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The Historical Society of New Mexico

Academy of Western Artists

Heritage Museum

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OWEN WISTER AND THE WEST

Best First Nonfiction Book

By Gary Scharnhorst

PAINTED JOURNEYS

A STRANGE MIXTURE

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The Art of John Mix Stanley

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THE SIZE OF THE RISK Histories of Multiple Use

The Art and Politics of

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Painting Pueblo Indians

Mindy N. Besaw

OLD NORTHWEST

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JUAN BAUTISTA DE ANZA

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Modernism and Mestizaje

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Photo Essays

By Carlos R. Herrera

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OF FREEDOM

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Photographing the Legend

The 1st Kansas Colored,

By Larry Len Peterson

the Civil War’s First African

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American Combat Unit

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By Ian Spurgeon

SOLDIERS IN THE ARMY

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Portrait of Route 66 Images from the Curt Teich Postcard Archives

By T. Lindsay Baker Foreword by Joe Sonderman By the time Route 66 received its official numerical designation in 1926, picture postcards had become popular travel souvenirs. At the time, these postcards with colorful images served as advertisements for roadside businesses.

While cherished by collectors, these postcard depictions do not always reflect reality. They often present instead a view enhanced for promotional purposes.

Portrait of Route 66 lets us see for the first time the actual photographs from which the postcards were made and, in describing how the production process worked, introduces us to an extraordinary archival collection, adding new history to this iconic road.

The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, held at the Lake County Discovery Museum in Wauconda, Illinois, contains one of the nation’s largest collections of Route 66 images, including thousands of job files for postcards produced by Curt Teich and Company of Chicago. T. Lindsay Baker combed these files to choose the best examples of postcards and their accompanying photographs not only to reflect well-known sites along the route but also to demonstrate the relationships between photographs and their resulting postcards.

The photographs show the reality of the locations that customers sometimes wanted “improved” for aesthetic purposes in creating the postcards. Such alterations included removing utility poles or automobile traffic and rendering overcast skies partly cloudy.

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 high-quality photographs that have not been seen before, Portrait of Route 66 will be irresistible to all who are interested in American history and culture.

T. Lindsay Baker is the author of numerous books, including Ghost Towns of Texas, More Ghost Towns of Texas, and A Field Guide to American Windmills. Joe Sonderman, a St. Louis radio personality and traffic reporter for more than twenty-five years, is the author of four books on the history of America’s Mother Road.

SEPTEMBER $34.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-5341-4 280 PAGES, 8.5 × 11 92 COLOR AND 151 B&W ILLUS., 1 MAP U.S. HISTORY

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ROUTE 66 CROSSINGS Historic Bridges of the Mother Road

By Jim Ross $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-5199-1 FATHER OF ROUTE 66 The Story of Cy Avery

By Susan Croce Kelly $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4499-3 ROUTE 66 The Highway and Its People

By Susan Croce Kelly Photographs by Quinta Scott $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2291-5

BAKER PORTRAIT OF ROUTE 66

Re-creates the journey westward through postcards and their original photographs

LIBERTY HORSEBACK SCHOOLMARM

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A first-year teacher’s experiences in a remote western schoolhouse

Horseback Schoolmarm Montana, 1953–1954

By Margot Liberty 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.

JULY $24.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-5388-9 144 PAGES, 5.5 × 8.5 3 B&W ILLUS., 1 MAP MEMOIR

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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 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 DON’T SHOOT THE GENTILE

By James C. Work $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4194-7

Margot’s school was located on the SH Ranch, whose owner needed a way to retain his hired hands after their children reached school age. Few teachers wanted to work in such remote and primitive circumstances. Margot lived alone in a “teacherage,” hardly more than a closet at one end of the schoolhouse. It had electricity but no phone, plumbing, or running water. She drew water from a well outside. The nearest house was a half-mile away. Margot had a car, but she had to park it so far away, she kept her saddle horse, Orphan Annie, in the schoolyard.

Miss Margot started with no experience and no supplies, but her spunk and inventiveness, along with that of her seven students—six boys and one girl—made the school a success. Most of the activities Margot used to teach her students she figured out by herself, often through trial and error. A classroom menagerie and field trips into the plains yielded lessons on science and history; plays at Halloween and Christmas engaged her more reluctant learners in reading and writing.

Evocative of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s school-teaching experiences some eighty years earlier, Horseback Schoolmarm gives readers a firsthand look at an almost forgotten—yet not so distant—way of life.

Margot Liberty, widely known as an anthropologist specializing in Northern Plains Indians and ranching culture, is the author, coauthor, or editor of Cheyenne Memories, with John Stands In Timber; A Northern Cheyenne Album, with photographs by Thomas B. Marquis; Working Cowboy: Recollections of Ray Holmes; A Cheyenne Voice: The Complete John Stands In Timber Interviews; and Songs and Snippets: Poems of Margot Liberty.

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Lois Lenski Storycatcher

By Bobbie Malone For generations of children, including a young Oprah Winfrey, opening a Lois Lenski book has meant opening a world. This was just what the author wanted: to help children “see beyond the rim of their own world.” In Lois Lenski: Storycatcher, historian and educator Bobbie Malone takes us into Lenski’s own world to tell the story of how a girl from a small Ohio town became a beloved literary icon.

Author and illustrator of the Newbery Award–winning Strawberry Girl and numerous other tales of children from America’s diverse regions and cultures, Lenski spent five decades creating stories for young readers. Lois Lenski: Storycatcher follows her development as a writer and as an artist, and it traces the evolution of her passionate belief in the power of empathy conveyed in children’s books. Understanding that youngsters responded instinctively to narratives rich in reality, Lenski turned her extensive study of hardworking families into books that accurately and movingly depicted the lives of the children of sharecroppers, coal miners, and migrant field workers. From Bayou Suzette to Blue Ridge Billy, CornFarm Boy to Houseboat Girl, and Boom Town Boy to Texas Tomboy, Lenski’s books mirrored the cultural energy and concerns of the time.

This first full-length biography tells how Lenski traveled throughout the country, gathering the stories that brought to life in words and pictures whole worlds that had for so long been invisible in children’s literature. In the process, her work became a source of delight, inspiration, and insight for generations of readers.

Bobbie Malone is retired as Director of the Office of School Services at the Wisconsin Historical Society. She is the author of Rabbi Max Heller: Reformer, Zionist, and Southerner and coauthor of Thinking Like a Historian: Rethinking History Instruction.

JULY $26.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-5386-5 336 PAGES, 6 × 9 36 B&W ILLUS. BIOGRAPHY

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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 MICHENER A Writer’s Journey

By Stephen J. May $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3699-8 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4042-1 OWEN WISTER AND THE WEST

By Gary Scharnhorst $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4675-1

MALONE LOIS LENSKI

The children’s book author who opened worlds through words and pictures

DUNBAR-ORTIZ BLOOD ON THE BORDER

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The searing third memoir of the activisthistorian’s acclaimed series

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Blood on the Border A Memoir of the Contra War

By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Foreword by Margaret Randall Human rights activist and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been described as “a force of nature on the page and off.” That force is fully present in Blood on the Border, the third in her acclaimed series of memoirs. Seamlessly blending the personal and the political, Blood on the Border is Dunbar-Ortiz’s firsthand account of the decade-long dirty war pursued by the Contras and the United States against the people of Nicaragua.

AUGUST $24.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-5384-1 312 PAGES, 6 × 9 MEMOIR/LATIN AMERICA

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OUTLAW WOMAN A Memoir of the War Years, 1960–1975, Revised Edition

By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz $22.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4479-5 RED DIRT Growing Up Okie

By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3775-9 THE REAL CONTRA WAR Highlander Peasant Resistance in Nicaragua

By Timothy C. Brown $32.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3252-5

With the 1981 bombing of a Nicaraguan plane in Mexico City—a plane DunbarOrtiz herself would have been on if not for a delay—the US-backed Contras (short for los contrarrevolucionarios) launched a major offensive against Nicaragua’s Sandinista regime, which the Reagan administration labeled as communist. While her rich political analysis of the US-Nicaraguan relationship bears the mark of a trained historian, Dunbar-Ortiz also writes from her perspective as an intrepid activist who spent months at a time throughout the 1980s in the war-torn country, especially in the remote northeastern region, where the Indigenous Miskitu people were relentlessly assailed and nearly wiped out by CIA-trained Contra mercenaries.

She makes painfully clear the connections between what many US Americans today remember only vaguely as the Iran-Contra “affair” and ongoing US aggression in the Americas, the Middle East, and around the world—connections made even more explicit in a new afterword written for this edition.

A compelling, important, and sobering story on its own, Blood on the Border offers a deeply informed, closely observed, and heartfelt view of history in the making.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, a writer, teacher, historian, and social activist, is Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies at California State University, East Bay, and author or editor of numerous scholarly articles and books, including the award-winning An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, as well as two other memoirs. Margaret Randall is a feminist poet, writer, photographer, and social activist who has published more than 80 books, including Sandino’s Daughters: Testimonies of Nicaraguan Women in Struggle and To Change the World: My Years in Cuba.

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Slaughter at the Chapel The Battle of Ezra Church, 1864

By Gary Ecelbarger The Battle of Ezra Church was one of the deadliest engagements in the Atlanta Campaign of the Civil War, and continues to be one of the least understood. Both official and unofficial reports failed to illuminate the true bloodshed of the conflict: one of every three engaged Confederates was killed or wounded, including four generals. Nor do those reports acknowledge the flaws—let alone the ultimate failure—of Confederate commander John Bell Hood’s plan to thwart Union general William Tecumseh Sherman’s southward advance.

In an account that refutes and improves upon all other interpretations of the Battle of Ezra Church, noted battle historian Gary Ecelbarger consults extensive records, reports, and personal accounts to deliver a nuanced hour-by-hour overview of how the battle actually unfolded. His narrative fills in significant facts and facets of the battle that have long gone unexamined, correcting numerous conclusions that historians have reached about key officers’ intentions and actions before, during, and after this critical contest. Eleven troop movement maps by leading Civil War cartographer Hal Jespersen complement Ecelbarger’s analysis, detailing terrain and battle maneuvers to give the reader an on-the-ground perspective of the conflict.

OCTOBER $26.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-5499-2 288 PAGES, 6 × 9 8 B&W ILLUS., 11 MAPS U.S. HISTORY/MILITARY HISTORY

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With new revelations based on solid primary-source documentation, Slaughter at the Chapel is the most comprehensive treatment of the Battle of Ezra Church yet written, as powerful in its implications as it is compelling in its moment-to-moment details.

Gary Ecelbarger is the award-winning author of seven books on the Civil War era, including The Day Dixie Died: The Battle of Atlanta and Three Days in the Shenandoah: Stonewall Jackson at Front Royal and Winchester, and is coauthor of three others. He has served as a historical consultant for battlefield interpretation in the Shenandoah Valley and has worked for twenty years as a symposium speaker and historical tour guide throughout the country.

CIVIL WAR ARKANSAS, 1863 The Battle for a State

By Mark K. Christ $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4087-2 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4433-7 THREE DAYS IN THE SHENANDOAH Stonewall Jackson at Front Royal and Winchester

By Gary Ecelbarger $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3886-2 $21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5186-1 A PERFECT GIBRALTAR The Battle for Monterrey, Mexico, 1846

By Christopher D. Dishman $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4140-4

ECELBARGER SLAUGHTER AT THE CHAPEL

A re-examination of one of the bloodiest days in the Atlanta Campaign

LAUGHLIN, LIU HONGTAO, STALLING BY THE RIVER

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A showcase of the best of modern Chinese long-form fiction

By the River Seven Contemporary Chinese Novellas Edited by Charles A. Laughlin, Liu Hongtao, and Jonathan Stalling The novella, as the editors of this volume explain, is in many ways the “native habitat” of modern Chinese literary production—the ideal fictional form for revealing the various facets of contemporary Chinese culture. The seven novellas collected here resoundingly support their claim. Featuring works by award winners and rising stars, women and men, By the River presents a confluence of some of the most compelling voices in China today. Together, their narratives reflect the rich diversity of Chinese experience in the modern era.

VOLUME 6 IN THE CHINESE LITERATURE TODAY BOOK SERIES

NOVEMBER $24.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-5404-6 352 PAGES, 6 × 9 FICTION

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SANDALWOOD DEATH A Novel

By Mo Yan $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4339-2 CHUTZPAH! New Voices from China Edited by Ou Ning and Austin Woerner $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4870-0 RUINED CITY A Novel

By Jia Pingwa $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-5173-1

These novellas are stories of coming of age in the countryside, of romance in the shadow of an electrical power station or in the watery landscape of a lost love, of a daughter’s epic journey to find her estranged mother. Whether telling of love or loss, of work or play along the river of experience, the narratives are replete with details that bring literary depth to the everyday—the mark of the novella. These details, the editors tell us, and the novellas into which they are woven, defy simple answers to moral and political questions about modern life, leaving readers with the feeling that their world has been made larger, that they have seen through different eyes for a moment, if not forever.

Reflecting modern Chinese life in the city and in the country, and among diverse regional cultures, By the River showcases the best of contemporary Chinese longform fiction.

Charles A. Laughlin is Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Virginia and author of several books on Chinese life and literature, including The Literature of Leisure and Chinese Modernity. Jonathan Stalling is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. The author of numerous publications, he is also a cofounder and an editor of Chinese Literature Today magazine. Liu Hongtao is Professor of Comparative Literature at Beijing Normal University and Deputy Editor of Chinese Literature Today magazine.

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Poke a Stick at It Unexpected True Stories

By Connie Cronley Open this book and who knows what will pop out: the story of a gangland funeral, a status report on an ex-husband, a meditation on cats and gardens, a feuilleton about Native American fry bread, or a thoughtful musing on old women and books.

Welcome to the delightfully irreverent world of Connie Cronley, essayist, radio commentator, and native Oklahoman.

In this collection of true stories, Cronley pokes fun at everything—including herself—as she delights in the world around her. With her trademark down-home 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.”

