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OKLAHOMA UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS

SPRING/SUMMER

2007

AWARD-WINNING BOOKS

CONTENTS African Creeks, Zellar After Eden, Miner

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Alternative Oklahoma, Joyce

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American Indian Nonfiction, Peyer

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American Windmills, Baker

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Architects of Empire, Severn

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Black Hawk War of 1832, The, Jung

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Blackfoot War Art, Dempsey

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Buffalo Soldiers, The, Leckie/Leckie

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By His Own Hand?, Guice

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Cherokee Nation in the Civil War, The, Confer

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Concise Guide to Teaching Latin Literature, A, Ancona Drift, Miller

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Forty Years a Legislator, Thomas

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George Miksch Sutton, Jackson

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Gordon R. Willey and American Archaeology, Sabloff/Fash

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Harpsong, Askew

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Learning to Write “Indian,” Katanski

25

Looting Spiro Mounds, La Vere

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Marching with the First Nebraska, Scherneckau

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On the Drafting of Tribal Constitutions, Cohen

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Popol Vuh, Christenson

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Savage Perils, Sharp

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Singing Bird, The, Oskison

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Uniforms, Arms, and Equipment, Vols. 1 and 2, McChristian

High Country A Novel

By Willard Wyman 978-0-8061-3697-4 $24.95 Cloth 2006 SPUR Award Best First Novel Western Writers of America

The Democratic Century

By Seymour Martin Lipset and Jason M. Lakin 978-0-8061-3618-9 $34.95 Cloth 2005 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Inventing Los Alamos

By Jon Hunner 978-0-8061-3634-9 $29.95 Cloth 2005 Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez Award Historical Society of New Mexico

Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana

By Demetria Martinez 978-0-8061-3722-3 $14.95 Paper 2006 International Latino Book Award

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Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation, Wallis

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Where Custer Fell, Brust/ Pohanka/Barnard

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Yellowstone Denied, Scott

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Recent Releases

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Best Sellers

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Regional Interest

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Sales and Ordering Information

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Index

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On the cover: A fourteen-foot-diameter Original Star windmill made by the Flint and Walling Manufacturing Company, San Diego, California, circa 1880.

Courtesy of the San Diego Historical Society, San Diego, California.

The Days We Danced

By Doris Eaton Travis 978-0-8061-9950-4 $27.95 Cloth Oklahoma Center for the Book Oklahoma Book Award – Directors’ Award 2004

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Latin Alive and Well, Chambers

Some of Tim’s Stories, Hinton

A Decent, Orderly Lynching The Montana Vigilantes

By Frederick Allen 978-0-8061-3651-6 $120.00 Limited Edition Leather Bound 978-0-8061-3637-0 $34.95 Cloth 2006 Caroline Bancroft Prize Denver Public Library

Historical Atlas of Central America

By Carolyn Hall and Héctor Pérez Brignoli 978-0-8061-3037-8 $99.95(S) Cloth 978-0-8061-3038-5 $34.95 Paper 2004 Outstanding Academic Title Choice Magazine

African American Women Confront the West, 1600–2000

By Quintard Taylor and Shirley Ann Wilson Moore 978-0-8061-3524-3 $34.95 Cloth 2004 Outstanding Academic Title Choice Magazine

Field of Honor A Novel

By D. L. Birchfield 978-0-8061-3608-0 $27.95 Cloth 2004 Writer of the Year Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers

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Fiction

2007

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SOME OF TIM’S STORIES

By S. E. Hinton Short Stories from the bestselling author of The Outsiders, plus exclusive interviews A teenager when she first gained fame, now a seasoned writer, S. E. Hinton takes her trademark themes to a new level in Some of Tim’s Stories—fourteen original stories depicting adults trapped in lives of missed connections and opportunities.

The stories in this collection merge into a larger narrative about two cousins, Terry and Mike, whose lives and families are intertwined but whose paths lead to very different futures: one in prison, the other enduring a guilt-ridden existence working in a bar.

The tales are made especially distinctive in the telling. The “author” of the stories is a bartender named Tim—the “Mike” of his own narrative—whose idiosyncrasies are perfectly captured in Hinton’s intriguing use of metafiction.

The book also features exclusive interviews with Hinton conducted by Teresa Miller, host of public television’s Writing Out Loud. Hinton allows readers into her world as she never has before—speaking openly about her life and career.

Complementing the book are line drawings that illustrate the stories and photographs that document the author’s life.

In one interview, Hinton calls Some of Tim’s Stories “the best writing I’ve ever done.” These stories capture the feel of the earlier books that won her fame while demonstrating an adult edginess and a more disciplined talent. Some of Tim’s Stories is sure to captivate Hinton’s long-time fans as it shows new readers that her soul-searching fiction extends masterfully to adult themes as well.

Volume 2 in the Oklahoma Stories & Storytellers series S. E. Hinton’s publishing career began at the age of eighteen with the release of The Outsiders, one of the best-selling young adult books of all time. Her six novels have won numerous awards, and four have been made into major motion pictures. She and her husband, David, reside in her childhood hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

OF RELATED INTEREST The Man Who Could Fly and Other Stories

By Rudolfo Anaya 978-0-8061-3738-4 $19.95 Cloth Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana

By Demetria Martínez 978-0-8061-3722-3 $14.95 Paper Light and Variable A Year of Celebrations, Holidays, Recipes, and Emily Dickinson

By Connie Cronley 978-0-8061-3788-9 $16.95 Paper

April 160 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 7 b&w photos 14 drawings 978-0-8061-3835-0 $19.95 Cloth

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AFTER EDEN A Novel

By Valerie Miner Loss and renewal in the lives of an individual and a community After Eden is a provocative novel that examines the meaning of home and homelessness among people who see such issues as more than abstractions. In a story populated by Pomo Indians, Euro-American ranchers and vintners, and Mexican American migrant laborers, Valerie Miner deftly juxtaposes differing cultural views of wilderness, trespassing, and home. Her dramatic novel is contemporary, while reflecting on two centuries of change in a seemingly Edenic place.

Looking forward to relief from her job as a city planner in Chicago, Emily Adams begins a much-needed vacation at her Northern California cabin. But the sudden death of her life partner forces her to re-examine personal commitments. Caught up in reflection, she comes to understand the intricacies of life in her pastoral retreat—complexities that she had never before considered.

In the modern-day Eden of California’s coastal range, Emily finds conflict all around her: between loggers and environmentalists, farmworkers and immigration authorities, newcomers establishing a lesbian community and long-time residents clinging to traditional ways.

As Emily learns to overcome grief, her story moves from loss to renewal for both the individual and the community. A decidedly feminist view of the New West, After Eden weaves lyrical prose with a different look at “family values” and what it really means to be human.

Valerie Miner is the award-winning author of 13 books. She teaches at Stanford University and travels internationally giving readings, lectures, and workshops.

OF RELATED INTEREST Whose Names Are Unknown A Novel

By Sanora Babb 978-0-8061-3579-3 $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3712-4 $14.95 Paper The Marriage of Saints A Novel

By Dawn Karima Pettigrew 978-0-8061-3787-2 $19.95 Cloth Crossing Vines A Novel

By Rigoberto González 978-0-8061-3528-1 $24.95 Cloth

April 248 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 978-0-8061-3814-5 $24.95 Cloth

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Fiction

2007

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HARPSONG

By Rilla Askew A love story about Dust Bowl heroes who didn’t leave for California Harlan Singer, a harmonica-playing troubadour, shows up in the Thompson family’s yard one morning. He steals their hearts with his music, and their daughter with his charm. Soon he and his fourteen-year-old bride, Sharon, are on the road, two more hobos of the Great Depression, hitchhiking and hopping freights across the Great Plains in search of an old man and the settlement of Harlan’s long-standing debt.

