troops that had garrisoned western forts and camps during the Civil War were withdrawn in 1865, the regular army replaced them. In actions involving American Indians between 1866 and 1891, 875 of these soldiers were killed, mainly in minor skirmishes, while many more died of disease, accident, or effects of the natural environment. What induced these men to enlist for five years and to embrace the grim prospect of combat is one of the enduring questions this book explores. Going well beyond Don Rickey Jr.’s classic work Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay (1963), McChristian plumbs the regulars’ accounts for frank descriptions of their training to be soldiers; their daily routines, including what they ate, how they kept clean, and what they did for amusement; the reasons a disproportionate number deserted occasionally, while black soldiers only rarely deserted; how the men prepared for field service; and how the majority who survived mustered out. In this richly drawn, uniquely authentic view, men black and white, veteran and tenderfoot, fill in the details of the frontier soldier’s experience, giving voice to history in the making. Douglas C. McChristian is a retired research historian for the National Park Service and a former National Park Service field historian at Fort Davis and Fort Laramie National Historic Sites and at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. He is the author of numerous books, including Fort Bowie, Arizona: Combat Post of the Southwest, 1858–1894 and Fort Laramie: Military Bastion of the High Plains. Robert M. Utley, retired chief historian of the National Park Service, is author of Frontiersmen in Blue, The Lance and the Shield, and Cavalier in Buckskin.
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THE U.S. ARMY IN THE WEST, 1870–1880 Uniforms, Weapons, and Equipment By Douglas C. McChristian $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3782-7 ARMY REGULARS ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER By Durwood Ball $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3312-6 FORTY MILES A DAY ON BEANS AND HAY The Enlisted Soldier Fighting the Indian Wars By Don Rickey Jr. $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1113-1
McCHRISTIAN REGULAR ARMY O!
A comprehensive yet lively description of duty and life for the “Boys in Blue”
MASICH CIVIL WAR IN THE SOUTHWEST BORDERLANDS, 1861–1867
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Three warrior traditions clash in a struggle for survival and power
Civil War in the Southwest Borderlands, 1861–1867 By Andrew E. Masich Still the least-understood theater of the Civil War, the Southwest Borderlands saw not only Union and Confederate forces clashing but Indians, Hispanos, and Anglos struggling for survival, power, and dominance on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. While other scholars have examined individual battles, Andrew E. Masich is the first to analyze these conflicts as interconnected civil wars. Based on previously overlooked Indian Depredation Claim records and a wealth of other sources, this book is both a close-up history of the Civil War in the region and an examination of the war-making traditions of its diverse peoples.
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THE CIVIL WAR IN ARIZONA The Story of the California Volunteers, 1861–1865 By Andrew E. Masich $21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3900-5 THE OATMAN MASSACRE A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival By Brian McGinty $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3667-7 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3770-4 FORT BOWIE, ARIZONA Combat Post of the Southwest, 1858–1894 By Douglas C. McChristian $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3781-0
Along the border, Masich argues, the Civil War played out as a collision between three warrior cultures. Indians, Hispanos, and Anglos brought their own weapons and tactics to the struggle, but they also shared many traditions. Before the war, the three groups engaged one another in cycles of raid and reprisal involving the taking of livestock and human captives, reflecting a peculiar mixture of conflict and interdependence. When U.S. regular troops were withdrawn in 1861 to fight in the East, the resulting power vacuum led to unprecedented violence in the West. Indians fought Indians, Hispanos battled Hispanos, and Anglos vied for control of the Southwest, while each group sought allies in conflicts related only indirectly to the secession crisis. When Union and Confederate forces invaded the Southwest, Anglo soldiers, Hispanos, and sedentary Indian tribes forged alliances that allowed them to collectively wage a relentless war on Apaches, Comanches, and Navajos. Mexico’s civil war and European intervention served only to enlarge the conflict in the borderlands. When the fighting subsided, a new power hierarchy had emerged and relations between the region’s inhabitants, and their nations, forever changed. Masich’s perspective on borderlands history offers a single, cohesive framework for understanding this power shift while demonstrating the importance of transnational and multicultural views of the American Civil War and the Southwest Borderlands. Andrew E. Masich is President and CEO of the Smithsonian-affiliated Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center and chair of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, and teaches history at Carnegie Mellon University. He is coauthor of Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent and author of The Civil War in Arizona: The Story of the California Volunteers, 1861–1865.
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Soldiers in the Southwest Borderlands, 1848–1886 Edited by Janne Lahti Most military biographies focus on officers, many of whom left diaries or wrote letters throughout their lives and careers. This collection offers new perspectives by focusing on the lives of enlisted soldiers from a variety of cultural and racial backgrounds. Comprised of ten biographies, Soldiers in the Southwest Borderlands showcases the scholarship of experts who have mined military records, descendants’ recollections, genealogical sources, and even folklore to tell common soldiers’ stories. The essays examine enlisted soldiers’ cross-cultural interactions and dynamic, situational identities. They illuminate the intersections of class, culture, and race in the nineteenth-century Southwest. The men who served under U.S. or Mexican flags and on the payrolls of the federal government, or as state or territorial volunteers represented most of the major ethnicities in the West—Hispanics, African Americans, Indians, American-born Anglos, and recent European immigrants—and many moved fluidly among various social and ethnic groups. For example, though usually described as an Apache scout, Mickey Free was born to Mexican parents, raised by an American stepfather, adopted by an Apache father, given an Irish name, and was ultimately categorized by federal authorities as an Irish Mexican White Mountain Apache. George Goldsby, a former slave of mixed ancestry, served as a white soldier in the Union army during the Civil War, and then served twelve years as a “Buffalo Soldier” in the all-black Tenth U.S. Cavalry. He also claimed some American Indian ancestry and was rumored to have crossed the Mexican border to fight alongside Pancho Villa. What motivated these soldiers? Some were patriots and adventurers. Others were destitute and had few other options. Enlisted men received little professional training, and possibilities for advancement were few. Many of these men witnessed, underwent, or inflicted extreme violence, some of it personal and much of it related to excruciating military campaigns. Spotlighting ordinary men who usually appear on the margins of history, the biographical essays collected here tell the stories of soldiers in the complex world of the Southwest after the U.S.-Mexican War. Janne Lahti, Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Helsinki, Finland, is the author of 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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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 ARMY REGULARS ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER By Durwood Ball $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3312-6 THE BUFFALO SOLDIERS A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West, Revised Edition By William H. Leckie and Shirley A. Leckie $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3840-4
LAHTI SOLDIERS IN THE SOUTHWEST BORDERLANDS, 1848–1886
Spotlights ordinary men who often appear on history’s margins
DEWOLF, HARBURN A SURGEON WITH CUSTER AT THE LITTLE BIG HORN
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The most complete annotated edition of the physician’s eyewitness accounts
A Surgeon with Custer at the Little Big Horn James DeWolf ’s Diary and Letters, 1876 Edited by Todd E. Harburn Foreword by Paul Andrew Hutton In spring 1876 a physician named James Madison DeWolf accepted the assignment of contract surgeon for the Seventh Cavalry, becoming one of three surgeons who accompanied Custer’s battalion at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Killed in the early stages of the battle, he might easily have become a mere footnote in the many chronicles of this epic campaign—but he left behind an eyewitness account in his diary and correspondence. A Surgeon with Custer at the Little Big Horn is the first annotated edition of these rare accounts since 1958, and the most complete treatment to date.
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SOLDIER, SURGEON, SCHOLAR The Memoirs of William Henry Corbusier, 1844–1930 By William Henry Corbusier Edited by Robert Wooster $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3549-6 DELIVERANCE FROM THE LITTLE BIG HORN Doctor Henry Porter and Custer’s Seventh Cavalry By Joan Nabseth Stevenson $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4416-0 HEALTH OF THE SEVENTH CAVALRY A Medical History Edited by P. Willey and Douglas D. Scott $32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4839-7
While researchers have known of DeWolf’s diary for many years, few details have surfaced about the man himself. In A Surgeon with Custer at the Little Big Horn, Todd E. Harburn bridges this gap, providing a detailed biography of DeWolf as well as extensive editorial insight into his writings. As one of the most highly educated men who traveled with Custer, the surgeon was well equipped to compose articulate descriptions of the 1876 campaign against the Indians, a fateful journey that began for him at Fort Lincoln, Dakota Territory, and ended on the battlefield in eastern Montana Territory. In letters to his beloved wife, Fannie, and in diary entries— reproduced in this volume exactly as he wrote them—DeWolf describes the terrain, weather conditions, and medical needs that he and his companions encountered along the way. After DeWolf’s death, his colleague Dr. Henry Porter, who survived the conflict, retrieved his diary and sent it to DeWolf’s wife. Later, the DeWolf family donated it to the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. Now available in this accessible and fully annotated format, the diary, along with the DeWolf’s personal correspondence, serves as a unique primary resource for information about the Little Big Horn campaign and medical practices on the western frontier. Todd E. Harburn, an independent scholar, orthopedic surgeon, and doctor of sports medicine, is coauthor of A Most Troublesome Situation: The British Military and the Pontiac Indian Uprising of 1763–1764. Harburn and his wife, Shirley, reside at the Straits of Mackinac, Michigan. Paul Andrew Hutton is Presidential Professor of History at the University of New Mexico and author of Soldiers West: Biographies from the Military Frontier and numerous other books and articles.
