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2014 American West Catalog
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American Indian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Art & Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Biography and Memoir. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
The Arthur H. Clark Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
New in Paperback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
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American Indian
Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian
The Crime That Should Haunt America
By Gary Clayton Anderson
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4421-4 472 Pages
In Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian, Anderson uses ethnic cleansing as an
analytical tool to challenge the alluring idea that Anglo-American colonialism
in the New World constituted genocide. Beginning with the era of European
conquest, Anderson employs definitions of ethnic cleansing developed by the
United Nations and the International Criminal Court to reassess key moments
in the Anglo-American dispossession of American Indians.
Progressive Traditions
Identity in Cherokee Literature and Culture
By Joshua B. Nelson
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4491-7 296 Pages
Progressive Traditions identifies an indigenous anarchism, a pluralist,
community-centered political philosophy that looks to practices that
preceded and surpass the nation-state as ways of helping Cherokee people
prosper. This critique of the common call for expansion of tribal nations
sovereignty over their citizens represents a profound shift in American Indian
critical theory and challenges contemporary indigenous people to rethink
power among nations, communities, and individuals.
Americans Recaptured
Progressive Era Memory of Frontier Captivity
By Molly K. Varley
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4493-1 240 Pages
Revealing how the recitation and interpretation of these captivity narratives
changed over timewith shifting emphasis on brutality, gender, and
ethnographic and historical accuracyAmericans Recaptured shows that tales
of Indian captivity were no more fixed than American identity, but were
consistently used to give that identity its own useful, ever-evolving shape.
A me r ican I n d ian
Cochise
Firsthand Accounts of the Chiricahua Apache Chief
By Edwin R. Sweeney
$49.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4432-0 336 Pages
Much of what we know of Cochise has come down to us in military reports,
eyewitness accounts, letters, and numerous interviews the usually reticent
chief granted in the last decade of his life. Cochise: Firsthand Accounts of the
Chiricahua Apache Chief brings together the most revealing of these documents
to provide the most nuanced, multifaceted portrait possible of the Apache
leader.
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Warrior Nations
The United States and Indian Peoples
By Roger L. Nichols
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4382-8 256 Pages
During the century following George Washingtons presidency, the United
States fought at least forty wars with various Indian tribes. Warrior Nations is
Roger L. Nichols response to the question, Why did so much fighting take
place? Examining eight of the wars between the 1780s and 1877, Nichols
explains what started each conflict and what the eight had in common as well
as how they differed.
A Cheyenne Voice
The Complete John Stands In Timber Interviews
By John Stands In Timber and Margot Liberty
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4379-8 504 Pages
Rarely does a primary source become available that provides new and
significant information about the history and culture of a famous American
Indian tribe. With A Cheyenne Voice, readers now have access to a vast
ethnographic and historical trove about the Cheyenne peoplemuch of it
previously unavailable.
Transforming Ethnohistories
Narrative, Meaning, and Community
Edited by Sebastian Felix Braun
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4394-1 272 Pages
Anthropologists need history to understand how the past has shaped the
present. Historians need anthropology to help them interpret the past. Where
anthropologists and historians needs intersect is ethnohistory. Transforming
Ethnohistories comprises ten new avenues of ethnohistorical research ranging in
topic from fiddling performances to environmental disturbance and spanning
places from North Carolina to the Yukon.
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A Gathering of Statesmen
Records of the Choctaw Council Meetings, 18261828
By Peter Perkins Pitchlynn
Translated and Edited by Marcia Haag and Henry Willis
$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4349-1 180 Pages
The early decades of the nineteenth century brought intense political turmoil
and cultural change for the Choctaw Indians. While they still lived on their
native lands in central Mississippi, they would soon be forcibly removed to
Oklahoma. This book makes available for the first time a key legal document
from this turbulent period in Choctaw history.
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Red
The Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, 2013
Edited by Jennifer Complo McNutt and Ashley Holland
$30.00s Paper 978-0-9798495-7-2 136 pages
Distributed for the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
Red: The Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, 2013, the eighth iteration of the
Eiteljorg Museums acclaimed biennial art series, documents the strength,
drama, determination, and humor of contemporary Native art and the
artists who create it. Celebrating the work of Invited Artist Lawrence Paul
Yuxweluptun (Coast Salish/Okanagan) and Eiteljorg Fellows Julie Buffalohead
(Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma), Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit/Aleut), Shan Goshorn
(Eastern Band of Cherokee), and Meryl McMaster (Plains Cree/Blackfoot),
Red declares that any person who lives with the idea that Native people are
vanishing, weak, or failing to thrive needs simply to look at their art.
