2016 American West Catalog

American West UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS

2016

American West CONTENTS American Indian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Art & Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Biography & Memoir. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 The Arthur H. Clark Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 New in Paperback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 For more than eighty-five years, the University of Oklahoma Press has published award-winning books about the American West and we are proud to bring to you our latest catalog. The catalog features the newest titles from both the University of Oklahoma Press and the Arthur H. Clark Company.

For a complete list of titles available from OU Press or the Arthur H. Clark Company, please visit our webstite at oupress.com.

We hope you enjoy this catalog and appreciate your continued support of the University of Oklahoma Press.

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On the front: Detail from Thomas Hill Fishing on the Merced River, 1891, Oil on canvas, 36 × 54 inches, courtesy of The Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen Ph.D. Foundation.

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American Indian A Field of Their Own Women and American Indian History, 1830–1941

By John M. Rhea $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5227-1 · 312 Pages Rhea’s wide-ranging approach goes beyond existing compensatory histories to illuminate the national consequences of women’s centurylong predominance over American Indian scholarship. In the process, his thoughtful study also chronicles Indigenous women’s long and ultimately successful struggle to transform the way that historians portray American Indian peoples and their pasts.

Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electric Powwow American Indian Music

By Craig Harris $24.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-5168-7 · 280 Pages The many voices and sounds that weave throughout Harris’s engaging, accessible account portray a sonic landscape that defies stereotyping and continues to expand. Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electric Powwow is the story— told by those who live it—of resisting a half-millennium of cultural suppression to create new sounds while preserving old roots.

Imagining Sovereignty Self-Determination in American Indian Law and Literature

By David J. Carlson $29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5197-7 ∙ 242 Pages In Imagining Sovereignty, Carlson explores sovereignty as a discursive middle ground between tribal communities and the United States as a settler-colonial power. His work reveals the complementary ways in which legal and literary texts have generated politically significant representations of the world, which in turn have produced particular effects on readers and advanced the cause of tribal self-determination.

Ioway Life Reservation and Reform, 1837–1860

By Greg Olson $29.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5211-0 ∙ 184 Pages Ioway Life offers a complex and nuanced picture of the Ioways’ efforts to retain their tribal identity within the constrictive boundaries of the Great Nemaha Agency. Drawing on diaries, newspapers, and correspondence from the agency’s files and Presbyterian archives, Olson offers a compelling case study in U.S. colonialism and Indigenous resistance.

Land Too Good for Indians Northern Indian Removal

By John P. Bowes $29.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5212-7 ∙ 320 Pages In expanding the context of removal to include the Old Northwest, and adding a portrait of Native communities there before, during, and after removal, Bowes paints a more accurate—and complicated—picture of American Indian history in the nineteenth century. Land Too Good for Indians reveals the deeper complexities of this crucial time in American history.

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Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees Volume Six: March to Removal, Part 1, Safe in the Ancestral Homeland, 1821–1824 Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck $50.00s Cloth ∙ 978-0-9826907-7-2 ∙ 568 Pages Distributed for Cherokee Heritage Press Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees uses original diaries, minutes, reports, and correspondence in the Moravian Archives in North Carolina to provide a firsthand account of daily life among the Cherokee throughout the nineteenth century. Though written by missionaries from their perspective, these records provide much insight into Cherokee culture, society, customs, and personalities.

Serving the Nation Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 1800–1907

By Julie L. Reed $34.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5224-0 ∙ 376 Pages Offering insights gleaned from reconsidered and overlooked historical sources, this book enhances our understanding of the history and workings of social welfare policy and services, not only in the Cherokee Nation but also in the United States.

The Erosion of Tribal Power The Supreme Court’s Silent Revolution

By Dewi Ioan Ball $39.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5565-4 ∙ 400 Pages The Erosion of Tribal Power shines much-needed light on crucial changes to federal Indian law between 1959 and 2001 and discusses how tribes have dealt with the political and economic consequences of the Court’s decisions.

From Huronia to Wendakes Adversity, Migration, and Resilience, 1650–1900 Edited by Thomas Peace and Kathryn Magee Labelle $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5535-7 · 256 Pages This collection of essays brings together lesser-known historical accounts of the Wendats from their mid-seventeenth-century dispersal through their establishment of new homelands, called Wendakes, in Quebec, Michigan, Ontario, Kansas, and Oklahoma.

A Call for Reform The Southern California Indian Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson Edited by Valerie Sherer Mathes and Phil Brigandi $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4363-7 · 232 Pages Journalist, novelist, and scholar Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–85) remains one of the most influential and popular writers on the struggles of American Indians. This volume collects for the first time seven of her most important articles, annotated and introduced by Jackson scholars Valerie Sherer Mathes and Phil Brigandi. Valuable as eyewitness accounts of Mission Indian life in Southern California in the 1880s, the articles also offer insight into Jackson’s career.

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Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula Who We Are Second Edition By the Olympic Peninsula Cultural Advisory Committee Edited by Jacilee Wray $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4670-6 · 224 Pages Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula: Who We Are traces the nine tribes’ common history and each tribe’s individual story. This second edition is updated to include new developments since the volume’s initial publication— especially the removal of the Elwha River dams—thus reflecting the everchanging environment for the Native peoples of the Olympic Peninsula.

Red Dreams, White Nightmares Pan-Indian Alliances in the Anglo-American Mind, 1763–1815

By Robert M. Owens $32.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-4646-1 ∙ 320 Pages From the end of Pontiac’s War in 1763 through the War of 1812, fear— even paranoia—drove Anglo-American Indian policies. In Red Dreams, White Nightmares, Robert M. Owens views conflicts between whites and Natives in this era—invariably treated as discrete, regional affairs—as the inextricably related struggles they were.

Teaching Indigenous Students Honoring Place, Community, and Culture Edited by Jon Reyhner $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4699-7 · 232 Pages Teaching Indigenous Students puts culturally based education squarely into practice. The volume, edited and with an introduction by leading American Indian education scholar Jon Reyhner, brings together new and dynamic research from established and emerging voices in the field of American Indian and Indigenous education.

Through Indian Sign Language The Fort Sill Ledgers of Hugh Lenox Scott and Iseeo, 1889–1897

By William C. Meadows $55.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4727-7 · 520 Pages Hugh Lenox Scott, who would one day serve as chief of staff of the U.S. Army, spent a portion of his early career at Fort Sill, in Indian and, later, Oklahoma Territory. His ledgers contain an array of historical, linguistic, and ethnographic data—a wealth of primary-source material on Southern Plains Indian people. Meadows describes Plains Indian Sign Language, its origins and history, and its significance to anthropologists.

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Art & Photography Frederic Remington A Catalogue Raisonné II Edited by Peter H. Hassrick $75.00s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5208-0 ∙ 328 Pages One of America’s most popular and influential American artists, Frederic Remington (1861–1909) is renowned for his depictions of the Old West.

Through paintings, drawings, and sculptures, he immortalized a dynamic world of cowboys and American Indians, hunters and horses, landscapes and wildlife. Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonné II is a comprehensive presentation of the artist’s body of flat work, both in print and on this book’s companion website.

A Place in the Sun The Southwest Paintings of Walter Ufer and E. Martin Hennings

By Thomas Brent Smith $45.00s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5198-4 ∙ 208 Pages Connoisseurs of southwestern art have long admired the masterworks of Ufer and Hennings. By offering a rich sampling of their paintings alongside informative essays by noted art historians, A Place in the Sun ensures that their significant contributions to American art will be long remembered.

Branding the American West Paintings and Films, 1900–1950 Edited by Marian Wardle and Sarah E. Boehme $39.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5291-2 ∙ 240 Pages Published in association with the Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, Utah, and the Stark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas.

Artists and filmmakers in the early twentieth century reshaped our vision of the American West. In particular, the Taos Society of Artists and the California-based artist Maynard Dixon departed from the legendary depiction of the “Wild West” and fostered new images, or brands, for western art. This volume, illustrated with more than 150 images, examines select paintings and films to demonstrate how these artists both enhanced and contradicted earlier representations of the West.

