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Western Writers of America FORTY-SEVENTH STAR

AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF DESPERATION

BOB KUHN

WITH GOLDEN VISIONS

New Mexico’s Struggle for Statehood

Exploring the Donner Party’s Alder Creek Camp

Drawing on Instinct

BRIGHT BEFORE THEM

By David V. Holtby

By Kelly J. Dixon, Julie M. Schablitsky,

By Adam Duncan Harris

Trails to the Mining West, 1849–1852

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Shannon A. Novak

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VALENTINE T. MCGILLYCUDDY

BUYING AMERICA FROM THE INDIANS

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Army Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux

Johnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native

By Candy Moulton

Land Rights

N. SCOTT MOMADAY Remembering Ancestors, Earth, and Traditions

978-0-8061-4210-4

An Annotated Bio-bibliography

ARAPAHO JOURNEYS

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By Blake A. Watson

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Photographs and Stories from the

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Wind River Reservation

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ON THE COVER: The Circus Coming into Town,

by Paul Frenzeny and Jules Tavernier, published in Harper’s Weekly, Oct. 4, 1873, p. 865.

Courtesy of Claudine Chalmers.

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Animal Stories A Lifetime Collection

By Max Evans Illustrated by Keith Walters Foreword by Luther Wilson 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.

Both fiction and nonfiction, the stories in this collection get us inside the heads and hearts of numerous four-legged critters—dogs, horses, burros, goats, cattle, deer, coyotes, and more. “The Old One,” for example, shows us the world through the eyes of a prairie dog as she watches her latest litter of pups rolling and tumbling around the mound and thinks of all the things she will need to teach them. And in “The One-Eyed Sky,” an aging cow with a new calf and an old coyote with a litter to feed circle each other warily, trying to protect their young, until a rancher intervenes. Not one to shy away from difficult subjects, Evans also delves into the “animal nature” of human beings, as in “The Heart of the Matter,” where two Vietnam vets and friends kill a deer and then turn their rifles on each other.

These captivating tales display Evans’s trademark mix of raucous humor and vivid, poetic descriptions of the high plains of West Texas and his beloved Hi-Lo Country in northeastern New Mexico. He reminds his readers of simpler times and more honorable people even as he evokes the merciless environment in which his characters, both animal and human, struggle to survive.

Max Evans, a World War II combat veteran and painter, is the award-winning author of 27 books. His novels The Rounders and Hi-Lo Country are the basis of two highly acclaimed Hollywood films. Keith Walters is an artist and movie property master living in Springer, New Mexico. Luther Wilson is retired as director of the University of New Mexico Press.

September $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4366-8 440 Pages, 6 × 9 44 b&w illus.

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the Man Who Could Fly and Other Stories

By Rudolfo Anaya $12.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3738-4 Strange Business

By Rilla Askew $14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4028-5 Lambing Out and Other Stories

By Mary Clearman Blew $9.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3323-2

Evans Animal Stories

Tales of fiction and nonfiction by the legendary western writer

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American Ski Resort

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Architecture, Style, Experience Margaret Supplee Smith

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ne of America’s most popular sports, skiing is all about freedom. Skiers enjoy the thrill of adventure, an escape from city life, and a close encounter with nature at its most rugged and majestic. And yet, paradoxically, the experience of skiing for most Americans is inextricably linked to architecture, for our journey down the mountainside is shaped by the ski resort.

In this magnificent book, architectural historian Margaret Supplee Smith traces the evolution of the ski resort in North America.

Brimming with photographs of spectacular scenery, intriguing buildings, and colorful personalities, American Ski Resort is the first book to explore the combined phenomena of skiing, tourism, and architecture from a national perspective.

Focusing on destination ski resorts in New England, the Rocky Mountains, the Far West, and southern Canada, Smith examines the architecture of recreational skiing from the 1930s to 1990, showing how small, family-operated businesses

evolved into the massive, theme-oriented, multipurpose ski establishments of today. The narrative begins with the origins of the American winter recreation industry—surprisingly, in the midst of the Great Depression. She then shows how American ski resorts challenged the supremacy of the European Alps and explains the role that architecture played in this shift.

According to Smith, skiing is an archetypical American experience, reflecting our common tendency toward swift ascent, overreaching ambition, and thudding downfall—followed by picking ourselves up, dusting ourselves off, and starting all over again. As the ski industry today faces problems of exclusivity, climate change, a vulnerable economy, and an aging skier demographic, it must itself seek new ways to start all over again—with ski resort architecture continuing to define that reinvention.

Margaret Supplee Smith is Harold W. Tribble Professor of Art, emerita, at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. During her ten years of research for this book, she has lectured and written widely on ski resort architecture and consulted for the city of Aspen on its modern architecture. She is coauthor of the award-winning North Carolina Women: Making History.

July $45.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-4295-1 352 Pages, 10 × 11 198 color photos, 107 b&w illus., 1 map Architecture/U.S. History

Credits: (background) Timberline Lodge, Ore., 1940s, photo (detail) by Ray Atkeson; (inset details, left to right) “megacabin” in Telluride, Colo., design by Theodore Brown, photo by John Vaughn; Beaver Creek, Colo., vacation house, design by James Morter, photo by Gordon Schenck; Keystone (Colo.) Conference Center, design by BAR Architects, photo courtesy Doug Dun/BAR Architects; A-frame in Stowe, Vt., designed in 1953 by Henrik Bull and John Flender, photo courtesy of Henrik Bull.

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A lavishly illustrated exploration of the American ski resort and its evolution across time

Sánchez, Spude, Gómez New Mexico

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The first comprehensive history of the region, people, and state in more than thirty years

New Mexico A History

By Joseph P. Sánchez, Robert L. Spude, and Art Gómez Since the earliest days of Spanish exploration and settlement, New Mexico has been known for lying off the beaten track. But this new history reminds readers that the world has been beating paths to New Mexico for hundreds of years, via the Camino Real, the Santa Fe Trail, several railroads, Route 66, the interstate highway system, and now the Internet.

October $26.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4256-2 376 Pages, 6 × 9 12 b&w illus., 5 maps U.S. History

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Bound for Santa Fe The Road to New Mexico and The American Conquest, 1806–1848

By Stephen G. Hyslop $34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3389-8 $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4160-2 Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of New Mexico

By James E. Sherman and Barbara H. Sherman $26.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1106-3 Forty-Seventh Star New Mexico’s Struggle for Statehood

By David Van Holtby $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4282-1

This first complete history of New Mexico in more than thirty years begins with the prehistoric cultures of the earliest inhabitants. The authors then trace the state’s growth from the arrival of Spanish explorers and colonizers in the sixteenth century to the centennial of statehood in 2012. Most historians have made the territory’s admission to the Union in 1912 as the starting point for the state’s modernization.

As this book shows, however, the transformation from frontier province to modern state began with World War II. The technological advancements of the Atomic Era, spawned during wartime, propelled New Mexico to the forefront of scientific research and pointed it toward the twenty-first century.

The authors discuss the state’s historical and cultural geography, the economics of mining and ranching, irrigation’s crucial role in agriculture, and the impact of Native political activism and tribe-owned gambling casinos. New Mexico: A History will be 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.

Joseph P. Sánchez is Superintendent of Petroglyph National Monument, National Park Service, and Director of the Intermountain Spanish Colonial Research Center at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Between Two Rivers: The Atrisco Land Grant in Albuquerque History, 1692–1968. Robert L. Spude, a retired National Park Service Regional Historian (Santa Fe), has published articles and books on the history of the Southwest. Art Gómez is a retired National Park Service Supervisory Historian living in Santa Fe and is coauthor of New Mexico: Images of a Land and Its People and Forests under Fire: A Century of Ecosystem Mismanagement.

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Assassination and Commemoration JFK, Dallas, and The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

By Stephen Fagin Foreword by Conover Hunt Preface by Edward T. Linenthal The shots that killed President John F. Kennedy in November 1963 were fired from the sixth floor of a nondescript warehouse at the edge of Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas. That floor in the Texas School Book Depository became a museum exhibit in 1989 and was designated part of a National Historic Landmark District in 1993.

This book recounts the slow and painful process by which a city and a nation came to terms with its collective memory of the assassination and its aftermath.

Stephen Fagin begins Assassination and Commemoration by retracing the events that culminated in Lee Harvey Oswald’s shots at the presidential motorcade.

He vividly describes the volatile political climate of midcentury Dallas as well as the shame that haunted the city for decades after the assassination. The book highlights the decades-long work of people determined to create a museum that commemorates a president and recalls the drama and heartbreak of November 22, 1963. Fagin narrates the painstaking day-to-day work of cultivating the support of influential citizens and convincing boards and committees of the importance of preservation and interpretation.

Today, The Sixth Floor Museum helps visitors to interpret the depository and Dealey Plaza as sacred ground and a monument to an unforgettable American tragedy. One of the most popular historic sites in Texas, it is a place of quiet reflection, of edification for older Americans who remember the Kennedy years, and of education for the large and growing number of younger visitors unfamiliar with the events the museum commemorates. Like the museum itself, Fagin’s book both carefully studies a community’s confrontation with tragedy and explores the ways we preserve the past.

Stephen Fagin is Associate Curator and Oral Historian at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. He holds a Master of Arts in Museum Studies from the University of Oklahoma. Conover Hunt served as the museum’s original project director and is its former Chief Curator and Historian. Edward T. Linenthal is the author of Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America’s Holocaust Museum and The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory.

July $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4358-3 272 Pages, 6 × 9 29 b&w illus., 10 color photos U.S. History

Fagin Assassination and Commemoration

Chronicles the creation of a memorial for one of America’s worst tragedies

Holiday, McPherson Under the Eagle

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The life story and World War II experiences of a Navajo code talker—told in his own words

Under the Eagle Samuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker

By Samuel Holiday and Robert S. McPherson Samuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by the Marine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit secret communications on the battlefield. Based on extensive interviews with Robert S. McPherson, Under the Eagle is Holiday’s vivid account of his own story. It is the only book-length oral history of a Navajo code talker in which the narrator relates his experiences in his own voice and words.

October $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4389-7 288 Pages, 6 × 9 30 b&w illus.

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Shot at and Missed Recollections of a World War II Bombardier

By Jack R. Myers $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3695-0 the Wrong Stuff The Adventures and Misadventures of an 8th Air Force Aviator

By Truman Smith $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3422-2 Navajo Legacy The Life and Teachings of John Holiday

By John Holiday and Robert S. McPherson $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4176-3

Under the Eagle carries the reader from Holiday’s childhood years in rural Monument Valley, Utah, into the world of the United States’s Pacific campaign against Japan—to such places as Kwajalein, Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima. Central to Holiday’s story is his Navajo worldview, which shapes how he views his upbringing in Utah, his time at an Indian boarding school, and his experiences during World War II. Holiday’s story, coupled with historical and cultural commentary by McPherson, shows how traditional Navajo practices gave strength and healing to soldiers facing danger and hardship and to veterans during their difficult readjustment to life after the war.

The Navajo code talkers have become famous in recent years through books and movies that have dramatized their remarkable story. Their wartime achievements are also a source of national pride for the Navajos. And yet, as McPherson explains, Holiday’s own experience was “as much mental and spiritual as it was physical.”

This decorated marine served “under the eagle” not only as a soldier but also as a Navajo man deeply aware of his cultural obligations.

Samuel Holiday, born in 1924, now lives in Kayenta, Arizona, at the southern end of Utah’s Monument Valley. He is one of the few surviving Navajo code talkers.

Robert S. McPherson is Professor of History at Utah State University, Blanding. He is the author of A Navajo Legacy: The Life and Teachings of John Holiday; Navajo Land, Navajo Culture: The Utah Experience in the Twentieth Century; and The Journey of Navajo Oshley: An Autobiography and Life History.

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Painters and the American West, Vol. II Contributions by Sarah A. Hunt, James P. Ronda, Joan Carpenter Troccoli and John Wilmerding In 2010, the Anschutz Collection became the American Museum of Western Art—The Anschutz Collection, a public museum. Painters and the American West, Volume II is a companion and sequel to the award-winning Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection, published in 2000. The present volume includes the finest works featured in the earlier book, along with major recent acquisitions by Alfred Jacob Miller, Charles Deas, William Ranney, Emanuel Leutze, Thomas Eakins, Thomas Anshutz, Henry Farny, N. C. Wyeth, William Herbert “Buck” Dunton, Edward Hopper, and many others.

In the foreword to this book, Sarah Hunt, director of the museum, tells the story of the Anschutz Collection’s transition from a closely held treasure to an educational and esthetic resource for Denver and western art enthusiasts everywhere. In the book’s introductory essay, distinguished scholar and curator John Wilmerding provides cultural and literary context for the museum’s holdings, which include exemplary works by virtually every significant painter of the American West from the 1820s through the mid-twentieth century. Historical essays by acclaimed historian James P. Ronda introduce the six chapters of the book, setting the stage for in-depth examinations of individual masterworks by Joan Carpenter Troccoli.

