2014 American West Catalog

American West UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS

2014

American West CONTENTS American Indian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Art & Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Biography and Memoir. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 The Arthur H. Clark Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 New in Paperback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

For more than eighty-five years, the University of Oklahoma Press has published award-winning books about the American West and we are proud to bring to you our latest catalog. The catalog features the newest titles from both the University of Oklahoma Press and the Arthur H. Clark Company.

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American Indian Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian The Crime That Should Haunt America

By Gary Clayton Anderson $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4421-4 · 472 Pages In Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian, Anderson uses ethnic cleansing as an analytical tool to challenge the alluring idea that Anglo-American colonialism in the New World constituted genocide. Beginning with the era of European conquest, Anderson employs definitions of ethnic cleansing developed by the United Nations and the International Criminal Court to reassess key moments in the Anglo-American dispossession of American Indians.

American Indians in U.S. History Second Edition

By Roger L. Nichols $24.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4367-5 · 216 Pages This second edition, drawing on the most recent research, adds information about Indian social, economic, and cultural issues in the twenty-first century.

American Indians in U.S. History, Second Edition includes new, brief biographies of important Native figures, an overall chronology, and updated suggested readings for each period of the past four hundred years.

Progressive Traditions Identity in Cherokee Literature and Culture

By Joshua B. Nelson $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4491-7 · 296 Pages Progressive Traditions identifies an “indigenous anarchism,” a pluralist, community-centered political philosophy that looks to practices that preceded and surpass the nation-state as ways of helping Cherokee people prosper. This critique of the common call for expansion of tribal nations’ sovereignty over their citizens represents a profound shift in American Indian critical theory and challenges contemporary indigenous people to rethink power among nations, communities, and individuals.

Scalping Columbus and Other Damn Indian Stories Truths, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies

By Adam Fortunate Eagle $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4428-3 · 216 Pages Adam Fortunate Eagle has been called many things: social activist, serious joke medicine, contrary warrior, national treasure, enemy of the state, living history. Characterizing his style as “Fortunate Eagle meets Mark Twain, Indian style,” the author relates the traditions, joys, and frustrations of his own Native American experience in tones ranging from “gut-busting laughter to pissed-off anger.”

Americans Recaptured Progressive Era Memory of Frontier Captivity

By Molly K. Varley $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4493-1 · 240 Pages Revealing how the recitation and interpretation of these captivity narratives changed over time—with shifting emphasis on brutality, gender, and ethnographic and historical accuracy—Americans Recaptured shows that tales of Indian captivity were no more fixed than American identity, but were consistently used to give that identity its own useful, ever-evolving shape.

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Chiefs and Challengers Indian Resistance and Cooperation in Southern California, 1769–1906 Second Edition

By George Harwood Phillips $26.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4490-0 · 384 Pages Long recognized as a pioneering work in the ethnohistory of California, Chiefs and Challengers, when it first appeared, overturned the stereotype of Indian victimhood and revealed a complex political landscape in which Native peoples interacted with one another as much as they did with non-Indians intruding into their territories. This new edition describes the indigenous cultures of southern California and offers a detailed history of the repercussions of Euro-American colonization.

Cochise Firsthand Accounts of the Chiricahua Apache Chief

By Edwin R. Sweeney $49.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4432-0 · 336 Pages Much of what we know of Cochise has come down to us in military reports, eyewitness accounts, letters, and numerous interviews the usually reticent chief granted in the last decade of his life. Cochise: Firsthand Accounts of the Chiricahua Apache Chief brings together the most revealing of these documents to provide the most nuanced, multifaceted portrait possible of the Apache leader.

The Darkest Period The Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 1846–1873

By Ronald D. Parks $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4430-6 · 328 Pages In The Darkest Period, Ronald D. Parks tells the story of those years of decline in Kanza history following the loss of the tribe’s original homeland in northeastern and central Kansas. Parks makes use of accounts by agents, missionaries, journalists, and ethnographers in crafting this tale. He addresses both the big picture—the effects of Manifest Destiny—and local particulars such as the devastating impact on the tribe of the Santa Fe Trail.

The Students of Sherman Indian School Education and Native Identity since 1892

By Diana Meyers Bahr $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4443-6 · 192 Pages Sherman Indian High School, as it is known today, began in 1892 as Perris Indian School on eighty acres south of Riverside, California, with nine students. Its mission, like that of other off-reservation Indian boarding schools, was to “civilize” Indian children, which meant stripping them of their Native culture and giving them vocational training. This book offers the first full history of Sherman Indian School’s 100-plus years, a history that reflects federal Indian education policy since the late nineteenth century.

Viewing the Ancestors Perceptions of the Anaasází, Mokwicˇ, and Hisatsinom

By Robert S. McPherson $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4429-0 · 256 Pages Archaeologists have long studied the American Southwest, but as historian Robert McPherson shows in Viewing the Ancestors, their findings may not tell the whole story. McPherson maintains that combining archaeology with knowledge derived from the oral traditions of the Navajo, Ute, Paiute, and Hopi peoples yields a more complete history.

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Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906

By James W. Parins $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4399-6 · 296 Pages In Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906, James W. Parins traces the rise of bilingual literacy and intellectual life in the Cherokee Nation during the nineteenth century-a time of intense social and political turmoil for the tribe.

Warrior Nations The United States and Indian Peoples

By Roger L. Nichols $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4382-8 · 256 Pages During the century following George Washington’s presidency, the United States fought at least forty wars with various Indian tribes. Warrior Nations is Roger L. Nichols’ response to the question, “Why did so much fighting take place?” Examining eight of the wars between the 1780s and 1877, Nichols explains what started each conflict and what the eight had in common as well as how they differed.

A Cheyenne Voice The Complete John Stands In Timber Interviews

By John Stands In Timber and Margot Liberty $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4379-8 · 504 Pages Rarely does a primary source become available that provides new and significant information about the history and culture of a famous American Indian tribe. With A Cheyenne Voice, readers now have access to a vast ethnographic and historical trove about the Cheyenne people­—much of it previously unavailable.

Transforming Ethnohistories Narrative, Meaning, and Community Edited by Sebastian Felix Braun $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4394-1· 272 Pages Anthropologists need history to understand how the past has shaped the present. Historians need anthropology to help them interpret the past. Where anthropologists’ and historians’ needs intersect is ethnohistory. Transforming Ethnohistories comprises ten new avenues of ethnohistorical research ranging in topic from fiddling performances to environmental disturbance and spanning places from North Carolina to the Yukon.

Claiming Tribal Identity The Five Tribes and the Politics of Federal Acknowledgement

By Mark E. Miller $29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4378-1 · 480 Pages In this revealing study, Mark Edwin Miller describes how and why dozens of previously unrecognized tribal groups in the southeastern states have sought, and sometimes won, recognition, often to the dismay of the Five Tribes—the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles.

