Fall/Winter 2023 Catalog from The University of Utah Press

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First Peoples of Great Salt Lake takes a different approach to understanding the ancients than is typical

De-emphasizing categories and labels, it traces changing environments, climates, and peoples through the notion of place.

November 2023, 242 pp., 8½ x 10 10 b/w illustrations, 71 color illustrations

eBook 978-1-64769-138-7

Hardcover 978-1-64769-147-9 $80.00s

Paper 978-1-64769-137-0 $34.95

First Peoples of Great Salt Lake

A Cultural Landscape from Nevada to Wyoming

Steven R. Simms

Utah Series on Great Salt Lake and the Great Basin

The story of nearly 700 generations of Indigenous peoples occupying a cultural landscape centered on Great Salt Lake

Great Salt Lake is a celebrated, world-recognized natural landmark. It, and the broader region bound to it, is also a thoroughly cultural landscape; generations of peoples made their lives there. In an eminently readable narrative, Steven Simms, one of the foremost archaeologists of the region, traces the scope of human history dating from the Pleistocene, when First Peoples interacted with the lapping waters of Lake Bonneville, to nearly the present day. Through vivid descriptions of how people lived, migrated, and mingled, with persistence and resilience, Simms honors the long human presence on the landscape. First Peoples of Great Salt Lake takes a different approach to understanding the ancients than is typical of archaeology. De-emphasizing categories and labels, it traces changing environments, climates, and peoples through the notion of place. It challenges the "Pristine Myth," the cultural bias that Indigenous peoples were timeless, changeless, primitive, and the landscapes they lived in sparsely populated and perpetually pristine. First Peoples and their descendants modified the forests and understory vegetation, shaped wildlife populations, and adapted to long-term climate change. Native Americans of Great Salt Lake were very much part of their world, and the story here is one of long continuity through dramatic cultural change.

Steven R. Simms is professor emeritus of anthropology at Utah State University. His books include Ancient Peoples of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau (2008), and Traces of Fremont: Society and Rock Art in Ancient Utah (2010) awarded the Society for American Archaeology Book Award in the public audience category and the Utah Book Award for nonfiction. He has directed over 60 archaeological projects, including the Great Salt Lake Wetlands Project 1990–93, funded by the state of Utah, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, and the National Science Foundation.

ALSO OF INTEREST

Traces of Fremont Society and Rock Art in Ancient Utah

Steven R. Simms

photography by François Gohier

Paper 978-1-60781-011-7 $34.95

The Spiral Jetty Encyclo Exploring Robert Smithson's Earthwork through Time and Place

HIkmet Sidney Loe

eBook 978-1-60781-542-6

Paper 978-1-60781-541-9 $44.95

“An incredible, publicly accessible, general readership gateway into complex worlds of geology, ecology, and archaeology, not to mention a dozen other fields that are seamlessly and uniquely folded into the narrative.”

—Christopher W. Merritt, Utah State Historic Preservation Office

“A well-written, approachable, and comprehensive history of humans in the Great Basin. It relies on sound science and scholarship, but it is written in a manner that invites a general audience. There isn’t really a comparable book.”

—Geoffrey M. Smith, University of Nevada, Reno

February 2024, 294 pp., 6 x 8

eBook 978-1-64769-142-4

Paper 978-1-64769-141-7 $24.95

Highpoints of the United States

A Guide to the Fifty State Summits Don W. Holmes

A newly updated guide to highpoints in all 50 states

The highpoints of the fifty states range from Alaska’s 20,310-foot-high Mount McKinley to 345 feet at Lakewood Park in Florida. Some highpoints, such as Mount Mitchell in North Carolina and New Hampshire’s Mount Washington, can be reached by car on a sightseeing drive. Others, including Colorado’s Mount Elbert or Mount Marcy in New York, are accessible as wilderness day hikes. Still others, such as Mount Rainier in Washington or Gannett Peak in Wyoming, are strenuous and risky mountaineering challenges that should be attempted only by experienced climbers. Whatever your level of skill and interest, these varied highpoints offer a diverse range of experiences.