Scholars have brought new insight to western American art in the past decade, and the European view of the westering experience as a defining characteristic of American history and culture is beginning to take hold among art historians on this side of the Atlantic. Western American art is shedding its outsider status and assuming its rightful place as an integral component of the history of American art—and American life. The 150 masterful images from over a century of painting that are showcased in this book expand our understanding of the place of the American West in the story of humankind.

Sarah A. Hunt is director of the American Museum of Western Art—The Anschutz Collection. James P. Ronda, H. G. Barnard Professor of History, emeritus, University of Tulsa, is widely recognized for his extensive scholarship on the Lewis and Clark expedition. Joan Carpenter Troccoli holds a B. A. from Middlebury College and master’s and doctoral degrees from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

John Wilmerding is Sarofim Professor of American Art, emeritus, Princeton University.

distributed for the american museum of western art—the anschutz collection

July $80.00 Cloth 978-0-9881774-0-6 344 Pages, 9.5 × 12 150 color illus.

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Western Legacy The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum Contributions by Steven L. Grafe, Susan Hallsten McGarry, Charles E. Rand, Richard C. Rattenbury and Don Reeves $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3731-5 Elevating Western American Art Developing an Institute in the Cultural Capital of the Rockies Edited by Thomas Brent Smith $34.95 Cloth 978-0-914738-72-5 $24.95 Paper 978-0-914738-71-8 West of the Imagination

By William H. Goetzmann and William N. Goetzmann $65.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-3533-5

Hunt, Ronda, Troccoli, Wilmerding Painters and the American West, Vol. 2

Companion to the award-winning Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection

buyer Rough Breaks

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The much-awaited sequel to the author’s award-winning memoir When I Came West

Rough Breaks A Wyoming High Country Memoir

By Laurie Wagner Buyer 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 modernday saga of life on a remote cattle ranch.

August $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4375-0 256 Pages, 5.5 × 8.5 14 b&w illus.

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When I Came West

By Laurie Wagner Buyer $14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4059-9 Bound Like Grass A Memoir from the Western High Plains

By Ruth McLaughlin $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4137-4 $16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4326-2 Writing Her Own Life Imogene Welch, Western Rural Schoolteacher

By Mary Clearman Blew $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3581-6

Written in the author’s trademark lyrical style, Rough Breaks is based on the diaries Laurie kept for nearly six years as she lived and worked on the O Bar Y. Central to the story is Mick Buyer, a cowman stubbornly committed to holding onto his beautiful piece of land in the Wyoming high country and continuing the way of life he learned from his father and grandfather. As his marriage begins to fail, Mick and Laurie develop an increasing affection for each other, even as she also becomes close to his wife, their children, and neighboring ranchers.

With grace and wit, Laurie evokes the joys and travails of life on a ranch—cutting and baling hay, repairing old vehicles and machinery, fixing fences, birthing calves, tending to beaver dams and elk herds, and struggling to pay the mortgage and endless veterinary bills. In the spirited tradition of Teresa Jordan and Mary Clearman Blew, Rough Breaks is a uniquely honest and heartfelt contribution to the realm of memoir by contemporary women ranchers.

Laurie Wagner Buyer, an award-winning poet, memoirist, and novelist, spent more than thirty years living in the backwoods and working on remote ranches in the Rocky Mountain West. The author of When I Came West, Across the High Divide, Side Canyons, and Spring’s Edge, she currently resides in Llano, Texas.

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A Family of the Land The Texas Photography of Guy Gillette

By Andy Wilkinson Foreword by B. Byron Price Since he first dreamed of a career in photography, Guy Gillette has traveled regularly to his wife’s family’s ranch, located outside the small town of Crockett, Texas. When Gillette first came to the Porter Place, as the ranch has always been known, he began to photograph the Porter family and their land. Thanks to Gillette’s sense of composition, these wonderful black-and-white photographs, dating from the 1940s, led to his career as a magazine photographer. Collected here for the first time, they document small-town life in East Texas, where Guy Gillette’s sons, the musical duo the Gillette Brothers, still run cattle. A Family of the Land offers a portrait of a community over a half century during which remarkably little has changed.

Midway between Dallas and Houston, the Porter Place is where the South meets the West. The pastures began as cotton fields carved out of piney woods, and the cowboys use southern curs to control the cattle. One of the photographs presented here, of a boy and his dog at the veterinarian’s office, is said to have moved Museum of Modern Art curator Edward Steichen to tears. Gillette also captures cowboys at work and at play, branding and marketing their animals, enjoying a game of dominoes, driving trucks with “2-50” air conditioning—two windows down, fifty miles an hour.

“Though photography is often called art,” says Gillette, “I have wanted to be artless: to be a documentarian, not an artist. . . . Telling a story was always the attraction of photography for me.” The story ends with the outdoor wedding of Guy Porter, one of the Gillette Brothers, at the Porter Place. Family, labor, and land remain, inseparable.

Andy Wilkinson is a writer and singer. His work centers on the American West.

B. Byron Price is author of Imagining the Open Range: Erwin E. Smith, Cowboy Photographer.

Volume 13 in the Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West

August $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4404-7 144 Pages, 10.75 × 9 132 duotone illus.

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Peoples of the Plateau The Indian Photographs of Lee Moorhouse, 1898–1915

By Steven L. Grafe $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3742-1 Lanterns on the Prairie The Blackfeet Photographs of Walter McClintock Edited by Steven L. Grafe $60.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4022-3 $34.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4029-2 A Northern Cheyenne Album Photographs by Thomas B. Marquis

By John Woodenlegs Edited by Margot Liberty $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3893-0

Wilkinson A Family of the Land

Classic images of small-town life in East Texas

Van Winckel Boneland

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A Montana family reconstructs its past

Boneland Linked Stories

By Nance Van Winckel 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 husband’s death . . . was it a suicide? The bones unearthed on her uncle’s Montana ranch—are they of a steer? a mastodon? a dinosaur? Her beloved cousin Jessie—did she slip into addiction, and if so, where did the addict life take her? The dots of Lynette’s 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.

July $16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4391-0 196 Pages, 5.5 × 8.5 Fiction

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All But the Waltz A Memoir of Five Generations in the Life of a Montana Family

By Mary Clearman Blew $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3321-8 Bone Deep in Landscape Writing, Reading, and Place

By Mary Clearman Blew $9.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3270-9 Balsamroot A Memoir

By Mary Clearman Blew $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3322-5

Lynette and her two cousins, Jessie and Buster, narrate the linked short stories that make up Boneland. Their fathers, brothers, grew up on the ranch in Montana, a place rich in dinosaur fossils that gives the book its title. Continuing an enormous task begun two generations back, one of the uncles is still reconstructing a fossil in the old hay shed. The cousins, meanwhile, carry on the family tradition of reconstructing the mysteries of the past. All three have trouble defining and maintaining their identities. And only they understand the idiosyncrasies of their family—which Nance Van Winckel treats as a character in this ingeniously linked collection of stories. The family is a creature reconstructed from the slippery events of everyone’s past.

Fate is sudden and powerful in the life of this clan. A baby is dropped, a family drowned, a tsunami in Thailand changes the course of an already troubled life.

Van Winckel releases time from strict adherence to chronology to reveal surprising correspondences. With shifting points of view and distinctive voices, these linked stories, in the hands of a master of the genre, capture the mutability of human experience and the meandering plot lines that make up our lives.

Nance Van Winckel is author of three collections of linked stories, including the award-winning Quake.

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Red Dirt Women At Home on the Oklahoma Plains

By Susan Kates Foreword by Rilla Askew For many people who have never spent time in the state, Oklahoma conjures up a series of stereotypes: rugged cowboys, tipi-dwelling American Indians, uneducated farmers. When women are pictured at all, they seem frozen in time: as the bonneted pioneer woman stoically enduring hardship or the bedraggled, gaunt-faced mother familiar from Dust Bowl photographs. In Red Dirt Women, Susan Kates challenges these one-dimensional characterizations by exploring—and celebrating—the lives of contemporary Oklahoma women whose experiences are anything but predictable.

In essays both intensely personal and universal, Red Dirt Women reveals the author’s own heartaches and joys in becoming a parent through adoption, her love of regional treasures found in “junk” stores, and her deep appreciation of Miss Dorrie, her son’s unconventional preschool teacher. Through lively profiles, interviews, and sketches, we come to know pioneer queens from the Panhandle, rodeo riders, casino gamblers, roller-derby skaters, and the “Lady of Jade”—a former “boat person” from Vietnam who now owns a successful business in Oklahoma City.

As she illuminates the lives of these memorable Oklahoma women, Kates traces her own journey to Oklahoma with clarity and insight. Born and raised in Ohio, she confesses an initial apprehension about her adopted home, admitting that she felt “vulnerable on the open lands.” Yet her original unease develops into a deep affection for the landscape, history, culture, and people of Oklahoma.

The women we meet in Red Dirt Women are not politicians, governors’ wives, or celebrities—they are women of all ages and backgrounds who surround us every day and who are as diverse as Oklahoma itself.

Susan Kates is Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Activist Rhetorics and American Higher Education, 1885–1937. Rilla Askew, who was born and raised in eastern Oklahoma, is the award-winning author of several works of fiction, including Harpsong and Fire in Beulah.

August $14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4359-0 152 Pages, 5.5 × 8.5 15 b&w illus.

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Red Dirt Growing Up Okie

By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3775-9 Voices From the Heartland

By Carolyn Anne Taylor, Emily Dial-Driver, Carole Burrage, and Sally Emmons-Featherston $19.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3858-9 $14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4031-5 Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma Stories from the WPA Narratives Edited by Terri M. Baker and Connie Oliver Henshaw $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3846-6

Kates Red Dirt Women

Thought-provoking essays explore the lives of contemporary Oklahoma women

Russell The Dig

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Two desperate quests interweave in this historical-meets-modern adventure story

The Dig In Search of Coronado’s Treasure

By Sheldon Russell Life couldn’t be worse for archaeology grad student Jim Hunt. Having lost his funding at a major midwestern university, and his partner, he desperately needs a breakthrough to revitalize his work and his life. Could a summer dig in map-dot Lyons, Kansas, jumpstart his fledgling career? Out of options, he packs his bags.

Five hundred years earlier, Spanish conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado faces a desperate journey of his own through New World terrain. He must find the legendary golden city of Quivira. But can he trust the mysterious “Turk,” his Indian guide?

Jim and Coronado’s stories interweave in The Dig, intersecting at a fateful point.

September $16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4360-6 246 Pages, 5.5 × 8.5 Fiction

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Dreams to Dust A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush

By Sheldon Russell $26.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3721-6 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4043-8 Blue Heaven A Novel

By Willard Wyman $21.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4218-0 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4329-3 Harpsong

By Rilla Askew $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3823-7 $14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3928-9

Things don’t improve for Jim with his first steps in Lyons—and his trespass upon an ancient mausoleum. His curiosity angers the locals—including Eva, a striking but no-nonsense museum worker Jim is instantly drawn to. A local tough, Mitch Keeper—enforcer for a reclusive, wealthy landowner—seems to go out of his way to harass Jim. The sheriff thinks nothing of throwing him in jail. And then the seemingly innocuous dig turns deadly.

It’s not much better for the conquistador. After days of wandering through dusty lands with no food or water, Coronado and his men are dying. Still, the Turk beckons them on. To continue means death. But to return empty-handed is equally unbearable . . .

Sheldon Russell ratchets the tension and mystery in both narratives as Jim and Coronado close in on—or are eluded by—what they seek. Along the way, the author’s research and craftsmanship shine through. Coronado’s carefully rendered, formal speech contrasts with the casual dialogue authentic to the plains today.

Even minor characters, from Stufflebaum, Lyons’s prankster taxidermist, to the inscrutable Turk leap from the page. A historical fiction thrill ride that builds to an Indiana Jones–style standoff, The Dig forces its characters—and readers—to grapple with an age-old proverb: all that glitters is not gold.

Sheldon Russell is the author of several novels, including Dreams to Dust: A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush, which won the Oklahoma Book Award for fiction.

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Stories of Old-Time Oklahoma

Deliverance from the Little Big Horn

By David Dary

Doctor Henry Porter and Custer’s Seventh Cavalry

By Joan Nabseth Stevenson

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

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.

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.

July $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4181-7 $16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4419-1 288 Pages, 5.5 × 8.5 29 b&w illus., 3 maps U.S. History

Deliverance from the Little Big Horn recounts in gripping detail Dr. Porter’s life-saving work—attending to wounds, performing surgeries and amputations. He evacuated the critically wounded soldiers on mules and hand litters, embarking on a hazardous trek of fifteen miles that required two river crossings, the scaling of a steep cliff, and a treacherous descent into the safety of the steamboat Far West, waiting at the mouth of the Little Big Horn River. There began a harrowing 700-mile journey along the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers to the post hospital at Fort Abraham Lincoln near Bismarck, Dakota Territory. Offering new insights into the role of battlefield medicine, the book also ensures that the selfless deeds of a contract” surgeon—unrecognized to this day by the U.S. government—will never be forgotten.

Joan Nabseth Stevenson an independent scholar, holds a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literature from Stanford University.

The daughter of a vascular surgeon, she lives with her husband, a neonatologist, in Los Altos Hills, California.

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Stevenson Deliverance from the Little Big Horn

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.