Finding shelter in hobo jungles and Hoovervilles, the newlyweds careen across the 1930s landscape in a giant figure eight with Oklahoma in the middle. Sharon’s growing doubts about her husband’s quest set in motion events that turn Harlan Singer into a hero while blinding her to the dark secret of his journey. A love story infused with history and folk tradition, Harpsong shows what happened to the friends and neighbors Steinbeck’s Joads left behind.

In this moving, redemptive tale inspired by Oklahoma folk heroes, Rilla Askew continues her exploration of the American story. Harpsong is a novel of love and loss, of adventure and renewal, and of a wayfaring orphan’s search for home—all set to the sounds of Harlan’s harmonica. It shows us the strength and resilience of a people who, in the face of unending despair, maintain their faith in the land.

Volume 1 in the Oklahoma Stories & Storytellers series Rilla Askew, born and raised in eastern Oklahoma, is the award-winning author of a collection of stories, Strange Business and two novels, The Mercy Seat (PEN/ Faulkner nominee, Oklahoma Book Award, and Western Heritage Award), and Fire in Beulah (American Book Award and Myers Book Award). She teaches creative writing at the University of Oklahoma and lives in Oklahoma and New York.

OF RELATED INTEREST Dreams to Dust A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush

By Sheldon Russell 978-0-8061-3721-6 $26.95 Cloth Letters from the Dust Bowl

By Caroline Henderson 978-0-8061-3350-8 $34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3540-3 $14.95 Paper Red Dirt Growing up Okie

By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 978-0-8061-3775-9 $14.95 Paper

May 235 pages 6x9 5 b&w illus., 1 map 978-0-8061-3823-7 $24.95 Cloth

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DRIFT A Novel

By Jim Miller Exposes the hollowness of a city’s boom years “Ultimately Drift seems a requiem for so many things, a noble past mashed in the dirt, and hope for a future that glimmers despite the dismal possibilities that cloud the horizon.”—Jimmy Santiago Baca, author of The Importance of a Piece of Paper Joe Blake is searching for something real in a seemingly depthless world. An alienated, underemployed professor and aspiring poet, Joe roams San Diego in his own personal disquiet and discovers that agony and ecstasy coexist all around him.

Joe has fallen in love with Theresa Sanchez, a single mother cultivating her own garden of doubts. As Joe and Theresa negotiate their intimacy amid bouts of passion and lines of Neruda, they find common ground in their yearning for a more authentic life. But what they later discover along a lonely stretch of highway is almost too real for them to bear.

As Drift uncovers the hidden past of this southwestern mecca—a history inhabited by the likes of Emma Goldman, Henry Miller, Mission Indians, and Theosophists—it captures the underlying emptiness and unease of San Diego circa 2000.

Blake plays the postmodern flâneur in a theme-park city, drifting with the poetic eye of Baudelaire and the critical sensibilities of Walter Benjamin and the Situationist avant-garde. Depicting the sex, drugs, and death found in the borderlands, author Jim Miller portrays a city where cultures sometimes clash but more often pass one another almost wholly unaffected.

OF RELATED INTEREST Miracle A Novel

By Leo Dubray 978-0-8061-3672-1 $19.95 Cloth A Pipe for February A Novel

By Charles H. Red Corn 978-0-8061-3726-1 $14.95 Paper

Drift features original art by Perry Vasquez and photography by Jennifer Cost. A startling work laced with premonitions of dread, Drift is a Whitmanesque journey that puts readers squarely in its moment as it exposes the seamy underside of modern America.

Jim Miller is coauthor of Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See, coauthor of Better to Reign in Hell: Inside the Raiders Fan Empire, and editor of Sunshine/Noir: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana. Drift is his first novel.

The Sharpest Sight A Novel

By Louis Owens 978-0-8061-2574-9 $19.95 Paper

March 208 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 6 b&w illus.

978-0-8061-3807-7 $24.95 Cloth

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American Indian/Military History

2007

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THE CHEROKEE NATION IN THE CIVIL WAR

By Clarissa W. Confer A social history of a people plunged into crisis No one questions the horrific impact of the Civil War on America, but few realize its effect on American Indians. Residents of Indian Territory found the war especially devastating. Their homeland was beset not only by regular army operations but also by guerillas and bushwhackers. Complicating the situation even further, Cherokee men fought for the Union as well as the Confederacy and created their own “brothers’ war.”

This book offers a broad overview of the war as it affected the Cherokees—a social history of a people plunged into crisis. The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War shows how the Cherokee people, who had only just begun to recover from the ordeal of removal, faced an equally devastating upheaval in the Civil War. Clarissa W. Confer illustrates how the Cherokee Nation, with its sovereign status and distinct culture, had a wartime experience unlike that of any other group of people— and suffered perhaps the greatest losses of land, population, and sovereignty.

Confer examines decision-making and leadership within the tribe, campaigns and soldiering among participants on both sides, and elements of civilian life and reconstruction. She reveals how a centuries-old culture informed the Cherokees’ choices, with influences as varied as matrilineal descent, clan affiliations, economic distribution, and decentralized government combining to distinguish the Native reaction to the war.

The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War recalls a people enduring years of hardship while also struggling for their future as the white man’s war encroached on the physical and political integrity of their nation.

Clarissa W. Confer is Assistant Professor of History at California University of Pennsylvania.

OF RELATED INTEREST General Stand Watie’s Confederate Indians

By Frank Cunningham 978-0-8061-3035-4 $19.95 Paper Cherokee Tragedy, 2nd Edition The Ridge Family and the Decimation of a People

By Thurman Wilkins 978-0-8061-2188-8 $24.95 Paper The Cherokees

By Grace Steele Woodward 978-0-8061-1815-4 $24.95 Paper

April 216 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 12 b&w illus., 4 maps 978-0-8061-3803-9 $24.95 Cloth

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WHERE CUSTER FELL Photographs of the Little Bighorn Battlefield Then and Now

By James S. Brust, Brian C. Pohanka, and Sandy Barnard A stunning photographic record of the Little Bighorn “One of the most distinctive and distinguished books about the Battle of the Little Bighorn ever published.”—Robert M. Utley, author of Cavalier in Buckskin “This enthralling study . . . makes an indispensable contribution to Custeriana and the military heritage of frontier America.”—Military Heritage The Battle of the Little Bighorn has long held an eminent position among the chronicles of the mythic West. None of the men who rode with Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer to his “Last Stand” survived to tell the tale, but this stunning photography book provides a view of the battlefield as it must have existed in 1876.

To create Where Custer Fell, authors James S. Brust, Brian C. Pohanka, and Sandy Barnard searched for elusive documents and photographs, made countless trips to the battlefield, and scrutinized all available sources. Each chapter begins with a concise, lively description of an episode in the battle. The narratives are graphically illustrated by historical photos, which are presented alongside modern photos of the same location on the battlefield. The book also features detailed maps and photographs of battle participants and the early photographers who attempted to tell their story.

OF RELATED INTEREST Indian Views of the Custer Fight A Source Book Richard G. Hardorff 978-0-8061-3690-5 $14.95 Paper The Custer Reader Edited by Paul Andrew Hutton 978-0-8061-3465-9 $24.95 Paper The Custer Album A Pictorial Biography of George Armstrong Custer

By Lawrence A. Frost 978-0-8061-2282-3 $24.95 Paper

March 240 pages 9 x 12 217 b&w illus., 15 maps 978-0-8061-3834-3 $24.95 Paper

James S. Brust, M.D., a specialist in historical photographs and prints, has published frequently on these topics in journals and magazines. He resides in San Pedro, California. Brian C. Pohanka, who passed away as this book went to press, was a military historian and author of several books. He also was senior researcher, writer, and adviser for Time-Life Books, television documentaries, and feature films. Sandy Barnard is an independent scholar and writer specializing in the Indian wars. He is editor of Greasy Grass and resides in Wake Forest, North Carolina.

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American History

2007

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AMERICAN WINDMILLS An Album of Historic Photographs

By T. Lindsay Baker Pictures of wind machines offer a compelling slice of Americana From the earliest days of European settlement, Americans have cherished the sight of a windmill—an instantly recognizable feature of the American landscape. Boasting nearly two hundred striking images, this book is the first devoted to photographs illustrating historic wind machines throughout North America.