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Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight Indian Views Edited by John H. Monnett The Fetterman Fight ranks among the most crushing defeats suffered by the U.S. Army in the nineteenth-century West. On December 21, 1866—during Red Cloud’s War (1866–1868)—a well-organized force of 1,500 to 2,000 Oglala and Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors annihilated a detachment of seventynine infantry and cavalry soldiers—among them Captain William Judd Fetterman— and two civilian contractors. With no survivors on the U.S. side, the only eyewitness accounts of the battle came from Lakota and Cheyenne participants. In Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight, award-winning historian John H. Monnett presents these Native views, drawn from previously published sources as well as newly discovered interviews with Oglala and Cheyenne warriors and leaders. Supplemented with archaeological evidence, these narratives flesh out historical understanding of Red Cloud’s War. Climate change in the mid-nineteenth century made the resource-rich Powder River Country in today’s Wyoming increasingly important to Plains Indians. At the same time, the discovery of gold in Montana encouraged prospectors to pass through the Powder River region on their way north, and so the U.S. Army began to construct new forts along the Bozeman Trail. In the resulting conflict, the Lakotas and Cheyennes defended their hunting ranges and trade routes. Traditional histories have laid the blame for Fetterman’s 1866 defeat and death on his incompetent leadership—and thus implied that the Indian alliance succeeded only because of Fetterman’s personal failings. Monnett’s sources paint another picture. Narratives like those of Miniconjou Lakota warrior White Bull suggest that Fetterman’s actions were not seen as rash or reprehensible until after the fact. Nor did his men flee the field in panic. Rather, they fought bravely to the end. The Indians, for their part, used their knowledge of the terrain to carefully plan and execute an ambush, ensuring them victory. Critical to understanding the nuances of Plains Indian strategy and tactics, the firsthand narratives in Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight reveal the true nature of this Native victory against regular army forces. John H. Monnett is Professor Emeritus of History at Metropolitan State University, Denver, and the author of several books, including Massacre at Cheyenne Hole: Lieutenant Austin Henely and the Sappa Creek Controversy and Tell Them We Are Going Home: The Odyssey of the Northern Cheyennes.
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RED CLOUD’S WAR The Bozeman Trail, 1866–1868 By John D. McDermott $225.00s Leather 978-0-87062-377-6 $75.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-376-9 LAKOTA AND CHEYENNE Indian Views of the Great Sioux War, 1876–1877 By Jerome A. Greene $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3245-7 POWDER RIVER Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War By Paul L. Hedren $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5383-4
MONNETT EYEWITNESS TO THE FETTERMAN FIGHT
Firsthand accounts from the infamous battle’s only survivors
DEARMENT MAN-HUNTERS OF THE OLD WEST
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The surprising stories of eight frontier law enforcers
Man-Hunters of the Old West By Robert K. DeArment Settlers in the frontier West were often easy prey for criminals. Policing efforts were scattered at best and often amounted to vigilante retaliation. To create a semblance of order, freelance enforcers of the law known as man-hunters undertook the search for fugitives. These pursuers have often been portrayed as ruthless bounty hunters, no better than the felons they pursued. Robert K. DeArment’s detailed account of their careers redeems their reputations and reveals the truth behind their fascinating legends.
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As DeArment shows, man-hunters were far more likely to capture felons alive than their popular image suggests. Although “Wanted: Dead or Alive” reward notices were posted during this period, they were reserved for the most murderous desperadoes. Man-hunters also came from a variety of backgrounds in the East and the West: of the eight men whose stories DeArment tells, one began as an officer for an express company, and another was the head of an organization of local lawmen. Others included a railroad detective, a Texas Ranger, a Pinkerton operative, and a shotgun messenger for a stagecoach line. All were tough survivors, living through gunshot wounds, snakebites, disease, buffalo stampedes, and every other hazard of life in the Wild West. They also crossed paths with famous criminals and sheriffs, from John Wesley Hardin and Sam Bass to Wyatt Earp, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid. Telling the true stories of famous men who risked their lives to bring western outlaws to justice, Man-Hunters of the Old West dispels long-held myths of their cold-blooded vigilantism and brings fresh nuance to the lives and legends that made the West wild.
DEADLY DOZEN Twelve Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Vol. 1 By Robert K. DeArment $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3753-7 DEADLY DOZEN Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Vol. 2 By Robert K. DeArment $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3863-3 DEADLY DOZEN Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Vol. 3 By Robert K. DeArment $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4076-6
Robert K. DeArment is the author of more than a hundred articles and a score of books on the history of the U.S. frontier West, including the definitive biography Bat Masterson: The Man and the Legend and the three-volume Deadly Dozen: Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West.
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Mountain Meadows Massacre Collected Legal Papers Edited by Richard E. Turley Jr, Janiece L. Johnson, and LaJean Purcell Carruth On September 11, 1857, a group of Mormons aided by Paiute Indians brutally murdered some 120 men, women, and children traveling through a remote region of southwestern Utah. Within weeks, news of the atrocity spread across the United States. But it took until 1874—seventeen years later—before a grand jury finally issued indictments against nine of the perpetrators. Mountain Meadows Massacre chronicles the prolonged legal battle to gain justice for the victims. The editors of this two-volume collection combed public and private manuscript collections across the United States to reconstruct the complex legal proceedings that occurred in the massacre’s aftermath. The documents they unearthed, transcribed and presented here, cover a nearly forty-year history of investigation and prosecution—from the first reports of the massacre in 1857 to the dismissal of the last indictment against a perpetrator in 1896. Volume 1 tells the first half of the story: the records of the investigations into the massacre and transcriptions of all nine indictments, eight of which never resulted in a trial conviction. Volume 2 details the legal proceedings against the one man indicted to go to trial, John D. Lee. Lee’s trials led to his confession and conviction, and ultimately to his execution on the massacre site in 1877, all documented here. Historians have long debated the circumstances surrounding the Mountain Meadows Massacre, one of the most disturbing and controversial events in American history, and painful questions linger to this day. This invaluable, exhaustively researched collection allows readers the opportunity to form their own conclusions about the forces behind this dark moment in western U.S. history. Richard E. Turley Jr. is Assistant Church Historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Books he has authored, coauthored, or edited include Victims: The LDS Church and the Mark Hofmann Case, Massacre at Mountain Meadows: An American Tragedy, and Mountain Meadows Massacre: The Andrew Jenson and David H. Morris Collections. Janiece L. Johnson is Visiting Professor of Religion at Brigham Young University, Idaho. LaJean Purcell Carruth is a historian for the Church History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, and a transcriber of nineteenthand early-twentieth-century documents written in Pitman, Taylor, and Pernin shorthands.
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INNOCENT BLOOD Essential Narratives of the Mountain Meadows Massacre Edited by David L. Bigler and Will Bagley $45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-362-2 THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE By Juanita Brooks $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2318-9 BLOOD OF THE PROPHETS Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows By Will Bagley $26.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3639-4
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The definitive documentary history of investigations into the Mountain Meadows Massacre
MERCER DIMINISHING THE BILL OF RIGHTS
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The Supreme Court decision pivotal to development of the modern conception of individual rights
Diminishing the Bill of Rights Barron v. Baltimore and the Foundations of American Liberty By William Davenport Mercer The modern effort to locate American liberties, it turns out, began in the mud at the bottom of Baltimore harbor. John Barron Jr. and John Craig sued the city for damages after Baltimore’s rebuilt drainage system diverted water and sediment into the harbor, preventing large ships from tying up at Barron and Craig’s wharf. By the time the case reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 1833, the issue had become whether the city’s actions constituted a taking of property by the state without just compensation, a violation of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The high court’s decision in Barron v. Baltimore marked a critical step in the rapid evolution of law and constitutional rights during the first half of the nineteenth century.
