2012 American West Catalog

American West University of Oklahoma Press

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American West Contents American Indian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Art. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Biography & Memoir. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Literature/Fiction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Military History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 The Arthur H. Clark Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Chickasaw Press. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Cherokee National Press. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Best Sellers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

For more than eighty years, the University of Oklahoma Press has published award-winning books about the West and we are proud to bring to you our new American West catalog.

The catalog features the newest titles from both the University of Oklahoma Press and The Arthur H. Clark Company (an imprint of OU Press.)

For a complete list of titles available from OU Press, please visit our website at oupress.com. For a complete list of The Arthur H. Clark Company titles, please visit ahclark.com.

We hope you enjoy this catalog and appreciate your continued support of the University of Oklahoma Press.

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American Indian Blackfoot Redemption A Blood Indian’s Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice

By William E. Farr $29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4287-6 • 344 pages In 1879, a Canadian Blackfoot known as Spopee, or Turtle, shot and killed a white man. Captured as a fugitive, Spopee narrowly escaped execution, instead landing in an insane asylum in Washington, D.C., where he fell silent.

Spopee thus “disappeared” for more than thirty years, until a delegation of American Blackfeet discovered him and exacted a pardon from President Woodrow Wilson. After re-emerging into society like a modern-day Rip Van Winkle, Spopee spent the final year of his life on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, in a world that had changed irrevocably from the one he had known before his confinement.

Native Performers in Wild West Shows From Buffalo Bill to Euro Disney

By Linda Scarangella McNenly $34.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4281-4 • 280 pages Drawing on interviews with contemporary Native performers and descendants of twentieth-century Native performers, Linda Scarangella McNenly elicits insider perspectives to suggest new interpretations of their performances in Wild West shows.

Contours of a People Metis Family, Mobility, and History Edited by Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall $39.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4279-1 • 456 ages What does it mean to be Metis? How do the Metis understand their world, and how do family, community, and location shape their consciousness?

Such questions inform this collection of essays on the northwestern North American people of mixed European and Native ancestry. Volume editors Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall go beyond the concern with race and ethnicity to offer new ways of thinking about Metis identity.

American Indians and the Mass Media Edited by Meta G. Carstarphen and John P. Sanchez $24.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4234-0 • 312 pages Most American Indians today live in urban areas, but the mass media still rely on Indian imagery stuck in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The essays collected in American Indians and the Mass Media explore Native experience and the mainstream media’s impact on American Indian histories, cultures, and communities.

From the Hands of a Weaver Olympic Peninsula Basketry through Time Edited by Jacilee Wray $45.00s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4245-6 • 304 pages For millennia, Native artists on Olympic Peninsula, in what is now northwestern Washington, have created coiled and woven baskets using tree roots, bark, plant stems—and meticulous skill. From the Hands of a Weaver presents the traditional art of basket making among the peninsula’s Native peoples and describes the ancient, historic, and modern practices of the craft.

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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 • 254 pages The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Johnson v. McIntosh established the basic principles that govern American Indian property rights to this day. Blake A. Watson’s examination of this case and its impact offers a comprehensive historical and legal overview of Native land rights since the European discovery of the New World.

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The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War

By Clarissa W. Confer $16.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4267-8 • 216 pages No one questions the horrific impact of the Civil War on America, but few realize its effect on American Indians. Residents of Indian Territory found the war especially devastating. Their homeland was beset not only by regular army operations but also by guerillas and bushwhackers. Complicating the situation even further, Cherokee men fought for the Union as well as the Confederacy and created their own “brothers’ war.” This book offers a broad overview of the war as it affected the Cherokees—a social history of a people plunged into crisis.

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From Cochise to Geronimo The Chiricahua Apaches, 1874–1886

By Edwin R. Sweeney $24.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4272-2 • 720 pages In the decade after the death of their revered chief Cochise in 1874, the Chiricahua Apaches struggled to survive as a people and their relations with the U.S. government further deteriorated. In From Cochise to Geronimo, Edwin R. Sweeney builds on his previous biographies of Chiricahua leaders Cochise and Mangas Coloradas to offer a definitive history of the turbulent period between Cochise’s death and Geronimo’s surrender in 1886.

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The Peyote Road Religious Freedom and the Native American Church

By Thomas C. Maroukis $29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4109-1 $19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4323-1 • 296 pages Despite challenges by the federal government to restrict the use of peyote, the Native American Church, which uses the hallucinogenic cactus as a religious sacrament, has become the largest indigenous denomination among American Indians today. The Peyote Road examines the history of the NAC, including its legal struggles to defend the controversial use of peyote.

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Indian Alliances and the Spanish in the Southwest, 750–1750

By William B. Carter $24.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4302-6 • 328 pages When considering the history of the Southwest, scholars have typically viewed Apaches, Navajos, and other Athapaskans as marauders who preyed on Pueblo towns and Spanish settlements. William Carter now offers a multilayered reassessment of historical events and environmental and social change to show how mutually supportive networks among Native peoples created alliances in the centuries before and after Spanish settlement.

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The Peyote Cult Fifth Edition, Enlarged

By Weston La Barre $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-2214-4 · 356 pages For half a century, readers on peyotism have devoured Weston La Barre’s fascinating original study, which began when the author, at age twenty-four, studied the rites of fifteen American Indian tribes that use Lophophora williamsii, the small, spineless, carrot-shaped peyote cactus growing in the Rio Grande Valley and southward. This new edition of La Barre’s classic study includes 334 new entries in the latest of his highly valued bibliographical essays on works relating to peyote.

The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory

By James N. Leiker and Ramon Powers $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4221-0 · 272 pages The exodus of the Northern Cheyennes in 1878 and 1879, an attempt to flee from Indian Territory to their Montana homeland, is an important event in American Indian history. More than a century later, the story remains familiar because it has been told by historians and novelists, and on film. In The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory, James N. Leiker and Ramon Powers explore how the event has been remembered, told, and retold. They examine the recollections of Indians and settlers and their descendants, and they consider local history, mass-media treatments, and literature to draw thought-provoking conclusions about how this story has changed over time.

The Jar of Severed Hands The Spanish Deportation of Apache Prisoners of War, 1770-1810

By Mark Santiago $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4177-0 · 264 pages More than two centuries after the Coronado Expedition first set foot in the region, the northern frontier of New Spain in the late 1770s was still under attack by Apache raiders. Mark Santiago’s gripping account of Spanish efforts to subdue the Apaches illuminates larger cultural and political issues in the colonial period of the Southwest and northern Mexico.

Red Power Rising The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism

By Bradley Shreve $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4178-7 · 288 pages During the 1960s, American Indian youth were swept up in a movement called Red Power—a civil rights struggle fueled by intertribal activism. While some define the movement as militant and others see it as peaceful, there is one common assumption about its history: Red Power began with the Indian takeover of Alcatraz in 1969. Or did it?

A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest Third Edition

By Robert H. Ruby, John A. Brown, and Cary C. Collins $26.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4024-7 · 448 pages The Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest inhabit a vast region extending from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean and from California to British Columbia. For more than two decades, A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest has served as a standard reference on these diverse peoples. Now, in the wake of renewed tribal self-determination, this revised edition reflects the many recent political, economic, and cultural developments shaping these Native communities.

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Dreaming with the Ancestors Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico

By Shirley Boteler Mock $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4053-7 · 400 pages Indian freedmen and their descendants have garnered much public and scholarly attention, but women’s roles have largely been absent from that discussion. Now a scholar who gained an insider’s perspective into the Black Seminole community in Texas and Mexico offers a rare and vivid picture of these women and their contributions. In Dreaming with the Ancestors, Shirley Boteler Mock explores the role that Black Seminole women have played in shaping and perpetuating a culture born of African roots and shaped by southeastern Native American and Mexican influences.

Full-Court Quest The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions of the World

By Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3973-9 · 496 pages Most fans of women’s basketball would be startled to learn that girls’ teams were making their mark more than a century ago—and that none was more prominent than a team from an isolated Indian boarding school in Montana.

Playing like “lambent flames” across the polished floors of dance halls, armories, and gymnasiums, the girls from Fort Shaw stormed the state to emerge as Montana’s first basketball champions. Taking their game to the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, these young women introduced an international audience to the fledgling game and returned home with a trophy declaring them champions.

Indian Tribes of Oklahoma A Guide

By Blue Clark $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4060-5 · 416 pages Oklahoma is home to nearly forty American Indian tribes, and it includes the largest Native population of any state. As a result, many Americans think of the state as “Indian Country.” For more than half a century readers have turned to Muriel H. Wright’s A Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma as the authoritative source for information on the state’s Native peoples. Now Blue Clark, an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, has rendered a completely new guide that reflects the drastic transformation of Indian Country in recent years.

Choctaw Crime and Punishment, 1884–1907

By Devon Abbott Mihesuah $32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4052-0 · 352 pages During the decades between the Civil War and the establishment of Oklahoma statehood, Choctaws suffered almost daily from murders, thefts, and assaults—usually at the hands of white intruders, but increasingly by Choctaws themselves. This book focuses on two previously unexplored murder cases to illustrate the intense factionalism that emerged among tribal members during those lawless years as conservative Nationalists and proassimilation Progressives fought for control of the Choctaw Nation.

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Art The James T. Bialac Native American Art Collection Selected Works With essays by Christina E. Burke, W. Jackson Rushing III, Rennard Strickland, Christy Vezolles, Edwin L. Wade, and Mark Andrew White $60.00 Cloth • 978-0-8061-4299-9 $29.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4304-0 • 240 pages Published in cooperation with the Fred Jones Jr.Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma One of the most important collections of modern Native American art assembled by one individual, the James T. Bialac Native American Art Collection is an encyclopedic compilation of easel paintings and three-dimensional works.

Showcased in this stunning catalogue, the collection comprises nearly four thousand items, including drawings, sculptures, prints, kachinas, jewelry, ceramics, rattles, baskets, and textiles.

Ledger Narratives The Plains Indian Drawings of the Lansburgh Collection at Dartmouth College Edited by Colin G. Calloway With contributions by Michael Paul Jordan, Vera B. Palmer, Joyce Szabo, Melanie Benson Taylor, and Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote $49.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4297-5 $29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4298-2 • 296 pages The largest known collection of ledger art ever acquired by one individual is Mark Lansburgh’s diverse assemblage of more than 140 drawings, now held by the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College and catalogued in this important book. The Cheyennes, Crows, Kiowas, Lakotas, and other Plains peoples created the genre known as ledger art in the mid-nineteenth century.

Before that time, these Indians had chronicled the heroic achievements of their warriors and chiefs on rock, buffalo robes, and tipi covers.

Bob Kuhn Drawing on Instinct

By Adam Duncan Harris $49.95 Cloth • 978-0-8061-4300-2 $29.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4301-9 • 352 pages Bob Kuhn: Drawing on Instinct presents a generous sampling of his rarely seen sketches alongside the vibrant paintings for which he is best known.

Appearing in conjunction with a traveling exhibit mounted by the National Museum of Wildlife Art, in Jackson, Wyoming, this book allows readers to observe the artistic process of one of the greatest wildlife artists of our time.

The Eugene B. Adkins Collection Selected Works With contributions by Jane Ford Aebersold, Christina E. Burke, James Pick, B. Byron Price, W. Jackson Rushing III, Mary Jo Watson, and Mark A. White $60.00 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4100-8 $29.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4101-5 · 304 pages A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Eugene B. Adkins (1920–2006) spent nearly four decades acquiring his extraordinary collection of Native American and American southwestern art, including paintings, photographs, jewelry, baskets, textiles, and ceramics by many renowned artists and artisans. This stunning volume features full-color reproductions of significant works from the Adkins Collection.

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Plains Indian Art The Pioneering Work of John C. Ewers Edited by Jane Ewers Robinson $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3061-3 · 224 pages The study of Plains Indian art has been shaped by the expertise, wisdom, and inspired leadership of John Canfield Ewers (1909–97). Ewers’s publications have long been required reading for anyone interested in art and the cultures of the Plains peoples. This vividly illustrated collection of Ewers’s writings presents studies first published in American Indian Art Magazine and other periodicals between 1968 and 1992.

Arapaho Journeys Photographs and Stories from the Wind River Reservation

By Sara Wiles $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4158-9 · 256 pages In what is now Colorado and Wyoming, the Northern Arapahos thrived for centuries, connected by strong spirituality and kinship and community structures that allowed them to survive in the rugged environment. Wiles captures that life on film and in words in Arapaho Journeys, an inside look at thirty years on the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming.

