2011 Fall Trade Catalog by University of Oklahoma Press

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National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Race and the University: A Memoir

Bound Like Grass: A Memoir from

So Rugged and Mountainous:

Life at the Kiowa, Comanche, and

By George Henderson

the Western High Plains

Blazing the Trail to Oregon and

Wichita Agency: The Photographs

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By Ruth McLaughlin

California, 1812–1848

of Annette Ross Hume

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By Will Bagley

By Kristina L. Southwell and John R. Lovett

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Dodge City: The Early Years,

The Essays

1872–1886

By Rudolfo Anaya

By Wm. B. Shillingberg

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The Triumph of Voting Rights in the South By Charles S. Bullock III and Ronald Keith Gaddie $55.00s cloth 978-0-8061-4079-7

★ Texas Reference Source Award Reference Round Table, Texas Library Association Texas: A Historical Atlas By A. Ray Stephens

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A Navajo Chief, by William Robinson Leigh

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Shooting from the Lip The Life of Senator Al Simpson By Donald Loren Hardy Shortly before Wyoming’s Alan K. Simpson was elected majority whip of the United States Senate, he decided to keep a journal. “I am going to make notes when I get home in the evening, as to what happened during each day.” Now the senator’s longtime chief of staff, Donald Loren Hardy, has drawn extensively on Simpson’s personal papers and nineteen-volume diary to write this unvarnished account of a storied life and political career. Simpson gave full authorial control to Hardy, telling him, “Don, just tell the truth, the whole truth, as you always have. Leave teeth, hair, and eyeballs on the floor, if that results from telling the truth.” Taking Simpson at his word, Hardy shows readers a thrill-seeking teenager in Cody and a tireless politician who has thoroughly enjoyed his work. Full of entertaining tales and moments of historical significance, Shooting from the Lip offers a privileged and revealing backstage view of late-twentiethcentury American politics. Hardy’s richly anecdotal account reveals the roles Simpson played during such critical events as the Iran-Contra scandal and Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearings. It divulges the senator’s candid views of seven American presidents and scores of other national and world luminaries. Simpson is a politician unfettered by partisanship. Among President George H. W. Bush’s closest compatriots, he was also a close friend and admirer of Senator Ted Kennedy and was never afraid to publicly challenge the positions or tactics of fellow lawmakers, Democratic and Republican alike. Simpson’s ability to use truth and humor as both “sword and shield,” combined with his years of experience and issue mastery, has led to an impressive post-Senate career. In 2010, for example, he co-chaired President Barack Obama’s Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. Shooting from the Lip portrays a statesman punching sacred cows, challenging the media, and grappling with some of the nation’s most difficult challenges. Donald Loren Hardy served for 18 years as Senator Alan K. Simpson’s Press Secretary and Chief of Staff, then served as Director of Government Affairs at the Smithsonian Institution. Retired, he now engages in humanitarian efforts overseas and resides with his wife Rebecca in Montana.

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Of Related Interest Does People Do It? A Memoir By Fred L. Harris $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3913-5 Prairie Republic The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879–1889 By Jon K. Lauck $32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4110-7 Daschle Vs. Thune Anatomy of a High-Plains Senate Race By Jon K. Lauck $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3850-3

hardy shooting from the Lip

An unvarnished account of the American statesman known for his outspokenness, credibility, and willingness to rise above politics

the eugene b.

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collection selec t ed wor k s Showcases a premier collection of Native American and southwestern art

october $60.00 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4100-8 $29.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-4101-5 304 Pages, 9 × 11 179 COLOR ILLUS. Art/Museum collections

With contributions by

jane ford aebersold christina e. burke james peck b. byron price w. jackson rushing iii mary jo watson mark a. white Credits: (above right) detail of Rio Grande Gorge Near Taos (Strength of the Earth), by Ernest L. Blumenschein, © Courtesy of the Blumenschein Family Estate; (inset details, left to right) Coiled Plaque, by Chester Yellowhair; Buffalo, by Bill Glass; A Navajo Chief, by William Robinson Leigh; Knifewing Pin, by unknown Zuni artist; Hemis (Jemez) Kachina, by Henry Shelton.

A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Eugene B. Adkins (1920–2006) spent nearly four decades acquiring his extraordinary collection of Native American and American southwestern art. His vast assemblage includes paintings, photographs, jewelry, baskets, textiles, and ceramics by many of the Southwest’s most renowned artists and artisans. This stunning volume features full-color reproductions of significant works from the Adkins Collection, some of which are reproduced here for the first time. Adkins began collecting in the 1960s, when American southwestern art enjoyed a resurgence in popularity. Ultimately his holdings encompassed works by such distinguished American artists as Maynard Dixon, Dorothy Eugenie Brett, Charles Bird King, Alfred Jacob Miller, Charles M. Russell, and Joseph H. Sharp. In addition, Adkins was a passionate and prescient connoisseur of Native American

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art and artifacts, and his wide-ranging collection of works by Native artists includes paintings by T. C. Cannon, sculpture by María Martínez, and jewelry by Charles Loloma, all of which are represented in this book. Along with its rich photographic sampling of works by Native and non-Native artists, The Eugene B. Adkins Collection offers informative essays by art historians and curators, whose areas of expertise coincide with Adkins’s own interests. The volume also features a foreword by David L. Boren, President of the University of Oklahoma, and a preface by Randall Suffolk, Director of the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, and Ghislain d’Humières, Director of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma. These two museums, which share a commitment to preserving Native American art and artifacts, are joint stewards of the Eugene B. Adkins Collection.

The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma Selected Works By Eric McCauley Lee and Rima Canaan $59.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3673-8 $39.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3680-6 Treasures of Gilcrease Selections from the Permanent Collection By Sarah Erwin, Anne Morand, Kevin Smith, and Daniel C. Swan $39.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-9955-9 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-9956-6 A Western Legacy The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum By Steven L. Grafe, Susan Hallsten McGarry, Charles E. Rand, Richard C. Rattenbury, and Don Reeves $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3731-5

righter windfall

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A historian examines the social and public-policy pros and cons of this fastest-growing alternative source of electricity

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

september $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4192-3

In an earlier book, historian Robert W. Righter traced the ways people have used wind since the dawn of civilization. In Windfall, he explains how wind is transformed into energy and examines the land-use decisions that affect the establishment of new wind farms. The book also discusses the role of tax credits and other government subsidies in the creation of transmission systems between the turbines and end users in cities.

232 Pages, 6 × 9 22 b&w illus. Renewable Energy

Of Related Interest American Windmills An Album of Historic Photographs By T. Lindsay Baker and John Carter $34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3802-2 A Field Guide to American Windmills By T. Lindsay Baker $95.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-1901-4

Currently the world’s fastest-growing source of energy, wind generation has also given rise to backlash. A critical advocate of wind energy whose career as a historian has focused on environmental controversies, Righter addresses the cultural dimensions of resistance to wind energy and makes considered predictions about the directions wind energy may take. His sympathetic treatment of opposing arguments regarding landscape change, unwanted noise, bird deaths, and human medical implications are thought-provoking, as is his recommendation that we place the lion’s share of turbines on the Great Plains. Most books on wind energy are technical manuals. Righter’s book does not shy away from scientific explanations, but he does not write for engineers. His broad, historically informed vision will appeal to policy makers at the federal, state, and local levels and to anyone interested in a technology increasingly significant to supplying America’s energy needs. Robert W. Righter is Research Professor of History at Southern Methodist University and the author of Wind Energy in America: A History and The Battle over Hetch Hetchy: America’s Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism.

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Alaska A History By Claus-M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick The largest by far of the fifty states, Alaska is also the state of greatest mystery and diversity. And, as Claus-M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick show in this comprehensive survey, the history of Alaska’s peoples and the development of its economy have matched the diversity of its land- and seascapes. Alaska: A History begins by examining the region’s geography and the Native peoples who inhabited it for thousands of years before the first Europeans arrived. The Russians claimed northern North America by right of discovery in 1741. During their occupation of “Russian America” the region was little more than an outpost for fur hunters and traders. When the czar sold the territory to the United States in 1867, nobody knew what to do with “Seward’s Folly.” Mainland America paid little attention to the new acquisition until a rush of gold seekers flooded into the Yukon Territory. In 1906 Congress granted Alaska Territory a voteless delegate and in 1912 gave it a territorial legislature. Not until 1959, however, was Alaska’s long-sought goal of statehood realized. During World War II, Alaska’s place along the great circle route from the United States to Asia firmly established its military importance, which was underscored during the Cold War. The developing military garrison brought federal money and many new residents. Then the discovery of huge oil and natural-gas deposits gave a measure of economic security to the state. Alaska: A History provides a full chronological survey of the region’s and state’s history, including the precedent-setting Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, which compensated Native Americans for their losses; the effect of the oil industry and the trans-Alaska pipeline on the economy; the Exxon Valdez oil spill; and Alaska politics through the early 2000s. Claus-M. Naske is retired as Professor of History at the University of Alaska. A longtime resident of the state, he is the author of many works on Alaska history. Herman E. Slotnick (1917–2002) was for many years head of the Department of History at the University of Alaska. Naske and Slotnick co-authored Alaska: A History of the 49th State.

october $39.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4040-7 520 Pages, 8 × 10 107 B&W Illus., 15 Maps History

Of Related Interest A guide to the Indian tribes of the Pacific Northwest Third Edition By Robert H. Ruby, John A. Brown, and Cary C. Collins $26.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4024-7

naske, slotnick alaska

A comprehensive history of our largest state

dary stories of old-time oklahoma

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A rousing collection of tales from Indian Territory and the Sooner State

Stories of Old-Time Oklahoma By David Dary Do you know how Oklahoma came to have a panhandle? Did you know that Washington Irving once visited what is now Oklahoma? Can you name the official state rock, or list the courses in the official state meal? The answers to these questions, and others you may not have thought to ask, can be found in this engaging collection of tales by renowned journalist-historian David Dary. Most of the stories gathered here first appeared as newspaper articles during the state centennial in 2007. For this volume Dary has revised and expanded them—and added new ones. He begins with an overview of Oklahoma’s rich and varied history and geography, describing the origins of its trails, rails, and waterways and recounting the many tales of buried treasure that are part of Oklahoma lore.

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Of Related Interest Oklahoma A History of Five Centuries, Second Edition By Arrell Morgan Gibson $24.95s paper 978-0-8061-4153-4 Historical Atlas of Oklahoma Fourth Edition By Charles Robert Goins and Danney Goble $39.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3482-6 Indian Tribes of Oklahoma A Guide By Blue Clark $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4060-5

But the heart of any state is its people, and Dary introduces us to Oklahomans ranging from Indian leaders Quanah Parker and Satanta, to lawmen Bass Reeves and Bill Tilghman, to twentieth-century performing artists Woody Guthrie, Will Rogers, and Gene Autry. Dary also writes about forts and stagecoaches, cattle ranching and oil, outlaws and lawmen, inventors and politicians, and the names and pronunciation of Oklahoma towns. And he salutes such intellectual and artistic heroes as distinguished teacher and writer Angie Debo and artist and educator Oscar Jacobson, one of the first to focus world attention on Indian art. Reading this book is like listening to a knowledgeable old-timer regale his audience with historical anecdotes, “so it was said” tall tales, and musings on what it all means. Whether you’re a native of the Sooner State or a newcomer, you are sure to learn much from these accounts of the people, places, history, and folklore of Oklahoma. Award-winning writer David Dary is retired as head of what is now the Gaylord College of Journalism at the University of Oklahoma. He has published numerous articles on the Old West and the plains region and authored eighteen previous books, including Cowboy Culture, True Tales of the Prairies and Plains, and Frontier Medicine.