Of the three surgeons who accompanied Custer’s Seventh Cavalry on June 25, 1876, only the youngest, twenty-eightyear-old Henry Porter, survived that day’s ordeal, riding through a gauntlet of Indian attackers and up the steep bluffs to Major Marcus Reno’s hilltop position. But the story of Dr. Porter’s wartime exploits goes far beyond the battle itself. In this compelling narrative of military endurance and medical ingenuity, Joan Nabseth Stevenson opens a new window on the Battle of the Little Big Horn by re-creating the desperate struggle for survival during the fight and in its wake.

dary Stories of Old-Time Oklahoma

Do you know how Oklahoma came to have a panhandle, that Washington Irving once visited here, or the state rock?

A unique retelling of the Custer saga and its aftermath—from a medical perspective

Two French artists document America’s changing frontier The opening of the West after the Civil War drew a flood of Americans and immigrants to the frontier. Among the liveliest records of the westering of the 1870s is the series of prints collected for the first time in this book. Chronicling the West for Harper’s showcases 100 illustrations made for the magazine by French artists Paul Frenzeny and Jules Tavernier on a cross-country assignment in 1873 and 1874. The pair—“Frenzeny & Tavernier,” as they signed their work—documented the newly accessible territories, their diverse inhabitants, and the changing frontier.

Claudine Chalmers focuses on the life and work of Frenzeny and Tavernier, who were accomplished and adventurous enough to succeed as “special artists,” the label Harper’s gave the illustrators it sent into the field.

The job required imagination, courage, and adaptability, not to mention expert draftsmanship. Frenzeny, a skilled artist who accepted his adopted country’s many cultures, was also a superb

horseman. Tavernier had been trained to work fast in a variety of media. Both men had the advantage of viewing America with fresh eyes.

They began their artistic record in the East with An Emigrant Boarding-House in New York. Their journey ended in San Francisco, where they sketched the city’s bustling Chinatown and pastoral Marin County suburbs. Along with each illustration, the artists sent Harper’s a description; those captions are reproduced here.

Frenzeny and Tavernier documented the frontier as it evolved. They depicted the hazards of travel and settlement, from fires to destitution, and presented disconcerting subject matter—such as the Sioux Sun Dance—in relentless detail. Their skill has made some of their drawings, among them The Strike in the Coal Mine, classics of American culture.

With pencil and woodblock, Chalmers shows, these intrepid Frenchmen shaped public perceptions of the West for decades to come.

Volume 12 in the Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West

October $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4376-7 272 Pages, 8.5 × 11 13 color illus., 119 b&w illus., 1 map Art/U.S. History

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By Gary Allen Hood $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-9959-7 a Danish Photographer of Idaho Indians Benedicte Wrensted

By Joanna Cohan Scherer $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3684-4 Scenery, Curiosities, and Stupendous Rocks William Quesenbury’s Overland Sketches, 1850–1851

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Credits: (Top left) Sketches in the Far West—Arkansas Pilgrims,

Claudine Chalmers, an independent historian, is the author of Splendide Californie! Impressions of the Golden State by French Artists, 1786 to 1900.

Harper’s Weekly, 4 April 1874, p. 306; (top right) The Watch for Montezuma, Harper’s Weekly, 22 May 1875, p. 420; (opposite), Driven from Their Homes—Flying from an Indian Raid, Harper’s Weekly, 11 April 1874, p. 321. Courtesy Claudine Chalmers.

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Chronicling the West for Harper’s

Rushing, Makholm Modern Spirit

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Showcases the work of a distinguished twentieth-century artist

Modern Spirit The Art of George Morrison

By W. Jackson Rushing III and Kristin Makholm Foreword by Kay WalkingStick The work of Chippewa artist George Morrison (1919–2000) has enjoyed widespread critical acclaim. His paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures have been displayed in numerous public and private exhibitions, and he is one of Minnesota’s most cherished artists. Yet because Morrison’s artwork typically does not include overt references to his Indian heritage, it has stirred debate about what it means to be a Native American artist. This stunning catalogue, featuring 130 color and black-and-white images, showcases Morrison’s work across a spectrum of genres and media, while also exploring the artist’s identity as a modernist within the broader context of twentieth-century American and Native American art.

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Julius Seyler and the Blackfeet An Impressionist at Glacier National Park

By William E. Farr $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4014-8 The James T. Bialac Native American Art Collection Selected Works

By Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art $49.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4299-9 $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4304-0 Uprising!

Woody Crumbo’s Indian Art

By Robert Perry $36.00s Cloth 978-0-9797858-5-6

Born and raised near the Grand Portage Indian Reservation in Minnesota, Morrison graduated from the Minnesota School of Art and the Art Students League in New York City. He spent his early career mainly on the East Coast, becoming one of the first Native American artists to exhibit his work extensively in New York. Best known for his landscape paintings and wood collages, he employed a variety of media—paint, wood, ink and metal, paper, and canvas—and developed a unique style that combined elements of cubism, surrealism, and abstract expressionism.

In her foreword to Modern Spirit, Cherokee artist Kay WalkingStick describes her personal association with Morrison and admiration for his authentic artistic vision.

Kristin Makholm, in her introduction to the volume, explores Morrison’s ties to Minnesota and his legacy within the history of Minnesota art and culture. Then, drawing on extensive primary research and Morrison’s own writings, W. Jackson Rushing III offers an in-depth analysis of Morrison’s artistic evolution against the backdrop of evolving definitions of “Indianness.”

By expanding our understanding of Morrison’s singular vision, Modern Spirit invites readers to appreciate more deeply the beauty and complexity of his art.

W. Jackson Rushing III is Eugene B. Adkins Presidential Professor of Art History and Mary Lou Milner Carver Chair in Native American Art at the University of Oklahoma School of Art and Art History. Kristin Makholm is Executive Director of the Minnesota Museum of American Art. Kay WalkingStick, an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, is a world-renowned artist.

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Woody Crumbo Contributions by Minisa Crumbo Halsey, Ruthe Blalock Jones, Carole Klein, Robert Perry, and Kimberly Roblin Photographs by Robert S. Cross Woodrow Wilson Crumbo and the oilman Thomas Gilcrease met for the first time at the Mayo Hotel in Tulsa in 1945. Gilcrease would eventually persuade the young Crumbo to join him as artist-in-residence at the nascent Thomas Gilcrease Museum.

Potawatomi, French, and German by birth, Crumbo was orphaned young and fostered within various Native traditions. His genius knew no tribal borders, but he supported and promoted Indian art and artists throughout his life, as an educator, director of art at Bacone College, consultant to Gilcrease, and early adopter of printmaking methods that expanded the audience for Native fine art.

The Gilcrease Museum has the honor of possessing the largest extant body of Crumbo’s delightful and finely crafted work, which is celebrated and interpreted within the pages of this book.

Minisa Crumbo Halsey has exhibited extensively in the United States and Europe, including in an invitational tour of the USSR that presented multicultural portraits, symbolic Native images, and original poetry. Ruthe Blalock Jones is a Shawnee traditionalist, artist, and retired Art Director at Bacone College. She was appointed Commissioner of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board by Interior Secretary Kenneth Salazar in 2011. Carole Klein, Associate Curator of Art at Gilcrease, has in-depth experience working with the museum’s art collection for research and exhibitions and has written extensively for related publications and the Gilcrease Journal.

Robert Perry, Vice Chairman of the Chickasaw Council of Elders, was inducted into the Chickasaw Hall of Fame in 2011. He is on the National Board of Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers and has published three books, including Uprising! Woody Crumbo’s Indian Art. Kimberly Roblin has worked with the anthropology, art, and archival collections since joining Gilcrease in 2005. An Associate Curator, she researches and develops content for exhibitions and is a regular contributor to the museum’s publications, including the Gilcrease Series and the Gilcrease Journal.

distributed for the Gilcrease museum

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Woody Crumbo’s Indian Art

By Robert Perry $36.00s Cloth 978-0-9797858-5-6 Willard Stone

By Randy Ramer, Carole Klein, Kimberly Roblin, and Regan Hansen $24.95s Paper 978-0-9725657-4-5 Charles Banks Wilson

By Carole Klein, Anne Morand, Carol Haralson, and Randy Ramer $19.95s Paper 978-0-9725657-3-8

Halsey, Jones, Klein, Perry, Roblin Woody Crumbo

A supporter and promoter of Indian art and artists throughout his life

Tydeman Conversations with Barry Lopez

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Thought-provoking interviews with the writer and environmental activist

Conversations with Barry Lopez Walking the Path of Imagination

By William E. Tydeman Known as an advocate for the endangered earth, Barry Lopez is one of America’s preeminent writers on nature. This invigorating book invites readers to sit down with Lopez and his friend William E. Tydeman to engage with their conversations about activism, the life of the mind, and all things literary. Even readers who think they know everything there is to know about Lopez will learn much from this richly informative book, both from Tydeman’s concise biography of Lopez and from the dialogue about Lopez’s ideas and experiences.

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The three interviews and Tydeman’s reflections on other discussions with Lopez gathered here address nature, human beings’ relationship to the land, the tension between political activism and the life of the intellectual, memory and reconciliation, the artist’s social responsibility, and the business of authorship.

“What is the nature of the relationship between the writer and the reader?” Lopez asks. It’s “reciprocal, contractual, and moral.”

Lopez’s thoughts on the importance of authenticity will resonate with every reader or writer, as will his deep commitment to story in all his work. He and Tydeman engage in illuminating exchanges on style and genre, the publication process, and relationships among authors, editors, and publishers. Both men are interested in photography and its relationship to writing, a subject on which they offer thoughtprovoking comments. A comprehensive annotated bibliography of Lopez’s writings by archivist Diane Warner rounds out the volume.

William E. Tydeman is coeditor of Reading into Photography: Selected Essays, 1859–1980 and An Island in the Sky: Llano Estacado. Diane Warner is a librarian for the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University.

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Miera y Pacheco A Renaissance Spaniard in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico

By John L. Kessell Remembered today as an early cartographer and prolific religious artist, don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713–1785) 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 Miera’s complex life in cinematic detail, from his birth in Cantabria, Spain, to his sudden and unexplained appearance at Janos, Chihuahua, and his death in Santa Fe at age seventy-one.

In Miera y Pacheco, John L. Kessell explores each aspect of this Renaissance man’s life in the colony. Beginning with his marriage to the young descendant of a once-prominent New Mexican family, we see Miera transformed by his varied experiences into the quintessential Hispanic New Mexican. As he traveled to every corner of the colony and beyond, Miera gathered not only geographical, social, and political data but also invaluable information about the Southwest’s indigenous peoples. At the same time, Miera the artist was carving and painting statues and panels of the saints for the altar screens of the colony.

Miera’s most ambitious surviving map resulted from his five-month ordeal as cartographer on the Domínguez-Escalante expedition to the Great Basin in 1776.

Two years later, with the arrival of famed Juan Bautista de Anza as governor of New Mexico, Miera became a trusted member of Anza’s inner circle, advising him on civil, military, and Indian affairs.

Miera’s maps and his religious art, represented here, have long been considered essential to the cultural history of colonial New Mexico. Now Kessell’s biography tells the rest of the story. Anyone with an interest in southwestern history, colonial New Mexico, or New Spain will welcome this study of Miera y Pacheco’s eventful life and times.

John L. Kessell is author of several books on the colonial Southwest, including Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico and Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California.

August $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4377-4 232 Pages, 6 × 9 18 color illus., 62 b&w illus., 1 map Biography

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Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom OF NEW MEXICO

By John L. Kessell $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4122-0 Spain in the Southwest A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California

By John L. Kessell $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3484-0

Kessell Miera y Pacheco

The compelling story of a key figure in Spanish colonial New Mexico

Sagala Buffalo Bill on the Silver Screen

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The fascinating story of Cody’s venture into filmmaking during the early years of cinema

Buffalo Bill on the Silver Screen The Films of William F. Cody

By Sandra K. Sagala For more than thirty years, William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody entertained audiences across the United States and Europe with his Wild West show. Scores of books have been written about Cody’s fabled career as a showman, but his involvement in the film industry—following the dissolution of his traveling show—is less well known.

In Buffalo Bill on the Silver Screen, Sandra K. Sagala chronicles the fascinating story of Cody’s venture into filmmaking during the early cinema period.

August $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4361-3 232 Pages, 5.5 × 8.5 21 b&w illus.

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By Robert E. Bonner $32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3829-9 Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill

By Don Russell $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1537-5

In 1894 Thomas Edison invited Cody to bring some of the Wild West performers to the inventor’s kinetoscope studio. From then on, as Sagala reveals, Cody was frequently in the camera’s eye, eager to participate in the newest and most popular phenomenon of the era: the motion picture. In 1910, promoter Pliny Craft produced The Life of Buffalo Bill, a film in which Cody played his own persona.

After his Wild West show disbanded, Cody fully embraced the film business, seeing the technology as a way to recoup his financial losses and as a new vehicle for preserving America’s history and his own legacy for future generations. Because he had participated as a scout in some of the battles and skirmishes between the U.S. Army and Plains Indians, Cody wanted to make a film that captured these historical events. Unfortunately for Cody, The Indian Wars (1913) was not a financial success, and only three minutes of footage have survived.