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THE CHEROKEE CASES Two Landmark Federal Decisions in the Fight for Sovereignty By Jill Norgren $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3606-6 BUYING AMERICA FROM THE INDIANS Johnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native Land Rights By Blake A. Watson $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4244-9 A STEP TOWARD BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher and Her Fight to End Segregation By Cheryl Elizabeth Brown Wattley $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4545-7
Diminishing the Bill of Rights examines the backstory and context of this decision as a turning point in the development of our current conception of individual rights. Since the colonial period, Americans had viewed their rights as springing from multiple sources, including the common law, natural right, and English legal tradition. Despite this rich heritage and a prohibition grounded in the Magna Carta against uncompensated state takings of property, the Court ruled against Barron’s claim. The Bill of Rights, Chief Justice John Marshall declared in his opinion for the majority, restrained only the federal government, not the states. The Fifth Amendment, accordingly, did not apply to Maryland or any of the cities it chartered. In explaining how the Court came to reject a multisourced view of human liberties—a position seemingly inconsistent with its previous decisions—William Davenport Mercer helps explain why we now envision the Constitution as essential to guaranteeing our rights. Marshall’s view of rights in Barron, Mercer argues, helped him navigate the Court through the precarious political currents of the time. While the chief justice may have effected a shrewd political maneuver, the decision helped hasten a reconceptualization of rights as located in documents. Its legacy, as Mercer’s work makes clear, is among the Jacksonian era’s significant democratic reforms and marks the emergence of a distinctly American constitutionalism. William Davenport Mercer is Lecturer in the Department of History and the College of Law at University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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Jersey Gold The Newark Overland Company’s Trek to California, 1849 By Margaret Casterline Bowen and Gwendolyn Joslin Hiles When gold fever struck in 1849, John S. Darcy—prominent physician, general, and president of the New Jersey Railroad—assembled a company to travel overland to California. In Jersey Gold, Margaret Casterline Bowen and Gwendolyn Joslin Hiles tell the story of that colorful company of some thirty stalwarts and adventurers. Jersey Gold chronicles the experiences of the New Jersey argonauts from their lives before the gold rush to the widely varying fortunes each ultimately found. Animated by the trekkers’ own words and observations and illustrated with maps, photographs, and drawings by one of the company’s own men, Jersey Gold follows the Newark Overland Company’s journey by rail, stage, and riverboat to the Missouri frontier town of Independence, the group’s jumping-off point for the Oregon-California trail. There, the company splintered. Their divergent paths afford views of the westward journey from multiple perspectives as the companies faced the perils of the wilderness and the treachery of human nature. Once in gold country, many booked immediate passage home, but some remained with Darcy to work a successful mining operation before returning east with comfortable fortunes. A few, enchanted by the opportunities of the Golden Coast, took up permanent residence there—and in their stories we witness the emergence of California amid unprecedented lawlessness, the controversy of slavery, and diverse nationalities. The story of the Newark Overland Company—in many ways a panorama of the nineteenth century—tells of fortune, scandal, and heartbreak from the wildness of the frontier through the chaos of the Civil War to the throes of early industrialization, and features such notables as John Sutter, Brigham Young, and Henry Clay. In chronicling this journey, Jersey Gold vividly re-creates a defining chapter in American history. Margaret Casterline Bowen, a former IT manager and consultant for the U.S. House of Representatives and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, resides in Jefferson, Maryland. Gwendolyn Joslin Hiles, from Lewis Center, Ohio, owned a commercial printing company after a career in educational and children’s publishing. The authors’ independent research on the Newark Overland Company brought them together for the collaboration that created Jersey Gold.
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WITH GOLDEN VISIONS BRIGHT BEFORE THEM Trails to the Mining West, 1849–1852 By Will Bagley $150.00s Leather 978-0-87062-418-6 $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4284-5 NEW ENGLAND TO GOLD RUSH CALIFORNIA The Journal of Alfred and Chastina W. Rix, 1849–1854 Edited by Lynn A. Bonfield $45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-392-9 CALIFORNIA ODYSSEY An Overland Journey on the Southern Trails, 1849 By William R. Goulding Edited by Patricia A. Etter $45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-373-8
BOWEN, HILES JERSEY GOLD
The chronicle of a coast-to-coast journey to the gold rush
ORR RESERVATION POLITICS
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Reveals historical processes at work in contemporary American Indian life
Reservation Politics Historical Trauma, Economic Development, and Intratribal Conflict By Raymond I. Orr For American Indians, tribal politics are paramount. They determine the standards for tribal enrollment, guide negotiations with outside governments, and help set collective economic and cultural goals. But how, asks Raymond I. Orr, has history shaped the American Indian political experience? By exploring how different tribes’ politics and internal conflicts have evolved over time, Reservation Politics offers rare insight into the role of historical experience in the political lives of American Indians.
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To trace variations in political conflict within tribes today to their different historical experiences, Orr conducted an ethnographic analysis of three federally recognized tribes: the Isleta Pueblo in New Mexico, the Citizen Potawatomi in Oklahoma, and the Rosebud Sioux in South Dakota. His extensive interviews and research reveal that at the center of tribal politics are intratribal factions with widely different worldviews. These factions make conflicting claims about the purpose, experience, and identity of their tribe. Reservation Politics points to two types of historical experience relevant to the construction of tribes’ political and economic worldviews: historical trauma, such as ethnic cleansing or geographic removal, and the incorporation of Indian communities into the market economy. In Orr’s case studies, differences in experience and interpretation gave rise to complex worldviews that in turn have shaped the beliefs and behavior at play in Indian politics.
ETHNIC CLEANSING AND THE INDIAN The Crime That Should Haunt America By Gary Clayton Anderson $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5174-8
By engaging a topic often avoided in political science and American Indian studies, Reservation Politics allows us to see complex historical processes at work in contemporary American Indian life. Orr’s findings are essential to understanding why tribal governments make the choices they do.
CASH, COLOR, AND COLONIALISM The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgment By Renee Ann Cramer $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3671-4 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3987-6
Raymond I. Orr is Lecturer in Politics in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on indigenous and ethnic politics.
CLAIMING TRIBAL IDENTITY The Five Tribes and the Politics of Federal Acknowledgment By Mark Edwin Miller $29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4378-1
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Crow Jesus Personal Stories of Native Religious Belonging Edited by Mark Clatterbuck Foreword by Jace Weaver Crow Christianity speaks in many voices, and in the pages of Crow Jesus, these voices tell a complex story of Christian faith and Native tradition combining and reshaping each other to create a new and richly varied religious identity. In this collection of narratives, fifteen members of the Apsáalooke (Crow) Nation in southeastern Montana and three non-Native missionaries to the reservation describe how Christianity has shaped their lives, their families, and their community through the years. Among the speakers are elders and young people, women and men, pastors and laypeople, devout traditionalists and skeptics of the indigenous cultural way. Taken together, the narratives reveal the startling variety and sharp contradictions that exist in Native Christian devotion among Crows today, from Pentecostal Peyotists to Sun-Dancing Catholics to tongues-speaking Baptists in the sweat lodge. Editor Mark Clatterbuck also offers a historical overview of Christianity’s arrival, growth, and ongoing influence in Crow Country, with special attention to Christianity’s relationship to traditional ceremonies and indigenous ways of seeing the world.
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In Crow Jesus, Clatterbuck explores contemporary Native Christianity by listening as indigenous voices narrate their own stories on their own terms. His collection tells the larger story of a tribe that has adopted Christian beliefs and practices in such a way that simple, unqualified designations of religious belonging—whether “Christian” or “Sun Dancer” or “Peyotist”—are seldom, if ever, adequate. Mark Clatterbuck is Associate Professor of Religion at Montclair State University and author of Demons, Saints, and Patriots: Catholic Visions of Native America. He lives with his family in the Susquehanna River Hills of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Jace Weaver is Franklin Professor of Native American Studies and Religion at the University of Georgia. He is the author of The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000–1927.