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Wishbone Oklahoma Football, 1959–1985 By Wann Smith Foreword by Jay Wilkinson “I’ve read and enjoyed every word of this book. It’s a must-read for all Sooner fans.” —Barry Switzer The Oklahoma Sooners dominated the world of college football during the 1950s. Under the leadership of Coach Bud Wilkinson, the team won three national titles and established an astounding record of forty-seven straight victories that still stands today. Yet by 1959, Wilkinson’s Sooners were showing signs of vulnerability, marking the start of a new and challenging era in Oklahoma football. Then along came a new offensive strategy, and OU began to dominate college football once again. In Wishbone, veteran journalist Wann Smith provides an in-depth account of Sooner football from the team’s final years under Wilkinson through its remarkable turnaround under Coach Barry Switzer. At the heart of this story is the phenomenal success of the Wishbone offense—a hybrid offshoot of the Split-t formation that Wilkinson employed so successfully in the 1950s. Though not without its risks, the Wishbone offense changed the face of college football and was a key factor in Oklahoma’s resurgence in the 1970s with Switzer at the helm. Drawing on firsthand accounts from coaches, players, and university administrators, many never before published, Smith takes us behind the scenes during this exciting comeback period to reveal not just what happened but why and how it happened. And he brings to life the personalities who played pivotal roles in the team’s renewed success, including Jack Mildren, Greg Pruitt, Joe Washington, Billy Sims, and many, many others. Sooner fans, indeed all fans of college football, will relish this account of the remaking of a football powerhouse and its return to glory. Wann Smith, a freelance journalist and writer, has been a monthly contributor to Sooners Illustrated magazine since 2005. Jay Wilkinson, the son of Bud Wilkinson, is the author of Bud Wilkinson: An Intimate Portrait of an American Legend.

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Of Related Interest An Autumn Remembered Bud Wilkinson’s Legendary ’56 Sooners By Gary T. King $16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3786-5 Forty-Seven Straight The Wilkinson Era at Oklahoma By Harold Keith $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3569-4

smith wishbone

An exciting account of the remaking of a football powerhouse— and its return to glory

work don’t shoot the gentile

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A witty memoir of a non-Mormon teacher’s rookie years in Utah

Don’t Shoot the Gentile By James C. Work When James Work took a teaching job at the College of Southern Utah in the mid1960s, he knew little about teaching and even less about the customs of his Mormon neighbors. For starters, he did not know he was a “Gentile,” the Mormon term for anyone not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But just as he learned to be a religious diplomat and a black-market bourbon runner, he also discovered that his master’s degree in literature apparently qualified him to teach journalism, photography, creative writing, advanced essay and feature article writing, freshman composition, and “vocabulary building.”

october $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4194-7 152 Pages, 5.5 × 8.5 Memoir

Of Related Interest A Room for the Summer Adventure, Misadventure, and Seduction in the Mines of the Coeur D’Alene By Fritz Wolff $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3658-5 The Good Times Are All Gone Now Life, Death, and Rebirth in an Idaho Mining Town By Julie Whitesel Weston $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4075-9 Call Me Lucky A Texan in Hollywood By Robert Hinkle and Mike Farris $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4093-3

With deadpan humor, Work pokes fun at his own naïveté in Don’t Shoot the Gentile, a memoir of his rookie years teaching at a small college in a small, mostly Mormon town. From the first pages, Work tells how he navigated the sometimes tricky process of being an outsider, pulling readers—no matter their religious affiliation—into his universal fish-out-of-water tale. The title is drawn from a hunting trip Work made with fellow faculty members, all Mormons. When a load of buckshot whizzed over his head, one of the party hollered, “Don’t shoot the Gentile! We’ll have to hire another one!” Today the College of Southern Utah is a university, and Cedar City, like most small towns in the West, is no longer so culturally isolated. James Work left in 1967 to pursue a doctorate, but his remembrances of the place and its people will do more than make readers—Mormon and non-Mormon alike—laugh out loud. Work’s memoir will resonate with anyone who remembers the challenges and small triumphs of a first job in a new, strange place. James C. Work is author and editor of more than a dozen books, including the anthology Prose and Poetry of the American West and a collection of memoir essays, Windmills, the River and Dust: One Man’s West.

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Blue Heaven A Novel By Willard Wyman The year is 1902. A young stock-handler named Fenton Pardee has just survived the train wreck that almost destroyed William F. Cody’s Wild West show. Surveying the train’s smoldering ruins—and what is left of Cody’s company of stunt-riders, trick-shooters, and stage actors—Fenton realizes that turning the West into a circus to thrill the world is no longer thrilling for him. Salvaging a saddle horse and three pack mules, he heads back into the West, seeking the reality of the Montana Rockies. Blue Heaven marks the return of Fenton Pardee, veteran guide and packer, who figured so memorably in High Country, Willard Wyman’s highly acclaimed first novel. Now Wyman moves back in time, filling in the story of the legendary packer. As he begins his westward journey, Fenton is not nearly as sure of where he is going as of what he wants to leave. Crossing the National Divide, he follows Indian trails and game trails, learning the lay of the land as he moves into a wilderness that comforts him as it draws him ever deeper into it. Stumbling into the camp of Tommy Yellowtail, a Flathead Indian as determined to remain in these mountains as Fenton is to embrace them, he finally finds his way. Together the two men discover that showing people what they want to preserve has its own way of keeping it alive.

october $21.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4218-0 194 Pages, 6 × 9 Fiction

The tale of Fenton and Tommy—and of the women they love, one of whom is tragically taken from them—cuts through the romance of the West to offer an earthier reality, even as twentieth-century expansion and a looming world war threaten to take it all away. Willard Wyman, who resides in the coastal range of Northern California, has been a wrangler, guide, and packer in Montana’s Bob Marshall Wilderness and the Sierra Nevada high country for more than forty years. A former literature instructor and dean at Colby College and Stanford University, he is Headmaster Emeritus of The Thacher School. His previous novel, High Country, was named Best First Novel and Best Novel of the West by the Western Writers of America.

Of Related Interest High Country A Novel By Willard Wyman $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3697-4 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3899-2 Harpsong By Rilla Askew $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3823-7 $14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3928-9 Whose Names Are Unknown A Novel By Sanora Babb $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3579-3 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3712-4

wyman blue heaven

A legendary packer learns his craft—and comes of age—in the high mountains of Montana

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murphy hunter’s log

A unique volume of poetry that captures hunting on the Great Plains

Hunter’s Log Poems by Timothy Murphy Hunter’s Log is Timothy Murphy’s long-awaited book of hunting poetry. With his faithful Labrador, Feeney, Murphy wanders in deep snow along the windbreaks of the Sheyenne and Red River valleys, reciting poetry and firing at the pheasants Feeney flushes. His poetry is deceptively simple, rhymed verse in the manner of Robert Frost. Murphy’s poetry is internationally acclaimed, yet he is not well known on the Great Plains—where his unique poetic vision was shaped. Trained by Robert Penn Warren and mentored by Richard Wilbur, Murphy has tuned his voice to the treeless windswept landscapes of the northern plains. His poetry explores the rural countryside of North Dakota.

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Heavily influenced by Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset’s Meditation on Hunting, Murphy sees hunting as a spiritual activity. There is nothing cloistered in his poetry. He tramps through the tall grass prairie of eastern Dakota and along the ridges and buttes that overlook the mighty Missouri, then cooks up what he kills in exquisite stews and ragouts. Timothy Murphy’s genius is to write poetry that is accessible to all, simultaneously simple and profound, and deeply imbued with the spirit of place.

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Born in 1951, Timothy Murphy grew up in the Red River Valley of the North. Since graduating from Yale College as Scholar of the House in Poetry in 1972, he has farmed and hunted in the Dakotas. Murphy’s work includes the poetry collections The Deed of Gift (1998), Very Far North (2002), and Mortal States and Faint Thunder (2011) and a memoir in verse and prose, Set the Ploughshare Deep (2002). The Labrador retrievers celebrated in Hunter’s Log are Elmwood’s Diktynna Thea, Elmwood’s Maud Gonne, and Elmwood’s Bold Fenian.

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jenkinson a free and hardy life

A lavishly illustrated collection of Teddy Roosevelt's stories of his Dakota years

A Free and Hardy Life Theodore Roosevelt’s Sojourn in the American West By Clay S. Jenkinson Foreword by Douglas Brinkley Theodore Roosevelt ventured into the American West to seek authentic frontier experience and the strenuous life. The New York aristocrat traveled to western Dakota Territory in 1883 to kill his first buffalo. He got his buffalo, but he also fell in love with the badlands of what is now North Dakota. On impulse, Roosevelt invested a significant portion of his wealth in two badlands ranches, and he spent the better part of 1883–87 ranching, hunting, serving as deputy sheriff, writing books, and attempting to become an authentic American cowboy. In North Dakota the New York dude became the Theodore Roosevelt who led a cowboy brigade of cavalrymen up Kettle and San Juan Hills in 1898 and then led the American people into the twentieth century as the twenty-sixth president of the United States. This book contains 70 stories, many set in Dakota Territory, about Roosevelt’s life as an adventurer, politician, and man of letters, lavishly illustrated with more than 100 photographs, some never previously published. Clay S. Jenkinson’s introduction assesses what Roosevelt learned from his sojourn in the West, including his commitment to conservation of America’s natural resources. With a foreword by best-selling biographer Douglas Brinkley, this book tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt’s life in his own words, carefully excerpted from his 1913 autobiography. Clay S. Jenkinson, Director of the Dakota Institute, is the author of eight books, a documentary filmmaker, and founder of the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University. A Rhodes Scholar and winner of the National Humanities Medal, Jenkinson was educated at the University of Minnesota and Oxford University. Douglas Brinkley is the author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America.

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july $45.00 CLOTH 978-0-9825597-8-9 176 Pages, 12 × 11 135 B&W ILLUS. BIOGRAPHY

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murphy mortal stakes / faint thunder

Two distinctive collections of poetry celebrating the northern Great Plains

Mortal Stakes · Faint Thunder New Poetry by Timothy Murphy Timothy Murphy is a major American poet who lives on the Great Plains. A fascinating and complicated man and a child of the northern prairie, he writes deceptively simple poetry. Murphy has been a grain and hog farmer and, like Wallace Stevens, an insurance salesman, but the twin joys of his life are poetry and hunting. This double book, Mortal Stakes and Faint Thunder, is the first of several volumes of his poetry to be published by the Dakota Institute Press. Murphy’s poetry explores faith, family, spirituality, death, farming, friendship, love, and sexuality, yet it is profoundly rooted in place—the Red River watershed in North Dakota and western Minnesota. He tries to make sense of the wide sweep of the northern plains, to explore how place shapes poetry and how poetry shapes one’s experience of place. Distributed for the Dakota Institute

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Murphy is an unpretentious man with a fabulous poetic pedigree. He studied with Robert Penn Warren at Yale, who passed him on to Richard Wilbur with a note saying, “Because he’s the best man we’ve got.” Murphy likens his poetry to the work of Robert Frost, and, like Frost, he prefers to work in rhyme. Born in 1951, Timothy Murphy grew up in the Red River valley of the North. Since graduating from Yale College as Scholar of the House in Poetry in 1972, he has farmed and hunted in the Dakotas. Murphy’s work includes the poetry collections The Deed of Gift (1998); Very Far North (2002); a memoir in verse and prose, Set the Ploughshare Deep (2002); and a new volume of hunting poetry, Hunter’s Log (2011).

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daneo the kress collection

A beautifully illustrated catalogue of the Kress Collection at the Denver Art Museum

The Kress Collection at the Denver Art Museum By Angelica Daneo The Samuel H. Kress Foundation was formed to celebrate art by making it accessible to the entire country. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation’s 1961 gift to the Denver Art Museum of thirty-seven masterworks—from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-seventeenth century—this guide to the collection continues and honors the Samuel H. Kress Foundation’s enduring artistic vision. With more than 100 color illustrations, this lavishly illustrated catalogue presents readers with beautiful images and individual entries, including provenance and specific literature, detailing each work in the Kress Collection at the Denver Art Museum. A native Italian, Angelica Daneo is Associate Curator in Painting and Sculpture at the Denver Art Museum, where she curated Cities of Splendor: A Journey through Renaissance Italy (2011). Prior to joining the Denver Art Museum, Daneo was research assistant in the early European art department of the Saint Louis Art Museum, where she worked on the international exhibition Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi: Father and Daughter Painters in Baroque Italy and the symposium Artemisia Gentileschi: Taking Stock.