Long after his death, Cody’s legacy lives on through the many movies that have featured his character. Sagala provides a useful appendix listing all of these films, as well as those for which Cody himself took an active role as director, producer, or actor. Published on the eve of the centennial anniversary of The Indian Wars, this engaging book offers readers new insights into the legendary figure’s life and career and explores his lasting image in film.

Sandra K. Sagala, an independent researcher and historian, is the author of Buffalo Bill on Stage. She resides in Erie, Pennsylvania.

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Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud Custer, the Press, and the Little Bighorn

By James E. Mueller The defeat of George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn was big news in 1876. Newspaper coverage of the battle initiated hot debates about whether the U.S. government should change its policy toward American Indians and who was to blame for the army’s loss—the latter, an argument that ignites passion to this day. In Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud, James E. Mueller draws on exhaustive research of period newspapers to explore press coverage of the famous battle. As he analyzes a wide range of accounts—some grim, some circumspect, some even laced with humor—Mueller offers a unique take on the dramatic events that so shook the American public.

Among the many myths surrounding the Little Bighorn is that journalists of that time were incompetent hacks who, in response to the stunning news of Custer’s defeat, called for bloodthirsty revenge against the Indians and portrayed the “boy general” as a glamorous hero who had suffered a martyr’s death. Mueller argues otherwise, explaining that the journalists of 1876 were not uniformly biased against the Indians, and they did a credible job of describing the battle. They reported facts as they knew them, wrote thoughtful editorials, and asked important questions.

Although not without their biases, journalists reporting on the Battle of the Little Bighorn cannot be credited—or faulted—for creating the legend of Custer’s Last Stand. Indeed, as Mueller reveals, after the initial burst of attention, these journalists quickly moved on to other stories of their day. It would be art and popular culture—biographies, paintings, Wild West shows, novels, and movies—that would forever embed the Last Stand in the American psyche.

James E. Mueller is Professor of Journalism at the University of North Texas. A veteran reporter himself, he is the author of Towel Snapping the Press: Bush’s Journey from Locker-Room Antics to Message Control and Tag Teaming the Press: How Bill and Hillary Clinton Work Together to Handle the Press.

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How American journalists responded to Custer’s defeat

Hightower Banking in Oklahoma before Statehood

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How storekeepers and merchant bankers advanced the territorial economy from barter to commerce

Banking in Oklahoma Before Statehood

By Michael J. Hightower This lively book takes Oklahoma history into the world of Wild West capitalism.

It begins with a useful survey of banking from the early days of the American republic until commercial patterns coalesced in the East. It then follows the course of American expansion westward, tracing the evolution of commerce and banking in Oklahoma from their genesis to the eve of statehood in 1907.

Banking in Oklahoma before Statehood is not just a story of men sitting behind desks. Author Michael J. Hightower describes the riverboat trade in the Arkansas and Red River valleys and freighting on the Santa Fe Trail. Shortages of both currency and credit posed major impediments to regional commerce until storekeepers solved these problems by moving beyond barter to open ad hoc establishments known as merchant banks.

October $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4388-0 368 Pages, 6.125 × 9.25 20 b&w illus., 1 table U.S. History

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By W. David Baird and Danney Goble $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4197-8 Stories of Old-Time Oklahoma

By David Dary $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4181-7 $16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4419-1 Oklahoma The Land and Its People

By Kenny Franks and Paul F. Lambert $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-9944-3

Banking went through a wild adolescence during the territorial period. The era saw robberies and insider shenanigans, rivalries between banks with territorial and national charters, speculation in land and natural resources, and land fraud in the Indian Territory. But as banking matured, the better-capitalized institutions became the nucleus of commercial culture in the Oklahoma and Indian Territories.

To tell this story, the author blends documentary historical research in both public and corporate archives with his own interviews and those that WPA field-workers conducted with old-timers during the New Deal. Bankers were never far from the action during the territorial period, and the institutions they built were both cause and effect of Oklahoma’s inclusion in national networks of banking and commerce.

The no-holds-barred brand of capitalism that breathed life into the Oklahoma frontier has remained alive and well since the days of the fur traders. As one knowledgable observer said in the 1980s, “You’ve always had the gambling spirit in Oklahoma.”

Michael J. Hightower is an independent historian and principal researcher for the Oklahoma Bank and Commerce History Project of the Oklahoma Historical Society. He is the author of Inventing Tradition: Cowboy Sports in a Postmodern Age.

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Main Street Oklahoma Stories of Twentieth-Century America Edited by Linda W. Reese and Patricia Loughlin “A great read for anyone who wants to know more about the state’s history, especially during the twentieth century.”—W. David Baird, coauthor of Oklahoma: A History Oklahoma historian Angie Debo once observed that all the forces of United States history have come to bear in the development of the Sooner State. This collection of essays provides a series of snapshots reflecting both the singularity of the Oklahoma experience and the state’s connections to America’s broader history.

Spanning the Civil War era and the present, this book develops historic themes as varied as the causes of Indian land dispossession, the Statehood Day wedding ceremony, the oil industry’s environmental impact, the Tulsa Race Riot, labor relations during the New Deal, the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment, the state’s unique Native artistic traditions, and its musical landscape.

Oklahomans have always represented multiple races and cultures, lived in big cities or small towns or on farms, and promoted prosperity and cultural achievement while battling poverty and ignorance. The American Main Street has been the site not only of the best principles of community spirit and traditional values but also of shocking cases of prejudice and violence. Rather than shrinking from difficult subjects, Main Street Oklahoma describes the state’s abundant human, natural, and cultural resources, paying tribute to the true grit of Oklahomans, but also exploring some of the more troubling moments in Oklahoma’s past. The editors and contributors provide engaging perspectives on the state’s rich and diverse history.

Linda W. Reese is retired as Associate Professor of History at East Central University and is the author of Women of Oklahoma, 1890–1920. Patricia Loughlin is Professor of History at the University of Central Oklahoma and the author of Hidden Treasures of the American West: Muriel H. Wright, Angie Debo, and Alice Marriott, named the Outstanding Book on Oklahoma History by the Oklahoma Historical Society.

August $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4401-6 288 Pages, 6 × 9 28 b&w illus., 3 maps U.S. History

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By Davis D. Joyce $19.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-2945-7

Reese, Loughlin Main Street Oklahoma

Snapshots of Sooner State history from the Civil War to the present

Grodzinski Defender of Canada

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Reinterprets Prevost’s long-criticized conduct in the War of 1812

Defender of Canada Sir George Prevost and the War of 1812

By John R. Grodzinski Foreword by Donald E. Graves When war broke out between Great Britain and the United States in 1812, Sir George Prevost, captain general and governor in chief of British North America, was responsible for defending a group of North American colonies that stretched as far as the distance from Paris to Moscow. He also commanded one of the largest British overseas forces during the Napoleonic Wars. Defender of Canada, the first book-length examination of Prevost’s career, offers a reinterpretation of the general’s military leadership in the War of 1812. Historian John R. Grodzinski shows that Prevost deserves far greater credit for the successful defense of Canada than he has heretofore received.

Volume 40 in the Campaigns and Commanders Series

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Earlier accounts portrayed Prevost as overly cautious and attributed the preservation of Canada to other officers, but Grodzinski challenges these assumptions and restores the general to his rightful place as British North America’s key military figure during the War of 1812. Grodzinski shows that Prevost’s strategic insight enabled him to enact a practicable defense despite scarce resources and to ably integrate naval power into his defensive plans.

Prevost’s range of responsibilities in British North America were daunting.

They included overseeing joint endeavors with Indian allies, managing logistical matters, monitoring naval construction and personnel needs, supervising colonial governments, and commanding the defense of Canada. Tasked with protecting an extensive and complex territory, Prevost employed a mix of soldiers, sailors, locally raised forces, and indigenous people in taking advantage of the American military’s weaknesses to defeat most of its plans.

Following his recall to Britain in 1815 after the defeat at the Battle of Plattsburgh, Prevost would have been court-martialed had he not died unexpectedly. In carefully examining the charges leveled against Prevost, Grodzinski shows the general to have preserved the integrity of Canada, allowing diplomats to ensure its continued existence.

John R. Grodzinski is Assistant Professor of History at Royal Military College of Canada and editor of the on-line War of 1812 Magazine. Military historian Donald E. Graves is the author of several books, including most recently Dragon Rampant: The Royal Welch Fusiliers at War, 1793–1815.

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Special Operations in World War II British and American Irregular Warfare

By Andrew L. Hargreaves British and American commanders first used modern special forces in support of conventional military operations during World War II. Since then, although special ops have featured prominently in popular culture and media coverage of wars, the academic study of irregular warfare has remained as elusive as the practitioners of special operations themselves. This book is the first comprehensive study of the development, application, and value of Anglo-American commando and special forces units during the Second World War. Special forces are intensively trained, specially selected military units performing unconventional and often high-risk missions. In this book, Andrew L. Hargreaves not only describes tactics and operations but also outlines the distinctions between commandos and special forces, traces their evolution during the war, explains how the Anglo-American alliance functioned in the creation and use of these units, looks at their command and control arrangements, evaluates their impact, and assesses their cost-effectiveness.

The first real impetus for the creation of British specialist formations came in the desperate summer of 1940 when, having been pushed out of Europe following defeat in France and the Low Countries, Britain began to turn to irregular forces in an effort to wrest back the strategic initiative from the enemy. The development of special forces by the United States was also a direct consequence of defeat. After Pearl Harbor, Hargreaves shows, the Americans found themselves in much the same position as Britain had been in 1940: shocked, outnumbered, and conventionally defeated, they were unable to come to grips with the enemy on a large scale. By the end of the war, a variety of these units had overcome a multitude of evolutionary hurdles and made valuable contributions to practically every theater of operation.

In describing how Britain and the United States worked independently and cooperatively to invent and put into practice a fundamentally new way of waging war, this book demonstrates the two nations’ flexibility, adaptability, and ability to innovate during World War II. Andrew L. Hargreaves is a military historian and lecturer who holds a Ph.D. from the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.

Volume 39 in the Campaigns and Commanders Series

October $36.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4396-5 352 Pages, 6 × 9 6 b&W illus., 6 tables Military History

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Insurgency, Terrorism, and Crime Shadows from the Past and Portents for the Future

By Max G. Manwaring and Edwin G. Corr $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3970-8 Carrying the War to the Enemy American Operational Art to 1945

By Michael R. Matheny $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4324-8

Hargreaves Special Operations in World War II

The advent of commandos and special forces and their effectiveness in the Allied cause

Byers, Phillips Torn By War

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A firsthand account of life in Civil War Arkansas—from a young woman’s perspective

Torn by War The Civil War Journal of Mary Adelia Byers

By Mary Adelia Byers Edited by Samuel R. Phillips Foreword by George E. Lankford The Civil War divided the nation, communities, and families. The town of Batesville, Arkansas, found itself occupied three times by the Union army. This compelling book gives a unique perspective on the war’s western edge through the diary of Mary Adelia Byers (1847–1918), who began recording her thoughts and observations during the Union occupation of Batesville in 1862.

October $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4395-8 248 Pages, 5.5 × 8.5 30 b&w illus., 3 maps Memoir

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Civil War Arkansas, 1863 The Battle for a State

By Mark K. Christ $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4087-2 Four Brothers in Blue Or Sunshine and Shadows of the War of the Rebellion

By Robert G. Carter $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3185-6 Marching with the First Nebraska A Civil War Diary

By August Scherneckau $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3808-4 $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4120-6

Only fifteen when she starts her diary, Mary is beyond her years in maturity, as revealed by her acute observations of the world around her. At the same time, she appears very much a child of her era. Having lost her father at a young age, she and her family depend on the financial support of her Uncle William, a slaveowner and Confederate sympathizer. Through Mary’s eyes we are given surprising insights into local society during a national crisis. On the one hand, we see her flirting with Confederate soldiers in the Batesville town square and, on the other, facing the grim reality of war by “setting up” through the night with dying soldiers. Her journal ends in March 1865, shortly before the war comes to a close.

Torn by War reveals the conflicts faced by an agricultural social elite economically dependent on slavery but situated on the fringes of the conflict between North and South. On a more personal level, it also shows how resilient and perceptive young people can be during times of crisis. Enhanced by extensive photographs, maps, and informative annotation, the volume is a valuable contribution to the growing body of literature on civilian life during the Civil War. Samuel R. Phillips was raised near Batesville and is a descendant of Mary Adelia Byers. A graduate of Brooks School and the California Institute of Technology, he is a mechanical engineer and manufacturing consultant. George E. Lankford is Emeritus Professor of Folklore at Lyon College, Batesville. He is the editor of Bearing Witness: Memories of Arkansas Slavery and author of many articles on Independence County history.