Decades
An Expanded Context for Western American Art, 19001940
Contributions by Charles C. Eldredge, Betsy Fahlman,
Randall R. Griffey, and Ron Tyler
$10.95 Paper 978-0-914738-89-3 80 Pages
Distributed for the Denver Art Museum
This ninth volume of Western Passages explores western American art within
the context of the first four decades of the twentieth century.Decades divides
the period from 1900 to 1940 into ten-year increments to investigate major
artistic movements and important figures in western American art across
mediums, styles, and subjects.In four wide-ranging essays, art historians
examine western American art alongside concurrent events in American art
and history.
Woody Crumbo
Contributions by Minisa Crumbo Halsey, Ruthe Blalock Jones,
Carole Klein, Robert Perry, and Kimberly Roblin
Photographs by Robert S. Cross
$24.95s Paper 978-0-9819799-5-3 148 Pages
Distributed for Gilcrease Museum
The Gilcrease Museum has the honor of possessing the largest extant body
of Woodrow Wilson Crumbos delightful and finely crafted work, which is
celebrated and interpreted within the pages of this book.
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A President in Yellowstone
The F. Jay Haynes Photographic Album of Chester Arthurs 1883 Expedition
By Frank H. Goodyear III
$36.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4355-2 192 Pages
On the morning of July 30, 1883, President Chester A. Arthur embarked on a
trip of historic proportions. His destination was Yellowstone National Park,
established by an act of Congress only eleven years earlier. Arthurs host
and primary guide would be Philip H. Sheridan, the famed Union general.
Also slated to join the expedition was a young photographer, Frank Jay
Haynes. This elegantand fascinatingbook showcases Hayness remarkable
photographic album from their six-week journey.
Father of Route 66
The Story of Cy Avery
By Susan Croce Kelly
$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4499-3 288 Pages
In this engaging biography of a remarkable man, Susan Croce Kelly begins
by describing the urgency for good roads that gripped the nation in the
early twentieth century as cars multiplied and mud deepened. Avery was one
of a small cadre of men and women whose passion carried the Good Roads
movement from boosterism to political influence to concrete-on-the-ground.
While most stopped there, Avery went on to assure that one roadU.S.
Highway 66became a fixture in the imagination of America and the world.
Following Oil
Four Decades of Cycle-Testing Experiences and What
They Foretell about U.S. Energy Independence
By Thomas A. Petrie
$26.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4420-7 272 Pages
In Following Oil, Petrie shares useful lessons he has learned about domestic and
global trends in population and economic growth, a maturing resource base,
variable national energy policies, and dynamic changes in geopolitical forces
and how these variables affect energy markets. More important, he applies
those lessons to charting a course of energy development for the nation
through the twenty-first century and beyond.
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Oil Man
The Story of Frank Phillips and the Birth of Phillips Petroleum
By Michael Wallis
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4676-8 552 Pages
The bestselling historian of the West, Michael Wallis captures the life and
times of an American heroand depicts the modern oil empire he created
in this rousing biography of Frank Phillips, one of the greatest self-made
business tycoons of the twentieth century.
Outlaw Woman
A Memoir of the War Years, 19601975
Revised Edition
By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
$22.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4479-5 396 Pages
Dunbar-Ortizs odyssey from Oklahoma poverty to the urban New Left gives
a working-class, feminist perspective on a time and a movement that forever
changed American society. In a new afterword, the author reflects on her
fast-paced life fifty years ago, in particular as a movement activist and in
relationships with men.
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Rough Breaks
A Wyoming High Country Memoir
By Laurie Wagner Buyer
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4375-0 256 Pages
When twenty-eight-year-old Laurie Wagner hired on at the O Bar Y Ranch
in western Wyoming, she was a novice to ranching life but no stranger
to isolated locations. As revealed in her celebrated memoir When I Came
West, Laurie had already spent years living in a rustic cabin in the Montana
wilderness with a troubled Vietnam veteran. Rough Breaks recounts the next
chapter in her life, beginning with her painful break from Bill Atkinson, and
unfolding into a modern day saga of life on a remote cattle ranch.
