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UNDER THE EAGLE SANDALWOOD DEATH

Samuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker

By Mo Yan

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Latino Literacy Now The Life of an American Artist

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On the cover: Canon of the Rio Las Animas, Colorado. Photograph by William Henry Jackson. Courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.

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Moroni and the Swastika Mormons in Nazi Germany By David Conley Nelson While Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist government was persecuting Jews and Jehovah’s Witnesses and driving forty-two small German religious sects underground, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continued to practice unhindered. How some fourteen thousand Mormons not only survived but thrived in Nazi Germany is a story little known, rarely told, and occasionally rewritten within the confines of the Church’s history—for good reason, as we see in David Conley Nelson’s Moroni and the Swastika. A page-turning historical narrative, this book is the first full account of how Mormons avoided Nazi persecution through skilled collaboration with Hitler’s regime, and then eschewed postwar shame by constructing an alternative history of wartime suffering and resistance. The Twelfth Article of Faith and parts of the 134th Section of the Doctrine and Covenants function as Mormonism’s equivalent of the biblical admonition to “render unto Caesar,” a charge to cooperate with civil government, no matter how onerous doing so may be. Resurrecting this often-violated doctrinal edict, ecclesiastical leaders at the time developed a strategy that protected Mormons within Nazi Germany. Furthermore, as Nelson shows, many Mormon officials strove to fit into the Third Reich by exploiting commonalities with the Nazi state. German Mormons emphasized a mutual interest in genealogy and a passion for sports. They sent husbands into the Wehrmacht and sons into the Hitler Youth, and they prayed for a German victory when the war began. They also purged Jewish references from hymnals, lesson plans, and liturgical practices. One American mission president even wrote an article for the official Nazi Party newspaper, extolling parallels between Utah Mormon and German Nazi society. Nelson documents this collaboration, as well as subsequent efforts to suppress it by fashioning a new collective memory of ordinary German Mormons’ courage and travails during the war. Recovering this inconvenient past, Moroni and the Swastika restores a complex and difficult chapter to the history of Nazi Germany and the Mormon Church in the twentieth century—and offers new insight into the construction of historical truth. David Conley Nelson holds a Ph.D. in history from Texas A&M University. He served six years as an officer in the United States Marine Corps and is now an independent researcher and commercial airline captain.

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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 GATHERING IN HARMONY By Stephen L. Prince $24.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-327-1

NELSON MORONI AND THE SWASTIKA

Restores a complex and difficult chapter to the history of the Mormon Church

COLOR A DO A H I S T O R I C A L AT L A S By Thomas J. Noel Cartography by Carol Zuber-Mallison

his is a thoroughly revised edition of the Historical Atlas of Colorado, which was coauthored by Tom Noel and published in 1994. Chock-full of the best and latest information on Colorado, this new edition features thirty new chapters, updated text, more than 100 color maps and 100 color photos, and a best-of listing of Colorado authors and books, as well as a guide to hundreds of tourist attractions. Colorado received its name (Spanish for “red”) after much debate and many possibilities, including Idaho (an “Indian” name meaning “gem of the mountains” later discovered to be a fabrication) and Yampa (Ute for “bear”). Noel includes other little-known but significant facts about the state, from its status as first state in the Union to elect women to its legislature, to its controversial “highest state” designation, elevated by the 2013 legalization of recreational cannabis.

Noel and cartographer Carol Zuber-Mallison map and describe Colorado’s spectacular geography and its fascinating past. The book’s eight parts survey natural Colorado, from rivers and mountains to dinosaurs and mammals; history, from prehistoric peoples to twenty-first-century Color-oddities; mining and manufacturing, from the gold rush to alternative energy sources; agriculture, including wineries and brewpubs; transportation, from stagecoach lines to light rail; modern Colorado, from the New Deal to the present (including politics, history, and information on lynchings, executions, and prisons); recreation, covering not only hiking and skiing but also literary locales and Colorado in the movies; and tourism, encompassing historic landmarks, museums, and even cemeteries. In short, this book has information—and surprises—that anyone interested in Colorado will relish.

Thomas J. Noel is Professor of History and Director of Public History, Preservation, and Colorado Studies at University of Colorado Denver. He appears regularly on Denver’s Channel 9 (NBC) as “Dr. Colorado,” writes a Sunday Denver Post column, and is the author or coauthor of more than 42 books, including Colorado: A History of the Centennial State (coauthored with Carl Abbott and Steve Leonard) and Colorado: A Liquid History and Tavern Guide to the Highest State. Carol Zuber-Mallison is an award-winning freelance artist specializing in maps and informational graphics. For 14 years she was an editor and artist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Dallas Morning News. She also created maps and graphics for the Texas Almanac and Texas: A Historical Atlas. Of Related Interest COLORADO GHOST TOWNS AND MINING CAMPS By Sandra Dallas $26.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2084-3

FOLLOWING ISABELLA Travels in Colorado Then and Now By Robert Root $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4018-6

MINING THE SUMMIT Colorado’s Ten Mile District, 1860–1960 By H. Stanley Dempsey $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4541-9

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FERGUSON THE LAST CAVALRYMAN

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Fills out an important chapter in American military history

The Last Cavalryman The Life of General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr. By Harvey Ferguson “Truscott was one of the really tough generals,” soldier-cartoonist Bill Mauldin of the 45th Infantry Division once wrote. “He could have eaten a ham like Patton for breakfast any morning and picked his teeth with the man’s pearl-handled pistols.” Not one merely to act the part of commander, Mauldin remembered, “Truscott spent half his time at the front—the real front—with nobody in attendance but a nervous Jeep driver and a worried aide.”

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MARCH $29.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4664-5 448 PAGES, 6 × 9 23 B&W ILLUS., 10 MAPS BIOGRAPHY/MILITARY HISTORY

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CARRYING THE WAR TO THE ENEMY American Operational Art to 1945 By Michael R. Matheny $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4324-8 VICTORY AT PELELIU The 81st Infantry Division’s Pacific Campaign By Bobby C. Blair and John Peter DeCioccio $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4154-1 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4680-5 WILLIAM HARDING CARTER AND THE AMERICAN ARMY A Soldier’s Story By Ronald G. Machoian $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3746-9

In this biography of Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., author Harvey Ferguson tells the story of how Truscott—despite his hardscrabble beginnings, patchy education, and questionable luck—not only made the rank of army lieutenant general, earning a reputation as one of World War II’s most effective officers along the way, but was also given an honorary promotion to four-star general seven years after his retirement. For all his accomplishments and celebrated heroic action, Truscott was not one for self-aggrandizement, which may explain in part why historians have neglected him until now. The Last Cavalryman, drawing on personal papers only recently made available, gives the first full picture of this singular man’s extraordinary life and career. Ferguson describes Truscott’s near-accidental entry into the U.S. Cavalry (propelled by Pancho Villa’s 1916 raids) and his somewhat halting rise through the ranks—aided by fellow cavalryman George S. Patton, Jr., who steered him into the nascent armored force at the right time. The author takes us through Truscott’s service in the Second World War, from creating the U.S. Army Rangers to engineering the breakout from Anzio and leading the “masterpiece” invasion of southern France. Ferguson finishes his narrative by detailing the general’s postwar work with the CIA, where he acted as President Dwight Eisenhower’s eyes and ears within the agency. A compelling story in itself, this biography of Lucian K. Truscott, Jr.—a cavalryman to the last—fills out an important chapter in American military history. Harvey Ferguson is retired as Assistant Chief of the Seattle Police Department and a former Instructor of Criminal Justice at Shoreline Community College in Shoreline, Washington.

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Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend By Ron J. Jackson, Jr., and Lee Spencer White Foreword by Phil Collins If we do in fact “remember the Alamo,” it is largely thanks to one person who witnessed the final assault and survived: the commanding officer’s slave, a young man known simply as Joe. What Joe saw as the Alamo fell, recounted days later to the Texas Cabinet, has come down to us in records and newspaper reports. But who Joe was, where he came from, and what happened to him have all remained mysterious until now. In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, authors Ron J. Jackson, Jr., and Lee Spencer White have fully restored this pivotal yet elusive figure to his place in the American story. The twenty-year-old Joe stood with his master, Lt. Colonel Travis, against the Mexican army in the early hours of March 6, 1836. After Travis fell, Joe watched the battle’s last moments from a hiding place. He was later taken first to Bexar and questioned by Santa Anna about the Texan army, and then to the revolutionary capitol, where he gave his testimony with evident candor. With these few facts in hand, Jackson and White searched through plantation ledgers, journals, memoirs, slave narratives, ship logs, newspapers, letters, and court documents. Their decades-long effort has revealed the outline of Joe’s biography, alongside some startling facts: most notably, that Joe was the younger brother of the famous escaped slave and abolitionist narrator William Wells Brown, as well as the grandson of legendary trailblazer Daniel Boone. Their book traces Joe’s story from his birth in Kentucky through his life in slavery—which, in a grotesque irony, resumed after he took part in the Texans’ battle for independence—to his eventual escape and disappearance into the shadows of history. Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend recovers a true American character from obscurity and expands our view of events central to the emergence of Texas. Ron J. Jackson, Jr., is a professional journalist and author of Alamo Legacy: Alamo Descendants Remember the Alamo and Blood Prairie: Perilous Adventures on the Oklahoma Frontier. Lee Spencer White is an independent researcher, preservationist, and consultant for the History Channel, Dearg Films, and the BBC. Phil Collins is a singer-songwriter, an Alamo history aficionado, and the author of The Alamo and Beyond: A Collector’s Journey.

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THE CONQUEST OF TEXAS Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820–1875 By Gary Clayton Anderson $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3698-1 BLACK TEXANS A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528–1995 By Alwyn Barr $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2878-8 SAM HOUSTON By James L. Haley $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3644-8

JACKSON, WHITE JOE, THE SLAVE WHO BECAME AN ALAMO LEGEND

Recovers from obscurity a true American character

CHILES CALIFORNIA’S CHANNEL ISLANDS

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An engaging introduction to the natural and human landscape of a unique corner of the world

California’s Channel Islands A History By Frederic Caire Chiles Prehistoric foragers, conquistadors, missionaries, adventurers, hunters, and rugged agriculturalists parade across the histories of these little-known islands on the horizon of twenty-first century Southern California. This chain of eight islands is home to a biodiversity unrivaled anywhere on Earth. In addition, the Channel Islands reveal the complex geology and the natural and human history of this part of the world, from the first human probing of the continent we now call North America to modern-day ranchers, vineyardists, yachtsmen, and backpackers.

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Not far below the largely undisturbed surface of these islands are the traces of a California that flourished before historical time, vestiges of a complex forager culture originating with the first humans to cross the Bering Land Bridge and spread down the Pacific coast. This culture came to an end a mere 450 years ago with the arrival of Spanish conquistadors and missionaries, whose practices effectively depopulated the archipelago. The largely empty islands in turn attracted AngloAmerican agriculturalists, including Frederic Caire Chiles’s own ancestors, who battled the elements to build empires based on cattle, sheep, wine, and wool. Today adventure tourism is the heart of the islands’ economy, with the late-twentiethcentury formation of Channel Islands National Park, which opened five of the islands to the general public. For visitors and armchair travelers alike, this book weaves the strands of natural history, island ecology, and human endeavor to tell the Channel Islands’ full story.