The third edition of this classic guide updates route descriptions and maps, changes to private property ownership and public lands requirements, lists of guides and outfitters, and essential online resources. As with the two popular previous editions, Highpoints of the United States is arranged alphabetically by state, each site description accompanied with a map, photographs, information on trailhead, main and alternative routes, elevation gain, conditions, historical and natural history notes, and lists of potential guides or outfitters. Appendices include a list of highpoints by region and by elevation, useful resources, and a personal log for the unashamed “peak-bagger.”

Whether you’re an armchair hiker or a seasoned climber, interested only in your state’s highest point or all fifty, this book will be an invaluable companion and reference.

Don W. Holmes is a California native now residing in Colorado. Don has been on numerous expeditions in the West, climbed sixty-five summits in the Sierra Nevada, taught basic mountaineering classes for the Sierra Club, reached the summits of 270 peaks over 5,000 feet in southern California, and assisted with the Wilderness Trekking School for the Colorado Mountain Club. He was formerly chair of the board of directors, president, and treasurer of the Highpointers Club. Don was awarded the prestigious Jack Longacre Award at the Highpointers Convention in 2005.

“An essential guidebook for climbing the U.S. highpoints.”

—Backpacker Magazine

ALSO OF INTEREST

High in Utah

A Hiking Guide to the Tallest Summits in the State’s 29 Counties

Michael R. Weibel and Dan Miller

Paper 978-0-87480-588-8 $19.95

Hiking the Wasatch

A Hiking and Natural History Guide to the Central Wasatch

John Veranth

eBook 978-1-60781-326-2

paper 978-1-60781-325-5 $19.95

"Holmes provides a simple yet comprehensive description of the nation’s 50 highpoints. I particularly like the addition of alternate routes, special conditions, historical notes, and natural history which help enhance the peak-bagging experience. It shouldn’t be just about reaching the top. Hikers and climbers should learn and enjoy the beauty that nature provides around each of these spectacular sites—even if the highpoint is in the middle of a highway. Holmes makes that possible with his guide to the fifty state summits."

—Mike R. Weibel, coauthor of High in Utah: A Hiking Guide to the Tallest Summits in the State’s 29 Counties

January 2024, 162 pp., 6 x 9

7 Illustrations

eBook 978-1-64769-146-2

Paper 978-1-64769-145-5 $24.95

The Book of Bauer

Stories from a Forgotten Town

Stephen S. Lottridge

Coming of age in the 1950s in a now-abandoned mining town

Graffiti-covered industrial concrete ruins are all that remain today to remind us of the lives, adventures, and human relationships that once animated Bauer, Utah. Located just south of Tooele, across the Oquirrh Mountains west of the Salt Lake Valley, Bauer was abandoned in 1979 and declared a toxic waste site. The Book of Bauer: Stories from a Forgotten Town brings it back to life, evoking mid-twentieth century family and community in that company town as seen through the eyes of an observant adolescent boy.

Presenting a dramatic snapshot of life in Bauer in narrative autobiographical form, the book recalls the fate of hundreds of derelict mining towns throughout the mountain and sagebrush West. With vivid prose and intimate observation, The Book of Bauer offers an unparalleled memoir of small-town life in Utah and the Great Basin.

Stephen S. Lottridge is the author of Three White Pelicans: Stories for Stephanie and Deirdre and The Old Bison: Threads from the Fabric of a Western Life. His award-winning play Gun Control was produced by Riot Act Inc. theater company. His poetry and essays have appeared in print journals, anthologies, and online.

"These stories not only conjure a town that might have otherwise disappeared, they also bring back a way of growing up with curiosity for place and an eagerness to discover. Their spare language evokes circumstances that, although arid and sparsely inhabited, provide the materials necessary for a young man to emerge into his life with a clarity of imagination and conviction that might give some guidance for how to find our way through this fragmented world. The Book of Bauer is an act of remembrance that invites us to consider what of of our own past, if lost, leaves us diminished, and how we also might revive it."

—Matt Daly, author of Between Here and Home

"Pull up your easy chair, open The Book of Bauer: Stories from a Forgotten Town, and give yourself over to Stephen Lottridge. Soon you will fall under the soothing cadence of Lottridge’s storytelling. You will be drawn into his world, your senses will be filled, your curiosity awakened, and likely your own memories will be stirred as he relates his."