Scenery, Curiosities, and Stupendous Rocks William Quesenbury’s Overland Sketches, 1850–1851

By David Royce Murphy With contributions by Michael L. Tate and Michael Farrell $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4219-7 · 304 pages Long before Hollywood brought the landscapes of the American West to movie screens, clever impresarios invented ways of simulating the experience of western travel and selling it to mass audiences. In 1851, entrepreneur John Wesley Jones hired artist William Quesenbury to join such a venture.

Quesenbury and other artists traveled the overland trails through Nebraska Territory to sketch the “scenery, curiosities, and stupendous rocks” they encountered. Scenery, Curiosities, and Stupendous Rocks gathers 71 of Quesenbury’s sketches from the Jones expedition illuminated by eyewitness accounts from the period, modern maps, contemporary photographs, and descriptive notes.

Shooting from the Hip Photographs and Essays

By J. Don Cook $29.95 Cloth • 978-0-8061-4180-0 • 144 pages In this heartfelt tribute to the spirit and people of Oklahoma, one of the state’s most distinguished photojournalists shows that he is equally talented as a photographer and writer. Showcasing black-and-white photographs and fifty short essays, Shooting from the Hip portrays Oklahoma’s people, animals, lifestyles, landscapes, and weather in all their diversity.

Life at the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Agency The Photographs of Annette Ross Hume

By Kristina L. Southwell and John R. Lovett $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4138-1 · 256 pages Anadarko, Oklahoma, bills itself today as the “Indian Capital of the Nation,” but it was a drowsy frontier village when budding photographer Annette Ross Hume arrived in 1890. Home to a federal agency charged with serving the many American Indian tribes in the area, the town burgeoned when the U.S. government auctioned off building lots at the turn of the twentieth century. Hume faithfully documented its explosive growth and the American Indians she encountered. Her extraordinary photographs are collected here for the first time.

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Building One Fire Art and World View in Cherokee Life

By Chadwick Smith, Rennard Strickland, and Benny Smith $24.95 Cloth · 978-1-61658-960-8 · 224 pages Distributed for Cherokee Nation Press In Building One Fire, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation Chad Smith and renowned Cherokee-Osage scholar and author Rennard Strickland present a unique look at Cherokee art through the lens of Cherokee philosophy. Since the time when Water Spider brought the gift of fire to the Cherokee people, the One Fire, “the Ancient Lady,” has been at the center of Cherokee spiritual life. This book presents more than 200 artworks by some 80 artists which speak to what it means to be Cherokee.

Elevating Western American Art Developing an Institute in the Cultural Capital of the Rockies Edited by Thomas Brent Smith $34.95 Cloth • 978-0-914738-72-5 $24.95 Paper • 978-0-914738-71-8 • 320 pages Distributed for Denver Art Museum Unprecedented in size and scope, this special issue of Western Passages celebrates the full range of the western American art holdings at the Denver Art Museum. Published to mark the tenth anniversary of the Denver Art Museum’s Petrie Institute of Western American Art, Elevating Western American Art: Developing an Institute in the Cultural Capital of the Rockies includes thirty essays by art historians from across the United States and Canada as well as a comprehensive history of the growth of Denver’s impressive collection of art of the American West.

Grand Procession Contemporary Artistic Visions of American Indians The Diker Collection at the Denver Art Museum

By Lois Sherr Dubin $19.95 Cloth · 978-0-914738-67-1 · 64 pages Distributed for Denver Art Museum Grand Procession celebrates a remarkable new tradition-based, contemporary American Indian art form. From a heritage rooted in dolls and ledger-book drawings, a fresh and exciting sculptural art featuring human and animal figures has evolved since the mid-1980s. Typically around two feet tall and meticulously clothed in elaborate beaded and quilled ceremonial dress, the figures carefully emulate Plains and Plateau traditions of the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. Beautifully illustrated, this volume will appeal to all those interested in American Indian art and crafts, contemporary and historic Indian lifeways, sculpture, and dolls. Grand Procession crosses many boundaries.

Shaping the West American Sculptors of the 19th Century Contributions by Thayer Tolles, Peter H. Hassrick, Andrew Walker, and Sarah Boehme $10.95 Paper · 978-0-914738-66-4 · 96 pages Distributed for Denver Art Museum Shaping the West, the sixth edition of Western Passages, focuses on sculpture— an often overlooked, neglected, and misunderstood form of artistic expression. Sculpture has too often taken a backseat to painting, and this is equally true for western American art. So why are these accomplished and celebrated artists and artworks not widely known to us today? This generously illustrated book aims to help rectify and explore that conundrum.

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Charlie Russell and Friends Contribution by Peter Hassrick, Thomas B. Smith, Brian W. Dippie, and Mark A. White $10.95 Paper · 978-0-914738-64-0 · 72 pages Distributed for Denver Art Museum Although he was painfully reserved among strangers, the artist Charles M. Russell had a knack for making lifelong friends. This issue of Western Passages is devoted to one group among Russell’s diverse tribe of comrades: his fellow artists. Five distinguished scholars consider the painters and illustrators with whom Russell associated, gauging the contributions of some to his artistic progress and assessing the debt owed by others to his work, with particular attention to Russell’s friendships with his protégé Joe De Yong, sporting artist Philip Goodwin, and “kindred spirit” Maynard Dixon, famed interpreter of the Southwest.

Generations The Helen Cox Kersting Collection of Southwestern Cultural Arts

By James H. Nottage Edited by James H. Nottage $75.00 Cloth · 978-0-9798495-1-0 · 460 pages Distributed for Eiteljorg Museum Lavishly illustrated, Generations celebrates the nearly 800 works of Native American art in The Helen Cox Kersting Collection, including pottery, jewelry, baskets, weavings, katsinas, and paintings. Representing the work of Native artists from the late 1800s to the present, the collection demonstrates the survival and flowering of work by Navajo, Pueblo, and other American Indian artists across the generations.

A Place of Refuge Maynard Dixon’s Arizona

By Thomas B. Smith $49.95s Cloth · 978-0-911611-36-6 · 160 pages Distributed for Tucson Museum of Art Western painter Maynard Dixon once pronounced “Arizona” “the magic name of a land bright and mysterious, of sun and sand, of tragedy and stark endeavor.” “So long had I dreamed of it,” he professed, “that when I came there it was not strange to me. Its sun was my sun; its ground was my ground.” The California-born Dixon (1875–1946) first traveled to Arizona in 1900 to absorb what he believed was a vanishing West. Dixon found Arizona a visually inspiring and spiritual place that shaped the course of his paintings and ultimately defined him. A Place of Refuge: Maynard Dixon’s Arizona is the first exhibition to focus solely on the renowned painter’s depictions of Arizona subjects.

Perfectly American The Art-Union and Its Artists Contributions by Patricia Hills, Peter J. Brownlee, Randy Ramer, and Amanda Lett $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-9819799-2 $24.95s Paper · 978-0-9819799-3-9 · 200 pages Distributed for Gilcrease Museum The American Art-Union, based in New York City, was founded in 1844 with the goal of fostering the arts in America through education and publication. Modeled after European organizations, the American ArtUnion sought to establish a national aesthetic in the United States and unite all regions of the country through art.

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Peace Medals Negotiating Power in Early America Edited by Robert B. Pickering Contributions by John W. Adams, Bruce W. Arnold, George J. Fuld, Frank H. Goodyear III, Duane H. King, Skyler Liechty, Tony Lopez, F. Kent Reilly III, and Barry D. Tayman. $19.95s Cloth • 978-0-9819799-4-6 • 128 pages Distributed for Gilcrease Museum “Peace and Friendship.” This noble phrase, emblazoned on the back of silver peace medals given by American presidents to chiefs of important tribes in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is also a glorified representation of the real interactions between the American or European governments and Native American tribes. Peace Medals: Negotiating Power in Early America presents stories of people and events behind the medals, offering insight into the symbolic value of medals from colonial and tribal perspectives spanning several generations up to the present day.

Forging a Nation The American History Collection at Gilcrease Museum Contributions by Kimberly Roblin, Amanda Lett, Eric Singleton, and Randy Ramer $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-9725657-9-0 $24.95s Paper · 978-0-9725657-8-3 · 250 pages Distributed for Gilcrease Museum When the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence and created a new nation – the United States of America - few colonists-turned-citizens could foresee the great struggles that lay before it in the centuries to come. Forging a Nation explores those struggles—the history of the US—as told through art, artifacts, and archival materials that illuminate some three hundred years of a shared cultural experience.

Visions of the Big Sky Painting and Photographing the Northern Rocky Mountain West

By Dan Flores $45.00 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3897-8 · 248 pages From the Wind River Range to the Canadian border, the northern Rocky Mountain West is an outsized land of stunning dimensions and emotive power. In Visions of the Big Sky, Dan Flores revisits the Northern Rockies artistic tradition to explore its diversity and richness. In his essays about the artists, photographers, and thematic historical imagery of the region, he blends art and cultural history with personal reflection to assess the formation of the region’s character.

The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell A Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture

By Joan C. Troccoli $65.00 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4081-0 $39.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4097-1 · 304 pages In the decades bracketing the turn of the twentieth century, Charles M. Russell depicted the American West in a fresh, personal, and deeply moving way. This handsome book—a companion volume to the acclaimed Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonné, edited by B. Byron Price—showcases many of the artist’s best-known works and chronicles the sources and evolution of his style.

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Charles M. Russell A Catalogue Raisonné Edited by B. Byron Price Contributions by Raphael J. Cristy, Brian W. Dippee, Peter H. Hassrick, and B. Byron Price $125.00 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3836-7 · 352 pages Charles M. Russell is the most beloved artist of the American West. This work, the result of a decade of research and scholarship, features 170 color reproductions of his greatest works and six essays by Russell experts and scholars. Each book contains a unique key code granting access to the more than 4,000 works created and signed by Russell. Visit the website at www. russellraisonne.com.

The West of the Imagination Second Edition

By William H. Goetzmann and William N. Goetzmann $65.00 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3533-5 · 640 pages A landmark overview of western American art, the original edition of The West of the Imagination brought the region to wide public attention as a companion to a popular PBS series of the same name. This book, significantly expanded and updated, shows that the West is a vibrant mirror of American cultural diversity. Through 450 illustrations—more than 300 in color—the authors trace the visual evolution of the myth of the American West, from unknown frontier to repository of American values, covering popular and high arts alike.

Wildlife in American Art Masterworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art

By Adam D. Harris $55.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4015-5 $35.00 Paper · 978-0-8061-4099-5 · 320 pages For more than two decades, the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming, has honored and sustained the tradition of wildlife in American art by assembling the most comprehensive collection of paintings and sculptures portraying North American wildlife in the world. Wildlife in American Art presents for the first time a generous sampling of the museum’s holdings, charts the history of this enduring theme in American art, and explores the evolving relationship between Americans and the natural resources of this continent.

In Contemporary Rhythm The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein

By Peter H. Hassrick, Elizabeth J. Cunningham, Lewis I. Sharp, and Cathy L. Wright $34.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3948-7 · 416 pages The definitive retrospective on Ernest L. Blumenschein (1874–1960), one of the founders of the Taos Society of Artists and perhaps the most accomplished of all the painters associated with that organization.

Reproducing masterworks from a new exhibit along with additional works and historical photographs, this volume forms the most comprehensive assemblage of his paintings ever published.

Faces of the Frontier Photographic Portraits from the American West, 1845–1924

By Frank H. Goodyear III $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4082-7 · 320 pages Faces of the Frontier showcases more than 120 photographic portraits of leaders, statesmen, soldiers, laborers, activists, criminals, and others, all posed before the cameras that made their way to nearly every mining shantytown and frontier outpost on the prairie. Drawing primarily on the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, this book depicts many of the people who helped transform the West between the end of the Mexican War and passage of the Indian Citizenship Act.

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Biography & Memoir When Law Was in the Holster The Frontier Life of Bob Paul

By John Boessenecker $34.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4285-2 • 464 pages One of the great lawmen of the Old West, Bob Paul (1830–1901) cast a giant shadow across the frontiers of California and Arizona Territory for nearly fifty years. Today he is remembered mainly for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his involvement in the stirring events surrounding the famous 1881 gunfight near the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. This long-overdue biography fills crucial gaps in Paul’s story and recounts a life of almost constant adventure.