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 SANTA CRUZ ISLAND A History of Conflict and Diversity By John Gherini, Doyce B. Nunis, and Marla Daily $39.50s Cloth 978-0-87062-264-9 CALIFORNIA THROUGH RUSSIAN EYES, 1806–1848 Translated and edited by James R. Gibson $45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-421-6

Frederic Caire Chiles is the author of Justinian Caire and Santa Cruz Island: The Rise and Fall of a California Dynasty. He holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of California–Santa Barbara and divides his time between London, Italy, and California.

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Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory By Catherine Holder Spude Prostitution, gambling, and saloons were a vital, if not universally welcome, part of life in frontier boomtowns. In Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory, Catherine Holder Spude explores the rise and fall of these enterprises in Skagway, Alaska, between the gold rush of 1897 and the enactment of Prohibition in 1918. Her gritty account offers a case study in the clash between working-class men and middle-class women, and in the growth of women’s political and economic power in the West. Where most books about vice in the West depict a rambunctious sin-scape, this one addresses money and politics. Focusing on the ambitions and resources of individual prostitutes and madams, landlords and saloon owners, lawmen, politicians, and reformers, Spude brings issues of gender and class to life in a place and time when vice equaled money and money controlled politics. Women of all classes learned how to manipulate both money and politics, ultimately deciding how to practice and regulate individual freedoms. As Progressive reforms swept America in the early twentieth century, middle-class women in Skagway won power, Spude shows, at the expense of the values and vices of the working-class men who had dominated the population in the town’s earliest days. Reform began when a citizens’ committee purged Skagway of card sharks and con men in 1898, and culminated when middle-class businessmen sided with their wives—giving them the power to vote—and in the process banned gambling, prostitution, and saloons. Today, a century after the era Spude describes, Skagway’s tourist industry perpetuates the stereotypes of good times in saloons and bordellos. This book instead takes readers inside Skagway’s real dens of iniquity, before and after their demise, and depicts frontier Skagway and its people as they really were. It will open the eyes of historians and tourists alike. Catherine Holder Spude is author of “That Fiend in Hell”: Soapy Smith in Legend and Sin and Grace: A Historical Novel of the Skagway, Alaska, Sporting Wars, as well as coeditor of Eldorado! The Archaeology of Gold Mining in the Far North.

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“THAT FIEND IN HELL” Soapy Smith in Legend By Catherine Holder Spude $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4280-7 ALASKA A History By Claus M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick $39.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4040-7 $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4666-9 A RUSSIAN AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER IN TLINGIT COUNTRY Vincent Soboleff in Alaska By Sergei Kan $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4290-6

SPUDE SALOONS, PROSTITUTES, AND TEMPERANCE IN ALASKA TERRITORY

Working-class vice and middle-class reform on North America’s Last Frontier

CONLEY WIL USDI

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A once-influential man recalls his life with a deep sense of Cherokee history

Wil Usdi Thoughts from the Asylum, a Cherokee Novella By Robert J. Conley Foreword by Luther Wilson Adopted into the Cherokee tribe as a teenager, William Holland Thomas (1805–1893), known to the Cherokees as Wil Usdi (Little Will), went on to have a distinguished career as lawyer, politician, and soldier. He spent the last decades of his life in a mental hospital, where the pioneering ethnographer James Mooney interviewed him extensively about Cherokee lifeways. The true story of Wil Usdi’s life forms the basis for this historical novella, the final published work of fiction by the late award-winning Cherokee author Robert J. Conley.

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MOUNTAIN WINDSONG A Novel of the Trail of Tears By Robert J. Conley $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2746-0 THE PEACE CHIEF A Novel By Robert J. Conley $5.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3368-3 CHEROKEE DRAGON A Novel By Robert J. Conley $5.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3370-6

Conley tells Wil’s story through the recollection of the old man’s memories. Wil learns the Cherokee language while working at a trading post. The chief Yonaguska adopts the fatherless Wil, seeing to it that the boy dresses like a Cherokee and, for all practical purposes, becomes one. Later, representing the Eastern Band of the Cherokees in their negotiations with the federal government, Wil helps them remain in their ancestral lands in North Carolina when most other Cherokees are sent off on the Trail of Tears to the Indian Territory. Thus, Wil becomes popularly known as the white chief of the tribe. He continues making money as a merchant and in 1848 is elected to the North Carolina state senate, where he assists in the creation of a railroad system to serve the copper mines in neighboring Tennessee. During the Civil War, he leads a Cherokee battalion in the Confederate Army and tries to persuade his cousin Jefferson Davis to expand the battalion of fierce warriors into a regiment. His achievements make his admission into an insane asylum all the more tragic. The Wil Usdi of Conley’s story is in increasingly bad health, mistreated in a mental institution that to twenty-first-century readers is little more than a jail. He dreams of women and warfare and boyhood games of stickball. Yet even in his demented state, Wil is proud of his accomplishments and never loses his conviction that Indians are “more human than whites.” Weaving together the disconnected stories of Wil Usdi’s life, Conley’s blend of thorough research and imaginative prose gives readers a deep sense of post-removal Cherokee history. Venerated Cherokee writer Robert J. Conley (1940–2014) is the author of Cherokee Thoughts: Honest and Uncensored, as well as numerous novels, including The Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories and Mountain Windsong: A Novel of the Trail of Tears. Luther Wilson is retired as Director of the University of New Mexico Press.

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Surviving Desires Making and Selling Native Jewellery in the American Southwest By Henrietta Lidchi In its classic union of gleaming silver and blue turquoise, Native American jewellery of the Southwest is an iconic art form. Internationally recognized and locally significant, Native American jewellery has a compelling history—it represents the persistence of tradition while encapsulating the vitality of Native American communities and the continuously transforming nature of the jewellery makers’ art. Author Henrietta Lidchi focuses on jewellery in the cultural economy of the Southwest, exploring jewellery making as a decorative art form in constant transition. She describes the jewellery as subject to a number of desires, controlled at different times by government agencies, individual entrepreneurs, traders, curators, and Native American communities. Lidchi explores the jewellery as craft, material culture, commodity, and adornment. Considering the impact of tourism, she discusses fakes in the market and the artists’ desires to codify traditional styles, explaining how that can affect stylistic development and value. Surviving Desires suggests the complexity and reinvention innate to Native American jewellery as a commercial craft. Drawing on the author’s archival research and on interviews she conducted with Native American jewellers and with traders, dealers, and curators, this volume examines British collecting, exchanges between British and American institutions, and the development of the British Museum’s contemporary collection. Lavishly illustrated with 300 color photographs of jewellery in the British Museum, the National Museums Scotland, and major collections in the United States, Surviving Desires presents many previously unpublished pieces and showcases works by Native American jewellers who include the best-known names in the field today. The volume is a visually stunning exploration of the symbolic, economic, and communal value of jewellery in the American Southwest. Henrietta Lidchi, an anthropologist and curator, is currently Keeper of the Department of World Cultures at National Museums Scotland. She is coeditor of Imaging the Arctic (1998) and Visual Currencies (2009).

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THE JAMES T. BIALAC NATIVE AMERICAN ART COLLECTION Selected Works By Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art $49.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4299-9 $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4304-0 GENERATIONS The Helen Cox Kersting Collection of Southwestern Cultural Arts By James H. Nottage $75.00 Cloth 978-0-9798495-1-0 PLAINS INDIAN ART The Pioneering Work of John C. Ewers Edited by Jane Ewers Robinson $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3061-3

LIDCHI SURVIVING DESIRES

A lavishly illustrated showcase of American Indian jewellery making in the Southwest

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Invasion of Laos, 1971

The Story of Champion Bronc Rider Bill Smith By Margot Kahn

Lam Son 719 By Robert D. Sander

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Lewis and Clark Among the Nez Perce

LEWIS AND CLARK AMONG THE NEZ PERCE

HORSES THAT BUCK

Strangers in the Land of the Nimiipuu By Allen V. Pinkham and Steven R. Evans Foreword by Frederick E. Hoxie “More than two centuries after Lewis and Clark . . . we at last have a full account of that encounter from an Indian perspective.”—Elliott West This breakthrough in Lewis and Clark studies explores the relationship between Jefferson’s Corps of Discovery and a single tribe, finding insights about what the explorers understood and misunderstood about Nez Perce lifeways. Including Nez Perce oral tradition, the authors reevaluate the Lewis and Clark expedition west of the Bitterroot Mountains. Allen V. Pinkham, a storytelling elder, served on the Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee and the National Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Council. Researcher Steven R. Evans taught history at LewisClark State College, Lewiston, Idaho. FEBRUARY $29.95 CLOTH 978-0-9834059-8-6 $19.95 PAPER 978-0-9834059-9-3 332 PAGES, 6 × 9 52 B&W ILLUS., 5 MAPS U.S. HISTORY/AMERICAN INDIAN

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.” This biography puts readers in the saddle to experience the life of a champion rider in his quest for the gold buckle. Inducted into the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame and the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s Rodeo Hall of Fame, Bill Smith was a legend in his own time. His story is a genuine slice of rodeo life, and this book will delight rodeo and cowboy enthusiasts alike. Writer Margot Kahn spent seven years attending rodeos and interviewing and riding with Bill and Carole Smith at their ranch near Thermopolis, Wyoming. She now lives and writes in Seattle. MAY $24.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-3912-8 $19.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-4847-2 208 PAGES, 5.5 × 8.5 25 B&W ILLUS. BIOGRAPHY VOLUME 5 IN THE WESTERN LEGACIES SERIES

In 1971, a South Vietnamese Army corps, with U.S. air support, launched the largest airmobile operation in the history of warfare, Lam Son 719. The objective: to sever the North Vietnamese Army’s Ho Chi Minh Trail. The outcome: defeat of the South Vietnamese Army and heavy losses of U.S. helicopters and aircrews, but a preemptive strike that met President Richard Nixon’s political objectives. Robert Sander, a helicopter pilot in Lam Son 719, explores why an operation of such importance failed. A powerful work of military and political history, this book offers eloquent testimony that “failure, like success, cannot be measured in absolute terms.” Robert D. Sander served twenty-five years in the U.S. Army and retired as a colonel in 1993. APRIL $29.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4437-5 $19.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-4840-3 308 PAGES, 6 × 9 14 B&W ILLUS., 6 MAPS MILITARY HISTORY/U.S. HISTORY

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A Strange Mixture The Art and Politics of Painting Pueblo Indians By Sascha T. Scott Attracted to the rich ceremonial life and unique architecture of the New Mexico pueblos, many early-twentieth-century artists depicted Pueblo peoples, places, and culture in paintings. These artists’ encounters with Pueblo Indians fostered their awareness of Native political struggles and led them to join with Pueblo communities to champion Indian rights. In this book, art historian Sascha T. Scott examines the ways in which non-Pueblo and Pueblo artists advocated for American Indian cultures by confronting some of the cultural, legal, and political issues of the day. Scott closely examines the work of five diverse artists, exploring how their art was shaped by and helped to shape Indian politics. She places the art within the context of the interwar period, 1915–30, a time when federal Indian policy shifted away from forced assimilation and toward preservation of Native cultures. Through careful analysis of paintings by Ernest L. Blumenschein, John Sloan, Marsden Hartley, and Awa Tsireh (Alfonso Roybal), Scott shows how their depictions of thriving Pueblo life and rituals promoted cultural preservation and challenged the pervasive romanticizing theme of the “vanishing Indian.” Georgia O’Keeffe’s images of Pueblo dances, which connect abstraction with lived experience, testify to the legacy of these political and aesthetic transformations.