Poke a Stick at It is also a love letter to the glories of the English language. Even as Cronley fusses around her garden or snoozes on the couch with her cat Muriel, she always has a stack of books within easy reach. Her eclectic passion for reading, embracing the lowbrow and the highbrow, the epic romance Gone with the Wind and the poems of Emily Dickinson, is both infectious and inspiring.

SEPTEMBER $19.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-5395-7 256 PAGES, 5.5 × 8.5 9 B&W ILLUS. MEMOIR

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Often compared to authors Annie Dillard, Phyllis McGinley, Robert Benchley, and Mark Twain, Connie Cronley is a Southwest original, a writer who infuses her stories with joy, humor, beauty—and plenty of spice.

Award-winning journalist Connie Cronley is the author of two previous collections of essays, Sometimes a Wheel Falls Off and Light and Variable: A Year of Celebrations, Holidays, Recipes, and Emily Dickinson, and the collaborating author of Mr. Ambassador: Warrior for Peace, a memoir by Edward J. Perkins.

LIGHT AND VARIABLE A Year of Celebrations, Holidays, Recipes, and Emily Dickinson

By Connie Cronley $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3788-9 RED DIRT Growing Up Okie

By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3775-9 RED DIRT WOMEN At Home on the Oklahoma Plains

By Susan Kates $14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4359-0

CRONLEY POKE A STICK AT IT

A collection of personal essays by a beloved Oklahoma author

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PICTURING INDIAN TERRITO RY Portraits of the Land That Became Oklahoma, 1819–1907

Edited by B. Byron Price Foreword by John R. Lovett Contributions by James Peck, B. Byron Price, and Mark Andrew White

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Throughout the nineteenth century, the land known as “Indian Territory” was populated by diverse cultures, troubled by shifting political boundaries, and transformed by historical events that were colorful, dramatic, and often tragic.

Beyond its borders, most Americans visualized the area through the pictures produced by non-Native travelers, artists, and reporters—all with differing degrees of accuracy, vision, and skill. The images in Picturing Indian Territory, and the eponymous exhibit it accompanies, conjure a wildly varied vision of Indian Territory’s past.

VOLUME 26 IN THE CHARLES M. RUSSELL CENTER SERIES ON ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE AMERICAN WEST

OCTOBER $34.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-5577-7 160 PAGES, 9 × 11 84 COLOR AND B&W ILLUS. ART/U.S. HISTORY

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THE EUGENE B. ADKINS COLLECTION Selected Works Contributions by Jane Ford Aebersold, Christina E. Burke, James Peck, B. Byron Price, W. Jackson Rushing III, Mary Jo Watson, and Mark Andrew White $60.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-4100-8 $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4101-5 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 LIFE AT THE KIOWA, COMANCHE, AND WICHITA AGENCY The Photographs of Annette Ross Hume

By Kristina L. Southwell and John R. Lovett $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4138-1 OPPOSITE: DETAIL, ELBRIDGE AYER BURBANK, GI-AUM-E HON-O-METAH (YOUNG WOMAN), KIOWA, FORT SILL, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY, 1899. OIL ON PANEL, 8 × 6 INCHES. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY, CHICAGO (NL005174).

Spanning nearly nine decades, these artworks range from the scientific illustrations found in English naturalist Thomas Nuttall’s journal to the paintings of Frederic Remington, Henry Farny, and Charles Schreyvogel. The volume’s three essays situate these works within the historical narratives of westward expansion, the creation of an “Indian Territory” separate from the rest of the United States, and Oklahoma’s eventual statehood in 1907. James Peck focuses on artists who produced images of Native Americans living in this vast region during the pre–Civil War era. In his essay, B. Byron Price picks up the story at the advent of the Civil War and examines newspaper and magazine reports as well as the accounts of government functionaries and artist-travelers drawn to the region by the rapidly changing fortunes of the area’s traditional Indian cultures in the wake of non-Indian settlement. Mark Andrew White then looks at the art and illustration resulting from the unrelenting efforts of outsiders who settled Indian and Oklahoma Territories in the decades before statehood.

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.

B. Byron Price is Director of the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West and holds the Charles Marion Russell Memorial Chair in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Oklahoma, Norman.

John R. Lovett is Curator of the Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries, and William J. Welch Professor of Bibliography. James Peck is Executive Director of the Oceanside Museum of Art in Oceanside, California. Mark Andrew White is Wylodean and Bill Saxon Director and Eugene B. Adkins Curator of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma, Norman.

PRICE PICTURING INDIAN TERRITORY

A visual panorama of Oklahoma in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

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HASSRICK DRAWN TO YELLOWSTONE

A richly illustrated account of the artists who traveled to and were inspired by Yellowstone

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

By Peter H. Hassrick

JULY $25.00 PAPER 978-0-9896405-4-1 160 PAGES, 8.5 × 11 105 COLOR AND B&W ILLUS. ART/U.S. HISTORY

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THOMAS MORAN Artist of the Mountains

By Thurman Wilkins $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3040-8 THOMAS MORAN The Field Sketches, 1856–1923

By Anne Morand $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-2704-0 FREDERIC REMINGTON A Catalogue Raisonné II Edited by Peter H. Hassrick $75.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-5208-0

Old Faithful Geyser, Emerald Spring, the magnificent canyons and falls of the Yellowstone River—these and other sites, familiar to the millions of visitors who travel through Yellowstone National Park each year, have been an inspiration to generations of artists. Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Remington, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and dozens of other artists have braved difficult conditions to capture the splendors of Yellowstone in many media, from delicate watercolors and pen-and-ink sketches to powerful oils and popular lithographs. They have portrayed the animals that lived there, the humans who passed through, and above all the remarkable features that have made Yellowstone a wonderland to so many artists and observers.

From the moment of its inception in 1872 as the first national park in the world, Yellowstone National Park has been perceived as a vast visual spectacle. By the 1890s it was known as “the Nation’s Art Gallery.” Peter H. 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.

Yellowstone is simultaneously an aesthetic experience and a potent force in America’s search for national identity. Visitors made comparisons between the castles of Europe and the gleaming spires of Yellowstone to prove that America, too, had its history and its grandeur. Like the waters pulsing from its geysers, from Yellowstone flows an artistic energy that at once captivates a nation and contributes to its philosophical and aesthetic history.

Peter H. Hassrick is Director Emeritus and Senior Scholar at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of many publications, including Frederic Remington: A Catalogue Raisonné II, Painted Journeys: The Art of John Mix Stanley, and In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein.

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Forty-Seventh Star New Mexico’s Struggle for Statehood

By David Van Holtby New Mexico was ceded to the United States in 1848, at the end of the war with Mexico, but not until 1912 did President William Howard Taft sign the proclamation that promoted New Mexico from territory to state. Why did New Mexico’s push for statehood last sixty-four years? Conventional wisdom has it that racism was solely to blame. But this fresh look at the history finds a more complex set of obstacles, tied primarily to self-serving politicians. Forty-Seventh Star, published in New Mexico’s centennial year, is the first book on its quest for statehood in more than forty years.

David V. Holtby closely examines the final stretch of New Mexico’s tortuous road to statehood, beginning in the 1890s. His deeply researched narrative juxtaposes events in Washington, D.C., and in the territory to present the repeated collisions between New Mexicans seeking to control their destiny and politicians opposing them, including Republican U.S. senators Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana and Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island. Holtby places the quest for statehood in national perspective while examining the territory’s political, economic, and social development. He shows how a few powerful men brewed a concoction of racism, cronyism, corruption, and partisan politics that poisoned New Mexicans’ efforts to join the Union. Drawing on extensive Spanish-language and archival sources, the author also explores the consequences that the drive to become a state had for New Mexico’s Euro-American, Nuevomexicano, American Indian, African American, and Asian communities.

OCTOBER $29.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4282-1 $19.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-5593-7 384 PAGES, 6 × 9 39 B&W ILLUS., 1 MAP U.S. HISTORY

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Holtby offers a compelling story that shows why and how home rule mattered— then and now—for New Mexicans and for all Americans.

David V. Holtby is retired as the Associate Director and Editor in Chief of University of New Mexico Press. He wrote this book while a research scholar at the Center for Regional Studies at UNM. He has published numerous articles on the social origins of the Spanish Civil War.

NEW MEXICO A History

By Joseph P. Sánchez, Robert L. Spude, and Arthur R. Gomez $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4663-8 PUEBLOS, SPANIARDS, AND THE KINGDOM OF NEW MEXICO

By John L. Kessell $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4122-0 MIERA Y PACHECO A Renaissance Spaniard in EighteenthCentury New Mexico

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HOLTBY FORTY-SEVENTH STAR

Why it took the Land of Enchantment so long to gain admission to the Union

DINGUS, BRIGGS SHIFTING VIEWS AND CHANGING PLACES

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Explores through photographs the intersections of time, place, culture, and nature

Shifting Views and Changing Places The Photographs of Rick Dingus

By Rick Dingus Edited by Peter S. Briggs Foreword by Toby Jurovics Contributions by Shelley Armitage, Peter S. Briggs, and Lucy R. Lippard

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SHOOTING FROM THE HIP Photographs and Essays

By J. Don Cook $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4180-0 PLACING MEMORY A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment

By Todd Stewart and Karen J. Leong $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3951-7 A FAMILY OF THE LAND The Texas Photography of Guy Gillette

By Andy Wilkinson $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4404-7

Since the 1970s Rick Dingus has photographed “landscapes”: remote wilderness and rural settings, vernacular traces, urban environments, and ancient pathways that invite viewers to look closer, to think about how to interpret what they are seeing. Perception unfolds in many ways in this volume, whose photographs document Dingus’s lifelong exploration of the intersections of time, place, culture, and nature.

Dingus discusses his creative process in practical and philosophical terms through brief opening passages and an in-depth interview with art curator Peter S. Briggs.

An introductory essay by curator Toby Jurovics considers Dingus’s oeuvre within the evolution of landscape photography from the nineteenth century to the present day—offering a view of the photographer’s art as “resilient enough to contain both empirical and metaphorical truth; the descriptive and the personal; the past and the present.” An essay by Shelley Armitage offers a more personal reflection on the experience of viewing the photographs. And art critic Lucy R. Lippard provides a chronology and sustained interpretation of Dingus’s work, with its emphasis on transformation and on “translating information across visual borders.”

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.

Rick Dingus is Professor of Photography in the School of Art at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, and the author of The Photographic Artifacts of Timothy O’Sullivan. Peter S. Briggs is the Helen DeVitt Jones Curator of Art at the Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock. Toby Jurovics is Chief Curator at Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska. Shelley Armitage is Roderick Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Texas, El Paso. Lucy R. Lippard is an art critic, a curator, and the author of numerous books on art, politics, place, and culture.

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Wild Spaces, Open Seasons Hunting and Fishing in American Art Edited by Kevin Sharp Contributions by Stephen J. Bodio, Margaret C. Adler, Kory W. Rogers, Shirley Reece-Hughes, and Adam M. Thomas Wild Spaces, Open Seasons traces the theme of hunting and fishing in American art from the early nineteenth century through World War II. Describing a remarkable group of American paintings and sculpture, the contributors reveal the pervasiveness of the subjects and the fascinating contexts from which they emerged. In one important example after another, the authors demonstrate that representations of hunting and fishing did more than illustrate subsistence activities or diverting pastimes. The portrayal of American hunters and fishers also spoke to American ambitions and priorities.

In his introduction, noted outdoorsman and author Stephen J. Bodio surveys the book’s major artists, who range from society painters to naturalists and modernists.

Margaret C. Adler then explores how hunting and fishing imagery in American art reflects traditional myths, some rooted in classicism, others in the American appetite for tall tales. Kory W. Rogers, in his discussion of works that valorize the dangers hunters faced pursuing their prey, shows how American artists constructed new rituals at a time when the United States was rapidly transforming from a frontier society into a modern urban nation. Shirley Reece-Hughes looks at depictions of families, pairs, and parties of hunters and fishers and how social bonding reinvigorated American society at a time of social, political, and cultural change.

Finally, Adam M. Thomas considers themes of exploration and hunting as integral to conveying the individualism that was a staple of westward expansion.

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.

Kevin Sharp is the Linda W. and S. Herbert Rhea Director of the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis, Tennessee. Stephen J. Bodio is the author of Querencia, Eagle Dreams, and The Hounds of Heaven. Margaret C. Adler is Assistant Curator at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas. Kory W. Rogers is Curator at Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont. Shirley Reece-Hughes is Associate Curator at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas. Adam M. Thomas is Curator of American Art at the Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

VOLUME 27 IN THE CHARLES M. RUSSELL CENTER SERIES ON ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE AMERICAN WEST

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BOB KUHN Drawing on Instinct Edited by Adam Duncan Harris WILDLIFE IN AMERICAN ART Masterworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art

By Adam Duncan Harris $55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4015-5 $35.00 Paper 978-0-8061-4099-5 CHARLES DEAS AND 1840s AMERICA

By Carol Clark $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4030-8

SHARP ET AL. WILD SPACES, OPEN SEASONS

Explores hunting and fishing as motifs in American art

TOWNSHEND, HYDE, HUNT, LOYD OUR INDIAN SUMMER IN THE FAR WEST

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Brings to life a rare photographic travelogue and guide to the American West

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 Photographs by John George Hyde Edited by Alex Hunt and Kristin Loyd

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A RUSSIAN AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER IN TLINGIT COUNTRY Vincent Soboleff in Alaska

By Sergei Kan $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4290-6 A DANISH PHOTOGRAPHER OF IDAHO INDIANS Benedicte Wrensted

By Joanna Cohan Scherer $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3684-4 A FREE AND HARDY LIFE Theodore Roosevelt’s Sojourn in the American West

By Clay S. Jenkinson $45.00 Cloth 978-0-9825597-8-9

In 1879 two Englishmen, writer Samuel Nugent Townshend and photographer John George Hyde, set out for a pleasant Indian summer on a tour of the American West.

The duo documented their travels by steamship and train, through Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Chicago, across the Missouri to the “new state of Kansas” and the beginning of the western lands and business opportunities that were to become the focus of their narrative. Reprinted here with critical notes and introduction, Our Indian Summer in the Far West offers an enlightening—and often entertaining— perspective on an early moment in the growth of capitalism and industry in the American West.