ALSO OF INTEREST

Goodbye to Poplarhaven

Recollections of a Utah Boyhood

Edward A. Geary

eBook 978-1-60781-603-4

paper 978-1-60781-600-3 $17.95

Chasing Good Sense

A Boy’s Life on the Frontier

Homer McCarty

edited by Coralie McCarty Beyers

eBook 978-1-60781-656-0

paper 978-1-60781-655-3 $19.95

—Tina Welling, author of Writing Wild: Forming a Creative Partnership with Nature

"A beautifully written, deeply felt, and profoundly moving portrait of a family during one difficult year in a desolate, desecrated western town not long after the end of the Second World War. It is a vividly detailed chronicle of their challenges and satisfactions, of their quiet joys and sorrows and strengths that, at least for a time, held them together. The Book of Bauer is a poignant American story that should not be forgotten."

—Joel Lafayette Fletcher III, author of With Hawks and Angels: Episodes from a Southern Life

November 2023 340 pps., 7x10

35 Illustrations and 26 color images

eBook 978-164769-144-8

Hardcover 978-1-64769-143-1 $80.00s

Current Perspectives on Stemmed and Fluted Technologies in the American Far West

Edited by Katelyn N. McDonough, Richard L. Rosencrance, and Jordan E. Pratt

Exploring how stone tools provide insight into the initial settlement of the Americas

This volume provides the most comprehensive overview of archaeological research into the late Pleistocene and early Holocene occupation of the North American Far West in over a decade. It focuses on the relationship between stemmed and fluted point technologies in the region, which has recently risen to the forefront of debate about the initial settlement of the Americas. Established and early career researchers apply a wide range of analytical approaches to explore chronological, geographical, and technological aspects of these tools and what they reveal about the people who made them. While such interrelationships have intrigued archaeologists for nearly a century, until now they have not been systematically examined together in a single curated volume.

Contributions are organized into three main sections: stemmed point technologies, fluted point technologies, and broader interactions. Topics range from regional overviews of chronologies and technologies to site-level findings containing extensive new data. The culmination of many years of work by dozens of researchers, this volume lays new groundwork for understanding technological innovation, diversity, and exchange among early Indigenous peoples in North America.

Katelyn McDonough is an assistant professor in the department of anthropology, director of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History’s Archaeology Field School, and curator of Great Basin Archaeology at the University of Oregon. Her research examines relationships between people, foodways, and environment in western North America, with an emphasis on plant use and landscape change during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition.

Richard (Richie) Rosencrance is an instructor at the archaeology field school run by the Museum of Natural and Cultural History at the University of Oregon. His research focuses broadly upon technological innovation, especially in the northern Great Basin and Columbia Plateau, and more specifically upon late Pleistocene lithic technology and chronology building.

ALSO OF INTEREST:

Fluted Points of the Far West

Michael F. Rondeau

eBook 978-64769-113-4

Hardcover 978-1-64769-111-0 $70.00s

Plainview

The Enigmatic Paleoindian Artifact Style of the Great Plains

Edited by Vance T. Holliday, Eileen Johnson, and Ruthann Knudson

eBook 978-1-60781-575-4

Hardcover 978-1-60781-574-7 $70.00s

Jordan Pratt is currently leading excavations at Weed Lake Ditch, an open-air Paleoindian site in eastern Oregon. Her research centers on the lithic technological organization strategies used by late Pleistocene peoples, particularly in the northern Great Basin.

“This volume provides a valuable snapshot of early lithic technologies in western North America and the relationships of those technologies to other early stone tools and manufacturing techniques in the rest of the continent.”

— David B. Madsen, Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory

December 2023 26 pp., 5½ x 8½

eBook 978-1-64769-151-6

Paper 978-1-64769-148-6 $7.95

Law and the Living Colorado River

Robert W. Adler

2022 Wallace Stegner Lecture

An appeal to modernize the Law of the River to reflect current and evolving values and interests

Law and the Living Colorado River asserts that the so-called Law of the River—the vast assemblage of interstate compacts, international treaties, federal and state statutes, regulations, contracts, and other legal documents governing use and management of the Colorado River—ignores the needs of the river as a nested system of aquatic and aquaticdependent ecosystems. Although society now recognizes and appreciates the natural values of the Colorado River, the Law of the River remains fixed in service of human economies like irrigation and hydropower. Robert W. Adler contends that the law must respond to changing values that prioritize natural systems alongside human ones. He proposes acknowledging the legal rights of the river itself, following the recent movement to recognize rights of nature in other ecosystems around the world. Recognizing that U.S. law has significant barriers to that proposal, however, Adler borrows from aspects of international water law to propose as a shorter-term strategy amendments to the Colorado River Compact that would enhance protection of the river’s environmental needs and values.