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Bracketing the Enemy Forward Observers in World War II

By John R. Walker After the end of World War II, General George Patton declared that artillery had won the war. Yet howitzers did not achieve victory on their own. Crucial to the success of these big guns were forward observers, artillerymen on the front lines who directed the artillery fire. Until now, the vital role of forward observers in ground combat has received little scholarly attention. In Bracketing the Enemy, John R. Walker remedies this oversight by offering the first full-length history of forward observer teams during World War II. As early as the U.S. Civil War, artillery fire could reach as far as two miles, but without an “FO” (forward observer) to report where the first shot had landed in relation to the target, and to direct subsequent fire by outlining or “bracketing” the targeted range, many of the advantages of longer-range fire were wasted. During World War II, FOs accompanied infantrymen on the front lines. Now, for the first time, gun crews could bring deadly accurate fire on enemy positions immediately as advancing riflemen encountered these enemy strongpoints. According to Walker, this transition from direct to indirect fire was one of the most important innovations to have occurred in ground combat in centuries.

Using the 37th Division in the Pacific Theater and the 87th in Europe as case studies, Walker presents a vivid picture of the dangers involved in FO duty and shows how vitally important forward observers were to the success of ground operations in a variety of scenarios. FO personnel not only performed a vital support function as artillerymen but often transcended their combat role by fighting as infantrymen, sometimes even leading soldiers into battle. And yet, although forward observers lived, fought, and bled with the infantry, they were ineligible to wear the Combat Infantryman’s Badge awarded to the riflemen they supported.

Forward observers are thus among the unsung heroes of World War II. Bracketing the Enemy signals a long-overdue recognition of their distinguished service.

John R. Walker, a Vietnam veteran of the U.S. Army, holds a Ph.D. in history from Kent State University, Ohio.

August $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4380-4 296 Pages, 6 × 9 25 b&w illus., 5 maps Military History

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By Bobby C. Blair and John Peter DeCioccio $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4154-1 Carrying the War to the Enemy American Operational Art to 1945

By Michael R. Matheny $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4324-8 Once Upon a Time in War The 99th Division in World War II

By Robert E. Humphrey $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3946-3

Walker Bracketing the Enemy

The first full-length history of forward observers and their vital contribution

Heat-Moon, Wallace An Osage Journey to Europe, 1827-1830

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A rare glimpse at nineteenth-century European perspectives on American Indians

An Osage Journey to Europe, 1827–1830 Three French Accounts Edited and translated by William Least Heat-Moon and James K. Wallace In 1827 six Osage people—four men and two women—traveled to Europe escorted by three Americans. Their visit was big news in France, where three short publications about the travelers appeared almost immediately. Virtually lost since the 1830s, all three accounts are gathered, translated, and annotated here for the first time in English. Among the earliest writings devoted to Osage history and culture, these works provide unique insights into Osage life and especially into European perceptions of American Indians.

Volume 81 in the American Exploration and Travel Series

October $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4403-0 168 Pages, 6 × 9 8 color and 4 b&w illus.

American Indian

William Least Heat-Moon’s introduction poignantly tells of people leaving one alien nation, the United States, to visit an even more alien culture an ocean away.

In France the Osages found themselves lionized as “noble savages.” They went to the theater, rode in a hot-air balloon, and even had an audience with the king of France. Many Europeans ogled them as if they were exhibits in a freak show. As the entourage moved through Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, interest in the Osages declined. Soon they were reduced to begging in the suburbs of Paris, without the means to return home.

Translated by Heat-Moon and James K. Wallace, the three featured texts are surprisingly accurate as basic descriptions of Osage history, geography, and lifeways. The French authors, influenced by racist and sexist expectations, misinterpreted some of the behaviors they describe. But they also dismiss rumors of cannibalism among the Osages and observe that “the behavior of some whites . . . was not conducive to giving the Indians a favorable opinion of white morality.”

An Osage Journey to Europe, 1827–1839 offers scholars and general readers both a compelling story and a singular glimpse into nineteenth-century cultural exchange.

William Least Heat-Moon is the author of Blue Highways: A Journey into America and, most recently, Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road. James K. Wallace is Professor Emeritus of French at the University of Missouri.

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Claiming Tribal Identity The Five Tribes and the Politics of Federal Acknowledgment

By Mark Edwin Miller Foreword by Chadwick Corntassel Smith Who counts as an American Indian? Which groups qualify as Indian tribes? These questions have become increasingly complex in the past several decades, and federal legislation and the rise of tribal-owned casinos have raised the stakes in the ongoing debate. In this revealing study, historian Mark Edwin Miller describes how and why dozens of previously unrecognized tribal groups in the southeastern states have sought, and sometimes won, recognition, often to the dismay of the Five Tribes—the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles.

Miller explains how politics, economics, and such slippery issues as tribal and racial identity drive the conflicts between federally recognized tribal entities like the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and other groups such as the Southeastern Cherokee Confederacy that also seek sovereignty. Battles over which groups can claim authentic Indian identity are fought both within the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Federal Acknowledgment Process and in Atlanta, Montgomery, and other capitals where legislators grant state recognition to Indian-identifying enclaves without consulting federally recognized tribes with similar names.

Miller’s analysis recognizes the arguments on all sides—both the scholars and activists who see tribal affiliation as an individual choice, and the tribal governments that view unrecognized tribes as fraudulent. Groups such as the Lumbees, the Lower Muscogee Creeks, and the Mowa Choctaws, inspired by the civil rights movement and the War on Poverty, have evolved in surprising ways, as have traditional tribal governments.

Describing the significance of casino gambling, the leader of one unrecognized group said, “It’s no longer a matter of red; it’s a matter of green.” Either a positive or a negative development, depending on who is telling the story, the casinos’ economic impact has clouded what were previously issues purely of law, ethics, and justice. Drawing on both documents and personal interviews, Miller unravels the tangled politics of Indian identity and sovereignty. His lively, clearly argued book will be vital reading for tribal leaders, policy makers, and scholars.

Mark Edwin Miller, Department Chair and Professor of History at Southern Utah University, Cedar City, is author of Forgotten Tribes: Unrecognized Indians and the Federal Acknowledgment Process. Chadwick Corntassel Smith is former Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

August $29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4378-1 480 Pages, 6 × 9 14 b&w illus.

American Indian

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By Sara-Larus Tolley $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3748-3 Forced Federalism Contemporary Challenges to Indigenous Nationhood

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Miller Claiming Tribal Identity

Unravels the tangle of politics, economics, law, and morality in issues of Indian identity

Stands in Timber, Liberty A Cheyenne Voice

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A vast resource of ethnographic and historical information about the Cheyenne Indians

A Cheyenne Voice The Complete John Stands In Timber Interviews

By John Stands In Timber and Margot Liberty Foreword by Raymond J. DeMallie Map Commentary by Michael N. Donahue 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 people—much of it previously unavailable.

Volume 270 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series

October $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4379-8 504 Pages, 7 × 10 25 b&w illus., 3 color maps American Indian

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William Wayne Red Hat, Jr. Cheyenne Keeper of the Arrows

By William Wayne Red Hat Jr. Edited by Sibylle M. Schlesier $21.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3959-3 Black Elk Holy Man of the Oglala

By Michael F. Steltenkamp $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2988-4 A Northern Cheyenne Album Photographs by Thomas B. Marquis Edited by Margot Liberty Commentary by John Woodenlegs $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3893-0

A Cheyenne Voice contains the complete transcribed interviews conducted by anthropologist Margot Liberty with Northern Cheyenne elder John Stands In Timber (1882–1967). Recorded by Liberty in 1956–1959 when she was a schoolteacher on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana, the interviews were the basis of the well-known 1967 book Cheyenne Memories. While that volume is a noteworthy edited version of the interviews, this volume presents them word for word, in their entirety, for the first time. Along with memorable candid photographs, it also features a unique set of maps depicting movements by soldiers and warriors at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Drawn by Stands In Timber himself, they are reproduced here in full color.

The diverse topics that Stands In Timber addresses range from traditional stories to historical events, including the battles of Sand Creek, Rosebud, and Wounded Knee.

Replete with absorbing, and sometimes even humorous, details about Cheyenne tradition, warfare, ceremony, interpersonal relations, and everyday life, the interviews enliven and enrich our understanding of the Cheyenne people and their distinct history.

John Stands In Timber served as tribal historian for the Northern Cheyennes.

Margot Liberty, widely known as an anthropologist specializing in Northern Plains Indians and ranching culture, is the editor of A Northern Cheyenne Album: Photographs by Thomas B. Marquis and coauthor of Cheyenne Memories, among other publications. Raymond J. DeMallie is Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies at Indiana University. Michael N. Donahue is the author of Drawing Battle Lines: The Map Testimony of Custer’s Last Fight.

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Warrior Nations The United States and Indian Peoples

By Roger L. Nichols During the century following George Washington’s presidency, the United States fought at least forty wars with various Indian tribes, averaging one conflict every two and a half years. Warrior Nations is Roger L. Nichols’s 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. He writes about the fights between the United States and the Shawnee, Miami, and Delaware tribes in the Ohio Valley, the Creek in Alabama, the Arikara in South Dakota, the Sauk and Fox in Illinois and Wisconsin, the Dakota Sioux in Minnesota, the Cheyenne and Arapaho in Colorado, the Apache in New Mexico and Arizona, and the Nez Perce in Oregon and Idaho.

Virtually all of these wars, Nichols shows, grew out of small-scale local conflicts, suggesting that interracial violence preceded any formal declaration of war.

American pioneers hated and feared Indians and wanted their land. Indian villages were armed camps, and their young men sought recognition for bravery and prowess in hunting and fighting. Neither the U.S. government nor tribal leaders could prevent raids, thievery, and violence when the two groups met.

In addition to U.S. territorial expansion and the belligerence of racist pioneers, Nichols cites a variety of factors that led to individual wars: cultural differences, border disputes, conflicts between and within tribes, the actions of white traders and local politicians, the government’s failure to prevent or punish anti-Indian violence, and Native determination to retain their lands, traditional culture, and tribal independence.

The conflicts examined here, Nichols argues, need to be considered as wars of U.S. aggression, a central feature of that nation’s expansion across the continent that brought newcomers into areas occupied by highly militarized Native communities ready and able to defend themselves and attack their enemies.

Roger L. Nichols is Professor Emeritus of History and Affiliate Professor of Indian Studies at the University of Arizona. He is the author of American Indians in U S. History and editor of The American Indian: Past and Present, Sixth Edition.

October $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4382-8 256 Pages, 6 × 9 8 maps American Indian

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Nichols Warrior Nations

A comparative look at the causes that led to U.S.-Indian wars in the nineteenth century

Braun Transforming Ethnohistories

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Original essays that emphasize interpretation of Native narratives for historical and cultural understanding

Transforming Ethnohistories Narrative, Meaning, and Community Edited by Sebastian Felix Braun Afterword by Raymond J. DeMallie 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. The contributors to this volume have been inspired in large part by the teaching and writing of distinguished ethnohistorian Raymond J. DeMallie, whose exemplary combination of ethnographic and archival research demonstrates the ways anthropology and history can work together to create an understanding of the past and the present.

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.

September $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4394-1 272 Pages, 6.125 × 9.25 6 b&w illus., 3 tables American Indian/U.S. History

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Sioux Indian Religion Tradition and Innovation Edited by Raymond J. DeMallie and Douglas R. Parks $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2166-6 Pre-Removal Choctaw History Exploring New Paths Edited by Greg O’Brien $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3916-6 Buffalo Inc. American Indians and Economic Development

By Sebastian Felix Braun $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3904-3 $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4372-9

The authors seek to understand communities by finding and interpreting their stories in a variety of different texts, some of which lie outside academic understanding and research methodology. It is exactly those stories, conventionally labeled “myths” or “oral tradition,” that ethnohistorians demand we pay attention to. Although historians cannot see or talk to their informants as anthropologists do, both anthropologists and historians can listen to oral histories and written documents for the essential stories they contain.

The essays assembled here use DeMallie’s approach to contribute to the history and anthropology of Native North America and address issues of literary criticism and contexts, sociolinguistics, performance theory, identity and historical change, historical and anthropological methods and theory, and the interpretation of histories, cultures, and stories. Debates over the legitimacy of ethnohistory as a specialization have led some scholars to declare its decline. This volume shows ethnohistory to be alive and well and continuing to attract young scholars.

Sebastian Felix Braun is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Indian Studies at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. He is author of Buffalo Inc.: American Indians and Economic Development and coauthor of Native American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction. Raymond J. DeMallie is Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies at Indiana University.

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Yuchi Folklore Cultural Expression in a Southeastern Native American Community

By Jason Baird Jackson With contributions by Mary S. Linn In countless ways, the Yuchi (Euchee) people are unique among their fellow Oklahomans and Native peoples of North America. Inheritors of a language unrelated to any other, the Yuchi preserve a strong cultural identity. In part because they have not yet won federal recognition as a tribe, the Yuchi are largely unknown among their non-Native neighbors and often misunderstood in scholarship. Jason Baird Jackson’s Yuchi Folklore, the result of twenty years of collaboration with Yuchi people and one of just a handful of works considering their experience, brings Yuchi cultural expression to light.