Originally published as a photographic travelogue and guide to British investment in the American West, Townshend and Hyde’s account is both idiosyncratic and emblematic of its time. Interested in the West’s economic and environmental potential, the two men focused on farming in Kansas, railroads and mining in Colorado, a bear hunt in New Mexico, and ranching in Texas. The sojourners’ own foibles also enter the narrative: alerted to the difficulty of finding a hotel with a bath, the two Victorians took along a portable bathtub made of India rubber.

Their words and pictures speak volumes about contemporary attitudes toward race, empire, and the future of civilization. An introduction by coeditor Alex Hunt provides background on the creators and the travelogue genre.

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.

Alex Hunt is Professor of English and Haley Endowed Professor of Western Studies at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas. Kristin Loyd is an archival specialist with the Sowell Family Collection in Literature, Community, and the Natural World in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

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LUKAVIC, CARUSO ART IN MOTION

American Indian art, using the idea of motion as a unifying theme

Art in Motion Native American Explorations of Time, Place, and Thought Edited by John P. Lukavic and Laura Caruso Essays by Kristin Dowell, Charlene Holy Bear, Aldona Jonaitis, Leena Minifie, Kent Monkman, and Daniel C. Swan 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.

The first-person essays by artists Holy Bear, Minifie, and Monkman provide primary accounts of their artistic practices that have never been recorded or presented like this before. The chapters by Dowell, Jonaitis, and Swan present new directions in their scholarly research that are each, independent of this volume, important contributions to their fields. The authors explore wide-ranging subjects, including film and video, figurative sculpture, issues of representation and stereotypes, Native American Church art, and Tlingit dancing.

The visionary talks from Art in Motion have been adapted for publication and gathered together with a new introduction by symposium organizer John P. Lukavic, associate curator of native arts at the Denver Art Museum.

John P. Lukavic is Associate Curator in the Department of Native Arts at the Denver Art Museum. He is the curator and editor of Super Indian: Fritz Scholder, 1967–1980 and Revolt 1680/2180: Virgil Ortiz. Laura Caruso is Director of Publications at the Denver Art Museum.

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By Rennard Strickland $15.95s Paper 978-0-9717187-5-3 RED The Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, 2013 Edited by Jennifer Complo McNutt and Ashley Holland $30.00s Paper 978-0-9798495-7-2

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An international group of scholars presents recent research on portraiture

New England / New Spain Portraiture in the Colonial Americas, 1492–1850 Edited by Donna Pierce In 2014 the Denver Art Museum held a symposium hosted by the Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art and co-organized by Donna Pierce and Emily Ballew Neff, Director of the Brooks Museum, Memphis.

They assembled an international group of scholars to present recent research on portraiture in the Spanish colony of New Spain (Mexico) and the British colonies of North America. This volume presents revised and expanded versions of papers presented at the symposium.

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FESTIVALS AND DAILY LIFE IN THE ARTS OF COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA, 1492–1850 Papers from the 2012 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum Edited by Donna Pierce $34.95s Paper 978-0-914738-98-5 AT THE CROSSROADS The Arts of Spanish America and Early Global Trade, 1492–1850 Edited by Donna Pierce and Ronald Otsuka $39.95s Paper 978-0-914738-80-0 THE ARTS OF SOUTH AMERICA, 1492–1850 Edited by Donna Pierce $39.95s Paper 978-0-8061-9976-4

Michael Schreffler (University of Notre Dame) opens the volume with a discussion of portraits of Cortés and Moctezuma in sixteenth-century New Spain. Clare Kunny (Art Muse, Los Angeles) examines portraits of Antonio de Mendoza (1490–1552), the first viceroy of Mexico. SusanRather (University of Texas, Austin) analyzes portraiture in colonial British America and landscapes included in them. Karl Kusserow (Princeton University Art Museum) explores selfhood and surroundings in British American portraits.

Paula Mues Orts (National School of Conservation, Mexico) examines the portrait series commissioned and displayed in colonial Mexico by religious and civic organizations as a claim to power and prestige. James Middleton (independent scholar, New York) discusses clothing and accessories in New Spanish portraiture that allow a more precise dating of works. Jennifer Van Horn (George Mason University) follows the trans-Atlantic travels of portraitist Joseph Blackburn from England to New England and Bermuda. Kaylin Weber (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) explores the career of American Benjamin West and his trans-Atlantic move from Boston to London.

Elizabeth Kornhauser (Metropolitan Museum of Art) addresses the portraits of New England painter Ralph Earl, who struggled to fashion a new style for the young American republic. Michael Brown (San Diego Museum of Art) closes the volume by comparing the fate of portraits from New England and New Spain in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America.

Donna Pierce is the former Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator of Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum.

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The Campaigns of Sargon II, King of Assyria, 721–705 b.c.

By Sarah C. Melville Backed by an unparalleled military force, King Sargon II outwitted and outfought powerful competitors to extend Assyrian territory and secure his throne. As Sarah C. Melville shows through a detailed analysis of each of his campaigns, the king used his army not just to conquer but also to ensure regional security, manage his empire’s resources, and support his political agenda. Under his leadership, skilled chariotry, cavalry, and infantry excelled in battle and siege in all types of terrain against an array of culturally diverse enemies.

This book represents the first in-depth military study of the great Assyrian king.

Drawing extensively from original sources, including cuneiform inscriptions, the letters of Sargon and his officials, archival documents, and monumental art, Melville presents Sargon’s achievements as king, diplomat, and conqueror. Contrary to the stereotype of the brutal Assyrian despot, Sargon applied force selectively, with deliberate economy, and as only one of several possible ways to deal with external threat or to exploit opportunity.

The Campaigns of Sargon II demonstrates how Sargon changed the geopolitical dynamics in the Near East, inspired a period of cultural florescence, established long-lasting Assyrian supremacy, and became one of the most influential kings of the ancient world.

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Sarah C. Melville is Associate Professor of History at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York. She is the author of numerous articles on Neo-Assyrian history and warfare and of The Role of Naquia/Zakutu in Sargonid Politics.

MUHAMMAD Islam’s First Great General

By Richard A. Gabriel $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3860-2 HANNIBAL’S WAR A Military History of the Second Punic War

By J. F. Lazenby $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3004-0 WARFARE IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons, Warriors, and Warfare in the Ancient Civilizations of Greece and Rome

By John Warry $32.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2794-1

MELVILLE THE CAMPAIGNS OF SARGON II, KING OF ASSYRIA, 721–705 b .c.

A military biography of Sargon II, the warriorking who transformed the ancient Near East

ABEL GUIBERT

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The man who conceived the army that conquered Europe

Guibert Father of Napoleon’s Grande Armée

By Jonathan Abel If there was one man, other than Napoleon himself, who determined the course of the Napoleonic Wars, it was Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Guibert, the foremost military theorist in France from 1770 to his death in 1790. Taking in the full scope of the times, from the ideas of the Enlightenment to the passions of the French Revolution, Jonathan Abel’s Guibert is the first book in English to tell the remarkable story of the man who, through his pen and political activity, truly earned the title of Father of the Grande Armée.

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In his Essai général de tactique, published in 1771, Guibert set forth the definitive institutional doctrine for the French army of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. But unlike many other martial theorists, Guibert, who served in the French Ministry of War from 1775 to 1777 and again from 1787 to 1789, was able to put his ideas into practice. Drawing on a wealth of primary source documents— including Guibert’s own papers and the letters and memoirs of his friends and associates—Jonathan Abel re-creates the temper of an era of great turbulence and remarkable creativity. More than a military theorist, Guibert was very much a man of his day; he attended salons, wrote poetry and plays, and was inducted into the Académie française. A fiery figure, he rose and fell from power, lived and loved fiercely, and died swearing that he would “find justice.”

In Abel’s account, Guibert does at last find a measure of justice: a thorough, painstakingly documented picture of this complex man in the thick of extraordinary times, building the foundation for Napoleon’s success between 1796 and 1807— and in significant ways, changing the course of European history.

NAPOLEON AND BERLIN The Franco-Prussian War in North Germany, 1813

By Michael V. Leggiere $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3399-7 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4656-0 NAPOLEON IN ITALY The Sieges of Mantua, 1796–1799

By Phillip R. Cuccia $32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4445-0 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5184-7 BLÜCHER Scourge of Napoleon

By Michael V. Leggiere $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4409-2

Jonathan Abel is Associate Professor of History at Tarrant County College–Connect Campus, in Fort Worth, Texas.

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

By Edward B. Westermann As he prepared to wage his war of annihilation on the Eastern Front, Adolf Hitler repeatedly drew parallels between the Nazi quest for Lebensraum, or living space, in Eastern Europe and the United States’s westward expansion under the banner of Manifest Destiny. The peoples of Eastern Europe were, he said, his “redskins,” and for his colonial fantasy of a “German East” he claimed a historical precedent in the United States’s displacement and killing of the native population. Edward B. Westermann examines the validity, and value, of this claim in Hitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars.

The book takes an empirical approach that highlights areas of similarity and continuity, but also explores key distinctions and differences between these two national projects. The westward march of American empire and the Nazi conquest of the East offer clear parallels, not least that both cases fused a sense of national purpose with racial stereotypes that aided in the exclusion, expropriation, and killing of peoples. Westermann evaluates the philosophies of Manifest Destiny and Lebensraum that justified both conquests, the national and administrative policies that framed Nazi and U.S. governmental involvement in these efforts, the military strategies that supported each nation’s political goals, and the role of massacre and atrocity in both processes. Important differences emerge: a goal of annihilation versus one of assimilation and acculturation; a planned military campaign versus a confused strategy of pacification and punishment; large-scale atrocity as routine versus massacre as exception.

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.

Edward B. Westermann is Professor of History at Texas A&M University–San Antonio.

He is the author of Hitler’s Police Battalions: Enforcing Racial War in the East.

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By Gary Clayton Anderson $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3698-1 BLOOD ON THE MARIAS The Baker Massacre

By Paul R. Wylie $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-5157-1 AMERICAN CARNAGE Wounded Knee, 1890

By Jerome A. Greene $34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4448-1

WESTERMANN HITLER’S OSTKRIEG AND THE INDIAN WARS

Compares the strategies, policies, and ideologies of Lebensraum and Manifest Destiny

GORENFELD, GORENFELD KEARNY’S DRAGOONS OUT WEST

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The formative years of the famed western regiment of horsemen

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

By Will Gorenfeld and John Gorenfeld Having banished eastern Native peoples to lands west of the Mississippi, President Andrew Jackson’s government by 1833 needed a new type of soldier to keep displaced Indians from returning home. And so the 1st Dragoons came into being.

Will and John Gorenfeld tell their story—an epic of exploration, conquest, and diplomacy from the outposts of western history—in this book-length treatment of the force that became the U.S. Cavalry.

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DRAGOONS IN APACHELAND Conquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 1846–1861

By William S. Kiser $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4314-9 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4650-8 BOLD DRAGOON The Life of J. E. B. Stuart

By Emory M. Thomas $16.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3193-1 FIVE YEARS A DRAGOON (’49 TO ’54) And Other Adventures on the Great Plains

By Percival G. Lowe $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1089-9

The 1st Dragoons represented a new regiment of horsemen that drew on the combined skills and clashing visions of two types of leaders: old Indian killers and backwoodsmen such as loudmouth miner Henry Dodge; and straight-arrow battlefield veterans such as Stephen Watts Kearny, who had fought Redcoats in 1812 but now negotiated treaties with Indian tribes and enforced the new order of the West. Drawing on soldiers’ journals and other never-before-used sources, Kearny’s Dragoons Out West reconstructs this forgotten, often surprising moment in U.S. history. Under Kearny, the 1st Dragoons performed its mission through diplomacy and intimidation rather than violence, even protecting Indians from white settlers.

Following the regiment up to the U.S.-Mexican War, when diplomacy gave way to open violence, this book introduces readers to future Civil War generals.

Colorful characters appearing in these pages include Private Thomas Russell, a young attorney tricked by a horse thief into joining the army; James Hildreth, who authored two books on the 1st Dragoons; and English drill sergeant Long Ned Stanley, whose tenure in the 1st reveals much about American immigrants’ experience in 1833–48.

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.

Will Gorenfeld writes about soldiers, operations, and battles of the pre–Civil War Army out west. His work has appeared in Wild West, the New Mexico Historical Review, Missouri Historical Review, and the collected volume Battles and Massacres on the Southwestern Frontier. His son John Gorenfeld is a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Observer, the London Guardian, and in the book Armchair Reader: Civil War.

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

By Donald L. Cutler Foreword by Laurie Arnold Col. George Wright’s campaign against the Yakima, Spokane, Coeur d’Alene, Palouse, and other Indian peoples of eastern Washington Territory was intended to punish them for a recent attack on another U.S. Army force. 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.

Over thirty days, Wright’s forces defeated a confederation of Plateau warriors in two battles, destroyed their food supplies, slaughtered animals, burned villages, took hostages, and ordered the hanging of sixteen prisoners. Seeking the reasons for Wright’s turn toward mercilessness, Cutler asks hard questions: If Wright believed he was limiting further bloodshed, why were his executions so gruesomely theatrical and cruel? How did he justify destroying food supplies and villages and killing hundreds of horses? Was Wright more violent than his contemporaries, or did his actions reflect a broader policy of taking Indian lands and destroying Native cultures?

Stripped of most of their territory, the Plateau tribes nonetheless survived and preserved their cultures. With Wright’s reputation called into doubt, some northwesterners question whether an army fort and other places in the region should be named for him. Do historically based names honor an undeserving murderer, or prompt a valuable history lesson? In examining contemporary and present-day treatments of Wright and the incident, “Hang Them All” adds an important, informed voice to this continuing debate.

Donald L. Cutler, retired from a career in banking and finance, is an independent historian of the Columbia Plateau and Pacific Northwest. Laurie Arnold (Lake Band, Colville Confederated Tribes) is Director of Native American Studies and Assistant Professor of History at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington.