C. C. Slaughter Rancher, Banker, Baptist

By David J. Murrah $19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4293-7 • 198 pages Born during the infant years of the Texas Republic, C. C. Slaughter (1837– 1919) participated in the development of the southwestern cattle industry from its pioneer stages to the modern era. Trail driver, Texas Ranger, banker, philanthropist, and cattleman, he was one of America’s most famous ranchers. David J. Murrah’s biography of Slaughter, now available in paperback, still stands as the definitive account of this well-known figure in Southwest history.

“That Fiend in Hell” Soapy Smith in Legend

By Catherine Holder Spude $29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4280-7 • 304 pages Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith was just a petty criminal and card shark, as Catherine Holder Spude proves definitively in “That Fiend in Hell”: Soapy Smith in Legend, a tour de force of historical debunking that documents Smith’s elevation to western hero.

Deliverance from the Little Big Horn Doctor Henry Porter and Custer’s Seventh Cavalry

By Joan Nabseth Stevenson $24.95 Cloth • 978-0-8061-4266-1 • 232 pages Of the three surgeons who accompanied Custer’s Seventh Cavalry on June 25, 1876, only the youngest, twenty-eight-year-old Henry Porter, survived that day’s ordeal. In this compelling narrative of military endurance and medical ingenuity, Joan Nabseth Stevenson opens a new window on the Battle of the Little Big Horn by re-creating the desperate struggle for survival during the fight and in its wake.

Twenty Thousand Mornings An Autobiography

By John Joseph Mathews Edited and with an introduction by Susan Kalter $29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4253-1 • 352 pages When John Joseph Mathews began his career as a writer in the 1930s, he was one of only a small number of Native American authors writing for a national audience. Today he is widely recognized as a founder and shaper of twentiethcentury Native American literature. Twenty Thousand Mornings is Mathews’s intimate chronicle of his formative years. Written in 1965–67 but only recently discovered, this work captures Osage life in pre-statehood Oklahoma and recounts many remarkable events in early-twentieth-century history.

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Shooting from the Lip The Life of Senator Al Simpson

By Donald Loren Hardy $26.95 Cloth · 978-8-8061-4211-1 · 488 pages Shortly before Wyoming’s Alan K. Simpson was elected majority whip of the United States Senate, he decided to keep a journal. Now the senator’s longtime chief of staff, Donald Loren Hardy, has drawn extensively on Simpson’s personal papers and nineteen-volume diary to write this unvarnished account of a storied life and political career. Full of entertaining tales and moments of historical significance, Shooting from the Lip offers a privileged and revealing backstage view of late-twentiethcentury American politics.

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Bound Like Grass A Memoir from the Western High Plains

By Ruth McLaughlin $24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4137-4 · 200 pages Bound Like Grass is author Ruth McLaughlin’s account of her own — and her family’s — struggle to survive on their isolated wheat and cattle farm. With acute observation, she explores her roots as a descendant of Swedish American grandparents who settled in Montana at the turn of the twentieth century with high ambitions, and of parents who barely managed to eke out a living on their own neighboring farm.

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WD Farr Cowboy in the Boardroom

By Daniel Tyler $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4193-0 · 312 pages “Always a better way” was WD Farr’s motto. As a Colorado rancher, banker, cattle feeder, and expert in irrigation, Farr (1910–2007) had a unique talent for building consensus and instigating change in an industry known for its conservatism. With his persistent optimism and gregarious personality, Farr’s influence extended from next-door neighbors and business colleagues to U.S. presidents and foreign dignitaries. In this biography, Daniel Tyler chronicles Farr’s singular life and career. At the same time, he tells a broader story of sweeping changes in agricultural production and irrigated agriculture in Colorado and across the West during the twentieth century.

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Calamity Jane The Woman and the Legend

By James D. McLaird $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3591-5 $19.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4251-7 • 384 pages This book is a definitive biography of Martha Canary, the woman popularly known as Calamity Jane. Written by one of today’s foremost authorities on this notorious character, it is a meticulously researched account of how an alcoholic prostitute was transformed into a Wild West heroine.

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Kit Carson The Life of an American Border Man

By David Remley $24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4172-5 $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4273-9 · 320 pages History has portrayed Christopher “Kit” Carson in black and white. Best known as a nineteenth-century frontier hero, he has been represented more recently as an Indian killer responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Navajos. Biographer David Remley counters these polarized views, finding Carson to be less than a mythical hero, but more than a simpleminded rascal with a rifle.

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Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand Creek

By Louis Kraft $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4226-5 · 336 pages When Edward W. Wynkoop arrived in Colorado Territory during the 1858 gold rush, he was one of many ambitious newcomers seeking wealth in a promising land mostly inhabited by American Indians. After he worked as a miner, sheriff, bartender, and land speculator, Wynkoop’s life drastically changed after he joined the First Colorado Volunteers to fight for the Union during the Civil War. This sympathetic but critical biography centers on his subsequent efforts to prevent war with Indians during the volatile 1860s.

George Crook From the Redwoods to Appomattox

By Paul Magid $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4207-4 · 408 pages Renowned for his prominent role in the Apache and Sioux wars, General George Crook (1828–90) was considered by William Tecumseh Sherman to be his greatest Indian-fighting general. Although Crook was feared by Indian opponents on the battlefield, in defeat the tribes found him a true friend and advocate who earned their trust and friendship when he spoke out in their defense against political corruption and greed. George Crook offers insight into the influences that later would make this general both a nemesis of the Indian tribes and their ardent advocate, and it illuminates the personality of this most enigmatic and eccentric of army officers.

Deep Trails in the Old West A Frontier Memoir

By Frank Clifford Edited by Frederick Nolan $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4186-2 · 336 pages During the 1870s and 1880s cowboy and drifter Frank Clifford’s restless spirit led him all over the Southwest, crossing the paths of many of the era’s most notorious characters, most notably Clay Allison and Billy the Kid. More than just an entertaining and informative narrative of his Wild West adventures, Clifford’s memoir also paints a picture of how ranchers and ordinary folk lived, worked, and stayed alive during those tumultuous years. Written in 1940 and edited and annotated by Frederick Nolan, Deep Trails in the Old West is likely one of the last eyewitness histories of the old West ever to be discovered.

Mangas Coloradas Chief of the Chiricahua Apaches

By Edwin R. Sweeney $32.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4239-5 · 608 pages Mangas Coloradas led his Chiricahua Apache people for almost forty years.

During the last years of Mangas’s life, he and his son-in-law Cochise led an assault against white settlement in Apacheria that made the two of them the most feared warriors in the Southwest. In this first full-length biography of the legendary chief, Edwin R. Sweeney vividly portrays the Apache culture in which Mangas rose to power and the conflict with Americans that led to his brutal death.

The Irish General Thomas Francis Meagher

By Paul R. Wylie $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4185-5 · 416 pages Irish patriot, Civil War general, frontier governor—Thomas Francis Meagher played key roles in three major historical arenas. Today he is hailed as a hero by some, condemned as a drunkard by others. Paul R. Wylie now offers a definitive biography of this nineteenth-century figure who has long remained an enigma. “An engaging biography.”—James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize– winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom

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Charles Goodnight Father of the Texas Panhandle

By William T. Hagan $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4195-4 · 168 pages Charles Goodnight was a pioneer of the early range cattle industry—an opinionated and profane but energetic and well-liked rancher. Goodnight’s story is now re-examined by William T. Hagan in this brief, authoritative account that considers the role of ranching in general—and Goodnight in particular—in the development of the Texas Panhandle. The first major reassessment of his life in seventy years, Charles Goodnight traces its subject’s life from hardscrabble farmer to cattle baron, giving close attention to lesserknown aspects of his last thirty years.

Jedediah Smith No Ordinary Mountain Man

By Barton H. Barbour $26.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4011-7 $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4196-1 · 304 pages Mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow. He was the first Anglo-American to travel overland to California via the Southwest, and he roamed through more of the West than anyone else of his era. His adventures quickly became the stuff of legend. Using new information and sifting fact from folklore, Barton H. Barbour now offers a fresh look at this dynamic figure.

Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy

By Robert M. Owens $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4198-5 · 344 pages Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before becoming the ninth president of the United States in 1841, Harrison was instrumental in shaping the early years of westward expansion. Robert M. Owens now explores that era through the lens of Harrison’s career, providing a new synthesis of his role in the political development of Indiana Territory and in shaping Indian policy in the Old Northwest.

Don’t Shoot the Gentile

By James C. Work $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4194-7 · 152 pages When James C. Work took a teaching job at the College of Southern Utah in the mid-1960s, he knew little about teaching and even less about the customs of his Mormon neighbors. With deadpan humor, Work pokes fun at his own naïveté in Don’t Shoot the Gentile, a memoir of his rookie years teaching at a small college in a small, mostly Mormon town.

Pío Pico The Last Governor of Mexican California

By Carlos Manuel Salomon $24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4090-2 $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4237-1 · 248 pages Two-time governor of Alta, California and prominent businessman after the U.S. annexation, Pío de Jesus Pico was a politically savvy Californian who thrived in both the Mexican and the American periods. This is the first biography of Pico, whose life vibrantly illustrates the opportunities and risks faced by Mexican Americans in those transitional years.

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A Free and Hardy Life Theodore Roosevelt’s Sojourn in the American West

By Clay S. Jenkinson $45.00 Cloth · 978-0-9825597-8-9 · 176 pages Dakota Institute Theodore Roosevelt ventured into the American West to seek authentic frontier experience and the strenuous life. This book contains 70 stories, many set in Dakota Territory, about Roosevelt’s life as an adventurer, politician, and man of letters, lavishly illustrated with more than 100 photographs, some never previously published. Clay S. Jenkinson’s introduction assesses what Roosevelt learned from his sojourn in the West, including his commitment to conservation of America’s natural resources.

With a foreword by best-selling biographer Douglas Brinkley, this book tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt’s life in his own words, carefully excerpted from his 1913 autobiography.

Turning Points A Memoir

By George A. “Bud” Sinner and Bob Jansen $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-9825597-4-1 $18.95 Paper · 978-0-9825597-5-8 · 350 pages Dakota Institute George “Bud” Sinner was the governor of North Dakota from 1984 to1992, one of the most difficult periods in North Dakota history. This is the story of a Catholic farm boy who studied for the priesthood but discovered that his true vocation was public service. Turning Points exhibits Bud Sinner’s characteristic outspokenness about life and power, friendship and faith, agriculture and community, public affairs and personal ethics.

Bound Like Grass A Memoir from the Western High Plains

By Ruth McLaughlin $24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4137-4 · 200 pages At the start of this haunting memoir, Ruth McLaughlin returns to the site of her childhood home in rural eastern Montana. In place of her family’s house, she finds only rubble and a blackened chimney. A fire has taken the old farmstead and with it ninety-seven years of hard-luck memories. Amidst the ruins, a lone tree survives, reminding her of her family’s stubborn will to survive despite hardships that included droughts, hunger, and mental illness.

Bound Like Grass is McLaughlin’s account of her own — and her family’s — struggle to survive on their isolated wheat and cattle farm.

Bandido The Life and Times of Tiburcio Vasquez

By John Boessenecker $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4127-5 · 496 pages Tiburcio Vasquez is, next to Joaquin Murrieta, America’s most infamous Hispanic bandit. After he was hanged as a murderer in 1875, the Chicago Tribune called him “the most noted desperado of modern times.” Yet questions about him still linger. Why did he become a bandido? Why did so many Hispanics protect him and his band? Was he a common thief and heartless killer who got what he deserved, or was he a Mexican American Robin Hood who suffered at the hands of a racist government? In this engrossing biography, John Boessenecker provides definitive answers.

“Boessenecker is . . . the country’s leading authority on Vasquez, and his new book, Bandido, tells the story. . . . Vasquez was as famous as Jesse James in his day.” San Francisco Chronicle.

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Chief Loco Apache Peacemaker

By Bud Shapard $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4047-6 · 376 pages

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Jlin-tay-i-tith, better known as Loco, was the only Apache leader to make a lasting peace with both Americans and Mexicans. Yet most historians have ignored his efforts, and some Chiricahua descendants have branded him as fainthearted despite his well-known valor in combat. In this engaging biography, Bud Shapard tells the story of this important but overlooked chief against the backdrop of the harrowing Apache wars and eventual removal of the tribe from its homeland to prison camps in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma.