Adler delivered this lecture on March 17, 2022, at the 27th annual symposium of the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment, jointly sponsored by the Wallace Stegner Center and the Water & Tribes Initiative | Colorado River Basin.

Robert W. Adler is dean emeritus and distinguished professor emeritus of law at the University of Utah, S. J. Quinney College of Law. His books include Water Law: Concepts and Insights; Modern Water Law: Private Property, Public Rights, and Environmental Protections; Restoring Colorado River Ecosystems: A Troubled Sense of Immensity; and Environmental Law: A Conceptual and Pragmatic Approach

ALSO OF INTEREST: Water, Community, and the Culture of Owning

Eric Freyfogle

eBook 978-1-60781-711-6

Paper 978-1-60781-632-4 $7.95

Managing Climate Risks in Resilient Cities

Lawrence Susskind

Paper 978-1-60781-563-1 $7.95

September 2023, 352 pps., 7 x 9

89 Illustrations

eBook 978-1-64769-031-1

Hardcover 978-1-64769-029-8 $55.00s

Roots and Wings

Virginia Tanner’s Dance Life and Legacy

Mary-Elizabeth Manley with Robert Bruce Bennett and Mary Ann Lee

The first book to detail Virginia Tanner’s career and her influence on the field of dance

Roots and Wings recounts Virginia Tanner’s remarkable career as a dancer, artist, and educator. From her early experiences assisting at Evelyn Davis’s dance school in Washington, DC, to the creation of the Tanner Dance Program at the University of Utah, her influence on the field was pervasive. She channeled children’s energy, sharpened their senses, and encouraged youthful, authentic dance expression. Tanner’s work endures, continuing to echo with sensitivity and spirit in young dancers throughout the United States and abroad.

Manley’s extensive archival research and personal interviews depict Virginia Tanner as an innovative dance artist and ambitious leader in the field of modern dance. While exploring Tanner’s story, Roots and Wings emphasizes the value of unique instructional methodologies for teaching dance to young children and the vital role the arts play in children’s lives.

Mary-Elizabeth Manley is professor emerita and senior scholar in York University’s Dance Department. Her research has been published extensively in Dance and the Child International (daCi) conference proceedings. She was the chief editor for daCi’s First 30 Years: Rich Returns and directed ARTStart, a children’s community dance and arts program at York University.

Robert Bruce Bennett (1915–2006) was the husband of Virginia Tanner and the business manager of the Virginia Tanner Creative Dance Studio and the Children’s Dance Theatre.

Mary Ann Lee is director of the University of Utah Tanner Dance Program and Children’s Dance Theatre, and adjunct associate professor of modern dance in the School of Dance at the University of Utah. She has published articles and a book on dance pedagogy for young dancers.

Above: Early publicity photo of Virginia Tanner.

Right: Mary Ann (Walton) Lee teaching preschoolers who take their turn on the “monkey barre.” Photos courtesy of the University of Utah Tanner Dance/Children’s Dance Theatre.

July 2023, 400 pp., 6x9

336 color Illustrations

Hardcover 978-1-64769-087-8 $95.00s

Paper 978-1-64769-0885 $44.95

Utah Mollusk Identification Guide

Eric J. Wagner

The most up-to-date and comprehensive guide available for identifying snails, slugs, and bivalves in Utah and neighboring areas

The Utah Mollusk Identification Guide offers the latest information for identifying aquatic and terrestrial snails, slugs, clams, and mussels within the state of Utah, providing comparative tables, taxonomic keys, and more than 230 images, including many type specimen images published for the first time. Amateur naturalists and biologists alike will benefit from detailed information regarding size, type, specimen location, junior synonyms (including taxonomy notes), and original descriptions for each of the 139 species. Clarifying notes from the author help to differentiate similar species.

In contrast to older guides, this book includes data on the external and internal anatomy of mollusks and updated taxonomic names. Family descriptions and miscellaneous data on ecology, life history, and genetics offer readers a wide lens to understand Utah’s mollusks. Data based on historical articles, museum records, personal observations, and collections point to the wide distribution of mollusks found in Utah. Although the focus is on Utah mollusks, the data, images, references, and taxonomy details within the guide will be of interest to many outside the state.