Miera y Pacheco
A Renaissance Spaniard in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico
By John L. Kessell
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4377-4 232 Pages
Remembered today as an early cartographer and prolific religious artist, don
Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco engaged during his lifetime in a surprising array
of other pursuits: engineer and militia captain on Indian campaigns, district
officer, merchant, debt collector, metallurgist, luckless silver miner, presidial
soldier, dam builder, and rancher. This long-overdue, richly illustrated
biography recounts Mieras complex life in cinematic detail, from his birth in
Cantabria, Spain, to his death in Santa Fe at age seventy-one.
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Ernest L. Blumenschein
The Life of an American Artist
By Robert W. Larson and Carole B. Larson
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4334-7 344 Pages
Few who appreciate the visual arts or the American Southwest can behold the
masterpieces Sangre de Cristo Mountains or Haystack, Taos Valley, 1927 or Bend
in the River, 1941 and come away without a vivid image burned into memory.
This biography examines the character and life experiences that made
Ernest L. Blumenschein one of the foremost artists of the twentieth century.
Gunfighter in Gotham
Bat Mastersons New York City Years
By Robert K. DeArment
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4263-0 304 Pages
In Gunfighter in Gotham, DeArment tells how Bat Masterson built a second
career from a column in the New York Morning Telegraph. Bats articles not
only covered sports but also reflected his outspoken opinions on war,
crime, politics, and a changing society. As his renown as a boxing expert
grew, his opinions were picked up by other newspaper editors and reprinted
throughout the country and abroad. He counted President Theodore
Roosevelt among his friends and readers.
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Fiction
The Wister Trace
Assaying Classic Western Fiction
By Loren D. Estleman
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4481-8 232 Pages
A master practitioners view of his craft, this classic survey of the fiction of the
American West is part literary history, part criticism, and entertaining throughout.
The first edition of The Wister Trace was published in 1987, when Larry McMurtry
had just reinvented himself as a writer of Westerns and Cormac McCarthys career
had not yet taken off. Loren D. Estlemans long-overdue update connects these new
masters with older writers, assesses the genres past, present, and future, and takes
account of the renaissance of western movies, as well.
Animal Stories
A Lifetime Collection
By Max Evans
Illustrated by Keith Walters
$24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4366-8 440 Pages
Legendary western author Max Evans has spent his entire life working with cows
and horses. These rangeland animals, and other creatures both domestic and wild,
play pivotal roles in his stories. This magnificent collection, beautifully illustrated
by cowboy artist Keith Walters, showcases twenty-six animal tales penned by Evans
during his long and celebrated career.
The Dig
In Search of Coronados Treasure
By Sheldon Russell
$16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4360-6 246 Pages
Sheldon Russell ratchets the tension and mystery as two desperate quests
interweave in an historical-meets-modern adventure story. This thrill ride builds to
an Indiana Jonesstyle standoff and forces its charactersand readersto grapple
with an age-old proverb: all that glitters is not gold.
Boneland
Linked Stories
By Nance Van Winckel
$16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4391-0 196 Pages
Lynette is recuperating from botched Lasik surgery. Her eyesight is damaged, but
as she looks back on the events of her past, she realizes she may not have seen
them correctly when she was actually living them. Her husbands death . . . was it a
suicide? The bones unearthed on her uncles Montana ranchare they of a steer? a
mastodon? a dinosaur? Her beloved cousin Jessiedid she slip into addiction, and
if so, where did the addict life take her? The dots of Lynettes past are blurry, but
she tries to focus and connect them and to feel her way toward a more accurate
vision of the person she has been and may become.
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History
American Carnage
Wounded Knee, 1890
Jerome A. Greene
$34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4448-1 648 Pages
In this gripping tale, Jerome A. Greenerenowned specialist on the Indian
warsexplores why the bloody engagement happened and demonstrates
how it became a brutal massacre. Drawing on a wealth of sources, including
previously unknown testimonies, Greene examines the events from both
Native and non-Native perspectives, explaining the significance of treaties,
white settlement, political disputes, and the Ghost Dance as influential
factors in what eventually took place.