T. Lindsay Baker, an expert historian on windmills, has written about wind-power history for twenty-five years. His album contains historic images captured by professional windmiller B. H. “Tex” Burdick and from corporate archives of windmill manufacturers. It depicts windmills in a wide range of settings and uses—not only on ranches and farms but also alongside railroads, in industry, and even in urban areas.

The photos chosen for this book illustrate windmill manufacture, distribution, and use in all regions of the United States, with an emphasis on the Great Plains.

They take us into the factories to show how commercial windmills were massproduced and marketed—and also into rural America to show how inventive individuals designed their own homemade wind machines.

An introduction by photography historian John Carter provides an overview of the importance of windmills in rural life and Americans’ compulsion for photographing them.

T. Lindsay Baker, who holds the W. K. Gordon Chair in Industrial History at Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas, is Director of the W. K. Gordon Center for Industrial History, Thurber, Texas, and editor of the Windmiller’s Gazette. He is the author of A Field Guide to American Windmills and North American Windmill Manufacturers’ Trade Literature: A Descriptive Guide. John Carter is Senior Research Associate at the Nebraska State Historical Society and an award-winning photograph curator.

May 168 pages 9x9 179 b&w illus.

978-0-8061-3802-2 $34.95 Cloth

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OF RELATED INTEREST A Field Guide to American Windmills

By T. Lindsay Baker 978-0-8061-1901-4 $95.00 Cloth More Ghost Towns of Texas

By T. Lindsay Baker 978-0-8061-3518-2 $34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3724-7 $24.95 Paper Ghost Towns of Texas

By T. Lindsay Baker 978-0-8061-2189-5 $24.95 Paper

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Oklahoma

Western History

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WAY DOWN YONDER IN THE INDIAN NATION

BY HIS OWN HAND?

Writings from America’s Heartland

By Michael Wallis A deeply sympathetic, colorful evocation of life on the American prairies In Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation—a title inspired by the lyrics of Woody Guthrie—best-selling author Michael Wallis creates a brilliant tableau of America’s heartland.

Featuring a new introduction by the author, this collection of sixteen essays reflects the finest examples of Wallis’s writing and harkens back to a time before fast food and malls replaced familyowned diners along Route 66. From tales of the notorious Oklahoma panhandle, where “the only law was the colt and the carbine,” to the fate of Woody Guthrie’s mother Nora, who, burdened by depression, set fire to her kids and spent the last years of her life in an asylum, Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation brings to life some of Oklahoma’s most memorable characters— the famous and infamous, the ordinary and down-home.

“Enclosed within the covers of this book are some of my favorite spoonfuls of Oklahoma,” says Wallis. The result is a quintessential American book—a crazy quilt of stories and a powerful portrait of Okie identity.

Volume 3 in the Oklahoma Stories & Storytellers series Michael Wallis is the award-winning author of fourteen books, including Route 66: The Mother Road and Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd. He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

March 280 pages 6x9 16 b&w illus.

978-0-8061-3824-4 $16.95 Paper

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The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis Edited by John D. W. Guice Contributions by James J. Holmberg, John D. W. Guice, and Jay H. Buckley Foreword by Elliott West Introduction by Clay S. Jenkinson The debate over the famous explorer’s death examined from all sides For two centuries the question has persisted: Was Meriwether Lewis’s death a suicide, an accident, or a homicide? By His Own Hand? is the first book to carefully analyze the evidence and consider the murderversus-suicide debate within its full historical context. The historian contributors to this volume follow the format of a postmortem court trial, dissecting the case from different perspectives. A documents section permits readers to examine the key written evidence for themselves and reach their own conclusions.

John D. W. Guice is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi. James J. Holmberg is Curator of Special Collections for the Filson Historical Society. Jay H. Buckley is Assistant Professor of History at Brigham Young University. Clay S. Jenkinson is the author of The Character of Meriwether Lewis. Elliott West is Professor of History at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

January 208 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 17 b&w illus., 1 map 978-0-8061-3851-0 $14.95 Paper

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Military History/Western History

2007

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THE BUFFALO SOLDIERS A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West Revised Edition

By William H. Leckie with Shirley A. Leckie An expanded edition of Leckie’s groundbreaking narrative “The authors have improved on what was already a groundbreaking study that adds significantly to our knowledge of American expansionism and, more importantly, of African Americans in the West.”—Oregon Historical Quarterly “The Leckies . . . have reinvigorated The Buffalo Soldiers, assuring the title will remain core reading for years to come.”—The Journal of Arizona History Originally published in 1967, William H. Leckie’s The Buffalo Soldiers was the first book of its kind to recognize the importance of African American units in the conquest of the West. Decades later, with sales of more than 75,000 copies, The Buffalo Soldiers has become a classic. Now, in a newly revised edition, the authors have expanded the original research to explore more deeply the lives of buffalo soldiers in the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments.

Written in accessible prose that includes a synthesis of recent scholarship, this edition delves further into the life of an African American soldier in the nineteenth century. It also explores the experiences of soldiers’ families at frontier posts. In a new epilogue, the authors summarize developments in the lives of buffalo soldiers after the Indian Wars and discuss contemporary efforts to memorialize them in film, art, and architecture.

William H. Leckie was the coauthor, with Shirley A. Leckie, of Unlikely Warriors: General Benjamin Grierson and His Family. Shirley A. Leckie, Professor of History at the University of Central Florida, is the author of Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth and Angie Debo: Pioneering Historian.

OF RELATED INTEREST Unlikely Warriors General Benjamin H. Grierson and His Family

By Shirley A. Leckie and William H. Leckie 978-0-8061-3027-9 $24.95 Paper The Black Regulars, 1866-1898

By William A. Dobak and Thomas D. Phillips 978-0-8061-3340-9 $34.95 Cloth Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay The Enlisted Soldier Fighting the Indian Wars

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

May 336 pages 6x9 42 illus.

978-0-8061-3840-4 $19.95 Paper

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ALTERNATIVE OKLAHOMA Contrarian Views of the Sooner State Edited by Davis D. Joyce Foreword by Fred R. Harris Contrarian Sooner views of Oklahoma history How many of us really know every side to Oklahoma’s past and present?

In this companion to his previous volume, “An Oklahoma I Had Never Seen Before,” Davis D. Joyce presents fourteen essays that interpret Oklahoma’s unique populist past and address current political and social issues. Joyce invited scholars and political activists to speak their minds on subjects ranging from gender, race, and religion to popular music, the energy industry, and economics.

These decidedly contrarian Sooner voices reflect the progressive, libertarian, and even radical viewpoints that influenced the state’s creation. Contributors talk of growing up “Okie and radical,” of the legacy of Woody Guthrie in the Red Dirt music scene, and of the Sunbelt Alliance that helped to stop the building of the Black Fox nuclear power plant. They look back at Oklahoma City’s role in the early civil rights sit-in movement and at an Oklahoman’s experience with Vietnam Veterans Against the War. They consider religion outside the mainstream—and everyday women squarely within these unique expressions of faith.

In assembling these engaging essays about Oklahoma and its past, Joyce calls on the alternative approach to history championed by Howard Zinn and also invokes Oklahoman Paul Harvey in offering us “the rest of the story.”

OF RELATED INTEREST Historical Atlas of Oklahoma Fourth Edition

By Charles Robert Goins and Danney Goble 978-0-8061-3482-6 $39.95 Cloth Following the Harvest A Novel

By Fred Harris 978-0-8061-3636-3 $27.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3713-1 $14.95 Paper Oh, Give Me a Home Western Contemplations

By Ann Ronald 978-0-8061-3799-5 $19.95 Paper

May 272 pages 6x9 978-0-8061-3819-0 $19.95 Paper

Alternative Oklahoma urges an honest alternative exploration of the state’s diverse past. It’s an Oklahoma history that takes into account the overlooked and the left behind and contributes to a more open political dialogue in a state too often dismissed as unquestionably “red.”