Eric J. Wagner recently retired from the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, where he worked for 30 years conducting fisheries and aquaculture research and monitoring aquatic invasive species. He has authored numerous research articles on aquaculture and A Guide to the Identification of Tailed Myxobolidae of the World, an open-access textbook and guide to a group of fish parasites in the phylum Myxozoa.

“The first update of Utah mollusks since 1929. This book will unify the taxonomy in Utah and adjacent regions of aquatic and terrestrial mollusks and their habitat, a necessity for intermountain biological diversity and for conservation assessments.”

—Peter Hovingh, retired biologist, expert on western mollusks

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Giant Sloths and Sabertooth Cats

Extinct Mammals and the Archaeology of the Ice Age Great Basin

Donald K. Grayson

eBook 978-1-60781-470-2

Paper 978-1-60781-469-6 $24.95

Native Plants of Southern Nevada

An Ethnobotany

David Rhode

Paper 978-0-87480-722-6 $29.95

Danish but Not Lutheran

The Impact of Mormonism on Danish Cultural Identity, 1850-1920

Julie K. Allen

The Danish-Mormon migration to Utah in the nineteenth century was, relative to population size, one of the largest European religious out-migrations in history. Hundreds of thousands of Americans can trace their ancestry to Danish Mormons, but few know about the social and cultural ramifications of their ancestors’ conversion to Mormonism. This book tells that exciting and complex story for the first time. In 1849, after nearly a thousand years of state-controlled religion, Denmark’s first democratic constitution granted religious freedom. One year later, the arrival of three Mormon missionaries in Denmark and their rapid success at winning converts to their faith caused a crisis in Danish society over the existential question: “How could someone be Danish but not Lutheran?” Over the next half-century nearly twenty-three thousand Danes joined the LDS Church, more than eighteen thousand of whom emigrated to join their fellow Mormons in Utah. This volume explores the range of Danish public reactions to Mormonism over a seventy-year period—from theological concerns articulated by Søren and Peter Christian Kierkegaard in the 1850s, to fear-mongering about polygamy and white slavery in silent films of the 1910s and 1920s— and looks at the personal histories of converts.

eBook 978-1-60781-546-4

Paper 978-1-64769-155-4 $25.00s

Misplacing Ogden, Utah

Race, Class, Immigration, and the Construction of Urban Reputations

Pepper Glass

How do we draw the lines between “good” and “bad” neighborhoods? How do we know “ghettos”? This book questions the widely held assumption that divisions between urban areas are reflections of varying amounts of crime, deprivation, and other social, cultural, and economic problems. Using Ogden, Utah, as a case study, Pepper Glass argues that urban reputations are “moral frontiers” that uphold and create divides between who is a good and respectable—or a bad and vilified—member of a community.

Ogden, a working-class city with a history of racial and immigrant diversity, has long held a reputation among Utahns as a “sin city” in the middle of an entrenched religious culture. Glass blends ethnographic research with historical accounts, census reports, and other secondary sources to provide insight into Ogden’s reputation, past and present. Capturing residents’ perceptions of an entire city, as opposed to only some of its neighborhoods, and exploring the regional contexts shaping these views, is rare among urban researchers. Glass’s unique approach suggests we can better confront urban problems by rethinking assumptions about place and promoting interventions that break down boundaries.

eBook 978-1-60781-752-9

Paper 978-1-64769-154-7 $30.00s

Nevada Mountains

Landforms, Trees, and Vegetation

David A. Charlet

Nevada is one of the most mountainous states in the U.S. Yet mapping out exactly where one range begins and another ends has never been done—until now. In this volume David Charlet provides maps and descriptions for all 319 mountain ranges in the state.

Divided into three parts, the book presents a simple system recognizing the primary landscape features of Nevada. Part I describes the methods used to define the boundaries of the ranges and divides the state into meaningful landforms. Part II describes the ecological life zones and their vegetation types. Part III describes the individual mountain ranges. Each mountain range entry contains a descriptive narrative and a data summary that includes the county or counties in which the range occurs, whether the author has visited and collected plants there, the highest point, the base elevation, a brief discussion of the geology, any historic settlements or post offices located in the range, the distribution of life zones, and a list of all conifers and flowering trees.