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By Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown $32.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2113-0

CUTLER “HANG THEM ALL”

A probing look at Wright’s actions and legacy

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The story of a bloody turning point in western, Mormon, and American history—told through participants’ voices

At Sword’s Point, Part 2 A Documentary History of the Utah War, 1858–1859 Edited by William P. MacKinnon The Utah War—an unprecedented armed confrontation between Mormoncontrolled Utah Territory and the U.S. government—was the most extensive American military action between the U.S.-Mexican and Civil Wars. 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.

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By Ray C. Colton $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1902-1 MORMONS AT THE MISSOURI Winter Quarters, 1846–1852

By Richard E. Bennett $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3615-8

At Sword’s Point, Part 2 carries the story of the Utah War from the end of 1857 to the conclusion of hostilities in June 1858, when Brigham Young was replaced as territorial governor and almost one-third of the U.S. Army occupied Utah.

Through the testimony of Mormon and federal leaders, combatants, emissaries, and onlookers, this second volume describes the war’s final months and uneasy resolution. President James Buchanan and his secretary of war, John B. Floyd, worked to break a political-military stalemate in Utah, while Mormon leaders prepared defensive and aggressive countermeasures ranging from an attack on Forts Bridger and Laramie to the “Sebastopol Strategy” of evacuating and torching Salt Lake City and sending 30,000 Mormon refugees on a mass exodus and fighting retreat toward Mexican Sonora. Thomas L. Kane, self-appointed intermediary and Philadelphia humanitarian, sought a peaceful conclusion to the conflict, which ended with the arrival in Utah of President Buchanan’s two official peace commissioners, the president’s blanket pardon for Utah’s population, and the army’s peaceful march into the Salt Lake Valley.

MacKinnon’s narrative weaves a panoramic yet intimate view of a turning point in western, Mormon, and American history far bloodier than previously understood.

With its sophisticated documentary analysis and insight, this work will stand as the definitive history of the complex, consequential, and still-debated Utah War. William P. MacKinnon is an independent historian who lives in Santa Barbara, California. A widely recognized authority on Utah’s violent territorial period and the U.S. Army’s western campaigns, he is the author of numerous journal articles and the author-editor of At Sword’s Point, Part 1: A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858.

LEFT: DETAIL OF MATTHEW BRADY PHOTOGRAPH OF LT. COL. THOMAS L. KANE. COURTESY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Powder River Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War

By Paul L. Hedren The Great Sioux War of 1876–77 began at daybreak on March 17, 1876, when Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds and six cavalry companies struck a village of Northern Cheyennes—Sioux allies—thereby propelling the Northern Plains tribes into war.

The ensuing last stand of the Sioux against Anglo-American settlement of their homeland spanned some eighteen months, playing out across more than twenty battle and skirmish sites and costing hundreds of lives on both sides and many millions of dollars. And it all began at Powder River.

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 Reynolds’s court-martial and Indian recollections. The disarray and incompetence of the war’s beginnings—officers who failed to take proper positions, disregard of orders to save provisions, failure to cooperate, and abandonment of the dead and a wounded soldier—in many ways anticipated the catastrophe that later occurred at the Little Big Horn.

Forty photographs, many previously unpublished, and five new maps detail the action from start to ignominious conclusion. Hedren’s comprehensive account takes Powder River out of the shadow of the Little Big Horn and reveals how much this critical battle tells us about the army’s policy and performance in the West, and about the debacle soon to follow.

Paul L. Hedren is a retired National Park Service superintendent residing in Omaha, Nebraska. He is the author of Fort Laramie and the Great Sioux War and Great Sioux War Orders of Battle: How the United States Army Waged War on the Northern Plains, 1876–1877.

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AFTER CUSTER Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country

By Paul L. Hedren $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4216-6 MORNING STAR DAWN The Powder River Expedition and the Northern Cheyennes, 1876

By Jerome A. Greene $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3548-9 FORT LARAMIE AND THE GREAT SIOUX WAR

By Paul L. Hedren $21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3049-1

HEDREN POWDER RIVER

The battle that anticipated the catastrophe at the Little Big Horn

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CLARK, GREENE SOLDIERING IN THE SHADOW OF WOUNDED KNEE

A rare firsthand account of military life in the late frontier era

Soldiering in the Shadow of Wounded Knee The 1891 Diary of Private Hartford G. Clark, Sixth U.S. Cavalry

By Hartford G. Clark Edited by Jerome A. Greene

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OUR CENTENNIAL INDIAN WAR AND THE LIFE OF GENERAL CUSTER

By Frances Fuller Victor $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4173-2 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 THE CIVIL WAR IN ARIZONA The Story of the California Volunteers, 1861–1865

By Andrew E. Masich $21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3900-5

In the aftermath of the December 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, U.S. Army troops braced for retaliation from Lakota Sioux Indians, who had just suffered the devastating loss of at least two hundred men, women, and children. Among the soldiers sent to guard the area around Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota, was twenty-two-year-old private Hartford Geddings Clark (1869–1920) of the Sixth U.S. Cavalry. Within three days of the massacre, he began keeping a diary that he continued through 1891. Clark’s account—published here for the first time—offers a rare and intimate view of a soldier’s daily life set against the backdrop of a rapidly vanishing American frontier.

According to editor Jerome A. Greene, Private Clark was a perceptive young man with wide-ranging interests. Although his diary begins in South Dakota, most of its entries reflect Clark’s service at Fort Niobrara, located amid the sand hills of north-central Nebraska. There, beginning in February 1891, five troops of the Sixth Cavalry sought to protect area citizens from potential Indian disturbances.

Among his hard-drinking fellow soldiers, “Harry,” as Clark was called, stood out as a teetotaler. He was also an avid horse racer, huntsman, and the leading pitcher on Fort Niobrara’s baseball team.

Beyond its descriptions of a grueling training regimen and off-duty entertainment, the diary reveals Clark’s evolving perception of Native peoples. Although he initially viewed them as savage enemies, Private Clark’s attitude softened when the army began enlisting Indian men and he befriended a Lakota soldier named Yellow Hand, who shared Clark’s love of sports.

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.

Jerome A. Greene is retired as a Research Historian for the National Park Service.

He is the author of numerous books, including American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890 and Morning Star Dawn: The Powder River Expedition and the Northern Cheyennes, 1876.

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

By Bruce P. Gleason Stemming from the tradition of rallying troops and frightening enemies, mounted bands played a unique and distinctive role in American military history. Their fascinating story within the U.S. Army unfolds in this latest book from noted music historian and former army musician Bruce P. Gleason.

Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums follows American horse-mounted bands from the nation’s military infancy through its emergence as a world power during World War II and the corresponding shift from horse-powered to mechanized cavalry.

Gleason traces these bands to their origins, including the horn-blowing Celtic and Roman cavalries of antiquity and the mounted Middle Eastern musicians whom European Crusaders encountered in the Holy Land. He describes the performance, musical selections, composition, and duties of American mounted bands that have served regular, militia, volunteer, and National Guard regiments in military and civil parades and concerts, in ceremonies, and on the battlefield. Over time the composition of the bands has changed—beginning with trumpets and drums and expanding to full-fledged concert bands on horseback. Woven throughout the book are often-surprising strands of American military history from the War of 1812 through the Civil War, action on the western frontier, and the two world wars.

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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.

Bruce P. Gleason is Associate Professor of Music Education and Music History at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the founding editor of Research and Issues in Music Education. His numerous articles have been published in the Journal of Band Research, Military History Quarterly, National Guard Magazine, the Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, and other journals.

THE BLACK REGULARS, 1866–1898

By William A. Dobak and Thomas D. Phillips $26.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3340-9 THE U.S. ARMY IN THE WEST, 1870–1880 Uniforms, Weapons, and Equipment

By Douglas C. McChristian $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3782-7 FORTY MILES A DAY ON BEANS AND HAY The Enlisted Soldier Fighting the Indian Wars

By Don Rickey Jr. $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1113-1

GLEASON SOUND THE TRUMPET, BEAT THE DRUMS

Illuminates the history and cultural significance of mounted military bands

SCOTT, PAUL SIGN TALKER

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The forgotten memoir of a U.S. Army peacemaker and expert on Indian sign language

Sign Talker Hugh Lenox Scott Remembers Indian Country Edited by R. Eli Paul A graduate of West Point, General Hugh Lenox Scott (1853–1934) belonged to the same regiment as George Armstrong Custer. As a member of the Seventh Cavalry, Scott actually began his career at the Little Big Horn when in 1877 he helped rebury Custer’s fallen soldiers. Yet Scott was no Custer. His lifelong aversion to violence in resolving disputes and abiding respect for American Indians earned him the reputation as one of the most adept peacemakers ever to serve in the U.S. Army.

Sign Talker, an annotated edition of Scott’s memoirs, gives new insight into this soldier-diplomat’s experiences and accomplishments.

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PHIL SHERIDAN AND HIS ARMY

By Paul Andrew Hutton $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3188-7 GENERAL CROOK AND THE WESTERN FRONTIER

By Charles M. Robinson III $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3358-4 THROUGH INDIAN SIGN LANGUAGE The Fort Sill Ledgers of Hugh Lenox Scott and Iseeo, 1889–1897 Edited by William C. Meadows $55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4727-7

Scott’s original autobiography, first published in 1928, has remained out of print for decades. In that memoir, he recounted the many phases of his distinguished military career, beginning with his education at West Point and ending with World War I, when, as army chief of staff, he gathered the U.S. forces that saw ultimate victory in Europe. Sign Talker reproduces the first—and arguably most compelling—portion of the memoir, including Scott’s involvement with Plains Indians and his service at western forts. In his in-depth introduction to this volume, editor R. Eli Paul places Scott’s autobiography in a larger historical context. According to Paul, Scott stood apart from his fellow officers because of his enlightened views and forward-looking actions. Through Scott’s own words, we learn how he became an expert in Plains Indian Sign Language so that he could communicate directly with Indians and bypass intermediaries. Possessing deep empathy for the plight of Native peoples and concern for the wrongs they had suffered, he played an important role in helping them achieve small, yet significant victories in the aftermath of the brutal Indian wars.

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.

R. Eli Paul heads the Missouri Valley Special Collections at the Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri. He is the author of Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux War, 1854–1856, coauthor of Eyewitness at Wounded Knee, and editor of the Autobiography of Red Cloud: War Leader of the Oglalas.

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

By Nancy J. Taniguchi The California gold rush of 1849 created fortunes for San Francisco merchants, whose wealth depended on control of the city’s docks. But ownership of waterfront property was hotly contested. In an 1856 dispute over land titles, a county official shot an outspoken newspaperman, prompting a group of merchants to organize the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance. The committee, which met in secret, fed biased stories to the newspapers, depicting itself as a necessary substitute for incompetent law enforcement. But its actual purpose was quite different. In Dirty Deeds, historian Nancy J. Taniguchi draws on the 1856 Committee’s minutes—long lost until she unearthed them—to present the first clear picture of its actions and motivations.

San Francisco’s real estate comprised a patchwork of land grants left from the Spanish and Mexican governments—grants that had been appropriated and sold over and over. Even after the establishment of a federal board in 1851 to settle the complicated California claims, land titles remained confused, and most of the land in the city belonged to no one. The acquisition of key waterfront properties in San Francisco by an ambitious politician motivated the thirty-odd merchants who called themselves “the Executives” of the Vigilance Committee to go directly after these parcels. Despite the organization’s assertion of working on behalf of law and order, its tactics—kidnapping, forced deportations, and even murder—went far beyond the bounds of law.

For more than a century, scholars have accepted the vigilantes’ self-serving claims to honorable motives. 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. Nancy J. Taniguchi is the author of Necessary Fraud: Progressive Reform and Utah Coal and Castle Valley, America: Hard Land, Hard-Won Home.

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A DECENT, ORDERLY LYNCHING The Montana Vigilantes

By Frederick Allen $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3637-0 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4038-4 THE VIGILANTES OF MONTANA Being a Correct . . . Narrative of . . .

Henry Plummer’s Notorious Road Agent

By Thomas J. Dimsdale $16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1379-1 DEEP TRAILS IN THE OLD WEST A Frontier Memoir

By Frank Clifford $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4186-2

TANIGUCHI DIRTY DEEDS

Reveals greed as the true motive for vigilante violence in early California

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LUBETKIN ROAD TO WAR

The Northern Pacific’s earliest attempts to survey a route through the Sioux homeland

Road to War The 1871 Yellowstone Surveys Edited by M. John Lubetkin By 1870, only one group of American Indians in the 300,000 square miles of the Dakota and Montana Territories still held firm against being placed on reservations: a few thousand Teton Sioux and Northern Cheyenne, all followers of the charismatic Sitting Bull. It was then that Philadelphia’s Jay Cooke, “the financier of the Civil War,” a man who believed that he was “God’s chosen instrument,” funded a second transcontinental railroad. This line, the Northern Pacific, would follow the Yellowstone River through Montana, separating the last buffalo herds from Sitting Bull’s people and disrupting their way of life.

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BEFORE CUSTER Surveying the Yellowstone, 1872 Edited by M. John Lubetkin $34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-431-5 CUSTER AND THE 1873 YELLOWSTONE SURVEY A Documentary History Edited by M. John Lubetkin $125.00s Leather 978-0-87062-427-8 $34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-422-3 JAY COOKE’S GAMBLE The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873

By M. John Lubetkin $22.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4468-9

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.

The chronological first of three volumes documenting the Northern Pacific’s Yellowstone valley surveys between 1871 and 1873, Road to War tells its story through excerpts from unpublished letters, diaries, official reports, and period newspapers that reflect the never-ending intrigue, corruption and profiteering, politics, and unanticipated physical hardships. Lubetkin shows the railroad’s drive west, along with the rough humor and profanity of colorful personalities among railroad management, alcoholic army officers, apprehensive Indian agents, and especially the young surveyors working in intolerable heat, swamps, and arctic cold. All these details tell the real story of building a railroad while keeping an eye open for Sitting Bull’s warriors.

Road to War shows history as it really unfolded on the western plains. Although the Indians’ former way of life was coming to an end, it would not come quietly.

M. John Lubetkin, is a retired cable television executive and the author of Before Custer: Surveying the Yellowstone; Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey; 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 Nonfiction from the Western Writers of America; and the novel Custer’s Gold.