Yuchi Folklore examines expressive genres and customs that have long been of special interest to Yuchi people themselves. Beginning with an overview of Yuchi history and ethnography, the book explores four categories of cultural expression: verbal or spoken art, material culture, cultural performance, and worldview. In describing oratory, food, architecture, and dance, Jackson visits and revisits the themes of cultural persistence and social interaction, initially between Yuchi and other peoples east of the Mississippi and now in northeastern Oklahoma. The Yuchi exist in a complex, shifting relationship with the federally recognized Muscogee (Creek) Nation, with which they were removed to Indian Territory in the 1830s.

Jackson shows how Yuchi cultural forms, values, customs, and practices constantly combine as Yuchi people adapt to new circumstances and everyday life. To be Yuchi today is, for example, to successfully negotiate a world where commercial rap and country music coexist with Native-language hymns and doctoring songs. While centered on Yuchi community life, this volume of essays also illustrates the discipline of folklore studies and offers perspectives for advancing a broader understanding of Woodlands peoples across the breadth of the American South and East.

Jason Baird Jackson is Director of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures at Indiana University and author of Yuchi Ceremonial Life: Performance, Meaning, and Tradition in a Contemporary American Indian Community. Mary S. Linn is Associate Curator of Native American Languages at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.

Volume 272 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series

September $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4397-2 312 Pages, 5.5 × 8.5 21 b&w illus., 3 maps American Indian

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By John R. Swanton $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2784-2

Jackson, Linn Yuchi Folklore

Explores what it means to be Yuchi today

Velie, Lee The Native American Renaissance

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The history and significance of the Native literary efflorescence since 1968

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The Native American Renaissance

enaissance

The NaTive americaN Literary imagination and achievement

Edi tEd by A lAn R. VEliE And A. RobER t lEE

Volume 59 in the American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series

November $29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4402-3 368 Pages, 6.125 × 9.25 American Indian

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Reasoning Together The Native Critics Collective $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3887-9 Narrative Chance Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures

By Gerald Vizenor and James E. Seaver $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2561-9 Native American Perspectives on Literature and History

By Alan R. Velie $21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2785-9

Literary Imagination and Achievement Edited by Alan R. Velie and A. Robert Lee The outpouring of Native American literature that followed the publication of N. Scott Momaday’s Pulitzer Prize–winning House Made of Dawn in 1968 continues unabated. Fiction and poetry, autobiography and discursive writing from such writers as James Welch, Gerald Vizenor, and Leslie Marmon Silko constitute what critic Kenneth Lincoln in 1983 termed the Native American Renaissance. This collection of essays takes the measure of that efflorescence.

The contributors scrutinize writers from Momaday to Sherman Alexie, analyzing works by Native women, First Nations Canadian writers, postmodernists, and such theorists as Robert Warrior, Jace Weaver, and Craig Womack. Weaver’s own examination of the development of Native literary criticism since 1968 focuses on Native American literary nationalism. Alan R. Velie turns to the achievement of Momaday to examine the ways Native novelists have influenced one another. Postrenaissance and postmodern writers are discussed in company with newer writers such as Gordon Henry, Jr., and D. L. Birchfield. Critical essays discuss the poetry of Simon Ortiz, Kimberly Blaeser, Diane Glancy, Luci Tapahonso, and Ray A. Young Bear, as well as the life writings of Janet Campbell Hale, Carter Revard, and Jim Barnes. An essay on Native drama examines the work of Hanay Geiogamah, the Native American Theater Ensemble, and Spider Woman Theatre.

In the volume’s concluding essay, Kenneth Lincoln reflects on the history of the Native American Renaissance up to and beyond his seminal work, and discusses Native literature’s legacy and future. The essays collected here underscore the vitality of Native American literature and the need for debate on theory and ideology.

Alan R. Velie is David Ross Boyd Professor in the English Department at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of more than forty articles and three books and the editor of eight books, including the anthology American Indian Literature. A. Robert Lee is retired as Professor of American Literature at Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan, and is the author or editor of numerous books, including Native American Writing and Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a, and Asian American Fictions, which won the 2004 American Book Award.

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Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906

By James W. Parins Many Anglo-Americans in the nineteenth century regarded Indian tribes as little more than illiterate bands of savages in need of “civilizing.” Few were willing to recognize that one of the major Southeastern tribes targeted for removal west of the Mississippi already had an advanced civilization with its own system of writing and rich literary tradition. In Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906, James W. Parins traces the rise of bilingual literacy and intellectual life in the Cherokee Nation during the nineteenth century—a time of intense social and political turmoil for the tribe.

By the 1820s, Cherokees had perfected a system for writing their language—the syllabary created by Sequoyah—and in a short time taught it to virtually all their citizens. Recognizing the need to master the language of the dominant society, the Cherokee Nation also developed a superior public school system that taught students in English. The result was a literate population, most of whom could read the Cherokee Phoenix, the tribal newspaper founded in 1828 and published in both Cherokee and English.

English literacy allowed Cherokee leaders to deal with the white power structure on their own terms: Cherokees wrote legal briefs, challenged members of Congress and the executive branch, and bargained for their tribe as white interests sought to take their land and end their autonomy. In addition, many Cherokee poets, fiction writers, essayists, and journalists published extensively after 1850, paving the way for the rich literary tradition that the nation preserves and fosters today.

Literary and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906 takes a fascinating look at how literacy served to unite Cherokees during a critical moment in their national history, and advances our understanding of how literacy has functioned as a tool of sovereignty among Native peoples, both historically and today.

James W. Parins is Professor Emeritus of English and Associate Director of the Sequoyah National Research Center at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock.

Among numerous articles and books about American Indians, he is the coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Indian Removal and author of Elias Cornelius Boudinot: A Life on the Cherokee Border.

Volume 58 in the American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series

October $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4399-6 296 Pages, 5.5 × 8.5 12 b&w illus.

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Parins Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906

How the Cherokees used their syllabary and widespread literacy to defend their sovereignty

Patch Indians and the Political Economy of Colonial Central America, 1670–1810

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Traces the economic interaction of Spanish bureaucrats and indigenous peoples

Indians and the Political Economy of Colonial Central America,

1670-1810

Robert W. Patch

November $36.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4400-9 272 Pages, 6 × 9 3 maps, 11 tables Latin America

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By William F. Connell $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4175-6 Feeding Chilapa The Birth, Life, and Death of a Mexican Region

By Chris Kyle $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3920-3 $26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3921-0 Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500–1700

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Indians and the Political Economy of Colonial Central America, 1670–1810

By Robert W. Patch The history of relations between the Spanish and the Indians of colonial Central America, often oversimplified as a story of unending Spanish abuse, forms a complicated tapestry of economics and politics. Robert W. Patch’s even-handed study of the repartimiento de mercancías—the commercial dealings between regional magistrates and the people under their jurisdiction—reveals the inner workings of colonialism in Central America.

Indians were at the heart of the colonial economy. They made up the majority of the population, produced most of the goods, and performed most of the labor. The bureaucrats who ruled over them were badly paid, and to increase their income, they carried out illegal business activities with the Indians and sometimes even non-Indians. This book analyzes these commercial exchanges in colonial Central America within the context of a colonial regime dependent for income on taxes paid by Indians.

Patch demonstrates that the magistrates frequently used repartimientos illegally to facilitate tax collection and then justified their actions by claiming that such commerce was necessary for the survival of colonialism. At the same time, the commerce contributed to the development of regional economies and the integration of the regions into the world economy. Patch’s case studies of highland Guatemala and Nicaragua reveal how the system worked at the regional and local levels. These studies manifest not only the profits to be made through repartimientos but also the problems faced by magistrates as they tried to be government officials and businessmen at the same time.

The Spanish government eventually imposed reforms to make the colonial bureaucracy more honest by eliminating the repartimiento system. The reforms, however, also resulted in economic decline and political disaffection among the Hispanic population. Patch’s book, therefore, covers a crucial phase in the history of Central America as the region moved from colonialism to independence.

Robert W. Patch is Professor of History at the University of California–Riverside and author of Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1648–1812 and Maya Revolt and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century.

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“Strange Lands and Different Peoples” Spaniards and Indians in Colonial Guatemala

By W. George Lovell and Christopher H. Lutz With Wendy Kramer and William R. Swezey Guatemala emerged from the clash between Spanish invaders and Maya cultures that began five centuries ago. The conquest of these “rich and strange lands,” as Hernán Cortés called them, and their “many different peoples” was brutal and prolonged. “Strange Lands and Different Peoples” examines the myriad ramifications of Spanish intrusion, especially Maya resistance to it and the changes that took place in native life because of it.

The studies assembled here, focusing on the first century of colonial rule (1524– 1624), discuss issues of conquest and resistance, settlement and colonization, labor and tribute, and Maya survival in the wake of Spanish invasion. The authors reappraise the complex relationship between Spaniards and Indians, which was marked from the outset by mutual feelings of resentment and mistrust. While acknowledging the pivotal role of native agency, the authors also document the excesses of Spanish exploitation and the devastating impact of epidemic disease.

Drawing on research findings in Spanish and Guatemalan archives, they offer fresh insight into the Kaqchikel Maya uprising of 1524, showing that despite strategic resistance, colonization imposed a burden on the indigenous population more onerous than previously thought.

Guatemala remains a deeply divided and unjust society, a country whose current condition can be understood only in light of the colonial experiences that forged it. Affording readers a critical perspective on how Guatemala came to be, “Strange Lands and Different Peoples” shows the events of the past to have enduring contemporary relevance.

W. George Lovell is author of A Beauty That Hurts: Life and Death in Guatemala.

Christopher H. Lutz is author of Santiago de Guatemala, 1541–1773: City, Caste, and the Colonial Experience. Wendy Kramer is author of Encomienda Politics in Early Colonial Guatemala, 1524–1544: Dividing the Spoils. William R. Swezey (1933–1989) was co-founder of the Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica in Guatemala and its director for more than a decade.

Volume 271 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series

October $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4390-3 288 Pages, 6.125 × 9.25 3 b&w illus., 4 maps, 40 tables Latin America

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By Christopher H. Lutz $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2911-2 Indian Conquistadors Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of MesoAmerica Edited by Laura E. Matthew and Michel R. Oudijk $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3854-1 $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4325-5

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Spores, Balkansky The Mixtecs of Oaxaca

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A comprehensive survey of Mixtec civilization

The Mixtecs of Oaxaca Ancient Times to the Present

By Ronald Spores and Andrew K. Balkansky The Mixtec peoples were among the major original developers of Mesoamerican civilization. Centuries before the Spanish Conquest, they formed literate urban states and maintained a uniquely innovative technology and flourishing economy.

Today, thousands of Mixtecs still live in Oaxaca, in present-day southern Mexico, and thousands more have migrated to locations throughout Mexico, the United States, and Canada. In this comprehensive survey, Ronald Spores and Andrew K. Balkansky—both preeminent scholars of Mixtec civilization—synthesize a wealth of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data to trace the emergence and evolution of Mixtec civilization from the time of earliest human occupation to the present.

Volume 267 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series

September $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4381-1 328 Pages, 6.125 × 9.25 53 b&w illus., 2 maps, 1 table Latin America

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Conquest of the Sierra Spaniards and Indians in Colonial Oaxaca

By John K. Chance $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3337-9 Indian Conquistadors Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica Edited by Laura E. Matthew and Michel R. Oudijk $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3854-1 $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4325-5 Prehistoric Mesoamerica Third Edition

By Richard E. W. Adams $32.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3702-5

The Mixtec region has been the focus of much recent archaeological and ethnohistorical activity. In this volume, Spores and Balkansky incorporate the latest available research to show that the Mixtecs, along with their neighbors the Valley and Sierra Zapotec, constitute one of the world’s most impressive civilizations, antecedent to—and equivalent to—those of the better-known Maya and Aztec.

Employing what they refer to as a “convergent methodology,” the authors combine techniques and results of archaeology, ethnohistory, linguistics, biological anthropology, ethnology, and participant observation to offer abundant new insights on the Mixtecs’ multiple transformations over three millennia.

Ronald Spores is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University. His numerous publications include The Mixtecs in Ancient and Colonial Times and The Mixtec Kings and Their People. Andrew K. Balkansky is Professor of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is the author of The Sola Valley and the Monte Alban State: A Study of Zapotec Imperial Expansion and coauthor of Origins of the Ñuu: Archaeology in the Mixteca Alta, Mexico.

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The Map Turtle and Sawback Atlas Ecology, Evolution, Distribution, and Conservation

By Peter V. Lindeman Covering all facets of the biology of a little-known genus, Peter V. Lindeman’s lavishly illustrated Map Turtle and Sawback Atlas is both a scientific treatise and an engaging introduction to a striking group of turtles.

Map turtles and sawbacks, found in and along rivers from Texas to Florida and north to the Great Lakes, fascinate ecologists and evolutionary biologists.

Over a short geologic time span, these turtles achieved exceptional biological diversification. Their diets are also exceptionally diverse, and a significant difference in size distinguishes males from females. Adult males are typically half or less the shell length of adult females, making map turtles and sawbacks the champions of sexual dimorphism among not only turtles but all four-legged vertebrates.