The result of over thirty years of exploration and study throughout the state, this is a long-overdue compendium of Nevada’s mountains and associated flora. This book is a required reference for anyone venturing out into the Nevada wilds.

Becoming White Clay

A History and Archaeology of Jicarilla Apache Enclavement

B. Sunday Eiselt

The story of one of the longest-lived and most successful nomadic enclaves in North America provides a rare glimpse into the material expressions of Apache self-determination and survival. For nearly 200 years the Jicarilla Apache of New Mexico thrived in the interstices of Pueblo and Spanish settlements following their expulsion from the Plains. Critical to their success was their ability to extend key aspects of Plains-Pueblo exchange to Indian and mixed-blood communities on the fringes of colonial rule. More than other nomadic tribes, the Jicarilla played an enormous role in holding together the social fabric of New Mexican villages after the fall of the Spanish Empire. This comprehensive study by Sunday Eiselt begins with the great Athapaskan migration out of Canada during prehistoric times and ends with the forced settlement of the Jicarilla on the Dulce reservation in the 1880s. Eiselt combines archaeological and ethnohistorical data in an examination of Jicarilla strategies for self-preservation. She reveals the ideological and political imperatives of “belonging” that shaped their interactions with local communities and the state, which enabled them to avoid reservation life well into the 1880s.

eBook 978-1-60781-202-9

Paper 978-1-64769-152-3 $35.00s

eBook 978-1-60781-728-4

Paper 978-1-64769-153-0 $35.00s

FEATURED BACKLIST

Like A Fiery Meteor

The Life of Joseph F. Smith

Stephen C. Taysom

Joseph F. Smith was born in 1838 to Hyrum Smith and Mary Fielding Smith. Six years later both his father and his uncle, Joseph Smith Jr., the founding prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, were murdered in Carthage, Illinois. The trauma of that event remained with Joseph F. for the rest of his life. In this first cradle-to-grave biography of Joseph F. Smith, Stephen C. Taysom uses previously unavailable primary source materials to craft a deeply detailed, insightful story of a prominent member of a governing and influential Mormon family. Importantly, Taysom situates Smith within the historical currents of American westward expansion, rapid industrialization, settler colonialism, regional and national politics, changing ideas about family and masculinity, and more. Though some writers tend to view the LDS Church and its leaders through a lens of political and religious separatism, Taysom does the opposite, pushing Joseph F. Smith and the LDS Church closer to the centers of power in Washington, DC, and elsewhere.

eBook ISBN 978-1-64769-129-5

Hardcover ISBN 978-1-64769-127-1 $95.00s

Paper ISBN 978-1-64769-128-8 $34.95

Bears Ears

Landscape of Refuge and Resistance

Andrew Gulliford

Designated in 2016 by President Obama and reduced to 85 percent of its original size one year later by President Trump, Bears Ears National Monument continues to be a flash point of conflict among ranchers, miners, environmental groups, states’ rights advocates, and Native American activists. In this volume, Andrew Gulliford synthesizes 11,000 years of the region’s history to illuminate what’s truly at stake in this conflict and distills this geography as a place of refuge and resistance. Gulliford’s engaging narrative explains prehistoric Pueblo villages and cliff dwellings, Navajo and Ute history, stories of Mormon families who arrived by wagon train in 1880, impacts of the Atomic Age, uranium mining, and the pothunting and looting of Native graves that inspired the passage of the Antiquities Act over a century ago. The book describes how the national monument came about and its deep significance to five native tribes. Bears Ears National Monument is a bellwether for public land issues in the American West. Its recognition will be relevant for years to come.

eBook ISBN 978-1-64769-078-6

Hardcover ISBN 978-1-64769-0762 $95.00s Paper ISBN 978-1-64769-077-9 $29.95

B/RDS

Béatrice Szymkowiak

B/RDS endeavors to dismantle discourses that create an artificial distinction between nature and humanity through a subversive erasure of an iconic work of natural history: John James Audubon’s Birds of America (1827-1838). This process of erasure considers the text of Birds of America as an archival cage. The author selectively erases words from the textual cage to reveal its ambiguity and the complex relationship between humanity and the other-than-human world. As the cage disappears, leaving a space for scarce, lyrical poems, birds break free, their voices inextricably entangled with ours.