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Scott makes use of anthropology, history, and indigenous studies in her art historical narrative. She is one of the first scholars to address varied responses to issues of cultural preservation by aesthetically and culturally diverse artists, including Pueblo painters. Beautifully designed, this book features nearly sixty artworks reproduced in full color. Sascha T. Scott is Assistant Professor of American Art and a member of the Native American Studies faculty at Syracuse University. The author of articles on Southwestern art, she has received a Clements Research Fellowship from the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University.

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SCOTT A STRANGE MIXTURE

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AU T O M O B I LE P IONEERS ,1900â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1909 Edited by Peter J. Blodgett

Top: Snowy range from Bald Mountain, Colo. (ca. 1900). Photograph by William Henry Jackson. Bottom: advertisement design study for Pierce Arrow automobiles (ca. 1915). By Edward Penfield. Both images courtesy Libary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.

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In the first years of the twentieth century, motoring across the vast expanses west of the Mississippi was at the very least an adventure and at most an audacious stunt. As more motorists ventured forth, such travel became a curiosity and, within a few decades, commonplace. For aspiring western travelers, automobiles formed an integral part of their search for new experiences and destinations—and like explorers and thrill seekers from earlier ages, these adventurers kept records of their experiences. The scores of articles, pamphlets, and books they published, collected for the first time in Motoring West, create a vibrant picture of the American West in the age of automotive ascendancy, as viewed from behind the wheel. Documenting the very beginning of Americans’ love affair with the automobile, the pieces in this volume—the first of a planned multivolume series—offer a panorama of motoring travelers’ visions of the burgeoning West in the first decade of the twentieth century. Historian Peter J. Blodgett’s sources range from forgotten archives to company brochures to magazines such as Harper’s Monthly, Sunset, and Outing. Under headlines touting adventures in “touring,” “land cruising,” and “camping out with an automobile,” voices from motoring’s early days instruct, inform, and entertain. They chart routes through “wild landscapes,” explain the finer points of driving coast to coast in a Franklin, and occasionally prescribe “touring outfits.” Blodgett’s engaging introductions to the volume and each piece couch the writers’ commentaries within their time. As reports of the region’s challenges and pleasures stirred interest and spurred travel, the burgeoning flow of traffic would eventually and forever alter the western landscape and the westering motorist’s experience. The dispatches in Motoring West illustrate not only how the automobile opened the American West before 1909 to more and more travelers, but also how the West began to change with their arrival. Peter J. Blodgett is the H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts at the Huntington Library and author of Land of Golden Dreams: California in the Gold Rush Decade, 1848–1858.

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HOCHSCHILD, EINSTEIN DO FACTS MATTER?

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What citizens know, don’t know, and only think they know, and what political difference it makes

Do Facts Matter? Information and Misinformation in American Politics By Jennifer Hochschild and Katherine Levine Einstein A democracy falters when most of its citizens are uninformed or misinformed, when misinformation affects political decisions and actions, or when political actors foment misinformation—the state of affairs the United States faces today, as this timely book makes painfully clear. In Do Facts Matter? Jennifer L. Hochschild and Katherine Levine Einstein start with Thomas Jefferson’s ideal citizen, who knows and uses correct information to make policy or political choices. What, then, the authors ask, are the consequences if citizens are informed but do not act on their knowledge? More serious, what if they do act, but on incorrect information?

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Analyzing the use, nonuse, and misuse of facts in various cases—such as the call to impeach Bill Clinton, the response to global warming, Clarence Thomas’s appointment to the Supreme Court, the case for invading Iraq, beliefs about Barack Obama’s birthplace and religion, and the Affordable Care Act—Hochschild and Einstein argue persuasively that errors of commission (that is, acting on falsehoods) are even more troublesome than errors of omission. While citizens’ inability or unwillingness to use the facts they know in their political decision making may be frustrating, their acquisition and use of incorrect “knowledge” pose a far greater threat to a democratic political system. Do Facts Matter? looks beyond individual citizens to the role that political elites play in informing, misinforming, and encouraging or discouraging the use of accurate or mistaken information or beliefs. Hochschild and Einstein show that if a well-informed electorate remains a crucial component of a successful democracy, the deliberate concealment of political facts poses its greatest threat. Jennifer L. Hochschild is Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. The author, coauthor, or editor of numerous articles, chapters, and books, her most recent publications include Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America and Bringing Outsiders In: Transatlantic Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation. Katherine Levine Einstein is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston University. Her current research focuses on racial inequality, political segregation, and the splintering of U.S. metropolitan areas.

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HERTZKE, HARPER RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN AMERICA

An interdisciplinary collection of essays on an essential American liberty

Religious Freedom in America Constitutional Roots and Contemporary Challenges Edited by Allen D. Hertzke Preface by Kyle Harper “This fine collection of essays could not be timelier. Bringing historical, juridical, and social science perspectives to bear on contemporary challenges, the authors and editors point the way to a society in which diverse religions may not only peacefully coexist but flourish, and where no one is forced to choose between religious obligations and civic duties.”—MARY ANN GLENDON, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University Religious freedom, anchored in conscience rights, is foundational to the U.S. democratic experiment. The question of what freedom of conscience means—what its scope and limits are, according to the Constitution—sparks often-heated debate. At a moment when such questions loom ever larger in the nation’s contentious politics, this timely book offers invaluable historical, empirical, philosophical, and analytical insight into the American constitutional heritage of religious liberty. As the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume attest, understanding religious freedom demands taking multiple perspectives. The historians guide us through the legacy of religious freedom, from the nation’s founding and the rise of public education, through the waves of immigration that added successive layers of diversity to American society. The social scientists discuss the swift, striking effects of judicial decision making and the battles over free exercise in a complex, bureaucratic society. Advocates remind us of the tensions abiding in schools and other familiar institutions, and of the role minorities play in shaping free exercise under our constitutional regime. And the jurists emphasize that this is a messy area of constitutional law. What emerges most clearly from these essays is that, under increasing pressure from both religious and secular forces, this First Amendment freedom demands our full attention and understanding. Allen D. Hertzke is David Ross Boyd Professor of Political Science, and Faculty Fellow in Religious Freedom with the Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage, at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Freeing God’s Children: The Unlikely Alliance for Global Human Rights and editor of The Future of Religious Freedom: Global Challenges. Kyle Harper is Interim Senior Vice President and Provost and founding director of the Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage at the University of Oklahoma. He is author of Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275–425 and From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality.

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A new and unique perspective on California during a transformative period

The Army Surveys of Gold Rush California Reports of Topographical Engineers, 1849–1851 Edited by Gary Clayton Anderson and Laura Lee Anderson As the army’s topographical engineer in California from 1849 to 1851, George Horatio Derby wrote detailed reports on the region, its people, its resources, and its geography—providing critical information for an understaffed military charged with bringing order to a vast new empire along the Pacific Slope. Early maps and reports by pioneers, trappers, and newspapermen, even by such professionals as John C. Frémont and William Emory, were limited in scope and often unreliable. In contrast, those authored by Derby and the army’s other trained topographical engineers were remarkably accurate, extensive, and richly descriptive. Long buried in the files of the National Archives, they have also remained largely unknown, even to historians. MARCH $34.95s CLOTH 978-0-87062-430-8 256 PAGES, 6.125 × 9.25 14 MAPS U.S. HISTORY

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GOLD RUSH SAINTS California Mormons and the Great Rush for Riches By Kenneth N. Owens $39.50s Cloth 978-0-87062-336-3 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3681-3 ARMY OF ISRAEL Mormon Battalion Narratives By Will Bagley and David L. Bigler $39.50s Cloth 978-0-87062-297-7 CALIFORNIA ODYSSEY An Overland Journey on the Southern Trails, 1849 By William R. Goulding Edited by Patricia A. Etter $45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-373-8

Collected and reproduced here for the first time, these journals and maps offer a new and unique perspective on California in the mid-nineteenth century. Derby’s reports and journals appear alongside those of Robert Stockton Williamson, William H. Warner, Edward O. C. Ord, Nathaniel Lyon, Henry Walton Wessells, and Erasmus Darwin Keyes. These documents offer extraordinary firsthand views of the environment, natural resources, geography, and early settlement, as well as the effects of disease on Native and white populations. The writers’ detailed, often witty insights offer new understandings of life in California during an era of momentous change. Historian Gary Clayton Anderson and anthropologist Laura Lee Anderson provide historical, geographic, and biographical context in the book’s introduction and in headnotes and annotations for each journal. With these editorial enhancements, the documents reveal as much of the character of their authors and their time as of the land and peoples they so carefully describe. Gary Clayton Anderson, George Lynn Cross Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma, is the author of The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820–1875 and Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian: The Crime That Should Haunt America. Laura Lee Anderson is the editor of Being Dakota: Tales and Traditions of the Sisseton and Wahpeton.

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Before Custer Surveying the Yellowstone, 1872 Edited by M. John Lubetkin Hoping to complete its transcontinental route, the Northern Pacific Railroad set out in 1872 to survey the Yellowstone Valley. An emissary from the Lakota chief Sitting Bull had warned the two surveying expeditions (eastern and western) not to enter the valley. But no one—certainly no Northern Pacific investor—was worried about taking the Indian threat seriously. As it turned out, the Indians were deadly serious—and successful. The firsthand accounts compiled here by M. John Lubetkin document the survey’s three-month struggle with the Lakotas and other Plains Indian people. Before Custer: Surveying the Yellowstone, 1872 tells the story of a military and public relations disaster. Much to the surprised dismay of U.S. Army strategists and railroad executives, the Indians repeatedly harrassed army forces of nearly a thousand men. One surveying party turned back, without meeting its objectives, after a determined attack led by Sitting Bull. The other also retreated, and one ambush it encountered resulted in the death of a member of President Ulysses S. Grant’s family and the narrow escape of the railroad’s lead engineer. The previously unpublished documents that Lubetkin has collected and annotated also tell a parallel story: that of the dire consequences of the railroad’s problems for the country. When the Northern Pacific’s expansion plans were thwarted, the nation’s largest private banking house failed, leading to the Panic of 1873. The fighting brought Sitting Bull to national attention and led directly to George Armstrong Custer’s transfer to the Department of Dakota. The vivid eyewitness accounts artfully assembled here reveal the failures of alcoholic army commanders and show personal encounters between soldiers and Indians, among them the formidable Lakota warrior known as Gall. Before Custer tells of a little-known but crucial episode in the history of westward expansion and Native peoples’ efforts to halt that expansion. M. John Lubetkin is a retired cable television executive and the author of Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey, the novel Custer’s Gold, and Jay Cooke’s Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873, winner of the Little Big Horn Associates’ John M. Carroll Award (Book of the Year) and a Spur Award for Best Historical Nonfiction from the Western Writers of America.

