2017 American West Catalog

2017

American West UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS

American West CONTENTS American Indian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Art & Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Biography & Memoir. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Forthcoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

For more than eighty-five years, the University of Oklahoma Press has published award-winning books about the American West and we are proud to bring to you our latest catalog. The catalog features the newest titles from both the University of Oklahoma Press and the Arthur H. Clark Company.

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

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

Price and availability subject to change without notice.

On the front and in the catalog:: William F. Cody Seated with Quirt and Rifle,” Elliott and Fry (photographers), London, 1887. Courtesy of the McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Center of the West.

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American Indian American Indian Education, 2nd Edition A History

By Jon Reyhner and Jeanne Eder $29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5776-4 · 408 Pages The history of American Indian education from colonial times to the present relates how Euro-Americans disrupted and suppressed Native cultural practices, and Indians actively pursued and preserved them. American Indian Education recounts that history from early missionary and government schools to recent efforts to return school control to Indigenous peoples.

Both Sides of the Bullpen Navajo Trade and Posts

By Robert S. McPherson $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5745-0 · 376 Pages Between 1880 and 1940, Navajo and Ute families and westward-trending Anglos met in “bullpens” of southwestern trading posts to barter for goods, and a wealth of cultural knowledge also changed hands. McPherson reveals how Navajo tradition defined trading practices in the Four Corners area of southeastern Utah and southwestern Colorado.

“That’s What They Used to Say” Reflections on American Indian Oral Traditions

By Donald L. Fixico $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5775-7 · 272 Pages Fixico invites readers to learn how storytelling, legends and prophecies, oral histories, and creation myths knit together and explain the Indian world. His stories conjure war heroes and ghosts, inspire fear and laughter, explain the past and foresee the future—and skillfully connect personal, familial, tribal, and Native history.

The Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Resilience through Adversity Edited by Stephen Warren $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5744-3 · 384 Pages Non-Indians have amassed records of Shawnee leaders dating back to the French and Indian War and War of 1812, but their descendants’ stories are largely ignored. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century experiences, Warren presents a new brand of history made possible by tribal community research centers and digital age resources.

Land Too Good for Indians Northern Indian Removal

By John P. Bowes $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5965-2 · 320 Pages $29.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5212-7 ∙ 320 Pages In expanding the context of removal to include the Old Northwest, and adding a portrait of Native communities there before, during, and after removal, Bowes paints a more accurate—and complicated—picture of American Indian history in the nineteenth century. Land Too Good for Indians reveals the deeper complexities of this crucial time in American history.

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Webs of Kinship Family in Northern Cheyenne Nationhood

By Christina Gish Hill $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5601-9 · 400 Pages Hill focuses on Cheyennes who lived alongside Dull Knife, Little Wolf, Little Chief, and Two Moons to reveal the role of kinship in the tribe’s navigation of U.S. colonial policy during removal and the early reservation period. Kinship safeguarded Cheyenne political autonomy in the face of U.S. encroachment, allowing them to shape their own story.

Crow Jesus Personal Stories of Native Religious Belonging Edited by Mark Clatterbuck Foreword by Jace Weaver $29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5587-6 · 280 Pages Clatterbuck explores contemporary Native Christianity by listening as indigenous voices narrate their stories on their own terms. His collection reveals a tribe that has adopted Christian beliefs and practices in such a way that simple designations of religious belonging—whether “Christian,” “Sun Dancer,” or “Peyotist”—are seldom, if ever, adequate.

Reservation Politics Historical Trauma, Economic Development, and Intratribal Conflict

By Raymond I. Orr $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5391-9 · 256 Pages For American Indians, tribal politics are paramount, determining standards for tribal enrollment, guiding negotiations with outside governments, and helping set economic and cultural goals. Exploring how different tribes’ politics and internal conflicts have evolved, Reservation Politics offers insight into the role of historical experience in the political lives of American Indians.

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

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

“Proponents of tribal sovereignty now consider the U.S. Supreme Court to be the most dangerous branch of government. In The Erosion of Tribal Power, Dewi Ball explains why. He shows how the Court’s decisions have stripped tribal governments of significant criminal, civil, and taxation authority, with devastating effects in Indian Country.”—Blake Watson, author of Buying American from the Indians: Johnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native Land Rights

Ioway Life Reservation and Reform, 1837–1860

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

“In Ioway Life, Greg Olson does a superb job of filling in important gaps left by previous scholars regarding the outcome of federal paternalistic policy implemented among the Ioways on their reservation from 1837 to 1860.”