Davis D. Joyce is Professor Emeritus of History, East Central University, Ada, Oklahoma, and is author of Howard Zinn: A Radical American Vision. He teaches part-time at Rogers State University, Claremore, Oklahoma. Fred R. Harris, author of Following the Harvest: A Novel, was twice elected to the U.S. Senate from Oklahoma and is now Professor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico.

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American Indian/Oklahoma

2007

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LOOTING SPIRO MOUNDS An American King Tut’s Tomb

By David La Vere How an ancient North American civilization was plundered in the twentieth century “This is one of the most riveting stories I’ve ever read. Every Oklahoman and every student of Indian history will be richer for reading this gripping and detailed account of the looting of Spiro Mounds.”—D. L. Birchfield, author of Black Silk Handkerchief: A Hom-Astubby Mystery When a group of relic hunters drove their picks into a lost Indian burial crypt in eastern Oklahoma in 1935, they unearthed a vast treasure trove of Mississippian art—considered by many at the time to be America’s answer to King Tut’s Tomb.

They also ignited a controversy that continues to have repercussions throughout archaeological and American Indian communities.

The Spiro Mounds contained some of the most impressive pre-Columbian Indian art ever found. In Looting Spiro Mounds, David La Vere takes readers behind the scenes of this discovery to re-create a Great Depression–era archaeological adventure worthy of Indiana Jones.

The looting of the mounds is considered one of the major archaeological tragedies of all time. Today Spiro artifacts are scattered among the world’s museums, with some still circulating in the antiquities market and eagerly snatched up by collectors. La Vere weaves a compelling story of grave robbers and lost treasures as he pieces together the puzzle of the civilization that thrived at Spiro from a.d.

800 to 1450. He plumbs the mystery of why the people of Spiro abandoned the site, leaving behind their treasures but no forwarding address.

Looting Spiro Mounds explains what the continuing mystique of Spiro artifacts is all about as the book uncovers a controversy—and a mystery—that lives on to this day.

David La Vere is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, and author of the award-winning Contrary Neighbors: Southern Plains and Removed Indians in Indian Territory.

April 256 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 17 b&w illus., 2 maps 978-0-8061-3813-8 $24.95 Paper

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OF RELATED INTEREST Contrary Neighbors Southern Plains and Removed Indians in Indian Territory

By David La Vere 978-0-8061-3299-0 $21.95 Paper From Mounds to Mammoths A Field Guide to Oklahoma Prehistory, Second Edition

By Claudette Marie Gilbert and Robert L. Brooks 978-0-8061-3225-9 $14.95 Paper Finding Sand Creek History, Archeology, and the 1864 Massacre Site

By Jerome A. Greene and Douglas D. Scott 978-0-8061-3623-3 $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3801-5 $14.95 Paper

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FORTY YEARS A LEGISLATOR

By Elmer Thomas Edited by Richard Lowitt and Carolyn G. Hanneman Foreword by Cindy Simon Rosenthal The senator’s own account of his service to Oklahoma and the nation through depression and war Elmer Thomas (1876–1965) represented the people of Oklahoma in the state’s first legislature and in Congress. This memoir, written shortly after he left the U.S. Senate in 1951 but never before published, chronicles his long career and offers a wealth of information on people and events that helped shape the development of the state and the course of American history.

Thomas became one of Oklahoma’s first state senators in 1907 and was involved with financing the construction of public works. As a member of the U.S. Congress, he made it his business to understand the Federal Reserve System, and as the farm crisis of the 1920s worsened during the Great Depression, he consistently argued for inflating the currency to stimulate the economy—a struggle that became central to his career and that he eventually won.

Thomas’s panoramic look at the issues of his time includes a behind-the-scenes view of the Nürnberg War Crimes Trial and also tells how he helped push funding for the atomic bomb project through Congress without disclosing its true nature.

Thomas dedicated his career to improving the lot of rural residents, Native Americans, and working people. Forty Years a Legislator is a rich source of insight for all concerned with twentieth-century politics or the early years of Oklahoma statehood.

OF RELATED INTEREST Mr. Ambassador Warrior of Peace

By Edward J. Perkins with Connie Cronley 978-0-8061-3767-4 $39.95 Cloth

Richard Lowitt is Professor Emeritus of History, University of Oklahoma, and the author or editor of numerous books, including The New Deal and the West.

Carolyn G. Hanneman is an archivist at the University of Oklahoma’s Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center. Cindy Simon Rosenthal is the director and curator of the Carl Albert Center.

Women Transforming Congress Edited by Cindy Simon Rosenthal 978-0-8061-3455-0 $32.95(S) Cloth 978-0-8061-3496-3 $29.95(S) Paper Community and the Politics of Place

By Daniel Kemmis 978-0-8061-2477-3 $14.95 Paper

April 188 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 15 b&w illus.

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GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON Artist, Scientist, and Teacher

By Jerome A. Jackson The first biography of the distinguished ornithologist George Miksch Sutton (1898–1982) is revered by bird lovers everywhere for his beautiful paintings. A Victorian gentleman, adventurer, and raconteur, he was trained in the sciences but felt equally at home in the arts.

Jerome Jackson, a friend and colleague of Sutton, draws on extant correspondence, interviews, and personal knowledge to offer a portrait of the artist that will surprise those who knew him only in his later years. Capturing a superb ornithologist who worked under the most inhospitable conditions, from the arctic to the tropics, Jackson shows us a person who guarded his privacy and struggled with uncertainty.

Jackson depicts a Renaissance man whose life was, more than a search for birds, a quest for knowledge through science and art in the service of humanity. Tracing Sutton’s roots through two generations, Jackson reveals what set him apart from other ornithologists and bird artists. Focusing on Sutton’s formative years—how he acquired his love of birds at an early age and how that love guided his life— Jackson then relates Sutton’s adventures in the Arctic, Mexico, Oklahoma, and elsewhere.

Jackson’s account fills in details missing from Sutton’s autobiography, Bird Student.

Gracing the book are fifty reproductions of Sutton’s art—twenty-eight in full color— including early, unpublished, or obscure works along with non-avian subjects.

Jerome A. Jackson, Professor of Biology and former Whitaker Eminent Scholar in Science at Florida Gulf Coast University, has been editor of The Wilson Bulletin, Journal of Field Ornithology, and other scholarly journals in addition to writing numerous articles and books. He worked closely with George Miksch Sutton through the Wilson Ornithological Society.

OF RELATED INTEREST Baby Bird Portraits by George Miksch Sutton Watercolors in the Field Museum

By Paul A. Johnsgard 978-0-8061-3769-8 $7.95 Paper Fifty Common Birds of Oklahoma and the Southern Great Plains George Miksch Sutton 978-0-8061-1704-1 $19.95 Paper Oklahoma Breeding Bird Atlas

By Dan L. Reinking, Editor 978-0-8061-3409-3 $59.95(S) Cloth 978-0-8061-3614-1 $34.95 Paper

May 288 pages 6x9 28 color and 13 b&w illus.