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A Gathering of Statesmen Records of the Choctaw Council Meetings, 1826–1828

By Peter Perkins Pitchlynn Translated and Edited by Marcia Haag and Henry Willis $29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4349-1 · 180 Pages The early decades of the nineteenth century brought intense political turmoil and cultural change for the Choctaw Indians. While they still lived on their native lands in central Mississippi, they would soon be forcibly removed to Oklahoma. This book makes available for the first time a key legal document from this turbulent period in Choctaw history.

Native American Placenames of the Southwest A Handbook for Travelers

By William Bright $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4311-8 · 176 Pages This user-friendly guide-covering Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas-provides fascinating information about the meaning and origins of southwestern placenames. With its unique regional approach and compact design, the handbook is especially suitable for curious travelers.

Arapaho Women’s Quillwork Motion, Life, and Creativity

By Jeffery D. Anderson $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4283-8 · 256 Pages In Arapaho Women’s Quillwork, Jeffrey D. Anderson brings this distinctly female art form out of the darkness and into its rightful spotlight within the realms of both art history and anthropology. Beautifully illustrated with more than 50 color and black-and-white images, this book is the first comprehensive examination of quillwork within Arapaho ritualized traditions.

Art & Photography Charles M. Russell Photographing the Legend

By Larry Len Peterson $60.00 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4473-3 · 328 Pages $350.00n Leather (Limited edition of 250) · 978-0-8061-4485-6 · 328 Pages Almost as familiar as the images of the American West he painted and sculpted is the figure of Charles M. Russell himself. What is not so well known is the story that unfolds in the myriad photographs of Russell, pictures that document a remarkable life while also reflecting the evolution of photography and the depiction of the American West at the turn of the twentieth century.

This biography makes use of hundreds of images of Russell, many never before published, to explore the role of photography in shaping the artist’s public image and the making and selling of his art.

San Francisco Lithographer African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown

By Robert J. Chandler $36.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4410-8 · 264 Pages This biography by a distinguished California historian gives an underappreciated artist and his work recognition long overdue. Focusing on Grafton Tyler Brown’s lithography and his life in nineteenth-century San Francisco, Robert J. Chandler offers a study equally fascinating as a business and cultural history and as an introduction to Brown the artist.

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Guide to Photographs in the Western History Collections of the University of Oklahoma Second Edition

By Kristina L. Southwell and Jacquelyn Reese $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4455-9 · 254 pages This guide has been compiled to make the photographs in the collections more accessible. The second edition adds descriptions of 165 new collections comprising 159,000 photographs. The 826 photograph collections that this guide thus details encompass Native American culture; frontier and pioneer life in Oklahoma and Indian territories; Wild West shows; the range cattle industry; the petroleum industry; and gunfighters, outlaws, and lawmen.

Red The Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, 2013 Edited by Jennifer Complo McNutt and Ashley Holland $30.00s Paper · 978-0-9798495-7-2 · 136 pages Distributed for the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art Red: The Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, 2013, the eighth iteration of the Eiteljorg Museum’s acclaimed biennial art series, documents the strength, drama, determination, and humor of contemporary Native art and the artists who create it. Celebrating the work of Invited Artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (Coast Salish/Okanagan) and Eiteljorg Fellows Julie Buffalohead (Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma), Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit/Aleut), Shan Goshorn (Eastern Band of Cherokee), and Meryl McMaster (Plains Cree/Blackfoot), Red declares that any person who lives with the idea that Native people are vanishing, weak, or failing to thrive needs simply to look at their art.

Decades An Expanded Context for Western American Art, 1900–1940 Contributions by Charles C. Eldredge, Betsy Fahlman, Randall R. Griffey, and Ron Tyler $10.95 Paper · 978-0-914738-89-3 · 80 Pages Distributed for the Denver Art Museum This ninth volume of Western Passages explores western American art within the context of the first four decades of the twentieth century. Decades divides the period from 1900 to 1940 into ten-year increments to investigate major artistic movements and important figures in western American art across mediums, styles, and subjects. In four wide-ranging essays, art historians examine western American art alongside concurrent events in American art and history.

Chronicling the West for Harper’s Coast to Coast with Frenzeny & Tavernier in 1873–1874

By Claudine Chalmers $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4376-7 · 272 Pages The opening of the West after the Civil War drew a flood of Americans and immigrants to the frontier. Among the liveliest records of the westering of the 1870s is the series of prints collected for the first time in this book. Chronicling the West for Harper’s showcases 100 illustrations made for the magazine

by French artists Paul Frenzeny and Jules Tavernier on a cross-country assignment in 1873 and 1874.

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A Family of the Land The Texas Photography of Guy Gillette

By Andy Wilkinson $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4404-7 · 144 Pages Since he first dreamed of a career in photography, Guy Gillette has traveled regularly to his wife’s family’s ranch, located outside the small town of Crockett, Texas. When Gillette first came to the Porter Place, as the ranch has always been known, he began to photograph the Porter family and their land. Thanks to Gillette’s sense of composition, these wonderful black-andwhite photographs, dating from the 1940s, led to his career as a magazine photographer. Collected here for the first time, they document small-town life in East Texas, where Guy Gillette’s sons, the musical duo the Gillette Brothers, still run cattle. A Family of the Land offers a portrait of a community over a half century during which remarkably little has changed.

Painters and the American West, Vol. II Contributions by Sarah A. Hunt, James P. Ronda, Joan Carpenter Troccoli, and John Wilmerding $80.00 Cloth · 978-0-9881774-0-6 · 344 Pages Distributed for American Museum of Western Art—Anschutz Collection In 2010, the Anschutz Collection became the American Museum of Western Art—The Anschutz Collection, a public museum. Painters and the American West, Volume II is a companion and sequel to the award-winning Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection, published in 2000. The present volume includes the finest works featured in the earlier book, along with major recent acquisitions.

Woody Crumbo Contributions by Minisa Crumbo Halsey, Ruthe Blalock Jones, Carole Klein, Robert Perry, and Kimberly Roblin Photographs by Robert S. Cross $24.95s Paper · 978-0-9819799-5-3 · 148 Pages Distributed for Gilcrease Museum The Gilcrease Museum has the honor of possessing the largest extant body of Woodrow Wilson Crumbo’s delightful and finely crafted work, which is celebrated and interpreted within the pages of this book.

A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country Vincent Soboleff in Alaska

By Sergei Kan $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4290-6 · 288 Pages This book is a rich record of life in small-town southeastern Alaska in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It is the first book to showcase the photographs of Vincent Soboleff, an amateur Russian American photographer whose community included Tlingit Indians from a nearby village as well as Russian Americans.