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MAGID THE GRAY FOX

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The controversial general tests his military mettle against peoples of the Southwest and northern plains

The Gray Fox George Crook and the Indian Wars By Paul Magid George Crook was one of the most prominent military figures of the latenineteenth-century Indian Wars. Yet today his name is largely unrecognized despite the important role he played in such pivotal events in western history as the Custer fight at the Little Big Horn, the death of Crazy Horse, and the Geronimo campaigns. As Paul Magid portrays Crook in this highly readable second volume of a projected three-volume biography, the general was an innovative and eccentric soldier, with a complex and often contradictory personality, whose activities often generated intense controversy. Though known for his uncompromising ferocity in battle, he nevertheless respected his enemy and grew to know and respect them.

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Describing campaigns against the Paiutes, Apaches, Sioux, and Cheyennes, Magid’s vivid narrative explores Crook’s abilities as an Indian fighter. The Apaches, among the fiercest peoples in the West, called Crook the Gray Fox after an animal viewed in their culture as a herald of impending death. Generals Grant and Sherman both regarded him as indispensable to their efforts to subjugate the western tribes. Though noted for his aggressiveness in combat, Crook was a reticent officer who rarely raised his voice, habitually dressed in shabby civilian attire, and often rode a mule in the field. He was also self-confident to the point of arrogance, harbored fierce grudges, and because he marched to his own beat, got along poorly with his superiors. He had many enduring friendships both in- and outside the army, though he divulged little of his inner self to others and some of his closest comrades knew he could be cold and insensitive. As Magid relates these crucial episodes of Crook’s life, a dominant contradiction emerges: while he was an unforgiving warrior in the field, he not infrequently risked his career to do battle with his military superiors and with politicians in Washington to obtain fair treatment for the very people against whom he fought. Upon hearing of the general’s death in 1890, Chief Red Cloud spoke for his Sioux people: “He, at least, never lied to us. His words gave the people hope.” Paul Magid, a retired attorney who worked with the Peace Corps, then served as General Counsel of the African Development Foundation, is the author of George Crook: From the Redwoods to Appomattox.

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The Battle of Lake Champlain A “Brilliant and Extraordinary Victory” By John H. Schroeder On September 11, 1814, an American naval squadron under Master Commandant Thomas Macdonough defeated a formidable British force on Lake Champlain under the command of Captain George Downie, effectively ending the British invasion of the Champlain Valley during the War of 1812. This decisive battle had far-reaching repercussions in Canada, the United States, England, and Ghent, Belgium, where peace talks were under way. Examining the naval and land campaign in strategic, political, and military terms, from planning to execution to outcome, The Battle of Lake Champlain offers the most thorough account written of this pivotal moment in American history. For decades the Champlain corridor—a direct and accessible invasion route between Lower Canada and the northern United States—had been hotly contested in wars for control of the region. In exploring the crucial issue of why it took two years for the United States and Britain to confront each other on Lake Champlain, historian John H. Schroeder recounts the war’s early years, the failed U.S. invasions of Canada in 1812 and 1813, and the ensuing naval race for control of the lake in 1814. To explain how the Americans achieved their unexpected victory, Schroeder weighs the effects on both sides of preparations and planning, personal valor and cowardice, command decisions both brilliant and ill-conceived, and sheer luck both good and bad. Previous histories have claimed that the War of 1812 ended with Andrew Jackson’s victory at the Battle of New Orleans. Schroeder demonstrates that the United States really won the war four months before—at Plattsburgh on Lake Champlain. Through a comprehensive analysis of politics and diplomacy, Schroeder shows that the victory at Lake Champlain prompted the British to moderate their demands at Ghent, bringing the war directly and swiftly to an end before Jackson’s spectacular victory in January 1815. John H. Schroeder is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin– Milwaukee. He is the author of Commodore John Rodgers: Paragon of the Early American Navy and Matthew Calbraith Perry: Antebellum Sailor and Diplomat.

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MILLS COLD WAR IN A COLD LAND

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A nuanced account of how middle America experienced Cold War politics and policies

Cold War in a Cold Land Fighting Communism on the Northern Plains By David W. Mills Most communists, as any plains state patriot would have told you in the 1950s, lived in Los Angeles or New York City, not Minot, North Dakota. The Cold War as it played out across the Great Plains was not the Cold War of the American cities and coasts. Nor was it tempered much by midwestern isolationism, as common wisdom has it. In this book, David W. Mills offers an enlightening look at what most of the heartland was up to while America was united in its war on Reds. Cold War in a Cold Land adopts a regional perspective to develop a new understanding of a critical chapter in the nation’s history.

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Marx himself had no hope that landholding farmers would rise up as communist revolutionaries. So it should come as no surprise that in places like South Dakota, where 70 percent of the population owned land and worked for themselves, people didn’t take the threat of internal subversion very seriously. Mills plumbs the historical record to show how residents of the plains states—while deeply patriotic and supportive of the nation’s foreign policy—responded less than enthusiastically to national anticommunist programs. Only South Dakota, for example, adopted a loyalty oath, and it was fervently opposed throughout the state. Only Montana, prodded by one state legislator, formed an investigation committee—one that never investigated anyone and was quickly disbanded. Plains state people were, however, “highly churched” and enthusiastically embraced federal attempts to use religion as a bulwark against atheistic communist ideology. Even more enthusiastic was the Great Plains response to the military buildup that accompanied Cold War politics, as the construction of airbases and missile fields brought untold economic benefits to the region. A much-needed, nuanced account of how average citizens in middle America experienced Cold War politics and policies, Cold War in a Cold Land is a significant addition to the history of both the Cold War and the Great Plains. David W. Mills holds a Ph.D. from North Dakota State University and teaches American, European, and military history at Minnesota West Community and Technical College in Worthington.

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The Great Call-Up The Guard, the Border, and the Mexican Revolution By Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler On June 18, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson called up virtually the entire army National Guard, some 150,000 men, to meet an armed threat to the United States: border raids covertly sponsored by a Mexican government in the throes of revolution. The Great Call-Up tells for the first time the complete story of this unprecedented deployment and its significance in the history of the National Guard, World War I, and U.S.-Mexico relations. Often confused with the regular-army operation against Pancho Villa and overshadowed by the U.S. entry into World War I, the great call-up is finally given due treatment here by two premier authorities on the history of the Southwest border. Marshaling evidence drawn from newspapers, state archives, reports to Congress, and War Department documents, Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler trace the call-up’s state-based deployment from San Antonio and Corpus Christi, along the Texas and Arizona borders, to California. Along the way, they tell the story of this mass mobilization by examining each unit as it was called up by state, considering its composition, missions, and internal politics. Through this period of intensive training, the Guard became a truly cohesive national, then international, force. Some units would even go directly from U.S. border service to the battlefields of World War I France, remaining overseas until 1919.

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Balancing sweeping change over time with a keen eye for detail, The Great Call-Up unveils a little-known yet vital chapter in American military history. Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler are professors emeritus of history at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. They are the coauthors of a half-dozen books, including The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910–1920; The Secret War in El Paso: Mexican Revolutionary Intrigue, 1906– 1920; and The Plan de San Diego: Tejano Rebellion, Mexican Intrigue.

PANCHO VILLA’S REVOLUTION BY HEADLINES By Mark Cronlund Anderson $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3375-1 DRAGOONS IN APACHELAND Conquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 1846–1861 By William S. Kiser $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4314-9 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4650-8 FORT BOWIE, ARIZONA Combat Post of the Southwest, 1858–1894 By Douglas C. McChristian $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3781-0

HARRIS, SADLER THE GREAT CALL-UP

Unveils a little-known yet vital chapter in American military history

HERRERA JUAN BAUTISTA DE ANZA

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Shows Anza’s importance as both soldier and administrator in shaping New Mexico’s history

Juan Bautista de Anza The King’s Governor in New Mexico By Carlos R. Herrera Juan Bautista de Anza arrived in Santa Fe at a time when New Mexico, like Spain’s other North American colonies, faced heightened threats from Indians and international rivals. As governor of New Mexico from 1778 to 1788, Anza enacted a series of changes in the colony’s governance that helped preserve it as a Spanish territory and strengthen the larger empire to which it belonged. Although Anza is best known for his travels to California as a young man, this book, the first comprehensive biography of Anza, shows his greater historical importance as a soldier and administrator in the history of North America.

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MIERA Y PACHECO A Renaissance Spaniard in EighteenthCentury New Mexico By John L. Kessell $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4377-4 PUEBLOS, SPANIARDS, AND THE KINGDOM OF NEW MEXICO By John L. Kessell $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4122-0 INDIAN ALLIANCES AND THE SPANISH IN THE SOUTHWEST, 750–1750 By William B. Carter $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4302-6

Historian Carlos R. Herrera argues that Anza’s formative years in Sonora, Mexico, contributed to his success as a colonial administrator. Having grown up in New Spain’s northern territory, Anza knew the daily challenges that the various ethnic groups encountered in this region of limited resources, and he saw both the advantages and the pitfalls of the region’s strong Franciscan presence. Anza’s knowledge of frontier terrains and peoples helped make him a more effective military and political leader. When raiding tribes threatened the colony during his tenure as governor, Anza rode into battle, killing the great Comanche war chief Cuerno Verde in 1779 and later engineering a peace treaty formally concluded in 1786. As the colonial overseer of the imperial policies known as the Bourbon Reforms, he also implemented a series of changes in the colony’s bureaucratic, judicial, and religious institutions. Charged with militarizing New Mexico so that it could contribute to the maintenance of the empire, Anza curtailed the social, political, and economic power the Franciscans had long enjoyed and increased Spain’s authority in the region. By combining administrative history with narrative biography, Herrera shows that Juan Bautista de Anza was more than an explorer. Devoted equally to the Spanish empire and to the North American region he knew intimately, Governor Anza shaped the history of New Mexico at a critical juncture. Carlos R. Herrera is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Borderlands Institute at San Diego State University–Imperial Valley. His numerous articles have appeared in the Journal of the Southwest and Journal of the History of Sexuality.