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THE U.S. ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER 1880–1892 Volume 1: Headgear, Clothing, and Footwear Volume 2: Weapons and Accouterments

By Douglas C. McChristian Foreword by Jerome A. Greene

OF RELATED INTEREST Fort Bowie, Arizona Combat Post of the Southwest, 1858-1894

By Douglas C. McChristian 978-0-8061-3781-0 $19.95 Paper The U.S. Army in the West, 1870–1880 Uniforms, Weapons, and Equipment

By Douglas C. McChristian 978-0-8061-3782-7 $24.95 Paper Encyclopedia of United States Army Insignia and Uniforms

By William K. Emerson 978-0-8061-2622-7 $135.00 Cloth

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Military History/Collectables

2007

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The definitive two-volume survey of military clothing and equipment during the final years of the U.S.-Indian wars “A moving and well-reasoned narrative that transcends mere description. McChristian knows the scope of this subject better than any other historian. There is no doubt that these books will quickly take their place as timely and standard references in the field of western American history.”—Jerome A. Greene

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uilding on the success of his best-selling The U.S. Army in the West, 1870-1880: Uniforms, Arms, and Equipment, Douglas C. McChristian here presents a two-volume comprehensive account of the evolution of military arms and equipment during the years 1880–1892. The volumes are set against the backdrop of the final decade of the Indian campaigns—a key period of transition in United States military history.

other clothing to meet the developing needs of troops in the American West. In Volume 2, he focuses on weapons and other accouterments, recounting in detail the army’s quest to find a repeating rifle that would serve the needs of both cavalry and infantry across the plains. He also describes the efforts of the Ordnance Department to refine field and garrison equipage to serve the troops in the West, even as the Indian-fighting mission was drawing to a close.

During the decades following the Civil War, the U.S. Army Regulars formed the vanguard of the national effort to settle the West. This conquest came at the expense of American Indians, many of whom were removed from their homelands and forced to move onto reservations. But some chose to fight, and struggles between Native groups and the U.S. Army ranged over plains, mountains, and deserts in skirmishes, battles, and campaigns of varying intensity.

McChristian draws on extensive research in public and private collections throughout the United States to offer a remarkably broad view of the nation’s military, extending from policies and decisions of the army’s highest command all the way down to the concerns of the lowest man in the ranks. Lavishly illustrated with more than four hundred color and black-and-white illustrations, these volumes will serve as invaluable references for collectors,

As the army campaigned aggressively to counter Indian opposition, it also sought to reform itself into a modern military body comparable to its European counterparts. But extreme environmental conditions in the West, combined with the rigors of unconventional warfare, required modifications in matériel to suit the varied regional climates.

Douglas C. McChristian is a retired research historian for the National Park Service in the Santa Fe regional office and a former National Park Service field historian at Fort Davis and Fort Laramie national historic sites and at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. A resident of Tucson, Arizona, he is the author of Fort Bowie, Arizona: Combat Post of the Southwest, 1858–1894. Jerome A. Greene is Research Historian for the National Park Service in Denver, Colorado, and the author of numerous books on the U.S.-Indian wars in the American West.

In Volume 1, McChristian shows how the Quartermaster Department modified the design and manufacturing of uniforms and

May 624 pages 8 1/2 x 11 8 color and 433 b&w illus.

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curators, and students of militaria and of the frontier era.

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BLACKFOOT WAR ART Pictographs of the Reservation Period, 1880–2000

By L. James Dempsey A visually stunning survey of Blackfoot war art When the Blackfoot Indians were confined to reservations in the late nineteenth century, their pictographic representations of warfare kept alive the rituals associated with war, which were essential facets of Blackfoot culture. Their war ethic served as a unifying force among the four tribes of the Blackfoot nation—Siksika, Blood, and North and South Piegan.

In this visually stunning survey, L. James Dempsey, a member of the Blood tribe, plumbs the breadth and depth of warrior representational art. He has mined archival resources and museum collections and interviewed many tribal members to provide a uniquely Native perspective on the importance of warrior art in Blackfoot history and culture. Filled with 160 images of startling beauty and power, Blackfoot War Art tells how pictographs served as a record of both tribal and personal accomplishment.

This singular historical record of all available information on Blackfoot warrior pictography depicts painted robes; war tepee covers, liners, and doors; and painted panels. Dempsey provides descriptions and a great deal of other information about the pieces included here. His survey focuses especially on recent paintings that scholars have overlooked.

OF RELATED INTEREST The Vengeful Wife and Other Blackfoot Stories

By Hugh A. Dempsey 978-0-8061-3771-1 $14.95 Paper The Blackfeet Raiders on the Northwestern Plains

By John C. Ewers 978-0-8061-1836-9 $24.95 Paper

In revealing changing trends in the representation of war, Dempsey skillfully weaves together pictures, people, and histories to convey a fascinating view of this warrior art from a Blood perspective.

L. James Dempsey, a member of the Blood tribe of the Blackfoot Indians, is Associate Professor of the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Silver Horn Master Illustrator of the Kiowas

By Candace S. Greene 978-0-8061-3307-2 $34.95 Cloth

May 488 pages 8 x 10 32 color illus., 128 b&w illus.

978-0-8061-3804-6 $45.00(S) Cloth

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American Indian/Military History

2007

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THE BLACK HAWK WAR OF 1832

By Patrick J. Jung The most up-to-date narrative of the Black Hawk War In 1832, facing white expansion, the Sauk warrior Black Hawk attempted to forge a pan-Indian alliance that would preserve the homelands of the confederated Sauk and Fox tribes on the eastern bank of the Mississippi. However, the ensuing war with the United States decimated Black Hawk’s band. The conflict has captured the imagination of historians for more than a century, and Patrick J. Jung here re-examines its causes, course, and consequences. Correcting mistakes that plagued previous histories, Jung focuses on the complex nature of Indian resistance and the role of intertribal conflict in the war.

In contrast to studies that assign blame for the war to one faction or another, Jung shows that the outcome can be understood only by discussing the complexity of intertribal rivalry, military ineptitude, and racial dynamics. He draws on recent ethnohistorical interpretations to gain new insight into the war, examining the ideology of racial consciousness and Indian resistance to white expansion in the trans-Appalachian West from the 1740s onward.

The Black Hawk War of 1832 is a lively and sensitive account of a watershed episode in the region’s history. It traces the course of Indian resistance and sets a new benchmark for understanding the last Indian war to be fought in present-day Wisconsin and Illinois.

Volume 10 in the Campaigns and Commanders series Patrick J. Jung is Assistant Professor of History at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the author of numerous articles on military and American Indian history.

OF RELATED INTEREST Never Come to Peace Again Pontiac’s Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America

By David Dixon 978-0-8061-3656-1 $34.95(S) Cloth Bayonets in the Wilderness Anthony Wayne’s Legion in the Old Northwest

By Alan D. Gaff 978-0-8061-3585-4 $39.95(S) Cloth Morning Star Dawn The Powder River Expedition and the Northern Cheyennes, 1876

By Jerome A. Greene 978-0-8061-3548-9 $34.95 Cloth

April 288 pages 6x9 16 b&w illus., 4 maps 978-0-8061-3811-4 $29.95(S) Cloth

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MARCHING WITH THE FIRST NEBRASKA A Civil War Diary

By August Scherneckau Edited by James E. Potter and Edith Robbins Translated by Edith Robbins A pioneer Nebraskan offers a German’s-eye view of the Civil War August Scherneckau’s diary is the most important firsthand account of the Civil War by a Nebraska soldier that has yet come to light. A German immigrant, Scherneckau served with the First Nebraska Volunteers from 1862 through 1865.

Depicting the unit’s service in Missouri, Arkansas, and Nebraska Territory, he offers detail, insight, and literary quality matched by few other accounts of the Civil War in the West. His observations provide new perspective on campaigns, military strategy, leadership, politics, ethnicity, emancipation, and a host of other topics.

Scherneckau takes readers on the march as he and his comrades plod through mud and snow during a grueling winter campaign in the Missouri Ozarks. He served as a provost guard in St. Louis, where he helped save a former slave from kidnappers and observed the construction of Union gunboats. He describes the process of transforming a regiment from infantry to cavalry, and his account of the First Nebraska’s pursuit of Freeman’s Partisans in Arkansas is an exciting portrayal of mountain fighting.

An annotated edition that brings to bear the editors’ and translator’s respective expertise in both the Civil War and the German language, Scherneckau’s account is an important addition to primary material on the war’s forgotten theater. It will be a valued resource for historian and Civil War enthusiast alike.