Karl Bodmer’s America Revisited Landscape Views Across Time Photography by Robert M. Lindholm $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3831-2 · 192 Pages Less than thirty years after Lewis and Clark completed their epic journey, Prince Maximilian of Wied set off on his own expedition across North America.

Accompanying the prince on this voyage Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, whose drawings and watercolors now rank among the great treasures of nineteenthcentury American art. This lavishly illustrated book juxtaposes Bodmer’s landscape images with modern-day photographs of the same views, allowing readers to see what has changed, and what seems unchanged, since the time Maximilian and Bodmer made their storied trip up the Missouri River.

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A President in Yellowstone The F. Jay Haynes Photographic Album of Chester Arthur’s 1883 Expedition

By Frank H. Goodyear III $36.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4355-2 · 192 Pages On the morning of July 30, 1883, President Chester A. Arthur embarked on a trip of historic proportions. His destination was Yellowstone National Park, established by an act of Congress only eleven years earlier. Arthur’s host and primary guide would be Philip H. Sheridan, the famed Union general.

Also slated to join the expedition was a young photographer, Frank Jay Haynes. This elegant—and fascinating—book showcases Haynes’s remarkable photographic album from their six-week journey.

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 · 240 Pages $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 threedimensional works. Showcased in this stunning catalogue, the collection comprises nearly four thousand items, including drawings, sculptures, prints, kachinas, jewelry, ceramics, rattles, baskets, and textiles. Along with its rich sampling of works from the Bialac Collection, this catalogue offers informative essays by art historians, who draw on their areas of expertise to explain the significance of the artwork.

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.

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Biography and Memoir Tom Horn in Life and Legend

By Larry D. Ball $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4425-2 · 568 Pages Some of the legendary gunmen of the Old West were lawmen, but more, like Billy the Kid and Jesse James, were outlaws. Tom Horn (1860–1903) was both. Lawman, soldier, hired gunman, detective, outlaw, and assassin, this darkly enigmatic figure has fascinated Americans ever since his death by hanging the day before his forty-third birthday. In this masterful historical biography, Larry Ball, a distinguished historian of western lawmen and outlaws, presents the definitive account of Horn’s career.

The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane

By Richard W. Etulain $24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4632-4 · 400 Pages Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. This lively, concise, and exhaustively researched biography traces the real person from the Missouri farm where she was born in 1856 through the development of her notorious persona as a Wild West heroine.

Father of Route 66 The Story of Cy Avery

By Susan Croce Kelly $24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4499-3 · 288 Pages In this engaging biography of a remarkable man, Susan Croce Kelly begins by describing the urgency for “good roads” that gripped the nation in the early twentieth century as cars multiplied and mud deepened. Avery was one of a small cadre of men and women whose passion carried the Good Roads movement from boosterism to political influence to concrete-on-the-ground.

While most stopped there, Avery went on to assure that one road—U.S. Highway 66—became a fixture in the imagination of America and the world.

Following Oil Four Decades of Cycle-Testing Experiences and What They Foretell about U.S. Energy Independence

By Thomas A. Petrie $26.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4420-7 · 272 Pages In Following Oil, Petrie shares useful lessons he has learned about domestic and global trends in population and economic growth, a maturing resource base, variable national energy policies, and dynamic changes in geopolitical forces— and how these variables affect energy markets. More important, he applies those lessons to charting a course of energy development for the nation through the twenty-first century and beyond.

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca American Trailblazer

By Robin Varnum $26.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4497-9 · 384 Pages In July 1536, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490–1559) and three other survivors walked 2,500 miles from Texas, across northern Mexico, to Sonora and ultimately to Mexico City. Cabeza de Vaca’s account of this astonishing journey is now recognized as one of the great travel stories of all time. Robin Varnum’s biography, the first single-volume cradle-to-grave account of the explorer’s life in eighty years, tells the rest of the story.

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Oil Man The Story of Frank Phillips and the Birth of Phillips Petroleum

By Michael Wallis $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4676-8 · 552 Pages The bestselling historian of the West, Michael Wallis captures the life and times of an American hero—and depicts the modern oil empire he created— in this rousing biography of Frank Phillips, one of the greatest self-made business tycoons of the twentieth century.

Outlaw Woman A Memoir of the War Years, 1960–1975 Revised Edition

By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz $22.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4479-5 · 396 Pages Dunbar-Ortiz’s odyssey from Oklahoma poverty to the urban New Left gives a working-class, feminist perspective on a time and a movement that forever changed American society. In a new afterword, the author reflects on her fast-paced life fifty years ago, in particular as a movement activist and in relationships with men.

Running with the Antelope Life, Fitness, and Grit on the Northern Plains

By Melanie Carvell $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-9916041-0-4 · 256 Pages Distributed for the Dakota Institute Press Melanie Carvell is a gifted athlete who grew up in a small town in southwestern North Dakota in the 1970s. This beautiful memoir tells the story of Melanie’s remarkable journey, from the agricultural village of Mott (population 732) to world duathlon and triathlon competitions, a splendid career as a physical therapist, director of the Sanford Women’s Health Center in Bismarck, North Dakota, and widely sought after motivational speaker.

When Money Grew on Trees A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron

By Greg Gordon $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4447-4 · 504 Pages Born in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond built an empire of wood that stretched from Puget Sound to Arizona—and in the process had reshaped the American West and the nation’s way of doing business. When Money Grew on Trees follows Hammond from the rough-and-tumble world of mid-nineteenthcentury New Brunswick to frontier Montana and the forests of Northern California—from lowly lumberjack to unrivaled timber baron.

Under the Eagle Samuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker

By Samuel Holiday and Robert S. Mcpherson $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4389-7 · 288 Pages Samuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by the Marine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit secret communications on the battlefield. Based on extensive interviews with Robert S. McPherson, Under the Eagle is Holiday’s vivid account of his own story. It is the only book-length oral history of a Navajo code talker in which the narrator relates his experiences in his own voice and words.

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Conversations with Barry Lopez Walking the Path of Imagination

By William E. Tydeman $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4407-8 · 232 Pages Known as an advocate for the endangered earth, Barry Lopez is one of America’s preeminent writers on nature. This invigorating book invites readers to sit down with Lopez and his friend William E. Tydeman to engage with their conversations about activism, the life of the mind, and all things literary.

Even readers who think they know everything there is to know about Lopez will learn much from this richly informative book, both from Tydeman’s concise biography of Lopez and from the dialogue about Lopez’s ideas and experiences.

Red Dirt Women At Home on the Oklahoma Plains

By Susan Kates $14.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4359-0 · 152 Pages In Red Dirt Women, Susan Kates challenges one-dimensional characterizations of women by exploring-and celebrating-the lives of contemporary Oklahoma women whose experiences are anything but predictable.

Buffalo Bill on the Silver Screen The Films of William F. Cody

By Sandra K. Sagala $24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4361-3 · 232 Pages For more than thirty years, William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody entertained audiences across the United States and Europe with his Wild West show.