—William E. Unrau, author of The Rise and Fall of Indian Country, 1825–1855

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

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

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

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

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

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

Imagining Sovereignty Self-Determination in American Indian Law and Literature

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

Art & Photography Paul Pletka Imagined Wests

By Amy Scott Contributions by Paul Pletka Foreword by James K. Ballinger $65.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5721-4 · 248 Pages Paul Pletka’s paintings owe much to the West of his childhood, and more to the West of his imagination. Here readers encounter more than eighty color reproductions, including images of warriors and shamans paired with depictions of George Armstrong Custer, Christian saints, and the lost gods of North and South America.

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Walter Ufer Rise, Fall, Resurrection

By Dean A. Porter $29.95 Paper · 978-0-932154-74-3 · 112 pages Porter examines the life and work of one of America’s most talented artists, relatively unknown outside a circle of collectors and scholars. Born in Germany, Ufer became a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists.

His career, spanning nearly forty years, was filled with success, failure, and adversity.

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The Best of Proctor’s West An In-Depth Study of Eleven of Proctor’s Bronzes

By Peter H. Hassrick Contributions by Karen B. McWhorter and Allison Rosenthal $25.00 Paper · 978-0-931618-71-0 · 112 Pages The Buffalo Bill Center of the West houses an extensive collection of material on sculptor Alexander Phimister Proctor (1860–1950), which inspired this study of eleven of his most celebrated bronzes: Fawn, Stalking Panther, Arab Stallion, Indian Warrior, Moose, Elk, Q Street Buffalo, Buckaroo, Pursued, Buffalo Hunt, and On the War Path.

Lakota Performers in Europe Their Culture and the Artifacts They Left Behind

By Steve Friesen With Francois Chladiuk Foreword by Walter Littlemoon $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5696-5 · 304 Pages In 1935 Belgium fifteen Lakotas, wearing beaded moccasins and eaglefeather headdresses, set up tepees, danced, and demonstrated marksmanship and horse taming for twenty million visitors to the Brussels International Exposition, leaving behind 157 pieces of Lakota culture. Friesen tells the story of these forgotten artifacts, and the Lakota performers.

Smoke over Oklahoma The Railroad Photographs of Preston George

By Augustus J. Veenendaal Foreword by Bob L. Blackburn Afterword by Burnis George Argo $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-5568-5 Oklahoma was in the Great Depression when Preston George took his first Kodak photographs of steam locomotives. Later, George used a Graflex camera to capture moving trains. With over 150 images and a wealth of history, Smoke Over Oklahoma is a visual documentary of steam railroading’s glorious heyday in the American Southwest.

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Frederick Weygold Artist and Ethnographer of North American Indians Edited by Christian F. Feest and C. Ronald Corum $29.95s Cloth · 978-3-9818412-0-6 · 272 Pages Frederick Weygold (1870–1941), American artist and self-trained ethnographer, became fascinated with American Indians, taught himself the Lakota language, and began his lifelong study of Native American art.

This lavishly illustrated volume features his work as a painter, illustrator, photographer, and collector of American Indian art and artifacts.

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Picturing Indian Territory Portraits of the Land That Became Oklahoma, 1819–1907 Edited by B. Byron Price $34.95 Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5577-7 ∙ 160 Pages Some of the artworks featured in this volume have never before been displayed. Many were completed by illustrators on-site, 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.

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

Portrait of Route 66 Images from the Curt Teich Postcard Archives

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

Shifting Views and Changing Places The Photographs of Rick Dingus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Kenneth Roahen’s photography is a significant record, and Sandy Barnard’s presentation and assessment of it make Photographing Custer’s Battlefield rich, enlightening, and thoroughly rewarding.”—Jerome A. Greene, author of Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn since 1876

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Branding the American West Paintings and Films, 1900–1950 Edited by Marian Wardle and Sarah E. Boehme $39.95s Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5291-2 ∙ 240 Pages Artists and filmmakers in the early twentieth century reshaped our vision of the American West. In particular, the Taos Society of Artists and the California-based artist Maynard Dixon departed from the legendary depiction of the “Wild West” and fostered new images, or brands, for western art. This volume, illustrated with more than 150 images, examines select paintings and films to demonstrate how these artists both enhanced and contradicted earlier representations of the West.

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

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

Biography & Memoir Portrait of a Prospector Edward Schieffelin’s Own Story Edited by R. Bruce Craig $19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5773-3 · 136 Pages Edward “Ed” Schieffelin (1847–1897) was an American frontiersman. A former Indian scout, he discovered the legendary Tombstone, Arizona, silver lode in 1877. Unlike typical prospectors futilely panning for gold, Schieffelin led an epic life of wealth and adventure. Craig tells Schieffelin’s story in his own words.