OF RELATED INTEREST The Civil War in Arizona The Story of the California Volunteers, 1861–1865

By Andrew E. Masich 978-0-8061-3747-6 $32.95(S) Cloth The Uncivil War Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861–1865

By Robert R. Mackey 978-0-8061-3736-0 $19.95 Paper

August Scherneckau (1837–1923) emigrated from Germany and had settled in Grand Island, Nebraska Territory, when he joined the Union Army in 1862. After the war, he moved to Oregon. James E. Potter is Senior Research Historian with the Nebraska State Historical Society and Associate Editor of Nebraska History.

Edith Robbins, a native German and transplanted Nebraskan, is an independent scholar.

The Battlefields of the Civil War

By William C. Davis 978-0-8061-2882-5 $24.95 Paper

April 368 pages 6x9 21 b&w illus., 2 maps 978-0-8061-3808-4 $34.95(S) Cloth

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Biography/Military History

2007

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ARCHITECTS OF EMPIRE The Duke of Wellington and His Brothers

By John Severn The collective biography of a remarkable man and his family A soldier and statesman for the ages, the Duke of Wellington is a towering figure in world history. John Severn now offers a fresh look at the man born Arthur Wellesley to show that his career was very much a family affair, a lifelong series of interactions with his brothers and their common Anglo-Irish heritage. The untold story of a great family drama, Architects of Empire paints a new picture of the era through the collective biography of Wellesley and his siblings.

Severn takes readers from the British Raj in India to the battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars to the halls of Parliament as he traces the rise of the five brothers from obscurity to prominence. Severn covers both the imperial Indian period before 1800 and the domestic political period after 1820, describing the wide range of experiences Arthur and his brothers lived through.

Architects of Empire brings together in a single volume a grand story that before now was discernible only through political or military analysis. Weaving the personal history of the brothers into a captivating narrative, it tells of sibling rivalry among men who were by turns generous and supportive, then insensitive and cruel.

Whereas other historians have minimized the importance of family ties, Severn provides an unusually nuanced understanding of the Duke of Wellington. Architects of Empire casts his career in a new light—one that will surprise those who believe they already know the man.

John Severn, Associate Professor of History and Associate Provost of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, is the author of A Wellesley Affair: Richard Marquess Wellesley and the Conduct of Anglo-Spanish Diplomacy, 1809–1812.

OF RELATED INTEREST Blood in the Argonne The “Lost Battalion” of World War I

By Alan D. Gaff 978-0-8061-3696-7 $32.95(S) Cloth Napoleon and Berlin The Franco-Prussian War in North Germany, 1813

By Michael V. Leggiere 978-0-8061-3399-7 $39.95 Cloth Clash of Arms How the Allies Won in Normandy

By Russell A Hart 978-0-8061-3605-9 $24.95(S) Paper

May 512 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 19 b&w illus., 3 maps 978-0-8061-3810-7 $34.95(S) Cloth

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YELLOWSTONE DENIED The Life of Gustavus Cheyney Doane

By Kim Allen Scott How lasting fame eluded one of Yellowstone’s earliest explorers “This well-researched and smoothly paced biography at last provides us with an absorbing portrait of one of the more intriguing figures of the American West.”

—Paul Schullery, author of Montana Time and Lewis and Clark among the Grizzlies Frontier soldier and explorer extraordinaire, Gustavus Cheyney Doane was no stranger to historical events. Between 1863 and 1892, he fought in the Civil War, participated in every major Indian battle in Montana Territory, and led the first scientific reconnaissance into the Yellowstone country—his report on that expedition even contributed to the establishment of Yellowstone National Park. Doane was always close to being at the right place at the right time to secure lasting fame, yet that fame always eluded him, even after his death. Kim Allen Scott rescues Doane from obscurity to tell the tale of an educated and inventive man who strove in vain for recognition throughout his life.

Yellowstone Denied is a psychological portrait of a complex and intriguing individual. During his thirty years in uniform, Doane nearly achieved the celebrity he sought, but twists of fate and, at times, his own questionable behavior denied it in the end. Scott’s critical biography now examines the man’s accomplishments and failures alike, and traces the frustrated efforts of Doane’s widow to see her husband properly enshrined in history.

Yellowstone Denied is also a revealing look at military culture, scientific discovery, and western expansion, and it gives Doane the credit long denied him.

OF RELATED INTEREST Yellowstone Command Colonel Nelson A. Miles and the Great Sioux War, 1876–1877

By Jerome A. Greene 978-0-8061-3755-1 $19.95 Paper

Kim Allen Scott is Professor and Special Collections Librarian/University Archivist at Montana State University, Bozeman. His numerous articles on Yellowstone National Park, Montana history, and the Civil War have appeared in Montana The Magazine of Western History, Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Kansas History, and Missouri Historical Review.

Colonel Richard Irving Dodge The Life and Times of a Career Army Officer

By Wayne R. Kime 978-0-8061-3709-4 $45.00(S) Cloth On the Upper Missouri The Journal of Rudolph Friederich Kurz, 1851–1852 Edited by Carla Kelly 978-0-8061-3655-4 $21.95(S) Paper

February 320 pages 6x9 17 b&w illus., 3 maps 978-0-8061-3800-8 $32.95(S) Cloth

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American History

2007

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SAVAGE PERILS Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture

By Patrick B. Sharp Revisiting the racial origins of the conflict between “civilization” and “savagery” in twentieth-century America The atomic age brought the Bomb and spawned stories of nuclear apocalypse to remind us of impending doom. As Patrick Sharp reveals, those stories had their origins well before Hiroshima, reaching back to Charles Darwin and America’s frontier.

In Savage Perils, Sharp examines the racial underpinnings of American culture, from the early industrial age to the Cold War. He explores the influence of Darwinism, frontier nostalgia, and literary modernism on the history and representations of nuclear weaponry. Taking into account such factors as anthropological race theory and Asian immigration, he charts the origins of a worldview that continues to shape our culture and politics.

Sharp dissects Darwin’s arguments regarding the struggle between “civilization” and “savagery,” theories that fueled future-war stories ending in Anglo dominance in Britain and influenced Turnerian visions of the frontier in America.

Citing George W. Bush’s “Axis of Evil,” Sharp argues that many Americans still believe in the racially charged opposition between civilization and savagery, and consider the possibility of nonwhite “savages” gaining control of technology the biggest threat in the “war on terror.” His insightful book shows us that this conflict is but the latest installment in an ongoing saga that has been at the heart of American identity from the beginning—and that understanding it is essential if we are to eradicate racist mythologies from American life.

Patrick B. Sharp is Assistant Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Liberal Studies at California State University, Los Angeles.

OF RELATED INTEREST Inventing Los Alamos

By Jon Hunner 978-0-8061-3634-9 $29.95 Cloth Uncomfortable Wars Revisited

By John T. Fishel and Max G. Manwaring 978-0-8061-3711-7 $45.00(S) Cloth The Conquest of Texas Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820-1875

By Gary Clayton Anderson 978-0-8061-3698-1 $29.95 Cloth

April 288 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 10 b&w illus.

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AFRICAN CREEKS Estelvste and the Creek Nation

By Gary Zellar A narrative history of the African Creek community Among the Creeks, they were known as Estelvste—black people—and they had lived among them since the days of the first Spanish entradas. They spoke the same language as the Creeks, ate the same foods, and shared kinship ties. Their only difference was the color of their skin.

This book tells how people of African heritage came to blend their lives with those of their Indian neighbors and essentially became Creek themselves. Taking in the full historical sweep of African Americans among the Creeks, from the sixteenth century through Oklahoma statehood, Gary Zellar unfolds a narrative history of the many contributions these people made to Creek history.

Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, Zellar reveals how African people functioned as warriors, interpreters, preachers, medicine men, and even slave labor, all of which allowed the tribe to withstand the shocks of Anglo-American expansion. He also tells how they provided leaders who helped the Creeks navigate the onslaught of allotment, tribal dissolution, and Oklahoma statehood.

In his compelling narrative, Zellar describes how African Creeks made a place for themselves in a tolerant Creek Nation in which they had access to land, resources, and political leverage—and how post–Civil War “reform” reduced them to the second-class citizenship of other African Americans. It is a stirring account that puts history in a new light as it adds to our understanding of the multi-ethnic nature of Indian societies.