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reid Forging a fur empire

From the colorful to the exasperating in the early Snake River trapping expeditions

Forging a fur empire Expeditions in the Snake River Country, 1809–1824 By John Phillip Reid Alexander Ross, the pioneer recorder of the early fur trade in the far northern West, led a beaver trapping expedition in 1824 into the vast, unfamiliar territory east of trading posts in the Pacific Northwest. He and his men ventured deep into Snake River country in present-day Idaho and Montana. In this narrative, based on the accounts left by Ross and others, historian and legal scholar John Phillip Reid describes the experiences of the earliest Hudson’s Bay Company fur-trapping expeditions— ventures usually overlooked by historians—and explores the interaction between the diverse cultures of the Pacific Northwest.

Volume 36 in the western frontiersmen series

november $29.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-402-5 240 Pages, 6.125 × 9.25 1 map History

Of Related Interest Jedediah Smith No Ordinary Mountain Man By Barton H. Barbour $26.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4011-7 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4196-1 Contested Empire Peter Skene Ogden and the Snake River Expeditions By John Phillip Reid $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3374-4 The Journal of John Work A Chief-Trader of the Hudson’s Bay Co. during His Expedition from Vancouver to the Flatheads and Blackfeet of the Pacific Northwest By William S. Lewis and Paul C. Phillips $45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-347-9

Ross recorded in exquisite detail the endless vexations of managing a brigade drawn from the widest possible mixtures of ethnic backgrounds and nationalities—his men included métis (or mixed-bloods), Americans, Canadians, and Native “freemen” (independent contractors) from over a dozen Indian nations. Ross’s accounts reveal the consequences of running low on supplies and having to butcher the animals, and how hunting game for sport threatened the stock of ammunition and the condition of the horses. Entire expeditions were at the mercy of the most careless trapper and the weakest horse. Hiring guides was chancy, for local tribesmen did not always know the locations of beaver streams, or even the terrain ahead. Religion could be problematic, as well; both French Canadians and Iroquois refused to work on Catholic holy days. More than merely chronicling Ross’s accounts, Reid uses early trapping expeditions as a lens for examining legal, institutional, and commercial behavior among the diverse population the fur trade drew together. In addition, he assesses broader issues such as cultural conflict between Ross and his men, and the Hudson’s Bay Company’s drive to discourage American settlement in the Northwest by exterminating the beaver there. Those interested in the history of the early Northwest will find this well-crafted saga both engaging and enlightening. John Phillip Reid is Professor of Law Emeritus at the New York University School of Law and author of numerous books, including Contested Empire: Peter Skene Ogden and the Snake River Expeditions.

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An Archaeology of Desperation Exploring the Donner Party’s Alder Creek Camp Edited by Kelly J. Dixon, Julie M. Schablitsky, and Shannon A. Novak With Contributions by Will Bagley, Kelsey Gray, Donald L. Hardesty, Kristin Johnson, Sean McMurry, Jo Ann Nevers, Gwen Robbins, Penny Rucks, and G. Richard Scott The Donner Party is almost inextricably linked with cannibalism. In truth, we know remarkably little about what actually happened to the starving travelers stranded in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846–47. Combining the approaches of history, ethnohistory, archaeology, bioarchaeology, and social anthropology, this innovative look at the Donner Party’s experience at the Alder Creek Camp offers insights into many long-unsolved mysteries. Centered on archaeological investigations in the summers of 2003 and 2004 near Truckee, California, the book includes detailed analyses of artifacts and bones that suggest what life was like in this survival camp. Microscopic investigations of tiny bone fragments reveal butchery scars and microstructure that illuminate what the Donner families may have eaten before the final days of desperation, how they prepared what served as food, and whether they actually butchered and ate their deceased companions. The contributors reassess old data with new analytic techniques and, by examining both physical evidence and oral testimony from observers and survivors, add new dimensions to the historical narrative. The authors’ integration of a variety of approaches—including narratives of the Washoe Indians who observed the Donner Party—destroys some myths, deconstructs much of the folklore about the stranded party, and demonstrates that novel approaches can shed new light on events we thought we understood. Kelly J. Dixon is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Montana and author of Boomtown Saloons: Archaeology and History in Virginia City. Julie M. Schablitsky is Senior Research Archaeologist at the Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon, and the editor of Box Office Archaeology: Refining Hollywood’s Portrayals of the Past. Shannon A. Novak is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, and author of House of Mourning: A Biocultural History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

october $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4210-4 384 Pages, 6 × 9 49 B&W Illus., 8 Maps Archaeology/History

Of Related Interest Archaeological Insights into the Custer Battle An Assessment of the 1984 Field Season By Douglas D. Scott and Richard A. Fox, Jr. $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2065-2 Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn By Douglas D. Scott, Richard A. Fox Jr., Melissa A. Connor, and Dick Harmon $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3292-1 Archaeology, History, and Custer’s Last Battle The Little Big Horn Reexamined By Richard A. Fox Jr. $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2998-3 $24.95s DVD 978-0-8061-9958-0

dixon, Schablitsky, novak an archaeology of desperation

Uses science to understand survival among the West's most storied overlanders

wood, hunt, williams fort clark and its indian neighbors

new books FALL/WINTER 2011

A history of the fur trade at this historic site, including the latest archaeological findings

Fort Clark and Its Indian Neighbors A Trading Post on the Upper Missouri By W. Raymond Wood, William J. Hunt, Jr., and Randy H. Williams A thriving fur trade post between 1830 and 1860, Fort Clark, in what is today western North Dakota, also served as a way station for artists, scientists, missionaries, soldiers, and other western chroniclers traveling along the Upper Missouri River. The written and visual legacies of these visitors—among them the German prince-explorer Maximilian of Wied, Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, and American painter-author George Catlin—have long been the primary sources of information on the cultures of the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians, the peoples who met the first fur traders in the area. This book, by a team of anthropologists, is the first thorough account of the fur trade at Fort Clark to integrate new archaeological evidence with the historical record.

october $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4213-5 328 Pages, 6 × 9 37 B&W Illus., 9 Maps American Indian/History

Of Related Interest Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade By Barton H. Barbour $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3295-2 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3498-7 the Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri, 1840–1865 By John E. Sunder $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2566-4 Early Fur Trade on the Northern Plains Canadian Traders among the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians, 1738–1818 By W. Raymond Wood and Thomas D. Thiessen $29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3198-6

The Mandans built a village in about 1822 near the site of what would become Fort Clark; after the 1837 smallpox epidemic that decimated them, the village was occupied by Arikaras until they abandoned it in 1862. Because it has never been plowed, the site of Fort Clark and the adjacent Mandan/Arikara village are rich in archaeological information. The authors describe the environmental and cultural setting of the fort (named after William Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition), including the social profile of the fur traders who lived there. They also chronicle the histories of the Mandans and the Arikaras before and during the occupation of the post and the village. The authors conclude by assessing the results—published here for the first time—of the archaeological program that investigated the fort and adjacent Indian villages at Fort Clark State Historic Site. By vividly depicting the conflict and cooperation in and around the fort, this book reveals the various cultures’ interdependence. W. Raymond Wood is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He has authored or edited numerous articles and books on western American history and archaeology, including Prologue to Lewis and Clark: The Mackay and Evans Expedition. William J. Hunt, Jr., is an archaeologist with the National Park Service. Randy H. Williams holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Missouri at Columbia.

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Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand Creek By Louis Kraft When Edward W. Wynkoop arrived in Colorado Territory during the 1858 gold rush, he was one of many ambitious newcomers seeking wealth in a promising land mostly inhabited by American Indians. After he worked as a miner, sheriff, bartender, and land speculator, Wynkoop’s life drastically changed after he joined the First Colorado Volunteers to fight for the Union during the Civil War. This sympathetic but critical biography centers on his subsequent efforts to prevent war with Indians during the volatile 1860s. A central theme of Louis Kraft’s engaging narrative is Wynkoop’s daring in standing up to Anglo-Americans and attempting to end the 1864 Indian war. The Indians may have been dangerous enemies obstructing “progress,” but they were also human beings. Many whites thought otherwise, and at daybreak on November 29, 1864, the Colorado Volunteers attacked Black Kettle’s sleeping camp. Upon learning of the disaster now known as the Sand Creek Massacre, Wynkoop was appalled and spoke out vehemently against the action. Many of his contemporaries damned his views, but Wynkoop devoted the rest of his career as a soldier and then as a U.S. Indian agent to helping Cheyennes and Arapahos to survive. The tribes’ lifeways still centered on the dwindling herds of buffalo, but now they needed guns to hunt. Kraft reveals how hard Wynkoop worked to persuade the Indian Bureau to provide the tribes with firearms along with their allotments of food and clothing—a hard sell to a government bent on protecting white settlers and paving the way for American expansion. In the wake of Sand Creek, Wynkoop strove to prevent General Winfield Scott Hancock from destroying a Cheyenne-Sioux village in 1867, only to have the general ignore him and start a war. Fearing more innocent people would die, Wynkoop resigned from the Indian Bureau but, not long thereafter, receded into obscurity. Now, thanks to Louis Kraft, we may appreciate Wynkoop as a man of conscience who dared to walk between Indians and Anglo-Americans but was often powerless to prevent the tragic consequences of their conflict. Writer, historian, and lecturer Louis Kraft is the author of four books, including Custer and the Cheyenne and Gatewood & Geronimo.

October $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4226-5 336 pages, 6.125 × 9.25 28 b&w illus., 2 maps Biography/History

Of Related Interest The Sand Creek Massacre By Stan Hoig $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1147-6 Life of George Bent Written from His Letters By George E. Hyde $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1577-1 finding sand creek History, Archaeology, and the 1864 Massacre Site By Jerome A. Greene and Douglas D. Scott $24.95 cloth 978-0-8061-3623-3 $19.95 paper 978-0-8061-3801-5

kraft ned wynkoop and the lonely road from sand creek

The first full biography of the agent who dared to walk between Indians and whites

murphy scenery, curiosities, and stupendous rocks

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A nineteenth-century artist’s firsthand impressions of the American West

Scenery, Curiosities, and Stupendous Rocks William Quesenbury’s Overland Sketches, 1850–1851 By David Royce Murphy With contributions by Michael L. Tate and Michael Farrell

December $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4219-7 304 Pages, 11 × 11 157 B&W illus., 13 maps art & photo/history

Of Related Interest On the Western Trails The Overland Diaries of Washington Peck By Susan M. Erb $45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-379-0 So Rugged and Mountainous Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848 By Will Bagley $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4103-9 Best of Covered Wagon Women By Kenneth L. Holmes and Michael L. Tate $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3914-2

Long before Hollywood brought the landscapes of the American West to movie screens, clever impresarios invented ways of simulating the experience of western travel and selling it to mass audiences. In 1851, entrepreneur John Wesley Jones hired artist William Quesenbury to join such a venture. Quesenbury and other artists traveled the overland trails through Nebraska Territory to sketch the “scenery, curiosities, and stupendous rocks” they encountered, and Jones used selected material for his “Pantoscope,” a gigantic, scrolling panoramic painting. Scenery, Curiosities, and Stupendous Rocks gathers 71 of Quesenbury’s sketches from the Jones expedition and a gold rush trip the year before. These works in pencil are illuminated by eyewitness accounts from the period, modern maps, contemporary photographs, and descriptive notes. David Royce Murphy, Michael L. Tate, and Michael Farrell set Quesenbury’s depictions, including Pikes Peak and Courthouse Rock, in historical context. Their insightful essays offer accounts of the artist’s mid-century travels, the worlds of panoramic art and field exploration, and the contemporary conception of natural space. In exploring these topics, the book offers alternate conclusions about the purpose of the sketches. Jones’s moving panorama opened in late 1852 under the title “Pantoscope of California, Nebraska & Kansas, Salt Lake & the Mormons” and was wildly popular on Boston and New York stages. Today, the Quesenbury sketches are all that remains of Jones’s project. The sketches reproduced here, rare records of that ambitious enterprise as well as the sights en route to California gold, offer evidence of the way mid-nineteenth-century Americans envisioned the West. David Royce Murphy is Senior Research Architect for the Nebraska State Historical Society and author of numerous articles on architecture and place. Michael L. Tate, Professor of History at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, is author of nine books, including Indians and Emigrants: Encounters on the Overland Trails. Michael Farrell, a Nebraska public television producer, has produced 18 documentary shows, including In Search of the Oregon Trail and The Platte River Road.