Woody Guthrie’s Modern World Blues

By Will Kaufman $32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5761-0 · 328 Pages Mention Woody Guthrie, and people are likely to think of the “Okie Bard.”

Here Kaufman brings to the fore Guthrie’s essays, visual art, letters, verse, fiction, and notebook entries to reveal his profoundly modern sensibilities.

Woody Guthrie’s Modern World Blues offers a unique new perspective on a musical icon.

Orozco The Life and Death of a Mexican Revolutionary

By Raymond Caballero $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5755-9 · 352 Pages On August 31, 1915, a Texas posse lynched five “horse thieves.” One was General Pascual Orozco Jr., military hero of the Mexican Revolution. Was he a desperado or a hero? Orozco’s death proved as controversial as his storied life, a career of mysterious contradictions that Caballero reveals in this biography.

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Ernest Haycox and the Western

By Richard W. Etulain $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5730-6 · 200 Pages Western fans may not recognize the name Ernest Haycox (1899–1950), but John Ford turned one of his stories into the iconic film Stagecoach. Here Etulain tells of Haycox’s rise through the ranks of popular magazine and serial fiction to become one of the Western’s most successful creators.

Walking the Llano A Texas Memoir of Place

By Shelley Armitage $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-5963-8 · 216 Pages $24.95 Cloth ∙ 978-0-8061-5162-5 ∙ 216 Pages Reminiscent of the work of memoirists Terry Tempest Williams and John McPhee, Walking the Llano is both a celebration of an oft-overlooked region and a soaring testimony to the power of the landscape to draw us into greater understanding of ourselves and others by experiencing a deeper connection with the places we inhabit.

“In Walking the Llano, Shelley Armitage does for the Staked Plains what John McPhee did for the Northern Plains in Rising from the Plains. She carefully mines the history, character, and geology of the Llano Estacado and combines it with a compelling personal narrative to create an account that flows with lyricism, authenticity, and wisdom. A splendid and clear-eyed book.”

—Nancy Curtis, coeditor of Leaning into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West

Emory Upton Misunderstood Reformer

By David J. Fitzpatrick $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5720-7 · 344 Pages Emory Upton (1839–1881) works—The Armies of Asia and Europe and The Military Policy of the United States—fueled army changes in the late nineteenth century and Secretary of War Elihu Root’s reforms in the early 1900s.

Fitzpatrick radically revises our view of this important figure in American military thought.

Most American Notes from a Wounded Place

By Rilla Askew Foreword by Susan Kates $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-5717-7 · 184 Pages In her first nonfiction collection, Askew casts an unflinching eye on American history, past and present. With a gift for storytelling, she portrays a place and its people: resilient and ruthless, decent but self-deceiving, generous yet filled with prejudice—the best and the worst of what it means to be American.

Frank Little and the IWW The Blood That Stained an American Family

By Jane L. Botkin $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5500-5 · 512 Pages Franklin Henry Little (1878–1917), an organizer for Western Federation of Miners and Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), fought in some of the early twentieth century’s most contentious labor and free-speech struggles.

Jane Little Botkin chronicles her great-granduncle’s fascinating life, revealing connections to American labor history and the Red Scare.

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J. C. Penney The Man, the Store, and American Agriculture

By David Delbert Kruger $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5716-0 · 360 Pages What is now JCPenney started out as a small-town Main Street store, fusing its founder’s interests in agriculture, retail business, religion, and philanthropy. This biography of James Cash Penney, and story of the company he started in 1902, reveals the agrarian roots of an American department store chain.

John Joseph Mathews Life of an Osage Writer

By Michael Snyder Foreword by Russ Tall Chief $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5609-5 · 280 Pages John Joseph Mathews (1894–1979), Osage Indian and revered Oklahoma author, was one of the first Indigenous writers to gain national renown. Yet his fame did not come easily. Snyder tells the story of one remarkable individual, the Osage Nation, state of Oklahoma, and twentieth-century Native America.

House Built on Ashes A Memoir

By José Antonio Rodríguez $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-5501-2 · 208 Pages The year, 2009, and José Antonio Rodríguez is packing to spend Thanksgiving with his parents in South Texas. He soon learns that a drug cartel has overtaken the Mexican border village where he was born. Poignant and lyrical, House Built on Ashes contemplates the promises, limitations, and contradictions of the American Dream.

America’s Best Female Sharpshooter The Rise and Fall of Lillian Frances Smith

By Julia Bricklin $24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5633-0 · 224 Pages “California Girl” Lillian Frances Smith (1871–1930) was Annie Oakley’s chief competitor in the world of Wild West shows’ female shooters. But the two women were quite different. This lively first biography chronicles the Wild West show biz life Smith led and explores the talents that made her a star.