Scores of books have been written about Cody’s fabled career as a showman, but his involvement in the film industry—following the dissolution of his traveling show—is less well known. In Buffalo Bill on the Silver Screen, Sandra K. Sagala chronicles the fascinating story of Cody’s venture into filmmaking during the early cinema period.

Rough Breaks A Wyoming High Country Memoir

By Laurie Wagner Buyer $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4375-0 · 256 Pages When twenty-eight-year-old Laurie Wagner hired on at the O Bar Y Ranch in western Wyoming, she was a novice to ranching life but no stranger to isolated locations. As revealed in her celebrated memoir When I Came West, Laurie had already spent years living in a rustic cabin in the Montana wilderness with a troubled Vietnam veteran. Rough Breaks recounts the next chapter in her life, beginning with her painful break from Bill Atkinson, and unfolding into a modern day saga of life on a remote cattle ranch.

Miera y Pacheco A Renaissance Spaniard in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico

By John L. Kessell $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4377-4 · 232 Pages Remembered today as an early cartographer and prolific religious artist, don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco engaged during his lifetime in a surprising array of other pursuits: engineer and militia captain on Indian campaigns, district officer, merchant, debt collector, metallurgist, luckless silver miner, presidial soldier, dam builder, and rancher. This long-overdue, richly illustrated biography recounts Miera’s complex life in cinematic detail, from his birth in Cantabria, Spain, to his death in Santa Fe at age seventy-one.

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Ernest L. Blumenschein The Life of an American Artist

By Robert W. Larson and Carole B. Larson $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4334-7 · 344 Pages Few who appreciate the visual arts or the American Southwest can behold the masterpieces Sangre de Cristo Mountains or Haystack, Taos Valley, 1927 or Bend in the River, 1941 and come away without a vivid image burned into memory.

This biography examines the character and life experiences that made Ernest L. Blumenschein one of the foremost artists of the twentieth century.

Gunfighter in Gotham Bat Masterson’s New York City Years

By Robert K. DeArment $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4263-0 · 304 Pages In Gunfighter in Gotham, DeArment tells how Bat Masterson built a second career from a column in the New York Morning Telegraph. Bat’s articles not only covered sports but also reflected his outspoken opinions on war, crime, politics, and a changing society. As his renown as a boxing expert grew, his opinions were picked up by other newspaper editors and reprinted throughout the country and abroad. He counted President Theodore Roosevelt among his friends and readers.

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

By John Boessenecker $29.95s 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.

“That Fiend in Hell” Soapy Smith in Legend

By Catherine Holder Spude $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4280-7 · 304 Pages As the Klondike gold rush peaked in spring 1898, adventurers and gamblers rubbed shoulders with town-builders and gold-panners in Skagway, Alaska.

The flow of riches lured confidence men, too—among them Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith (1860–98), who with an entourage of “bunco-men” conned and robbed the stampeders. Soapy, though, a common enough criminal, would go down in legend as the Robin Hood of Alaska, remembered for his charm and generosity, even for calming a lynch mob. He was later killed in a shootout over a card game. “That Fiend in Hell”: Soapy Smith in Legend is a tour de force of historical debunking that documents Smith’s elevation to western hero.

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Fiction The Wister Trace Assaying Classic Western Fiction

By Loren D. Estleman $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4481-8 · 232 Pages A master practitioner’s view of his craft, this classic survey of the fiction of the American West is part literary history, part criticism, and entertaining throughout.

The first edition of The Wister Trace was published in 1987, when Larry McMurtry had just reinvented himself as a writer of Westerns and Cormac McCarthy’s career had not yet taken off. Loren D. Estleman’s long-overdue update connects these new masters with older writers, assesses the genre’s past, present, and future, and takes account of the renaissance of western movies, as well.

The King and Queen of Comezón

By Denise Chávez $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4483-2 · 320 Pages Comezón: It’s more than an itch. It’s a longstanding desire that will never be fulfilled.

And, in this novel by award-winning author Denise Chávez, it is also a border town in New Mexico whose denizens’ longings are as powerful as they are, all too often, impossible. Between New Mexico and México, between Cinco de Mayo and the 16th of September, between the dreams and the realities of Comezón’s characters, something has to give. Each character is attempting to find love in this feverish fiesta called Life. And in the deft hands of Denise Chávez this tragicomic novel gives unerringly: pleasure, surprise, and the satisfaction of a tale well told.

Animal Stories A Lifetime Collection

By Max Evans Illustrated by Keith Walters $24.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4366-8 · 440 Pages Legendary western author Max Evans has spent his entire life working with cows and horses. These rangeland animals, and other creatures both domestic and wild, play pivotal roles in his stories. This magnificent collection, beautifully illustrated by cowboy artist Keith Walters, showcases twenty-six animal tales penned by Evans during his long and celebrated career.

The Dig In Search of Coronado’s Treasure

By Sheldon Russell $16.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4360-6 · 246 Pages Sheldon Russell ratchets the tension and mystery as two desperate quests interweave in an historical-meets-modern adventure story. This thrill ride builds to an Indiana Jones–style standoff and forces its characters—and readers—to grapple with an age-old proverb: all that glitters is not gold.

Boneland Linked Stories

By Nance Van Winckel $16.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4391-0 · 196 Pages Lynette is recuperating from botched Lasik surgery. Her eyesight is damaged, but as she “looks” back on the events of her past, she realizes she may not have seen them correctly when she was actually living them. Her husband’s death . . . was it a suicide? The bones unearthed on her uncle’s Montana ranch—are they of a steer? a mastodon? a dinosaur? Her beloved cousin Jessie—did she slip into addiction, and if so, where did the addict life take her? The dots of Lynette’s past are blurry, but she tries to focus and connect them and to feel her way toward a more accurate vision of the person she has been and may become.

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History American Carnage Wounded Knee, 1890 Jerome A. Greene $34.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4448-1 · 648 Pages In this gripping tale, Jerome A. Greene—renowned specialist on the Indian wars—explores why the bloody engagement happened and demonstrates how it became a brutal massacre. Drawing on a wealth of sources, including previously unknown testimonies, Greene examines the events from both Native and non-Native perspectives, explaining the significance of treaties, white settlement, political disputes, and the Ghost Dance as influential factors in what eventually took place.

A Legacy in Arms American Firearm Manufacture, Design, and Artistry, 1800–1900

By Richard C. Rattenbury Photographs by Ed Muno $59.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4477-1 · 248 Pages The history of American firearms is inseparable from the history of the United States, for firearms have played crucial roles in the nation’s founding, westward expansion, and industrial, economic, and cultural development.

This history unfolds in compelling words and images in A Legacy in Arms, a volume that draws upon the collections of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City to trace the business and art of gun making from the early national period to the turn of the twentieth century.