Pipestone My Life in an Indian Boarding School

By Adam Fortunate Eagle $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4114-5 · 248 pages Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. In this rare firsthand account, Fortunate Eagle lives up to his reputation as a “contrary warrior” by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike.

N. Scott Momaday Remembering Ancestors, Earth, and Traditions An Annotated Bio-bibliography

By Phyllis S. Morgan $60.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4054-4 · 400 pages N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of House Made of Dawn (1969) and National Medal of Arts awardee, is the elder statesman of Native American literature and a major twentieth-century American author. This volume marks the most comprehensive resource available on Momaday.

Along with an insightful new biography, it offers extensive, up-to-date bibliographies of his own work and the work of others about him.

Best of Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1

By Kenneth L. Holmes $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3914-2 · 304 pages The diaries and letters of women who braved the overland trails during the great nineteenth-century westward migration are treasured documents in the study of the American West. These eight firsthand accounts are among the best ever written. They were selected for the power with which they portray the hardship, adventure, and boundless love for friends and family that characterized the overland experience. Some were written with the skilled pens of educated women.

Best of Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2 Emigrant Girls on the Overland Trails

By Kenneth Holmes $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4104-6 · 256 pages The diaries and letters of women on the overland trails in the mid- to late nineteenth century are treasured documents. These eleven selections drawn from the multivolume Covered Wagon Women series present the best first-person trail accounts penned by women in their teens who traveled west between 1846 and 1898. Ranging in age from eleven to nineteen, unmarried and without children of their own, these diarists had experiences different from those of older women who carried heavier responsibilities with them on the trail. These letters and diaries reflect both the unique perspective of youthful optimism and the experiences common among all female emigrants.

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When I Came West

By Laurie Wagner Buyer $14.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4059-9 · 200 pages As a young college student in the early 1970s, Laurie Wagner had never camped out, never gone hiking, and never lived without electricity or indoor plumbing. Yet she walked away from these comforts and headed for the wildest reaches of Montana to live with a man she had not met in person.

When I Came West is Laurie Wagner Buyer’s account of her terrifying and exhilarating years in Montana as she changes from a girl too squeamish to touch a dead mouse to a toughened frontierswoman unafraid to butcher a domestic animal.

The Sundance Kid The Life of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh

By Donna B. Ernst $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3982-1 $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4115-2 · 264 pages He gained renown as the sidekick of Butch Cassidy, but the Sundance Kid— whose real name was Harry Alonzo Longabaugh—led a fuller life than history or Hollywood has allowed. A relative of Longabaugh through marriage, Donna B. Ernst now brings to print the most thorough account ever of one of the West’s most infamous outlaws. The Sundance Kid is enlivened by more than three dozen photographs, including family photos never before seen.

The Good Times are All Gone Now Life, Death, and Rebirth in an Idaho Mining Town

By Julie W. Weston $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4075-9 · 248 pages Julie Whitesel Weston left her hometown of Kellogg, Idaho, but eventually it pulled her back. Only when she returned to this mining community did she begin to see the paradoxes of the place where she grew up. The Good Times Are All Gone Now begins the day the smokestacks came down, and it reaches far back into collective and personal memory to understand a way of life now gone. The company town Weston knew is a different place, where “Uncle Bunker” is a Superfund site, and where the townspeople have endured to reinvent Kellogg—not once, but twice.

Horses That Buck The Story of Champion Bronc Rider Bill Smith

By Margot Kahn $24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3912-8 · 208 pages When asked in an interview what he most liked about rodeo, three-time world champion saddle-bronc rider “Cody” Bill Smith said simply, “Horses that buck.” Smith redefined the image of America’s iconic cowboy. Determined as a boy to escape a miner’s life in Montana, he fantasized a life in rodeo and went on to earn thirteen trips to the national finals, becoming one of the greatest of all riders. His story is a genuine slice of rodeo life—a life of magic for those good enough to win. This book will delight rodeo and cowboy enthusiasts alike.

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Gall Lakota War Chief

By Robert W. Larson $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4036-0 · 320 pages Called the “Fighting Cock of the Sioux” by U.S. soldiers, Hunkpapa warrior Gall was a great Lakota chief who, along with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, resisted efforts by the U.S. government to annex the Black Hills. It was Gall, enraged by the slaughter of his family, who led the charge across Medicine Tail Ford to attack Custer’s main forces on the other side of the Little Bighorn.

Filling many gaps in our understanding of this warrior and his relationship with Sitting Bull, this engaging biography also offers new interpretations of the Little Bighorn that lay to rest the contention that Gall was “Custer’s Conqueror.”

Baby Doe Tabor The Madwoman in the Cabin

By Judy N. Temple $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4035-3 · 280 pages The story of Baby Doe Tabor has seduced America for more than a century.

Long before her body was found frozen in a Leadville shack near the Matchless Mine, Elizabeth McCourt “Baby Doe” Tabor was the stuff of legend. The stunning divorcée married Colorado’s wealthiest mining magnate and became the “Silver Queen of the West.” Blessed with two daughters, Horace and Baby Doe mesmerized the world with their wealth and extravagance. Baby Doe Tabor left a record of her madness in a set of writings she called her “Dreams and Visions.” These were discovered after her death but never studied in detail—until now.

Environment Gunfight at the Eco-Corral Western Cinema and the Environment

By Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann $24.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4246-3 • 272 pages Most film critics point to classic conflicts—good versus evil, right versus wrong, civilization versus savagery—as defining themes of the American Western. In this provocative examination of Westerns from Tumbleweeds (1925) to Rango (2011), Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann argue for a more expansive view that moves beyond traditional conflicts to encompass environmental themes and struggles. The environment, after all, is the fundamental stage for most western stories, from land rush dramas that pit “sod busters” against ranchers to conflicts between mining-town communities and corporations. Because environmental issues lie at the forefront of so many conflicts today, Murray and Heumann believe that the Western is ripe for such new examination.

Windfall Wind Energy in America Today

By Robert W. Righter $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4192-3 · 232 pages Not long ago, energy experts dismissed wind power as unreliable and capricious. Not anymore. The industry has arrived, and the spinning blades of this new kid on the electric power block offer hope for a partial solution to our energy problems by converting nature’s energy into electricity without exposing our planet and its inhabitants to the dangers of heat, pollution, toxicity, or depletion of irreplaceable natural resources. Windfall tells the story of this extraordinary transformation and examines the arguments both for and against wind generation.

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Going Green True Tales from Gleaners, Scavengers, and Dumpster Divers

By Laura Pritchett $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4013-1 · 240 pages Never mind the Ph.D. and middle-class trappings—Laura Pritchett is a dumpster diver and proud of it. Ever since she was old enough to navigate the contents of a metal bin, she has reveled in the treasures found in other people’s cast-offs.

Brimming with practical and creative new ways to think about recycling, this collection invites you to dive in and find your own way of going green.

Our Better Nature Environment and the Making of San Francisco

By Philip J. Dreyfus $24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3958-6 · 240 pages In Our Better Nature, Philip J. Dreyfus recounts the history of San Francisco from Indian village to world-class metropolis, focusing on the interactions between the city and the land and on the generations of people who have transformed them both. Dreyfus examines the ways that San Franciscans remade the landscape to fit their needs, and how their actions reflected and affected their ideas about nature, from the destruction of wetlands and forests to the creation of Golden Gate and Yosemite parks, the Sierra Club, and later, the birth of the modern environmental movement.

Disappearing Desert The Growth of Phoenix and the Culture of Sprawl

By Janine Schipper $19.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3955-5 · 144 pages Phoenix, Arizona, is one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the United States. The city’s expansion—at the rate of one acre per hour—comes at the expense of its Sonoran Desert environment. For some residents, the American Dream has become a nightmare. In this provocative book, Janine Schipper examines the cultural forces that contribute to suburban sprawl in the United States. Focusing on the Phoenix area, she examines sustainable development in Cave Creek, various master-planned suburbs, and the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Reservation to explore suburbanization and ecological destruction.

History With Golden Visions Bright Before Them Trails to the Mining West, 1849–1852

By Will Bagley $45.00s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4284-5 $150.00s Leather • 978-0-87062-418-6 • 480 pages During the mid-nineteenth century, a quarter of a million travelers followed the “road across the plains” to gold rush California. This magnificent chronicle captures the danger, excitement, and heartbreak of America’s first great rush for riches and its enduring consequences.

So Rugged and Mountainous Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848

By Will Bagley $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4103-9 · 480 pages The story of America’s westward migration is a powerful blend of fact and fable. Over the course of three decades, almost a million eager fortune-hunters, pioneers, and visionaries transformed the face of a continent—and displaced its previous inhabitants. The people who made the long and perilous journey over the Oregon and California trails drove this swift and astonishing change. In this magisterial volume, Will Bagley tells why and how this massive emigration began.

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The North American Journals o edited by Stephen S. Witte and Marsha V. Gallagher

VOLUME ONE May 1832-April 1833 $85.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3888-6 • 544 pages

VOLUME TWO April-September 1833 $85.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3923-4 • 612 pages

Quest for Flight John J. Montgomery and the Dawn of Aviation in the West

By Craig S. Harwood and Gary B. Fogel $29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4264-7 • 256 pages The Wright brothers have long received the lion’s share of credit for inventing the airplane. But a California scientist succeeded in flying gliders twenty years before the Wright’s powered flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Quest for Flight reveals the amazing accomplishments of John J. Montgomery, a prolific inventor who piloted the glider he designed in 1883 in the first controlled flights of a heavier-than-air craft in the Western Hemisphere.

Forty-Seventh Star New Mexico’s Struggle for Statehood

By David V. Holtby $29.95 Cloth • 978-0-8061-4282-1 • 384 pages “The most complete, original, readable, and lively account of the sixty-year struggle between pro-statehood leaders and equally powerful anti-statehood forces, both in New Mexico and Washington, D.C., that I have ever read.”— Howard R. Lamar, Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University Texas A Historical Atlas

By A. Ray Stephens Cartography by Carol Zuber-Mallison $39.95 Cloth • 978-0-8061-3873-2 $29.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4307-1 • 448 pages For twenty years the Historical Atlas of Texas stood as a trusted resource for students and aficionados of the state. Now this key reference has been thoroughly updated and expanded—and even rechristened. Texas: A Historical Atlas more accurately reflects the Lone Star State at the dawn of the twentyfirst century. Its 86 entries feature 175 newly designed maps—more than twice the number in the original volume—illustrating the most significant aspects of the state’s history, geography, and current affairs.

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ew historical chronicles are as informative and eloquent as the journal written by Prince Maximilian of Wied as a record of his journey into the North American interior in 1833, following the route Lewis and Clark had taken almost thirty years earlier. Maximilian’s memorable descriptions of topography, Native peoples, and natural history were further brought to life through the now-familiar watercolors and sketches of Karl Bodmer, the young Swiss artist who accompanied him.

VOLUME THREE September 1833–August 1834 $85.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3924-1 • 544 pages

Volume One of the North American Journals recounts the prince’s journey from Europe to St. Louis—then the edge of the frontier. Volume Two vividly narrates his experiences on the upper Missouri and offers an unparalleled view of the region and the peoples native to it. In Volume Three, Maximilian vividly narrates his extended stay at Fort Clark (near today’s Bismarck, North Dakota) and his return journey eastward across America and on to his home in Germany.

This book is published with the assistance of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

The Essential West Collected Essays

By Elliott West $29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4296-8 • 336 pages This collection of essays by distinguished historian and accomplished writer, Elliott West, weaves the western story into that of the nation and the world beyond, from Kansas and Montana to Haiti, Africa, and the court of Louis XV. The Mormon Rebellion America’s First Civil War, 1857–1858

By David L. Bigler and Will Bagley $34.95 Cloth • 978-0-8061-4135-0 $24.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-4315-6 • 408 pages In 1857 President James Buchanan ordered U.S. troops to Utah to replace Brigham Young as governor and restore order to a territory in rebellion. In this compelling narrative, the authors show that the Mormon rebellion was not the result of Buchanan’s “blunder,” nor was it an abused religious minority by an unjust and tyrannical government. They argue that Mormon leaders had their own far-reaching ambitions and fully intended to establish an independent nation—the Kingdom of God—in the West.

Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley Making the Modern Old West

By Thomas J. Harvey $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4190-9 · 304 pages The Colorado River Plateau is home to two of the best-known landscapes in the world: Rainbow Bridge in southern Utah and Monument Valley on the Utah-Arizona border. Twentieth-century popular culture made these places icons of the American West, and advertising continues to exploit their significance today. In Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley, Harvey artfully tells how Navajos and Anglo-Americans created fabrics of meaning out of this stunning desert landscape, space that western novelist Zane Grey called “the storehouse of unlived years,” where a rugged, more authentic life beckoned.

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Bones in the Well The Haun’s Mill Massacre, 1838

By Beth S. Moore $19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4270-8 • 196 pages The massacre at Haun’s Mill is a defining moment in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Mormons had come to Missouri at the urging of their prophet, Joseph Smith, but found themselves at odds with the original settlers. On October 7, 1838, Governor Lillburn Boggs ordered: “The Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the state.” On October 30, 1838, Missouri militia attacked the small Mormon settlement at Haun’s Mill on Shoal Creek, killing and wounding dozens.

Historical Atlas of Oklahoma, Fourth Edition

By Charles Robert Goins and Danney Goble $29.95 Paper • 978-0-8061-3483-3 • 304 pages The Historical Atlas of Oklahoma has been an indispensable reference for longer than four decades. Issued on the eve of the Oklahoma Centennial, this fourth edition of the atlas is much more than an updated version. Oklahoma authors Charles Robert Goins and Danney Goble are joined by seventeen contributing scholars and other professionals to present 119 topics.

A Toast to Eclipse Arpad Haraszthy and the Sparkling Wine of Old San Francisco

By Brian McGinty $29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4248-7 • 256 pages The sparkling wines of California rival the best French Champagnes today, but their place at our tables came about through careful craftsmanship that began more than a century ago. The predecessor of today’s California bubbly was Eclipse Champagne, the first commercially successful California sparkling wine, produced by Arpad Haraszthy in the mid- to late nineteenth century.

In A Toast to Eclipse, Brian McGinty offers a definitive history of the wine, exploring California’s winemaking past and two of the people who put the state’s varietal wines on the map: Arpad and his father Agoston Haraszthy, the legendary “father of California viticulture.”

Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West Edited by Matthew L. Harris and Jay H. Buckley $29.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4243-2 • 256 pages In life and in death, fame and glory eluded Zebulon Montgomery Pike. The ambitious young military officer and explorer, best known for a mountain peak that he neither scaled nor named, was destined to live in the shadows of more famous contemporaries. This collection of thought-provoking essays rescues Pike from his undeserved obscurity.

Stories of Old-Time Oklahoma

By David Dary $24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4181-7 · 288 pages Do you know how Oklahoma came to have a panhandle? Did you know that Washington Irving once visited what is now Oklahoma? Can you name the official state rock, or list the courses in the official state meal? The answers to these questions, and others you may not have thought to ask, can be found in this engaging collection of tales by renowned journalist-historian David Dary.

Most of the stories gathered here first appeared as newspaper articles during the state centennial in 2007. For this volume Dary has revised and expanded them—and added new ones.

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An Archaeology of Desperation Exploring the Donner Party’s Alder Creek Camp Edited by Kelly J. Dixon, Julie M. Schablitsky, and Shannon A. Novak With Contributions by Will Bagley, Kelsey Gray, Donald L. Hardesty, Kristin Johnson, Sean McMurry, Jo Ann Nevers, Gwen Robbins, Penny Rucks, and G. Richard Scott $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4210-4 · 384 pages The Donner Party is almost inextricably linked with cannibalism. In truth, we know remarkably little about what actually happened to the starving travelers stranded in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846–47. Combining the approaches of history, ethnohistory, archaeology, bioarchaeology, and social anthropology, this innovative look at the Donner Party’s experience at the Alder Creek Camp offers insights into many long-unsolved mysteries.

Fort Clark and Its Indian Neighbors A Trading Post on the Upper Missouri

By W. Raymond Wood, William J. Hunt, Jr., and Randy H. Williams $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4213-5 · 328 pages A thriving fur trade post between 1830 and 1860, Fort Clark, in what is today western North Dakota, also served as a way station for artists, scientists, missionaries, soldiers, and other western chroniclers traveling along the Upper Missouri River. The written and visual legacies of these visitors have long been the primary sources of information on the cultures of the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians. This book, by a team of anthropologists, is the first thorough account of the fur trade at Fort Clark to integrate new archaeological evidence with the historical record.

After Custer Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country

By Paul L. Hedren $24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4216-6 · 272 pages Between 1876 and 1877, the U.S. Army battled Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians in a series of vicious conflicts known today as the Great Sioux War. After the defeat of Custer at the Little Big Horn in June 1876, the army responded to its stunning loss by pouring fresh troops and resources into the war effort. In the end, the U.S. Army prevailed, but at a significant cost. In this unique contribution to American western history, Paul L. Hedren examines the war’s effects on the culture, environment, and geography of the northern Great Plains, their Native inhabitants, and the Anglo-American invaders.

Alaska A History

By Claus M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick $39.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4040-7 · 420 pages The largest by far of the fifty states, Alaska is also the state of greatest mystery and diversity. And, as Claus-M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick show in this comprehensive survey, the history of Alaska’s peoples and the development of its economy have matched the diversity of its land and seascapes.

Assault on the Deadwood Stage Road Agents and Shotgun Messengers

By Robert K. DeArment $24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4182-4 · 272 pages In the 1870s, Deadwood was a thriving—and largely lawless—boomtown. And as any fan of western history and films knows, stagecoach robberies were a regular feature of life in this fabled region of Dakota Territory. Now, for the first time, Robert K. DeArment tells the story of the “good guys and bad guys” behind these violent crimes: the road agents who wreaked havoc on Deadwood’s roadways and the shotgun messengers who battled to protect stagecoach passengers and their valuable cargo.

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The Bronco Bill Gang

By Karen Holliday Tanner and John D. Tanner, Jr. $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4165-7 · 280 pages The short, bloody career of “Bronco Bill” Walters and his gang captures the devilmay-care violence of the Wild West. In this detailed narrative of the gang’s crime spree in territorial New Mexico and Arizona, two experts in outlaw history offer a gunshot-by-gunshot account of how some especially dangerous outlaws plied their trade in 1898.

Violent Encounters Interviews on Western Massacres

By Deborah Lawrence and Jon Lawrence $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4126-8 · 336 pages Merciless killing in the nineteenth-century American West, as this unusual book shows, was not as simple as depicted in dime novels and movie Westerns. The scholars interviewed here, experts on violence in the West, embrace a wide range of approaches and perspectives and challenge both traditional views of western expansion and politically correct ideologies. The Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Sand Creek Massacre, the Battle of the Washita, and the Mountain Meadows Massacre are iconic events. Scholars and students of history and historiography will be fascinated by the nuts-and-bolts information about the practice of history revealed in these interviews.

Western Heritage A Selection of Wrangler Award–Winning Articles Edited by Paul A. Hutton $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4206-7 · 292 pages The enduring fascination of the American West marks this collection of essays by distinguished historians, investigative reporters, a novelist, and a celebrated screenwriter. All of these articles have won Wrangler Awards—the western equivalent of the Oscars—presented annually by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.

Shot In Oklahoma A Century of Sooner State Cinema

By John Wooley $16.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4174-9 · 320 pages When Thomas Edison wanted to capture western magic on film in 1904, where did he send his crew? To Oklahoma’s 101 Ranch near Ponca City. And when Francis Ford Coppola readied young actors Tom Cruise and Matt Dillon to portray teen class strife in the 1983 movie The Outsiders, he took cast and crew to Tulsa, the setting of S. E. Hinton’s acclaimed novel. From Edison to Coppola and beyond, Oklahoma has served as both backdrop and home base for cinematic productions. Shot in Oklahoma explores the variety, spunk, and ingenuity of moviemaking in the Sooner State over more than a century.

Oklahoma A History

By W. David Baird and Danney Goble $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4197-8 · 360 page From the tectonic formation of Oklahoma’s varied landscape to the recovery and renewal following the Oklahoma City bombing, this readable book includes both the well-known and the not-so-familiar of the state’s people, events, and places. W. David Baird and Danney Goble offer fresh perspectives on such widely recognized history makers as Sequoyah, the 1889 Land Run, and the Glenn Pool oil strike. Enhanced by more than 40 illustrations, including 11 maps, this definitive history of the state ensures that experiences shared by Oklahomans of the past will be passed on to future generations.

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Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma Stories from the WPA Narratives Edited by Terri M. Baker and Connie Oliver Henshaw $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3846-6 · 248 pages They came in land runs and on the Trail of Tears, sometimes with families, sometimes alone. But the women who first came to Oklahoma all had trials to face—and stories to tell. In this stirring collection, the women who settled what would become Oklahoma tell their own stories in their own words. Elegantly written, skillfully edited, Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma reflects the everyday will and courage to survive of Oklahoma’s founding mothers.

Beyond the American Pale The Irish in the West, 1845–1910

By David M. Emmons $34.95 Cloth • 978-0-8061-4128-2 • 540 pages Convention has it that Irish immigrants in the nineteenth century confined themselves mainly to industrial cities of the East and Midwest. The truth is that Irish Catholics went everywhere in America and often had as much of a presence in the West as in the East. In Beyond the American Pale, David M. Emmons examines this multifaceted experience of westering Irish and, in doing so, offers a fresh and discerning account of America’s westward expansion.

Wyoming Range War The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County

By John W. Davis $29.95 Cloth • 978-0-8061-4106-0 • 384 pages John W. Davis retells the story of the West’s most notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land and census records, newspapers, and trial transcripts, Davis has produced an all-new interpretation.

He looks at the conflict from the perspective of Johnson County residents and finds that, contrary to the received explanation, these people were not thieves and rustlers but legitimate citizens. Wyoming Range War tells a compelling story that redraws the lines between heroes and villains.

Arena Legacy The Heritage of American Rodeo

By Richard C. Rattenbury $65.00 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4084-1 · 400 pages From its roots in cowboy and vaquero culture to the big-business excitement of today’s National Finals competitions, rodeo has embodied the rugged individualism and competitive spirit of the American West. Now the long trajectory of rodeo culture comes fully alive in Arena Legacy. Showcasing the unrivaled collections of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, this lavishly illustrated volume is the first to depict rodeo’s material and graphic heritage. Certain to delight a diverse audience of rodeo aficionados, participants, collectors, and historians, this stunning volume is a fitting tribute to America’s truly western sport.

Pendleton Round-up at 100

By Michael Bales and Ann T. Hall $60.00 Cloth · 978-0-88240-773-9 · 302 pages The East Oregonian Publishing Company Every September since 1910, the Pendleton Round-Up has drawn thousands of rodeo fans to a small town in eastern Oregon. For seven days, the crowds in Pendleton thrill to contests that range from bull riding and bronc busting to barrel racing and bareback Indian relays. This extravagantly illustrated book commemorates the centennial of the Round-Up and captures its enduring appeal in Oregon, the Pacific Northwest, and the world of rodeo.

Beautifully designed, this book features a breadth of color and black-and-white photographs—more than 900—showcasing the riders, the drama, and the special atmosphere that is Pendleton.

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For the Love of North Dakota and Other Essays Sundays with Clay in the Bismarck Tribune

By Clay S. Jenkinson $29.95 Cloth • 978-0-98340-591-7 $18.95 Paper • 978-0-98340-592-4 • 268 pages Dakota Institute Clay S. Jenkinson’s love affair with North Dakota and the Great Plains is the central theme of his life. For the Love of North Dakota is a compilation of essays—many of which began as newspaper columns in the Bismarck Tribune— that explores two themes: the changing face of North Dakota as it makes the transition from an agrarian enclave at the heart of the North American continent to a more globally connected urban and industrial society; and the spirit of place of North Dakota, an isolated, windswept, subarctic grassland that has its own enchantment and astonishing beauty.

River of Promise Lewis and Clark on the Columbia

By David Nicandri $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-9825597-0-3 $18.95 Paper · 978-0-9825597-1-0 · 325 pages Dakota Institute In the many published accounts of the Lewis and Clark expedition, historians have tended to undervalue the explorers’ encounter with Columbia River country. Most narratives emphasize Lewis and Clark’s adventures through their journey to the Bitterroot Mountains but have said little about the rest of their travels west of there. River of Promise fills a significant gap in our understanding of Lewis and Clark’s legendary expedition.

The Billy the Kid Reader

By Frederick Nolan $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3849-7 · 400 pages Despite the countless books and films devoted to him, Billy the Kid remains one of the most elusive figures of the Old West. Now, award-winning western historian Frederick Nolan has scoured the published literature to offer this well-rounded compendium on the life and times of William H. Bonney.