Poke a Stick at It Unexpected True Stories

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

Montana’s Pioneer Naturalist Morton J. Elrod

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

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New Deal Cowboy Gene Autry and Public Diplomacy

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

Horseback Schoolmarm Montana, 1953–1954

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

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

Fiction The Book of Archives and Other Stories from the Mora Valley, New Mexico

By A. Gabriel Meléndez Foreword by Robert Con Davis-Undiano Paper · 978-0-8061-5584-5 · 248 Pages In the shadow of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico’s Mora Valley harbors the ghosts of history: troubadours and soldiers, Plains Indians, settlers, families fleeing and finding home. Villagers collect their history in “The Book of Archives.” In this pathbreaking dual-language volume, Meléndez retells Mora Valley’s tales for our time.

Frank on the Prairie

By Harry Castlemon Illustrated by Charles M. Russell Introduction by Thomas A. Petrie Notes by Thomas Minckler $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-5743-6 · 280 Pages In 1903 famed “Cowboy Artist” Charles M. Russell gave his nephew Austin the boy’s adventure book Frank on the Prairie with extraordinary enhancements.

Actually, Uncle Charlie had borrowed Austin’s copy, adding original illustrations. This facsimile edition of that rare book features little-known works by the artist.

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The Mexican Flyboy

By Alfredo Vea $19.95 Paper · 9780806187037 · 384 Pages What if we could travel back in time to save our heroes from painful deaths or rewrite history? The Mexican Flyboy swoops readers from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the vineyards of Northern California, from Ethel Rosenberg’s execution to Joan of Arc’s pyre, in a tale of justice, regret, and redemption. “[Alfredo] Véa dives into magical realism headfirst in this hallucinatory fantasy that reads like a blend of John Steinbeck and Robert A. Heinlein. It's a dizzying novel that combines Véa’s solid prose style with a vivid imagination and an authentic cultural brio. A lush fantasy in which a man must unwind time itself to right the world's wrongs.”—Kirkus Reviews

The Sorrows of Young Alfonso

By Rudolfo Anaya $24.95 CLOTH · 978-0-8061-5226-4 · 232 Pages “The world is full of sorrow,” Agapita whispered to Alfonso. Alfonso’s story begins when the curandera Agapita delivers these haunting words into his infant ear. Charting Alfonso’s journey from childhood through his education and evolution as a writer, Anaya invites readers to reflect on mysteries of the human condition.

History The Popular Frontier Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Transnational Mass Culture Edited by Frank Christianson $32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5894-5 · 264 Pages William F. Cody introduced his Wild West exhibition to European audiences in 1887. With its colorful portrayal of cowboys, Indians, and taming the frontier, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West popularized a myth of American identity that shaped European perceptions. Christianson explores the transnational impact and mass-cultural appeal of Cody’s Wild West.

Women of Empire Nineteenth-Century Army Officers’ Wives in India and the U.S. West

By Verity McInnis $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5774-0 · 296 Pages Although their roles were circumscribed, wives of army officers stationed in British India and the U.S. West commanded considerable influence.

Redefining officer’s wives as power holders and active contributors to national prestige, McInnis opens a nuanced perspective on the colonial experience—and the nexus of gender, race, and imperial practice.

Dukes of Duval County The Parr Family and Texas Politics

By Anthony R. Carrozza $32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5771-9 · 440 pages The notorious Parr family manipulated local politics in South Texas for more than seventy years. In this first comprehensive study of the Parr family, Carrozza reveals the innermost workings of the Parr dynasty, a political machine that drove South Texas politics and critically influenced the course of the nation.

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Blood on the Marias The Baker Massacre

By Paul R. Wylie $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-5157-1 · 336 Pages $21.95 Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5974-4 ∙ 336 Pages While other scholars have written about the Baker Massacre in related contexts, Blood on the Marias gives this infamous event the definitive treatment it deserves. Baker’s inept command lit the spark of violence, but decades of tension between Piegans and whites set the stage for a brutal and too-oftenforgotten incident.

From Praha to Prague Czechs in an Oklahoma Farm Town

By Philip D. Smith $21.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5746-7 · 208 Pages Around the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Czechs left their homelands in Bohemia and Moravia and came to the United States. Smith examines how the Czechs who founded and settled in Prague, Oklahoma, embraced the economic and cultural activities of their American hometown while maintaining their ethnic identity

Wars for Empire Apaches, the United States, and the Southwest Borderlands

By Janne Lahti $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5742-9 · 328 Pages After the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, the Southwest Borderlands remained hotly contested. Over decades, the U.S. government exerted control by containing, destroying, and deporting indigenous peoples—conducting a military campaign to capture Geronimo and forcefully remove the Chiricahua Apaches in 1886. Lahti offers a new perspective on one of America’s longest wars.