Drawn to Yellowstone Artists in America’s First National Park Revised Edition

By Peter H. Hassrick $25.00 Paper ∙ 978-0-9896405-4-1 ∙ 160 Pages Distributed for the Buffalo Bill Center of the West The first national park in the world, from the moment of its inception in 1872 Yellowstone National Park has been perceived as a vast visual spectacle. By the 1890s it was known as “the Nation’s Art Gallery.” Peter Hassrick traces the artistic history of the park from its earliest explorers to the present day in this new edition of Drawn to Yellowstone, a richly illustrated account of the artists who traveled to and were inspired by Yellowstone.

Narrating the Landscape Print Culture and American Expansion in the Nineteenth Century

By Matthew N. Johnston $34.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5223-3 ∙ 248 Pages Revealing the crucial role of print and visual culture in shaping the nineteenthcentury United States, Narrating the Landscape offers fresh insight into the landscapes Americans beheld and imagined in this formative era.

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Our Indian Summer in the Far West An Autumn Tour of Fifteen Thousand Miles in Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and the Indian Territory

By Samuel Nugent Townshend Edited by Alex Hunt and Kristin Lloyd $45.00s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-8702-0 ∙ 200 Pages The recovery and republication of this extremely rare volume, an artifact of the Victorian American West, make available an important primary document of a brief but pivotal historical moment connecting the American West and the British Empire.

Photographing Custer’s Battlefield The Images of Kenneth F. Roahen

By Sandy Barnard $39.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5159-5 ∙ 280 Pages In Photographing Custer’s Battlefield, Sandy Barnard, an expert on Custer and the Little Big Horn, presents the work of the site’s most dedicated photographer, U.S. Fish and Game agent Kenneth F. Roahen (1888–1976), revealing further mysteries of the battlefield and showing how it has changed.

Picher, Oklahoma Catastrophe, Memory, and Trauma Photography by Todd Stewart Essay by Alison Fields $29.95 Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5165-6 ∙ 224 Pages Recounting the town’s dissolution and documenting its remaining traces, Picher, Oklahoma tells the story of an unfolding ghost town. With shades of Picher’s past lives lingering at every intersection, memories of its proud history and sad decline inhere in the relics, artifacts, personal treasures, and broken structures abandoned in disaster’s wake.

Picturing Indian Territory Portraits of the Land That Became Oklahoma, 1819–1907 Edited by B. Byron Price $34.95 Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5577-7 ∙ 160 Pages Some of the artworks featured in this volume have never before been displayed; some were produced by more than one artist; others are anonymous. Many were completed by illustrators on-site, as the events they depicted unfolded, while other artists relied on written accounts and vivid imaginations. Whatever their origin, these depictions of the people, places, and events of “Indian Country” defined the region for contemporary American and European audiences. Today they provide a rich visual record of a key era of western and Oklahoma history—and of the ways that art has defined this important cultural crossroads.

Shifting Views and Changing Places The Photographs of Rick Dingus

By Rick Dingus Edited by Peter S. Briggs $34.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5281-3 ∙ 224 Pages Landscape is always with us, deceptively simple, yet capable of providing something much more. By examining the rich variety of Dingus’s work and reflecting on the evolution of ideas that lie behind it, Shifting Views and Changing Places invites readers to critically examine the pursuit of seeing.

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Wild Spaces, Open Seasons Hunting and Fishing in American Art Edited by Kevin Sharp $45.00s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5462-6 ∙ 204 Pages $29.95 Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5463-3 ∙ 204 Pages In their depictions of the hunt or the catch, American artists connected a dynamic and developing nation to its past and its future. Through the examination of major works of art, Wild Spaces, Open Seasons brings to light an often-overlooked theme in American painting and sculpture.

Art in Motion Native American Explorations of Time, Place, and Thought Edited by John P. Lukavic and Laura Caruso $25.00s Paper ∙ 978-0-914738-63-3 ∙ 108 Pages Distributed for Denver Art Museum In the summer of 2012, the Denver Art Museum hosted a symposium titled Art in Motion: Native American Explorations of Time, Place, and Thought, which brought artists Charlene Holy Bear, Leena Minifie, and Kent Monkman together with scholars Kristin Dowell, Aldona Jonaitis, and Daniel C. Swan to discuss American Indian art, using the idea of motion as a unifying theme.

The perspectives explored in this volume reveal how scholars and artists with different backgrounds can employ overarching themes, such as motion, to investigate topics in arts and culture.

A Contested Art Modernism and Mestizaje in New Mexico

By Stephanie Lewthwaite $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4864-9 · 304 Pages In A Contested Art, historian Stephanie Lewthwaite examines the complex Hispano response to the arrival of avant-garde writers and artists in New Mexico and their influence on the twentieth-century marketplace.

She suggests that cultural encounters and appropriation produced not only conflict and loss but also transformations in Hispano art as artists experimented with colonial art forms and modernist trends in painting, photography, and sculpture.

A Strange Mixture The Art and Politics of Painting Pueblo Indians

By Sascha T. Scott $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4484-9 · 280 Pages Many early-twentieth-century artists depicted Pueblo peoples, places, and culture in paintings. These artists’ encounters with Pueblo Indians fostered their awareness of Native political struggles and lead them to join with Pueblo communities to champion Indian rights. In this book, art historian Sascha T. Scott examines the ways in which non-Pueblo and Pueblo artists advocated for American Indian cultures by confronting some of the cultural, legal, and political issues of the day.

Painted Journeys The Art of John Mix Stanley

By Peter H. Hassrick and Mindy N. Besaw $54.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4829-8 · 308 Pages $34.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5155-7 · 308 Pages Artist-explorer John Mix Stanley (1814–1872), one of the most celebrated chroniclers of the American West in his time, was in a sense a victim of his own success. This volume, featuring a comprehensive collection of Stanley’s extant art, reproduced in full color, offers an opportunity—and ample reason—to rediscover the remarkable accomplishments of this outsize figure of nineteenth-century American culture.

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Picturing Migrants The Grapes of Wrath and New Deal Documentary Photography

By James R. Swensen $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4827-4 · 272 Pages As time passes, personal memories of the Great Depression die with those who lived through the desperate 1930s. In the absence of firsthand knowledge, John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and the photographs produced for the New Deal’s Farm Security Administration (FSA) now provide most of the images that come to mind when we think of the 1930s. Fully exploring this complex connection for the first time, Picturing Migrants offers new insight into Steinbeck’s novel and the FSA’s photography—and into the circumstances that have made them enduring icons of the Depression.

Surviving Desires Making and Selling Native Jewellery in the American Southwest

By Henrietta Lidchi $34.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4850-2 · 272 Pages Published in Cooperation with the British Museum Lavishly illustrated with 300 color photographs of jewellery in the British Museum, the National Museums Scotland, and major collections in the United States, Surviving Desires presents many previously unpublished pieces and showcases works by Native American jewellers who include the bestknown names in the field today. The volume is a visually stunning exploration of the symbolic, economic, and communal value of jewellery in the American Southwest.

The Artistic Odyssey of Higinio V. Gonzales A Tinsmith and Poet in Territorial New Mexico

By Maurice M. Dixon, Jr. $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5137-3 · 360 Pages Higinio V. Gonzales (1842–1921) was more than a gifted metalworker. A man of varied talents whose poems and songs complement his work in punched tin, Gonzales transcends categorization. In The Artistic Odyssey of Higinio V. Gonzales, Maurice M. Dixon, Jr., who has spent more than thirty years studying New Mexico tinwork, describes the artist’s signature techniques. Featuring translations of Gonzales’s poetry, this book restores a long-forgotten New Mexican innovator to the prominence he deserves.

The Sons of Charlie Russell Celebrating Fifty Years of the Cowboy Artists of America

By B. Byron Price $95.00 Cloth · 978-0-9962183-0-6 · 248 Pages Distributed for The Joe Beeler Cowboy Artist Foundation The Sons of Charlie Russell commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the formation of the Cowboy Artists of America. From the beginning, the CAA set its course to perpetuate the history, romance, and importance of the American West. The history of these artists as described in this book comes alive with essays, photographs, and beautiful images of their work as it portrays the life of real Indians and cowboys.