The Character of Meriwether Lewis Explorer in the Wilderness

By Clay S. Jenkinson $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-9825597-2-7 $19.95 Paper · 978-0-9825597-3-4 · 250 pages Dakota Institute Meriwether Lewis commanded the most important exploration mission in the early history of the United States. Clay S. Jenkinson takes a fresh look at Lewis, not to offer a paper cutout hero but to describe and explain a hyperserious young man of great complexity who found the wilderness of Upper Louisiana as exacting as it was exhilarating.

Beyond Bear’s Paw The Nez Perce Indians in Canada

By Jerome A. Greene $24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4068-1 · 264 pages In the fall of 1877, Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) Indians were desperately fleeing U.S. Army troops. The army caught up with them at the Bear’s Paw Mountains in northern Montana, and following a devastating battle, Chief Joseph and most of his people surrendered. The wrenching tale of Chief Joseph and his followers is now legendary, but Bear’s Paw is not the entire story. In fact, nearly three hundred Nez Perces escaped the U.S. Army and fled into Canada.

Beyond Bear’s Paw is the first book to explore the fate of these “nontreaty” Indians.

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Prairie Republic The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879–1889

By Jon K. Lauck $32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4110-7 · 256 pages Territorial politics in the late-nineteenth-century West is typically viewed as a closed-door game of unprincipled opportunism or is caricatured, as in the classic film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, as a drunken exercise in bombast and rascality. Now Jon K. Lauck examines anew the values we like to think were at work during the founding of our western states. Taking Dakota Territory as a laboratory for examining a formative stage of western politics, Lauck finds that settlers from New England and the Midwest brought democratic practices and republican values to the northern plains and invoked them as guiding principles in the drive for South Dakota statehood.

Flying Across America

By Daniel L. Rust $45.00 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3870-1 · 272 pages Americans who now endure the inconveniences of crowded airports, packed airplanes, and missed connections might not realize that flying was once an elegant, exhilarating adventure. In this colorful history, Daniel L. Rust traces the evolution of commercial air travel from the first transcontinental expeditions of the 1920s, through the luxurious airline environments of the 1960s, to the more hectic, fatiguing experiences of flying in the post-9/11 era.

A Decent, Orderly Lynching The Montana Vigilantes

By Frederick Allen $34.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3637-0 $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4038-4 · 496 pages The deadliest campaign of vigilante justice in American history erupted in the Rocky Mountains during the Civil War when a private army hanged twenty-one troublemakers. Hailed as great heroes at the time, the Montana vigilantes are still revered as founding fathers. Frederick Allen’s sharply drawn characters, illustrated by dozens of photographs, are woven into a masterfully written narrative that will change textbook accounts of Montana’s early days—and challenge our thinking on the essence of justice.

Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico

By John L. Kessell $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4122-0 · 240 pages For more than four hundred years in New Mexico, Pueblo Indians and Spaniards have lived “together yet apart.” Now the preeminent historian of that region’s colonial past offers a fresh, balanced look at the origins of a precarious relationship. Brimming with new insights embedded in an engaging narrative, Kessell’s work presents a clearer picture than ever before of events leading to the Pueblo Revolt. Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico is the definitive account of a volatile era.

We’ll Find the Place The Mormon Exodus, 1846–1848

By Richard E. Bennett $21.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3838-1 · 448 pages We’ll Find the Place tells the fascinating story of the Mormons’ exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, to their New Zion in the West—a story of a people’s deliverance that has never before been completely told. A work many years in the making, this book looks behind the scenes to reveal Mormonism on the move, its believers sacrificing home, comfort, and sometimes life itself as they sought a safe refuge beyond the Rocky Mountains. It is faithful both to the convictions of the early pioneers and to the records they kept.

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Blue Heaven A Novel

By Willard Wyman $21.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4218-0 · 200 pages The year is 1902. A young stock-handler named Fenton Pardee has just survived the train wreck that almost destroyed William F. Cody’s Wild West show. Surveying the train’s smoldering ruins—and what is left of Cody’s company of stunt-riders, trick-shooters, and stage actors—Fenton realizes that turning the West into a circus to thrill the world is no longer thrilling for him. Blue Heaven marks the return of Fenton Pardee, veteran guide and packer, who figured so memorably in High Country, Willard Wyman’s highly acclaimed first novel.

High Country A Novel

By Willard Wyman $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3899-2 · 368 pages During the Great Depression, young Ty Hardin is sent from his family’s failing Montana ranch to learn from the last of the great packers, Fenton Pardee, legendary in the Montana Rockies for his packing adventures across the Swan Range all the way to the Big Divide. Writing in the tradition of Norman Maclean’s A River Runs through It, Willard Wyman shares techniques of breaking and packing and leading animals into forbidding country, hunting and tracking, and making camp. Wyman brings you so close to the packer’s life you smell the leather, sweat, and oil.

Billy the Kid and Other Plays

By Rudolfo Anaya $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4225-8 · 384 pages While award-winning author Rudolfo Anaya is known primarily as a novelist, his genius is also evident in dramatic works performed regularly in his native New Mexico and throughout the world. Billy the Kid and Other Plays collects seven of these works and offers them together for the first time. Like his novels, many of Anaya’s plays are built from the folklore of the Southwest.

This volume opens with The Season of La Llorona, in which Anaya fuses the Mexican legend of the dreaded “crying woman” with that of La Malinche, mistress and adviser to Hernán Cortés.

Hunter’s Log Poems by Timothy Murphy $19.95 Cloth · 978-0-9825597-9-6 $14.95 Paper · 978-0-9834059-0-0 · 100 pages Dakota Institute Timothy Murphy is a major American poet who lives on the Great Plains.

Hunter’s Log is his long-awaited book of hunting poetry. Heavily influenced

by Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset’s Meditation on Hunting, Murphy sees hunting as a spiritual activity. There is nothing cloistered in his poetry.

He tramps through the tall grass prairie of eastern Dakota and along the ridges and buttes that overlook the mighty Missouri, then cooks up what he kills in exquisite stews and ragouts. Murphy’s genius is to write poetry that is accessible to all, simultaneously simple and profound, and deeply imbued with the spirit of place.

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Mortal Stakes · Faint Thunder New Poetry by Timothy Murphy $19.95 Cloth · 978-0-9825597-6-5 $14.95 Paper · 978-0-9825597-7-2 · 160 pages Dakota Institute A fascinating and complicated man and a child of the northern prairie, Timothy Murphy writes deceptively simple poetry. He studied with Robert Penn Warren at Yale, who passed him on to Richard Wilbur with a note saying, “Because he’s the best man we’ve got.” Murphy likens his poetry to the work of Robert Frost, and, like Frost, he prefers to work in rhyme. This double book, Mortal Stakes and Faint Thunder, is the first of several volumes of Murphy’s poetry to be published by the Dakota Institute Press.

The Green Corn Rebellion A Novel by William Cunningham $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4057-5 · 256 pages These days, rural Oklahoma is the last place anybody would look for leftist revolutionaries, but in 1917 the area exploded into full-blown insurrection.

The state’s tenant farmers, many of whom were Socialist Party members, viewed the Great War in Europe as a conflict that benefited only the rich.

When the federal government enacted a draft, an uprising in eastern Oklahoma saw local townspeople skirmishing with rebellious farmers, including whites, blacks, and American Indians. Although the insurrection itself succeeded only in undermining the socialist movement and fueling the Red Scare of the 1920s, Cunningham’s incendiary writing has been compared to that of Erskine Caldwell.

Pushing the Bear After the Trail of Tears

By Diane Glancy $14.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4069-8 · 176 pages Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears tells the story of the Cherokees’ resettlement in the hard years following Removal, a story never before explored in fiction. In this sequel to her popular 1996 novel Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears, author Diane Glancy continues the tale of Cherokee brothers O-ga-na-ya and Knobowtee and their families, as well the Reverend Jesse Bushyhead, a Cherokee Christian minister. The book follows their travails in Indian Territory as they attempt to build cabins, raise crops, and adjust to new realities.

The Essays

By Rudolfo Anaya $24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4023-0 · 320 pages “The storyteller’s gift is my inheritance,” writes Rudolfo Anaya in his essay “Shaman of Words.” Although he is best known for Bless Me, Ultima and other novels, his writing also takes the form of nonfiction, and in these 52 essays he draws on both his heritage as a Mexican American and his gift for storytelling.

Besides tackling issues such as censorship, racism, education, and sexual politics, Anaya explores the tragedies and triumphs of his own life.

Cherokee Thoughts Honest and Uncensored

By Robert J. Conley $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3943-2 · 196 pages Gaming and chiefing. Imposters and freedmen. Distinguished novelist Robert J. Conley examines some of the most interesting facets of the Cherokee world.

In 26 essays laced with humor, understatement, and even open sarcasm, this popular writer takes on politics, culture, his people’s history, and what it means to be Cherokee. As provocative as it is entertaining, Cherokee Thoughts will intrigue tribal members and anyone with an interest in the Cherokee people.

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Great Sioux War Orders of Battle How the United States Army Waged War on the Northern Plains, 1876–1877

By Paul L. Hedren $19.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4322-4 • 240 pages Paul L. Hedren demonstrates that the American army adapted quickly to the challenges of fighting this unconventional war and was more effectively led and better equipped than is customarily believed. While it lost at Powder River and at the Little Big Horn, it did not lose the Great Sioux War. New in Paper

Military Register of Custer’s Last Command

By Roger L. Williams $39.95s Paper • 978-0-8061-4274-6 • 432 pages Military Register of Custer’s Last Command presents for the first time the complete military history of every enlisted man on the regimental roll, with particular attention devoted to the well-known campaigns from the Washita to Wounded Knee.

Our Centennial Indian War and the Life of General Custer

By Frances Fuller Victor $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4173-2 · 208 pages Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer was widely known as a Civil War figure, author, and successful cavalry leader before his spectacular defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 by Lakota and Northern Cheyenne Indians. A ready audience of readers was hungry for information about the engagement and about their fallen hero when Frances Fuller Victor’s book appeared in spring 1877. Featuring an introduction by historian Jerome A. Greene, this edition of Our Centennial Indian War and the Life of General Custer provides a remarkable window into contemporary thinking about an iconic event.

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 · 336 pages Originally published in 1967, William H. Leckie’s The Buffalo Soldiers was the first book of its kind to recognize the importance of African American units in the conquest of the West. Written in accessible prose that includes a synthesis of recent scholarship, this edition delves further into the life of an African American soldier in the nineteenth century. It also explores the experiences of soldiers’ families at frontier posts. In a new epilogue, the authors summarize developments in the lives of buffalo soldiers after the Indian Wars and discuss contemporary efforts to memorialize them in film, art, and architecture.

Child of the Fighting Tenth On the Frontier with the Buffalo Soldiers

By Forrestine Cooper Hooker Edited by Steve Wilson $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4080-3 · 288 pages Forrestine “Birdie” Cooper’s father, Charles Cooper, was an officer in the Tenth U.S. Cavalry, known as the Buffalo Soldiers, one of four regiments of black troops with white officers. The compelling yet humorous stories told in Child of the Fighting Tenth capture the drama of the settlement of the American West, the Indian wars on the plains, and the Geronimo campaign in the Southwest and Mexico as seen through the eyes of a young girl.

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A Perfect Gibraltar The Battle for Monterrey, Mexico, 1846

By Christopher D. Dishman $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4140-4 · 344 pages For three days in the fall of 1846, U.S. and Mexican soldiers fought fiercely in the picturesque city of Monterrey, turning the northern Mexican town, known for its towering mountains and luxurious gardens, into one of the nineteenth century’s most gruesome battlefields. Led by Brigadier General Zachary Taylor, graduates of the U.S. Military Academy encountered a city almost perfectly protected by mountains, a river, and a vast plain.

Monterrey’s ideal defensive position inspired more than one U.S. soldier to call it “a perfect Gibraltar.”

Civil War Arkansas, 1863 The Battle for a State

By Mark K. Christ $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4087-2 · 336 pages The Arkansas River Valley is one of the most fertile regions in the South.

During the Civil War, the river also served as a vital artery for moving troops and supplies. In 1863 the battle to wrest control of the valley was, in effect, a battle for the state itself. In spite of its importance, however, this campaign is often overshadowed by the siege of Vicksburg. Now Mark K. Christ offers the first detailed military assessment of parallel events in Arkansas, describing their consequences for both Union and Confederate powers.