THE WORLD OF THE CROW INDIANS As Driftwood Lodges By Rodney Frey $16.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2560-2 PEYOTE VS. THE STATE Religious Freedom on Trial By Garrett Epps $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4026-1 THE PEYOTE ROAD Religious Freedom and the Native American Church By Thomas C. Maroukis $19.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4109-1 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4323-1
CLATTERBUCK CROW JESUS
The complex and rich variety of Crow Christianity today, as told by its diverse members
FRIESEN, CHLADIUK LAKOTA PERFORMERS IN EUROPE
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The stories and legacies of Lakota Sioux Performers abroad
Lakota Performers in Europe Their Culture and the Artifacts They Left Behind By Steve Friesen With François Chladiuk Foreword by Walter Littlemoon
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NATIVE PERFORMERS IN WILD WEST SHOWS From Buffalo Bill to Euro Disney By Linda Scarangella McNenly $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4281-4 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4846-5 BUFFALO BILL ON THE SILVER SCREEN The Films of William F. Cody By Sandra K. Sagala $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4361-3 AN OSAGE JOURNEY TO EUROPE, 1827–1830 Three French Accounts Edited and translated by William Least Heat-Moon and James K. Wallace $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4708-6
From April to November 1935 in Belgium, fifteen Lakotas enacted their culture on a world stage. Wearing beaded moccasins and eagle-feather headdresses, they set up tepees, danced, and demonstrated marksmanship and horse taming for the twenty million visitors to the Brussels International Exposition, a grand event similar to a world’s fair. The performers then turned homeward, leaving behind 157 pieces of Lakota culture that they had used in the exposition, ranging from costumery to weaponry. In Lakota Performers in Europe, author Steve Friesen tells the story of these artifacts, forgotten until recently, and of the Lakota performers who used them. The 1935 exposition marked a culmination of more than a century of European travel by American Indian performers, and of Europeans’ fascination with Native culture, fanned in part by William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s Wild West from the late 1800s through 1913. Although European newspaper reports often stereotyped Native performers as “savages,” American Indians were drawn to participate by the opportunity to practice traditional aspects of their culture, earn better wages, and see the world. When the organizers of the 1935 exposition wanted to include an American Indian village, Sam Lone Bear, Thomas and Sallie Stabber, Joe Little Moon, and other Lakotas were eager to participate. By doing this, they were able to preserve their culture and influence European attitudes toward it. Friesen narrates these Lakotas’ experiences abroad. In the process, he also tells the tale of collector François Chladiuk, who acquired the Lakotas’ artifacts in 2004. More than 300 color and black-and-white photographs document the collection of items used by the performers during the exposition. Friesen portrays a time when American Indians—who would not long after return to Europe as allies and liberators in military garb—appeared on the international stage as ambassadors of the American West. Lakota Performers in Europe offers a complex view of a vibrant culture practiced and preserved against tremendous odds. Steve Friesen is Director of the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave near Denver, Colorado, and author of A Modest Mennonite Home and Buffalo Bill: Scout, Showman, Visionary. François Chladiuk is a collector of artifacts of the American West and owner of the Western Shop in Brussels, Belgium. Walter Littlemoon (Lakota) is a son of Lakota participants in the 1935 Brussels International Exposition; his family’s artifacts are featured in this volume.
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Webs of Kinship Family in Northern Cheyenne Nationhood By Christina Gish Hill Many stories that non-Natives tell about Native people emphasize human suffering, the inevitability of loss, and eventual extinction, whether physical or cultural. But the stories Northern Cheyennes tell about themselves emphasize survival, connectedness, and commitment to land and community. In writing Webs of Kinship, anthropologist Christina Gish Hill has worked with government records and other historical documents, as well as the oral testimonies of today’s Northern Cheyennes, to emphasize the ties of family, rather than the ambitions of individual leaders, as the central impetus behind the nation’s efforts to establish a reservation in its Tongue River homeland. Hill focuses on the people who lived alongside notable Cheyennes such as Dull Knife, Little Wolf, Little Chief, and Two Moons to reveal the central role of kinship in the Cheyennes’ navigation of U.S. colonial policy during removal and the early reservation period. As one of Hill’s Cheyenne correspondents reminded her, Dull Knife had a family, just as all of us do. He and other Cheyenne leaders made decisions with their entire extended families in mind—not just those living, but those who came before and those yet to be born. Webs of Kinship demonstrates that the Cheyennes used kinship ties strategically to secure resources, escape the U.S. military, and establish alliances that in turn aided their efforts to remain a nation in their northern homeland.
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By reexamining the most tumultuous moments of Northern Cheyenne removal, this book illustrates how the power of kinship has safeguarded the nation’s political autonomy even in the face of U.S. encroachment, allowing the Cheyennes to shape their own story. Christina Gish Hill, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Iowa State University, was awarded research and publication grants from the American Philosophical Society and the American Association of University Women for her work on Webs of Kinship. Her research focuses on Plains Indian history and on Native foodways.
THE NORTHERN CHEYENNE EXODUS IN HISTORY AND MEMORY By James N. Leiker and Ramon Powers $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4370-5 TELL THEM WE ARE GOING HOME The Odyssey of the Northern Cheyennes By John H. Monnett $16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3645-5 WIVES AND HUSBANDS Gender and Age in Southern Arapaho History By Loretta Fowler $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4116-9
HILL WEBS OF KINSHIP
The political and cohesive power of kinship among Northern Cheyennes
SANTAMARÍA, CAREY VIOLENCE AND CRIME IN LATIN AMERICA
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Fifteen scholars explore the forces that perpetuate violence in one of the world’s most violent regions
Violence and Crime in Latin America Representations and Politics Edited by Gema Santamaría and David Carey Jr. Preface by Cecilia Menjívar Epilogue by Diane E. Davis According to media reports, Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world—a distinction it held throughout the twentieth century. The authors of Violence and Crime in Latin America contend that perceptions and representations of violence and crime directly impact such behaviors, creating profound consequences for the political and social fabric of Latin American nations.
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CAUDILLOS Dictators in Spanish America By Hugh M. Hamill $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2428-5 THE REAL CONTRA WAR Highlander Peasant Resistance in Nicaragua By Timothy C. Brown $32.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3252-5 CRISIS OF GOVERNANCE IN MAYA GUATEMALA Indigenous Responses to a Failing State Edited by John P. Hawkins, James H. McDonald, and Walter Randolph Adams $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4345-3
Written by distinguished scholars of Latin American history, sociology, anthropology, and political science, the essays in this volume range from Mexico and Argentina to Colombia and Brazil in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, addressing such issues as extralegal violence in Mexico, the myth of indigenous criminality in Guatemala, and governments’ selective blindness to violent crime in Brazil and Jamaica. The authors in this collection examine not only the social construction and political visibility of violence and crime in Latin America, but the justifications for them as well. Analytically and historically, these essays show how Latin American citizens have sanctioned criminal and violent practices and incorporated them into social relations, everyday practices, and institutional settings. At the same time, the authors explore the power struggles that inform distinctions between illegitimate and legitimate violence. Violence and Crime in Latin America makes a substantive contribution to understanding a key problem facing Latin America today. In its historical depth and ethnographic reach, this original and thought-provoking volume enhances our understanding of crime and violence throughout the Western Hemisphere. Gema Santamaría is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Studies at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México in Mexico City. She has served as a visiting fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies and as a consultant for the United Nations Development Program. David Carey Jr. holds the Doehler Chair in History at Loyola University and is author of several books, including I Ask for Justice: Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala and Engendering Mayan History: Kaqchikel Women as Agents and Conduits of the Past. Cecilia Menjívar is Foundation Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Kansas University and author of Enduring Violence: Ladina Women’s Lives in Guatemala. Diane E. Davis is Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
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Maya Caciques in Early National Yucatán By Rajeshwari Dutt Andrés Canché became the cacique, or indigenous leader, of Cenotillo, Yucatán, in January 1834. By his retirement in 1864, he had become an expert politician, balancing powerful local alliances with his community’s interests as early national Yucatán underwent major political and social shifts. In Maya Caciques in Early National Yucatán, Rajeshwari Dutt uses Canché’s story as a compelling microhistory to open a new perspective on the role of the cacique in postindependence Yucatán. In most of the literature on Yucatán, caciques are seen as remnants of Spanish colonial rule, intermediaries whose importance declined over the early national period. Dutt instead shows that at the individual level, caciques became more politicized and, in some cases, gained power. Rather than focusing on the rebellion and violence that inform most scholarship on post-independence Yucatán, Dutt traces the more quotidian ways in which figures like Canché held onto power. In the process, she presents an alternative perspective on a tumultuous period in Yucatán’s history, a view that emphasizes negotiation and alliance-making at the local level. At the same time, Dutt’s exploration of the caciques’ life stories reveals a larger narrative about the emergence, evolution, and normalization of particular forms of national political conduct in the decades following independence. Over time, caciques fashioned a new political repertoire, forming strategic local alliances with villagers, priests, Spanish and Creole officials, and other caciques. As state policies made political participation increasingly difficult, Maya caciques turned clientelism, or the use of patronage relationships, into the new modus operandi of local politics. Dutt’s engaging exploration of the life and career of Andrés Canché, and of his fellow Maya caciques, illuminates the realities of politics in Yucatán, revealing that seemingly ordinary political relationships were carefully negotiated by indigenous leaders. Theirs is a story not of failure and decline, but of survival and empowerment. Rajeshwari Dutt is Assistant Professor of History in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mandi, India.