Writing Arizona, 1912–2012 A Cultural and Environmental Chronicle

By Kim Engel-Pearson $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5738-2 · 308 Pages From Arizona’s statehood to its 2012 centennial, narratives of Arizona and its landscape have revealed—and reconfigured—the state’s image. Through state and federal publications, newspapers, novels, poetry, autobiographies, and magazines, Engel-Pearson examines Arizona narratives that reflect both a century of Euro-American dominance and a diverse and multilayered cultural landscape.

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The Great Medicine Road, Part 3 Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, 1850–1855 Edited by Michael L. Tate Contributions by Kerin Tate, Will Bagley, and Richard Rieck $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-435-3 · 312 Pages After the discovery of gold in California, thousands of fortune seekers headed west, joining the greatest mass migration in American history. The firsthand accounts of travelers between 1850 and 1855 collected in this volume (the third in a four-part series) speak of wonders and adventures, but also disaster and deprivation.

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Depredation and Deceit The Making of the Jicarilla and Ute Wars in New Mexico

By Gregory F. Michno $32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5769-6 · 336 Pages Trade and Intercourse Acts passed by Congress (1796–1834) set up a system for individuals to receive monetary compensation from the government for property stolen or destroyed by American Indians. As Michno reveals, by the end of the Mexican-American War, both Anglo-Americans and Nuevomexicanos became experts in exploiting this system.

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Out Where the West Begins, Volume 2 Creating and Civilizing the American West

By Philip F. Anschutz $34.95 Cloth · 978-0-9905502-1-1 · 392 Pages The second volume in this saga follows more than one hundred influential men and women—political and military leaders, religious thinkers, civil rights proponents, suffragettes, African American pioneers, writers and artists, explorers and surveyors, architects, inventors, innovators, medical professionals, and conservationists—who together wove the story of western frontier America.

Eyewitness to the Fetterman Fight Indian Views Edited by John H. Monnett $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5582-1 · 248 Pages On December 21, 1866, a force of 1,500 to 2,000 Oglala, Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors annihilated a detachment of 79 infantry and cavalry soldiers. With no U.S. military survivors, the only eyewitness accounts came from Lakotas and Cheyennes. Monnett presents these Native views and newly discovered interviews with Oglala and Cheyenne warriors and leaders.

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Utah and the American Civil War The Written Record Edited by Kenneth L. Alford $60.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-441-4 · 864 Pages When Fort Sumter was attacked in April 1861, hundreds of soldiers were stationed at the U.S. Army’s Camp Floyd, southwest of Salt Lake City. The camp, established in June 1858, was the nation’s largest military post. Alford presents a wealth of primary sources on the territory’s participation in the Civil War.

Frontiers of Evangelization Indians in the Sierra Gorda and Chiquitos Missions

By Robert H. Jackson $36.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5772-6 · 208 Pages Spain wanted native peoples in its American territories to be evangelized and facilitated the establishment of Catholic missions. Drawing on over three decades of research, Jackson’s analysis of crucial archival material augments our understanding of the role of missions in colonization, and the fate of indigenous peoples in Spanish America.

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A Surgeon with Custer at the Little Big Horn James DeWolf’s Diary and Letters, 1876 Edited by Todd E. Harburn Foreword by Paul A. Hutton $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5694-1 · 288 Pages In spring 1876, physician James Madison DeWolf became a contract surgeon for the Seventh Cavalry, accompanying Custer’s battalion at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Killed in the early stages of battle, DeWolf might have become a footnote in chronicles of this epic campaign—but he left behind an eyewitness account.

Franciscan Frontiersmen How Three Adventurers Charted the West

By Robert A. Kittle $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-5698-9 · 296 Pages Franciscan friars Pedro Font, Juan Crespí, and Francisco Garcés at first seem improbable heroes, yet each man played an important role in Spain’s eighteenth-century conquest of the Pacific coast. Drawing on the friars’ diaries and correspondence, and his exhaustive field research, Kittle details the friars’ striking accomplishments in American exploration.

Mountain Meadows Massacre Collected Legal Papers Edited by Richard E. Turley Jr., Janiece L. Johnson, and LaJean Purcell Carruth 2-Vol. Set: $130.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5723-8 · 1,168 Pages Vol. 1: $65.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5573-9 · 560 Pages Vol. 2: $65.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5722-1 · 608 Pages The editors of this two-volume collection of documents combed public and private manuscript collections across the United States to reconstruct the complex legal proceedings that occurred after the Mountains Meadows Massacre. This exhaustively researched compilation covers a nearly forty-year history of investigation and prosecution—from first reports of the massacre to dismissal of the last indictment in 1896.