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Plains Indian Art The Pioneering Work of John C. Ewers Edited by Jane Ewers Robinson Preface by Candace S. Greene Introduction by Evan M. Maurer For almost three-quarters of a century, the study of Plains Indian art has been shaped by the expertise, wisdom, and inspired leadership of John Canfield Ewers (1909– 97). Based on years of field research with Native Americans, careful scholarship, and exhaustive firsthand studies of museum collections around the world, Ewers’s publications have long been required reading for anyone interested in the cultures of the Plains peoples, especially their visual art traditions. This vividly illustrated collection of Ewers’s writings presents studies first published in American Indian Art Magazine and other periodicals between 1968 and 1992. Tracing the history of the pictorial art of Plains peoples from images on rock surfaces to the walls of modern museums, the essays reflect the principal interests of this pioneering scholar of ethnohistory, who was himself a talented artist: the depiction of tribal life and ritual, individual war honors, and aspects of sacred power basic to traditional Plains cultures. Chapters are devoted to particular tribal arts—Blackfeet picture writing and Assiniboin antelope-horn headdresses, for example—as well as the work of particular artists. Ewers also traces interactions between Plains Indian artists and Euro-American artists and anthropologists. Available for the first time in book form, the influential cultural and historical studies collected here—together with all 140 illustrations that Ewers selected for them, including many now in full color—remain vital to our understanding of the Native peoples of the Great Plains. John C. Ewers served as Director of what is now the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History and was Ethnologist Emeritus with the Smithsonian. His many publications include The Blackfeet: Raiders on the Northwestern Plains and Plains Indian History and Culture: Essays on Continuity and Change. Jane Ewers Robinson, John C. Ewers’s daughter, is retired as a program analyst for the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement. Candace S. Greene is a North American ethnologist with the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and author of One Hundred Summers: A Kiowa Calendar Record. Evan M. Maurer, former director of the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, is author of Visions of the People: A Pictorial History of Plains Indian Life.

volume 8 in the Charles M. Russell Center series on art and photography of the american west

october $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3061-3 224 Pages, 9 × 11 41 Color and 99 B&W Illus., 1 map Art/American Indian

Of Related Interest Blackfoot War Art Pictographs of the Reservation Period, 1880–2000 By L. James Dempsey $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3804-6 Art from Fort Marion The Silberman Collection By Joyce M. Szabo $49.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3883-1 $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3889-3

ewers, robinson Plains indian art

A lavishly illustrated collection of the renowned ethnohistorian's seminal essays

strong the unkechaug indians of eastern long island

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The first comprehensive history of the Unkechaug Indians

The Unkechaug Indians of Eastern Long Island A History By John A. Strong Few people may realize that Long Island is still home to American Indians, the region’s original inhabitants. One of the oldest reservations in the United States— the Poospatuck Reservation—is located in Suffolk County, the densely populated eastern extreme of the greater New York area. The Unkechaug Indians, known also by the name of their reservation, are recognized by the State of New York but not by the federal government. This narrative account—written by a noted authority on the Algonquin peoples of Long Island—is the first comprehensive history of the Unkechaug Indians.

Volume 269 in The Civilization of the American Indian Series

september $29.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4212-8 352 Pages, 5.5 × 8.5 24 B&W llus., 4 Maps American indian/history

Of Related Interest Native People of Southern New England, 1650–1775 By Kathleen J. Bragdon $32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4004-9 The Pequots in Southern New England The Fall and Rise of an American Indian Nation By Laurence M. Hauptman and James D. Wherry $21.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2515-2 The Powhatan Indians of Virginia Their Traditional Culture By Helen C. Roundtree $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2455-1

Drawing on archaeological and documentary sources, John A. Strong traces the story of the Unkechaugs from their ancestral past, predating the arrival of Europeans, to the present day. He describes their first encounters with British settlers, who introduced to New England’s indigenous peoples guns, blankets, cloth, metal tools, kettles, as well as disease and alcohol. Although granted a large reservation in perpetuity, the Unkechaugs were, like many Indian tribes, the victims of broken promises, and their landholdings diminished from several thousand acres to fifty-five. Despite their losses, the Unkechaugs have persisted in maintaining their cultural traditions and autonomy by taking measures to boost their economy, preserve their language, strengthen their communal bonds, and defend themselves against legal challenges. In early histories of Long Island, the Unkechaugs figured only as a colorful backdrop to celebratory stories of British settlement. Strong’s account, which includes extensive testimony from tribal members themselves, brings the Unkechaugs out of the shadows of history and establishes a permanent record of their struggle to survive as a distinct community. John A. Strong is Professor Emeritus of History and American Studies at Long Island University. He is the author of numerous publications, including The Montaukett Indians of Eastern Long Island, Algonquian Peoples of Long Island from Earliest Times to 1700, and “We Are Still Here!”: The Algonquian Peoples of Long Island Today. He recently served as an expert witness in the federal court case Gristedes Foods v. Poospatuck (Unkechaug) Nation.

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The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory By James N. Leiker and Ramon Powers The exodus of the Northern Cheyennes in 1878 and 1879, an attempt to flee from Indian Territory to their Montana homeland, is an important event in American Indian history. It is equally important in the history of towns like Oberlin, Kansas, where Cheyenne warriors killed more than forty settlers. The Cheyennes, in turn, suffered losses through violent encounters with the U.S. Army. More than a century later, the story remains familiar because it has been told by historians and novelists, and on film. In The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory, James N. Leiker and Ramon Powers explore how the event has been remembered, told, and retold. They examine the recollections of Indians and settlers and their descendants, and they consider local history, mass-media treatments, and literature to draw thought-provoking conclusions about how this story has changed over time. The Cheyennes’ journey has always been recounted in melodramatic stereotypes, and for the last fifty years most versions have featured “noble savages” trying to reclaim their birthright. Here, Leiker and Powers deconstruct those stereotypes and transcend them, pointing out that history is never so simple. “The Cheyennes’ flight,” they write, “had left white and Indian bones alike scattered along its route from Oklahoma to Montana.” In this view, the descendants of the Cheyennes and the settlers they encountered are all westerners who need history as a “way of explaining the bones and arrowheads” that littered the plains. Leiker and Powers depict a rural West whose diverse peoples—Euro-American and Native American alike—seek to preserve their heritage through memory and history. Anyone who lives in the contemporary Great Plains or who wants to understand the West as a whole will find this book compelling. James N. Leiker is author of Racial Borders: Black Soldiers along the Rio Grande and Associate Professor of History at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. Ramon Powers, formerly Executive Director of the Kansas State Historical Society, is author of articles on Plains Indians history.

October $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4221-0 272 Pages, 6 × 9 29 B&W Illus., 1 Map American Indian/history

Of Related Interest A Northern Cheyenne Album Photographs by Thomas B. Marquis By John Woodenlegs $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3893-0 Tell Them We Are Going Home The Odyssey of the Northern Cheyennes By John H. Monnett $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3645-5 Cheyennes and Horse Soldiers The 1857 Expedition and the Battle of Solomon’s Fork By William Y. Chalfant $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3500-7

Leiker, Powers the northern cheyenne exodus in history and memory

How the Northern Cheyenne exodus has been remembered, told, and retold

buss winning the west with words

new books FALL/WINTER 2011

How American settlers accomplished Indian Removal through language and imagery

Winning the West with Words Language and Conquest in the Lower Great Lakes By James Joseph Buss Indian Removal was a process both physical and symbolic, accomplished not only at gunpoint but also through language. In the Midwest, white settlers came to speak and write of Indians in the past tense, even though they were still present. Winning the West with Words explores the ways nineteenth-century Anglo-Americans used language, rhetoric, and narrative to claim cultural ownership of the region that comprises present-day Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

October $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4214-2 336 Pages, 6 × 9 16 B&W Illus. American Indian/History

Of Related Interest Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy By Robert M. Owens

Historian James Joseph Buss borrows from literary studies, geography, and anthropology to examine images of stalwart pioneers and vanished Indians used by American settlers in portraying an empty landscape in which they established farms, towns, and “civilized” governments. He demonstrates how this now-familiar narrative came to replace a more complicated history of cooperation, adaptation, and violence between peoples of different cultures. Buss scrutinizes a wide range of sources—travel journals, captivity narratives, treaty council ceremonies, settler petitions, artistic representations, newspaper editorials, late-nineteenth-century county histories, and public celebrations such as regional fairs and centennial pageants and parades—to show how white Americans used language, metaphor, and imagery to accomplish the symbolic removal of Native peoples from the region south of the Great Lakes. Ultimately, he concludes that the popular image of the white yeoman pioneer was employed to support powerful narratives about westward expansion, American democracy, and unlimited national progress. Buss probes beneath this narrative of conquest to show the ways Indians, far from being passive, participated in shaping historical memory—and often used Anglo-Americans’ own words to subvert removal attempts.

$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4198-5

By grounding his study in place rather than focusing on a single group of people, Buss goes beyond the conventional uses of history, giving readers a new understanding not just of the history of the Midwest but of the power of creation narratives.

The Miami Indians By Bert Anson

James Joseph Buss is Assistant Professor of History at Oklahoma City University.

$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3197-9 The Chippewas of Lake Superior By Edmund Jefferson Danziger, Jr. $21.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2246-5

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The Cherokee Syllabary Writing the People’s Perseverance By Ellen Cushman In 1821, Sequoyah, a Cherokee metalworker and inventor, introduced a writing system that he had been developing for more than a decade. His creation—the Cherokee syllabary—helped his people learn to read and write within five years and became a principal part of their identity. This groundbreaking study traces the creation, dissemination, and evolution of Sequoyah’s syllabary from script to print to digital forms. Breaking with conventional understanding, author Ellen Cushman shows that the syllabary was not based on alphabetic writing, as is often thought, but rather on Cherokee syllables and, more importantly, on Cherokee meanings. Employing an engaging narrative approach, Cushman relates how Sequoyah created the syllabary apart from Western alphabetic models. But he called it an alphabet because he anticipated the Western assumption that only alphabetic writing is legitimate. Calling the syllabary an alphabet, though, has led to our current misunderstanding of just what it is and of the genius behind it—until now. In her opening chapters, Cushman traces the history of Sequoyah’s invention and explains the logic of the syllabary’s structure and the graphic relationships among the characters, both of which might have made the system easy for native speakers to use. Later chapters address the syllabary’s enduring significance, showing how it allowed Cherokees to protect, enact, and codify their knowledge and to weave non-Cherokee concepts into their language and life. The result was their enhanced ability to adapt to social change on and in Cherokee terms. Cushman adeptly explains complex linguistic concepts in an accessible style, even as she displays impressive understanding of interrelated issues in Native American studies, colonial studies, cultural anthropology, linguistics, rhetoric, and literacy studies. Profound, like the invention it explores, The Cherokee Syllabary will reshape the study of Cherokee history and culture. Ellen Cushman, Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan State University and citizen of the Cherokee Nation, is co-editor of Literacy: A Critical Sourcebook and author of The Struggle and the Tools: Oral and Literate Strategies in an Inner City Community.