Battles and Massacres on the Southwestern Frontier Historical and Archaeological Perspectives Edited by Ronald K. Wetherington and Frances Levine $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4440-5 · 260 Pages This unique study centers on four critical engagements between AngloAmerican and American Indians on the southwestern frontier: the Battle of Cieneguilla (1854), the Battle of Adobe Walls (1864), the Sand Creek Massacre (1864), and the Mountain Meadows Massacre (1857). Editors Ronald K. Wetherington and Frances Levine juxtapose historical and archaeological perspectives on each event to untangle the ambiguity and controversy that surround both historical and more contemporary accounts of each of these violent outbreaks.

Black Spokane The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest

By Dwayne A. Mack $26.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4489-4 · 216 Pages In 1981, decades before mainstream America elected Barack Obama, James Chase became the first African American mayor of Spokane, Washington, with the overwhelming support of a majority-white electorate. Chase’s win failed to capture the attention of historians—as had the centurylong evolution of the black community in Spokane. In Black Spokane: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest, Dwayne A. Mack corrects this oversight—and recovers a crucial chapter in the history of race relations and civil rights in America.

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Creating the American West Boundaries and Borderlands

By Derek R. Everett $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4446-7 · 320 Pages Boundaries—lines imposed on the landscape—shape our lives, dictating everything from which candidates we vote for to what schools our children attend to the communities with which we identify. In Creating the American West, historian Derek Everett examines the function of these internal lines in American history generally and in the West in particular. Drawing lines to create states in the trans-Mississippi West, he points out, imposed a specific form of political organization that made the West truly American.

Discovering Texas History Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud, Light Townsend Cummins, and Cary D. Wintz $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4619-5 · 352 Pages The most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to Texas historiography of the past quarter-century, this volume of original essays will be an invaluable resource and definitive reference for teachers, students, and researchers of Texas history. Conceived as a follow-up to the award-winning A Guide to the History of Texas (1988), Discovering Texas History focuses on the major trends in the study of Texas history since 1990.

Fort Worth Outpost, Cowtown, Boomtown

By Harold Rich $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4492-4 · 288 Pages From its beginnings as an army camp in the 1840s, Fort Worth has come to be one of Texas’s—and the nation’s—largest cities, a thriving center of culture and commerce. But along the way, the city’s future, let alone its present prosperity, was anything but certain. Fort Worth tells the story of how this landlocked outpost on the arid plains of Texas made and remade itself in its early years, setting a pattern of boom-and-bust progress that would see the city through to the twenty-first century.

West Texas A History of the Giant Side of the State Edited by Paul H. Carlson and Bruce A. Glasrud $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4444-3 · 320 Pages Texas is as well known for its diversity of landscape and culture as it is for its enormity. But West Texas, despite being popularized in film and song, has largely been ignored by historians as a distinct and cultural geographic space. In West Texas: A History of the Giant Side of the State, Paul H. Carlson and Bruce A. Glasrud rectify that oversight. This volume assembles a diverse set of essays covering the grand sweep of West Texas history from the ancient to the contemporary.

Outdoors in the Southwest An Adventure Anthology Edited by Andrew Gulliford $26.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4260-9 · 440 Pages More college students than ever are majoring in Outdoor Recreation, Outdoor Education, or Adventure Education, but fewer and fewer Americans spend any time in thoughtful, respectful engagement with wilderness. While many young people may think of adrenaline-laced extreme sports as prime outdoor activities, with Outdoors in the Southwest, Andrew Gulliford seeks to promote appreciation for and discussion of the wild landscapes where those sports are played.

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Manifest Destinations Cities and Tourists in the Nineteenth-Century American West

By J. Philip Gruen $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4488-7 · 312 Pages In Manifest Destinations, J. Philip Gruen examines the ways in which tourists experienced Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco between 1869 and 1893, a period of rapid urbanization and accelerated modernity. Gruen pays particular attention to the contrast between the way these cities were promoted and the way visitors actually experienced them.

Lewis and Clark Among the Nez Perce Strangers in the Land of the Nimiipuu

By Allen V. Pinkham and Steven R. Evans $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-9834059-8-6 · 332 Pages Distributed for Dakota Institute Press Nez Perce historians Allen Pinkham and Steve Evans have examined the journals of Lewis and Clark with painstaking care to tease out new insights about what Lewis and Clark wrote about their hosts the Nez Perce. Pinkham and Evans evaluate both what Lewis and Clark understood and what they misunderstood in the Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) lifeway and political structure.

More particularly they have re-examined the journals for clues about how the Nez Perce reacted to the bearded strangers.

Soldiers in the Army of Freedom The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War’s First African American Combat Unit

By Ian Michael Spurgeon $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4618-8 · 456 Pages Soldiers in the Army of Freedom is the first published account of this largely forgotten regiment and, in particular, its contribution to Union victory in the trans-Mississippi theater of the Civil War. As such, it restores the First Kansas Colored Infantry to its rightful place in American history.

South Pass Gateway to a Continent

By Will Bagley $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4442-9 · 328 Pages Wallace Stegner called South Pass “one of the most deceptive and impressive places in the West.” Nowhere can travelers cross the Rockies so easily as through the high, treeless valley in Wyoming immediately south of the Wind River Mountains. That place, South Pass, has received much attention in lore and memory but attracted no serious book-length study—until now. In this narrative, award-winning author Will Bagley explains the significance of South Pass to the nation’s history and to the development of the American West.

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.

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A Step toward Brown v. Board of Education Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher and Her Fight to End Segregation

By Cheryl Elizabeth Brown Wattley $24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4545-7 · 256 Pages Cheryl Elizabeth Brown Wattley gives us a richly textured picture of the blackand-white world from which Ada Lois Sipuel and her family emerged. Against this Oklahoma background Wattley shows Sipuel (who married Warren Fisher a year before she filed her suit) struggling against a segregated educational system. Her legal battle is situated within the history of civil rights litigation and race-related jurisprudence in the state of Oklahoma and in the nation.

Uninvited Neighbors African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769–1990

By Herbert G. Ruffin II $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4436-8 · 352 Pages Uninvited Neighbors is the first book to explore fully the history of African Americans in Santa Clara Valley. Herbert G. Ruffin examines black life and political thought in the valley from its earliest days as part of Spanish California (when the black population approached 25 percent) to the complexities of race relations in the valley’s current incarnation as a suburban, tech-oriented business center.

Banking in Oklahoma, 1907–2000

By Michael J. Hightower $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4495-5 · 504 Pages The story of banking in twentieth-century Oklahoma is also the story of the Sooner State’s first hundred years, as Michael J. Hightower’s new book demonstrates. Oklahoma statehood coincided with the Panic of 1907, and both events signaled seismic shifts in state banking practices. Much as Oklahoma banks shed their frontier persona to become more tightly integrated in the national economy, so, too, was decentralized banking revealed as an anachronism, utterly unsuited to an increasingly global economy.