Aesthetics also draw biologists and hobbyists to map turtles and sawbacks. While the male Sabine map turtle may look to some like a “pencil-necked geek,” as the author puts it, markings on the shell, limbs, head, and neck make map turtles among the most attractive turtles on earth. Sawbacks feature a striking ridge down their shell. Few turtles show themselves off to such advantage. Photographs included here of Graptemys basking poses reveal to what improbable heights these turtles can scale, the spread-eagle sunning stances they adopt, the stacking of individuals on a crowded site, and the heads that warily watch the world above the waterline.

In lively prose, Lindeman details the habitat, diet, reproduction and life history, natural history, and population abundance of each species. A section on conservation status summarizes official state, federal, and international designations for each species, along with efforts toward population management and recovery as well as habitat preservation. The author also outlines promising avenues for future research, ranging from the effects of global climate change on populations to strategies for combating expansion of the pet trade.

Peter V. Lindeman is Professor of Biology at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and author of numerous articles on map turtles and sawbacks.

Volume 12 in the Animal Natural History Series

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The Capture of Louisbourg, 1758

From Boer War to World War

By Hugh Boscawen

Tactical Reform of the British Army, 1902–1914

By Spencer Jones

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Jones From Boer War to World War

A comprehensive account of the pivotal battle of the Seven Years’ War

Louisbourg, France’s impressive fortress on Cape Breton Island’s Atlantic coast, dominated access to the St. Lawrence and colonial New France for forty years in the mid-eighteenth century. In 1755, Great Britain and France stumbled into the French and Indian War, and British forces suffered successive defeats. In 1758, Britain and France, and Indian nations caught in the rivalry, fought for high stakes: the future of colonial America.

Hugh Boscawen describes how Britain’s war minister, William Pitt, launched four fleets in a campaign to prevent France from reinforcing Louisbourg. The Royal Navy outfought its opponents before General Jeffery Amherst and Brigadier James Wolfe led 14,000 British regulars, including American-born redcoats, rangers, and carpenters, in a hard-fought, successful assault landing. The victory marked a turning point for Britain and precipitated the end of French rule in North America.

Boscawen, examines the pivotal 1758 Louisbourg campaign from both British and French perspectives. Drawing on primary sources and unpublished correspondence, Boscawen offers the most comprehensive history ever written on this strategically vital campaign.

Colonel Hugh Boscawen served thirty-two years in the Coldstream Guards, with operational service in three theaters, including Op DESERT STORM, before leaving the British Army in 2009. An eighteenth-century naval and military specialist, and a yachtsman, he has contributed to British military doctrine and to various regimental histories and journals.

August $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4155-8 $26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4413-9 504 Pages, 6 × 9 24 b&w illus., 6 maps Military History Volume 27 in the Campaigns and Commanders Series

How fighting the Boer War changed the British Army

The British Expeditionary Force was small at the start of World War I. Yet, when deployed to France in 1914, it prevailed against the German army through professionalism and tactical skill, strengths developed through hard lessons. Britain had gone to war against the South African Boer republics in October 1899, expecting little resistance, but a string of defeats shook the military’s confidence. From Boer War to World War shows how this bitter combat experience reshaped the British Army’s tactical development.

The Boer War brought the British face to face with modern warfare. With sweeping, open terrain and smokeless gunpowder, soldiers were picked off before they knew where shots came from, and the infantry’s close-order formations spelled disaster battling the well-armed, entrenched Boers. The British Army ultimately overcame the Boers in 1902, but the costs of the war led to public outcry.

Spencer Jones explores key tactical lessons from the war— maximizing firepower and using natural cover, showing how these new training ideas overhauled British Army operations.

Jones’s fresh interpretation adds to the historiography of the Boer War and World War I by emphasizing the continuity between them.

Spencer Jones teaches at the School of History and Cultures at the University of Birmingham, England.

September $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4289-0 $21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4415-3 312 Pages, 6 × 9 15 b&w illus., 4 maps Military History Volume 35 in the Campaigns and Commanders Series

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Cave Life of Oklahoma and Arkansas

Gold-Mining Boomtown People of White Oaks, Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory

By Roberta Key Haldane

Exploration and Conservation of Subterranean Biodiversity

By G.O. Graening, Dante B. Fenolio, and Michael E. Slay

An intimate portrait of a frontier town and its settlers

The diversity of species living in caves, springs, and aquifers is just being discovered and much of the underground world has yet to be explored.

Cave Life of Oklahoma and Arkansas can help us understand, and preserve, subterranean ecosystems—among the world’s last frontiers.

Conservation biologist G. O. Graening teaches at California State University, Sacramento, and is founder of Natural Investigations Company, an environmental consulting firm. Danté B. Fenolio is a photographer and amphibian conservation scientist with the Atlanta Botanical Garden.

Michael E. Slay is Ozark Karst program director with the Ozark Highlands office of The Nature Conservancy.

August $59.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4223-4 $34.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4424-5 248 Pages, 6.125 × 9.25 175 color and 4 b&w illus., 12 maps, 11 charts, 8 tables Outdoors and Nature Volume 10 in the Animal Natural History Series

But there was more to White Oaks than gold mining and frontier violence. Haldane introduces ranchers, doctors, saloonkeepers, stagecoach owners, a black entrepreneur, Chinese miners, the “Cattle Queen of New Mexico,” and an undertaker with an international criminal past.

With lively prose and 273 photographs, this intimate portrait of a Southwestern town will delight anyone interested in the Old West.

Roberta Key Haldane, a native of Lincoln County, is coauthor of Corralled in Old Lincoln County, New Mexico: The Lin Branum Family of Coyote Canyon and the I Bar X. July $45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-410-0 $29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4417-7 344 Pages, 8.5 × 11 273 b&w illus., 1 map U.S. History

Gold-Mining Boomtown

The authors of this comprehensive checklist donned snorkeling gear, cave suits, and climbing harnesses, descending into caves to study and photograph this hidden world. The characters range from charismatic—cave crayfish and gray bats—to rare fauna—blind salamanders and cave dung beetles. More than 175 color illustrations include stunning photographs of newly discovered species.

White Oaks, New Mexico Territory, was born in 1879 when prospectors discovered gold at nearby Baxter Mountain. Today, less than a hundred people live there. Miles from Lincoln, it is noteworthy because Billy the Kid and his gang visited often— until Pat Garrett arrived, campaigning for sheriff of Lincoln County.

Cave Life of Oklahoma and Arkansas

A lavishly illustrated exploration of underground fauna in the Ozarks and surrounding cave regions

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California through Russian Eyes, 1806–1848 Compiled, translated, and edited by James R. Gibson In the early nineteenth century, Russia established a colony in California that lasted until the Russian-American Company sold Fort Ross and Bodega Bay to John Sutter in 1841. This annotated collection of Russian accounts of Alta California, many of them translated here into English from Russian for the first time, presents richly detailed impressions by visiting Russian mariners, scientists, and Russian-American Company officials regarding the environment, people, economy, and politics of the province. Gathered from Russianarchival collections and obscure journals, these testimonies represent a major contribution to the little-known history of Russian America.

Volume 2 in the Early California Commentaries Series

October $45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-421-6 506 Pages, 7 Ă— 10 13 color photos, 6 tables U.S. History

Well educated and curious, the visiting Russians were acute observers, generous in their appreciation of Hispanic hospitality but outspoken in their criticisms of all they found backward or abhorrent. In the various reports and reminiscences contained within this volume, they make astute observations of both Hispanic and Native inhabitants, describing the Catholic missions with their devout friars and neophyte workers; the corruptible Franciscan missionaries; the sorry plight of mission Indians; the Californios themselves, whose religion, language, dwellings, cuisine, dress, and pastimes were novel to the Russians; the economic and social changes in Alta California following Mexican independence; and the schemes of American traders and settlers to draw the province into the United States.

Amplified by James R. Gibson’s informative annotations, and featuring a gallery of elegant color illustrations, this unique volume casts new light on the history of Spanish and Mexican California.

James R. Gibson is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Senior Scholar and Professor Emeritus at York University, Toronto. A historical geographer specializing in Russian imperial expansion to the east, he is the author of numerous publications on the Russian Far East, Russian America, and the Pacific Northwest.

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The story of the final Northern Pacific surveying expedition through the heart of Sioux territory

Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey A Documentary History Edited by M. John Lubetkin Progress on the nation’s second transcontinental railroad slowed in 1873. The Northern Pacific’s proposed middle—the 250 miles between present Billings and Glendive, Montana—had yet to be surveyed, and Sioux and Cheyenne Indians opposed construction through the Yellowstone Valley, the heart of their hunting grounds. A previous surveying expedition along the Yellowstone River in 1872 had resulted in the death of a prominent member of the party, the near-death of the railroad’s chief engineer, the embarrassment of the U.S. Army, and a public relations and financial disaster for the Northern Pacific.

Such is the backdrop for Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey, the story of the expedition told through documents selected and interpreted by historian M. John Lubetkin. The U.S. Army was determined to punish the Sioux, and the Northern Pacific desperately needed to complete its engineering work and resume construction. The expedition mounted in 1873—larger than all previous surveys combined—included “embedded” newspaper correspondents and 1,600 infantry and cavalry, the latter led by George Armstrong Custer.

Lubetkin has gathered firsthand accounts from the correspondents, diarists, and reporters who accompanied this important expedition, including that of news correspondent Samuel J. Barrows. Barrows’s narrative—written in a series of dispatches to the New York Tribune—provides a comprehensive, often humorous description of events, and his proficiency with shorthand enabled him to capture quotations and dialogue with an authenticity unmatched by other writers on the survey.

The expedition marched west from the Missouri River in mid-June of 1873 and, in three months, covered nearly 1,000, often grueling miles. Encompassing the saga of transcontinental railroading, cultural conflict on the northern plains, and an array of important Indian and Anglo-American characters, Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey will fascinate Custer fans and anyone interested in the history of the American West.

M. John Lubetkin is a retired cable television executive and the author of Jay Cooke’s Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873, winner of the Little Big Horn Associates’ John M. Carroll Award (Book of the Year) and a Spur Award for Best Historical Non-fiction from the Western Writers of America.

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October $34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-422-3 320 Pages, 7 × 10 9 color photos, 38 b&w illus., 9 maps U.S. History

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Black Hills Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge

By Richard Irving Dodge $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-2846-7 Powder River Odyssey Nelson Cole’s Western Campaign of 1865, The Journals of Lyman G. Bennett and Other Eyewitness Accounts

By David E. Wagner $125.00s Leather 978-0-87062-370-7 $39.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-359-2

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Switzer The Steamboat Bertrand and Missouri River Commerce

Unpacks a time capsule of mid-nineteenth-century western America

The Steamboat Bertrand and Missouri River Commerce

By Ronald R. Switzer On April 1, 1865, the steamboat Bertrand, a sternwheeler bound from St. Louis to Fort Benton in Montana Territory, hit a snag in the Missouri River and sank twenty miles north of Omaha. The crew removed only a few items before the boat was silted over. For more than a century thereafter, the Bertrand remained buried until it was discovered by treasure hunters, its cargo largely intact. This book categorizes some 300,000 artifacts recovered from the Bertrand in 1968, and also describes the invention, manufacture, marketing, distribution, and sale of these products and traces their route to the frontier mining camps of Montana Territory.

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The ship and its contents are a time capsule of mid-nineteenth-century America, rich with information about the history of industry, technology, and commerce in the Trans-Missouri West. In addition to enumerating the items the boat was transporting to Montana, and offering a photographic sample of the merchandise, Switzer places the Bertrand itself in historical context, examining its intended use and the technology of light-draft steam-driven river craft. His account of steamboat commerce provides multiple insights into the industrial revolution in the East, the nature and importance of Missouri River commerce in the mid-1800s, and the decline in this trade after the Civil War.

Navigating the Missouri Steamboating on Nature’s Highway, 1819–1935

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Switzer also introduces the people associated with the Bertrand. He has unearthed biographical details illuminating the private and social lives of the officers, crew members, and passengers, as well as the consignees to whom the cargo was being shipped. He offers insight into not only the passengers’ reasons for traveling to the frontier mining camps of Montana Territory, but also the careers of some of the entrepreneurs and political movers and shakers of the Upper Missouri in the 1860s.

This unique reference for historians of commerce in the American West will also fascinate anyone interested in the technology and history of riverine transport.

an Archaeology of Desperation Exploring the Donner Party’s Alder Creek Camp Edited by Kelly J. Dixon, Julie M. Schablitsky and Shannon A. Novak $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4210-4

Ronald R. Switzer is retired as a park superintendent with the National Park Service. He is the author of numerous articles and special reports on archaeology in the American West, particularly the Southwest.

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

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The second volume of the historian’s writings on the Mormons

Dale Morgan on the Mormons Collected Works, Part 2, 1949–1970

By Dale Morgan Edited by Richard Saunders Foreword by Will Bagley Dale L. Morgan (1914–1971) remains one of the most respected historians of the American West—and his broad and influential career one of the least understood.

Among today’s scholars his reputation rests largely on his studies of the fur trade and overland trails, yet throughout his life, Morgan’s perennial goal was to complete a history of the Latter Day Saints. In this volume—the second of a two-part set—Morgan’s writings on the Mormons finally receive the attention and analysis they merit.