Regular Army O! Soldiering on the Western Frontier, 1865–1891

By Douglas C. McChristian Foreword by Robert M. Utley $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5695-8 · 768 Pages “Forty miles a day on beans and hay in the Regular Army O!” That 1874 song captures the lot of soldiers in the West after the Civil War. McChristian uses testimony of enlisted soldiers—more than 350 diaries, letters, and memoirs— to create a vivid picture of army life on the frontier.

Jersey Gold The Newark Overland Company’s Trek to California, 1849

By Margaret Casterline Bowen and Gwendolyn Joslin Hiles $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5714-6 · 384 Pages When gold fever struck in 1849, John S. Darcy—prominent physician, general, and president of the New Jersey Railroad—assembled a company to travel overland to California. Jersey Gold tells the story of that colorful company of some thirty stalwarts and adventurers, vividly recreating a defining chapter in American history.

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Soldiers in the Southwest Borderlands, 1848–1886

By Janne Lahti $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5702-3 · 248 Pages Most military biographies focus on officers, many of whom left diaries or wrote letters throughout their lives and careers. This collection offers new perspectives, comprised of ten biographies focusing on the lives of enlisted soldiers from a variety of cultural and racial backgrounds, to tell common soldiers’ stories.

Talking Machine West A History and Catalogue of Tin Pan Alley’s Western Recordings, 1902–1918

By Michael A. Amundson $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5604-0 · 208 Pages Many associate Roy Rogers and Gene Autry with early western music. But before radio, Tin Pan Alley songsters wrote the first popular cowboy and Indian songs, circulated as piano sheet music and recordings played on windup talking machines. Gorgeously illustrated, this book is as entertaining as it is informative.

Man-Hunters of the Old West

By Robert K. DeArment $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5585-2 · 344 Pages Western settlers were often easy prey for criminals and policing often amounted to vigilante retaliation. To create a semblance of order, freelance law enforcers known as man-hunters searched for fugitives. Often portrayed as ruthless bounty hunters, DeArment redeems their reputations, revealing the truth behind their fascinating legends.

Mestizos Come Home!

Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity

By Robert Con Davis-Undiano $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-5719-1 · 336 Pages A landmark account of Mexican American culture, Mestizos Come Home! documents the great awakening of Mexican American and Latino culture since the 1960s. An argument for social justice and a renewal of America’s democratic ideals, this book marks a historical homecoming, showing that mestizos are essential to U.S. national culture.

Powder River Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War

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

Travels in North America, 1832–1834 A Concise Edition of the Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied Edited by Marsha V. Gallagher $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5579-1 · 624 Pages Prince Maximilian of Wied’s journals are among the most important firsthand sources documenting the early American West. This modern edition presents a narrative of Maximilian’s expedition from Boston almost to the headwaters of the Missouri in the Rocky Mountains, and back, highlighting the expedition’s most significant encounters and dramatic events.

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Civil War in the Southwest Borderlands, 1861–1867

By Andrew E. Masich $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5572-2 · 464 Pages During the Civil War, the Southwest Borderlands saw not only Union and Confederate forces clashing but Indians, Hispanos, and Anglos struggling for survival, power, and dominance on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

While other scholars have examined individual battles, Masich analyzes these conflicts as interconnected civil wars “Civil War in the Southwest Borderlands is a landmark achievement, sure to prompt a rethinking of the transnational dimensions of the Civil War in the Far West and the unprecedented violence of those years. For scholars and general readers alike, this is a rare and welcome book.”—David Fridtjof Halaas, former Colorado State Historian and consultant to the Northern Cheyenne Tribe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“A fine book, Black Cowboys in the American West adds significantly to the history of the American West, cattle ranching history, and African American studies.”—Paul H. Carlson, editor of The Cowboy Way: An Exploration of History and Culture

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

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

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

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

Mapping the Four Corners Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875

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

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

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

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

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

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Nicodemus Post-Reconstruction Politics and Racial Justice in Western Kansas

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

Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electric Powwow American Indian Music

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

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

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

Contesting the Borderlands Interviews on the Early Southwest

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

Touring the West with Leaping Lena, 1925

By W. C. Clark Edited by David Dary $19.95 Paper ∙ 978-0-8061-5228-8 ∙ 300 Pages Framed by David Dary’s introduction and annotations that set the story in context, and illustrated with photographs of gas stations, roadside attractions, and roadsters typical of the day, Touring the West with Leaping Lena gives a firsthand glimpse into the early days of cross-country automobile trips. Readers will enjoy its historical detail even as they realize that when it comes to family road trips, some things haven’t changed.