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Junípero Serra California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary By Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz Franciscan missionary friar Junípero Serra (1713–1784), one of the most widely known and influential inhabitants of early California, embodied many of the ideas and practices that animated the Spanish presence in the Americas. In this definitive biography, translators and historians Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz bring this complex figure to life and illuminate the Spanish period of California and the American Southwest. In Junípero Serra: California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary, Beebe and Senkewicz focus on Serra’s religious identity and his relations with Native peoples. They intersperse their narrative with new and accessible translations of many of Serra’s letters and sermons, which allows his voice to be heard in a more direct and engaging fashion. Serra spent thirty-four years as a missionary to Indians in Mexico and California. He believed that paternalistic religious rule offered Indians a better life than their oppressive exploitation by colonial soldiers and settlers, which he deemed the only realistic alternative available to them at that time and place. Serra’s unswerving commitment to his vision embroiled him in frequent conflicts with California’s governors, soldiers, native peoples, and even his fellow missionaries. Yet because he prevailed often enough, he was able to place his unique stamp on the first years of California’s history. Beebe and Senkewicz interpret Junípero Serra neither as a saint nor as the personification of the Black Legend. They recount his life from his birth in a small farming village on Mallorca. They detail his experiences in central Mexico and Baja California, as well as the tumultuous fifteen years he spent as founder of the California missions. Serra’s Franciscan ideals are analyzed in their eighteenth century context, which allows readers to understand more fully the differences and similarities between his world and ours. Combining history, culture, and linguistics, this new study conveys the power and nuance of Serra’s voice and, ultimately, his impact on history. Rose Marie Beebe is Professor of Spanish Literature at Santa Clara University. Robert M. Senkewicz is Professor of History at Santa Clara University. Together they have authored and edited numerous books, including The History of Alta California, Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535–1846; Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815–1848; and “To Toil in That Vineyard of the Lord”: Contemporary Scholarship on Junípero Serra.

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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 WITH ANZA TO CALIFORNIA, 1775–1776 The Journal of Pedro Font, O.F.M. By Pedro Font Translated by Alan K. Brown $55.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-375-2 SPAIN IN THE SOUTHWEST A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California By John L. Kessell $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3484-0

BEEBE, SENKEWICZ JUNÍPERO SERRA

Conveys the power and nuance of Serra’s voice and his impact on California and the American Southwest

SCHARNHORST OWEN WISTER AND THE WEST

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How the American West shaped Owen Wister’s life and writings

Owen Wister and the West By Gary Scharnhorst From James Fenimore Cooper to Gary Cooper, stories set in the American West have served as vehicles for topical commentary. More than any other pioneer of the genre, Owen Wister turned the Western into a form of social and political critique, touching on such issues as race, the environment, women’s rights, and immigration. In Owen Wister and the West, a biographical-literary account of Wister’s life and writings, Gary Scharnhorst shows how the West shaped Wister’s career and ideas, even as he lived and worked in the East.

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STORIES OF THE OLD WEST Tales of the Mining Camp, Cavalry Troop, and Cattle Ranch By John Seelye $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3283-9 BRET HARTE Opening the American Literary West By Gary Scharnhorst $19.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3254-9 THE WISTER TRACE Assaying Classic Western Fiction Second Edition By Loren D. Estleman $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4481-8

The Virginian, Wister’s claim to literary fame, was published in 1902, but his writing career actually began in 1891 and continued for twenty-five years after the publication of his masterpiece. Scharnhorst traces Wister’s western connections up to and through the publication of The Virginian and shows that the author remained deeply connected to the American West until his death in 1938. Like his Harvard friend Theodore Roosevelt, Wister was the sickly scion of an eastern family who recuperated in the West before returning to his home and inherited social position. His life story is punctuated with appearances by such contemporaries as Frederic Remington, Rudyard Kipling, and Ernest Hemingway. Scharnhorst thoroughly discusses Wister’s experiences in the West, including a detailed chronology of his travels and the writings that grew out of them. He offers numerous insights into Wister’s adroit use of sources, and provides revealing comparisons between Wister’s western works and the writings of other authors treating the same region. The West, Scharnhorst shows, was the crucible in which Wister tested and expressed his political opinions, most of them startlingly conservative by present standards. Yet The Virginian remains the template for the western novel today. More than any other Western writer of the past century and a half, Wister’s career merits resurrection. Gary Scharnhorst is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico and author of numerous books, including Bret Harte: Opening the American Literary West and Julian Hawthorne: The Life of a Prodigal Son.

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American Mythmaker Walter Noble Burns and the Legends of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín Murrieta By Mark J. Dworkin Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín Murrieta are fixed in the American imagination as towering legends of the Old West. But that has not always been the case. There was a time when these men were largely forgotten relics of a bygone era. Then, in the early twentieth century, an obscure Chicago newspaperman changed all that. Walter Noble Burns (1872–1932) served with the First Kentucky Infantry during the Spanish-American War and covered General John J. Pershing’s pursuit of Pancho Villa in Mexico as a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. However history-making these forays may seem, they were only the beginning. In the last six years of his life, Burns wrote three books that propelled New Mexico outlaw Billy the Kid, Tombstone marshal Wyatt Earp, and California bandit Joaquín Murrieta into the realm of legend. Despite Burns’s remarkable command of his subjects—based on exhaustive research and interviews—he has been largely ignored by scholars because of the popular, even occasionally fictional, approach he employed. In American Mythmaker, the first literary biography of Burns, Mark J. Dworkin brings Burns out of the shadows. Through careful analysis of The Saga of Billy the Kid (1926), Tombstone, An Iliad of the Southwest (1927), and The Robin Hood of Eldorado: The Saga of Joaquin Murrieta (1932) and their reception, Dworkin shows how Burns used his journalistic training to introduce the history of the American West to his era’s general readership. In the process, Burns made his subjects household names. Are Burns’s books fact or fiction? Was he a historian or a novelist? Dworkin considers these questions as he uncovers the story behind Burns’s mythmaking works. A long-overdue biography of a writer who shaped our idea of western history, American Mythmaker documents in fascinating detail the fashioning of some of the greatest American legends. Mark J. Dworkin (1946–2012) is the author of Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas: Mysteries of Ancient Civilizations of Central and South America and numerous articles, including several on Walter Noble Burns.

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ON A SILVER DESERT The Life of Ernest Haycox By Ernest Haycox Jr. $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3564-9 THE WEST OF BILLY THE KID By Frederick Nolan $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3104-7 JOHN FORD Hollywood’s Old Master By Ronald L. Davis $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2916-7

DWORKIN AMERICAN MYTHMAKER

The writer who forever shaped our idea of western history

MCPHERSON LIFE IN A CORNER

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Daily life for the first Euro-American settlers of the Four Corners region

Life in a Corner Cultural Episodes in Southeastern Utah, 1880–1950 By Robert S. McPherson Community building in the Four Corners area of southeastern Utah required specialized knowledge and a good bit of determination on the part of settlers who wrested a livelihood from the Colorado Plateau. Robert S. McPherson, the region’s leading historian, draws on oral history and personal archives to write about cowboys and homesteaders, loggers and sawmill operators, law enforcement officers and bootleggers, miners and midwives, trappers and builders. In Life in a Corner, he shapes their stories into a fascinating mosaic of cultural and environmental history unique to this region.

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NAVAJO LAND, NAVAJO CULTURE The Utah Experience in the Twentieth Century By Robert S. McPherson $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3357-7 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3410-9 A NAVAJO LEGACY The Life and Teachings of John Holiday By John Holiday and Robert S. McPherson $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4176-3 UNDER THE EAGLE Samuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker By Samuel Holiday and Robert S. McPherson $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4389-7

McPherson demonstrates that, above all, settlers worked hard in order to succeed in this often forbidding land. A first-person account of erecting a Latter-day Saint tabernacle tells of volunteers using only what was under their feet or came from a nearby mountain. Other chapters give an insider’s perspective on cowboying in canyon country, bringing law and order to a virtually lawless land, waging war against wolves and coyotes, and homesteading on some of the last large desert tracts in the continental United States. But the most gripping stories center on the ingenuity of those who lived these personal experiences. Only a veteran trapper would think of burying an alarm clock to attract a coyote. Only a determined bootlegger would devise a saddle made of leather-covered copper equipped with a spigot to dispense moonshine by the cup. Only committed, or desperate, miners would sail with a one-way “ticket” to a gold field in a hidden desert chasm. What were midwives being taught at the turn of the century, and how did their practice involve equal parts religious doctrine and medical procedure? What was a qualifying examination like for the first forest rangers? And how did small closeknit communities handle “slackers” during World War I? Life in a Corner answers these and many other questions while offering fresh perspectives on past events and current controversies. Robert S. McPherson is Professor of History at Utah State University–Eastern, Blanding Campus. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books on Navajo history and the history of the Southwest, including Under the Eagle: Samuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker (with Samuel Holiday) and Viewing the Ancestors: Perceptions of the Anaasází, Mokwicˇ, and Hisatsinom.

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William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest By William Heath Born to Anglo-American parents on the Appalachian frontier, captured by the Miami Indians at the age of thirteen, and adopted into the tribe, William Wells (1770–1812) moved between two cultures all his life but was comfortable in neither. Vilified by some historians for his divided loyalties, he remains relatively unknown even though he is worthy of comparison with such famous frontiersmen as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett. William Heath’s thoroughly researched book is the first biography of this man-in-the-middle. A servant of empire with deep sympathies for the people his country sought to dispossess, Wells married Chief Little Turtle’s daughter and distinguished himself as a Miami warrior, as an American spy, and as an Indian agent whose multilingual skills made him a valuable interpreter. Heath examines pioneer life in the Ohio Valley from both white and Indian perspectives, yielding rich insights into Wells’s career as well as broader events on the post-revolutionary American frontier, where Anglo-Americans pushing westward competed with the Indian nations of the Old Northwest for control of territory. Wells’s unusual career, Heath emphasizes, earned him a great deal of ill will. Because he warned the U.S. government against Tecumseh’s confederacy and the Shawnee Prophet’s “religiously mad” followers, he was hated by those who supported the Shawnee leaders. Because he came to question treaties he had helped bring about, and cautioned the Indians about their harmful effects, he was distrusted by Americans. Wells is a complicated hero, and his conflicted position reflects the decline of coexistence and cooperation between the two cultures. William Heath is Professor Emeritus of English at Mount Saint Mary’s College, Emmitsburg, Maryland. He has published numerous essays and poems and is the author of the novels The Children Bob Moses Led, Devil Dancer, and Blacksnake’s Path: The True Adventures of William Wells.

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BAYONETS IN THE WILDERNESS Anthony Wayne’s Legion in the Old Northwest By Alan D. Gaff $32.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3930-2 THE BLACK HAWK WAR OF 1832 By Patrick J. Jung $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3994-4 PRESIDENT WASHINGTON’S INDIAN WAR By Wiley Sword $39.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2488-9

HEATH WILLIAM WELLS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR THE OLD NORTHWEST

The definitive biography of a conflicted hero of the early American frontier

SARRIS GRAND AVENUE

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Connected stories that portray a multicultural urban community in Northern California

Grand Avenue A Novel in Stories By Greg Sarris Afterword by Reginald Dyck Grand Avenue runs through the center of the Northern California town of Santa Rosa. One stretch of it is home not only to Pomo Indians making a life outside the reservation but also to Mexicans, blacks, and some Portuguese, all trying to find their way among the many obstacles in their turbulent world. Bound together by a lone ancestor, the lives of the American Indians form the core of these stories—tales of healing cures, poison, family rituals, and a humor that allows the inhabitants of Grand Avenue to see their own foibles with a saving grace.