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AFTER MOCTEZUMA Indigenous Politics and Self-Government in Mexico City, 1524–1730 By William F. Connell $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4175-6 INDIANS AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF COLONIAL CENTRAL AMERICA, 1670–1810 By Robert W. Patch $36.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4400-9 MAYA LORDS AND LORDSHIP The Formation of Colonial Society in Yucatán, 1350–1600 By Sergio Quezada $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4422-1
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An alternative view of indigenous politics and empowerment in nineteenth-century Yucatán
LAMB THE MAYA CALENDAR
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The first comprehensive study of the Maya month names and their changes through time
The Maya Calendar A Book of Months, 400–2000 CE By Weldon Lamb
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TIME AND REALITY IN THE THOUGHT OF THE MAYA By Miguel León-Portilla and Francis La Flesche $26.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2308-0 THE NEW CATALOG OF MAYA HIEROGLYPHS, VOLUME TWO Codical Texts By Martha J. Macri and Gabrielle Vail $65.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4071-1 THE NEW CATALOG OF MAYA HIEROGLYPHS, VOLUME ONE The Classic Period Inscriptions By Martha J. Macri and Matthew G. Looper $29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4371-2
By 1,800 years ago, speakers of proto-Ch’olan, the ancestor of three present-day Maya languages, had developed a calendar of eighteen twenty-day months plus a set of five days for a total of 365 days. This original Maya calendar, used extensively during the Classic period (200–900 CE), recorded in hieroglyphic inscriptions the dates of dynastic and cosmological importance. Over time, and especially after the Mayas’ contact with Europeans, the month names that had originated with these inscriptions developed into fourteen distinct traditions, each connected to a different ethnic group. Today, the glyphs encompass 250 standard forms, variants, and alternates, with about 570 meanings among all the cognates, synonyms, and homonyms. In The Maya Calendar, Weldon Lamb collects, defines, and correlates the month names in every recorded Maya calendrical tradition from the first hieroglyphic inscriptions to the present—an undertaking critical to unlocking and understanding the iconography and cosmology of the ancient Maya world. Mining data from astronomy, ethnography, linguistics, and epigraphy, and working from early and modern dictionaries of the Maya languages, Lamb pieces together accurate definitions of the month names in order to compare them across time and tradition. His exhaustive process reveals unsuspected parallels. Threefourths of the month names, he shows, still derive from those of the original hieroglyphic inscriptions. Lamb also traces the relationship between month names as cognates, synonyms, or homonyms, and then reconstructs each name’s history of development, connecting the Maya month names in several calendars to ancient texts and archaeological finds. In this landmark study, Lamb’s investigations afford new insight into the agricultural, astronomical, ritual, and even political motivations behind names and dates in the Maya calendar. A history of descent and diffusion, of unexpected connectedness and longevity, The Maya Calendar offers readers a deep understanding of a foundational aspect of Maya culture. Weldon Lamb is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at New Mexico State University and an expert on Maya astronomy, calendrics, and hieroglyphic writing.
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Chiapas Maya Awakening Contemporary Poems and Short Stories Edited by Sean S. Sell and Nicolás Huet Bautista English translation by Sean S. Sell Foreword by Marceal Méndez Introduction by Inés Hernández-Ávila Mexico’s indigenous people speak a number of rich and complex languages today, as they did before the arrival of the Spanish. Yet a common misperception is that Mayas have no languages of their own, only dialectos, and therefore live in silence. In reality, contemporary Mayas are anything but voiceless. Chiapas Maya Awakening, a collection of poems and short stories by indigenous authors from Chiapas, Mexico, is an inspiring testimony to their literary achievements. A unique trilingual edition, it presents the contributors’ works in the living Chiapas Mayan languages of Tsotsil and Tseltal, along with English and Spanish translations.
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As Sean S. Sell, Marceal Méndez, and Inés Hernández-Ávila explain in their thoughtful introductory pieces, the indigenous authors of this volume were born between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s, a time of growing cultural awareness among the native communities of Chiapas. Although the authors received a formal education, their language of instruction was Spanish, and they had to pursue independent paths to learn Of Related Interest to read and write in their native tongues. In the book’s first half, devoted to poetry, the writers consciously speak for their communities. Their verses evoke the quetzal, the moon, and the sea and reflect the identities of those who celebrate them. The short stories that follow address aspects of modern Maya life. In these stories, mistrust and desperation yield violence among a people whose connection to the land is powerful but still precarious. SOUTH EASTERN HUASTEC NARRATIVES Chiapas Maya Awakening demonstrates that Mayas are neither a vanished ancient civilization nor a remote, undeveloped people. Instead, through their memorable poems and stories, the indigenous writers of this volume claim a place of their own within the broader fields of national and global literature. Sean S. Sell is a translator and doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of California–Davis. Nicolás Huet Bautista is editor of Ma’yuk sti’ilal xch’inch’unel k’inal: Silencio sin frontera, the Mayan- and Spanish-language edition of this book. Marceal Méndez is a Tseltal writer and scholar from Petalcingo in Chiapas, Mexico. Inés Hernández-Ávila is Professor of Native American Studies at UC-Davis and editor of Reading Native American Women: Critical/Creative Representations. Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
A Trilingual Edition Translated and edited by Ana Kondic $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-5180-9 FOUR CREATIONS An Epic Story of the Chiapas Mayas By Gary H. Gossen $55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3331-7 THE DOG WHO SPOKE AND MORE MAYAN FOLKTALES El perro que habló y más cuentos mayas Edited and translated by James D. Sexton and Fredy Rodríguez-Mejía $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4130-5
SELL, HUET BAUTISTA CHIAPAS MAYA AWAKENING
A trilingual collection of works by indigenous authors from Chiapas, Mexico
FINEGOLD, HOOBLER VISUAL CULTURE OF THE ANCIENT AMERICAS
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New perspectives on the arts and cultures of the ancient Americas
Visual Culture of the Ancient Americas Contemporary Perspectives Edited by Andrew Finegold and Ellen Hoobler Afterword by Esther Pasztory
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AZTEC ART By Esther Pasztory $36.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2536-7 THE HUASTECA Culture, History, and Interregional Exchange Edited by Katherine A. Faust and Kim N. Richter $55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4704-8 MESOAMERICAN MEMORY Enduring Systems of Remembrance By Amos Megged and Stephanie Wood $55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4235-7
In the past fifty years, the study of indigenous and pre-Columbian art has evolved from a groundbreaking area of inquiry in the mid-1960s to an established field of research. This period also spans the career of art historian Esther Pasztory. Few scholars have made such a broad and lasting impact as Pasztory, both in terms of our understanding of specific facets of ancient American art as well as in our appreciation of the evolving analytical tendencies related to the broader field of study as it developed and matured. The essays collected in this volume reflect scholarly rigor and new perspectives on ancient American art and are contributed by many of Pasztory’s former students and colleagues. A testament to the sheer breadth of Pasztory’s accomplishments, Visual Culture of the Ancient Americas covers a wide range of topics, from Aztec picture-writing to nineteenth-century European scientific illustration of Andean sites in Peru. The essays, written by both established and rising scholars from across the field, focus on three areas: the ancient Andes, including its representation by European explorers and scholars of the nineteenth century; Classic period Mesoamerica and its uses within the cultural heritage debate of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; and Postclassic Mesoamerica, particularly the deeper and heretofore often hidden meanings of its cultural production. Figures, maps, and color plates demonstrate the vibrancy and continued allure of indigenous artworks from the ancient Americas. “Pre-Columbian art can give more,” Pasztory declares, and the scholars featured here make a compelling case for its incorporation into art theory as a whole. The result is a collection of essays that celebrates Pasztory’s central role in the development of the field of Ancient American visual studies, even as it looks toward the future of the discipline. Andrew Finegold is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where he specializes in the visual culture of the ancient Americas. Ellen Hoobler is Assistant Professor of Art History at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, and an expert in pre-Columbian art of Mexico. Esther Pasztory is the Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor Emerita in Pre-Columbian Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University.
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EARLE ET AL. MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST
Celebrating the permanent collection of the Museum of the Southwest
Museum of the Southwest Selections from the Permanent Collection Contributions by Wendy Earle, Jenni Opalinski, Melissa Rowland, Kristen Wagstrom, Brian Lee Whisenhunt, and Marianne Berger Woods This publication is the first catalogue of the permanent collection of the Museum of the Southwest, based in Midland, Texas. The volume’s introduction details the history of Midland and the genesis of the Museum of the Southwest, celebrating its fiftieth anniversary in 2016. With a focus on the art of the American Southwest, 70 essays accompanied by striking images present this West Texas institution’s collections. Artists include Norman Rockwell, Albert Bierstadt, John James Audubon, Rosa Bonheur, and the Taos Society of Artists. Many entries document the art of members of the Texas Regionalism movement of the 1930s and ’40s, as well as contemporary artists working in the Southwest, and several focus on a new collection of Kentucky Derby objects. Lavishly illustrated, Museum of the Southwest: Selections from the Permanent Collection also offers readers new research and scholarship—most of the artwork and artifacts featured have never previously been published. Curator of collections and exhibitions Wendy Earle received her BA in History of Art from University of Michigan and MA in Art History from University of Texas at Austin. Collections and exhibitions manager Jenni Opalinski received her BA in History from Gonzaga University and MA in Museum Science from Texas Tech University. Educational outreach manager Melissa Rowland received her BA in Art and MA in Teaching from Austin College in Sherman, Texas. Curator of education Kristen Wagstrom received her BA and MA in Art History from University of North Texas. Executive director Brian Lee Whisenhunt received his BFA and MA in Art History from University of Oklahoma. Marianne Berger Woods is a professor of art history at University of Texas of the Permian Basin, focusing on the history of women artists. She received her PhD from Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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THE FRED JONES JR. MUSEUM OF ART AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA Selected Works By Rima Canaan and Eric McCauley Lee $39.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3680-6 THE EUGENE B. ADKINS COLLECTION Selected Works Contributions by Jane Ford Aebersold, Christina E. Burke, James Peck, B. Byron Price, W. Jackson Rushing III, Mary Jo Watson, and Mark Andrew White $60.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-4100-8 $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4101-5 THE JAMES T. BIALAC NATIVE AMERICAN ART COLLECTION Selected Works By Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art $49.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4299-9 $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4304-0
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NEWBY THEODORE WADDELL
A gathering of essays by the Montana curators, critics, scholars, poets, and fiction writers who have known him best.