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Biography & Memoir “Hang Them All” George Wright and the Plateau Indian War, 1858

By Donald L. Cutler $29.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5337-7 ∙ 392 Pages Col. George Wright had once appeared to respect the Indians of the Upper Columbia Plateau, but in 1858 he led a brief war noted for its violence, bloodshed, and summary trials and executions. Today, many critics view his actions as war crimes, but among white settlers and politicians of the time, Wright was a patriotic hero who helped open the Inland Northwest to settlement. “Hang Them All” offers a comprehensive account of Wright’s campaigns and explores the controversy surrounding his legacy.

Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition A Seventeenth-Century New Mexican Drama

By Frances Levine $29.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5336-0 ∙ 296 Pages Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition uncovers issues that resonate today: conflicts between religious and secular authority; the weight of evidence versus hearsay in court. Doña Teresa’s voice—set in the context of the history of the Inquisition—is a powerful addition to the memory of that time.

Horseback Schoolmarm Montana, 1953–1954

By Margot Liberty $24.95 Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5388-9 ∙ 144 Pages In 1953, Margot Pringle, newly graduated from Cornell University, took a job as a teacher in a one-room school in rural eastern Montana, sixty miles southeast of Miles City. “Miss Margot,” as her students called her, would teach at the school for one year. This book is the memoir she wrote then, published here for the first time, under her married name. Filled with humor and affection for her students, Horseback Schoolmarm recounts Liberty’s coming of age as a teacher, as well as what she taught her students.

Montana’s Pioneer Naturalist Morton J. Elrod

By George M. Dennison $26.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5436-7 ∙ 280 Pages In this biography of a prominent scientist now almost forgotten, George M. Dennison—longtime president of the University of Montana—demonstrates how Elrod’s scholarship and philosophy regarding science and nature made him one of Montana’s most distinguished naturalists, conservationists, and educators.

New Deal Cowboy Gene Autry and Public Diplomacy

By Michael Duchemin $34.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5392-6 ∙ 328 Pages New Deal Cowboy enhances our understanding of Gene Autry as a western folk hero who, during critical times of economic recovery and international crisis, readily assumed the role of public diplomat, skillfully using his talents to persuade a marginalized populace to embrace a nationalist agenda.

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Red Bird, Red Power The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-Ša

By Tadeusz Lewandowski $29.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5178-6 ∙ 288 Pages Red Bird, Red Power tells the story of one of the most influential—and controversial—American Indian activists of the twentieth century. Zitkala-Ša (1876–1938), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a highly gifted writer, editor, and musician who dedicated her life to achieving justice for Native peoples.

Sign Talker Hugh Lenox Scott Remembers Indian Country Edited by R. Eli Paul $29.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5354-4 ∙ 272 Pages As historians continue to debate the details of the Indian wars, and as we critically examine our nation’s current foreign policy, the unique legacy of General Scott provides a model of military leadership. Sign Talker restores an undervalued diplomat to well-deserved prominence in the story of U.S.-Indian relations.

Walking the Llano A Texas Memoir of Place

By Shelley Armitage $24.95 Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5162-5 ∙ 216 Pages Reminiscent of the work of memoirists Terry Tempest Williams and John McPhee, Walking the Llano is both a celebration of an oft-overlooked region and a soaring testimony to the power of the landscape to draw us into greater understanding of ourselves and others by experiencing a deeper connection with the places we inhabit.

American Mythmaker Walter Noble Burns and the Legends of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín Murrieta

By Mark J. Dworkin $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4685-0 · 288 Pages Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín Murrieta are fixed in the American imagination as towering legends of the Old West. But that has not always been the case. There was a time when these men were largely forgotten relics of a bygone era. Then, in the early twentieth century, an obscure Chicago newspaperman changed all that. A long-overdue biography of a writer who shaped our idea of western history, American Mythmaker documents in fascinating detail the fashioning of some of the greatest American legends.

Brummett Echohawk Pawnee Thunderbird and Artist

By Kristin M. Youngbull $24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4826-7 · 224 Pages A true American hero who earned a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, and a Congressional Gold Medal, Brummett Echohawk was also a Pawnee on the European battlefields of World War II. He used the Pawnee language and counted coup as his grandfather had done during the Indian wars of the previous century. This first book-length biography depicts Echohawk as a soldier, painter, writer, humorist, and actor profoundly shaped by his Pawnee heritage and a man who refused to be pigeonholed as an “Indian artist.”

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Clyde Warrior Tradition, Community, and Red Power

By Paul R. McKenzie-Jones $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4705-5 · 256 Pages The phrase Red Power, coined by Clyde Warrior (1939–1968) in the 1960s, introduced militant rhetoric into American Indian activism. In this first-ever biography of Warrior, historian Paul R. McKenzie-Jones presents the Ponca leader as the architect of the Red Power movement, spotlighting him as one of the most significant and influential figures in the fight for Indian rights.

In Love and War The World War II Courtship Letters of a Nisei Couple

By Melody M. Miyamoto Walters $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4820-5 · 296 Pages In Love and War recounts the wartime experiences of author Melody M. Miyamoto Walters’s grandparents, two second-generation Japanese Americans, or Nisei, living in Hawaii. Their love story, narrated in letters they wrote each other from July 1941 to June 1943, offers a unique view of Hawaiian Nisei and the social and cultural history of territorial Hawaii during World War II.

Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend

By Ron J. Jackson, Jr., and Lee Spencer White $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4703-1 · 352 Pages If we do in fact “remember the Alamo,” it is largely thanks to one person who witnessed the final assault and survived: the commanding officer’s slave, a young man known simply as Joe. What Joe saw as the Alamo fell, recounted days later to the Texas Cabinet, has come down to us in records and newspaper reports. But who Joe was, where he came from, and what happened to him have all remained mysterious until now.

Juan Bautista de Anza The King’s Governor in New Mexico

By Carlos R. Herrera $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4644-7 · 320 Pages By combining administrative history with narrative biography, Herrera shows that Juan Bautista de Anza was more than an explorer. Devoted equally to the Spanish empire and to the North American region he knew intimately, Governor Anza shaped the history of New Mexico at a critical juncture.

Junípero Serra California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary

By Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4868-7 · 514 Pages Franciscan missionary friar Junípero Serra (1713–1784) was one of early California’s most influential inhabitants. Focusing on Serra’s religious identity and his relations with Native peoples, Beebe and Senkewicz intersperse their narrative with new and accessible translations of many of Serra’s letters and sermons, which allows his voice to be heard in a more direct and engaging fashion.

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Loren Miller Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist

By Amina Hassan $26.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4916-5 · 312 Pages Loren Miller was one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the early 1960s, particularly in the fields of housing and education. Loren Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist recovers this remarkable figure from the margins of history and for the first time fully reveals his life for what it was: an extraordinary American story and a critical chapter in the annals of racial justice.

Out Where the West Begins Profiles, Visions, and Strategies of Early Western Business Leaders

By Philip F. Anschutz $34.95 Cloth · 978-0-9905502-0-4 · 392 Pages Distributed for Cloud Camp Press Out Where the West Begins profiles some fifty bold innovators and entrepreneurs—individuals such as Cyrus McCormick, Brigham Young, Henry Wells and James Fargo, Fred Harvey, Levi Strauss, Adolph Coors, J. P. Morgan, and Buffalo Bill Cody—tracing the arcs of their lives, exploring their backgrounds and motivations, identifying their contributions, and analyzing the strategies they developed to succeed in their chosen fields.

Owen Wister and the West

By Gary Scharnhorst $24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4675-1 · 280 Pages More than any other pioneer of the genre, Owen Wister turned the Western into a form of social and political critique, touching on such issues as race, the environment, women’s rights, and immigration. In Owen Wister and the West, a biographical-literary account of Wister’s life and writings, Gary Scharnhorst shows how the West shaped Wister’s career and ideas, even as he lived and worked in the East.

The Gray Fox George Crook and the Indian Wars

By Paul Magid $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4706-2 · 512 Pages George Crook was one of the most prominent military figures of the latenineteenth-century Indian Wars. As Paul Magid portrays Crook in this highly readable second volume of a projected three-volume biography, the general was an innovative and eccentric soldier, with a complex and often contradictory personality, whose activities often generated intense controversy.