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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 FIRESTICKS A Collection of Stories By Diane Glancy $19.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-2490-2 FROM THE GLITTERING WORLD A Navajo Story By Irvin Morris $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3242-6

A teenage girl falls in love with a crippled horse marked for slaughter. An aging healer summons her strength for one final song. A father seeks a bond with his illegitimate son. A mother searches for the power to care for her cancer-stricken daughter’s spirit. Here is a tapestry of lives rendered with the color, wisdom, and quest for meaning that are characteristic of the traditional storytelling in which they are rooted, a tradition Sarris grew up hearing and learning. Vibrant with the emotions and realities of a changing world, these narratives—the basis of an HBO miniseries—are all equally stunning and from the heart. Greg Sarris is author of the anthology Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts, the novel Watermelon Nights, and scripts for screen and stage. He is Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and holds the Endowed Chair in Native American Studies at Sonoma State University. Reginal Dyck is Professor of English at Capital University. His research and writing focus on the work of Native American authors, including Greg Sarris.

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Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction By John Joseph Mathews Edited by Susan Kalter The nine short stories in this collection by distinguished Osage author John Joseph Mathews are sure to be recognized as classics of twentieth-century nature writing and the wildlife conservation movement. The characters in Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction are coyotes, mountain lions, deer, owls, sandhill cranes, prairie chickens—and human beings, who sometimes kill their prey but are often outsmarted by the largest and smallest animals. Mathews shows us the world through the animals’ eyes and ears and noses. His convincing portrayals of their intelligence recall the fiction of Jack London and Ernest Thompson Seton. Like these literary ancestors, Mathews originally intended his nature stories for boys, but the stories transcend boundaries of age, gender, and geography. Mathews writes not just to inspire his readers with nature’s beauty but also to demonstrate the interrelatedness of humans, animals, and the landscapes in which they interact. Timely and relevant to discussions of ecology and the environment, his stories will reach a wide audience today, more than fifty years after they were written. These stories show Mathews’s ability to write precise descriptions—of a coyote catching a field mouse, a crane eating a frog, a mountain lion playing. A hunter himself, Mathews understood both the animals’ readiness to fight and man’s instinct to survive. And he let readers share the dignity of the animal characters and their refusal to acquiesce to their own extinction, particularly in the face of human ignorance and carelessness. Susan Kalter’s afterword provides a poignant portrait of Mathews and traces the inspirations for the short stories in this collection. Thoughtfully annotated, these stories are the only published examples of Mathews’s hitherto unknown short fiction and will add to his stature as an important American Indian writer. John Joseph Mathews (1879–1979), is author of several books, including The Osages: Children of the Middle Waters and Talking to the Moon: Wildlife Adventures on the Plains and Prairies of Osage Country. Susan Kalter is editor of Twenty Thousand Mornings, an autobiography by John Joseph Mathews.

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WAH’KON-TAH The Osage and the White Man’s Road By John Joseph Mathews $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-1699-0 SUNDOWN By John Joseph Mathews $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2160-4 TWENTY THOUSAND MORNINGS An Autobiography By John Joseph Mathews Edited by Susan Kalter $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4253-1

MATHEWS, KALTER OLD THREE TOES AND OTHER TALES OF SURVIVAL AND EXTINCTION

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WETZEL GATHERING THE POTAWATOMI NATION

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Advances scholarly and popular dialogues about Native nationhood

Gathering the Potawatomi Nation Revitalization and Identity By Christopher Wetzel Following the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, the Potawatomis, once concentrated around southern Lake Michigan, increasingly dispersed into nine bands across four states, two countries, and a thousand miles. How is it, author Christopher Wetzel asks, that these scattered people, with different characteristics and traditions cultivated over two centuries, have reclaimed their common cultural heritage in recent years as the Potawatomi Nation? And why a “nation”—not a band or a tribe—in an age when nations seem increasingly impermanent? Gathering the Potawatomi Nation explores the recent invigoration of Potawatomi nationhood, looks at how marginalized communities adopt to social change, and reveals the critical role that culture plays in connecting the two.

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

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Wetzel’s perspective on recent developments in the struggle for indigenous sovereignty goes far beyond current political, legal, and economic explanations. Focusing on the specific mechanisms through which the Potawatomi Nation has been reimagined, “national brokers,” he finds, are keys to the process, traveling between the bands, sharing information, and encouraging tribal members to work together as a nation. Language revitalization programs are critical because they promote the exchange of specific cultural knowledge, affirm the value of collective enterprise, and remind people of their place in a larger national community. At the annual Gathering of the Potawatomi Nation, participants draw on this common cultural knowledge to integrate the multiple meanings of being Potawatomi. Fittingly, the Potawatomis themselves have the last word in this book: members respond directly to Wetzel’s study, providing readers with a unique opportunity to witness the conversations that shape the ever-evolving Potawatomi Nation. Combining social and cultural history with firsthand observations, Gathering the Potawatomi Nation advances both scholarly and popular dialogues about Native nationhood.

THE POTAWATOMIS Keepers of the Fire By R. David Edmunds $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2069-0 A NATION OF STATESMEN The Political Culture of the StockbridgeMunsee Mohicans, 1815–1972 By James W. Oberly $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3932-6

Christopher Wetzel is Associate Professor of Sociology at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts. His numerous articles on politics, culture, and social movements have been published in journals such as American Behavioral Scientist, Environmental Practice, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change, among others.

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Clyde Warrior Tradition, Community, and Red Power By Paul R. McKenzie-Jones The phrase Red Power, coined by Clyde Warrior (1939–1968) in the 1960s, introduced militant rhetoric into American Indian activism. In this first-ever biography of Warrior, historian Paul R. McKenzie-Jones presents the Ponca leader as the architect of the Red Power movement, spotlighting him as one of the most significant and influential figures in the fight for Indian rights. The Red Power movement arose in reaction to centuries of oppressive federal oversight of American Indian peoples. It comprised an assortment of grassroots organizations that fought for treaty rights, tribal sovereignty, self-determination, cultural preservation, and cultural relevancy in education. A cofounder of the National Indian Youth Council, Warrior was among the movement’s most prominent spokespeople. Throughout the 1960s, he blazed a trail of cultural and political reawakening in Indian Country, using a combination of ultranationalistic rhetoric and direct action protest. McKenzie-Jones uses interviews with some of Warrior’s closest associates to delineate the complexity of community, tradition, culture, and tribal identity that shaped Warrior’s activism. For too many years, McKenzie-Jones maintains, Warrior’s death at age twenty-nine overshadowed his intellect and achievements. Red Power has been categorized as an American Indian interpretation of Black Power that emerged after his death. This groundbreaking book brings to light, however, previously unchronicled connections between Red Power and Black Power that show the movements emerging side by side as militant, urgent calls for social change. Warrior borrowed only the slogan as a metaphor for cultural and community integrity. Descended from hereditary chiefs, Warrior was immersed in Ponca history and language from birth. McKenzie-Jones shows how this intimate experience, and the perspective gained from participating in powwows, summer workshops, and college Indian organizations, shaped Warrior’s intertribal approach to Indian affairs. This long-overdue biography explores how Clyde Warrior’s commitment to culture, community, and tradition formed the basis for his vision of Red Power. Paul R. McKenzie-Jones is Visiting Lecturer in American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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OJIBWA WARRIOR Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement By Dennis Banks $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3691-2 RED POWER RISING The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism By Bradley G. Shreve $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4178-7 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4365-1 LOUD HAWK The United States Versus the American Indian Movement By Kenneth S. Stern $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3439-0

MCKENZIE-JONES CLYDE WARRIOR

The long-overdue biography of a foundational figure in American Indian activism

KELTON CHEROKEE MEDICINE, COLONIAL GERMS

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Looks past convenient narratives to uncover the root cause of indigenous suffering and depopulation

Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs An Indigenous Nation’s Fight against Smallpox, 1518–1824 By Paul Kelton How smallpox, or Variola, caused widespread devastation during the European colonization of the Americas is a well-known story. But as historian Paul Kelton informs us, that’s precisely what it is: a convenient story. In Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs Kelton challenges the “virgin soil thesis,” or the widely held belief that Natives’ lack of immunities and their inept healers were responsible for their downfall. Eschewing the metaphors and hyperbole routinely associated with the impact of smallpox, he firmly shifts the focus to the root cause of indigenous suffering and depopulation—colonialism writ large; not disease.

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“I CHOOSE LIFE” Contemporary Medical and Religious Practices in the Navajo World By Maureen Trudelle Schwarz $50.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3941-8 $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3961-6 CHEROKEE TRAGEDY The Ridge Family and the Decimation of a People By Thurman Wilkins $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2188-8 CHEROKEE MEDICINE MAN The Life and Work of a Modern-Day Healer By Robert J. Conley $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3877-0

Kelton’s account begins with the long, false dawn between 1518 and the midseventeenth century, when sporadic encounters with Europeans did little to bring Cherokees into the wider circulation of guns, goods, and germs that had begun to transform Native worlds. By the 1690s English-inspired slave raids had triggered a massive smallpox epidemic that struck the Cherokees for the first time. Through the eighteenth century, Cherokees repeatedly responded to real and threatened epidemics—and they did so effectively by drawing on their own medicine. Yet they also faced terribly destructive physical violence from the British during the AngloCherokee War (1759–1761) and from American militias during the Revolutionary War. Having suffered much more from the scourge of war than from smallpox, the Cherokee population rebounded during the nineteenth century and, without abandoning Native medical practices and beliefs, Cherokees took part in the nascent global effort to eradicate Variola by embracing vaccination. A far more complex and nuanced history of Variola among American Indians emerges from these pages, one that privileges the lived experiences of the Cherokees over the story of their supposedly ill-equipped immune systems and counterproductive responses. Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs shows us how Europeans and their American descendants have obscured the past with the stories they left behind, and how these stories have perpetuated a simplistic understanding of colonialism. Paul Kelton is a Professor of History at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. He is the author of Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast, 1492–1715.

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Cherokee Reference Grammar By Brad Montgomery-Anderson The Cherokees have the oldest and best-known Native American writing system in the United States. Invented by Sequoyah and made public in 1821, it was rapidly adopted, leading to nineteenth-century Cherokee literacy rates as high as 90 percent. This writing system, the Cherokee syllabary, is fully explained and used throughout this volume, the first and only complete published grammar of the Cherokee language. Although the Cherokee Reference Grammar focuses on the dialect spoken by the Cherokees in Oklahoma—the Cherokee Nation and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians—it provides the grammatical foundation upon which all the dialects are based. In his introduction, author Brad Montgomery-Anderson offers a brief account of Cherokee history and language revitalization initiatives, as well as instructions for using this grammar. The book then delves into an explanation of Cherokee pronunciation, orthography, parts of speech, and syntax. While the book is intended as a reference grammar for experienced scholars, Montgomery-Anderson presents the information in accessible stages, moving from easier examples to more complex linguistic structures. Examples are taken from a variety of sources, including many from the Cherokee Phoenix. Audio clips of various text examples throughout can be found on the accompanying CD. The volume also includes three appendices: a glossary keyed to the text; a typescript for the CD/audio component; and a collection of literary texts: two traditional stories and a historical account of a search party traveling up the Arkansas River. The Cherokee Nation, as the second-largest tribe in the United States and the largest in Oklahoma, along with the United Keetoowah Band, and the Eastern band of Cherokees, have a large number of people who speak their native language. Like other tribes, they have seen a sharp decline in the number of native speakers, particularly among the young, but they have responded with ambitious programs for preserving and revitalizing Cherokee culture and language. Cherokee Reference Grammar will serve as a vital resource in advancing these efforts to understand Cherokee history, language, and culture on their own terms. Brad Montgomery-Anderson is Associate Professor in the Department of Cherokee and Indigenous Studies at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Kansas.