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Mapping the Four Corners Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875

By Robert S. McPherson and Susan Rhoades Neel In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists under the direction of Ferdinand V. Hayden entered the Four Corners area for what they thought would be a calm summer’s work completing a previous survey. Their accomplishments would go down in history as one of the great American surveying expeditions of the nineteenth century. 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.

Accompanied by the great photographer William Henry Jackson, Hayden’s team quickly found their trip to be more challenging than expected. The travelers describe wrangling half-wild pack mules, trying to sleep in rain-soaked blankets, and making tea from muddy, alkaline water. Along the way, they encountered diverse peoples, evidence of prehistoric civilizations, and spectacular scenery—Hispanic villages in Colorado and New Mexico; Mesa Verde, Hovenweep, and other Anasazi sites; and the Hopi mesas. Not everyone they met was glad to see them: in southeastern Utah surveyors fought and escaped a band of Utes and Paiutes who recognized that the survey meant dispossession from their homeland.

Hayden saw his expedition as a scientific endeavor focused on geology, geographic description, cartographic accuracy, and even ethnography, but the search for economic potential was a significant underlying motive. As this book shows, these pragmatic scientists were on the lookout for gold beneath every rock, grazing lands in every valley, and economic opportunity around each bend in the trail. The Hayden Survey ultimately shaped the American imagination in contradictory ways, solidifying the idea of “progress”—and government funding of its pursuit—while also revealing, via Jackson’s photographs, a landscape with a beauty hitherto unknown and unimagined.

Robert S. McPherson is Professor of History at Utah State University–Eastern and the author or coauthor of numerous books on Navajo and southwestern history, including Life in a Corner: Cultural Episodes in Southeastern Utah, 1880–1950.

Susan Rhoades Neel is Associate Professor of History at Utah State University– Eastern; she specializes in modern U.S. history and the environmental history of the American West.

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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 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 GREAT SURVEYS OF THE AMERICAN WEST

By Richard A. Bartlett $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1653-2

MCPHERSON, NEEL MAPPING THE FOUR CORNERS

An engaging account of daily life and adventure on the Hayden Survey

DENNISON MONTANA’S PIONEER NATURALIST

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An in-depth portrait of a prominent Montana scientist and educator

Montana’s Pioneer Naturalist Morton J. Elrod

By George M. Dennison A naturalist on Montana’s academic frontier, passionate conservationist Morton J. Elrod was instrumental in establishing the Department of Biology at the University of Montana, as well as Glacier National Park and the National Bison Range. In Montana’s Pioneer Naturalist, the first in-depth assessment of Elrod’s career, George M. Dennison reveals how one man helped to shape the scholarly study of nature and its institutionalization in the West at the turn of the century.

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Elrod moved to Missoula in 1897, just four years after the state university’s founding, and participated in virtually every aspect of university life for almost forty years. To reveal the depths of this pioneer scientist’s influence on the growth of his university, his state, and the academic fields in which he worked, Dennison delves into state and university archives, including Elrod’s personal papers. Although Elrod was an active participant in bison conservation and the growth of the National Park Naturalist Service, much of his work focused on Flathead Lake, where he surveyed local life forms and initiated the university’s biological station—one of the first of its kind in the United States. Yet at heart Elrod was an educator who desired to foster in his students a “love of nature,” which, he said, “should give health to any one, and supply knowledge of greatest value, either to the individual or to society, or to both.”

In this biography of a prominent scientist now almost forgotten, 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.

GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON Artist, Scientist, and Teacher

By Jerome A. Jackson $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3745-2 SILVER FOX OF THE ROCKIES Delphus E. Carpenter and Western Water Compacts

By Daniel Tyler $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3515-1

George M. Dennison served as President of the University of Montana from 1990 to 2010, where, among many other projects, he helped to establish the Davidson Honors College. Before his presidency, he taught history and served in administrative positions at Western Michigan University, Colorado State University, the University of Washington, and the University of Arkansas. He is author of The Dorr War: Republicanism on Trial, 1831–1861.

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New Deal Cowboy Gene Autry and Public Diplomacy

By Michael Duchemin Best known to Americans as the “singing cowboy,” beloved entertainer Gene Autry (1907–1998) appeared in countless films, radio broadcasts, television shows, and other venues. While Autry’s name and a few of his hit songs are still widely known today, his commitment to political causes and public diplomacy deserves greater appreciation. In this innovative examination of Autry’s influence on public opinion, Michael Duchemin explores the various platforms this cowboy crooner used to support important causes, notably Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and foreign policy initiatives leading up to World War II. As a prolific performer of western folk songs and country-western music, Autry gained popularity in the 1930s by developing a persona that appealed to rural, small-town, and newly urban fans. It was during this same time, Duchemin explains, that Autry threw his support behind the thirty-second president of the United States. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, Duchemin demonstrates how Autry popularized Roosevelt’s New Deal policies and made them more attractive to the American public. In turn, the president used the emerging motion picture industry as an instrument of public diplomacy to enhance his policy agendas, which Autry’s films, backed by Republic Pictures, unabashedly endorsed.

As the United States inched toward World War II, the president’s focus shifted toward foreign policy. Autry responded by promoting Americanism, war preparedness, and friendly relations with Latin America. As a result, Duchemin argues, “Sergeant Gene Autry” played a unique role in making FDR’s internationalist policies more palatable for American citizens reluctant to engage in another foreign war.

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. By drawing connections between western popular culture and American political history, the book also offers valuable insight concerning the development of leisure and western tourism, the information industry, public diplomacy, and foreign policy in twentieth-century America.

Michael Duchemin is Executive Director of the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana, and has also served as curator with the Autry National Center in Los Angeles.

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INDIAN BLUES American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879–1934

By John W. Troutman $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4269-2 JOHN FORD Hollywood’s Old Master

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DUCHEMIN NEW DEAL COWBOY

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SWEENEY PRELUDE TO THE DUST BOWL

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Considers the role of drought in AngloAmerican settlement of the plains

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

By Kevin Z. Sweeney Before the drought of the early twenty-first century, the dry benchmark in the American plains was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But in this eye-opening work, Kevin Z. Sweeney reveals that the Dust Bowl was only one cycle in a series of droughts on the U.S. southern plains. Reinterpreting our nation’s nineteenth-century history through paleoclimatological data and firsthand accounts of four dry periods in the 1800s, Prelude to the Dust Bowl demonstrates the dramatic and little-known role drought played in settlement, migration, and war on the plains.

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COMMON AND CONTESTED GROUND A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains

By Theodore Binnema $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3361-4 THE NATURAL WEST Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains

By Dan Flores $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3304-1 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3537-3 CONFLICT ON THE RIO GRANDE Water and the Law, 1879–1939

By Douglas R. Littlefield $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3998-2

Stephen H. Long’s famed military expedition coincided with the drought of the 1820s, which prompted Long to label the southern plains a “Great American Desert”—a destination many Anglo-Americans thought ideal for removing Southeastern Indian tribes to in the 1830s. The second dry trend, from 1854 to 1865, drove bison herds northeastward, fomenting tribal warfare, and deprived Civil War armies in Indian Territory of vital commissary. In the late 1880s and mid-1890s, two more periods of drought triggered massive outmigration from the southern plains as well as appeals from farmers and congressmen for federal famine relief, pleas quickly denied by President Grover Cleveland. Sweeney’s interpretation of familiar events through the lens of drought lays the groundwork for understanding why the U.S. government’s reaction to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s was such a radical departure from previous federal responses.

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.

Kevin Z. Sweeney is Professor of Geography and History at Wayland Baptist University. His research is grounded in the environmental and social history of the southern Great Plains and the Southwest.

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

By Holly George 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. Yet even as Spokanites took pride in their city’s reputation as a “good show town,” the more genteel among them worried about its “Wild West” atmosphere. In Show Town, historian Holly George correlates the clash of tastes and sensibilities among Spokane’s theater patrons with a larger shift in values occurring throughout the Inland West—and the nation— during a period of rapid social change.

George begins this multifaceted story in the year 1890, when two Spokane developers built the lavish Auditorium Theater as a kind of advertisement for the young city. The new venue catered to a class of people made wealthy by speculation, railroads, and mining. Yet the refined entertainment the Auditorium offered conflicted with the rollicking shows that played in the town’s variety theaters, designed to draw in the migratory workers—primarily single men—who provided labor for the same industries that made the fortunes of Spokane’s elite. As wellto-do Spokanites attempted to clamp down on the variety theaters, performances at even the city’s more respectable “legitimate” playhouses began to reflect a movement away from Victorian sensibilities to a more modern desire for selffulfillment—particularly among women. Theaters joined the debate over modern femininity by presenting plays on issues ranging from woman’s suffrage to shifting marital expectations. At the same time, national theater monopolies transmitted to the people of Spokane new styles and tastes that mirrored larger cultural trends.

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.

Holly George is Co–Managing Editor of the Utah Historical Quarterly and author of journal articles on gender, recreation, and the West published in Pacific Northwest Quarterly and Utah Historical Quarterly.

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By Linda Scarangella McNenly $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4281-4 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4846-5 SALOONS, PROSTITUTES, AND TEMPERANCE IN ALASKA TERRITORY

By Catherine Holder Spude $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4660-7 BLACK SPOKANE The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest

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GEORGE SHOW TOWN

Social and cultural change in the urban West through the lens of theater

GLASRUD, SEARLES BLACK COWBOYS IN THE AMERICAN WEST

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Black Cowboys in the American West On the Range, on the Stage, behind the Badge Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Michael N. Searles Foreword by Albert S. Broussard Who were the black cowboys? They were drovers, foremen, fiddlers, cowpunchers, cattle rustlers, cooks, and singers. They worked as wranglers, riders, ropers, bulldoggers, and bronc busters. They came from varied backgrounds—some grew up in slavery, while free blacks often got their start in Texas and Mexico. Most who joined the long trail drives were men, but black women also rode and worked on western ranches and farms.

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AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN CONFRONT THE WEST, 1600–2000 Edited by Shirley Ann Wilson Moore and Quintard Taylor $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3979-1 AN ARISTOCRACY OF COLOR Race and Reconstruction in California and the West, 1850–1890

By D. Michael Bottoms $26.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4335-4 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4649-2 DREAMING WITH THE ANCESTORS Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico

By Shirley Boteler Mock $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4053-7

The first overview of the subject in more than fifty years, Black Cowboys in the American West surveys the life and work of these cattle drivers from the years before the Civil War through the turn of the twentieth century. Including both classic, previously published articles and exciting new research, this collection also features select accounts of twentieth-century rodeos, music, people, and films.

Arranged in three sections—“Cowboys on the Range,” “Performing Cowboys,” and “Outriders of the Black Cowboys”—the thirteen chapters illuminate the great diversity of the black cowboy experience.

Like all ranch hands and riders, African American cowboys lived hard, dangerous lives. But black drovers were expected to do the roughest, most dangerous work— and to do it without complaint. They faced discrimination out west, albeit less than in the South, which many had left in search of autonomy and freedom. As cowboys, they could escape the brutal violence visited on African Americans in many southern communities and northern cities.

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 twentieth-century black cowboys ensures that they, and their many stories and experiences, will continue to be known and told.

Bruce A. Glasrud, Professor Emeritus at California State University, East Bay, and retired Arts and Sciences Dean, Sul Ross State University, is the author or editor of more than thirty books. Michael N. Searles is retired as Assistant Professor of History at Georgia Regents University. Glasrud and Searles are coeditors of Buffalo Soldiers in the West: A Black Soldiers Anthology. Albert S. Broussard is Professor of History at Texas A&M University and author of numerous books, including Expectations of Equality: A History of Black Westerners.

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

By Shirley Ann Wilson Moore The westward migration of nearly half a million Americans in the mid-nineteenth century looms large in U.S. history. Classic images of rugged Euro-Americans traversing the plains in their prairie schooners still stir the popular imagination.

But this traditional narrative, no matter how alluring, falls short of the actual— and far more complex—reality of the overland trails. 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.

Tracing the journeys of black overlanders who traveled the Mormon, California, Oregon, and other trails, Shirley Ann Wilson Moore describes in vivid detail what they left behind, what they encountered along the way, and what they expected to find in their new, western homes. She argues that African Americans understood advancement and prosperity in ways unique to their situation as an enslaved and racially persecuted people, even as they shared many of the same hopes and dreams held by their white contemporaries. For African Americans, the journey westward marked the beginning of liberation and transformation. At the same time, black emigrants’ aspirations often came into sharp conflict with real-world conditions in the West.

Although many scholars have focused on African Americans who settled in the urban West, their early trailblazing voyages into the Oregon Country, Utah Territory, New Mexico Territory, and California deserve greater attention. Having combed censuses, maps, government documents, and white overlanders’ diaries, along with the few accounts written by black overlanders or passed down orally to their living descendants, Moore gives voice to the countless, mostly anonymous black men and women who trekked the plains and mountains.

Sweet Freedom’s Plains places African American overlanders where they belong—at the center of the western migration narrative. Their experiences and perspectives enhance our understanding of this formative period in American history.

Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, Professor Emerita of History at California State University, Sacramento, is the author of To Place Our Deeds: The African American Community in Richmond, California, 1910–1963 and coeditor of African American Women Confront the West, 1600–2000.

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By Herbert G. Ruffin II $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4436-8 AN ARISTOCRACY OF COLOR Race and Reconstruction in California and the West, 1850–1890

By D. Michael Bottoms $26.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4335-4 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4649-2 AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN CONFRONT THE WEST, 1600–2000 Edited by Shirley Ann Wilson Moore and Quintard Taylor $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3979-1

MOORE SWEET FREEDOM’S PLAINS

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How one family’s business and legacy shaped the study of the American West

Edward Eberstadt & Sons Rare Booksellers of Western Americana

By Michael Vinson Foreword by William Reese An unlikely bookseller in New York City became the leading dealer in rare Western Americana for most of the twentieth century. After working in western-U.S. and South American gold mines at the turn of the twentieth century, Edward Eberstadt (1883–1958) returned to his home in New York City in 1907. Through luck and happenstance, he purchased an old book for fifty cents that turned out to be a rare sixteenth-century Mexican imprint. From this bit of serendipity, Eberstadt quickly became one of the leading western Americana rare book dealers. In this book Michael Vinson tells the story of how Edward Eberstadt & Sons developed its legendary book collection, which formed the backbone of many of today’s top western Americana archives.