Theodore Waddell My Montana—Paintings and Sculpture, 1959–2016 By Rick Newby Born in 1941 in Billings, Montana, painter, sculptor, and rancher Theodore Waddell stands as one of the West’s most celebrated contemporary artists. His late modern “landscapes with animals” couple abstract expressionist technique with creatures— Black Angus cattle, horses, and bison—that populate the high plains and mountain valleys of today’s ranching West.
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VISIONS OF THE BIG SKY Painting and Photographing the Northern Rocky Mountain West By Dan Flores $45.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-3897-8 JULIUS SEYLER AND THE BLACKFEET An Impressionist at Glacier National Park By William E. Farr $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4014-8 DRAWN TO YELLOWSTONE Artists in America’s First National Park By Peter H. Hassrick $25.00 Paper 978-0-9896405-4-1
Heavily illustrated with the artist’s own work, as well as images from his personal archive, Theodore Waddell: My Montana traces Waddell’s influences, ranging from the Cezannesque works of Montana rancher and teacher Isabelle Johnson to the abstract expressionism of Robert Motherwell, the expressionist figuration of Robert DeNiro Sr., and the classic western paintings of Karl Bodmer, Charles M. Russell, Frederic Remington, Thomas Moran, Joseph Henry Sharp, and Maynard Dixon. With access to Waddell’s journals and letters and an extensive oral history recently completed, author Rick Newby offers unprecedented insight into Waddell’s first years as an avowed artist and his period of struggle and disciplined creativity. Newby portrays Waddell’s decades as a practicing rancher and the years of his success—when his sculptures and vast canvases have found homes in leading museums. Ultimately, Theodore Waddell’s works are important, not simply because they bring together disparate traditions but because they stand as emotionally and sensuously resonant works of art that speak of landscapes and animals, life and death, austerity and abundance. They possess, in the words of Seattle Times critic Robin Updike, an “immense, poetic dignity.” This volume also includes a gathering of essays celebrating the life and art of Theodore Waddell by the Montana curators, critics, scholars, poets, and fiction writers who have known him best. Contributors include the Honorable Pat Williams, Robyn Peterson, Bob Durden, Gordon McConnell, Mark Browning, Donna Forbes, Greg Keeler, Patrick Zentz, Scott McMillion, William Hjortsberg, Paul Zarzyski, and Brian Petersen. Rick Newby has contributed major essays to the exhibition catalogs A Ceramic Continuum: Fifty Years of the Archie Bray Influence and The Most Difficult Journey: The Poindexter Collections of American Modernist Painting. He is the editor of In Poetic Silence: The Floral Paintings of Joseph Henry Sharp, by Thomas Minckler.
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CAMPBELL SHEILA HICKS
Honors the unique vision and visual language of renowned textile artist Sheila Hicks
Sheila Hicks Material Voices Edited by Karin Campbell Contributions by Ted Kooser, Jason Farago and Monique Lévi-Strauss Drawing on global weaving traditions, the history of painting and sculpture, graphic design, and architecture, Sheila Hicks has redefined how fiber is used to create art, influencing a generation of artists. Sheila Hicks: Material Voices explores sixty years of her prolific career through four diverse perspectives. Karin Campbell considers how Hicks’s oeuvre has taken shape over time and highlights the essential links between the artist’s work and lived experience. Ted Kooser reflects on the aesthetic and poetic power of Hicks’s work, while Jason Farago delves into Hicks’s incomparable eye for color. Finally, a conversation between the artist and Monique Lévi-Strauss looks back to formative experiences from early in Hicks’s life and career. Karin Campbell is Phil Willson Curator of Contemporary Art at Joslyn Art Museum. From 2006 to 2009, she served as curatorial assistant in the contemporary art department at Carnegie Museum of Art, where she helped organize Life on Mars: The 55th Carnegie International. Campbell also curated the 2011–12 installment of Espai 13 at the Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona. Jason Farago serves as U.S. art critic for the Guardian and is a regular contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Times. In 2015, he founded Even, a magazine devoted to long-form criticism of contemporary art. Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Ted Kooser has published more than thirty books since the 1960s. An Iowa native, Kooser served as United States poet laureate from 2004 to 2006 and is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in poetry. Textile historian Monique Lévi-Strauss has long studied the cultural significance of cashmere and has written several books on the topic, including The Cashmere Shawl (1988). A longtime friend of Hicks, Lévi-Strauss penned a biography of the artist in 1974.
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THE FRED JONES JR. MUSEUM OF ART AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA Selected Works By Rima Canaan and Eric McCauley Lee $39.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3680-6 MODERN SPIRIT The Art of George Morrison By W. Jackson Rushing III and Kristin Makholm $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4392-7 $29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4393-4 BRANDING THE AMERICAN WEST Paintings and Films, 1900–1950 Edited by Marian Wardle and Sarah E. Boehme $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5291-2
LENDER, STONE FATAL SUNDAY
HEATH WILLIAM WELLS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR THE OLD NORTHWEST
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Fatal Sunday
William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest
George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle By Mark Edward Lender and Garry Wheeler Stone
By William Heath The definitive biography of a conflicted hero of the early American frontier
A new explanation of George Washington’s rise to preeminence
Historians have long considered the Battle of Monmouth one of the most complicated engagements of the American Revolution. Fought on Sunday, June 28, 1778, Monmouth was critical to the success of the Revolution and marked a decisive turning point in the military career of George Washington. Without the victory, Washington’s critics might have marshaled political strength to replace the American commander-in-chief. Authors Mark Edward Lender and Garry Wheeler Stone argue that the Battle of Monmouth constituted a pivotal moment in the War for Independence. Fatal Sunday offers a fresh perspective on the campaign, and Washington’s role in it. Lender and Stone draw on a wide range of historical sources—many never before used, including archaeological evidence—to reveal the true story. The authors provide the most complete and accurate account of the Battle of Monmouth, including both American and British perspectives.
★ WINNER 2016 OF TWO WESTERN WRITERS OF AMERICA SPUR AWARDS
Born to Anglo-American parents on the Appalachian frontier, captured at thirteen by Miami Indians, and adopted into the tribe, William Wells (1770–1812) moved between two cultures. Vilified by some historians for divided loyalties, Wells remains relatively unknown, though he compares with frontiersmen Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett. William Heath’s awardwinning book is the first biography of this man-in-the-middle. A servant of empire with deep sympathies for the people his country sought to dispossess, Wells married Chief Little Turtle’s daughter and distinguished himself as a Miami warrior, an American spy, and an Indian agent and valuable interpreter. From both white and Indian perspectives, Heath examines postrevolutionary pioneer life in the Ohio Valley—where AngloAmericans pushing westward competed with Indian nations of the Old Northwest for control of territory.
Replete with poignant anecdotes, folkloric incidents, and stories of heroism and combat brutality, this vividly narrated history is filled with behind-the-scenes action and intrigue. Teeming with characters from all walks of life, Fatal Sunday gives us the definitive view of the fateful Battle of Monmouth.
Wells warned the U.S. government against Tecumseh’s confederacy, and thus was hated by those supporting the Shawnee leaders. He grew to question treaties he helped bring about, cautioning Indians about their harmful effects, and earning American distrust. Wells is a complicated hero, and his inner conflict reflects the decline of coexistence between two frontier cultures.
Mark Edward Lender, Professor Emeritus of History at Kean University, Union, New Jersey, is coauthor of A Respectable Army: The Military Origins of the Republic. Garry Wheeler Stone is retired as Regional Historian for the State Park Service and Historian for the Monmouth Battlefield State Park.