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History The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858–1861

By Glen Sample Ely $34.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5221-9 ∙ 440 Pages This is the story of Texas’s antebellum frontier, from the Red River to El Paso, a raw and primitive country punctuated by chaos, lawlessness, and violence.

During this time, the federal government and the State of Texas often worked at cross purposes, their confused and contradictory policies leaving settlers on their own to deal with vigilantes, lynchings, raiding Native Americans, and Anglo-American outlaws.

Bitter Waters The Struggles of the Pecos River

By Patrick Dearen $29.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5201-1 ∙ 256 Pages The first book-length environmental study ever produced on the 926-mile Pecos River, this work combines a historical overview of the river from the first arrival of European explorers and settlers in the sixteenth century with an investigation of the environmental issues facing the river today.

Black Cowboys in the American West On the Range, on the Stage, behind the Badge Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Michael N. Searles $24.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5406-0 ∙ 256 Pages Black cowhands remain an integral part of life in the West, the descendants of African Americans who ventured west and helped settle and establish black communities. This long-overdue examination of nineteenth- and twentiethcentury black cowboys ensures that they, and their many stories and experiences, will continue to be known and told.

Blood on the Marias The Baker Massacre

By Paul R. Wylie $29.95 Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5157-1 ∙ 336 Pages While other scholars have written about the Baker Massacre in related contexts, Blood on the Marias gives this infamous event the definitive treatment it deserves. Baker’s inept command lit the spark of violence, but decades of tension between Piegans and whites set the stage for a brutal and too-oftenforgotten incident.

Contesting the Borderlands Interviews on the Early Southwest

By Deborah Lawrence and Jon Lawrence $24.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5194-6 ∙ 280 Pages To explore the region’s complex past from prehistory to the U.S. takeover, this book uses an unusual multidisciplinary approach. In interviews with ten experts, Deborah and Jon Lawrence discuss subjects ranging from warfare among the earliest ancestral Puebloans to intermarriage and peonage among Spanish settlers and the Indians they encountered.

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Dirty Deeds Land, Violence, and the 1856 San Francisco Vigilance Committee

By Nancy J. Taniguchi $32.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5398-8 ∙ 320 Pages Dirty Deeds tells the real story, in which a band of men took over a city in an attempt to control the most valuable land on the West Coast. Ranging far beyond San Francisco, the 1856 Vigilance Committee’s activities affected events on the East Coast, in Central America, and in courts throughout the United States even after the Civil War.

Fort Bascom Soldiers, Comancheros, and Indians in the Canadian River Valley

By James Bailey Blackshear $29.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5209-7 ∙ 272 Pages In Fort Bascom, James Bailey Blackshear presents the definitive history of this critical outpost in the American Southwest, along with a detailed view of army life on the late-nineteenth-century western frontier. Blackshear shows the difficulties of maintaining a post in a harsh environment where scarce water and forage, long supply lines, poorly constructed facilities, and monotonous duty tested soldiers’ endurance.

Hitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars Comparing Genocide and Conquest

By Edward B. Westermann $34.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5433-6 ∙ 336 Pages Comparative history at its best, Westermann’s assessment of these two national projects provides crucial insights into not only their rhetoric and pronouncements but also the application of policy and ideology “on the ground.” His sophisticated and nuanced revelations of the similarities and dissimilarities between these two cases will inform further study of genocide, as well as our understanding of the Nazi conquest of the East and the American conquest of the West.

Kearny’s Dragoons Out West The Birth of the U.S. Cavalry

By Will Gorenfeld and John Gorenfeld $34.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5394-0 ∙ 480 Pages The promises made in Kearny’s well-intentioned treaty making were ultimately broken. This detailed and in-depth look back at his legacy offers a glimpse of a lost world—and an intriguing turning point in the history of western expansion.

Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance Other Sides of Civil War Texas Edited by Jesús F. de la Teja $29.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5182-3 ∙ 296 Pages $19.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5183-0 ∙ 296 Pages Concluding with an account of the origins of Juneteenth—the nationally celebrated holiday marking June 19, 1865, when emancipation was announced in Texas—Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance challenges the collective historical memory of Civil War Texas and its place in both the Confederacy and the United States. It provides material for a fresh narrative, one including people on the margins of history and dispelling the myth of a monolithically Confederate Texas.

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Portrait of Route 66 Images from the Curt Teich Postcard Archives

By T. Lindsay Baker $34.95 Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5341-4 ∙ 280 Pages This book will interest historians of art and design as well as the worldwide audiences of Route 66 aficionados and postcard collectors. For its mining of an invaluable and little-known photographic archive and depiction of highquality photographs that have not been seen before, Portrait of Route 66 will be irresistible to all who are interested in American history and culture.

Mapping the Four Corners Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875

By Robert S. McPherson and Susan Rhoades Neel $29.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5385-8 ∙ 304 Pages By skillfully weaving the surveyors’ diary entries, field notes, and correspondence with newspaper accounts, historians Robert S. McPherson and Susan Rhoades Neel bring the Hayden Survey to life. Mapping the Four Corners provides an entertaining, engaging narrative of the team’s experiences, contextualized with a thoughtful introduction and conclusion.

National Parks beyond the Nation Global Perspectives on “America’s Best Idea” Edited by Adrian Howkins, Jared Orsi, and Mark Fiege $34.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5225-7 ∙ 336 Pages National Parks beyond the Nation brings together the work of fifteen scholars and writers to reveal the tremendous diversity of the global national park experience—an experience sometimes influencing, sometimes influenced by, and sometimes with no reference whatever to the United States.

Nicodemus Post-Reconstruction Politics and Racial Justice in Western Kansas

By Charlotte Hinger $29.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5217-2 ∙ 280 Pages Nicodemus, Kansas, was a microcosm of all the issues facing black Americans in the late nineteenth century, and three of the town’s black homesteaders, Abram Thompson Hall, Jr., Edward Preston McCabe, and John W. Niles are archetypes for powerful philosophies that have persisted into the twenty-first century. This study of their ideas and the ways they shaped Nicodemus offers a novel perspective on the most famous post–Civil War African American community in the West.

Powder River Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War

By Paul L. Hedren $34.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5383-4 ∙ 472 Pages Powder River: Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War recounts the wintertime Big Horn Expedition and its singular great battle, along with the stories of the Northern Cheyennes and their elusive leader Old Bear. Historian Paul Hedren tracks both sides of the conflict through a rich array of primary source material, including the transcripts of Colonel Joseph H. Reynolds’s courtmartial and Indian recollections.

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Prelude to the Dust Bowl Drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains

By Kevin Z. Sweeney $34.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5340-7 ∙ 304 Pages Before the drought of the early twenty-first century, the dry benchmark in the American plains was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Prelude to the Dust Bowl provides new insights into pivotal moments in the settlement of the southern plains and stands as a timely reminder that drought, as part of a natural climatic cycle, will continue to figure in the unfolding history of this region.

Route 66 Crossings Historic Bridges of the Mother Road

By Jim Ross $29.95 Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5199-1 ∙ 208 Pages In this handsome volume, Route 66 authority and veteran writer and photographer Jim Ross examines the origins and history of the bridges of America’s most famous highway, structures designed to overcome obstacles to travel, many of them engineered with architectural aesthetics now lost to time. Featuring hundreds of photographs, Route 66 Crossings showcases bridges between Chicago and Santa Monica and provides schematics, maps, and global coordinates to help readers identify and locate them.

Sea of Sand A History of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve

By Michael M. Geary $29.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5210-3 ∙ 296 Pages Sculpted into graceful contours by countless centuries of wind and water, the Great Sand Dunes sprawl along the eastern fringes of the vast San Luis Valley of south-central Colorado. In Sea of Sand, Michael M. Geary guides readers on a historical journey through this unique ecosystem, which includes an array of natural and cultural wonders, from the main dunefield and verdant wetlands to the summits of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

Show Town Theater and Culture in the Pacific Northwest, 1890–1920

By Holly George $29.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5435-0 ∙ 280 Pages Like many western boomtowns at the turn of the twentieth century, Spokane, Washington, enjoyed a lively theatrical scene, ranging from plays, concerts, and operas to salacious variety and vaudeville shows. Lucidly written and meticulously researched, Show Town is a groundbreaking work of cultural history. By examining one city’s theatrical scene—in all its complex dimensions—this book expands our understanding of the forces that shaped the urban American West.

Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums Horse-Mounted Bands of the U.S. Army, 1820–1940

By Bruce P. Gleason $32.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5479-4 ∙ 264 Pages Noted music historian and former army musician Bruce P. Gleason follows American horse-mounted bands from the nation's military infancy through its emergence as a world power during World War II. Touching on anthropology, musicology, and the history of the United States and its military, Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums gives a thorough and satisfying account of mounted military bands and their cultural significance.

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Sweet Freedom’s Plains African Americans on the Overland Trails, 1841–1869

By Shirley Ann Wilson Moore $29.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5562-3 ∙ 384 Pages Among the diverse peoples who converged on the western frontier were African American pioneers—men, women, and children. Whether enslaved or free, they too were involved in this transformative movement. Sweet Freedom’s Plains is a powerful retelling of the migration story from their perspective.

The Civil War Years in Utah The Kingdom of God and the Territory That Did Not Fight

By John Gary Maxwell $29.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-4911-0 ∙ 488 Pages In The Civil War Years in Utah, the first full account of the events that occurred in Utah Territory during that war, John Gary Maxwell contradicts the patriotic mythology of Mormon leaders’ version of this dark chapter in Utah history.

The Greatest Show in the Arctic The American Exploration of Franz Josef Land, 1898–1905

By P. J. Capelotti $34.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5222-6 ∙ 648 Pages Through close study of the expeditions’ journals, Capelotti reveals that the Franz Josef Land endeavors foundered chiefly because of poor leadership and internal friction, not for lack of funding, as historians have previously suspected. Presenting tales of noble intentions, novel inventions, and epic miscalculations, The Greatest Show in the Arctic brings fresh life to a unique and underappreciated story of American exploration.

The Trial of Tom Horn

By John W. Davis $29.95 Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5218-9 ∙ 368 Pages The trial and conviction of Tom Horn marked a major milestone in the hardfought battle against vigilantism in Wyoming. Davis, himself a trial lawyer, has mined court documents and newspaper articles to dissect the trial strategies of the participating attorneys. His detailed account illuminates a larger narrative of conflict between the power of wealth and the forces of law and order in the West.

Touring the West with Leaping Lena, 1925

By W. C. Clark Edited by David Dary $19.95 Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5228-8 ∙ 300 Pages Framed by David Dary’s introduction and annotations that set the story in context, and illustrated with photographs of gas stations, roadside attractions, and roadsters typical of the day, Touring the West with Leaping Lena gives a firsthand glimpse into the early days of cross-country automobile trips.

Readers will enjoy its historical detail even as they realize that when it comes to family road trips, some things haven’t changed.

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Twentieth-Century Oklahoma Reflections on the Forty-Sixth State

By Richard Lowitt $24.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-4910-3 ∙ 424 Pages Whether discussing environmental and cultural ecology or plumbing the politics of Fort Sill’s entry into the missile age, Lowitt’s articles are broad in scope and unsparing in detail. All based on the author’s research in the Western History Collections at the University of Oklahoma, these essays form an invaluable historical repository, put into clarifying context by one of Oklahoma’s most respected historians.

Wyoming Grasslands Photographs by Michael P. Berman and William S. Sutton

By Frank H. Goodyear, Jr., and Charles R. Preston $39.95s Cloth • 978-0-8061-4853-3 • 232 Pages In eloquent words and pictures, including a foreword by environmental historian Dan Flores, Wyoming Grasslands offers dramatic proof of how the land that inspired the likes of Audubon and Bierstadt, while having altered over time, still holds and demands our attention.

As Far as the Eye Could Reach Accounts of Animals along the Santa Fe Trail, 1821–1880

By Phyllis S. Morgan $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4854-0 · 240 Pages Phyllis S. Morgan has gleaned accounts from numerous primary sources and assembled them into a delightfully informative narrative. She has also explored the lives of the various species, and in this book tells about their behaviors and characteristics, the social relations within and between species, their relationships with humans, and their contributions to the environment and humankind.

Calamity Jane A Reader’s Guide

By Richard W. Etulain $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4871-7 · 280 Pages Richard W. Etulain, renowned western-U.S. historian and the author of a recent biography of this charismatic figure, enumerates and assesses the most valuable sources on Calamity Jane’s life and legend in newspapers, magazines, journals, books, and movies, as well as historical and government archives.

California’s Channel Islands A History

By Frederic Caire Chiles $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4687-4 · 296 Pages Prehistoric foragers, conquistadors, missionaries, adventurers, hunters, and rugged agriculturalists parade across the histories of these little-known islands on the horizon of twenty-first century Southern California. This chain of eight islands is home to a biodiversity unrivaled anywhere on Earth. For visitors and armchair travelers alike, this book weaves the strands of natural history, island ecology, and human endeavor to tell the Channel Islands’ full story.

Californio Portraits Baja California’s Vanishing Culture

By Harry W. Crosby $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4869-4 · 304 Pages This updated and expanded version of Crosby’s now-classic Last of the Californios incorporates the fruits of further investigation into the Californios’ lives and history, by Crosby and others. Californio Portraits combines history and sociology to provide an in-depth view of a culture that has managed to survive dramatic changes.

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Cold War in a Cold Land Fighting Communism on the Northern Plains

By David W. Mills $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4694-2 · 312 Pages Most communists, as any plains state patriot would have told you in the 1950s, lived in Los Angeles or New York City, not Minot, North Dakota. The Cold War as it played out across the Great Plains was not the Cold War of the American cities and coasts. Nor was it tempered much by midwestern isolationism, as common wisdom has it. In this book, David W. Mills offers an enlightening look at what most of the heartland was up to while America was united in its war on Reds.

Colorado A Historical Atlas

By Thomas J. Noel Cartography by Carol Zuber-Mallison $39.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4184-8 · 368 Pages This is a thoroughly revised edition of the Historical Atlas of Colorado, which was coauthored by Tom Noel and published in 1994. Chock-full of the best and latest information on Colorado, this new edition features thirty new chapters, updated text, more than 100 color maps and 100 color photos, and a bestof listing of Colorado authors and books, as well as a guide to hundreds of tourist attractions.

Health of the Seventh Cavalry A Medical History Edited by P. Willey and Douglas D. Scott $32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4839-7 · 480 Pages In Health of the Seventh Cavalry, editors P. Willey and Douglas D. Scott and their co-contributors—experts in history, medicine, human biology, epidemiology, and human osteology—examine the Seventh’s medical records to determine the health of the nineteenth-century U.S. Army, and the prevalence and treatment of the numerous conditions that plagued soldiers during the Indian Wars.

Hubbell Trading Post Trade, Tourism, and the Navajo Southwest

By Erica Cottam $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4837-3 · 368 Pages For more than a century, trading posts in the American Southwest tied the U.S. economy and culture to those of American Indian peoples—and in this capacity, Hubbell Trading Post, founded in 1878 in Ganado, Arizona, had no parallel. This book tells the story of the Hubbell family, its Navajo neighbors and clients, and what the changing relationship between them reveals about the history of Navajo trading.

Imagined Frontiers Contemporary America and Beyond

By Carl Abbott $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4836-6 · 270 Pages In Imagined Frontiers, urban historian and popular culture scholar Carl Abbott looks at the work of American artists who have used novels, film, television, maps, and occasionally even performance art to explore frontiers—the metropolitan frontier of suburban development, the classic continental frontier of American settlement, and the yet unrealized frontiers beyond Earth.

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Life in a Corner Cultural Episodes in Southeastern Utah, 1880–1950

By Robert S. McPherson $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4691-1 · 304 Pages Robert S. McPherson, the region’s leading historian, draws on oral history and personal archives to write about cowboys and homesteaders, loggers and sawmill operators, law enforcement officers and bootleggers, miners and midwives, trappers and builders. In Life in a Corner, he shapes their stories into a fascinating mosaic of cultural and environmental history unique to this region.