Banking in Oklahoma Before Statehood

By Michael J. Hightower $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4388-0 · 408 Pages This lively book takes Oklahoma history into the world of Wild West capitalism. It begins with a useful survey of banking from the early days of the American republic until commercial patterns coalesced in the East. It then follows the course of American expansion westward, tracing the evolution of commerce and banking in Oklahoma from their genesis to the eve of statehood in 1907.

Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud Custer, the Press, and the Little Bighorn

By James E. Mueller $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4398-9 · 272 Pages In Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud, James E. Mueller draws on exhaustive research of period newspapers to explore press coverage of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. As he analyzes a wide range of accounts—some grim, some circumspect, some even laced with humor—Mueller offers a unique take on the dramatic events that so shook the American public.

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Main Street Oklahoma Stories of Twentieth-Century America Edited by Linda W. Reese and Patricia Loughlin $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4401-6 · 288 Pages Oklahoma historian Angie Debo once observed that all the forces of United States history have come to bear in the development of the Sooner State.

This collection of essays provides a series of snapshots reflecting both the singularity of the Oklahoma experience and the state’s connections to America’s broader history.

American Ski Resort Architecture, Style, Experience

By Margaret Supplee Smith $45.00 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4295-1 · 352 Pages In this magnificent book, architectural historian Margaret Supplee Smith traces the evolution of the ski resort in North America. Brimming with photographs of spectacular scenery, intriguing buildings, and colorful personalities, American Ski Resort is the first book to explore the combined phenomena of skiing, tourism, and architecture from a national perspective.

Assassination and Commemoration JFK, Dallas, and The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

By Stephen Fagin $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4358-3 · 272 Pages The shots that killed President John F. Kennedy in November 1963 were fired from the sixth floor of a nondescript warehouse at the edge of Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas. That floor in the Texas School Book Depository became a museum exhibit in 1989 and was designated part of a National Historic Landmark District in 1993. This book recounts the slow and painful process by which a city and a nation came to terms with its collective memory of the assassination and its aftermath.

Cotton and Conquest How the Plantation System Acquired Texas

By Roger G. Kennedy $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4346-0 · 352 Pages This sweeping work of history explains the westward spread of cotton agriculture and slave labor across the South and into Texas during the decades before the Civil War. Cotton and Conquest weaves international commerce, American party politics, technological innovation, Indian-white relations, frontier surveying practices, and various social, economic, and political events into the tapestry of Texas history.

Empire on Display San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915

By Sarah J. Moore $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4348-4 · 256 Pages The world’s fair of 1915 celebrated both the completion of the Panama Canal and the rebuilding of San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake and fire.

The exposition spotlighted the canal and the city as gateways to the Pacific.

Empire on Display is the first book to examine the Panama-Pacific International Exposition through the lenses of art history and cultural studies, focusing on the event’s expansionist and masculinist symbolism.

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Oklahoma’s Indian New Deal

By Jon S. Blackman $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4351-4 · 192 Pages This first book-length history of the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act explains the law’s origins, enactment, implementation, and impact, and shows how the act played a unique role in the Indian New Deal.

Regionalists on the Left Radical Voices from the American West Edited by Michael C. Steiner $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4340-8 · 328 Pages Although regionalism in the American West has often been characterized as an inherently conservative, backward-looking force, regionalist impulses have in fact taken various forms throughout U.S. history. The essays collected in Regionalists on the Left uncover the tradition of left-leaning western regionalism during the 1930s and 1940s.

Los Angeles in Civil War Days, 1860–1865

By John W. Robinson $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4312-5 · 204 Pages Most accounts of California’s role in the Civil War focus on the northern part of the state, San Francisco in particular. In Los Angeles in Civil War Days, John W. Robinson looks to the southern half and offers an enlightening sketch of Los Angeles and its people, politics, and economic trends from 1860 to 1865.

Drawing on contemporary reports in the Los Angeles Star, Southern News, and other sources, Robinson shows how the war came to Los Angeles and narrates the struggle between the pro-southern faction and the Unionists.

Custer, Cody, and Grand Duke Alexis Historical Archaeology of the Royal Buffalo Hunt

By Douglas D. Scott, Peter Bleed, and Stephen Damm $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4347-7 · 232 Pages On a chilly January morning in 1872, the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia arrived in North Platte, Nebraska, for a grand buffalo hunt. In this fascinating book, Douglas D. Scott, Peter Bleed, and Stephen Damm combine archaeological and historical research to offer an expansive and accurate portrayal of this singular diplomatic event.

By All Accounts General Stores and Community Life in Texas and Indian Territory

By Linda English $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4352-1 · 256 Pages The general store in late-nineteenth-century America was often the economic heart of a small town. Cash-poor farmers relied on merchants for their economic well-being just as the retailers needed customers to purchase their wares. In describing the social status of store owners and their economic and political roles in both small and large towns, English fleshes out the fascinating history of daily life in Indian Territory and Texas in a time of transition.

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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New Perspectives in Mormon Studies Creating and Crossing Boundaries Edited by Quincy D. Newell and Eric F. Mason $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4313-2 · 248 Pages Scholarship in Mormon studies has often focused on a few key events and individuals in Mormon history. One of the main purposes of this volume is to define and cross boundaries. The essays collected by Quincy D. Newell and Eric F. Mason in this interdisciplinary volume expand the conversation.

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 heavierthan-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

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.

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.

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. 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.

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The Arthur H. Clark Company

The Great Medicine Road, Part 1 Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, 1840–1848 Edited by Michael L Tate With Will Bagley and Richard Rieck $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-428-5 · 356 Pages Between 1841 and 1866, more than 500,000 people followed trails to Oregon, California, and the Salt Lake Valley in one of the greatest mass migrations in American history. This collection of travelers’ accounts of their journeys in the 1840s, the first volume in a new series of trail narratives, comprises excerpts from pioneer and missionary letters, diaries, journals, and memoirs—many previously unpublished—accompanied by biographical information and historical background.

The Steamboat Bertrand and Missouri River Commerce

By Ronald R. Switzer $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-426-1 · 376 Pages On April 1, 1865, the steamboat Bertrand hit a snag in the Missouri River and sank twenty miles north of Omaha. For more than a century thereafter, the Bertrand remained buried until it was discovered by treasure hunters, its cargo largely intact. This book categorizes some 300,000 artifacts recovered from the Bertrand in 1968, and also describes the invention, manufacture, marketing, distribution, and sale of these products and traces their route to the frontier mining camps of Montana Territory.