William Heath is Professor Emeritus of English at Mount Saint Mary’s College, Emmitsburg, Maryland. He has published numerous essays and poems and the novels The Children Bob Moses Led, Devil Dancer, and Blacksnake’s Path: The True Adventures of William Wells.
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Californio Lancers
A Way Across the Mountain
The 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry in the Far West, 1863–1866 By Tom Prezelski
Joseph Walker’s 1833 TransSierran Passage and the Myth of Yosemite’s Discovery By Scott Stine
How California vaqueros became Union soldiers in the Civil War
Californio Lancers sheds new light on the Civil War in the Far West and how it transformed the Mexican-American community. Tom Prezelski is an independent historian whose articles have appeared in the Journal of Arizona History, the Arizona Daily Star, and the Tucson Sentinel. A former Arizona State Representative, he lives in Tucson, Arizona. FEBRUARY $32.95s CLOTH 978-0-87062-436-0 $21.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5752-8 248 PAGES, 6.125 × 9.25 36 B&W ILLUS., 6 MAPS, 1 TABLE MILITARY HISTORY/U.S. HISTORY
Following Walker’s 1876 death, an alluring tale arose that Walker had found himself on the northern rim of Yosemite Valley during the crossing. In fact, this discovery story has no basis in firsthand accounts of the 1833 crossing, which point to a trans-Sierran route well north of Yosemite Valley. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of the geomorphology, hydrography, biogeography, and climate of the Sierra Nevada and Great Basin, Scott Stine reconstructs Walker’s 1833 route over the Sierra. Employing the detailed travel narrative of Walker field clerk Zenas Leonard, A Way Across the Mountain explores how legend overshadowed Walker’s greatest discovery—that the huge swath of continent between the Wasatch Front and Sierran crest is hydrographically closed, draining not to an ocean, but to salty lakes and desert sands. Scott Stine is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology, Geography, and Environmental Studies at California State University, East Bay. He resides in Point Reyes Station, California. APRIL $39.95s CLOTH 978-0-87062-432-2 $29.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5754-2 320 PAGES, 7 × 10 33 B&W ILLUS., 19 MAPS, 1 CHART U.S. HISTORY
STINE A WAY ACROSS THE MOUNTAIN
Author Tom Prezelski notes that the Californios, less than a generation removed from the U.S.-Mexican War, were ambivalent about serving in the Union Army, but poverty trumped their misgivings. Based on his extensive research in the service records of officers and enlisted men, Prezelski describes both the problems and accomplishments of the 1st Battalion. The battalion pursued bandits, fought an Indian insurrection in northern California, garrisoned Confederate-leaning southern California, patrolled desert trails, guarded the border, and attempted to control the Chiricahua Apaches in southern Arizona.
From July to November 1833, Joseph R. Walker led a brigade of fifty-eight fur trappers, with two hundred horses and a year’s provisions, from Wyoming’s Rocky Mountains to the Pacific coast of central California. Toward their journey’s end the Walker brigade crossed the Sierra Nevada, becoming the first non-Natives to traverse the range from east to west. That long, brutal crossing is rightly considered a milestone in North American exploration.
PREZELSKI CALIFORNIO LANCERS
More than 16,000 Californians served in the Union Army during the Civil War. One unit, the 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry, consisted largely of Californio Hispanic volunteers from Southern California and the Central Coast. Out-ofwork vaqueros who enlisted after drought decimated cattle herds, the Native cavalrymen lent the army their legendary horsemanship and carried lances that evoked both the romance of the Californios and the Spanish military tradition. Californio Lancers, the first detailed history of the 1st Battalion, illuminates their role in the conflict and brings new diversity to Civil War history.
A painstaking reconstruction of a legendary expedition— and what it really discovered
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Over the Santa Fe Trail to Mexico
Fort Laramie Military Bastion of the High Plains By Douglas C. McChristian Foreword by Paul L. Hedren
MCCHRISTIAN, HEDREN FORT LARAMIE
WILLARD, POOLE OVER THE SANTA FE TRAIL TO MEXICO
The Travel Diaries and Autobiography of Dr. Rowland Willard Edited by Joy L. Poole
The last word on the quintessential frontier army post
An annotated account of the early days of the Santa Fe Trail trade with Mexico
One of the first Anglo-Americans to record their travels to New Mexico, Dr. Rowland Willard (1794–1884) journeyed west on the Santa Fe Trail in 1825, then down the Camino Real into Mexico, taking notes along the way. This edition of the young physician’s travel diaries and subsequent autobiography, annotated by Joy L. Poole, is a rich historical source on the two trails and the practice of medicine in the 1820s. On his first day traveling, Willard met mountain man Hugh Glass (portrayed by Leonardo de Caprio in The Revenent). Willard conducted a physical examination, providing the only eyewitness medical account of Glass’s deformities from a grizzly bear attack.Willard visited Santa Fe, practiced medicine in Taos, and traveled south to Chihuahua. His narrative provides thrilling glimpses of “a great theater of nature” with droves of elk and buffalo and “wolf and antelope skipping in every direction.” Willard also offers a revealing view of operating practices when sanitation and anesthesia were rare. Over the Santa Fe Trail to Mexico recalls a time when a doctor from Missouri could cross paths with mountain men, traders, Mexican clergymen, and government officials—all on their way to new opportunities. Joy L. Poole, Deputy State Librarian for the New Mexico State Library, cofounded the Santa Fe Trail Association and served on the Santa Fe National Historic Trail Advisory Council. Poole has edited numerous travel diaries of El Camino Real and authored Great Plains Cattle Empire: The Thatcher Brothers, 1875–1945. JANUARY $29.95s CLOTH 978-0-87062-439-1 $21.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5751-1 280 PAGES, 6.125 × 9.25 7 B&W ILLUS. AND 3 MAPS BIOGRAPHY/U.S. HISTORY THE AMERICAN TRAILS SERIES
Of all the U.S. Army posts in the West, none witnessed more history than Fort Laramie, positioned where the northern Great Plains join the Rocky Mountains. From its beginnings as a trading post in 1834 to its abandonment by the army in 1890, the fort was involved in the buffalo hide trade, overland migrations, Indian wars and treaties, the Utah War, Confederate maneuvering, and the coming of the telegraph and first transcontinental railroad. Emphasizing Fort Laramie’s military history, Douglas C. McChristian documents the army’s vital role in ending American Indian challenges to U.S. occupation and settlement of the region, and he expands on the fort’s interactions with the Native peoples of the Central Plains and Rocky Mountains. McChristian provides a lucid description of the infamous Grattan fight of 1854, which initiated a generation of strife between Indians and U.S. soldiers, and he recounts the 1851 Horse Creek and 1868 Fort Laramie treaties. He also includes the fort’s addition to the National Park Service as Fort Laramie National Historic Site. Meticulously researched and gracefully told, Fort Laramie is the first complete history of one of the American West’s most venerable historic places. Douglas C. McChristian, retired research historian for the National Park Service and former field historian at Fort Laramie, is author of Fort Bowie, Arizona: Combat Post of the Southwest, 1858–1894. Paul L. Hedren, retired National Park Service superintendent, is author of Fort Laramie and the Great Sioux War. MARCH $45.00s CLOTH 978-0-87062-360-8 $26.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5757-3 460 PAGES, 6 × 9 26 B&W ILLUS., 2 MAPS MILITARY HISTORY/U.S. HISTORY FRONTIER MILITARY SERIES
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Big Dams of the New Deal Era
By William A. Dobak and Thomas D. Phillips
A Confluence of Engineering and Politics By David P. Billington and Donald C. Jackson
Black soldiers first entered the United States Army in the summer of 1866. While their segregated regiments served in the American West for the following three decades, the promise of the Reconstruction era gave way to the repressiveness of Jim Crow. But black men found a degree of equality in the service: the army treated them no worse than it did their white counterparts.
