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Navajo Textiles: The Crane Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science

By Laurie D. Webster, Louise I. Stiver, D. Y. Begay, and Lynda Teller Pete

Denver: Denver Museum of Nature & Science and the University Press of Colorado, 2017. xxvi + 230 pp. Paper, $34.95.

This book showcases the Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s important collection of Navajo textiles with over one hundred full-color photographs. Beyond a mere catalog of the textiles, Navajo Textiles is the result of work done by anthropologists, curators, and weavers. Containing the historical background of the Navajo rug trade beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, the book aims to present the work of Navajo weavers in its full cultural and historical context in a way that is valuable to both scholars and the general public.

All Because of a Mormon Cow: Historical Accounts of the Grattan Massacre, 1854–1855

Edited by John D. McDermott, R. Eli Paul, and Sandra J. Lowry

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. 240 pp. Cloth. $29.95.

All Because of a Mormon Cow compiles eighty primary source records of the first event in the First Sioux War. An army unit attempted to arrest a Lakota man accused of killing a Mormon emigrant’s cow near Fort Laramie. In the battle that ensued, Lakota warriors killed the entire unit. This book includes an introduction that contextualizes the Grattan Massacre in the history of Great Plains warfare between Indians and non-Indians as well as annotations for the sources, some of which have been recently discovered.