Dale Morgan on the Mormons Collected Works, Part 1, 1939–1951 Edited by Richard L. Saunders $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-416-2 · 520 Pages Dale L. Morgan (1914–1971) remains one of the most respected historians of the American West-and his career, one of the least understood. Among today’s scholars his reputation rests largely on his studies of the fur trade and overland trails, yet throughout his life, Morgan’s primary interest was the history of the Latter Day Saints. In this volume—the first of a two-part set—Morgan’s writings on the Mormons finally receive the attention and analysis they merit.

Dale Morgan on the Mormons Collected Works, Part 2, 1949–1970 Edited by Richard Saunders $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-423-0 · 480 Pages Dale L. Morgan’s perennial goal was to complete a history of the Latter Day Saints. In this volume—the second of a two-part set—Morgan’s writings on the Mormons finally receive the attention and analysis they merit.

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Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey A Documentary History Edited by M. John Lubetkin $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-422-3 · 320 Pages Encompassing the saga of transcontinental railroading, cultural conflict on the northern plains, and an array of important Indian and Anglo-American characters, Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey will fascinate Custer fans and anyone interested in the history of the American West.

California through Russian Eyes, 1806–1848 Compiled, translated, and edited by James R. Gibson $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-421-6 · 506 Pages In the early nineteenth century, Russia established a colony in California that lasted until the Russian-American Company sold Fort Ross and Bodega Bay to John Sutter in 1841. This annotated collection of Russian accounts of Alta California, many of them translated here into English from Russian for the first time, presents richly detailed impressions by visiting Russian mariners, scientists, and Russian-American Company officials regarding the environment, people, economy, and politics of the province. Gathered from Russian archival collections and obscure journals, these testimonies represent a major contribution to the little-known history of Russian America.

This Far-Off Wild Land The Upper Missour Letters of Andrew Dawson

By Lesley Wischmann and Andrew Erskine Dawson $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-419-3 · 336 Pages In the mid-1800s, Andrew Dawson, self-exiled from his home in Scotland, joined the upper Missouri River fur trade and rose through the ranks of the American Fur Company. A headstrong young man, he had come to America at the age of twenty-four after being dismissed from his second job in two years. His poignant sense of isolation is evident throughout his letters home between 1844 and 1861. In This Far-Off Wild Land, Lesley Wischmann and Andrew Erskine Dawson—a relative of this colorful figure—couple an engaging biography of Dawson with thirty-seven of his previously unpublished letters from the American frontier.

Robert Newton Baskin and the Making of Modern Utah

By John Gary Maxwell $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-420-9 · 392 Pages Robert Newton Baskin’s promotion of federal legislation against polygamy and his work to bring the Mormon territory into a republican form of government were pivotal in Utah’s achievement of statehood. The result of his efforts also contributed to the acceptance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by the American public. In this engaging biography, Maxwell presents Baskin as the unsung father of modern Utah.

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The Arthur H. Clark Company Custer, the Seventh Cavalry, and the Little Big Horn A Bibliography

By Michael O’Keefe $125.00s Cloth two-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.

Edward Hunter Snow Pioneer-Educator-Statesman

By Thomas G. Alexander $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-415-5 · 432 Pages Edward Hunter Snow played an instrumental role in the development of southern Utah and in the growth of the Mormon church during a period of rapid change. In this first biography of the man, Alexander presents Snow as a servant of family, church, state, and nation.

The Indianization of Lewis and Clark

By William R. Swagerty $90.00s Cloth two-volume set · 978-0-87062-413-1 · 836 Pages The Indianization of Lewis and Clark retraces the well-known 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.

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.

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 One of the fabled Channel Islands of Southern California, Santa Cruz was once the largest privately owned island off the coast of the continental United States. This multifaceted 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.

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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.

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's 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.

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.

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 $72.00s two-volume set · 978-0-87062-950-1 · 1,048 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.

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New in Paperback 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 $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4469-6 · 496 Pages 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.

New Mexico A History

By Joseph P. Sánchez, Robert L. Spude, and Art Gómez $26.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4256-2 · 384 Pages $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4663-8 · 384 Pages New Mexico: A History is a vital source for anyone seeking to understand the complex interactions of the indigenous inhabitants, Spanish settlers, immigrants, and their descendants who have created New Mexico and who shape its future.

Uncovering History Archaeological Investigations at the Little Bighorn

By Douglas D. Scott $32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4350-7 · 264 Pages $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4662-1 · 264 Pages In Uncovering History, renowned archaeologist Douglas D. Scott offers a comprehensive account of investigations at the Little Bighorn, from the earliest collecting efforts to early-twentieth-century findings. Scott expands our understanding of the battle, its protagonists, and the enduring legacy of the battlefield as a national memorial.

Bandido The Life and Times of Tiburcio Vasquez

By John Boessenecker $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4127-5 · 496 Pages $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4681-2 · 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. In this engrossing biography, John Boessenecker provides definitive answers.

Randy Lopez Goes Home A Novel

By Rudolfo Anaya $19.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4189-3 · 168 Pages $14.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4457-3 · 168 Pages When he was a young man, Randy Lopez left his village in northern New Mexico to seek his fortune. Since then, he has learned some of the secrets of success in the Anglo world—and even written a book called Life Among the Gringos. But something has been missing. Now he returns to Agua Bendita to reconnect with his past and to find the wisdom the Anglo world has not provided. In this allegorical account of Randy’s final journey, master storyteller Rudolfo Anaya tackles life’s big questions with a light touch.

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The Old Man’s Love Story

By Rudolfo Anaya $19.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4357-6 · 184 Pages $14.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4648-5 · 184 Pages “There was an old man who dwelt in the land of New Mexico, and he lost his wife.” From that opening line, this tender novella is at once universal and deeply personal. In The Old Man’s Love Story, master storyteller Rudolfo Anaya crafts the tale of a lifelong love that ultimately transcends death.

Pathfinder John Charles Frémont and the Course of American Empire

By Tom Chaffin $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4474-0 · 612 Pages John C. Frémont’s expeditions between 1838 and 1854 captured the public’s imagination, inspired Americans to accept their nation’s destiny as a vast continental empire, and earned him his enduring sobriquet, “The Pathfinder.”

This biography demonstrates Frémont’s vital importance to the history of American empire, and his role in shattering long-held myths about the ecology and habitability of the American West.

A Texas Cowboy’s Journal Up the Trail to Kansas in 1868

By Jack Bailey Edited by David Dary $24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3737-7 · 160 Pages $14.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4647-8 · 160 Pages We travel with Bailey as he encounters Indians, U.S. soldiers, Mexicans, freed slaves, and cowboys working other drives. The journal contains surprises for readers steeped in romantic cowboy lore and cattle drive legend. Bailey’s time on the trail was hardly lonely, and crews included African Americans and, at least on the early drives, women and children.

Alaska A History

By Claus M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick $39.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4040-7 · 520 Pages $24.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4666-9 · 520 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.