Listening to Rosita The Business of Tejana Music and Culture, 1930–1955

By Mary Ann Villarreal $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4852-6 · 216 Pages In Listening to Rosita, Villarreal seeks answers by pursuing the story of a small group of Tejana singers and entrepreneurs in Corpus Christi, Houston, and San Antonio—the “Texas Triangle”—during the mid-twentieth century.

Ultimately she recovers a social world and cultural landscape in central south Texas where Mexican American women negotiated the shifting boundaries of race and economics to assert a public presence.

Moroni and the Swastika Mormons in Nazi Germany

By David Conley Nelson $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4668-3 · 432 Pages A page-turning historical narrative, this book is the first full account of how Mormons avoided Nazi persecution through skilled collaboration with Hitler’s regime, and then eschewed postwar shame by constructing an alternative history of wartime suffering and resistance.

Restoring the Shining Waters Superfund Success at Milltown, Montana

By David Brooks $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4472-6 · 280 Pages No sooner had the EPA established the Superfund program in 1980 to clean up the nation’s toxic waste dumps and other abandoned hazardous waste sites, than a little Montana town found itself topping the new program’s National Priority List. Milltown sat alongside a modest hydroelectric dam at the confluence of the Clark Fork and Blackfoot Rivers. For three-quarters of a century, arsenic-laced waste from some of the world’s largest copper-mining operations had accumulated behind the dam. Soon, Milltown became the site of Superfund’s first dam removal and watershed restoration, marking a turning point in U.S. environmental history.

Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory

By Catherine Holder Spude $24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4660-7 · 344 Pages In Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory, Catherine Holder Spude explores the rise and fall of prostitution, gambling, and saloons in Skagway, Alaska, between the gold rush of 1897 and the enactment of Prohibition in 1918. Her gritty account offers a case study in the clash between workingclass men and middle-class women, and in the growth of women’s political and economic power in the West.

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Still in the Saddle The Hollywood Western, 1969–1980

By Andrew Patrick Nelson $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4821-2 · 264 Pages Among the books currently challenging the prevailing “evolutionary” account of the Western, Still in the Saddle thoroughly revises our understanding of an exciting and misunderstood period in the Hollywood Western’s history and adds innovatively and substantially to our knowledge of the genre as a whole.

The Size of the Risk Histories of Multiple Use in the Great Basin

By Leisl Carr Childers $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4927-1 · 328 Pages In The Size of the Risk, Leisl Carr Childers shows how different constituencies worked to fill the presumed “empty space” of the Great Basin with a variety of land-use regimes that overlapped, conflicted, and ultimately harmed the environment and the people who depended on the region for their livelihoods. She looks at the conflicts that arose from the intersection of an ever-increasing number of activities, such as nuclear testing and wild horse preservation, and how Great Basin residents have navigated these conflicts.

The University of Oklahoma A History, Volume II: 1917–1950

By David W. Levy $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4903-5 · 432 Pages Levy weaves together human and institutional history as he describes OU’s remarkable—sometimes remarkably difficult—development in response to unprecedented factors: two world wars, the cultural shifts of the 1920s, the Great Depression, the rise of the petroleum industry, the farm crisis and Dust Bowl, the emergence of new technologies, and new political and social forces such as those promoting and resisting racial justice.

Wahb The Biography of a Grizzly

By Ernest Thompson Seton Edited by Jeremy M. Johnston and Charles R. Preston $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-5082-6 · 240 Pages First published more than a century ago, The Biography of a Grizzly recounts the life of a fictitious bear named Wahb who lived and died in the Greater Yellowstone region. This new edition combines Ernest Thompson Seton’s classic tale and original illustrations with historical and scientific context for Wahb’s story, providing a thorough understanding of the setting, cultural connections, biology, and ecology of Seton’s best-known book.

Winter’s Hawk Red-tails on the Southern Plains

By James Lish $24.95 Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-4835-9 ∙ 192 Pages Winter’s Hawk introduces the reader to the Red-tailed Hawk’s biology, social behavior, and useful role in limiting destructive rodent populations. In sharing many anecdotes from his long experience in the field, Lish describes the hunting techniques of Red-tails, their competition with other raptors, and their behavior in the presence of human observers.

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Literature Chenoo A Novel

By Joseph Bruchac $16.95 Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5207-3 ∙ 224 Pages Bruchac ratchets the tension from the first page to the last in this detective novel that pairs comedy and action with serious consideration of corporate greed, environmental destruction, cultural erosion, and other modern-day issues pressing Native peoples.

Poke a Stick at It Unexpected True Stories

By Connie Cronley $19.95 Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5395-7 ∙ 256 Pages In this collection of true stories, Cronley pokes fun at everything—including herself—as she delights in the world around her. With her trademark downhome humor, Cronley takes on a range of subjects as broad as the Oklahoma prairies. No subject is off-limits as the author casts her curious eye on vampire literature, gay insects, air-dried laundry, Emily Post etiquette, and impossible dogs. As she says, “It’s a big world and there’s a lot to know.”

Epics of Empire and Frontier Alonso de Ercilla and Gaspar de Villagrá as Spanish Colonial Chroniclers

By Celia López-Chávez $29.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5229-5 ∙ 320 Pages First published in 1569, La Araucana, an epic poem written by the Spanish nobleman Alonso de Ercilla, valorizes the Spanish conquest of Chile in the sixteenth century. In Epics of Empire and Frontier—a deft cultural, ethnohistorical reading of these two colonial epics, both of which loom large in the canon of Spanish literature—Celia López-Chávez reveals new ways of thinking about the themes of empire and frontier.

The Forked Juniper Critical Perspectives on Rudolfo Anaya Edited by Roberto Cantú $60.00s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5485-5 ∙ 328 Pages $26.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5486-2 ∙ 328 Pages Widely acclaimed as the founder of Chicano literature and best known for his debut novel, Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya is one of America's most compelling and prolific authors. The Forked Juniper illuminates both the aesthetics of Anaya’s writings and the culture, history, and diverse religious traditions of his beloved Nuevo Mexico. It is an essential reference for any reader seeking greater understanding of Anaya’s world-embracing artistry.

The Mexican Flyboy

By Alfredo Véa $19.95 Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-8703-7 ∙ 352 Pages Crossing genres and blending comedy with tragedy, Alfredo Véa imagines a world where we can rewrite our pasts and heal the wounds inflicted by history. Inviting comparisons to the work of James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges, Junot Díaz and Michael Chabon, this powerful book is like nothing else you have ever read.

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The Sorrows of Young Alfonso

By Rudolfo Anaya $24.95 Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5226-4 ∙ 232 Pages As this exquisite novel charts Alfonso’s life journey from childhood through his education and evolution as a writer, renowned Chicano author Rudolfo Anaya invites readers to reflect on the truths and mysteries of the human condition.

Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction

By John Joseph Mathews Edited by Susan Kalter $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5120-5 · 200 Pages Mathews shows us the world through the animals’ eyes and ears and noses.

His convincing portrayals of their intelligence recall the fiction of Jack London and Ernest Thompson Seton. Like these literary ancestors, Mathews originally intended his nature stories for boys. But the stories transcend boundaries of age, gender, and geography. Mathews writes not just to inspire his readers with nature’s beauty but to demonstrate the interrelatedness of humans, animals, and the landscapes in which they interact.

Poems from the Río Grande

By Rudolfo Anaya $16.95 Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-4866-3 ∙ 128 Pages In this, his first collection of poetry, Anaya presents twenty-eight of his best poems, most of which have never before been published. Featuring works written in English and Spanish over the course of three decades, Poems from the Río Grande offers readers a full body of work showcasing Anaya’s literary and poetic imagination.

Wil Usdi Thoughts from the Asylum, a Cherokee Novella

By Robert J. Conley $14.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4659-1 · 160 Pages Adopted into the Cherokee tribe as a teenager, William Holland Thomas (1805–1893), known to the Cherokees as Wil Usdi (Little Will), went on to have a distinguished career as lawyer, politician, and soldier. He spent the last decades of his life in a mental hospital, where the pioneering ethnographer James Mooney interviewed him extensively about Cherokee lifeways. The true story of Wil Usdi’s life forms the basis for this historical novella, the final published work of fiction by the late award-winning Cherokee author Robert J. Conley.