December $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4220-3 256 Pages, 5.5 × 8.5 35 B&W Illus., 5 tables American Indian/Language

Of Related Interest Beginning Cherokee, second edition By Ruth Bradley Holmes and Betty Sharp Smith $32.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1463-7 Chahta Anumpa A Grammar of the Choctaw Language By Marcia Haag and Loretta Fowler $29.95 cd-rom 978-0-8061-3339-3 Let’s Speak Chickasaw Chikashshanompa’ Kilanompoli’ By Catherine Willmond and Pamela Munro $29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3926-5

cushman the cherokee syllabary

A new perspective on Sequoyah’s enduring invention

magid george crook

new books FALL/WINTER 2011

A new assessment of the frontier army commander, focusing on his early career

George Crook From the Redwoods to Appomattox By Paul Magid Renowned for his prominent role in the Apache and Sioux wars, General George Crook (1828–90) was considered by William Tecumseh Sherman to be his greatest Indian-fighting general. Although Crook was feared by Indian opponents on the battlefield, in defeat the tribes found him a true friend and advocate who earned their trust and friendship when he spoke out in their defense against political corruption and greed. Paul Magid’s detailed and engaging narrative focuses on Crook’s early years through the end of the Civil War. Magid begins with Crook’s boyhood on the Ohio frontier and his education at West Point, then recounts his nine years’ military service in California during the height of the Gold Rush. It was in the Far West that Crook acquired the experience and skills essential to his success as an Indian fighter. September $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4207-4 408 Pages, 6.125 × 9.25 21 B&W Illus., 4 Maps Biography/Military History

Of Related Interest Campaigning with Crook By Capt. Charles King $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1377-7 General Crook and the Western Frontier By Charles M. Robinson III $39.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3358-4 General George Crook His Autobiography By George Crook and Martin F. Schmitt $19.95s paper 978-0-8061-1982-3

This is primarily an account of Crook’s dramatic and sometimes controversial role in the Civil War, in which he was involved on three fronts, in West Virginia, Tennessee, and Virginia. Crook saw action during the battle of Antietam and played important roles in two major offensives in the Shenandoah Valley and in the Chattanooga and Appomattox campaigns. His courage, leadership, and tactical skills won him the respect and admiration of his commanding officers, including Generals Grant and Sheridan. He soon rose to the rank of major general and received four brevet promotions for bravery and meritorious service. Along the way, he led both infantry and cavalry, pioneered innovations in guerrilla warfare, conducted raids deep into enemy territory, and endured a kidnapping by Confederate partisans. George Crook offers insight into the influences that later would make this general both a nemesis of the Indian tribes and their ardent advocate, and it illuminates the personality of this most enigmatic and eccentric of army officers. Paul Magid is a retired attorney who worked with the Peace Corps, then served as General Counsel of the African Development Foundation. Since leaving government in 1999, he has devoted himself to research and writing about General Crook.

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After Custer Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country By Paul L. Hedren Between 1876 and 1877, the U.S. Army battled Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians in a series of vicious conflicts known today as the Great Sioux War. After the defeat of Custer at the Little Big Horn in June 1876, the army responded to its stunning loss by pouring fresh troops and resources into the war effort. In the end, the U.S. Army prevailed, but at a significant cost. In this unique contribution to American western history, Paul L. Hedren examines the war’s effects on the culture, environment, and geography of the northern Great Plains, their Native inhabitants, and the Anglo-American invaders. As Hedren explains, U.S. military control of the northern plains following the Great Sioux War permitted the Northern Pacific Railroad to extend westward from the Missouri River. The new transcontinental line brought hide hunters who targeted the great northern buffalo herds and ultimately destroyed them. A de-buffaloed prairie lured cattlemen, who in turn spawned their own culture. Through forced surrender of their lands and lifeways, Lakotas and Northern Cheyennes now experienced even more stress and calamity than they had endured during the war itself. The victors, meanwhile, faced a different set of challenges, among them providing security for the railroad crews, hide hunters, and cattlemen. Hedren is the first scholar to examine the events of 1876–77 and their aftermath as a whole, taking into account relationships among military leaders, the building of forts, and the army’s efforts to memorialize the war and its victims. Woven into his narrative are the voices of those who witnessed such events as the burial of Custer, the laying of railroad track, or the sudden surround of a buffalo herd. Their personal testimonies lend both vibrancy and pathos to this story of irreversible change in Sioux Country. Paul L. Hedren is a retired National Park Service superintendent and an awardwinning historian living in Omaha, Nebraska. His numerous publications include First Scalp for Custer, Fort Laramie in 1876, We Trailed the Sioux, and Great Sioux War Orders of Battle.

October $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4216-6 272 Pages, 6 × 9 2 Maps History

Of Related Interest Where Custer Fell Photographs of the Little Bighorn Battlefield Then and Now By James S. Brust, Brian C. Pohanka, and Sandy Barnard $26.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3834-3 great sioux war orders of battle How the United States Army Waged War on the Northern Plains, 1876–1877 Edited by Paul L. Hedren $39.95 cloth 978-0-87062-397-4 To Hell with Honor Custer and the Little Bighorn By Larry Sklenar $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3472-7

hedren after custer

How the northern plains were remade in the late nineteenth century

clifford, nolan deep trails in the old west

new books FALL/WINTER 2011

A newly discovered memoir captures life in the Wild West of Billy the Kid

Deep Trails in the Old West A Frontier Memoir By Frank Clifford Edited by Frederick Nolan Cowboy and drifter Frank Clifford lived a lot of lives—and raised a lot of hell—in the first quarter of his life. The number of times he changed his name—Clifford being just one of them—suggests that he often traveled just steps ahead of the law. During the 1870s and 1880s his restless spirit led him all over the Southwest, crossing the paths of many of the era’s most notorious characters, most notably Clay Allison and Billy the Kid.

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More than just an entertaining and informative narrative of his Wild West adventures, Clifford’s memoir also paints a picture of how ranchers and ordinary folk lived, worked, and stayed alive during those tumultuous years. Written in 1940 and edited and annotated by Frederick Nolan, Deep Trails in the Old West is likely one of the last eyewitness histories of the old West ever to be discovered. As Frank Clifford, the author rode with outlaw Clay Allison’s Colfax County vigilantes, traveled with Charlie Siringo, cowboyed on the Bell Ranch, contended with Apaches, and mined for gold in Hillsboro. In 1880 he was one of the Panhandle cowboys sent into New Mexico to recover cattle stolen by Billy the Kid and his compañeros—and in the process he got to know the Kid dangerously well. In unveiling this work, Nolan faithfully preserves Clifford’s own words, providing helpful annotation without censoring either the author’s strong opinions or his racial biases. For all its roughness, Deep Trails in the Old West is a rich resource of frontier lore, customs, and manners, told by a man who saw the Old West at its wildest—and lived to tell the tale. Frederick Nolan is a leading authority on outlaws and gunfighters of the Old West. His award-winning books include The West of Billy the Kid; The Wild West: History, Myth, and the Making of America; The Lincoln County War: A Documentary History; and The Billy the Kid Reader.

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Billy the Kid and Other Plays By Rudolfo Anaya Afterword by Cecilia J. Aragón and Robert Con Davis-Undiano While award-winning author Rudolfo Anaya is known primarily as a novelist, his genius is also evident in dramatic works performed regularly in his native New Mexico and throughout the world. Billy the Kid and Other Plays collects seven of these works and offers them together for the first time. Like his novels, many of Anaya’s plays are built from the folklore of the Southwest. This volume opens with The Season of La Llorona, in which Anaya fuses the Mexican legend of the dreaded “crying woman” with that of La Malinche, mistress and adviser to Hernán Cortés. Southwestern lore also shapes the title play, which provides a Mexican American perspective on the Kid—or Bilito, as he is known in New Mexico—along with keen insight into the slipperiness of history. The Farolitos of Christmas and Matachines uncover both the sweet and the sinister in stories behind seasonal New Mexican rituals. Other plays here address loss of the old ways—farming, connection to the land, the primacy of family—while showing the power of change. The mystery Who Killed Don José? uses the murder of a wealthy sheep rancher to look at political corruption and modernization. Ay, Compadre! and Angie address aging and death, though with refreshing humor and optimism.

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Elegant and poetic, intense and funny, these are the plays Anaya considers his best. The author tells how each originated, while Cecilia J. Aragón and Robert Con DavisUndiano offer critical analysis and performance history. Both Anaya fans and readers new to his work will find this collection a rich trove, as will community theaters and scholars in Chicano literature and drama. Rudolfo Anaya is author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the classic novel Bless Me, Ultima and, more recently, Randy Lopez Goes Home. Cecilia J. Aragón is Assistant Professor of Chicano Studies at the University of Wyoming, Laramie. Robert Con Davis-Undiano is Neustadt Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Oklahoma, Norman.

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aird, nichols, bagley playing with shadows

The personal journeys of four Latter-day Saints who came to doubt the faith

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

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Instead of focusing on a single disheartened individual or sect, this collection includes dissenters with different motivations and a wide range of experiences. Some devout Mormon converts, finding Brigham Young’s implementation of the Kingdom of God disillusioning, turned their backs on religion in general. Yet most never lost their love for their fellow Mormons or their longing for the ideal society they had dreamed of building. Newspaper articles, personal letters, journals, and sermons provide context for the testaments collected here—those of George Armstrong Hicks, Charles Derry, Ann Gordge, and Brigham Young Hampton. The four range from those who felt Brigham Young had not lived up to the precepts of Mormonism, to “backouts” who gave up and left Utah, to a plural wife who constructed a rich fantasy world, to a devoted Latter-day Saint who gave his all only to feel betrayed by his leaders. Young warned one dissenting group that they were “not playing with shadows,” but with “the voice and the hand of the Almighty”; accordingly, many dissenters feared for their livelihoods, and some, for their lives. Historians will value the range of beliefs, opinions, complaints, hopes, and fears expressed in these carefully annotated life histories. An antidote to anti-Mormon sensationalism, these detailed chronicles of deeply personal journeys add subtlety and a human dimension to our understanding of the Mormon past. Independent historian Polly Aird is the author of Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector: A Scottish Immigrant in the American West, 1848–1861. Jeff Nichols is Associate Professor of History at Westminster College, Salt Lake City, and the author of Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power: Salt Lake City, 1847–1918. Will Bagley has written or edited nineteen books, including So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848.

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Parley P. Pratt and the Making of Mormonism Edited and with contributions by Gregory K. Armstrong, Matthew J. Grow, and Dennis J. Siler Parley P. Pratt joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1830 and was murdered in 1857 by the estranged husband of his twelfth plural wife. An original member of the Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Pratt played a key leadership role for the Mormons. His writings, including poetry, apologetics, and an autobiography, helped define Mormon theology and identity, and his hymns remain popular today. Arguably Mormonism’s most influential early leader after Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, Pratt is also one of its least understood. This collection of essays uses Pratt’s life and writings as a means for gaining insight on early Latter-day Saint history, including the Church’s initial internationalization, vibrant print culture, development of a unique theology, family dynamics, and the Mountain Meadows Massacre. This fascinating compilation sets Pratt and Mormonism in the context of American religion and culture. The contributors examine Pratt’s political and religious struggles on behalf of Mormonism. His murder is also situated within competing narratives of religious martyrdom and sexual deviance, Victorian domestic ideals and domestic abuse. Because Pratt was killed in Arkansas, the massacre of Arkansas emigrants at Mountain Meadows in Utah has long been viewed as vengeance for his death. This well-crafted collection shows that view to be oversimplified. The narratives that emerge here will appeal to anyone seeking to understand the nuances of early Mormon history in the context of one of its most important and controversial figures. Gregory K. Armstrong is Chair of the Department of World Languages at the University of Arkansas–Fort Smith and author of numerous articles on language learning. Matthew J. Grow is Director of Publications, LDS Church History Department, and author of “Liberty to the Downtrodden”: Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer. Dennis J. Siler is Associate Professor of English at the University of Arkansas–Fort Smith and author of The Influence of the Roman Poet Ovid on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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Of Related Interest Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector A Scottish Immigrant in the American West, 1848–1861 By Polly Aird $39.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-369-1 Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake George R. Maxwell, Civil War Hero and Federal Marshal among the Mormons By John Gary Maxwell $39.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-388-2 We’ll Find the Place The Mormon Exodus, 1846–1848 By Richard E. Bennett $21.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3838-1

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chiles justinian caire and santa cruz island

The saga of the family that controlled the storied island

Justinian Caire and Santa Cruz Island The Rise and Fall of a California Dynasty By Frederic Caire Chiles Foreword by Marla Daily One of the fabled Channel Islands of Southern California, Santa Cruz was once the largest privately owned island off the coast of the continental United States. This multifaceted account traces the island’s history from its aboriginal Chumash population to its acquisition by The Nature Conservancy at the end of the twentieth century. The heart of the book, however, is a family saga: the story of French émigré Justinian Caire and his descendants, who owned and occupied the island for more than fifty years. The author, descended from Caire, uses family archives unavailable to earlier historians to recount the full, previously untold story.