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

“This remarkable collection of essays reveals how national parks are so much more than a federal network of iconic American places. Encouraging us to consider the important transnational dimensions of park history beyond the “Best Idea” paradigm, this sophisticated and nuanced collection will set a new standard.”—Andrew Kirk, author of Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism

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

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

The Trial of Tom Horn

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

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

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

Twentieth-Century Oklahoma Reflections on the Forty-Sixth State

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

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Bitter Waters The Struggles of the Pecos River

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Route 66 Crossings Historic Bridges of the Mother Road

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

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Forthcoming Off Trail Finding My Way Home in the Colorado Rockies

By Jane Parnell $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-5900-3 · 144 Pages In the tradition of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Tracy Ross’s The Source of All Things, Parnell’s mountaineering memoir shows us how, by pushing ourselves to the limits of our physical endurance and by confronting our deepest fears, we can become whole again.

Prairie Power Student Activism, Counterculture, and Backlash in Oklahoma, 1962–1972

By Sarah E. Janda $29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5794-8 · 232 Pages

Sarah Eppler Janda

Drawing on underground newspapers and declassified FBI documents, as well as interviews the author conducted with former activists and government officials, Prairie Power will appeal to those interested in Oklahoma’s history and the counterculture and political dissent in the 1960s.

Colonial Intimacies C ol o n i a l In t i m a c i e s Interethnic Kinship, Sexuality, and Marriage in Southern California, 1769–1885 ER IK A PÉR EZ

Interethnic Kinship, Sexuality, and Marriage in Southern California, 1769–1885

By Erika Pérez $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5904-1 · 408 Pages In Colonial Intimacies, Erika Pérez probes everyday relationships, encounters, and interactions to show how intimate choices about marriage, social networks, and godparentage were embedded in larger geopolitical concerns.

The Commanders Civil War Generals Who Shaped the American West

By Robert M. Utley $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5978-2 · 256 Pages

ROBERT M. UTLEY

Taking a novel approach to the military history of the post–Civil War West, distinguished historian Robert M. Utley examines the careers of seven military leaders who served as major generals for the Union in the Civil War, then as brigadier generals in command of the U.S. Army’s western departments.

Presidents Who Shaped the American West

By Glenda Riley and Richard W. Etulain $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-5907-2 · 280 Pages PRESIDENTS WHO SHAPED THE

AMERICAN WEST

GLENDA RILEY AND RICHARD W. ETULAIN

Presidents Who Shaped the American West presents startling analyses of chief executives and their policies, illuminating the long reach of presidential power.

The book establishes the nature of the relationship between the White House and the West.

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Man-Hunters of the Wild West, Volume 2

By Robert K. DeArment $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5911-9 · 344 Pages Noted western historian Robert K. DeArment recounts the remarkable careers of eight men—Pat Garrett, John Hughes, Harry Love, Harry Morse, Frank Norfleet, Bass Reeves, Granville Stuart, and Tom Tobin—who pursued notorious criminals.

Converting the Rosebud CONVERTING THE ROSEBUD Catholic Mission and the

LAKOTAS 1886–1916

Harvey Markowitz

Catholic Mission and the Lakotas, 1886–1916

By Harvey Markowitz $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5985-0 · 320 Pages Tracing the mission from its 1886 founding in present-day South Dakota to the 1916 fire that reduced it to ashes, Converting the Rosebud unveils the complex church-state network that guided conversion efforts on the Rosebud Reservation.

Ned Christie The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero

By Devon A. Mihesuah $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-5910-2 · 272 Pages Mihesuah draws on hundreds of newspaper accounts, oral histories, court documents, and family testimonies to assemble the most accurate portrayal of Christie’s life possible. More than a biography, Ned Christie traces the making of an American myth.

Freedom’s Racial Frontier African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West

By Herbert G. Ruffin $34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5977-5 · 424 Pages Freedom’s Racial Frontier African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West Edited by HERBERT G. RUFFIN II and DWAYNE A. MACK Foreword by QUINTARD TAYLOR

The volume’s sixteen chapters address the African American experience within the framework of the West as a multicultural frontier. Established and emerging scholars create an anthology that links past, current, and future generations of African American West scholarship.