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THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY An Americana Century, 1902–2002

By Robert A Clark, Patrick J. Brunet, and Richard M. Weatherford $75.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-319-6 FORGING A NATION The American History Collection at Gilcrease Museum Contributions by Kimberly Roblin, Amanda Lett, Eric Singleton, and Randy Ramer $39.95s Cloth 978-0-9725657-9-0 $24.95s Paper 978-0-9725657-8-3

Although the firm’s business records have not survived, Edward and his sons, Charles and Lindley, were all prodigious letter writers, and nearly every collector kept his or her correspondence. Drawing upon these letters and on his own extensive experience in the rare book trade, Vinson gives the reader a vivid sense of how the commerce in rare books and manuscripts unfolded during the era of the Eberstadts, particularly in the relationships between dealers and customers. He explores the backstory that scholars of art history and museology have pursued in recent decades: the assembling of cultural treasures, their organization for use, and the establishment of institutions to support that use. His work describes the important role this key bookselling firm played in the western Americana trade from the early 1900s to Eberstadt & Sons’ dissolution in 1975.

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.

Michael Vinson is a western Americana rare book dealer and a former curator in the western Americana collection of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He is the author of Motoring Tourists and the Scenic West, which was selected as one of the Best Fifty Books by the Rounce and Coffin Club. William Reese is a renowned antiquarian bookseller and an expert on prominent American bookdealers. He is the author of Stamped with a National Character: Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books and America Pictured to the Life: Illustrated Works from the Paul Mellon Bequest.

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The Forked Juniper Critical Perspectives on Rudolfo Anaya Edited by Roberto Cantú Widely acclaimed as the founder of Chicano literature, Rudolfo Anaya is one of America’s most compelling and prolific authors. Best known for his debut novel, Bless Me, Ultima, his writings span multiple genres, from novels and essays to plays, poems, and children’s stories. Despite his prominence, critical studies of Anaya’s writings have appeared almost solely in journals, and the last book-length collection of essays on his work is now more than twenty-five years old. The Forked Juniper remedies this gap by offering new critical evaluations of Anaya’s ever-evolving artistry.

Edited by distinguished Chicano studies scholar Roberto Cantú, The Forked Juniper presents thirteen essays written by U.S., Mexican, and German critics and academics. The essayists employ a range of critical methods in their analyses of such major works as Bless Me, Ultima (1972), Jalamanta: A Message from the Desert (1996), and the Sonny Baca narrative quartet (1995–2005). Through the lens of cultural studies, the essayists also discuss intriguing themes in Anaya’s writings, such as witchcraft in colonial New Mexico, the reconceptualization of Aztlán, and the aesthetics of the New World Baroque. The volume concludes with an interview with renowned filmmaker David Ellis, who produced the 2004 film Rudolfo Anaya: The Magic of Words.

The symbol of the forked juniper tree—venerated as an emblem of healing and peace in some spiritual traditions and a compelling image in Bless Me, Ultima—is open to multiple interpretations. It echoes the manifold meanings the contributors to this volume reveal in Anaya’s boundlessly imaginative literature.

The Forked Juniper illuminates both the artistry 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 worldembracing work.

Roberto Cantú is Emeritus Professor of Chicano Studies and English at California State University, Los Angeles, and editor of The Willow and the Spiral: Essays on Octavio Paz and the Poetic Imagination and An Insatiable Dialectic: Essays on Critique, Modernity, and Humanism.

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By Rudolfo Anaya $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4023-0 BILLY THE KID AND OTHER PLAYS

By Rudolfo Anaya $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4225-8 RANDY LOPEZ GOES HOME A Novel

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CANTÚ THE FORKED JUNIPER

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BALL THE EROSION OF TRIBAL POWER

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

By Dewi Ioan Ball For the past 180 years, the inherent power of indigenous tribes to govern themselves has been a central tenet of federal Indian law. Despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s repeated confirmation of Native sovereignty since the early 1830s, it has, in the past half-century, incrementally curtailed the power of tribes to govern non-Indians on Indian reservations. The result, Dewi Ioan Ball argues, has been a “silent revolution,” mounted by particular justices so gradually and quietly that the significance of the Court’s rulings has largely evaded public scrutiny.

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FORCED FEDERALISM Contemporary Challenges to Indigenous Nationhood

By Jeff Corntassel and Richard C. Witmer II $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3906-7 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4191-6 BUYING AMERICA FROM THE INDIANS Johnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native Land Rights

By Blake A. Watson $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4244-9 UNEVEN GROUND American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law

By David E. Wilkins and K. Tsianina Lomawaima $26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3395-9

Ball begins his examination of the erosion of tribal sovereignty by reviewing the socalled Marshall trilogy, the three cases that established two fundamental principles: tribal sovereignty and the power of Congress to protect Indian tribes from the encroachment of state law. Neither the Supreme Court nor Congress has remained faithful to these principles, Ball shows. Beginning with Williams v. Lee, a 1959 case that highlighted the tenuous position of Native legal authority over reservation lands and their residents, Ball analyzes multiple key cases, demonstrating how the Supreme Court’s decisions weakened the criminal, civil, and taxation authority of tribal nations. During an era when many tribes were strengthening their economies and preserving their cultural identities, the high court was undermining sovereignty.

In Atkinson Trading Co. v. Shirley (2001) and Nevada v. Hicks (2001), for example, the Court all but obliterated tribal authority over non-Indians on Native land.

By drawing on the private papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justices Harry A. Blackmun, William J. Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, William O. Douglas, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., and Hugo L. Black, Ball offers crucial insight into federal Indian law from the perspective of the justices themselves. 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.

Dewi Ioan Ball holds a PhD in history from Swansea University in Wales and is coeditor of Competing Voices in Native America. He teaches at YGG Tirdeunaw Welsh Primary School in Swansea.

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From Huronia to Wendakes Adversity, Migration, and Resilience, 1650–1900 Edited by Thomas Peace and Kathryn Labelle From the first contact with Europeans to the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812, the Wendat peoples have been an intrinsic part of North American history. Although the story of these peoples—also known as Wyandot or Wyandotte—has been woven into the narratives of European-Native encounters, colonialism, and conquest, the Wendats’ later experiences remain largely missing from history. From Huronia to Wendakes seeks to fill this gap, countering the common impression that these peoples disappeared after 1650, when they were driven from their homeland Wendake Ehen, also known as Huronia, in modern-day southern Ontario.

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. What emerges from these varied perspectives is a complex picture that encapsulates both the cultural resilience and the diversity of these peoples. Together, the essays reveal that while the Wendats, like all people, are ever-changing, their nations have developed adaptive strategies to maintain their predispersal culture in the face of such pressures as Christianity and colonial economies.

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Just as the Wendats have linked multiple Wendakes through migrations forced and voluntary, the various perspectives of these emerging scholars are knitted together by the shared purpose of filling in Wendat history beyond the seventeenth century. This approach, along with the authors’ collaboration with modern Wendat communities, has resulted in a rich and coherent narrative that in turn enriches our understanding of North American history.

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Thomas Peace is Assistant Professor of History at Huron University College and a founding editor of the website Active History. Kathryn Magee Labelle, Assistant Professor of Aboriginal History at the University of Saskatchewan, is the author of the award-winning book Dispersed but Not Destroyed: A History of the Seventeenth-Century Wendat People.

THE MUNSEE INDIANS A History

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PEACE, LABELLE FROM HURONIA TO WENDAKES

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LEVINE DOÑA TERESA CONFRONTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION

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

By Frances Levine

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By John L. Kessell $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3484-0 BONFIRES OF CULTURE Franciscans, Indigenous Leaders, and the Inquisition in Early Mexico, 1524–1540

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In 1598, at the height of the Spanish Inquisition, New Mexico became Spain’s northernmost New World colony. The censures of the Catholic Church reached all the way to Santa Fe, where in the mid-1660s, Doña Teresa Aguilera y Roche, the wife of New Mexico governor Bernardo López de Mendizábal, came under the Inquisition’s scrutiny. She and her husband were tried in Mexico City for the crime of judaizante, the practice of Jewish rituals. Using the handwritten briefs that Doña Teresa prepared for her defense, as well as depositions by servants, ethnohistorian Frances Levine paints a remarkable portrait of daily life in seventeenth-century New Mexico. Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition also offers a rare glimpse into the intellectual and emotional life of an educated European woman at a particularly dangerous time in Spanish colonial history.

New Mexico’s remoteness attracted crypto-Jews and conversos, Jews who practiced their faith behind a front of Roman Catholicism. But were Doña Teresa and her husband truly conversos? Or were the charges against them simply their enemies’ means of silencing political opposition? Doña Teresa had grown up in Italy and had lived in Colombia as the daughter of the governor of Cartagena. She was far better educated than most of the men in New Mexico. But education and prestige were no protection against persecution. The fine furnishings, fabrics, and tableware that Doña Teresa installed in the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe made her an object of suspicion and jealousy, and her ability to read and write in several languages made her the target of outlandish claims.

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.

Frances Levine, President of the Missouri Historical Society and Museum in St. Louis, is author of Our Prayers Are in This Place: Pecos Pueblo Identity over the Centuries and coeditor of Telling New Mexico: A New History and Battles and Massacres on the Southwestern Frontier: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives.

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BEEKMAN, PICKERING SHAFT TOMBS AND FIGURES IN WEST MEXICAN SOCIETY

An international team of contributors reconnect field research on the shaft tombs of western Mexico

Shaft Tombs and Figures in West Mexican Society A Reassessment Edited by Christopher S. Beekman and Robert B. Pickering This volume brings together an international team of contributors to reconnect field research on the shaft tombs of western Mexico (ca. 300 b.c.–a.d. 500) with museum-based research on the distinctive human figures for which the region is known. These finely made figures and dioramas have attracted the interest of archaeologists, art historians, and museum curators for over a century because of their expressiveness and rich detail, tempered by the sad fact that most of these objects were looted from shaft and chamber tombs and sold on the wider art market. This volume presents current research reflecting multiple perspectives and using many new techniques for delving into the forms, functions, and meanings of these enigmatic figures.

Fourteen insightful chapters present new research in four thematic sections: (1) Case studies: Archaeological and biological studies, (2) Broader perspectives: The contexts of figures and tombs across larger areas, (3) Collections-based research: Natural science or statistical perspectives, and (4) Collections-based research: Visual culture perspectives. In addition, the editors provide a comprehensive historical overview of research on the figures and tombs and a discussion of archaeology’s twin evils, looting and faking. In the final chapter, the editors propose avenues for productive new research that integrates different disciplinary approaches and takes advantage of new technologies that help scientists explore the past in new ways.

This volume aims to expose current researchers in western Mexico and Mesoamerica at large to the productive lines of study currently taking place in the field, the laboratory, and the museum, and to increase awareness of the potential that exists for integrative and collaborative research.

Christopher S. Beekman, University of Colorado–Denver, has carried out archaeological research in Jalisco since 1993. His interests lie in the reconstruction and understanding of ancient political systems in this area, and in the role played by group identity. Robert B. Pickering has pursued archaeological and osteological research in north and west Mexico for more than 30 years. His research in human osteology and mortuary behavior led him to explore the ceramic figures found with human remains in the shaft and chamber tombs of western Mexico.

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SCHWALLER GÉNEROS DE GENTE IN EARLY COLONIAL MEXICO

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Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico Defining Racial Difference

By Robert C. Schwaller On December 19, 1554, the members of Tenochtitlan’s indigenous cabildo, or city council, petitioned Emperor Charles V of Spain for administrative changes “to save us from any Spaniard, mestizo, black, or mulato afflicting us in the marketplace, on the roads, in the canal, or in our homes.” Within thirty years of the conquest, the presence of these groups in New Spain was large enough to threaten the social, economic, and cultural order of the indigenous elite. In Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico, an ambitious rereading of colonial history, Robert C. Schwaller proposes using the Spanish term géneros de gente (types or categories of people) as part of a more nuanced perspective on what these categories of difference meant and how they evolved. His work revises our understanding of racial hierarchy in Mexico, the repercussions of which reach into the present.

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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 AFTER MOCTEZUMA Indigenous Politics and Self-Government in Mexico City, 1524–1730

By William F. Connell $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4175-6 “STRANGE LANDS AND DIFFERENT PEOPLES” Spaniards and Indians in Colonial Guatemala

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Schwaller traces the connections between medieval Iberian ideas of difference and the unique societies forged in the Americas. He analyzes the ideological and legal development of géneros de gente into a system that began to resemble modern notions of race. He then examines the lives of early colonial mestizos and mulatos to show how individuals of mixed ancestry experienced the colonial order. By pairing an analysis of legal codes with a social history of mixed-race individuals, his work reveals the disjunction between the establishment of a common colonial language of what would become race and the ability of the colonial Spanish state to enforce such distinctions. Even as the colonial order established a system of governance that entrenched racial differences, colonial subjects continued to mediate their racial identities through social networks, cultural affinities, occupation, and residence.

Presenting a more complex picture of the ways difference came to be defined in colonial Mexico, this book exposes important tensions within Spanish colonialism and the developing social order. It affords a significant new view of the development and social experience of race—in early colonial Mexico and afterward.

Robert C. Schwaller is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. His research focuses on the development of racial identity in early colonial Latin America.

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Tlacaelel Remembered Mastermind of the Aztec Empire

By Susan Schroeder The enigmatic and powerful Tlacaelel (1398–1487), wrote annalist Chimalpahin, was “the beginning and origin” of the Mexica monarchy in fifteenth-century Mesoamerica. Brother of the first Moteuczoma, Tlacaelel would become “the most powerful, feared, and esteemed man of all that the world had seen up to that time.”

But this outsize figure of Aztec history has also long been shrouded in mystery.