Volume 1 in the Race and Culture in the American West series OF RELATED INTEREST Beginning Creek Mvskoke Emponvkv

By Pamela Innes, Linda Alexander, and Bertha Tilkens 978-0-8061-3583-0 $29.95(S) Paper

Gary Zellar holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

The author of several articles and numerous presentations on the African Creeks, he lives and teaches in Huntsville, Texas.

Totkv Mocvse/New Fire Creek Folktales

By Earnest Gouge 978-0-8061-3588-5 $49.95(S) Cloth 978-0-8061-3629-5 $29.95(S) Paper 978-0-8061-3630-1 $29.95 DVD George Washington Grayson and the Creek Nation, 1843–1920

By Mary Jane Warde 978-0-8061-3160-3 $29.95 Cloth

April 368 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 15 color illus., 4 maps 978-0-8061-3815-2 $34.95(S) Cloth

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American Indian/Law

2007

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ON THE DRAFTING OF TRIBAL CONSTITUTIONS

By Felix S. Cohen Edited by David E. Wilkins Foreword by Lindsay G. Robertson A newly discovered document sheds light on Indian self-governance Felix Cohen (1907–1953) was a leading architect of the Indian New Deal and steadfast champion of American Indian rights. Appointed to the Department of the Interior in 1933, he helped draft the Indian Reorganization Act (1934) and chaired a committee charged with assisting tribes in organizing their governments. His “Basic Memorandum on Drafting of Tribal Constitutions,” submitted in November 1934, provided practical guidelines for that effort.

Largely forgotten until Cohen’s papers were released more than half a century later, the memorandum now receives the attention it has long deserved. David E. Wilkins presents the entire work, edited and introduced with an essay that describes its origins and places it in historical context. Cohen recommended that each tribe consider preserving ancient traditions that offered wisdom to those drafting constitutions. Strongly opposed to “sending out canned constitutions from Washington,” he offered ideas for incorporating Indigenous political, social, and cultural knowledge and structure into new tribal constitutions.

On the Drafting of Tribal Constitutions shows that concepts of Indigenous autonomy and self-governance have been vital to Native nations throughout history. As today’s tribal governments undertake reform, Cohen’s memorandum again offers a wealth of insight on how best to amend previous constitutions. It also helps scholars better understand the historic policy shift brought about by the Indian Reorganization Act. Volume 1 in the American Indian Law and Policy Series David E. Wilkins is Professor of American Indian Studies and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Law, and American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and coauthor of Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law. Lindsay G. Robertson, Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma, is the author of Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous People of Their Lands.

March 200 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 1 b&w illus.

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OF RELATED INTEREST Uneven Ground American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law

By David E. Wilkins and K. Tsianina Lomawaima 978-0-8061-3395-9 $19.95 Paper American Indian Tribal Governments

By Sharon O’Brien 978-0-8061-2564-0 $24.95 Paper The Indian Reorganization Act Congress and Bills

By Vine Deloria, Jr. 978-0-8061-3398-0 $75.00(S) Cloth

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AMERICAN INDIAN NONFICTION An Anthology of Writings, 1760s–1930s

By Bernd C. Peyer A survey of two centuries of Indian political writings

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American Indian literature has deep roots. This collection of political writings covers nearly two centuries and represents a historical survey of the development of Indian nonfiction prose, from the missionary-trained writers of the late eighteenth century to the members of the first Indian intellectual network in the early twentieth century.

Included are personal letters, sermons, printed speeches, autobiographical sketches, editorials, pamphlets, and humorous pieces. From early writers such as Samson Occom to twentieth-century writers such as Will Rogers and Luther Standing Bear, these authors were deeply committed to the welfare of their Native communities. Many of the pieces were quite popular in their day but have been lost to time.

Bernd C. Peyer traces the historical development of Indian literature from its beginnings in sixteenth-century New England to the emergence of the national Society of American Indians. This collection shows that American Indian prose has a long and diverse heritage. While not as well known as its counterparts in fiction and poetry, Native nonfiction writing posed probing questions, expressed political beliefs, and confronted the challenges facing Indian-white relations.

Many of the documents Peyer has gathered here are otherwise inaccessible to the general public, making this anthology a valuable and unique resource for scholars, students, and anyone interested in Indian nonfiction.

OF RELATED INTEREST American Indian Education A History

By John Reyhner and Jeanne Eder 978-0-8061-3783-4 $19.95(S) Paper

Bernd C. Peyer lectures at the Center for North American Studies and Research, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany, and is author of The Tutor’d Mind: Indian Missionary-Writers in Antebellum America.

Other Destinies Understanding the American Indian Novel

By Louis Owens 978-0-8061-2673-9 $19.95 Paper Silko Writing Storyteller and Medicine Woman

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LEARNING TO WRITE “INDIAN”

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By John Milton Oskison Edited by Timothy B. Powell and Melinda Smith Mullikin Foreword by Jace Weaver

The Boarding-School Experience and American Indian Literature

By Amelia V. Katanski Examines Indian boarding school narratives and their impact on the Native literary tradition from 1879 to the present

A rediscovered novel portrays Cherokees in transition

“An invaluable contribution to Native American Studies.”

—Midwest Book Review

John Milton Oskison was a mixed-blood Cherokee known for his writing and his activism on behalf of Indian causes. The Singing Bird, never before published, is quite possibly the first historical novel written by a Cherokee.

Set in the 1840s and ’50s, when conflict erupted between the Eastern and Western Cherokees after their removal to Indian Territory, The Singing Bird relates the adventures and tangled relationships of missionaries to the Cherokees, including the promiscuous, selfish Ellen, the “Singing Bird” of the title. The fictional characters mingle with such historical figures as Sequoyah and Sam Houston, embedding the novel in actual events.

The Singing Bird is a vivid account of the Cherokees’ genius for survival and celebrates Native American cultural complexity and revitalization.

John Milton Oskison (1874–1947) was a distinguished New York editor and published five books, including Tecumseh and His Times.

Timothy B. Powell is author of Ruthless Democracy: A Multicultural Interpretation of the American Renaissance. Melinda Smith Mullikin is a former media editor for The New Georgia Encyclopedia. Jace Weaver is author of That the People Might Live: Native American Literatures and Native American Community.

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Indian boarding schools were the lynchpins of a federally sponsored system of forced assimilation.

These schools, located off-reservation, took Native children from their families and tribes for years at a time in an effort to “kill” their tribal cultures, languages, and religions. In Learning to Write “Indian,” Amelia V. Katanski investigates the impact of the Indian boarding school experience on the American Indian literary tradition through an examination of turn-of-the-century student essays and autobiographies as well as contemporary plays, novels, and poetry.

Many recent books have focused on the Indian boarding school experience. Among these Learning to Write “Indian” is unique in that it looks at writings about the schools as literature, rather than as mere historical evidence.

Amelia V. Katanski is Assistant Professor of English at Kalamazoo College in Michigan.

January 288 pages 13 b&w illus.

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This volume of original essays gauges the wide-ranging impact of Willey’s lifework. The editors have selected ten of his key publications and solicited assessments of their lasting influence from well-known archaeologists. These works cut across geographic regions and areas of inquiry and represent some of the most challenging intellectual questions in archaeology, explaining Willey’s methods while revealing how greatly his work shaped the field.

The articles reflect the importance of Willey’s research in coastal Peru in developing the field of Andean archaeology, and show how his application of the settlement pattern approach to the Belize Valley forever transformed the archaeology of Mesoamerica.

This volume not only analyzes Willey’s impact on culture history and archaeological thought but also shows his human side, places his writing in historical context, and offers a unique overview of the growth of American archaeology over the past six decades. To understand the work of Gordon R. Willey is to understand the history and future direction of American archaeology.

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Jeremy A. Sabloff is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Mesoamerican Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. William L. Fash is the Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology and the Howells Director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.