William A. Dobak, retired from the National Archives, Washington, D.C., is the author of Fort Riley and Its Neighbors: Military Money and Economic Growth, 1853– 1895 and Freedom by the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862–1867. Retired colonel Thomas D. Phillips is the author of Battlefields of Nebraska and Boots and Saddles: Military Leaders of the American West. JANUARY $26.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-3340-9 $21.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5753-5 384 PAGES, 6 × 9 19 B&W ILLUS., 2 MAPS MILITARY HISTORY/U.S. HISTORY
The massive dams of the American West were designed to serve multiple purposes: improving navigation, irrigating crops, storing water, controlling floods, and generating hydroelectricity. Their construction also put thousands of people to work during the Great Depression. Only later did the dams’ baneful effects on river ecologies spark public debate. Big Dams of the New Deal Era tells how major water-storage structures were erected in four western river basins. David P. Billington and Donald C. Jackson reveal how engineering science, regional and national politics, perceived public needs, and a river’s natural features intertwined to create distinctive dams within each region. Richly illustrated, Big Dams of the New Deal Era offers a compelling account of how major dams in the New Deal era restructured the landscape—both politically and physically— and why American society in the 1930s embraced them wholeheartedly. David P. Billington, Gordon Y. S. Wu Professor Emeritus of Engineering, Princeton University, coauthored Power, Speed and Form: Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century. Donald C. Jackson, Cornelia F. Hugel Professor of History at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, is the author of Great American Bridges and Dams. APRIL $36.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-3795-7 $26.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5762-7 416 PAGES, 7 × 10 131 B&W ILLUS. U.S. HISTORY/ENVIRONMENT
BILLINGTON, JACKSON BIG DAMS OF THE NEW DEAL ERA
The Black Regulars uses army correspondence, court martial transcripts, and pension applications to tell, often in their own words, who these men were, how they were recruited and how their officers were selected, how the black regiments survived hostile congressional hearings and stringent budget cuts, how enlisted men spent their time, both on and off duty, and how regimental chaplains tried to promote literacy through the army’s schools. The authors shed new light on the military justice system, relations between black troops and their mostly white civilian neighbors, their professional reputations, and what veterans faced when they left the army for civilian life.
A compelling history of the design and construction of the American West’s colossal dams
DOBAK, PHILLIPS THE BLACK REGULARS, 1866–1898
Fresh perspectives and fascinating details of black soldiers’ lives in the West
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Encyclopedia of Deserts
Primeros Memoriales, Part 2
In Place of Gods and Kings
By Michael A. Mares
Paleography of Nahuatl Text and English Translation By Fray Bernardino de Sahagun Translated by Thelma D. Sullivan
Authorship and Identity in the Relación de Michoacán By Cynthia L. Stone
PRIMEROS MEMORIALES, PART 2
IN PLACE OF GODS AND KINGS
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Encyclopedia of Deserts is a milestone— the first comprehensive reference work for the world’s deserts and semideserts. Nearly 700 entries treat subjects from desert survival to desert formation, including biology (birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, invertebrates, plants, bacteria, physiology, evolution), geography, climatology, geology, hydrology, anthropology, and history. The book’s 37 contributors have extensive careers in desert research.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DESERTS
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In 1558, the Catholic Church commissioned Franciscan Fray Bernardino de Sahagún to investigate indigenous culture, particularly the religious rituals and dominant native language of Central Mexico. This priceless manuscript contributes greatly to our understanding of Mesoamerican civilization by revealing Aztec culture from the viewpoint of a provincial Mexican community, not the urban, aristocratic view in other documents. This is the first publication of Primeros Memoriales in both the original Nahuatl and English. Franciscan missionary Bernardino de Sahagún (1499–1590), called the “father of modern ethnography,” arrived in Mexico in 1529, eight years after the Spanish conquest by Hernan Cortés. Thelma D. Sullivan is the author of Compendio de la Gramática Náhuatl and translator of numerous Nahuatl texts. JANUARY $85.00s CLOTH 978-0-8061-2909-9 $39.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5749-8 352 PAGES, 8.5 × 11.25 4 B&W ILLUS. LATIN AMERICA
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America’s Best Female Sharpshooter, Bricklin, 20 Amundson, Talking Machine West, 15 Arredondo, Folsom, 5 Askew, Most American, 3
Earle et al., Museum of the Southwest, 45 Encyclopedia of Deserts, Mares, 52 Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight, Monnett, 31
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Fatal Sunday, Lender/Stone, 48 Feest/Corum, Frederick Weygold, 16 Finegold/Hoobler, Visual Culture of the Ancient Americas, 44 Flying to Victory, Bechthold, 25 Folsom, Arredondo, 5 Fort Laramie, McChristian, 50 Franciscan Frontiersmen, Kittle, 9 Frank Little and the IWW, Botkin, 22 Frank on the Prairie, Castlemon, 10 Frederick Weygold, Feest/Corum, 16 Friesen/Çhladiuk, Lakota Performers in Europe, 38
Malone, Sing Me Back Home, 19 Man-Hunters of the Old West, DeArment, 32 Mares, Encyclopedia of Deserts, 52 Masich, Civil War in the Southwest Borderlands, 1861–1867, 28 Masquerade, Hull/Moynes, 6 Maximilian of Wied/Gallagher, Travels in North America, 1832–1834, 18 Maya Caciques in Early National Yucatán, Dutt, 41 Maya Calendar, The, Lamb, 42 McChristian, Fort Laramie, 50 McChristian, Regular Army O! 27 Meléndez, The Book of Archives and Other Stories from the Mora Valley, New Mexico, 8 Mercer, Diminishing the Bill of Rights, 34 Mestizos Come Home! Davis-Undiano, 1 Monnett, Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight, 31 Morton-Cain/Jumper-Thurman, Cherokee National Treasures, 12 Most American, Askew, 3 Mountain Meadows Massacre, Turley/Johnson/ Carruth, 33 Museum of the Southwest, Earle et al., 45
Sahagún/Sullivan, Primeros Memoriales, 52 Santamaría/Carey, Violence and Crime in Latin America, 40 Sell/Bautista, Chiapas Maya Awakening, 43 Sheila Hicks, Campbell et al., 47 Sing Me Back Home, Malone, 19 Smoke over Oklahoma, Veenendaal, 11 Snyder, John Joseph Mathews, 23 Soldiers in the Southwest Borderlands, 1848– 1886, Lahti, 29 So Long for Now, Rogers, 24 Standing in Their Own Light, Van Buskirk, 26 Stine, A Way Across the Mountain, 49 Stone, In Place of Gods and Kings, 52 Surgeon with Custer at the Little Big Horn, A, DeWolf/Harburn, 30 Taken, The, Valdez Cárdenas/Meade, 4 Talking Machine West, Amundson, 15 Theodore Waddell, Newby, 46 Travels in North America, 1832–1834, Maximilian of Wied/Gallagher, 18 Turley/Johnson/Carruth, Mountain Meadows Massacre, 33
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Bechthold, Flying to Victory, 25 Big Dams of the New Deal Era, Billington/ Jackson, 51 Billington/Jackson, Big Dams of the New Deal Era, 51 Billy the Kid Reader, The, Nolan, 14 Black Regulars, 1866–1898, The, Dobak/ Phillips, 51 Book of Archives and Other Stories from the Mora Valley, New Mexico, The, Meléndez, 8 Botkin, Frank Little and the IWW, 22 Bowen/Hiles, Jersey Gold, 35 Bricklin, America’s Best Female Sharpshooter, 20 Bruce Goff, Henderson, 17
C Californio Lancers, Prezelski, 49 Campbell et al., Sheila Hicks, 47 Castlemon, Frank on the Prairie, 10 Chamberlain, Victorio, 14 Cherokee National Treasures, Morton-Cain/ Jumper-Thurman, 12 Chiapas Maya Awakening, Sell/Bautista, 43 Civil War in the Southwest Borderlands, 1861–1867, Masich, 28 Clatterbuck, Crow Jesus, 37 Crow Jesus, Clatterbuck, 37
D Davis-Undiano, Mestizos Come Home! 1 DeArment, Man-Hunters of the Old West, 32 DeWolf/Harburn, A Surgeon with Custer at the Little Big Horn, 30 Diminishing the Bill of Rights, Mercer, 34 Dobak/Phillips, The Black Regulars, 1866–1898, 51 Dutt, Maya Caciques in Early National Yucatán, 41
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H Heath, William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest, 48 Henderson, Bruce Goff, 17 Hill, Webs of Kinship, 39 House Built on Ashes, Rodríguez, 2 Hull/Moynes, Masquerade, 6
I In Place of Gods and Kings, Stone, 52
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Kittle, Franciscan Frontiersmen, 9 Kruger, J. C. Penney, 21
Orr, Reservation Politics, 36 Over the Santa Fe Trail to Mexico, Willard/ Poole, 50
Valdez Cárdenas/Meade, The Taken, 4 Van Buskirk, Standing in Their Own Light, 26 Veenendaal, Smoke over Oklahoma, 11 Victorio, Chamberlain, 14 Violence and Crime in Latin America, Santamaría/Carey, 40 Visual Culture of the Ancient Americas, Finegold/Hoobler, 44
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Powell, The 1928 Bunion Derby, 13 Prezelski, Californio Lancers, 49 Primeros Memoriales, Sahagún/Sullivan, 52
Way Across the Mountain, A, Stine, 49 Webs of Kinship, Hill, 39 Wilkins, Nine Days in May, 7 Willard/Poole, Over the Santa Fe Trail to Mexico, 50 William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest, Heath, 48
J J. C. Penney, Kruger, 21 Jersey Gold, Bowen/Hiles, 35 John Joseph Mathews, Snyder, 23
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