Soldiers West Biographies from the Military Frontier Edited by Paul A. Hutton and Durwood Ball $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3997-5 · 416 pages From the War of 1812 to the end of the nineteenth century, U.S. Army officers were instrumental in shaping the American West. They helped explore uncharted places and survey and engineer its far-flung transportation arteries.

Many also served in the ferocious campaigns that drove American Indians onto reservations. Soldiers West views the turbulent history of the West from the perspective of fifteen senior army officers—including Philip H. Sheridan, George Armstrong Custer, and Nelson A. Miles—who were assigned to bring order to the region.

Class and Race in Frontier Army Military Life in the West, 1870–1890

By Kevin Adams $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3981-4 · 296 pages Historians have long assumed that ethnic and racial divisions in post– Civil War America were reflected in the U.S. Army, of whose enlistees 40 percent were foreign-born. Now Kevin Adams shows that the frontier army was characterized by a “Victorian class divide” that overshadowed ethnic prejudices. Class and Race in the Frontier Army offers fresh insight into the interplay of class, race, and ethnicity in late-nineteenth-century America.

Jayhawkers The Civil War Brigade of James Henry Lane

By Bryce Benedict $32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3999-9 · 352 pages No person excited greater emotion in Kansas than James Henry Lane, the U.S. senator who led a volunteer brigade in 1861–1862. In fighting numerous skirmishes, liberating hundreds of slaves, burning portions of four towns, and murdering half a dozen men, Lane and his brigade garnered national attention as the saviors of Kansas and the terror of Missouri.

An entertaining story rich in detail, Jayhawkers will captivate scholars and history enthusiasts as it sheds new light on the unfettered violence on this western fringe of the Civil War.

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The Arthur H. Clark Company Edward Hunter Snow Pioneer—Educator—Statesman

By Thomas G. Alexander $34.95s Cloth • 978-0-87062-415-5 • 432 pages The life of Edward Hunter Snow (1865–1932), a leader in second-generation Mormon Utah, closely paralleled the early-twentieth-century development of the West. Born in St. George, Utah, to Julia Spencer and Mormon apostle Erastus Snow, Edward Hunter Snow was instrumental both in the development of southern Utah and in the growth of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during a period of rapid change. In Edward Hunter Snow, the first biography of the man, noted western and Mormon historian Thomas G. Alexander presents Snow as a servant of family, church, state, and nation.

Terrible Justice Sioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 1854–1868

By Doreen Chaky $39.95s Cloth • 978-0-87062-414-8 • 400 pages Doreen Chaky offers the first complete picture of the conflicts between Sioux warriors and the American military in the mid-nineteenth century, the period bookended by the Sioux’s first major military conflicts with the U.S. Army and the creation of the Great Sioux Reservation.

Weapons of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

By Jim Garry $32.95s Cloth • 978-0-87062-412-4 • 208 pages When Meriwether Lewis began shopping for supplies and firearms to take on the Corps of Discovery’s journey west, his first stop was a federal arsenal.

For the following twenty-nine months, from the time the Lewis and Clark expedition left Camp Dubois with a cannon salute in 1804 until it announced its return from the West Coast to St. Louis with a volley in 1806, weapons were a crucial component of the participants’ tool kit. In Weapons of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, historian Jim Garry describes the arms and ammunition the expedition carried and the use and care those weapons received.

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Custer, the Seventh Cavalry, and the Little Big Horn A Bibliography

By Michael O’Keefe $125.00s Cloth/2 Volume Set • 978-0-87062-404-9 • 720 pages Since the shocking news first broke in 1876 of the Seventh Cavalry’s disastrous defeat at the Little Big Horn, fascination with the battle—and with Lieutenant George Armstrong Custer—has never ceased. Widespread interest in the subject has spawned a vast outpouring of literature, which only increases with time. This two volume bibliography of Custer literature is the first to be published in some twenty five years and the most complete ever assembled.

The Indianization of Lewis and Clark

By William R. Swagerty $90.00s Cloth/2 Volume Set • 978-0-87062-413-1 • 836 pages Although some have attributed the success of the Lewis and Clark expedition primarily to gunpowder and gumption, historian William R. Swagerty demonstrates in this two-volume set that adopting Indian ways of procuring, processing, and transporting food and gear was crucial to the survival of the Corps of Discovery. The Indianization of Lewis and Clark retraces the wellknown trail of America’s most famous explorers as a journey into the heart of Native America—a case study of successful material adaptation and cultural borrowing.

Dale Morgan on the Mormons Collected Works Part 1, 1939–1951 Edited by Richard L. Saunders $45.00s Cloth • 978-0-87062-416-2 $150.00s Leather • 978-0-87062-417-9 • 536 pages Dale Morgan on the Mormons is a far-reaching compilation of the historian’s published and unpublished writings. In this volume—the first of a two-part set—Morgan’s writings on the Mormons finally receive the attention and analysis they merit.

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The Arthur H. Clark Company Bonanzas and Borrascas

By Richard E. Lingenfelter Vol. 1: Gold Lust and Silver Sharks, 1848-1884 Vol. 2: Copper Kings and Stock Frenzies, 1885-1918

(Gold Lust and Silver Sharks) $40.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-405-6 • 448 pages (Copper Kings and Stock Frenzies) $40.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-406-3 • 600 pages

This two-volume study of the heyday of gold, silver, and copper mining in the American West is unique in both scope and approach. Here is a saga of mines and money, of the richly profitable bonanzas and crushingly profitless borrascas of the West. Richard E. Lingenfelter describes how miners, managers, investors, and speculators produced enormous wealth—spurring the American economy, attracting myriads of Argonauts and settlers, and transforming the West and the nation.

Contest for California From Spanish Colonization to the American Conquest

By Stephen G. Hyslop $39.95s Cloth • 978-0-87062-411-7 • 448 pages California’s early history was both colorful and turbulent. In Contest for California, Stephen G. Hyslop draws on a wide array of primary sources to weave an elegant narrative of this epic struggle for control of the territory that many saw as a beautiful, sprawling land of promise.

Gold-Mining Boomtown People of White Oaks, Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory

By Roberta Key Haldane $45.00s Cloth • 978-0-87062-410-0 • 336 Pages The town of White Oaks, New Mexico Territory, was born in 1879 when prospectors discovered gold at nearby Baxter Mountain. In GoldMining Boomtown, Roberta Key Haldane offers an intimate portrait of the southeastern New Mexico community by profiling more than forty families and individuals who made their homes there during its heyday.

Playing with Shadows Voices of Dissent in the Mormon West Edited by Polly Aird, Jeff Nichols, and Will Bagley $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-380-6 · 496 pages This collection of narratives by four individuals who abandoned Mormonism— “apostates,” as Brigham Young and other Latter-day Saint leaders labeled them—provides an overview of dissent from the beginning of the religion to the early twentieth century and presents a wide range of disaffection with the faith or its leaders.

Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, 1792 Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra and the Nootka Sound Controversy

By Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra Translation by Freeman M. Tovell $34.95s Cloth • 978-0-87062-408-7 • 192 pages This book offers the first published English translation of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra journal, a remarkable account of his travels along the Northwest Coast of America, encounters with Native peoples and the friendship that developed between Bodega and his British counterpart, George Vancouver.

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West from Salt Lake Diaries from the Central Overland Trail Edited by Jesse G. Petersen $34.95s Cloth • 978-0-87062-407-0 • 320 pages Rich in anecdotes on the challenges of the overland crossing, West from Salt Lake reveals excerpts from the diaries of settlers traveling the Central Overland Trail from Salt Lake City to California. Trail enthusiasts and students of westering migration history will welcome this detailed view of the previously neglected Central Overland Trail.

Justinian Caire and Santa Cruz Island The Rise and Fall of a California Dynasty

By Frederic Caire Chiles $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-400-1 · 240 pages Santa Cruz was once the largest privately owned island off the coast of the continental United States. This account traces the island’s history from its aboriginal Chumash population to its acquisition by The Nature Conservancy at the end of the twentieth century. The heart of the book, however, is a family saga: the story of French émigré Justinian Caire and his descendants, who owned and occupied the island for more than fifty years. The author, descended from Caire, uses family archives unavailable to earlier historians to recount the previously untold story.

Parley P. Pratt and the Making of Mormonism Edited and with contributions by Gregory K. Armstrong, Matthew J. Grow, and Dennis J. Siler $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-401-8 · 352 pages Parley P. Pratt joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1830 and was murdered in 1857 by the estranged husband of his twelfth plural wife.

An original member of the Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Pratt’s writings helped define Mormon theology and identity, and his hymns remain popular today. This collection of essays uses Pratt’s life and writings as a means for gaining insight on early Latter-day Saint history, including the Church’s initial internationalization, vibrant print culture, development of a unique theology, family dynamics, and the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

Forging a Fur Empire Expeditions in the Snake River Country, 1809–1824

By John Phillip Reid $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-402-5 · 240 pages Alexander Ross, the pioneer recorder of the early fur trade in the far northern West, led a beaver trapping expedition in 1824 into the vast, unfamiliar territory east of trading posts in the Pacific Northwest. He and his men ventured deep into Snake River country in present-day Idaho and Montana. In this narrative, based on the accounts left by Ross and others, historian and legal scholar John Phillip Reid describes the experiences of the earliest Hudson’s Bay Company furtrapping expeditions—ventures usually overlooked by historians—and explores the interaction between the diverse cultures of the Pacific Northwest.

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The Arthur H. Clark Company Valentine T. Mcgillycuddy Army Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux

By Candy Moulton $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-389-9 · 288 pages On a September day in 1877, hundreds of Sioux and soldiers at Camp Robinson crowded around a fatally injured Lakota leader. A young doctor forced his way through the crowd, only to see the victim fading before him.

It was the famed Crazy Horse. From intense moments like this to encounters with such legendary western figures as Calamity Jane and Red Cloud, Valentine T. McGillycuddy’s life encapsulated key events in American history that changed the lives of Native people forever. In Valentine T. McGillycuddy award-winning author Candy Moulton explores McGillycuddy’s fascinating experiences on the northern plains.

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 · 472 pages Juan Bautista de Anza led the Spanish colonizing expedition in 1775–76 that opened a trail from Arizona to California and established a presidio at San Francisco Bay. Franciscan missionary Fray Pedro Font accompanied Anza. As chaplain and geographer, Font kept a detailed daily record of the expedition’s progress that today is considered one of the fundamental documents of exploration in the American Southwest. This edition is the most complete account of the Anza expedition and a foundational primary source in California and Southwest history.

New England to Gold Rush California The Journal of Alfred and Chastina W. Rix, 1849–1854 Edited Lynn A. Bonfield $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-392-9 · 384 pages On July 29, 1849, two young schoolteachers were married in a small town in northern Vermont. Their story could easily have been lost to history, except that Alfred and Chastina Rix had the foresight to begin recording their observations in a joint journal. Their unique husband-and-wife account, which captures the turbulence of life and events during the gold rush era, is also a personal—and compelling—chronicle of a singular family’s separation and reunion.

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Great Sioux War Orders of Battle How the United States Army Waged War on the Northern Plains, 1876–1877

By Paul L. Hedren $150.00s Leather Bound · 978-0-87062-398-1 · 240 pages $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-397-4 · 240 pages The Great Sioux War pitted almost one-third of the U.S. Army against Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyennes. By the time it ended, this war had played out on twenty-seven different battlefields, resulted in hundreds of casualties, cost millions of dollars, and transformed the landscape and the lives of survivors on both sides. In this compelling sourcebook, Paul Hedren uses extensive documentation to demonstrate that the American army adapted quickly to the challenges of fighting this unconventional war and was more effectively led and better equipped than is customarily believed.

In the Whirlpool The Pre-Manifesto Letters of President Wilford Woodruff to the William Atkin Family, 1885–1890 Edited by Reid L. Neilson Contributions by Thomas G. Alexander and Jan Shipps $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-390-5 · 224 pages Political and religious turmoil in the late 1800s plagued the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its leaders. As Utah statehood loomed, Congress aggressively moved against Mormons who engaged in polygamy.

One of those who went into hiding in 1879 was Wilford Woodruff, who became church president in 1887. This never-before-published collection of Woodruff’s letters to the Atkins, edited by Reid L. Neilson, reveals the church leader’s political and spiritual conflicts in the five years leading up to his 1890 Manifesto, which officially disallowed polygamy.