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

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OWENS RED DREAMS, WHITE NIGHTMARES

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How white fears of Indian collaboration drove national policy in early America

Red Dreams, White Nightmares Pan-Indian Alliances in the Anglo-American Mind, 1763–1815 By Robert M. Owens From the end of Pontiac’s War in 1763 through the War of 1812, fear—even paranoia—drove Anglo-American Indian policies. In Red Dreams, White Nightmares, Robert M. Owens views conflicts between whites and Natives in this era—invariably treated as discrete, regional affairs—as the inextricably related struggles they were.

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As this book makes clear, the Indian wars north of the Ohio River make sense only within the context of Indians’ efforts to recruit their southern cousins to their cause. The massive threat such alliances posed, recognized by contemporary whites from all walks of life, prompted a terror that proved a major factor in the formulation of Indian and military policy in North America. Indian unity, especially in the form of military alliance, was the most consistent, universal fear of Anglo-Americans in the late colonial, Revolutionary, and early national periods. This fear was so pervasive—and so useful for unifying whites—that Americans exploited it long after the threat of a general Indian alliance had passed. As the nineteenth century wore on, and as slavery became more widespread and crucial to the American South, fears shifted to Indian alliances with former slaves, and eventually to slave rebellion in general. The growing American nation needed and utilized a rhetorical threat from the other to justify the uglier aspects of empire building—a phenomenon that Owens tracks through a vast array of primary sources. Drawing on eighteen different archives, covering four nations and eleven states, and on more than six-dozen period newspapers—and incorporating the views of British and Spanish authorities as well as their American rivals—Red Dreams, White Nightmares is the most comprehensive account ever written of how fear, oftentimes resulting in “Indian-hating,” directly influenced national policy in early America. Robert M. Owens is Associate Professor of History at Wichita State University and author of Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy.

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Teaching Indigenous Students Honoring Place, Community, and Culture Edited by Jon Reyhner Indigenous students learn and retain more when teachers value the language and culture of the students’ community and incorporate them into the curriculum. This is a principle enshrined in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) and borne out both by the successes of Indigenous-language immersion schools and by the failures of past assimilationist practices and the recent Englishonly policies of the No Child Left Behind Act in the United States. Teaching Indigenous Students puts culturally based education squarely into practice. The volume, edited and with an introduction by leading American Indian education scholar Jon Reyhner, brings together new and dynamic research from established and emerging voices in the field of American Indian and Indigenous education. All of the contributions show how the quality of education for Indigenous students can be improved through the promotion of culturally and linguistically appropriate schooling. Grounded in place, community, and culture, the approaches set out in this volume reflect the firsthand experiences of teachers and students in interacting not just with texts and one another, but also with the local community and environment. The authors address the specifics of teaching the full range of subjects—from learning literacy using culturally meaningful texts to inquiry-based science curricula, and from math instruction that incorporates real-world experience to social studies that blend oral history and local culture with national and world history. Teaching Indigenous Students also emphasizes the importance of art, music, and physical education, both traditional and modern, in producing well-rounded human beings and helping students establish their identity as twenty-first-century Indigenous peoples. Surveying the work of Indigenous-language immersion schools around the world, this volume also holds out hope for the revitalization of Indigenous languages and traditional cultural values. Jon Reyhner is Professor of Bilingual and Multicultural Education in the Department of Education Specialties at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff. He has worked with the Apaches, Navajos, Blackfeet, and other Native groups. He is the coauthor of American Indian Education: A History and editor of Effective Language Education Practices and Native Language Survival.

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REYHNER TEACHING INDIGENOUS STUDENTS

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BASSIE-SWEET, LAUGHLIN, HOPKINS, BRIZUELA CASIMIR THE CH’OL MAYA OF CHIAPAS

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Explores continuities between ancient and contemporary Maya rituals and beliefs

The Ch’ol Maya of Chiapas Edited by Karen Bassie-Sweet With Robert M. Laughlin, Nicholas A. Hopkins, and Andrés Brizuela Casimir The Ch’ol Maya who live in the western Mexican state of Chiapas are direct descendants of the Maya of the Classic Period. Exploring their history and culture, volume editor Karen Bassie-Sweet and the other authors assembled here uncover continuity between contemporary Maya rituals and beliefs and their ancient counterparts.

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With evocative and thoughtful essays by leading scholars of Maya culture, The Ch’ol Maya of Chiapas, the first collection to focus fully on the Ch’ol Maya, takes readers deep into ancient caves and reveals new dimensions of Ch’ol cosmology. In contemporary Ch’ol culture the contributors find a wealth of historical material that they then interweave with archaeological data to yield surprising and illuminating insights. The colonial and twentieth-century descendants of the Post-Classic Period Ch’ol and Lacandon Ch’ol, for instance, provide a window on the history and conquest of the early Maya. Several authors examine Early Classic paintings in the Ch’ol ritual cave known as Jolja that document ancient cave ceremonies not unlike Ch’ol rituals performed today, such as petitioning a cavedwelling mountain spirit for health, rain, and abundant harvests. Other essays investigate deities identified with caves, mountains, lightning, and meteors to trace the continuity of ancient Maya beliefs through the centuries, in particular the ancient origin of contemporary rituals centering on the Ch’ol mountain deity Don Juan. An appendix containing three Ch’ol folktales and their English translations rounds out the volume. Charting paths literal and figurative to earlier trade routes, pre-Columbian sites, and ancient rituals and beliefs, The Ch’ol Maya of Chiapas opens a fresh, richly informed perspective on Maya culture as it has evolved and endured over the ages. Karen Bassie-Sweet is Research Associate at the University of Calgary and codirects the Jolja Cave Project in Mexico. She is author of Maya Sacred Geography and the Creator Deities. Robert M. Laughlin is author of Mayan Tales from Chiapas, Mexico. Nicholas A. Hopkins is coeditor of Essays on Otomanguean Culture History. Andrés Brizuela Casimir is an archaeologist and Head of the Department of Historical Monuments of the State of Chiapas.

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The Lienzo of Tlapiltepec A Painted History from the Northern Mixteca Edited by Arni Brownstone With contributions by Nicholas Johnson and Bas van Doesburg Foreword by Elizabeth Hill Boone For centuries, indigenous rulers of Mesoamerica commissioned elaborate pictorial histories to maintain their claims to power, land, and privilege—a practice they continued under Spanish authority after the conquest. The Lienzo of Tlapiltepec is one such history. An intricate pictographic document on cotton cloth measuring 156 by 66.5 inches, the lienzo was produced by an Indian painter-scribe of great skill during the sixteenth century in the northern Mixteca, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It depicts events dating from the eleventh century to the early years of the Spanish colony. Housed since 1919 in the Royal Ontario Museum of Canada, the lienzo is a work of such complexity and reach that few scholars possess the tools to understand its message and context. The contributors to this volume are among that select few. In four chapters, front matter, and two appendices accompanied by detailed, fullcolor illustrations, scholars Arni Brownstone, Nicholas Johnson, Bas van Doesburg, Eckehard Dolinski, Michael Swanton, and Elizabeth Hill Boone describe what a lienzo is and how it was made. They also explain the particular origin, format, and content of the Lienzo of Tlapiltepec—as well as its place within the larger world of Mexican painted history. The contributors furthermore explore the artistry and visual experience of the work. A final essay documents past illustrations of the lienzo, including the one rendered for this book, which employed innovative processes to recover long faded colors. Unique in its detail, scope, and depth, this is the first volume to offer a full description and analysis of the Lienzo of Tlapiltepec and to grant widespread access to this extraordinary repository of history. Arni Brownstone is Assistant Curator at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Ontario, and author of War Paint: Blackfoot and Sarcee Painted Robes in the Royal Ontario Museum. Nicholas Johnson is Research Associate at the Royal Ontario Museum and former associate editor of artscanada, a national magazine of the visual arts in Toronto. Bas van Doesburg is author of several books and articles on pictographic texts from the Oaxaca area, including Codices Cuicatecos: Porfirio Diaz y Fernandez Leal. Elizabeth Hill Boone is author of numerous Mesoamerican studies, including Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs.

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FAUST, RICHTER THE HUASTECA

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Brings critical attention to a key, but understudied, Mesoamerican region

The Huasteca Culture, History, and Interregional Exchange Edited by Katherine A. Faust and Kim N. Richter

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The Huasteca, a region on the northern Gulf Coast of Mexico, was for centuries a pre-Columbian crossroads for peoples, cultures, arts, and trade. Its multiethnic inhabitants influenced, and were influenced by, surrounding regions, ferrying unique artistic styles, languages, and other cultural elements to neighboring areas and beyond. In The Huasteca: Culture, History, and Interregional Exchange, a range of authorities on art, history, archaeology, and cultural anthropology bring longoverdue attention to the region’s rich contributions to the pre-Columbian world. They also assess, to a lesser degree, how the Huasteca fared from colonial times to the present. The authors call critical, even urgent attention to a region highly significant to Mesoamerican history but long neglected by scholars. Editors Katherine A. Faust and Kim N. Richter put the plight and the importance of the Huasteca into historical and cultural context. They address challenges to study of the region, ranging from confusion about the term “Huasteca” (a legacy of the Aztec conquest in the late fifteenth century) to present-day misconceptions about the region’s role in pre-Columbian history. Many of the contributions included here consider the Huasteca’s interactions with other regions, particularly the American Southeast and the southern Gulf Coast of Mexico. Pre-Columbian Huastec inhabitants, for example, wore trapezoid-shaped shell ornaments unique in Mesoamerica but similar to those found along the Mississippi River. With extensive examples drawn from archaeological evidence, and supported by nearly 200 images, the contributors explore the Huasteca as a junction where art, material culture, customs, ritual practices, and languages were exchanged. While most of the essays focus on pre-Columbian periods, a few address the early colonial period and contemporary agricultural and religious practices. Together, these essays illuminate the Huasteca’s significant legacy and the cross-cultural connections that still resonate in the region today. Katherine A. Faust is coeditor of Mesoamerican Figurines: Small-Scale Indices of Large-Scale Social Phenomena. Kim N. Richter is a Senior Research Specialist to the Director at the Getty Research Institute.

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Mining the Summit

Yellowstone Denied

Colorado’s Ten Mile District, 1860–1960 By H. Stanley Dempsey and James E. Fell, Jr.