A Legacy in Arms
American Firearm Manufacture, Design, and Artistry, 18001900
By Richard C. Rattenbury
Photographs by Ed Muno
$59.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4477-1 248 Pages
The history of American firearms is inseparable from the history of the
United States, for firearms have played crucial roles in the nations founding,
westward expansion, and industrial, economic, and cultural development.
This history unfolds in compelling words and images in A Legacy in Arms, a
volume that draws upon the collections of the National Cowboy & Western
Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City to trace the business and art of gun
making from the early national period to the turn of the twentieth century.
Black Spokane
The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest
By Dwayne A. Mack
$26.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4489-4 216 Pages
In 1981, decades before mainstream America elected Barack Obama, James
Chase became the first African American mayor of Spokane, Washington,
with the overwhelming support of a majority-white electorate. Chases
win failed to capture the attention of historiansas had the centurylong evolution of the black community in Spokane. In Black Spokane: The
Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest, Dwayne A. Mack corrects this
oversightand recovers a crucial chapter in the history of race relations and
civil rights in America.
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Fort Worth
Outpost, Cowtown, Boomtown
By Harold Rich
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4492-4 288 Pages
From its beginnings as an army camp in the 1840s, Fort Worth has come to
be one of Texassand the nationslargest cities, a thriving center of culture
and commerce. But along the way, the citys future, let alone its present
prosperity, was anything but certain. Fort Worth tells the story of how this
landlocked outpost on the arid plains of Texas made and remade itself in its
early years, setting a pattern of boom-and-bust progress that would see the
city through to the twenty-first century.
West Texas
A History of the Giant Side of the State
Edited by Paul H. Carlson and Bruce A. Glasrud
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4444-3 320 Pages
Texas is as well known for its diversity of landscape and culture as it is for
its enormity. But West Texas, despite being popularized in film and song,
has largely been ignored by historians as a distinct and cultural geographic
space. In West Texas: A History of the Giant Side of the State, Paul H. Carlson and
Bruce A. Glasrud rectify that oversight. This volume assembles a diverse set of
essays covering the grand sweep of West Texas history from the ancient to the
contemporary.
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Manifest Destinations
Cities and Tourists in the Nineteenth-Century American West
By J. Philip Gruen
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4488-7 312 Pages
In Manifest Destinations, J. Philip Gruen examines the ways in which tourists
experienced Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco between 1869
and 1893, a period of rapid urbanization and accelerated modernity. Gruen
pays particular attention to the contrast between the way these cities were
promoted and the way visitors actually experienced them.
South Pass
Gateway to a Continent
By Will Bagley
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4442-9 328 Pages
Wallace Stegner called South Pass one of the most deceptive and impressive
places in the West. Nowhere can travelers cross the Rockies so easily as
through the high, treeless valley in Wyoming immediately south of the Wind
River Mountains. That place, South Pass, has received much attention in lore
and memory but attracted no serious book-length studyuntil now. In this
narrative, award-winning author Will Bagley explains the significance of South
Pass to the nations history and to the development of the American West.
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Uninvited Neighbors
African Americans in Silicon Valley, 17691990
By Herbert G. Ruffin II
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4436-8 352 Pages
Uninvited Neighbors is the first book to explore fully the history of African
Americans in Santa Clara Valley. Herbert G. Ruffin examines black life
and political thought in the valley from its earliest days as part of Spanish
California (when the black population approached 25 percent) to the
complexities of race relations in the valleys current incarnation as a suburban,
tech-oriented business center.
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Empire on Display
San Franciscos Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915
By Sarah J. Moore
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4348-4 256 Pages
The worlds fair of 1915 celebrated both the completion of the Panama Canal
and the rebuilding of San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake and fire.
The exposition spotlighted the canal and the city as gateways to the Pacific.
Empire on Display is the first book to examine the Panama-Pacific International
Exposition through the lenses of art history and cultural studies, focusing on
the events expansionist and masculinist symbolism.
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By All Accounts
General Stores and Community Life in Texas and Indian Territory
By Linda English
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4352-1 256 Pages
The general store in late-nineteenth-century America was often the economic
heart of a small town. Cash-poor farmers relied on merchants for their
economic well-being just as the retailers needed customers to purchase their
wares. In describing the social status of store owners and their economic and
political roles in both small and large towns, English fleshes out the fascinating
history of daily life in Indian Territory and Texas in a time of transition.