Dale Morgan on the Mormons is a far-reaching compilation of the historian’s published and unpublished writings. Edited and annotated by Morgan scholar Richard L. Saunders, the collection includes not only essays but also book reviews and bibliographic studies, many published here for the first time. At the heart of this second volume is a newly corrected presentation of Morgan’s unfinished magnum opus, “The Mormons.” Also included are a number of forgotten treasures, including Morgan’s still-definitive article on the Emmett Company, which headed west from Nauvoo in 1844 as the first party of westering Latter Day Saints; his privately distributed bibliography of the lesser Mormon churches; and the historian’s last published reflections on the Mormon experience. Throughout, Saunders provides informative introductions that place each of the writings or groups of writings into biographical and historical context.

Dale L. Morgan (1914–1971) remains one of the most respected historians of the American West—and his career, one of the least understood. Among today’s scholars his reputation rests largely on his studies of the fur trade and overland trails, yet throughout his life, Morgan’s primary interest was the history of the Latter Day Saints. Richard L. Saunders has published widely on Dale Morgan’s life and work. He is currently a professor at the University of Tennessee, Martin, where he heads the library’s public services department and teaches U.S. history.

Will Bagley is the author or editor of more than a dozen books on the American West, including his award-winning Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows.

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Testerman Footprints Still Whispering in the Wind

A rich collection of poetry showcasing the culture and heritage of a Chickasaw elder

Footprints Still Whispering in the Wind Poems by Margie Testerman Illustrated by Children of the Chickasaw Nation Chickasaw elder Margie Testerman offers a glimpse into her heritage through poetry inspired by her desire to share traditional Chickasaw culture with future generations. Testerman reveals her unique perspective in poems intended to be interesting, educational, and, at times, whimsical. Each poem was penned with her grandchildren in mind, and they capture the sweet spirit and tenderness that we love about our grandmothers.

Footprints Still Whispering in the Wind showcases Testerman’s work as a tribute to her Chickasaw people and to the natural world that influences every aspect of their lives. Additionally, each poem is interpreted and illustrated by a Chickasaw child. These illustrations beautifully complement Margie Testerman’s poetry, while offering us insight into the vibrant imaginations of today’s children of the Chickasaw Nation.

October $20.00s Cloth 978-1-935684-11-4 80 Pages, 8 × 10 31 color and b&w illus.

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A Chickasaw elder, world traveler, and poet, Margie Testerman is a resident of Cushing, Oklahoma, where she has participated in a number of civic and literary organizations and serves as a substitute teacher in local schools. As a poet, Testerman was featured during a reading at the Chickasaw Nation’s Annual Meeting and Festival in 1994. Footprints Still Whispering in the Wind is her first publication with Chickasaw Press.

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Galvan, Barbour Chikasha Stories

This beautifully illustrated volume completes a series of traditional Chickasaw stories

Chikasha Stories Volume Three: Shared Wisdom

By Glenda Galvan Illustrated by Jeannie Barbour In Chikasha Stories, Volume One: Shared Spirit, Chickasaw storyteller and tribal elder Glenda Galvan first shared some of her favorite stories with the world. Each story is illuminated with original illustrations, inspired by tribal history and culture, by renowned Chickasaw artist Jeannie Barbour. In Chikasha Stories, Volume Two: Shared Voices, Galvan and Barbour continued the storytelling tradition so vital to Chickasaw culture.

Now with Chikasha Stories, Volume Three: Shared Wisdom, Galvan and Barbour complete their invaluable series. Guaranteed to delight readers young and old, these stories—told in both Chickasaw and English—serve as a valuable introduction to the Chickasaw language. Shared Wisdom also highlights the value placed on storytellers and reveals why their role is so honored in the Chickasaw Nation.

The first book in the series, Chikasha Stories, Volume One: Shared Spirit won the 2012 Oklahoma Book Award in the Children’s Book category. Chickasaw Press published the second volume, Chikasha Stories, Volume Two: Shared Voices, in 2012.

October $30.00 Cloth 978-1-935684-09-1 96 Pages, 9 × 12 14 color and b&w illus.

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Morgan Riding Out the Storm

Unique historic and literary profiles of three nineteenth-century Chickasaw governors

Riding Out the Storm 19th Century Chickasaw Governors; Their Lives and Intellectual Legacy

By Phillip Carroll Morgan Riding Out the Storm: 19th-Century Chickasaw Governors; Their Lives and Intellectual Legacy profiles the lives of three nineteenth-century Chickasaw governors—Cyrus Harris, Winchester Colbert, and William L. Byrd. Revealing the three leaders not merely as historic politicians, but as human beings, Phillip Carroll Morgan portrays their personal and political lives against literary backdrops relating directly to their experiences—Cyrus Harris with his northern Mississippi neighbors, the Faulkners; Civil War governor Winchester Colbert with Native American literature about war; and William L. Byrd with his great-grandniece Jodi A. Byrd’s twenty-first-century indigenous critiques of colonialism.

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The tenures of these governors span the period from the reorganization of the postRemoval Chickasaw Nation as a republic in 1856 until 1892, the end of William Byrd’s second term. Featuring historic photographs from the Chickasaw archives, Riding Out the Storm illustrates the intellectual history of the Chickasaws, offering new views on the rich legacy of the tribe’s mythos and personalities in northern Mississippi and the Civil War in Indian Territory. It also examines the constant siege by settlers and entrepreneurs on the Chickasaws and their lands, leading to the Dawes Act of 1887, or General Allotment Act—the heart of a strategy meant to break up American Indian nations once and for all.

Phillip Carroll Morgan, senior staff writer at Chickasaw Press, holds a master’s degree and a doctorate in Native American literature from the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Chickasaw Renaissance and coauthor (with Judy Goforth Parker) of Dynamic Chickasaw Women, which won the Independent Publishers Book Awards’ Gold Medal for Mid-West Regional Non-fiction in 2012.

Morgan also wrote The Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store, which won the Native Writers Circle of the Americas’ First Book Award for Poetry in 2002, and he is a coauthor of Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective, published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2008.

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Acclaimed author Linda Hogan’s reflections on her life and her Chickasaw heritage

The Remedies

By Linda Hogan In The Remedies, internationally acclaimed author Linda Hogan has assembled writings selected from a quarter-century of “one Chickasaw woman’s life.” As her first collection focusing specifically on her Chickasaw heritage, The Remedies reminds us through Hogan’s poetry and essays that “one life and its memory is a part of a tribe’s story.”

Invoking powerful imagery, moving lyricism, and illuminating detail, Hogan does indeed share a significant and timeless Chickasaw story. It is a story of generations past and those yet to come—a story of vulnerability and strength, of hope, healing, and humanity, and ultimately a story of remedies. As Hogan asks, “What else is writing if not a remedy?”

A poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, teacher, and activist, Linda Hogan has spent most of her life in Oklahoma and Colorado. As a volunteer and consultant for wildlife rehabilitation and endangered-species programs, Hogan has published essays for the Nature Conservancy and the Sierra Club. Her books have received numerous awards, including the American Book Award.

Linda Hogan, a renowned Chickasaw poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, speaker, educator, and activist, served as a professor at the University of Colorado and is currently Writer in Residence for the Chickasaw Nation. Her 1990 novel, Mean Spirit, and poetry collection Rounding the Human Corners were considered as finalists for Pulitzer Prizes. Among the many honors garnered by Hogan’s books are the Oklahoma Book Award, the Colorado Book Award, an American Book Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas. In addition to works offered through major publishing houses, Hogan also coauthored Chickasaw Press’s inaugural publication in 2006, Chickasaw: Unconquered and Unconquerable. In 2007 the Chickasaw Nation inducted Linda Hogan into its Hall of Fame.

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American Ski Resort, Smith, 2–3 Animal Stories, Evans, 1 Assassination and Commemoration, Fagin, 5

Dale Morgan on the Mormons, Morgan, D./Saunders, 45 Dary, Stories of Old-Time Oklahoma, 13 Defender of Canada, Grodzinski, 24 Deliverance from the Little Big Horn, Stevenson, 13 Dig, The, Russell, 12

Indians and the Political Economy of Colonial Central America, 1670–1810, Patch, 36

Native American Renaissance, The, Velie/Lee, 34 New Mexico, Sanchez/Spude/ Gómez, 4 Nichols, Warrior Nations, 31

B Banking in Oklahoma Before Statehood, Hightower, 22 Boneland, Van Winckle, 10 Boscawen, Capture of Louisbourg, 1758, The, 40 Bracketing the Enemy, Walker, 27 Braun, Transforming Ethnohistories, 32 Buffalo Bill on the Silver Screen, Sagala, 20 Buyer, Rough Breaks, 8 Byers/Phillips, Torn by War, 26

C California Through Russian Eyes, 1806–1848, Gibson, 42 Capture of Louisbourg, 1758, The, Boscawen, 40 Cave Life of Oklahoma and Arkansas, Graening/Fenolio/Slay, 41 Chalmers, Chronicling the West for Harper’s, 14–15 Cheyenne Voice, A, Stands In Timber/Liberty, 30 Chikasha Stories, Vol. 3, Galvan/ Barbour, 47 Chronicling the West for Harper’s, Chalmers, 14–15 Claiming Tribal Identity, Miller, 29 Conversations with Barry Lopez, Tydeman, 18 Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey, Lubetkin, 43

E Evans, Animal Stories, 1

F Fagin, Assassination and Commemoration, 5 Family of the Land, A, Wilkinson, 9 Footprints Still Whispering in the Wind, Testerman, 46 From Boer War to World War, Jones, 40

G Galvan/Barbour, Chikasha Stories, Vol. 3, 47 Gibson, California Through Russian Eyes, 1806–1848, 42 Gold-Mining Boomtown, Haldane, 41 Graening/Fenolio/Slay, Cave Life of Oklahoma and Arkansas, 41 Grodzinski, Defender of Canada, 24

H Haldane, Gold-Mining Boomtown, 41 Halsey/Jones/Klein/Perry/Roblin, Woody Crumbo, 17 Hargreaves, Special Operations in World War II, 25 Hightower, Banking in Oklahoma Before Statehood, 22 Hogan, The Remedies, 49 Holiday/McPherson, Under the Eagle, 6 Hunt/Ronda/Troccoli/ Wilmerding, Painters and the American West, Vol. 2, 7

J Jackson/Linn, Yuchi Folklore, 33 Jones, From Boer War to World War, 40

K Kates, Red Dirt Women, 11 Kessell, Mierea y Pacheco, 19

L Least-Heat Moon/Wallace, An Osage Journey to Europe, 1827–1830, 28 Lindeman, The Map Turtle and Sawback Atlas, 39 Literary and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906, Parins, 35 Lovell/Lutz, “Strange Lands and Diffferent Peoples,” 37 Lubetkin, Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey, 43

M Main Street Oklahoma, Reese/ Loughlin, 23 Map Turtle and Sawback Atlas, The, Lindeman, 39 Mierea y Pacheco, Kessell, 19 Miller, Claiming Tribal Identity, 29 Mixtecs of Oaxaca, The, Spores/ Balkansky, 38 Modern Spirit, Rushing/ Makholm, 16 Morgan, D./Saunders, Dale Morgan on the Mormons, 45 Morgan, P. Riding Out the Storm, 48 Mueller, Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud, 21

O Osage Journey to Europe, 1827– 1830, An, Least-Heat Moon/ Wallace, 28

P Painters and the American West, Vol. 2, Hunt/Ronda/Troccoli/ Wilmerding, 7 Parins, Literary and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906, 35 Patch, Indians and the Political Economy of Colonial Central America, 1670–1810, 36

R Red Dirt Women, Kates, 11 Reese/Loughlin, Main Street Oklahoma, 23 Remedies, The, Hogan, 49 Riding Out the Storm, Morgan, P., 48 Rough Breaks, Buyer, 8 Rushing/Makholm, Modern Spirit, 16 Russell, The Dig, 12

S Sagala, Buffalo Bill on the Silver Screen, 20 Sanchez/Spude/Gómez, New Mexico, 4 Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud, Mueller, 21 Smith, American Ski Resort, 2–3 Special Operations in World War II, Hargreaves, 25

Spores/Balkansky, The Mixtecs of Oaxaca, 38 Stands In Timber/Liberty, A Cheyenne Voice, 30 Steamboat Bertrand and Missouri River Commerce, The, Switzer, 44 Stevenson, Deliverance from the Little Big Horn, 13 Stories of Old-Time Oklahoma, Dary, 13 “Strange Lands and Diffferent Peoples,” Lovell/Lutz, 37 Switzer, The Steamboat Bertrand and Missouri River Commerce, 44

T Testerman, Footprints Still Whispering in the Wind, 46 Torn by War, Byers/Phillips, 26 Transforming Ethnohistories, Braun, 32 Tydeman, Conversations with Barry Lopez, 18

U Under the Eagle, Holiday/ McPherson, 6

V Van Winckle, Boneland, 10 Velie/Lee, The Native American Renaissance, 34

W Walker, Bracketing the Enemy, 27 Warrior Nations, Nichols, 31 Wilkinson, A Family of the Land, 9 Woody Crumbo, Halsey/Jones/ Klein/Perry/Roblin, 17

Y Yuchi Folklore, Jackson/Linn, 33

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