Alaska: A History begins by examining the region’s geography and the Native peoples who inhabited it for thousands of years before the first Europeans arrived.

Columns of Vengeance Soldiers, Sioux, and the Punitive Expeditions, 1863–1864

By Paul N. Beck $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4344-6 · 328 Pages $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4596-9 · 328 Pages Drawing on a wealth of firsthand accounts and linking the Punitive Expeditions of 1863 and 1864 to the overall Civil War experience, Columns of Vengeance offers fresh insight into an important chapter in the development of U.S. military operations against the Sioux.

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An Aristocracy of Color Race and Reconstruction in California and the West, 1850–1890

By D. Michael Bottoms $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4335-4 · 288 Pages $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4649-2 · 288 Pages White Californians saw in Reconstruction legislation a threat to the racial hierarchy they had imposed on the state’s legal system during the 1850s.

But nonwhite Californians recognized an opportunity to reshape the state’s race relations. Drawing on court records, political debates, and eyewitness accounts, Bottoms brings to life the monumental battle that followed.

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 · 312 Pages $21.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4464-1 · 312 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.

Civil War Arkansas, 1863 The Battle for a State

By Mark K. Christ $24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4087-2 · 336 Pages $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4433-7 · 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.

Dragoons in Apacheland Conquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 1846–1861

By William S. Kiser $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4314-9 · 368 Pages $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4650-8 · 368 Pages In the fifteen years prior to the American Civil War, the U.S. Army established a presence in the Apache Indian homeland of southern New Mexico. In Dragoons in Apacheland, Kiser recounts the conflicts that ensued and examines how both Apache warriors and American troops shaped the future of the Southwest Borderlands.

Hancock’s War Conflict on the Southern Plains

By William Y. Chalfant $59.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-371-4 · 548 Pages $26.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4459-7 · 548 Pages William Y. Chalfant has devoted years of research to produce a detailed narrative covering the entire scope of Hancock’s “Expedition for the Plains.”

This first thorough scholarly history of the ill-conceived expedition offers an unequivocal evaluation of military strategies and a culturally sensitive interpretation of Indian motivations and reactions.

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Indians and Emigrants Encounters on the Overland Trails

By Michael L. Tate $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3710-0 · 352 Pages $21.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4654-6 · 352 Pages In the first book to focus on relations between Indians and emigrants on the overland trails, Michael L. Tate shows that such encounters were far more often characterized by cooperation than by conflict. Having combed hundreds of unpublished sources and Indian oral traditions, Tate finds Indians and AngloAmericans continuously trading goods and news with each other, and Indians providing various forms of assistance to overlanders.

Jay Cooke’s Gamble The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873

By M. John Lubetkin $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3740-7 · 400 Pages $22.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4468-9 · 400 Pages In 1869, Jay Cooke, the brilliant but idiosyncratic American banker, decided to finance the Northern Pacific, a transcontinental railroad planned from Duluth, Minnesota, to Seattle. M. John Lubetkin tells how Cooke’s gamble reignited war with the Sioux, rescued George Armstrong Custer from obscurity, created Yellowstone Park, pushed frontier settlement four hundred miles westward, and triggered the Panic of 1873.

Race and the University A Memoir

By George Henderson $24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4129-9 · 272 Pages $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4655-3 · 272 Pages In 1967, George Henderson, the son of uneducated Alabama sharecroppers, accepted a full-time professorship at the University of Oklahoma, despite his mentor’s warning to avoid the “redneck school in a backward state.” Capturing what was perhaps the most tumultuous era in the history of American higher education, Race and the University includes valuable recollections of former student activists who helped transform the University of Oklahoma into one of the nation’s most diverse college campuses.

Soldiers West Biographies from the Military Frontier Edited by Paul Andrew Hutton and Durwood Ball $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3997-5 · 416 Pages $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4465-8 · 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.

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 · 408 Pages $21.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4652-2 · 408 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.

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The Essential West Collected Essays

By Elliott West $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4296-8 · 344 Pages $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4653-9 · 344 Pages Scholars and enthusiasts of western American history have praised Elliott West as a distinguished historian and an accomplished writer, and this book proves them right on both counts. Capitalizing on West’s wide array of interests, this collection of his essays touches on topics ranging from viruses and the telegraph to children, bison, and Larry McMurtry.

Last of the Old-Time Outlaws The George West Musgrave Story

By Karen Holliday Tanner and John D. Tanner, Jr. $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3424-6 · 388 Pages $21.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4682-9 · 388 Pages Soft-spoken, cheerful, handsome, and well dressed, George West Musgrave “looked more like a senator than a cattle rustler.” Yet he was a cattle rustler as well as a bandit, robber, and killer, “guilty of more crimes than Billy the Kid was ever accused of.” In Last of the Old-Time Outlaws, Karen Holliday Tanner and John D. Tanner, Jr., recount the colorful life of Musgrave (1877–1947), enduring badman of the American Southwest.

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

By Joan Nabseth Stevenson $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4416-0 · 232 Pages Of the three surgeons who accompanied Custer’s Seventh Cavalry on June 25, 1876, only the youngest, twenty-eightyear-old Henry Porter, survived that day’s ordeal, riding through a gauntlet of Indian attackers and up the steep bluffs to Major Marcus Reno’s hilltop position. But the story of Dr. Porter’s wartime exploits goes far beyond the battle itself. 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.

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 $29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4417-7 · 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.

Stories of Old-Time Oklahoma

By David Dary $16.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4419-1 · 288 Pages 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. He begins with an overview of Oklahoma’s rich and varied history and geography, describing the origins of its trails, rails, and waterways and recounting the many tales of buried treasure that are part of Oklahoma lore.

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Devil’s Gate Owning the Land, Owning the Story

By Tom Rea $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4368-2 · 320 Pages Tom Rea’s eloquent and captivating narrative traces the history of the Sweetwater River valley in central Wyoming—a remote place including Devil’s Gate, Independence Rock, and other sites along a stretch of the Oregon Trail—to show how legal ownership of a place can translate into owning its story.

Indian Tribes of Oklahoma A Guide

By Blue Clark $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4061-2 · 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.

Buffalo Inc. American Indians and Economic Development

By Sebastian Felix Braun $26.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4372-9 · 288 Pages $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4372-9 · 288 Pages Some American Indian tribes on the Great Plains have turned to bison ranching as a culturally and ecologically sustainable economic development program. This book focuses on one enterprise on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation to determine whether such projects have fulfilled expectations and how they fit with traditional and contemporary Lakota values.

George Crook From the Redwoods to Appomattox

By Paul Magid $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4207-4 · 408 Pages $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4441-2 · 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. Paul Magid’s detailed and engaging narrative focuses on Crook’s early years through the end of the Civil War.

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