Prose poems written in the author’s own words and prompted by the erasure process are also interspersed throughout the collection. These migratory poems, like ripples, trace the link between past and present and reveal the human-nature disconnect at the root cause of environmental and social problems, including the COVID-19 pandemic.

Along its five movements, B/RDS also explores how we can reimagine our relationship to environment through language within new frameworks of interconnectedness.

eBook ISBN 978-1-64769-118-9

Paper ISBN 978-1-64769-115-8 $16.95

New Deal Archaeology in the West

Edited by Kelly J. Pool & Mark L. Howe

During Roosevelt’s New Deal, archaeological and cultural heritage projects of different scope and size were funded across this country from 1933 to 1944. The results of work east of the Mississippi River have been variously described in other publications. However, until now little has been reported or synthesized about western archaeological work, its role in economic recovery, or its impact on the direction and knowledge of the discipline. This volume shares previously untold stories of New Deal archaeology from across the American West and explores insights into the past revealed by these projects.

Descriptions of New Deal projects and their contributions to our understanding of the past, as well as the stories of those involved— archaeologists, avocationalists, and others—are woven together across the chapters. This volume demonstrates that despite regional differences, New Deal–funded archaeological and cultural heritage projects created a legacy of knowledge and practice across the nation.

Hardcover ISBN 978-1-64769-130-1 $65.00s

Mogollon

Communal Spaces and Places in the Greater American Southwest

Edited by Robert J. Stokes, Katherine

A. Dungan, & Jakob W. Sedig

This volume presents the latest research on the development and use of communal spaces and places across the Mogollon region, located in what is now the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. New data demonstrate that these spaces and places, though diverse in form and function, were essential to community development and cohesion.

The authors ask questions crucial to understanding past communities: What is a communal space or place? How did villagers across the Mogollon region use such places? And how do modern archaeologists investigate the past to learn how ancient people thought about themselves? Contributors use innovative approaches to explore the development patterns and properties of communal spaces and places. Buildings and other types of communal spaces are placed into broader cultural and social contexts, acknowledging the enduring importance of the kiva-type structure to many Native American societies of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.

eBook ISBN 978-1-64769-126-4

Hardcover ISBN 978-1-64769-125-7 $75.00s

The Old Vero Site

One Hundred Years Later, The 2014 - 2017 Excavations

Edited by J. M. Adovasio, C. Andrew Hemmings, & F. J. Vento

A century ago, the Old Vero Site (8IR009) was brought to prominence by Elias Sellards's claim that the site contained early human remains associated with Pleistocene fauna. It was the first serious challenge to the belief, widely accepted until the Folsom discoveries in 1926, that humans had not entered Florida before the current Holocene geological epoch. The claim that human remains at the site were contemporary with late Ice Age animals stirred enduring controversy. Recent construction near the site resulted in new archaeological work being completed from 2014 to 2017.

The Old Vero Site (8IR009) details the course of the recent re-excavations of the Old Vero Site while also summarizing the original excavations from a century ago. This re-examination determined that Sellards’s claims are not supported by the evidence. Adovasio, Hemmings, and Vento provide the data to settle the matter definitively: human remains at the site were intrusive from a later time horizon, as critics of the original work had vociferously argued.

eBook ISBN 978-1-64769-133-2

Hardcover ISBN 978-1-64769-132-5 $75.00s

Explore Tanner Trust Fund Books!

Fact, Fiction, and Polygamy

A Tale of Utah War

Intrigue, 1857-1858 – A. G. Browne’s The Ward of the Three Guardians

Edited

by

William P. MacKinnon & Kenneth L. Alford

Hardcover

ISBN 978-1-64769-069-4 $24.95

A

Mormon Mother

An Autobiography

Annie Clark Tanner

Paper

ISBN 978-0-941214-31-5 $19.95

A Winter with the Mormons

The 1852 Letters of Jotham Goodell

Edited by David L. Bigler

Hardcover

ISBN 978-1-56085-161-5 $24.95

Confessions of a Revision-

ist Historian

David L. Bigler on the Mormons and the West David L. Bigler

Edited by Will Bagley

Hardcover

ISBN 978-0-692-37120-6 $29.95

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