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Of Related Interest Santa Cruz Island A History of Conflict and Diversity By John Gherini $39.50s Cloth 978-0-87062-264-9 Adventurers and Prophets American Autobiographers in Mexican California, 1829–1847 By Charles B. Churchill $35.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-228-1 Murder of a Landscape The California Farmer-Smelter War, 1897–1916 By Khaled J. Bloom $34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-396-7

Justinian Caire and Santa Cruz Island opens with Caire’s early life as a San Francisco businessman and his acquisition of Santa Cruz Island, where he created a ranching kingdom based on sheep, cattle, and wine. Frederic Caire Chiles examines the business practices of the Justinian Caire and Santa Cruz Island companies, documenting the island’s economic ups and downs and the environmental impact of ranching in those days. Above all, he looks at the family’s daily life on the island from the midnineteenth into the twentieth century. This epic contains tragic elements, as well. What began as a profitable ranch and an idyllic retreat ended in the family divided by bitter litigation and the forced sale of the island. Family diaries and letters enable Chiles to tell the story of an intensely private clan and its struggle to hold an island dynasty together. The history of Santa Cruz Island has never been told so thoroughly or so well. Replete with intimate portraits and high drama, this California story will move readers as it informs them. Frederic Caire Chiles holds a doctorate in history from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a freelance writer and the former managing director of Positive Image, Ltd., a marketing communications firm in England. Marla Daily is president of the Santa Cruz Island Foundation and author of California’s Channel Islands: 1001 Questions Answered.

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Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley Making the Modern Old West By Thomas J. Harvey The Colorado River Plateau is home to two of the best-known landscapes in the world: Rainbow Bridge in southern Utah and Monument Valley on the Utah-Arizona border. Twentieth-century popular culture made these places icons of the American West, and advertising continues to exploit their significance today. In Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley, Thomas J. Harvey artfully tells how Navajos and AngloAmericans created fabrics of meaning out of this stunning desert landscape, space that western novelist Zane Grey called “the storehouse of unlived years,” where a rugged, more authentic life beckoned. Harvey explores the different ways in which the two societies imbued the landscape with deep cultural significance. Navajos long ago incorporated Rainbow Bridge into the complex origin story that embodies their religion and worldview. In the early 1900s, archaeologists crossed paths with Grey in the Rainbow Bridge area. Grey, credited with making the modern western novel popular, sought freedom from the contemporary world and reimagined the landscape for his own purposes. In the process, Harvey shows, Grey erased most of the Navajo inhabitants. This view of the landscape culminated in filmmaker John Ford’s use of Monument Valley as the setting for his epic midtwentieth-century Westerns. Harvey extends the story into the late twentieth century when environmentalists sought to set aside Rainbow Bridge as a symbolic remnant of nature untainted by modernization. Tourists continue to flock to Monument Valley and Rainbow Bridge, as they have for a century, but the landscapes are most familiar today because of their appearances in advertising. Monument Valley has been used to sell perfume, beer, and sport utility vehicles. Encompassing the history of the Navajo, archaeology, literature, film, environmentalism, and tourism, Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley explores how these rock formations, Navajo sacred spaces still, have become embedded in the modern identity of the American West—and of the nation itself. Thomas J. Harvey is a reporter for the Salt Lake Tribune and co-editor of Imagining the Big Open: Nature, Identity, and Play in the New West.

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Of Related Interest John Ford Hollywood’s Old Master By Ronald L. Davis $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2916-7 Ghost west Reflections Past and Present By Ann Ronald $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3694-3 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

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tyler wd farr

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Portrays a major leader in the twentieth-century development of western agriculture

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

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WD was a third-generation descendant of western farming pioneers, who specialized in sheep feeding. While learning all he could from his father and grandfather, WD developed a new vision: to make cattle profitable. He sought out experienced livestock experts to help him devise ways to produce beef year-round. When World War II ended, and the troops came home tired of wartime mutton, the beef industry took off. With his new innovations in place, WD was ready. Tyler also reveals WD’s influence in securing water supplies for farmers and ranchers and in establishing water conservation policies. Early in his career, WD helped sell the Colorado–Big Thompson Project to skeptical, debt-ridden farmers. In 1955, he became a board member for the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District, a post he held for forty years.

Of Related Interest Riding for the Brand 150 Years of Cowden Ranching By Michael Pettit $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3718-6 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4044-5 Silver Fox of the Rockies Delphus E. Carpenter and Western Water Compacts By Daniel Tyler $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3515-1

Tyler bases his portrait of WD Farr on extensive archival research and dozens of interviews with people who knew him personally or by reputation. In the end, Tyler shows that although not everybody agreed, or will agree, with Farr’s stands on particular issues, this “cowboy in the boardroom” led by his own example. By embracing change and seeking consensus rather than forcing his will on others, his greatest legacy—as revealed in this book—may be the model of leadership he provided. Daniel Tyler is Professor Emeritus of History at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, and the author of Silver Fox of the Rockies: Delphus E. Carpenter and Western Water Compacts. Hank Brown is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives and a former U.S. Senator. He later served as president of the University of Colorado.

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Congress vs. the Bureaucracy Muzzling Agency Public Relations By Mordecai Lee Winner of The Julian J. Rothbaum Prize Government bureaucracy is something Americans have long loved to hate. Yet despite this general antipathy, some federal agencies have been wildly successful in cultivating the people’s favor. Take, for instance, the U.S. Forest Service and its still-popular Smokey Bear campaign. The agency early on gained a foothold in the public’s esteem when President Theodore Roosevelt championed its conservation policies and Forest Service press releases led to favorable coverage and further goodwill. Congress has rarely approved of such bureaucratic independence. In Congress vs. the Bureaucracy, political scientist Mordecai Lee—who has served as a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill and as a state senator—explores a century of congressional efforts to prevent government agencies from gaining support for their initiatives by communicating directly with the public. Through detailed case studies, Lee shows how federal agencies have used increasingly sophisticated publicity techniques to muster support for their activities—while Congress has passed laws to counter those PR efforts. The author first traces congressional resistance to Roosevelt’s campaigns to rally popular support for the Panama Canal project, then discusses the Forest Service, the War Department, the Census Bureau, and the Department of Agriculture. Lee’s analysis of more recent legislative bans on agency publicity in the George W. Bush administration reveals that political battles over PR persist to this day. Ultimately, despite Congress’s attempts to muzzle agency public relations, the bureaucracy usually wins. Opponents of agency PR have traditionally condemned it as propaganda, a sign of a mushrooming, self-serving bureaucracy, and a waste of taxpayer dollars. For government agencies, though, communication with the public is crucial to implementing their missions and surviving. In Congress vs. the Bureaucracy, Lee argues these conflicts are in fact healthy for America. They reflect a struggle for autonomy that shows our government’s system of checks and balances to be alive and working well. Mordecai Lee is Professor of Governmental Affairs at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and the author of several books, including The First Presidential Communications Agency: FDR’s Office of Government Reports.

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Of Related Interest The Power of Money in Congressional Campaigns, 1880–2006 By David C.W. Parker $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3903-6 Women Transforming Congress By Cindy Simon Rosenthal $32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3455-0 $32.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3496-3 Party Wars Polarization and the Politics of National Policy Making By Barbara Sinclair $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3779-7

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young sanchez, schaan marajÓ

Reveals the ceramic works and worldview of Brazil’s ancient Marajó people

Marajó Ancient Ceramics from the Mouth of the Amazon By Margaret Young-Sánchez and Denise Pahl Schaan The Amazon Basin is now recognized as a cradle of cultural and technological innovation in the ancient Americas. It was there that the hemisphere’s earliest known ceramics (ca. 5000 b.c.) were produced. Located at the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil, Marajó Island was home to one of the region’s most populous and sophisticated ancient societies (a.d. 300–1300). Island chiefdoms built impressive mounds to support multifamily longhouses, ceremonial spaces, and cemeteries, and constructed channels, dams, and weirs to trap huge quantities of fish as the annual floodwaters receded. Aquaculture, rather than agriculture, provided the primary source of subsistence for the Marajó people. Their beautifully decorated ceramics reveal the skill and artistry of Amazonian potters and the complexity of their cosmology. Distributed for Denver Art Museum september $25.00s PAPER 978-0-914738-73-2 72 pages, 8.5 × 11 65 COLOR AND 3 B&W ILLUS., 2MAPS Art/Museum Collections

Of Related Interest The Arts of South America, 1492–1850 By Donna Pierce $39.95s Paper 978-0-8061-9976-4 Nature and Spirit Ancient Costa Rican Treasures in the Mayer Collection at the Denver Art Museum By Margaret Young-Sanchez $49.95s Cloth 978-0-914738-68-8

Lavishly illustrated, this volume presents ceramics from the Denver Art Museum, Barbier-Mueller Museums of Geneva and Barcelona, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, and private collections. Included are boldly painted burial urns, delicately incised figures, intricately carved and painted jars, bowls, and plates, and unique circular ceramic stools. Margaret Young-Sánchez and Denise Pahl Schaan’s essays describe Marajó culture, ceramics, and funerary practices. Maps and photographs round out this important contribution to South American art history and archaeology. Margaret Young-Sánchez, Chief Curator and Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator of Pre-Columbian Art at the Denver Art Museum, is editor of Nature and Spirit: Ancient Costa Rican Treasures in the Mayer Collection at the Denver Art Museum (2011) and curator of Tiwanaku: Ancestors of the Inca (2004). Denise Pahl Schaan, Professor of Archaeology, Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil, has directed several archaeological projects on Marajó Island.

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Aztecs on Stage Religious Theater in Colonial Mexico Edited by Louise M. Burkhart Translated from the Nahuatl by Louise M. Burkhart, Barry D. Sell, and Stafford Poole Nahuatl drama, one of the most surprising results of the Catholic presence in colonial Mexico, merges medieval European religious theater with the language and performance traditions of the Aztec (Nahua) people of central Mexico. Franciscan missionaries, seeking effective tools for evangelization, fostered this new form of theater after observing the Nahuas’ enthusiasm for elaborate performances. The plays became a controversial component of native Christianity, allowing Nahua performers to present Christian discourse in ways that sometimes effected subtle changes in meaning. The Indians’ enthusiastic embrace of alphabetic writing enabled the use of scripts, but the genre was so unorthodox that Spanish censors prevented the plays’ publication. As a result, colonial Nahuatl drama survives only in scattered manuscripts, most of them anonymous, some of them passed down and recopied over generations. Aztecs on Stage presents accessible English translations of six of these seventeenthand eighteenth-century Nahuatl plays. All are based on European dramatic traditions, such as the morality and passion plays; indigenous actors played the roles of saints, angels, devils—and even the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. Louise M. Burkhart’s engaging introduction places the plays in historical context, while stage directions and annotations in the works provide insight into the Nahuas’ production practices, which often incorporated elaborate sets, props, and special effects including fireworks and music. The translations facilitate classroom readings and performances while retaining significant artistic features of the Nahuatl originals. Louise M. Burkhart is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York, Albany, and co-editor and co-translator of Nahuatl Theater, the four-volume set of plays from which this collection is drawn.

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Of Related Interest Nahuatl Theater, Volume 2 Our Lady of Guadalupe Edited by Barry D. Sell, Louise M. Burkhart, and Stafford Poole $55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3794-0 Nahuatl Theater, Volume 3 Spanish Golden Age Drama in Mexican Translation Edited by Barry D. Sell, Louise M. Burkhart, and Elizabeth R. Wright $55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3878-7 Nahuatl Theater, Volume 4 Nahua Christianity in Performance Edited by Barry D. Sell and Louise M. Burkhart $49.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4010-0

burkhart aztecs on stage

Six plays from colonial Mexico, translated for modern readers and performers

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American Indians and

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Recounts Indians’ progress in the voting booth

Samuel J. Abrams Examines the decline of the political center within America’s party system

“This engaging, well-written book . . . is appropriate and useful for general readers and undergraduates. It is detailed enough to make it important for specialists in the fields of Indian law and voting rights.”—Choice The struggle for voting rights was not limited to African Americans in the South—American Indians have also faced discrimination at the polls. This book explores their fight for equal voting rights and carefully documents how non-Indian officials have tried to maintain dominance over Native peoples despite the rights they are guaranteed as American citizens. Laughlin McDonald has participated in numerous lawsuits brought on behalf of Native Americans that challenged discriminatory practices such as at-large elections, burdensome identification requirements, and noncompliance with the Voting Rights Act. Here McDonald describes past and presentday discrimination against Indians and paints a broad picture of Indian political participation. Incorporating expert reports, legislative histories, and hundreds of interviews with tribal members, this insightful study recounts the extraordinary progress American Indians have made and looks toward a more just future. Laughlin McDonald is Director of the Voting Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. He is the author of numerous books and articles on voting rights policy, including A Voting Rights Odyssey: Black Enfranchisement in Georgia.