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Forty-Seventh Star
New Mexicos Struggle for Statehood
By David V. Holtby
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4282-1 384 Pages
The most complete, original, readable, and lively account of the sixty-year
struggle between pro-statehood leaders and equally powerful anti-statehood
forces, both in New Mexico and Washington, D.C., that I have ever read.
Howard R. Lamar, Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University
After Custer
Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country
By Paul L. Hedren
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4216-6 272 pages
Between 1876 and 1877, the U.S. Army battled Lakota Sioux and Northern
Cheyenne Indians in a series of vicious conflicts known today as the Great
Sioux War. In this unique contribution to American western history, Paul
L. Hedren examines the wars effects on the culture, environment, and
geography of the northern Great Plains, their Native inhabitants, and the
Anglo-American invaders.
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Full-Court Quest
The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions of the World
By Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3973-9 496 Pages
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4469-6 496 Pages
Playing like lambent flames across the polished floors of dance halls,
armories, and gymnasiums, the girls from Fort Shaw stormed the state to
emerge as Montanas first basketball champions. Taking their game to the
1904 St. Louis Worlds Fair, these young women introduced an international
audience to the fledgling game and returned home with a trophy declaring
them champions.
New Mexico
A History
By Joseph P. Snchez, Robert L. Spude, and Art Gmez
$26.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4256-2 384 Pages
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4663-8 384 Pages
New Mexico: A History is a vital source for anyone seeking to understand
the complex interactions of the indigenous inhabitants, Spanish settlers,
immigrants, and their descendants who have created New Mexico and who
shape its future.
Uncovering History
Archaeological Investigations at the Little Bighorn
By Douglas D. Scott
$32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4350-7 264 Pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4662-1 264 Pages
In Uncovering History, renowned archaeologist Douglas D. Scott offers a
comprehensive account of investigations at the Little Bighorn, from the
earliest collecting efforts to early-twentieth-century findings. Scott expands
our understanding of the battle, its protagonists, and the enduring legacy of
the battlefield as a national memorial.
Bandido
The Life and Times of Tiburcio Vasquez
By John Boessenecker
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4127-5 496 Pages
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4681-2 496 Pages
Tiburcio Vasquez is, next to Joaquin Murrieta, Americas most infamous
Hispanic bandit. After he was hanged as a murderer in 1875, the Chicago
Tribune called him the most noted desperado of modern times. Yet
questions about him still linger. In this engrossing biography, John
Boessenecker provides definitive answers.
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Pathfinder
John Charles Frmont and the Course of American Empire
By Tom Chaffin
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4474-0 612 Pages
John C. Frmonts expeditions between 1838 and 1854 captured the publics
imagination, inspired Americans to accept their nations destiny as a vast
continental empire, and earned him his enduring sobriquet, The Pathfinder.
This biography demonstrates Frmonts vital importance to the history
of American empire, and his role in shattering long-held myths about the
ecology and habitability of the American West.
Alaska
A History
By Claus M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick
$39.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4040-7 520 Pages
$24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4666-9 520 Pages
The largest by far of the fifty states, Alaska is also the state of greatest mystery
and diversity. And, as Claus-M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick show in this
comprehensive survey, the history of Alaskas peoples and the development of
its economy have matched the diversity of its landand seascapes.
Alaska: A History begins by examining the regions geography and the Native
peoples who inhabited it for thousands of years before the first Europeans
arrived.
Columns of Vengeance
Soldiers, Sioux, and the Punitive Expeditions, 18631864
By Paul N. Beck
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4344-6 328 Pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4596-9 328 Pages
Drawing on a wealth of firsthand accounts and linking the Punitive
Expeditions of 1863 and 1864 to the overall Civil War experience, Columns of
Vengeance offers fresh insight into an important chapter in the development of
U.S. military operations against the Sioux.
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An Aristocracy of Color
Race and Reconstruction in California and the West, 18501890
By D. Michael Bottoms
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4335-4 288 Pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4649-2 288 Pages
White Californians saw in Reconstruction legislation a threat to the racial
hierarchy they had imposed on the states legal system during the 1850s.