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The ArthurThe H. Clark Company Arthur H. Clark Company At Sword’s Point, Part 2 A Documentary History of the Utah War, 1858–1859 Edited by William P. MacKinnon $45.00s Cloth ∙ 978-0-87062-386-8 ∙ 704 Pages Drawing on author-editor William P. MacKinnon’s half-century of research and a wealth of carefully selected new material, At Sword’s Point presents the first full history of the conflict through the voices of participants— leaders, soldiers, and civilians from both sides. MacKinnon’s lively narrative, continued in this second volume, links and explains these firsthand accounts to produce the most detailed, in-depth, and balanced view of the war to date.

Edward Eberstadt & Sons Rare Booksellers of Western Americana

By Michael Vinson $29.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-87062-438-4 ∙ 168 Pages From Yale University and the American Antiquarian Society to the Newberry Library and the Huntington Library, the firm of Edward Eberstadt & Sons has left its mark in western Americana repositories across the nation. Told here for the first time, the Eberstadt story reveals how one family’s business and legacy have shaped the study of the American West.

Road to War The 1871 Yellowstone Surveys Edited by M. John Lubetkin $34.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-87062-429-2 ∙ 312 Pages Road to War tells the fascinating story of the inevitable clash of wills between a fierce, proud people fighting to retain their traditional way of life and a devout man who, with the full support of President Ulysses S. Grant’s administration and the U.S. Army, was intent on carrying out what he believed to be God’s will and America’s destiny.

Before Custer Surveying the Yellowstone, 1872 Edited by M. John Lubetkin $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-431-5 · 328 Pages The firsthand accounts of the Northern Pacific Railroad’s 1872 survey of the Yellowstone Valley, compiled by M. John Lubetkin, document the survey’s three-month struggle with the Lakotas and other Plains Indian people. Before Custer tells the story of a military and public relations disaster. Much to the surprised dismay of U.S. Army strategists and railroad executives, the Indians repeatedly harrassed army forces of nearly a thousand men.

Soldiering in the Shadow of Wounded Knee The 1891 Diary of Private Hartford G. Clark, Sixth U.S. Cavalry Edited by Jerome A. Greene $32.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-87062-440-7 ∙ 216 Pages Drawing on his extensive knowledge of nineteenth-century military history, Greene offers a richly annotated version of Private Clark’s remarkable original text, replete with information on the U.S. Army’s final occupation of the American West.

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A Way Across the Mountain Joseph Walker’s 1833 Trans-Sierran Passage and the Myth of Yosemite’s Discovery

By Scott Stine $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-432-2 · 320 Pages In A Way Across the Mountain, Scott Stine reconstructs Walker’s 1833 route over the Sierra. Stine draws on his own intimate knowledge of the geomorphology, hydrography, biogeography, and climate of the Sierra Nevada and Great Basin, and employs the detailed travel narrative of the Walker brigade’s field clerk, Zenas Leonard.

Californio Lancers The 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry in the Far West, 1863–1866

By Tom Prezelski $32.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-87062-436-0 ∙ 248 Pages More than 16,000 Californians served as soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil War. One California unit, the 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry, consisted largely of Californio Hispanic volunteers from the “Cow Counties” of Southern California and the Central Coast. Out-of-work vaqueros who enlisted after drought decimated the herds they worked, the Native Cavalrymen lent the army their legendary horsemanship and carried lances that evoked both the romance of the Californios and the Spanish military tradition. Californio Lancers, the first detailed history of the 1st Battalion, illuminates their role in the conflict and brings new diversity to Civil War history.

Over the Santa Fe Trail to Mexico The Travel Diaries and Autobiography of Dr. Rowland Willard Edited by Joy L. Poole $29.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-87062-439-1 ∙ 280 Pages This edition of young physician Rowland Willard’s travel diaries and subsequent autobiography, annotated by New Mexico Deputy State Librarian Joy L. Poole, is a rich historical source on Willard’s 1825 journey west on the Santa Fe Trail and the Camino Real into Mexico and the practice of medicine in the 1820s.

The Army Surveys of Gold Rush California Reports of Topographical Engineers, 1849–1851 Edited by Gary Clayton Anderson and Laura Lee Anderson $34.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-87062-430-8 ∙ 256 Pages Collected and reproduced here for the first time, these journals and maps offer a new and unique perspective on California in the mid-nineteenth century. Army topographical engineer George Horatio Derby’s reports and journals appear alongside those of Robert Stockton Williamson, William H. Warner, Edward O. C. Ord, Nathaniel Lyon, Henry Walton Wessells, and Erasmus Darwin Keyes, offering extraordinary firsthand views of the environment, natural resources, geography, and early settlement, and the effects of disease on Native and white populations.

The Great Medicine Road, Part 2 Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, 1849 Edited by Michael L. Tate with Will Bagley and Richard Rieck $34.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-87062-437-7 ∙ 328 Pages During the early weeks of 1848, as U.S. congressmen debated the territorial status of California, a Swiss immigrant and an itinerant millwright forever altered the future state’s fate. Building a sawmill for Johann August Sutter, James Wilson Marshall struck gold. The rest may be history, but much of the story of what happened in the following year is told not in history books but in the letters, diaries, journals, and other written recollections of those whom the California gold rush drew west. In this second installment in the projected four-part collection, the hardy souls who made the arduous trip tell their stories in their own words.

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New in Paperback New in Paperback Daschle vs. Thune Anatomy of a High-Plains Senate Race

By Jon K. Lauck $24.95 Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-3850-3 ∙ 348 Pages $19.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5350-6 ∙ 348 Pages Daschle vs. Thune moves beyond the nitty-gritty of public policy to deftly show how the recent past continues to shape the ongoing political battles that animate pundits and bloggers. It is a compelling story told by a writer who knows both his home ground and how it fits into the wider U.S. context.

El Cerrito, New Mexico Eight Generations in a Spanish Village

By Richard L. Nostrand $39.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-3546-5 ∙ 288 Pages $29.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5344-5 ∙ 288 Pages El Cerrito, New Mexico captures the essence of a village that, despite cultural disintegration, sparks the passion of a small number of inhabitants who want to keep it alive. Richard L. Nostrand opens a window into the past of the upper Pecos Valley, revealing the daily life of this small, isolated Hispanic village whose population waxes and wanes in the face of family feuds, settlement struggles, and the ever-encroaching modern world.

Fort Clark and Its Indian Neighbors A Trading Post on the Upper Missouri

By W. Raymond Wood, William J. Hunt, and Randy H. Williams $34.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-4213-5 ∙ 328 Pages $19.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5344-5 ∙ 328 Pages Fort Clark, a thriving fur trade post between 1830 and 1860 in what is today western North Dakota, also served as a way station for artists, scientists, missionaries, soldiers, and other western chroniclers traveling along the Upper Missouri River. The written and visual legacies of these visitors have long been the primary sources of information on the cultures of the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians. This book, by a team of anthropologists, is the first thorough account of the fur trade at Fort Clark to integrate new archaeological evidence with the historical record.

Forty-Seventh Star New Mexico’s Struggle for Statehood

By David V. Holtby $29.95 Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-4282-1 ∙ 384 Pages $19.95 Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5593-7 ∙ 384 Pages Forty-Seventh Star recounts in detail, and for the first time, why and how even so powerful an advocate as Theodore Roosevelt failed to secure New Mexico statehood whereas his successor Taft prevailed. In the end, the deciding factor had less to do with the merits of the case than with congressional and presidential politics.

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Free to Be Mohawk Indigenous Education at the Akwesasne Freedom School

By Louellyn White $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4865-6 · 240 Pages $19.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5154-0 ∙ 240 Pages In 1979, traditional Mohawks asserted their sovereign rights to selfeducation. Concern over the loss of language and culture and clashes with the public school system over who had the right to educate their children sparked the birth of the Akwesasne Freedom School (AFS) and its grassroots, community-based approach. In Free to Be Mohawk, Louellyn White traces the history of the AFS, a tribally controlled school operated without direct federal, state, or provincial funding, and explores factors contributing to its longevity and its impact on alumni, students, teachers, parents, and staff.