A Whirlwind Passed through Our Country

A W H I R LW I N D PA S S E D T H R O U G H OUR COUNTRY

LAK OTA VOICE S OF TH E GH OS T DANCE

RANI - H E N RI K A N D ERSSON F OR E WOR D B Y

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Lakota Voices of the Ghost Dance

By Rani-Henrik Andersson $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-6007-8 · 400 Pages By presenting accounts of divergent views among the Lakota people, A Whirlwind Passed through Our Country expands the narrative of the Ghost Dance, encouraging more nuanced interpretations of this significant moment in Lakota and American history.

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Forthcoming Arizona’s Deadliest Gunfight Draft Resistance and Tragedy at the Power Cabin, 1918

By Heidi J. Osselaer $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-6001-6 · 312 Pages Weaving together a family-based local history with national themes of wartime social discord, rural poverty, and dissent, Arizona’s Deadliest Gunfight will be the authoritative account of the 1918 incident and the memorable events that unfolded in its wake.

Albert Bierstadt Witness to a Changing West

By Peter H. Hassrick $60.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-6004-7 · 228 Pages $35.00s Paper · 978-0-8061-6005-4 · 228 Pages

Albert Bierstadt

W ITN E S S TO A C H A N G I N G W E S T

Peter H. Hassrick Foreword by Bruce B. Eldredge

Along with its rich sampling of Bierstadt’s diverse artwork, Albert Bierstadt: Witness to a Changing West features informative essays by noted curators, scholars of art history, and historians of the American West.

A Crooked River Rustlers, Rangers, and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1861–1877

By Michael L. Collins $29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-6008-5 · 376 Pages During the turbulent years of the Civil War and Reconstruction, a squall of violence and lawlessness swept through the Nueces Strip and the Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas. A Crooked River presents a rousing narrative of these events that reflects perspectives of people on both sides of the Rio Grande.

Transnational Frontiers The American West in France

By Emily C. Burns $45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-6003-0 · 248 Pages

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The American West in France E M I LY C . B U R N S

For French artists and enthusiasts, the West served as a fulcrum for the construction of an American cultural identity, offering a chance to debate ideas of primitivism and masculinity that bolstered their own colonialist discourses. By examining this process, Burns reveals the interconnections between American western art and Franco-American artistic exchange between 1865 and 1915.

Plains Indian Buffalo Cultures Art from the Paul Dyck Collection

By Emma I. Hansen $50.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-6011-5 · 208 Pages $34.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-6011-5 · 208 Pages Plains Indian Buffalo Cultures ART FROM THE PAUL DYCK COLLEC TION Emma I. HansEn

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From hide clothing, bear claw necklaces, and shields to buffalo robes, tipis, and decorative equipment made for prized horses, the artworks in the Paul Dyck Collection provide a firsthand glimpse into the traditions, adaptations, and innovations of Great Plains Indian cultures.

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Reservations, Removal, and Reform R E S E R VA T I O N S R E M O VA L AND REFORM

The Mission Indian Agents of Southern California 1878–1903 VALERIE SHERER MATHES and PHIL BRIGANDI

The Mission Indian Agents of Southern California, 1878–1903

By Valerie Sherer Mathes and Phil Brigandi $36.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-5999-7 · 344 Pages Providing a balanced, comprehensive view of the world these agents temporarily inhabited and the people they were called to serve, Reservations, Removal, and Reform deepens and broadens our understanding of the lives and history of the Indians of Southern California.

Pioneers of Promotion How Press Agents for Buffalo Bill, P. T. Barnum, and the World’s Columbian Exposition Created Modern Marketing

By Joe Dobrow $36.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-6010-8 · 400 Pages

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The sophisticated and persuasive marketing tactics that companies use may seem a recent phenomenon, but Pioneers of Promotion tells a different story. In this lively narrative, business history writer Joe Dobrow traces the origins of modern American marketing.

Monsters of Contact MONSTERS

O F C O N TA C T H i s t o r i c a l Tr au m a i n C a d d o a n O r a l Tr a d i t i o n s Mark van de Logt

By Mark van de Logt $65.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-6014-6 · 336 Pages Mark van de Logt argues in Monsters of Contact that creatures found in the stories of the Caddos, Wichitas, Pawnees, and Arikaras actually embody specific historical events and the negative effects of European contact: invasion, war, death, disease, enslavement, starvation, and colonialism.

An Aide for Custer The Civil War Letters of Lt. Edward G. Granger Edited by Sandy Bernard and Thomas E. Singelyn $39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-6018-4 · 352 Pages

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Amply illustrated with maps and photographs, An Aide for Custer gives readers an unprecedented view of the Civil War and one of its most important commanders, and unusual insight into the experience of a staff officer who served alongside him.

lt. EDWARD G. GRANGER Edited by S andy B arnard Compiled by T homaS S ingelyn

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