In Tlacaelel Remembered, the first biography of the Mexica nobleman, Susan Schroeder searches out the truth about his life and legacy.

A century after Tlacaelel’s death, in the wake of the conquistadors, Spaniards and natives recorded the customs, histories, and language of the Nahua, or Aztec, people. Three of these chroniclers—fray Diego Durán, don Hernando Alvarado Tezozomoc, and especially don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin—wrote of Tlacaelel. But the inaccessibility of Chimalpahin’s annals has meant that for centuries of Aztec history, Tlacaelel has appeared, if at all, as a myth.

Working from Chimalpahin’s newly available writings and exploring connections and variances in other source materials, Schroeder draws the clearest possible portrait of Tlacaelel, revealing him as the architect of the Aztec empire’s political power and its military might—a politician on par with Machiavelli. As the advisor to five Mexica rulers, Tlacaelel shaped the organization of the Mexica state and broadened the reach of its empire—tasks not seldom accomplished with the spread of warfare, human sacrifice, and cannibalism. In the annals, he is considered the “second king” to the rulers who built the empire, and is given the title “Cihuacoatl,” used for the office of president and judge.

As Schroeder traces Tlacaelel through the annals, she also examines how his story was transmitted and transformed in later histories. The resulting work is the most complete and comprehensive account ever given of this significant figure in Mesoamerican history.

Susan Schroeder is France Vinton Scholes Professor of Colonial Latin American History Emerita at Tulane University and coeditor of Indian Women of Early Mexico and Chimalpahin’s Conquest: A Nahua Historian’s Rewriting of Francisco López de Gómara’s “La Conquista de México.”

VOLUME 276 IN THE CIVILIZATION OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN SERIES

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By Stephanie Wood $36.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3486-4 $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4303-3 CODEX CHIMALPAHIN Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahua Altepetl in Central Mexico, Volume 1 By don Domingo de San Anton Munon Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin $49.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-2921-1 $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-5414-5 AZTEC WARFARE Imperial Expansion and Political Control

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SCHROEDER TLACAELEL REMEMBERED

The first biography of one of the most powerful men in Mesoamerican history

SÁNCHEZ-HERNÁNDEZ ET AL. BATS OF COLIMA, MEXICO

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A comprehensive, full-color account of 66 species of bats

Bats of Colima, Mexico

By Cornelio Sánchez-Hernández, María de Lourdes Romero-Almaraz, Gary D. Schnell, Michael L. Kennedy, Troy L. Best, Robert D. Owen, and Sara B. González-Pérez The tiny state of Colima on Mexico’s Pacific coast is one of the three most biodiverse hot spots in the world. Straddling temperate and tropical zones, with rugged topography ranging from a volcanic mountaintop to sandy beaches, the state shelters nearly half—66—of Mexico’s species of Chiroptera, or bats. In this volume, studded with more than 200 full-color photographs and maps, a team of mammalogists from Mexico and the United States marshal information gathered over decades to present a comprehensive portrait of the bats of Colima.

VOLUME 14 IN THE ANIMAL NATURAL HISTORY SERIES

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WINTER’S HAWK Red-tails on the Southern Plains

By Jim Lish $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4835-9 THE TEXAS TORTOISE A Natural History

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Bats of Colima, Mexico provides readers with the tools necessary to understand and identify each species of Colima’s bat population, from the sac-winged bats of family Emballonuridae to the mustached bats of family Mormoopidae. A dichotomous key indicates how each bat can be differentiated and describes the seven families within which they fall. The authors provide an in-depth description of each species, including a photograph, a map of its distribution across Colima, and information on habitat, reproduction, conservation status, and more.

By calling attention to Colima’s rich chiropteran fauna, Bats of Colima, Mexico should not only foster interest in the rich biodiversity of the region but also nurture further collaboration between scientists and naturalists in the United States and Mexico.

Cornelio Sánchez-Hernández is Research Professor in the Instituto de Biología at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. María de Lourdes RomeroAlmaraz is Professor in the Faculty of Sciences at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Gary D. Schnell is Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of Oklahoma and Curator Emeritus of Birds at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. Michael L. Kennedy is Professor of Biology and Director of the Edward J. Meeman Biological Station at the University of Memphis. Troy L. Best is Professor of Biological Sciences and Curator of Mammals at Auburn University, Alabama. Robert D. Owen is Research Professor of Biology at Texas Tech University and Investigator Level III for PRONII/CONACYT, Paraguay.

Sara B. González-Pérez is Reviewer of Biodiversity Studies for the National Commission for Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO).

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Acrocanthosaurus Inside and Out

By Kenneth Carpenter How can paleontologists know what a living dinosaur was like more than a hundred million years ago, particularly when only partial skeletons remain?

Focusing on one large carnivorous dinosaur, Acrocanthosaurus (“high-spined lizard”), paleontologist Kenneth Carpenter explains the process, pairing scholarly findings with more than 75 color illustrations to reconstruct “Acro” before readers’ eyes. In Acrocanthosaurus Inside and Out, he offers the most complete portrait possible of this fascinating dinosaur’s appearance, biology, and behavior.

Acrocanthosaurus—similar in size to its later cousin Tyrannosaurus rex, but studded with large spines—roamed what is now the south-central United States 110 to 115 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous. Carpenter worked on the most complete of the Acrocanthosaurus skeletons (nicknamed “Fran”) that has been found. Here he describes the techniques that tell us about Acro’s biological makeup, movements, and habits. Studies of joints reveal the range of possible motion, while bumps, ridges, and scars on the bones show where muscles, ligaments, and tendons attached. CT-scans allow us to peer into the braincase, while microscopes afford a cross-sectional view of bones. These findings in turn offer an idea of how Acro stalked and ate its prey.

Scientific evidence beyond the fossils provides avenues for further inquiry: What does the sedimentary rock encasing Fran’s bones tell us about Acro’s environment?

What does our knowledge of Acro’s distant relatives, such as crocodilians and birds, imply about its heart and other soft tissues? Can our understanding of other animals explain Acro’s huge spines?

Carpenter distills all this information into a clear, accessible, engaging account that will appeal to general readers and scholars alike. As the first book-length work on Acrocanthosaurus, this volume introduces a prehistoric giant that once stalked Texas and Oklahoma and offers a rare, firsthand glimpse into the trials and triumphs of paleontology.

Kenneth Carpenter is Director and Curator of the Prehistoric Museum of Utah State University–Eastern and author of numerous popular and scholarly articles on dinosaurs. Among other books, he is the author of Eggs, Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs: A Look at Dinosaur Reproduction.

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CARPENTER ACROCANTHOSAURUS INSIDE AND OUT

The first book on a giant meat-eating dinosaur that stalked North America long before T-rex

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Do Facts Matter?

Motoring West

Information and Misinformation in American Politics

By Jennifer L. Hochschild and Katherine Levine Einstein

Volume 1: Automobile Pioneers, 1900–1909 Edited by Peter J. Blodgett Explores the beginning of Americans’ love affair with the automobile—and the road west

HOCHSCHILD, EINSTEIN DO FACTS MATTER?

BLODGETT MOTORING WEST

What citizens know, don’t know, and only think they know, and what political difference it makes A democracy falters when most of its citizens are uninformed or misinformed, when misinformation affects political decisions and actions, or when political actors foment misinformation— the state of affairs the United States faces today, as this timely book makes painfully clear. In Do Facts Matter? Jennifer L. Hochschild and Katherine Levine Einstein ask, What are the consequences if citizens are informed but do not act on their knowledge? More serious, what if they do act, but on incorrect information?

In the first years of the twentieth century, motoring across the west was at least an adventure and at most an audacious stunt.

For aspiring western travelers, automobiles formed an integral part of their search for new experiences and destinations, and like earlier explorers and thrill seekers, these adventurers recorded their experiences. Scores of articles, pamphlets, and books, collected for the first time in Motoring West, create a vibrant picture of the American West in the age of automotive ascendancy—viewed from behind the wheel.

Analyzing the use, nonuse, and misuse of facts in various cases—such as the call to impeach Bill Clinton, the response to global warming, Clarence Thomas’s appointment to the Supreme Court, the case for invading Iraq, beliefs about Barack Obama’s birthplace and religion, and the Affordable Care Act—Hochschild and Einstein argue persuasively that errors of commission (that is, acting on falsehoods) are even more troublesome than errors of omission.

Documenting the beginning of Americans’ love affair with automobiles, the pieces in Motoring West—the first of a planned series—offer a panorama of motoring travelers’ visions of the burgeoning West. Historian Peter J. Blodgett’s sources range from forgotten archives to company brochures to magazines such as Harper’s Monthly, Sunset, and Outing. Voices from motoring’s early days instruct, inform, and entertain, while Blodgett’s engaging introductions couch the writers’ commentaries within their time.

Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, is the author of Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America. Katherine Levine Einstein is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston University.

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Motoring West illustrates not only how the automobile opened the American West before 1909 to more and more travelers, but also how the West began to change with their arrival.

Peter J. Blodgett is the H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western American Manuscripts at the Huntington Library and author of Land of Golden Dreams: California in the Gold Rush Decade, 1848–1858.

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Arapaho Women’s Quillwork

Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea

Motion, Life, and Creativity

By Jeffrey D. Anderson

Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols

By Rebecca Kay Jager

The first comprehensive examination of this distinctly female art form

Anderson demonstrates how—through quillwork—Arapaho women became central participants in ritual life, often studied as the exclusive domain of men. Drawing on early-nineteenthcentury ethnography, extensive fieldwork with Northern Arapahos, and analysis of museum collections, Arapaho Women’s Quillwork masterfully shows the importance of this unique art form to Arapaho life and honors the devotion of the artists who maintained this tradition for so many generations.

Jeffrey D. Anderson is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He is the author of One Hundred Years of Old Man Sage: An Arapaho Life Story and The Four Hills of Life: Northern Arapaho Knowledge and Life Movement.

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Well before their first contact with Europeans or Anglo-Americans, the Aztecs of Central Mexico (Malinche), Powhatans of the midAtlantic coast (Pocahontas), and Shoshones of the northern Rocky Mountains (Sacagawea) were dealing with complex ethnic tensions and social change. Using wit and diplomacy learned in their Native cultures, all three women hoped to benefit their communities by engaging with the new arrivals. But Europeans and white Americans often misunderstood female expertise in diplomacy, interpreting indigenous women’s cooperation as attraction to Euro-American men and culture. Their misrepresentation as gracious Indian princesses gives little credit to their skills as intermediaries.

Rebecca Kay Jager delineates the symbolic roles that Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea play in national creation stories, showing how Mexico and the United States have molded their legends to justify European colonization and condemn it, explain Indian defeat, and celebrate indigenous prehistory. These women fulfilled crucial roles in times of pivotal and enduring change.

Understanding their stories helps us understand our histories.

Rebecca K. Jager, who holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of New Mexico, is an independent scholar whose research focuses on the interaction between gender and race in U.S. history.

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JAGER MALINCHE, POCAHONTAS, AND SACAGAWEA

Until the early twentieth century and the disruption of removal, porcupine quillwork was practiced by many indigenous cultures throughout North America. For Arapahos, quillwork played a central role in religious life and their most sacred traditions.

Quillwork was manifest in almost all Arapaho ceremonies and adorned many everyday objects, such as cradles, robes, moccasins, and tipis.

The first Europeans in North America relied on Native women to help them navigate unfamiliar customs and places.

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

ANDERSON ARAPAHO WOMEN’S QUILLWORK

More than a hundred years ago, anthropologists collected and studied hundreds of examples of quillwork once created by Arapaho women. Since that time, other types of Plains Indian art have received greater attention. Author Jeffrey D. Anderson brings this distinctly female art form into its rightful spotlight within art history and anthropology. Beautifully illustrated with more than 50 color and black-and-white images, Arapaho Women’s Quillwork is the first comprehensive examination of quillwork within Arapaho ritualized traditions.

Three Native cultural brokers of the Age of Exploration who became national icons

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Bret Harte

Verne Sankey

Opening the American Literary West

By Gary Scharnhorst

America’s First Public Enemy

By Timothy W. Bjorkman A fast-paced adventure tale of a 1930s kidnapper

SCHARNHORST BRET HARTE

BJORKMAN VERNE SANKEY

An enlightening biography of Bret Harte, considered the founding father of Western literary fiction

Bret Harte was the best-known and highest-paid writer in America in the early 1870s, yet his vexed attempts to earn a living by his pen led to the failure of his marriage and, in 1878, his departure for Europe. Gary Scharnhorst’s biography of Harte traces the growing commercial appeal of western fiction and drama on both sides of the Atlantic during the Gilded Age, a development in which Harte played a crucial role.

Harte’s pioneering use of California local color in such stories as “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” challenged genteel assumptions about western writing and helped open eastern papers to contributions by Mark Twain and others. The popularity of Bret Harte’s writings was driven largely by a literary market that his western stories helped create.

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.

Gary Scharnhorst is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico and author of numerous books, including Owen Wister and the West and Julian Hawthorne: The Life of a Prodigal Son. SEPTEMBER $24.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-3254-9 $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5351-3 276 PAGES, 5.5 × 8.5 22 B&W ILLUS. BIOGRAPHY VOLUME 17 IN THE OKLAHOMA WESTERN BIOGRAPHIES

In late January 1934, as authorities delivered John Dillinger to an Indiana jail, the United States Justice Department announced that, for the first time, the Federal Bureau of Investigation had just captured America’s Public Enemy No. 1. It was not Dillinger, but an affable railroader turned outlaw—Verne Sankey. This first full-length biography of the overlooked criminal relates how a South Dakota family man became a bootlegger, bank robber, and eventually, a kidnapper whose deeds heralded a nationwide crime spree.

During Prohibition, Sankey, a locomotive engineer, was drawn to the easy money of bootlegging. When crime syndicates monopolized the trade and Prohibition’s end was in sight, he turned to bank robbery and eventually to a ransom scheme.

Tracing Sankey’s life, Timothy W. Bjorkman depicts a goodnatured man, friendly neighbor, and gentleman rumrunner catering to bankers and brokers. Bjorkman explores Sankey’s motivations, his identification as America’s first Public Enemy, and his ultimate descent into oblivion.