“An important contribution to a lively public and scholarly debate about the extent, sources, and consequences of polarization in contemporary American politics.”—POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY “First-rate political science . . . Fiorina has once again defined research for another generation of political scientists. Highly recommended.”—CHOICE Red states, blue states . . . are we no longer the United States? In Disconnect, Morris P. Fiorina examines today’s party system to reassess arguments about political polarization while offering a cogent overview of the American electorate. Drawing on polling results and other data, Fiorina examines the disconnect between an unrepresentative “political class” and the citizenry it purports to represent, showing how politicians have become more polarized while voters remain moderate. Disconnect helps readers better understand the political divide between leaders and the American public—and helps steer a course for change.

Morris P. Fiorina is the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Samuel J. Abrams is a Fellow at the Hamilton Center for Political Economy, New York University. Volume 11 in the Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series november $24.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4228-9

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Mexican California

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By Carlos Manuel Salomon A thorough and sympathetic biography of the extraordinary Apache leader

The first biography of a politically savvy Californio who straddled three eras

“Thanks to this expertly researched and vividly written biography by a next-generation historian making a stunning debut, Pío Pico now emerges into full historical perspective as a pivotal and representative figure in the transition of California from Mexican province to American state.”—Kevin Starr, Professor of History, University of Southern California A two-time governor of Alta California and prominent businessman after the U.S. annexation, Pío de Jesus Pico was a politically savvy Californio who thrived in both the Mexican and the American period. This is the first biography of Pico, whose life vibrantly illustrates the opportunities and risks faced by Mexican Americans in those transitional years. Carlos Manuel Salomon breathes life into the story of Pico, who—despite his mestizo-black heritage—became one of the wealthiest men in California thanks to real estate holdings. Salomon traces Pico’s complicated political rise during the Mexican era when he led a revolt against the governor that swept him into that office. In 1845, during his second governorship, Pico fought in vain to save California from the invading forces of the United States. As an important transitional figure whose name still resonates in many Southern California locales, Pico’s story offers a revealing look at California history that anticipates a new perspective on the region’s multicultural fabric. Carlos Manuel Salomon is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Latin American Studies Program at California State University, East Bay. SEPTEMBER $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4237-1 248 Pages, 5.5 × 8.5 7 B&W ILLUS. BIOGRAPHY

“A solid contribution to the story of the Apaches and the history of the Southwest.”—Donald E. Worcester, author of The Apaches: Eagles of the Southwest Mangas Coloradas led his Chiricahua Apache people for almost forty years. During the last years of Mangas’s life, he and his son-in-law Cochise led an assault against white settlement in Apachería that made the two of them the most feared warriors in the Southwest. In this first full-length biography of the legendary chief, Edwin R. Sweeney vividly portrays the Apache culture in which Mangas rose to power and the conflict with Americans that led to his brutal death. A giant of a man, Mangas combined strength with wisdom and became leader of the Chiricahuas by 1842. Leading war parties against the Mexicans of Sonora, Mangas returned to his homelands in southwestern New Mexico with livestock, booty, and captives. In 1846 he welcomed Americans who joined in his fight against the Mexicans. But as more white miners, ranchers, and farmers encroached on the Apaches’ territory, tragic incidents caused retaliations that pressured Mangas, along with Cochise, to fight back in desperation. When Mangas finally tried to make peace in 1863, he was captured and killed by American soldiers. Ironically, the death of Mangas Coloradas, who had wished only to live in peace in his land, inflamed American-Apache relations and led to another twenty-three years of war. Retired as a professional accountant, Edwin R. Sweeney is an independent scholar and one of the preeminent historians of the Apaches. He is the author of Cochise: Chiricahua Apache Chief and From Cochise to Geronimo: The Chiricahua Apaches, 1874–1886. Volume 231 in The Civilization of the American Indian Series july $32.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4239-5 608 Pages, 6 × 9 46 B&W ILLUS., 3 MAPS Biography/American Indian

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Taking Indian Lands

Monte Foreman’s

The Cherokee (Jerome)

Horse-Training Science

Commission, 1889–1893

By Monte Foreman and

By William T. Hagan

Patrick Wyse

A detailed and disturbing account of the deliberations between the Cherokee Commission and the tribes

Step-by-step instructions with more than 300 illustrations

“Hagan’s book allows us to travel with the commission and watch this disgraceful episode from a front-row seat. . . . A fascinating window into tribal politics.”—Frederick E. Hoxie Authorized by Congress in 1889, the Cherokee Commission was formed to negotiate the purchase of huge areas of land from the Cherokees, Ioways, Pawnees, Poncas, Tonakawas, Wichitas, Cheyennes, Arapahos, Sac and Fox, and other tribes in Indian Territory. Some humanitarian reformers argued that dissolving tribal holdings would help “civilize” the Indians and speed their assimilation into American culture, but the coerced sales also opened to white settlement vast “unused” expanses of tribal lands. Called the Jerome Commission, after its lead negotiator, David H. Jerome, the commission intimidated Indians into first accepting allotment in severalty and then selling to the United States—at its price—the fifteen million acres declared surplus after allotment. Hagan has mined nearly two thousand pages of commission journals in the National Archives to reveal the commissioners’ rhetoric and strategies and the Indians’ responses—the words of tribal leaders as they poignantly defended ownership of their land and expressed their fears of impending change. William T. Hagan is retired as Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. His numerous books on American Indians include The Sac and Fox Indians and Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief, also published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

“A look at the almost visionary techniques of one of the most revolutionary horsemen our country has seen.”—Horse Illustrated Monte Foreman was one of America’s foremost trainers of horses and riders, and many advances in western training have come from his years of research into the action and interaction of horse and rider—research aimed at improving their athletic ability as a team. It was Foreman who first applied still and motion-picture photography to the sport of riding, to determine beyond doubt how horses move most naturally and efficiently. His training methods are applicable to all kinds of western and English riding. Monte Foreman’s Horse-Training Science introduces beginning and advanced riders to Foreman’s method, which he taught successfully in clinics for many years with Patrick Wyse, his first accredited instructor. Step-by-step instructions and more than 300 photographs and drawings explain how to execute the turn on the forehand, the side pass, leads, the posting trot and the natural depart, flying lead changes, balanced stops, rolls, and spins. The horse-and-rider team that becomes proficient in the Foreman method will enter a whole new world of enjoyment, performance skill, and competitive achievement. Monte Foreman spent his professional life working with horses—as a cowboy, arena performer, U.S. cavalryman, polo player, competitor, and trainer. Patrick Wyse is a full-time professional riding instructor who trains and films the techniques of more than 600 students each year at Horse Wyse Ranch near Townsend, Montana.

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Daily Life in

Juan de Ovando

Colonial Mexico

Governing the Spanish Empire

The Journey of Friar Ilarione da

in the Reign of Philip II

Bergamo, 1761–1768

By Stafford Poole

Translated from the A revealing look at the power of letrados in sixteenth-century Spain

Italian by William J. Orr Edited by Robert Ryal Miller and William J. Orr An Italian friar’s account of his seven-year mission in colonial Mexico In 1761 Ilarione da Bergamo, a Capuchin friar, journeyed to Mexico to gather alms for foreign missions. After harrowing voyages across the Mediterranean and Atlantic, he reached Mexico City in 1763. His account reveals the squalor, crime, and other perils in the viceregal capital, and details daily life: food, public hygiene, sexual morality, medical practices, and popular diversions. His observations about religious life are particularly valuable. Ilarione also describes mining and refining techniques, recounts a bitter and bloody miners’ strike, and recalls traveling across bandit-infested wilderness to Guadalajara. After his return to Italy, Ilarione wrote an account of his journey, published here for the first time in English. The editors have liberally annotated the text, written an introduction about Ilarione’s life and the historical context of his journey, and included more than a dozen of Fra Ilarione’s original drawings, including maps and sketches of Mexican flora. Daily Life in Colonial Mexico is a welcome addition to the firsthand literature of New Spain. William J. Orr was a Foreign Service officer in the U.S. Department of State. Robert Ryal Miller was Professor Emeritus of History, California State University, Hayward, and the author of Mexico: A History. Volume 78 in The American Exploration and Travel Series july $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4233-3 256 Pages, 5.5 × 8.5

“Clearly written and solidly based on extensive archival research, . . . Poole’s study belongs in all college and university libraries. Highly recommended.”—Choice Philip II is a fascinating and enigmatic figure in Spanish history, but it was his letrados—professional bureaucrats and ministers trained in law—who made his vast Castilian empire possible. In Juan de Ovando, Stafford Poole traces the life and career of a key minister in the king’s government, providing an intimate view of the day-to-day influence letrados wielded over the Spanish colonial machine. Juan de Ovando, an industrious, discerning, and loyal servant, began his career as an ecclesiastical judge and inquisitor in Seville, and from there, at the king’s order, undertook the reform of the University of Alcalá de Henares. Appointed to the supreme council of the Spanish Inquisition, Ovando was commissioned to investigate the Council of the Indies. In this role, he began collecting information about Spain’s overseas possessions through the famed Relaciones geográficas—wideranging surveys of daily life in the New World. While devising long-term colonial policies for New Spain, Ovando also presided over the Council of Finance and sought to bring order to Spain’s chaotic financial situation. Stafford Poole, C.M., an independent researcher and ordained priest who devotes himself to the study of Nahuatl, is the author of numerous publications, including Pedro Moya de Contreras: Catholic Reform and Royal Power in New Spain, 1571–1591.

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galvan, barbour chikasha stories, volume one: shared spirit

A beautifully illustrated volume of traditional Chickasaw stories

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

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Born into the Fox Clan of the Chickasaws, Glenda Galvan is her clan’s storyteller. She has served on numerous museum boards and often travels to share her culture and tell traditional southeastern stories. As a Chickasaw historian, artist, and author, Jeannie Barbour also serves as an advocate for Native American issues, specifically the protection of Southeastern tribal history, culture, art, sacred sites, and artifacts. Glenda Galvan holds a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Oklahoma. She is currently manager and curator of the Chickasaw White House museum and historical site at Emet, Oklahoma. The beautiful award-winning illustrations and writings of Jeannie Barbour have been featured in many art exhibitions, publications, and books, including Chickasaw: Unconquered and Unconquerable, Proud to Be Chickasaw, Let’s Speak Chickasaw, and American Indian Places.

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ellis, penner ilimpa’chi’ (Let’s eat!): a chickasaw cookbook

The first cookbook of traditional Chickasaw recipes from the Chickasaw Press

Ilimpa’chi’ (Let’s Eat!) A Chickasaw Cookbook By JoAnn Ellis and Vicki Penner Recipes, reminiscences, and lessons in Chickasaw lifeways are the main ingredients in Ilimpa’chi’ (Let’s Eat!): A Chickasaw Cookbook. Well-known Chickasaw cooks JoAnn Ellis and Vicki Penner share more than forty recipes, accompanied by scenes from their lives spent cooking, eating, and growing up around foods prepared in Chickasaw kitchens and over outdoor cooking fires. Their stories reveal the organic connections between food, family, and Chickasaw Nation history. Presenting traditional and traditionally inspired recipes for wild game, meat and fish, wild vegetables and fruits, garden produce, and breads, they describe and celebrate the roles of these dishes in the feasts of Chickasaw culture. Ilimpa’chi’ also includes a glossary of Chickasaw cooking terms and phrases, along with excerpts of poems and prayers written by Chickasaw writers and fluent Native speakers about the traditions of food and family. More than a recipe collection, Ilimpa’chi’ offers a cook’s-eye view of Chickasaw life. JoAnn Ellis is a fluent speaker of Chikashshanompa’, a specialist in the Chickasaw Language department, and an instructor for its Master/Apprentice Program. She is also Adjunct Professor of Chickasaw Language at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma. Vicki May Penner (Chickasaw-Cherokee) holds a master’s degree in education, is a graduate of the Chickasaw Language Master/Apprentice Program, and spent twenty-five years in education, including the Chickasaw Language department. She is retail manager at the Chickasaw Cultural Center in Sulphur, Oklahoma.