Gathering the Potawatomi Nation Revitalization and Identity

By Christopher Wetzel $29.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-4669-0 ∙ 216 Pages $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4692-8 · 216 Pages Following the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, the Potawatomis were increasingly dispersed into nine bands across four states and two countries. How is it, author Christopher Wetzel asks, that these scattered people, with different characteristics and traditions cultivated over two centuries, have reclaimed their common cultural heritage in recent years as the Potawatomi Nation?

Gathering the Potawatomi Nation explores the recent invigoration of Potawatomi nationhood, looks at how marginalized communities adapt to social change, and reveals the critical role that culture plays in connecting the two.

Gunfighter in Gotham Bat Masterson’s New York City Years

By Robert K. DeArment $29.95 Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-4263-0 ∙ 304 Pages $19.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-4414-6 ∙ 304 Pages In Gunfighter in Gotham, DeArment tells how Bat Masterson built a second career from a column in the New York Morning Telegraph. Bat’s articles not only covered sports but also reflected his outspoken opinions on war, crime, politics, and a changing society. As his renown as a boxing expert grew, his opinions were picked up by other newspaper editors and reprinted throughout the country and abroad. He counted President Theodore Roosevelt among his friends and readers.

Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols

By Rebecca Kay Jager $24.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5594-4 ∙ 368 Pages The first Europeans to arrive in North America’s various regions relied on Native women to help them navigate unfamiliar customs and places.

This study of three legendary female cultural intermediaries, Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea, examines their initial contact with EuroAmericans, their negotiation of multinational frontiers, and their symbolic representation over time.

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Motoring West Volume 1: Automobile Pioneers, 1900–1909 Edited by Peter J. Blodgett $34.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-87062-383-7 ∙ 360 Pages $24.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5595-1 ∙ 360 Pages Documenting the very beginning of Americans’ love affair with the automobile, the pieces in this volume—the first of a planned multivolume series—offer a panorama of motoring travelers’ visions of the burgeoning West in the first decade of the twentieth century.

Alex Swan and the Swan Companies

By Lawrence M. Woods $34.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-87062-346-2 ∙ 300 Pages $19.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5402-2 ∙ 300 Pages The story of Alex Swan and The Swan Land and Cattle Company, Ltd. Is inseparable from the history of Wyoming and the West. Author Lawrence M. Woods has combed the surviving corporate records and other documents held in the United States and abroad to relate the life of Alex Swan and offer the first complete history of the Swan companies.

Restoring a Presence American Indians and Yellowstone National Park

By Peter Nabokov and Lawrence Loendorf $29.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5346-9 ∙ 400 Pages Restoring a Presence is illustrated with historical and contemporary photographs and maps and features narratives on subjects ranging from traditional Indian uses of plant, mineral, and animal resources to conflicts involving the Nez Perce, Bannock, and Sheep Eater peoples.

The Great Call-Up The Guard, the Border, and the Mexican Revolution

By Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4645-4 · 576 Pages $26.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5592-0 ∙ 576 Pages On June 18, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson called up virtually the entire army National Guard, some 150,000 men, to meet an armed threat to the United States: border raids covertly sponsored by a Mexican government in the throes of revolution. The Great Call-Up tells for the first time the complete story of this unprecedented deployment and its significance in the history of the National Guard, World War I, and U.S.-Mexico relations.

The Seminole Freedmen A History

By Kevin Mulroy $36.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-3865-7 ∙ 480 Pages $29.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5347-6 ∙ 480 Pages Author Kevin Mulroy describes the freedmen’s experiences as runaways from southern plantations, slaves of American Indians, participants in the Seminole Wars, and emigrants to the West. Recounting their history during the Civil War, Reconstruction, enrollment and allotment under the Dawes Act, and early Oklahoma statehood, he also considers freedmen relations with Seminoles in Oklahoma during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

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Tombstone, A.T. A History of Early Mining, Milling, and Mayhem

By Wm. B. Shillingberg $19.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5399-5 ∙ 404 Pages William B. Shillingberg rediscovers the real Tombstone in this historical tourde-force. The rough mining town of boomers and investors, of hard men and women seeking their fortunes, comes to life with startling clarity. Tombstone, A.T.: A History of Early Mining, Milling, and Mayhem relates true tales of those who founded and built the town, including the infamous Earps and Clantons.

Verne Sankey America’s First Public Enemy

By Timothy W. Bjorkman $24.95 Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-3853-4 ∙ 288 Pages $19.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5591-3 ∙ 288 Pages Verne Sankey: America’s First Public Enemy is a riveting narrative set amid the Great Depression. Bjorkman’s research painstakingly reveals the life and times of Verne Sankey, delving into the intriguing story of the family of his kidnapping victim, Charles Boettcher II, and the stark contrast between wealth and poverty during some of America’s most harrowing days.

We Know Who We Are Métis Identity in a Montana Community

By Martha Harroun Foster $29.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-3705-6 ∙ 320 Pages $21.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5348-3 ∙ 320 Pages In this rich examination of a Métis community—the first book-length work to focus on the Montana Métis—Martha Harroun Foster combines social, political, and economic analysis to show how its people have adapted to changing conditions while retaining a strong sense of their own unique culture and traditions.

William F. Cody’s Wyoming Empire The Buffalo Bill Nobody Knows

By Robert E. Bonner $24.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-3829-9 ∙ 344 Pages $19.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5418-3 ∙ 344 Pages Laced with engaging anecdotes and featuring more than twenty photographs, William F. Cody’s Wyoming Empire is a much needed look at an overly mythologized character. There was more to William F. Cody than the Wild West show—and we cannot construct a full picture of the man without understanding his entrepreneurial activities in Wyoming.

Arapaho Women’s Quillwork Motion, Life, and Creativity

By Jeffrey D. Anderson $39.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-4283-8 ∙ 216 Pages $21.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5583-8 ∙ 216 Pages Anderson demonstrates how, through the action of creating quillwork, Arapaho women became central participants in ritual life, often studied as the exclusive domain of men. He also shows how quillwork challenges predominant Western concepts of art and creativity: adhering to sacred patterns passed down through generations of women, it emphasized not individual creativity, but meticulous repetition and social connectivity—an approach foreign to many outside observers..

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Bret Harte Opening the American Literary West

By Gary Scharnhorst $24.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-3254-9 ∙ 276 Pages $19.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5351-3 ∙ 276 Pages The first Harte biography in nearly seventy years to be written entirely from primary sources, this book documents Harte’s personal relationships and, in addition, his negotiations with various publishers, agents, and theatrical producers as he exploited popular interest in the American West.

Blackfoot War Art Pictographs of the Reservation Period, 1880–2000

By L. James Dempsey $39.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5415-2 ∙ 518 Pages In this visually stunning survey, L. James Dempsey plumbs the breadth and depth of warrior representational art. Filled with 160 images of startling beauty and power, Blackfoot War Art tells how pictographs served as a record of both tribal and personal accomplishment.

Lands of Promise and Despair Chronicles of Early California, 1535–1846 Edited by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz $26.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5138-0 ∙ 528 Pages This copious collection of reminiscences, reports, letters, and documents allows readers to experience the vast and varied landscape of early California from the viewpoint of its inhabitants. What emerges is not the Spanish California depicted by casual visitors—a culture obsessed with finery, horses, and fandangos—but an ever-shifting world of aspiration and tragedy, pride and loss. Conflicts between missionaries and soldiers, Indians and settlers, friends and neighbors spill from these pages, bringing the ferment of daily life into sharp focus.

Testimonios Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815–1848 Edited and Translated by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz $26.95s Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-4872-4 ∙ 508 Pages Testimonios presents thirteen women’s firsthand accounts from the days when California was part of Spain and Mexico. Having lived through the gold rush and seen their country change so drastically, these women understood the need to tell the full story of the people and the places that were their California.

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