But nonwhite Californians recognized an opportunity to reshape the states
race relations. Drawing on court records, political debates, and eyewitness
accounts, Bottoms brings to life the monumental battle that followed.
Blackfoot Redemption
A Blood Indians Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice
By William E. Farr
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4287-6 312 Pages
$21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4464-1 312 Pages
In 1879, a Canadian Blackfoot known as Spopee, or Turtle, shot and killed
a white man. Captured as a fugitive, Spopee narrowly escaped execution,
instead landing in an insane asylum in Washington, D.C., where he fell silent.
Spopee thus disappeared for more than thirty years, until a delegation of
American Blackfeet discovered him and exacted a pardon from President
Woodrow Wilson. After re-emerging into society like a modern-day Rip Van
Winkle, Spopee spent the final year of his life on the Blackfeet Reservation
in Montana, in a world that had changed irrevocably from the one he had
known before his confinement.
Dragoons in Apacheland
Conquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 18461861
By William S. Kiser
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4314-9 368 Pages
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4650-8 368 Pages
In the fifteen years prior to the American Civil War, the U.S. Army established
a presence in the Apache Indian homeland of southern New Mexico. In
Dragoons in Apacheland, Kiser recounts the conflicts that ensued and examines
how both Apache warriors and American troops shaped the future of the
Southwest Borderlands.
Hancocks War
Conflict on the Southern Plains
By William Y. Chalfant
$59.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-371-4 548 Pages
$26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4459-7 548 Pages
William Y. Chalfant has devoted years of research to produce a detailed
narrative covering the entire scope of Hancocks Expedition for the Plains.
This first thorough scholarly history of the ill-conceived expedition offers
an unequivocal evaluation of military strategies and a culturally sensitive
interpretation of Indian motivations and reactions.
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Soldiers West
Biographies from the Military Frontier
Edited by Paul Andrew Hutton and Durwood Ball
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3997-5 416 Pages
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4465-8 416 Pages
From the War of 1812 to the end of the nineteenth century, U.S. Army officers
were instrumental in shaping the American West. They helped explore uncharted
places and survey and engineer its far-flung transportation arteries. Many also
served in the ferocious campaigns that drove American Indians onto reservations.
Soldiers West views the turbulent history of the West from the perspective of fifteen
senior army officersincluding Philip H. Sheridan, George Armstrong Custer, and
Nelson A. Mileswho were assigned to bring order to the region.
Terrible Justice
Sioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 18541868
By Doreen Chaky
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-414-8 408 Pages
$21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4652-2 408 Pages
Doreen Chaky offers the first complete picture of the conflicts between Sioux
warriors and the American military in the mid-nineteenth century, the period
bookended by the Siouxs first major military conflicts with the U.S. Army and
the creation of the Great Sioux Reservation.
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Gold-Mining Boomtown
People of White Oaks, Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory
By Roberta Key Haldane
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-410-0 336 Pages
$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4417-7 336 Pages
The town of White Oaks, New Mexico Territory, was born in 1879
when prospectors discovered gold at nearby Baxter Mountain. In GoldMining Boomtown, Roberta Key Haldane offers an intimate portrait of the
southeastern New Mexico community by profiling more than forty families
and individuals who made their homes there during its heyday.
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Devils Gate
Owning the Land, Owning the Story
By Tom Rea
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4368-2 320 Pages
Tom Reas eloquent and captivating narrative traces the history of the
Sweetwater River valley in central Wyominga remote place including Devils
Gate, Independence Rock, and other sites along a stretch of the Oregon
Trailto show how legal ownership of a place can translate into owning its
story.
Buffalo Inc.
American Indians and Economic Development
By Sebastian Felix Braun
$26.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4372-9 288 Pages
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4372-9 288 Pages
Some American Indian tribes on the Great Plains have turned to bison
ranching as a culturally and ecologically sustainable economic development
program. This book focuses on one enterprise on the Cheyenne River Sioux
Reservation to determine whether such projects have fulfilled expectations
and how they fit with traditional and contemporary Lakota values.
George Crook
From the Redwoods to Appomattox
By Paul Magid
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4207-4 408 Pages
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4441-2 408 Pages
Renowned for his prominent role in the Apache and Sioux wars, General George
Crook (182890) 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 Magids detailed and engaging narrative
focuses on Crooks early years through the end of the Civil War.
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American West
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