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POPOL VUH

POPOL VUH The Sacred Book of the Maya Translation by Allen J. Christenson

Volume II Translation and Transcription by Allen J. Christenson

The great classic of Maya spirituality, translated from the original text

A literal translation that preserves the poem’s original structure This second volume provides a literal, line-by-line English translation of the Popol Vuh, capturing the beauty, subtlety, and high poetic language characteristic of K’iche’-Maya sacred writings. By arranging the work according to its poetic structure, Christenson preserves the poem’s original phraseology and grammar, allowing subtle nuances of meaning to emerge.

“The most accurate and comprehensive translation ever produced. Christenson’s work is an extraordinary masterpiece.”

—Karen Bassie-Sweet, University of Calgary The Popol Vuh is the most important example of Maya literature to have survived the Spanish conquest. It is also one of the world’s great creation accounts, comparable to the beauty and power of Genesis.

Most previous translations have relied on Spanish versions rather than the original K’iche’-Maya text. Based on ten years of research by a leading scholar of Maya literature, this translation with extensive notes is uniquely faithful to the original language.

Retaining the poetic style of the original text, the translation is also remarkably accessible to English readers.

Illustrated with more than eighty drawings, photographs, and maps, Allen J. Christenson’s authoritative version brings out the richness and elegance of this sublime work of literature, comparable to such epic masterpieces as the Ramayana and Mahabharata of India or the Iliad and Odyssey of Greece.

Allen J. Christenson is Associate Professor of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. He is the author of Art and Society in a Highland Maya Community: The Altarpiece of Santiago Atitlan.

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A CONCISE GUIDE TO TEACHING LATIN LITERATURE Edited by Ronnie Ancona Keeping teachers up to date on recent developments in Latin scholarship “Deliberately focused on the most recent research, the essays in this volume offer a spectrum of refreshingly different approaches that will stimulate a wide range of readers, whether active classroom teachers, mature classicists, or students embarking on Latin poetry and oratory.”—Elaine Fantham, author of Julia Augusti: The Emperor’s Daughter Catullus, Horace, Ovid, Cicero, and Vergil are the official Advanced Placement Program Latin authors as well as standard reading for college and advanced secondary students of Latin. This book provides accessible information about recent scholarship on these authors to show how an awareness of current academic debates can enhance the teaching of their work.

This is the first book aimed specifically at keeping teachers up to date on recent developments in Latin scholarship. Edited by Ronnie Ancona, a classics scholar with expertise in pedagogy, it features contributions by established authorities on each of the five Latin authors. Each essay combines theoretical material with Latin passages so that instructors can see how practically to apply these methods to specific texts.

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These contributions reveal many and varied ways to approach the reading and study of Latin texts while conveying the excitement of recent scholarship. A practical sourcebook for busy teachers who wish to keep abreast of current critical thought, A Concise Guide to Teaching Latin Literature contributes to the ongoing conversation between pedagogy and scholarship as it shows ways to broaden students’ appreciation of these timeless classics.

Volume 32 in the Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture Ronnie Ancona, Professor of Classics at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, and Director of Hunter’s Master’s program in Latin Adolescent Education, is the author of Writing Passion: A Catullus Reader, Horace: Selected Odes and Satire 1.9, and Time and the Erotic in Horace’s Odes.

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LATIN ALIVE AND WELL An Introductory Text

By P. L. Chambers A student-friendly introduction to Latin Learning Latin can prove daunting even to the brightest students. But this innovative text draws students into the story of Rome and lets Virgil and Livy lead the way in learning declensions and conjugations.

Latin Alive and Well is a classroom-tested textbook consisting of 36 units. It is designed for both high school and university classes, in both two-semester courses and intensive one-semester courses. Clear and direct, it avoids lengthy explanations in teaching grammar, instead introducing modern students to this venerable language by focusing on exercises and translations that make fine points of grammar more readily understandable.

P. L. Chambers presents essential elements of grammar in a way that enables students to read classical authors immediately, introducing them to a passage from Virgil as early as the fifth chapter. In addition to using selected readings in Roman mythology, history, and philosophy to illustrate grammatical points, she has adopted an informal, encouraging tone, with a healthy dose of humor when appropriate.

Latin Alive and Well is written so simply that students with no previous exposure to a foreign language can understand and learn the grammatical concepts. Previously available only in privately published editions, it has been used nationwide.

P. L. Chambers is an instructor in the Department of Letters and Latin at the University of Oklahoma, Norman.

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African Creeks, Zellar 22 After Eden, Miner 2 Alternative Oklahoma, Joyce 10 American Indian Nonfiction, Peyer 24 American Windmills, Baker 7 Ancona, Concise Guide to Teaching Latin Literature, A, 28 Architects of Empire, Severn 19 Askew, Harpsong 3

La Vere, Looting Spiro Mounds 11 Latin Alive and Well, Chambers 29 Learning to Write “Indian,” Katanski 25 Leckie/Leckie, Buffalo Soldiers, The 9 Looting Spiro Mounds, La Vere 11

B Baker, American Windmills 7 Black Hawk War of 1832, The, Jung 17 Blackfoot War Art, Dempsey 16 Brust/ Pohanka/Barnard, Where Custer Fell 6 Buffalo Soldiers, The, Leckie/Leckie 9

By His Own Hand?, Guice 8

M Marching with the First Nebraska, Scherneckau 18 McChristian, Uniforms, Arms, and Equipment, Vols. 1 and 2 14-15 Miller, Drift 4 Miner, After Eden 2

O On the Drafting of Tribal Constitutions, Cohen 23 Oskison, Singing Bird, The, 25

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Chambers, Latin Alive and Well 29 Cherokee Nation in the Civil War, The, Confer 5 Christenson, Popol Vuh 27 Cohen, On the Drafting of Tribal Constitutions 23 Confer, Cherokee Nation in the Civil War, The 5 Concise Guide to Teaching Latin Literature, A, Ancona 28

Peyer, American Indian Nonfiction 24 Popol Vuh, Christenson 27

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Dempsey, Blackfoot War Art 16 Drift, Miller 4

Sabloff/Fash, Gordon R. Willey and American Archaeology 26 Savage Perils, Sharp 21 Scherneckau, Marching with the First Nebraska 18 Scott, Yellowstone Denied 20 Severn, Architects of Empire 19 Sharp, Savage Perils 21 Singing Bird, The, Oskison 25 Some of Tim’s Stories, Hinton 1

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Forty Years a Legislator, Thomas 12

Thomas, Forty Years a Legislator 12

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George Miksch Sutton, Jackson 13 Gordon R. Willey and American Archaeology, Sabloff/Fash 26 Guice, By His Own Hand? 8

Uniforms, Arms, and Equipment, Vols. 1 and 2, McChristian 14-15

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H Harpsong, Askew 3 Hinton, Some of Tim’s Stories 1

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W Wallis, Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation 8 Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation, Wallis 8 Where Custer Fell, Brust/ Pohanka/ Barnard 6

Jackson, George Miksch Sutton 13 Joyce, Alternative Oklahoma 10 Jung, Black Hawk War of 1832, The 17

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Katanski, Learning to Write “Indian” 25

Zellar, African Creeks 22

Two factory-made windmills from the United States used for pumping water on the Caribbean island of Curacao about 1930. Courtesy of T. Lindsay Baker.

Yellowstone Denied, Scott 20

Some of Tim’s Stories

By S. E. Hinton 978-0-8061-3835-0 $19.95 Cloth Harpsong

By Rilla Askew 978-0-8061-3823-7 $24.95 Cloth Drift A Novel

By Jim Miller 978-0-8061-3807-7 $24.95 Cloth Looting Spiro Mounts An American King Tut’s Tomb

By David La Vere 978-0-8061-3813-8 $24.95 Paper

American Windmills An Album of Historic Photographs

By T. Lindsay Baker 978-0-8061-3802-2 $34.95 Cloth

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