A riveting narrative set amid the Great Depression, Verne Sankey: America’s First Public Enemy reveals the stark contrast between wealth and poverty during some of America’s most harrowing days.

Timothy W. Bjorkman is a judge for the First Judicial Circuit in Salem, South Dakota, his native state.

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A Dragon’s Head and a Serpent’s Tail

The Great Call-Up

A fresh perspective on the late Ming and early modern East Asia

Unveils a little-known yet vital chapter in American military history

The invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592 was one of the decisive events in Asian history and the most tragic for the Korean peninsula until the mid-twentieth century.

Japanese overlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi envisioned conquering Korea, Ming China, and eventually all of Asia; but Korea’s appeal to China’s Emperor Wanli for assistance triggered a six-year war involving hundreds of thousands of soldiers and encompassing the whole region. For Japan, the war was “a dragon’s head followed by a serpent’s tail”: an impressive beginning with no real ending.

The first full-length scholarly study in English of this important conflict, A Dragon’s Head and a Serpent’s Tail offers new insight into the history of warfare in Asia and a conflict that reverberates in international relations to this day.

Kenneth M. Swope is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the editor of Warfare in China since 1600 and the author of The Military Collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty, 1618–1644.

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Marshaling evidence from newspapers, state archives, reports to Congress, and War Department documents, Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler trace the call-up’s deployment from San Antonio and Corpus Christi, along the Texas and Arizona borders, to California. Along the way, they tell the story of this mass mobilization by examining each unit as it was called up by state, considering its composition, missions, and internal politics.

Through this period of intensive training, the Guard became a truly cohesive national, then international, force.

Balancing sweeping change over time with a keen eye for detail, The Great Call-Up unveils a little-known yet vital chapter in American military history.

Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler are professors emeritus of history at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. They are the coauthors of a half-dozen books, including The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910–1920; The Secret War in El Paso: Mexican Revolutionary Intrigue, 1906–1920; and The Plan de San Diego: Tejano Rebellion, Mexican Intrigue.

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HARRIS, SADLER THE GREAT CALL-UP

Drawing on Korean, Japanese, and Chinese sources, Kenneth M. Swope corrects earlier Japan-centered perspectives, depicting Wanli not as a self-indulgent ruler but as a ruler actively engaged in military affairs—and concerned with rescuing China’s client state of Korea. Swope puts the Ming in a more vigorous role, detailing Chinese siege warfare, the development and deployment of innovative military technologies, and the naval battles that marked the climax of the war.

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.

SWOPE A DRAGON’S HEAD AND A SERPENT’S TAIL

Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592–1598

By Kenneth M. Swope

The Guard, the Border, and the Mexican Revolution

By Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler

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Free to Be Mohawk

The Most Promising Young Officer

Indigenous Education at the Akwesasne Freedom School

By Louellyn White

A Life of Ranald Slidell Mackenzie

By Michael D. Pierce

PIERCE THE MOST PROMISING YOUNG OFFICER

WHITE FREE TO BE MOHAWK

An in-depth account of a successful culture and languageimmersion school controlled by the Akwesasne community

Akwesasne territory straddles the U.S.-Canada border in upstate New York, Ontario, and Quebec. In 1979, in the midst of a major conflict regarding self-governance, traditional Mohawks there 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.

Through interviews, participant observations, and archival research, White presents an in-depth picture of the Akwesasne Freedom School as a model of Indigenous holistic education that incorporates traditional teachings, experiential methods, and language immersion. Alumni, parents, and teachers describe how the school has fostered a strong sense of what it is to be “fully Mohawk.” White’s timely study reminds readers of the critical importance of an Indigenous nation’s authority over the education of its children.

Louellyn White is an Assistant Professor in the First Peoples Studies Program at Concordia University in Montreal. Her work has been published in the Encyclopedia of American Indian History and the American Indian Culture and Research Journal.

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The biography of a brilliant but often overlooked commander in the American West

Unlike the flashy George Armstrong Custer, Civil War veteran and Indian fighter Ranald Slidell Mackenzie is not well known today. Yet in the late nineteenth century, Mackenzie ranked among the best known and most effective young army colonels to lead in the defeat of the Plains Indians and the opening of the West to white settlement.

In this compelling and poignant biography, Michael D. Pierce portrays Mackenzie as a shy, sometimes distant personality. After graduating from West Point in 1862, Mackenzie showed early promise in the Civil War. After peace was won, he moved west to command frontier regiments and was soon given command of the Fourth Cavalry. The Fourth became troubleshooters throughout Texas and the Plains for President Grant and Generals Sherman and Sheridan. Like many military leaders in the West, Mackenzie had a genuine respect for Indians and learned to deal fairly with them on the reservations.

Unfortunately, Mackenzie’s untimely illness and death prevented him from directly influencing the last years of the Indian wars and development of the twentieth-century army. But in military capability and effectiveness, Ranald Slidell Mackenzie stands with the best officers in the post–Civil War army.

Michael D. Pierce retired as Tarleton State University history professor and social sciences department head after 31 years of teaching. He is the author of Andrew Johnson and the South, 1865–1867.

SEPTEMBER $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5405-3 308 PAGES, 5.5 × 8.5 14 B&W ILLUS., 6 MAPS BIOGRAPHY/MILITARY HISTORY

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Tarahumara Medicine

Goff on Goff

Ethnobotany and Healing among the Rarámuri of Mexico

By Fructuoso Irigoyen-Rascón With Alfonso Paredes

Conversations and Lectures Edited by Philip B. Welch Foreword by Arthur Dyson

The most complete account of the culture and medicine of the “great runners”

The Tarahumara, one of North America’s oldest surviving aboriginal groups, call themselves Rarámuri, meaning “nimble feet”—and though they live in relative isolation in Chihuahua, Mexico, their agility in long-distance running is famous worldwide. Tarahumara Medicine is the first in-depth look into the culture that sustains the “great runners.” Having spent a decade in Tarahumara communities as a medical student and as a physician and cultural observer, author Fructuoso Irigoyen-Rascón is a uniquely qualified guide to the Rarámuri’s approach to medicine and healing.

Fructuoso Irigoyen-Rascón is a psychiatrist in McAllen, Texas. A former researcher at universities in Mexico and the United States, he has written extensively about Rarámuri ethnography and medical conditions. Alfonso Paredes is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California–Los Angeles and author of more than 100 medical papers—several on the Tarahumara.

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Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

In the 1950s, when Goff headed the University of Oklahoma School of Architecture, Oklahoma emerged as the nation’s most daring, avant-garde architectural training ground. Philip B. Welch—Goff’s student, longtime friend, and a prominent teacher of architecture—compiled these discussions from tapes recorded with Goff’s permission. Goff on Goff embodies some of the architect’s most stimulating lectures and conversations, never before available to readers.

Goff’s now-legendary teaching method stressed honesty— to materials, the creative impulse, the client, the total environment. His torrents of words, ideas, and exhortations held listeners spellbound. Recalling the enthusiasm Goff’s students felt for the future of architecture, Welch points out that Goff’s ideas are as pertinent today as when he delivered these candid talks.

Philip B. Welch practiced architecture, chaired the Departments of Art and Architecture and Creative Arts at Santa Clara University, and taught at California Polytechnic State University, the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Illinois, University of California–Berkeley, and the University of Oklahoma. Arthur Dyson is an award-winning architect based in Fresno, California.

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Irigoyen-Rascón situates readers in the Rarámuri’s environment, describing their health and nutrition, the landscape surrounding them, and key aspects of their culture, from long-distance kick-ball races to religious dances. He describes the Tarahumaras’ curing ceremonies, including their ritual use of peyote, and provides a comprehensive description of their traditional herbal remedies, including botanical characteristics, attributed effects, and uses.

Architect Bruce Goff was not afraid to be different. One of the most innovative designers the United States produced in the twentieth century, Goff worked with Frank Lloyd Wright and was part of a select band that rode the crest of the architectural wave that swept through America with the post–World War II technological revolution.

IRIGOYEN-RASCÓN, PAREDES TARAHUMARA MEDICINE

Talks with one of America’s most innovative architects of the twentieth century

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The Union Raid on Richmond, 1864

The Baker Massacre

A Texas Memoir of Place

Catastrophe, Memory, and Trauma

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By Bruce M. Venter

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Abel, Guibert, 18 Acrocanthosaurus Inside and Out, Carpenter, 45 Anderson, Arapaho Women’s Quillwork, 47 Arapaho Women’s Quillwork, Anderson, 47 Art in Motion, Lukavic/Caruso, 15 At Sword’s Point, Pt. 2, MacKinnon, 22

Ecelbarger, Slaughter at the Chapel, 5 Edward Eberstadt & Sons, Vinson, 36 Erosion of Tribal Power, The, Ball, 38

Kearny’s Dragoons Out West, W. Gorenfeld/J. Gorenfeld, 20

Road to War, Lubetkin, 28

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Laughlin/Stalling/Liu Hongtao, By the River, 6 Levine, Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition, 40 Liberty, Horseback Schoolmarm, 2 Lois Lenski, Malone, 3 Lubetkin, Road to War, 28 Lukavic/Caruso, Art in Motion, 15 MacKinnon, At Sword’s Point, Pt. 2, 22 Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea, Jager, 47 Malone, Lois Lenski, 3 Mapping the Four Corners, McPherson/Neel, 29 McPherson/Neel, Mapping the Four Corners, 29 Melville, The Campaigns of Sargon II, King of Assyria, 721–705 b.c., 17 Montana’s Pioneer Naturalist, Dennison, 30 Moore, Sweet Freedom’s Plains, 35 Most Promising Young Officer, The, M. Pierce, 50 Motoring West, Blodgett, 46

Sánchez-Hernández et al., Bats of Colima, Mexico, 44 Scharnhorst, Bret Harte, 48 Schroeder, Tlacaelel Remembered, 43 Schwaller, Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico, 42 Scott/Paul, Sign Talker, 26 Shaft Tombs and Figures in West Mexican Society, Beekman/Pickering, 41 Sharp, Wild Spaces, Open Seasons, 13 Shifting Views and Changing Places, Dingus/ Briggs, 12 Show Town, George, 33 Sign Talker, Scott/Paul, 26 Slaughter at the Chapel, Ecelbarger, 5 Soldiering in the Shadow of Wounded Knee, Clark/Greene, 24 Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums, Gleason, 25 Sweeney, Prelude to the Dust Bowl, 32 Sweet Freedom’s Plains, Moore, 35 Swope, A Dragon’s Head and a Serpent’s Tail, 49

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B Baker, Portrait of Route 66, 1 Ball, The Erosion of Tribal Power, 38 Bats of Colima, Mexico, Sánchez-Hernández et al., 44 Beekman/Pickering, Shaft Tombs and Figures in West Mexican Society, 41 Bjorkman, Verne Sankey, 48 Black Cowboys in the American West, Glasrud/ Searles, 34 Blodgett, Motoring West, 46 Blood on the Border, Dunbar-Ortiz, 4 Bret Harte, Scharnhorst, 48 By the River, Laughlin/Stalling/Liu Hongtao, 6

C Campaigns of Sargon II, King of Assyria, 721–705 b.c., The, Melville, 17 Cantú, The Forked Juniper, 37 Carpenter, Acrocanthosaurus Inside and Out, 45 Clark/Greene, Soldiering in the Shadow of Wounded Knee, 24 Cronley, Poke a Stick at It, 7 Cutler, “Hang Them All,” 21

D Dennison, Montana’s Pioneer Naturalist, 30 Dingus/Briggs, Shifting Views and Changing Places, 12 Dirty Deeds, Taniguchi, 27 Do Facts Matter? Hochschild/Einstein, 46 Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition, Levine, 40 Dragon’s Head and a Serpent’s Tail, A, Swope, 49 Drawn to Yellowstone, Hassrick, 10 Duchemin, New Deal Cowboy, 31 Dunbar-Ortiz, Blood on the Border, 4

Forked Juniper, The, Cantú, 37 Forty-Seventh Star, Holtby, 11 Free to Be Mohawk, White, 50 From Huronia to Wendakes, Peace/Labelle, 39

G Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico, Schwaller, 42 George, Show Town, 33 Glasrud/Searles, Black Cowboys in the American West, 34 Gleason, Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums, 25 Goff on Goff, Welch, 51 Gorenfeld, W./J. Gorenfeld, Kearny’s Dragoons Out West, 20 Great Call-Up, The, Harris/Sadler, 49 Guibert, Abel, 18

H “Hang Them All,” Cutler, 21 Harris/Sadler, The Great Call-Up, 49 Hassrick, Drawn to Yellowstone, 10 Hedren, Powder River, 23 Hitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars, Westerman, 19 Hochschild/Einstein, Do Facts Matter? 46 Holtby, Forty-Seventh Star, 11 Horseback Schoolmarm, Liberty, 2

I Irigoyen-Rascón/Paredes, Tarahumara Medicine, 51

J Jager, Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea, 47

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New Deal Cowboy, Duchemin, 31 New England/New Spain, D. Pierce, 16

O Our Indian Summer in the Far West, Townshend/Hyde/Hunt/Loyd, 14

P Peace/Labelle, From Huronia to Wendakes, 39 Picturing Indian Territory, Price, 8-9 Pierce, D., New England/New Spain, 16 Pierce, M., The Most Promising Young Officer, 50 Poke a Stick at It, Cronley, 7 Portrait of Route 66, Baker, 1 Powder River, Hedren, 23 Prelude to the Dust Bowl, Sweeney, 32 Price, Picturing Indian Territory, 8-9

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Taniguchi, Dirty Deeds, 27 Tarahumara Medicine, Irigoyen-Rascón/ Paredes, 51 Tlacaelel Remembered, Schroeder, 43 Townshend/Hyde/Hunt/Loyd, Our Indian Summer in the Far West, 14

V Verne Sankey, Bjorkman, 48 Vinson, Edward Eberstadt & Sons, 36

W Welch, Goff on Goff, 51 Westerman, Hitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars, 19 White, Free to Be Mohawk, 50 Wild Spaces, Open Seasons, Sharp, 13

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