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morgan, parker dynamic chickasaw women

A celebration of dynamic women in Chickasaw history

Dynamic Chickasaw Women By Phillip Carroll Morgan and Judy Goforth Parker It has become tradition for Chickasaw governor Bill Anoatubby to open his public addresses with a tribute to the unconquered and unconquerable warriors and to the dynamic women of the Chickasaw Nation. The most prominent contemporary advocacy of the phrase “dynamic woman” is the rigorously judged Chickasaw Nation Dynamic Woman of the Year Award. Researched and written by Phillip Carroll Morgan and Judy Goforth Parker, Dynamic Chickasaw Women presents biographies of carefully chosen dynamic women from the histories of Indian Removal, Indian Territory, and early Oklahoma statehood. This book demonstrates that the diversity and distinction represented by today’s recipients of that honor are also found in historical counterparts among the dynamic Chickasaw women of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Distributed for Chickasaw Press

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Phillip Carroll Morgan is staff a writer for the Chickasaw Press, for which he authored Chickasaw Renaissance. He holds master’s and doctorate degrees in Native American literature from the University of Oklahoma and is author of the award-winning volume The Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store and co-author of Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective. Judy Goforth Parker, who holds a doctorate in nursing from Texas Women’s University and who completed her Nurse Practitioner degree at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, is administrator of the Chickasaw Nation Division of Health. She also served as a Chickasaw Nation legislator for four terms from 1994 to 2009.

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To Capture the Sun

Perfectly

Gold of Ancient Panama

American

Contributions by Richard G.

The Art-Union and

Cooke, Nicholas J. Saunders,

Its Artists

John W. Hoopes, and

Contributions by

Jeffrey Quilter

Patricia Hills, Peter J. Brownlee,

A lavishly illustrated catalogue of the Gilcrease Museum’s collection of Pre-Columbian gold

Written to accompany an upcoming exhibition, To Capture the Sun: Gold of Ancient Panama explores the Gilcrease Museum’s collection of Pre-Columbian gold for the first time since its acquisition in the 1940s. The collection, from the Gran Coclé culture of Panama, consists of more than 250 gold objects from early Panama, including effigy pendants, pectorals, cuffs, bands, ear rods, and bells, as well as a ceramics collection. More than a beautifully illustrated exhibit catalogue, this volume includes essays by leading scholars who use the Gilcrease collection to discuss the rise of metallurgy in the Western Hemisphere, the symbolic significance of gold in Gran Coclé culture, and the influence of Pre-Columbian gold on world economies. The contributors also provide a survey of archaeological excavations in the region, including a discussion of Gilcrease’s important collection of Coclé ceramics. Richard G. Cooke is a staff scientist for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Nicholas J. Saunders teaches archaeology and anthropology at the University of Bristol. John W. Hoopes directs the Global Indigenous Nations Studies Program at the University of Kansas. Jeffrey Quilter is Senior Lecturer in the Archaeology Department at Harvard University and Deputy Director of the Peabody Museum. Distributed for Gilcrease Museum august $39.95s CLOTH 978-0-9819799-0-8

Randy Ramer, and Amanda Lett Explores the Art Union’s role in promoting arts and artists in 1840s America The American Art-Union, based in New York City, was founded in 1844 with the goal of fostering the arts in America through education and publication. Modeled after European organizations, the American Art-Union sought to establish a national aesthetic in the United States and unite all regions of the country through art. A small subscription fee entitled members of the Art-Union to at least one engraving of a prominent piece per year, as well as entry in an annual lottery distributing larger works of art. The Art-Union appealed especially to genre painters; William Sidney Mount, George Caleb Bingham, Charles Deas, William Tylee Ranney, and other noted artists submitted their works for jury and acceptance. As the United States grew increasingly divided in the 1840s, the Art-Union’s selections came under heavy scrutiny and there were accusations of supposed abolitionist and Whig sentiments. Low on funds and facing an ultimately successful lawsuit over the legality of the lottery, the American Art-Union disbanded in 1852. This book provides a new look at the American Art-Union and the culture of the United States in the 1840s. Patricia Hills is Professor of Art History at Boston University. Peter J. Brownlee is Associate Curator for the Terra Foundation. Randy Ramer is Director of Exhibitions and Publications for Gilcrease Museum. Amanda Lett is Project Curator for Gilcrease Museum.

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Records of the Moravians among the Cherokees Volume 3: The Anna Rosina Years, Part 1 Success in School and Mission, 1805–1810 Volume 4: The Anna Rosina Years, Part 2 Warfare on the Horizon, 1810–1816 Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck “The Moravian records contribution to Cherokee history is invaluable . . . [and] provides a body of work that gives us a look into our past and will help us better understand where we are going. The Cherokees are grateful to have these recordings of our history.”—Wilma Mankiller, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (1985–95) Distributed for Cherokee National Press

Using original diaries, minutes, reports, and correspondence in the Moravian Archives in North Carolina, the Records of the Moravians among the Cherokees series provides a rare account of daily life among the Cherokees throughout the nineteenth century. Although written by missionaries, the records provide keen insight into Cherokee culture, society, and customs.

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Volume 3, spanning the years 1805 to 1810, chronicles the arrival of John and Anna Rosina Gambold to the mission. Anna Rosina proved dedicated to the education of Cherokee children, and the mission took on a new life and character. The Gambolds soon won the people’s affection and respect, and Chief Chuleoa, who at first opposed the mission, became their friend. These years also witnessed the tragic death of James Vann, the Moravians’ benefactor among the Cherokees, and the mission’s first successful baptism of a Cherokee into the Moravian Church. Volume 4 continues the story through 1816, when earthquakes ushered in a period of upheaval—from the Cherokees’ involvement in the Creek War, to Métis battles in Canada, to Napoleon’s conquests in Europe. Meanwhile, the little Moravian mission of Springplace added new members, including Charles Hicks, soon to be elected Second Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, while Anna and her husband continued work with their Cherokee students. C. Daniel Crews is Archivist and Richard W. Starbuck is Assistant Archivist of the Moravian Archives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, which houses the original records. Both Crews and Starbuck have wide experience in preparing archival materials for publication. For this series they work closely with the Cherokee National Historical Society, the Tribal Councils of the Cherokee Nation, and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

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N. Scott Momaday

Texas

The Sundance Kid

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A Historical Atlas

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Traditions; An Annotated

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Harry Alonzo Longabaugh

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California, 1812–1848

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All for the King’s Shilling

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The 1865 Powder River

Wellington, 1808 –1814

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A History of the Mormon Militia,

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After Custer, Hedren, 25 Aird/Nichols/Bagley, Playing with Shadows, 28 Alaska, Naske/Slotnick, 5 American Indians and the Fight for Equal Voting Rights, McDonald, 36 Anaya, Billy the Kid and Other Plays, 27 Archaeolog y of Desperation, An, Dixon/ Schablitsky/Novak, 15 Armstong/Grow/Siler, Parley P. Pratt and the Making of Mormonism, 29 Aztecs on Stage, Burkhart, 35

Ellis/Penner, Ilimpa’chi’ (Let’s Eat!), 41 Eugene B. Adkins Collection, The, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 2–3 Ewers/Robinson, Plains Indian Art, 19

Lee, Congress vs. the Bureaucracy, 33 Leiker/Powers, The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory, 21

Magid, George Crook, 24 Mangas Coloradas, Sweeney, 37 Marajó, Young-Sánchez/Schaan, 34 McDonald, American Indians and the Fight for Equal Voting Rights, 36 Monte Foreman’s Horse-Training Science, Foreman/Wyse, 38 Morgan/Parker, Dynamic Chickasaw Women, 42 Mortal Stakes/Faint Thunder, Murphy, T., 12 Murphy, D., Scenery, Curiosities, and Stupendous Rocks, 18 Murphy, T., Hunter’s Log, 10 Murphy, T., Mortal Stakes/Faint Thunder, 12

Salomon, Pío Pico, 37 Scenery, Curiosities, and Stupendous Rocks, Murphy, D., 18 Shooting from the Lip, Hardy, 1 Smith, Wishbone, 7 Stories of Old-Time Oklahoma, Dary, 6 Strong, The Unkechaug Indians of Eastern Long Island, 20 Sweeney, Mangas Coloradas, 37

B Billy the Kid and Other Plays, Anaya, 27 Blue Heaven, Wyman, 9 Burkhart, Aztecs on Stage, 35 Buss, Winning the West with Words, 22

C Cherokee Syllabary, The, Cushman, 23 Chikasha Stories, Galvan/Barbour, 40 Chiles, Justinian Caire and Santa Cruz Island, 30 Clifford/Nolan, Deep Trails in the Old West, 26 Congress vs. the Bureaucracy, Lee, 33 Cooke et al., To Capture the Sun, 44 Crews/Starbuck, Records of the Moravians among the Cherokees, Vols. 3 & 4, 45 Cushman, The Cherokee Syllabary, 23

D Daily Life in Colonial Mexico, Ilarione/Miller/ Orr, 39 Daneo, The Kress Collection at the Denver Art Museum, 13 Dary, Stories of Old-Time Oklahoma, 6 Deep Trails in the Old West, Clifford/Nolan, 26 Disconnect, Fiorina/Abrams, 36 Dixon/Schablitsky/Novak, An Archaeolog y of Desperation, 15 Don’t Shoot the Gentile, Work, 8 Dynamic Chickasaw Women, Morgan/Parker, 42

Fiorina/Abrams, Disconnect, 36 Foreman/Wyse, Monte Foreman’s Horse-Training Science, 38 Forging a Fur Empire, Reid, 14 Fort Clark and Its Indian Neighbors, Wood/ Hunt/Williams, 16 Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, The Eugene B. Adkins Collection, 2–3 Free and Hardy Life, A, Jenkinson, 11

G Galvan/Barbour, Chikasha Stories, 40 George Crook, Magid, 24

H Hagan, Taking Indian Lands, 48 Hardy, Shooting from the Lip, 1 Harvey, Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley, 31 Hedren, After Custer, 25 Hills et al., Perfectly American, 44 Hunter’s Log, Murphy, T., 10

I Ilarione/Miller/Orr, Daily Life in Colonial Mexico, 39 Ilimpa’chi’ (Let’s Eat!), Ellis/Penner, 41

J Jenkinson, A Free and Hardy Life, 11 Juan de Ovando, Poole, 39 Justinian Caire and Santa Cruz Island, Chiles, 30

K Kraft, Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand Creek, 17 Kress Collection at the Denver Art Museum, The, Daneo, 13

N Naske/Slotnick, Alaska, 5 Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand Creek, Kraft, 17 Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory, The, Leiker/Powers, 21

P Parley P. Pratt and the Making of Mormonism, Armstong/Grow/Siler, 29 Perfectly American, Hills et al., 44 Pío Pico, Salomon, 37 Plains Indian Art, Ewers/Robinson, 19 Playing with Shadows, Aird/Nichols/Bagley, 28 Poole, Juan de Ovando, 39

T Taking Indian Lands, Hagan, 38 To Capture the Sun, Cooke et. al., 44 Tyler, WD Farr, 32

U Unkechaug Indians of Eastern Long Island, The, Strong, 20

W WD Farr, Tyler, 32 Windfall, Righter, 4 Winning the West with Words, Buss, 22 Wishbone, Smith, 7 Wood/Hunt Williams, Fort Clark and Its Indian Neighbors, 16 Work, Don’t Shoot the Gentile, 8 Wyman, Blue Heaven, 9

Y Young-Sánchez/Schaan, Marajó, 34

R Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley, Harvey, 31 Records of the Moravians among the Cherokees, Vols. 3 & 4, Crews/Starbuck, 45 Righter, Windfall, 4 Reid, Forging a Fur Empire, 14

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