The Life of Gustavus Cheyney Doane By Kim Allen Scott How lasting fame eluded one of Yellowstone’s earliest explorers

How miners and corporations extracted minerals in one of the Rockies’ most challenging environments

Although Ten Mile’s history and situation were unique, the district reflected developments throughout Colorado and the mining West. Each new discovery triggered a large-scale mobilization of capital and labor, the use of more advanced technology, and the ongoing development of the infrastructure needed to support mining—themes that characterized American mining during the century covered in this fascinating book. Stanley Dempsey negotiated the 1960s acquisition of much of the Ten Mile Mining District and owns Dempsey and Company in the Denver area. James E. Fell, Jr., professor at the University of Colorado Denver, is the author of Ores to Metals and coauthor of 100 Years Up High: Colorado Mountains & Mountaineers. DECEMBER $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4541-9 324 PAGES, 6 × 9 33 B&W ILLUS., 2 MAPS U.S. HISTORY

Kim Allen Scott tells the tale of an educated and inventive man who strove for recognition throughout his life. Scott’s critical biography examines Doane’s accomplishments and failures, and traces the frustrated efforts of his widow to see her husband properly enshrined in history. A psychological portrait of a complex and intriguing individual, Yellowstone Denied is also a revealing look at military culture, scientific discovery, and western expansion. Kim Allen Scott is Professor and University Archivist at Montana State University, Bozeman. His numerous articles on Yellowstone National Park, Montana history, and the Civil War have appeared in Montana The Magazine of Western History, the Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Kansas History, and the Missouri Historical Review. MAY $32.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-3800-8 $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-3931-9 320 PAGES, 6 × 9 17 B&W ILLUS., 3 MAPS BIOGRAPHY/U.S. HISTORY

SCOTT YELLOWSTONE DENIED

Twenty years later came a silver stampede, followed by more dramatic events: the shooting of a bonanza king, a devastating fire, a railroad war, and the invention of a world-famous piece of mining machinery. During World War I came the rush to mine molybdenum, the metal that made Ten Mile one of the world’s most important mining districts.

A frontier soldier and explorer extraordinaire, Gustavus Cheyney Doane was no stranger to historical events. Between 1863 and 1892, he fought in the Civil War, participated in every major Indian battle in Montana Territory, and led the first scientific reconnaissance into the Yellowstone country—his report on that expedition contributed to the establishment of Yellowstone National Park. During his thirty years in uniform, Doane was always close to being at the right place at the right time to secure lasting fame, yet that fame always eluded him.

DEMPSEY, FELL MINING THE SUMMIT

Colorado’s Ten Mile Mining District was north of Leadville and south of Copper Mountain. Adventurers came to Ten Mile in 1860, searching for gold—instant wealth. But digging through snowdrifts in summer was too much work, the gold petered out, and the boom collapsed.

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Valentine T. McGillycuddy

South Pass Gateway to a Continent By Will Bagley

Army Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux By Candy Moulton

A history of the famous cleft in the Rockies and an elegant plea for its preservation

MOULTON VALENTINE T. MCGILLYCUDDY

BAGLEY SOUTH PASS

A doctor and Indian agent’s fascinating life on the northern plains

In September 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 legendary figures Calamity Jane and Red Cloud, Valentine T. McGillycuddy (1849–1939) witnessed key events in American history that changed the lives of Native people forever. In this biography, Candy Moulton explores McGillycuddy’s fascinating experiences on the northern plains as topographer, cartographer, physician, and Indian agent. Moulton presents a colorful character—a cultured physician who could outdrink trail-hardened soldiers. Her vivid prose traces McGillycuddy’s work mapping out the U.S.-Canadian border; treating wounded from the battles of the Rosebud, Little Bighorn, and Slim Buttes; tending Crazy Horse during his final hours; and serving as Sioux agent at Pine Ridge, where he clashed with Chief Red Cloud over the government’s assimilation policies. Moulton also weaves in the story of McGillycuddy’s devoted first wife, Fanny, who followed her husband west and wrote of the realities of camp life. This long-overdue biography offers an engaging adventure story and insight into a period of tumultuous change.

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 this high, treeless valley in Wyoming immediately south of the Wind River Mountains. In this narrative, award-winning author Will Bagley explains the significance of South Pass to U.S. history and the development of the American West. Fur traders first saw South Pass in 1812. From the early 1840s until the completion of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads almost forty years later, emigrants on the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails used South Pass, transforming the American West in a single generation. Bagley traces the history of its earliest inhabitants and adventurers—Indian peoples, trappers and fur traders, missionaries, and governmentcommissioned explorers. Later, California gold rushers, Latterday Saints, and settlers traversed this singular gap in the Rockies. South Pass offers a rich history. The Overland Stage, Pony Express, and first transcontinental telegraph all came through the region, and nearly a century later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower designated South Pass as one of America’s first National Historic Landmarks.

Candy Moulton is the award-winning author of eleven books on western history, including Chief Joseph: Guardian of the People and Everyday Life among the American Indians, 1800 to 1900. She lives in Wyoming.

Will Bagley is the author of more than a dozen books on the American West, including So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848 and With Golden Visions Bright Before Them: Trails to the Mining West, 1849–1852, the first two volumes in his series Overland West: The Story of the Oregon and California Trails.

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The Darkest Period

Pre-removal Choctaw History

The Kanza Indians and Their Last Homeland, 1846–1873 By Ronald D. Parks The story of the Kanza Indians before removal to the Indian Territory

During what chief Allegawaho called this “darkest period” in 1871, the Kanzas’ reservation population diminished by more than 60 percent. As one survivor put it, “They died of a broken heart, they died of a broken spirit.” Yet, the Kanzas persisted in their struggle to exercise political autonomy and maintained their traditional customs to the time of removal in 1873, and beyond. Ronald D. Parks is former assistant director of the Historic Sites division of the Kansas State Historical Society and former administrator of the Kaw (Kanza) Mission State Historic Site. He has published numerous articles about the Kanzas. JANUARY $34.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4430-6 $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4845-8 336 PAGES, 6 × 9 20 B&W ILLUS., 2 TABLES, 8 MAPS AMERICAN INDIAN/U.S. HISTORY VOLUME 273 IN THE CIVILIZATION OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN SERIES

Since the 1990s, new research and thinking have dramatically reshaped our understanding of Choctaw history before removal. In this unique volume, Greg O’Brien brings together ten groundbreaking essays that reveal where Choctaw history has been and where it is going. Distinguished scholars James Taylor Carson, Patricia Galloway, and Clara Sue Kidwell join editor Greg O’Brien to present today’s most important research, while Choctaw writer and filmmaker LeAnne Howe offers a vital counterpoint to conventional scholarly views. In a chronological survey of topics spanning the precontact era to the 1830s, essayists take stock of the great achievements in recent Choctaw ethnohistory. Pre-removal Choctaw History is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of American Indian history, ethnohistory, and anthropology. Greg O’Brien is Associate Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He is the author of Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750–1830. MAY $29.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-3916-6 $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4848-9 280 PAGES, 6 × 9 1 MAP AMERICAN INDIAN/U.S. HISTORY VOLUME 255 IN THE CIVILIZATION OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN SERIES

O’BRIEN PRE-REMOVAL CHOCTAW HISTORY

During their last years in Kansas, the Kanzas confronted powerful Euro-American forces: government officials, Protestant educators, predatory economic interests, and a host of continent-wide events that affected them profoundly. As settlers invaded Kanza homelands and the prairie was plowed, game disappeared. The Kanzas’ holy sites were desecrated and the people were essentially confined to the reservation.

Essential essays on Choctaw history

PARKS THE DARKEST PERIOD

Before relocation to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma, the Kanza Indians spent twenty-seven years on a reservation near Council Grove, Kansas, on the Santa Fe Trail. The Darkest Period tells of those years of decline following the loss of the tribe’s homeland in Kansas. Ronald D. Parks uses accounts by agents, missionaries, journalists, and ethnographers to address the big picture—the effects of Manifest Destiny—and the local, the Santa Fe Trail’s devastating impact on the tribe.

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MCNENLY NATIVE PERFORMERS IN WILD WEST SHOWS

HEAT-MOON, WALLACE AN OSAGE JOURNEY TO EUROPE, 1827–1830

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Native Performers in Wild West Shows

An Osage Journey to Europe, 1827–1830

From Buffalo Bill to Euro Disney By Linda Scarangella McNenly

Three French Accounts Edited and translated by William Least Heat-Moon and James K. Wallace

A thought-provoking examination of Wild West shows—from the Native perspective

Some may dismiss Buffalo Bill Cody’s world-famous Wild West shows as promoters of stereotypes and clichés, but looking at this unique American genre from the Native American point of view provides thought-provoking new perspectives. Focusing on the experiences of Native performers, Linda Scarangella McNenly begins with Buffalo Bill’s 1880s pageants, and then traces continuing performances of these acts in regional celebrations in Canada and the United States—and even at Euro Disney. Drawing on interviews with contemporary Native American performers and descendants of twentieth-century performers, McNenly finds new interpretations of their performances and fresh insights on archival materials, especially photographs. Some Native performers saw Wild West shows not as demeaning, but as opportunities for travel, employment, and recognition—and as a means to preserve and express cultural traditions. Other Native families guided their own careers and created their own Wild West shows. Today, Native performers at Buffalo Bill Days in Sheridan, Wyoming, wear their own regalia and choreograph their own performances. Through dancing and music, they express their vision of a contemporary Native identity based on powwow cultures. Linda Scarangella McNenly, an independent scholar and instructor, received her Ph.D. in anthropology from McMaster University and lectures in anthropology at the University of Toronto. MARCH $34.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4281-4 $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4846-5 276 PAGES, 5.5 × 8.5 26 B&W ILLUS., 1 TABLE AMERICAN INDIAN/U.S. HISTORY

A rare glimpse at nineteenthcentury European perspectives on American Indians

In 1827 six Osages—four men and two women—traveled to Europe escorted by three Americans. Their visit was big news in France, where three short publications about the travelers appeared almost immediately. Virtually lost since the 1830s, all three accounts are translated and annotated here for the first time in English. Among the earliest writings on Osage history and culture, these accounts provide unique insights into Osage life and European perceptions of American Indians. William Least Heat-Moon’s introduction poignantly tells of people leaving one alien nation, the United States, to visit an even more alien culture an ocean away. In France the Osages found themselves lionized as “noble savages.” They went to the theater, rode in a hot-air balloon, and even had an audience with the king. Many Europeans ogled them as if they were exhibits in a freak show. As the entourage moved through Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, interest in the Osages declined. Soon they were reduced to begging in the suburbs of Paris, without the means to return home. An Osage Journey to Europe, 1827–1839 offers scholars and general readers both a compelling story and a singular glimpse into nineteenth-century cultural exchange. William Least Heat-Moon is the author of Blue Highways: A Journey into America and, most recently, Writing Blue Highways: The Story of How a Book Happened. James K. Wallace is Professor Emeritus of French at the University of Missouri. JANUARY $29.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4403-0 $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4708-6 168 PAGES, 6 × 9 8 COLOR AND 4 B&W ILLUS. AMERICAN INDIAN VOLUME 81 IN THE AMERICAN EXPLORATION AND TRAVEL SERIES

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