Red Cloud’s War The Bozeman Trail, 1866–1868 (2 Vols.)

By John D. McDermott $225.00s Leather Bound · 978-0-87062-377-6 $75.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-376-9 · 704 pages On a cold December day in 1866, Captain William J. Fetterman disobeyed orders and spurred his men across Lodge Trail Ridge in pursuit of a group of retreating Lakota Sioux, Arapahos, and Cheyennes. He saw a perfect opportunity to punish the tribes for harassing travelers on the Bozeman Trail and attacking wood trains sent out from nearby Fort Phil Kearny. In a sudden turn of events, his command was, within moments, annihilated. John D. McDermott’s spellbinding narrative offers a cautionary tale of hubris and miscalculation.

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The Arthur H. Clark Company Dude Ranching in Yellowstone Country Larry Larom and Valley Ranch, 1915–1969

By W. Hudson Kensel $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-384-4 · 256 pages A welcome study of early dude ranch development, Dude Ranching in Yellowstone Country preserves the history of an important Wyoming ranch and the man who built it. W. Hudson Kensel recounts the life of Irving H. “Larry” Larom, whose East Coast connections to financial resources and wealthy guests enabled him to transform McLaughlin’s small homestead into a major tourist destination and prep school on the edge of Yellowstone National Park.

The Nauvoo Legion in Illinois A History of the Mormon Militia, 1841–1846

By Richard Bennett, Susan Easton Black, and Donald Q. Cannon $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-382-0 · 440 pages When the Mormons established their theocratic city of Nauvoo on the banks of the Mississippi in 1839, they made self-defense a priority. Organized under Illinois law, the Nauvoo Legion was a city militia made up primarily of Latter-day Saints. This comprehensive work on the history, structure, and purpose of the Nauvoo Legion traces its unique story from its founding to the Mormon exodus in 1846. Impeccably researched and honestly told, this groundbreaking study fills a major gap in Latter-day Saint church history and adds a significant chapter to the annals of American militias.

Hancock’s War Conflict on the Southern Plains

By William Y. Chalfant $59.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-371-4 · 296 pages When General Winfield Scott Hancock led a military expedition across Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska in 1867, his purpose was a show of force that would curtail Indian raiding sparked by the Sand Creek massacre of 1864. But the havoc he and his troops wrought on the plains served only to further incite the tribes and inflame passions on both sides, disrupting U.S.Indian relations for more than a decade. One of the most significant Indian campaigns in American history, Hancock’s War is in many ways a microcosm of all the wars between Indians and whites on the high plains. Chalfant’s sweeping narrative forms the definitive history of a questionable enterprise.

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Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector A Scottish Immigrant in the American West, 1848–1861

By Polly Aird $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-369-1 · 320 pages Peter McAuslan heeded Mormon missionaries spreading the faith in his native Scotland in the mid-1840s. The uncertainty his family faced in a rapidly industrializing economy, the political turmoil erupting across Europe, the welter of competing religions—all were signs of the imminent end of time, the missionaries warned. Drawing on McAuslan’s writings and other archival sources, Polly Aird offers a rare interior portrait of a man in whom religious fervor warred with indignation at absolutist religious authorities and fear for the consequences of dissension. In so doing, she brings to life a dramatic but little-known period of American history.

Fort Laramie Military Bastion of the High Plains

By Douglas C. McChristian $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-360-8 · 448 pages 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, it 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. Meticulously researched and gracefully told, this is a long-overdue military history of one of the American West’s most venerable historic places.

Dodge City The Early Years, 1872–1886

By Wm. B. Shillingberg $49.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-378-3 · 476 pages The most famous cattle town of the trail-driving era, Dodge City, Kansas, holds a special allure for western historians and enthusiasts alike. Wm. B. Shillingberg now goes beyond the violence for which the town became notorious, more fully documenting its early history by uncovering the economic, political, and social forces that shaped Dodge. The author takes readers back to the southwestern Kansas frontier and traces Dodge City’s evolution from a military site for protecting Santa Fe commerce, to a wild and lawless buffalo hunters’ rendezvous, to a regional freighting center and the primary shipping point for Texas cattle on the central plains. Along the way, the book offers new perspectives on the exploits of such legendary figures as Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp.

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Chickasaw Press Chikasha Stories Volume One: Shared Spirit

By Glenda Galvan Illustrated by Jeannie Barbour $36.00 Cloth · 978-1-935684-04-6 · 96 pages In Chikasha Stories, Volume One: Shared Spirit, premier Chickasaw storyteller and tribal elder Glenda Galvan tells traditional stories drawn from the tribe’s oral traditions. Illustrating the tales are original artworks by award-winning Chickasaw artist Jeannie Barbour. This long-awaited and much-needed volume, a groundbreaking work for the Chickasaw Press, is the first of an important series of books intended to revive and maintain the storytelling tradition so vital to the roots of Chickasaw and Native culture.

Chikasha Stories Volume Two: Shared Voices

By Glenda Galvan $36.00 Cloth • 978-1-935684-08-4 • 96 pages When the idea of presenting Chickasaw stories in written form was first suggested by tribal elder and storyteller Glenda Galvan, it quickly became apparent that not all of those stories would fit in one book. In Chikasha Stories, Volume One: Shared Spirit, Glenda Galvan first shared her stories with the world. The Chickasaw Press proudly continues the preservation of the Nation’s storytelling by recording more of Ms. Galvan’s narratives. Chikasha Stories, Volume Two: Shared Voices carries on the tradition of the first volume with six new tales, illustrated with original artworks by award-winning Chickasaw artist Jeannie Barbour.

Chickasaw Lives Volume Three: Sketches of Past and Present

By Richard Green $24.00s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-9-4 · 250 pages Sketches of Past and Present is the third volume in the Chickasaw Lives series.

In contrast to a conventional, chronological history, Green’s book is a fascinating amalgam of Chickasaw epochs and characters, grouped under headings of common themes. The reader is treated to stories of great Chickasaw athletes in the twentieth century, as well as an essay on the significance to Chickasaw history of the 1729 Natchez uprising.

Chickasaw Lives Volume Four: Tribal Mosaic

By Richard Green $24.00s Cloth 978-1-935684-07-7 • 200 pages The Chickasaw Lives series reveals the broad spectrum of Chickasaw history and culture as seen through the eyes of the Chickasaw Nation’s Tribal Historian, Richard Green. In 1994 Chickasaw Nation Governor Bill Anoatubby encouraged Green to research and write stories about Chickasaw history and people. This fourth volume in the Chickasaw Lives series is the culmination of that project, known as a Chickasaw mosaic.

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Ilimpa’chi’ (Let’s Eat) A Chickasaw Cookbook

By JoAnn Ellis and Vicki M. Penner $30.00s Cloth · 978-1-935684-03-9 · 160 pages Recipes, reminiscences, and lessons in Chickasaw lifeways are the main ingredients in Ilimpa’chi’ (Let’s Eat!): A Chickasaw Cookbook. Well-known Chickasaw cooks JoAnn Ellis and Vicki M. Penner share more than forty recipes, accompanied by scenes from their lives spent cooking, eating, and growing up around foods prepared in Chickasaw kitchens and over outdoor cooking fires.

Dynamic Chickasaw Women

By Phillip C. Morgan and Judy G. Parker $24.00s Cloth · 978-1-935684-05-3 · 192 pages It has become tradition for Chickasaw governor Bill Anoatubby to open his public addresses with a tribute to the unconquered and unconquerable warriors and to the dynamic women of the Chickasaw Nation. Researched and written by Phillip Carroll Morgan and Judy Goforth Parker, Dynamic Chickasaw Women presents biographies of carefully chosen dynamic women from the histories of Indian Removal, Indian Territory, and early Oklahoma statehood. This book demonstrates that the diversity and distinction represented by today’s recipients of that honor are also found in historical counterparts among the dynamic Chickasaw women of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries.

Proud to be Chickasaw

By Mike Larsen and Martha Larsen $30.00s Cloth · 978-1-935684-01-5 · 130 pages Among Oklahoma painters, Mike Larsen is a living legend. His work—from a twenty-six-foot mural in the Oklahoma state capitol to a painting appearing on the U.S. postage stamp honoring the Oklahoma centennial—is visible and prominent. In 2005, leaders of the Chickasaw Nation commissioned Larsen to create twenty-four oil portraits of living Chickasaw elders. After those paintings were completed, the Chickasaws commissioned a second series of twenty-four portraits—showcased in this handsome, full-color volume.

Chickasaw Renaissance

By Phillip Carroll Morgan and David G. Fitzgerald $30.00s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-8-7 · 240 pages In Chickasaw Renaissance, Phillip Carroll Morgan profiles the experiences of the Chickasaw people during this tumultuous period in their history, from the dissolution of their government to the resurgence of their nation. A sequel to the award-winning book Chickasaw: Unconquered and Unconquerable, this equally beautiful volume features more than 100 new images by celebrated Oklahoma photographer David G. Fitzgerald. His stunning portraits of tribal elders and numerous other subjects are supplemented by historical photographs from the Chickasaw Nation archives.

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Cherokee National Press Cherokee Newspapers, 1828–1906 Tribal Voice of a People in Transition

By Cullen Joe Holland Edited by James P. Pate $45.00s Cloth • 978-0-9826907-3-4 • 578 pages In Cherokee Newspapers, 1828–1906, Cullen Joe Holland skillfully covers the growth of the Phoenix, explains how the Cherokee font was acquired, and discusses problems the paper faced internally until its confiscation by the Georgia militia in 1834.

The Development of Law and Legal Institutions among the Cherokees

By Thomas L. Ballenger $35.00s Cloth · 978-0-9826907-2-7 · 230 pages Before the arrival of Europeans to North America, Cherokee Indians practiced a form of justice called “blood law,” or “clan law.” In this system, responsibility for the punishment of a homicide fell to the clan of the victim.

In the nineteenth century, following the forced removal of tribal members to Indian Territory, the Cherokee Nation developed a court system that is still in use today. In this thorough account, Thomas Lee Ballenger traces the history of Cherokee justice from its traditional beginnings to the development of its modern-day institutions.

Records of the Moravians among the Cherokees Volume One: Early Contact and the Establishment of the First Mission, 1752–1802 Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck $50.00s Cloth • 978-0-9826907-0-3 • 426 pages In the mid-eighteenth century, members of the Moravian Church, which had its origins in Central Europe, began conducting mission work among the Cherokee people. Their archives, now housed in North Carolina, include valuable records of their contact with the Cherokees. Volume One describes initial contact between the Moravians and Cherokees during the French and Indian War and the Revolution, exploratory visits by Moravian missionaries into the Cherokee Nation, and the founding of a mission — called Springplace — in northern Georgia.

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Records of the Moravians among the Cherokees Volume Two: Beginnings of the Mission and Establishment of the School, 1802–1805 Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck $50.00s Cloth • 978-0-9826907-1-0 • 426 pages Volume Two ends with the year 1805. As the Moravians occupy Springplace, they begin to spread the Gospel. The Cherokees, in turn, are interested in schooling for their children, who need new tools to deal with the encroachment of white settlers upon their land and life.

Records of the Moravians among the Cherokees Volume Three: The Anna Rosina Years, Part 1, Success in School and Mission, 1805–1810 Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck $50.00s Cloth 978-0-9826907-4-1 • 624 pages Volume Three, spanning the years 1805 to 1810, chronicles the arrival of John and Anna Rosina Gambold to the mission. Anna Rosina proved dedicated to the education of Cherokee children, and the mission took on a new life and character. The Gambolds soon won the people’s affection and respect, and Chief Chuleoa, who at first opposed the mission, became their friend.

These years also witnessed the tragic death of James Vann, the Moravians’ benefactor among the Cherokees, and the mission’s first successful baptism of a Cherokee into the Moravian Church.

Records of the Moravians among the Cherokees Volume Four: The Anna Rosina Years, Part 2 Warfare on the Horizon, 1810–1816 Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck $50.00s Cloth · 978-0-9826907-5-8 · 618 pages Volume 4 continues the story through 1816, when earthquakes ushered in a period of upheaval—from the Cherokees’ involvement in the Creek War, to Métis battles in Canada, to Napoleon’s conquests in Europe. Meanwhile, the little Moravian mission of Springplace added new members, including Charles Hicks, soon to be elected Second Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, while Anna and her husband continued work with their Cherokee students.

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