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Shot in Oklahoma A Century of Sooner State Cinema By John Wooley When inventor and movie studio pioneer Thomas Edison wanted to capture western magic on film in 1904, where did he send his crew? To Oklahoma’s 101 Ranch near Ponca City. And when Francis Ford Coppola readied young actors Tom Cruise and Matt Dillon to portray teen class strife in the 1983 movie The Outsiders, he took cast and crew to Tulsa, the setting of S. E. Hinton’s acclaimed novel. From Edison to Coppola and beyond, Oklahoma has served as both backdrop and home base for cinematic productions. The only book to chronicle the history of made-in-Oklahoma films, John Wooley’s Shot in Oklahoma explores the variety, spunk, and ingenuity of moviemaking in the Sooner State over more than a century. Wooley’s trek through cinematic history, buttressed by meticulous research and interviews, hits the big films readers have heard of—but maybe didn’t realize were shot in the state—along with lesser-known offerings. We also get the films’ intriguing backstories. For instance, President Theodore Roosevelt’s fascination with a man purportedly able to catch a wolf in his hands led to The Wolf Hunt, shot in the Wichita Mountains and screened in the White House in 1909. Over time, homegrown movies such as Where the Red Fern Grows (1974, 2003) have given way to feature films including The Outsiders and Rain Man (1988). Throughout this tale, Wooley draws attention to unsung aspects of state and cinematic history, including early all-black movies lensed in Oklahoma’s African American towns and films starring American Indian leads. With a nod to more recent Hollywood productions such as Twister (1996) and Elizabethtown (2005), Wooley ultimately explores how a low-budget slasher movie created in Oklahoma in the 1980s transformed the movie business worldwide. Punctuated with photographs and including a filmography of more than one hundred productions filmed in the state, Shot in Oklahoma offers movie lovers and historians alike an engaging ride through untold cinematic history. John Wooley, formerly entertainment writer with the Tulsa World, has written, cowritten, or edited more than 20 books, including the recent novel, Ghost Band, and the nonfiction From the Blue Devils to Red Dirt: The Colors of Oklahoma Music.
volume 7 in the stories and storytellers series
April $16.95 paper 978-0-8061-4174-9 320 Pages, 6 X 9 33 B&W Illus. oklahoma/entertainment
Of Related Interest John Ford Hollywood’s Old Master By Ronald L. Davis $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2916-7 Duke The Life and Image of John Wayne By Ronald L. Davis $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3329-4 Call Me Lucky A Texan in Hollywood By Robert Hinkle and Mike Farris $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4093-3
On the cover: Photograph by J. Don Cook
wooley shot in oklahoma
An engaging ride through Oklahoma’s untold cinematic history
anaya randy lopez goes home
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A new novel by the master storyteller that explores what it means to go home
Randy Lopez Goes Home A Novel By Rudolfo Anaya When he was a young man, Randy Lopez left his village in northern New Mexico to seek his fortune. Since then, he has learned some of the secrets of success in the Anglo world— and even written a book called Life Among the Gringos. But something has been missing. Now he returns to Agua Bendita to reconnect with his past and to find the wisdom the Anglo world has not provided. In this allegorical account of Randy’s final journey, master storyteller Rudolfo Anaya tackles life’s big questions with a light touch.
volume 9 in the Chicana & Chicano Visions of the Américas Series
June $19.95 cloth 978-0-8061-4189-3 168 pages, 5.5 X 8.5 Fiction
Of Related Interest The Essays By Rudolfo Anaya $24.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4023-0 The Man Who Could Fly and Other Stories By Rudolfo Anaya $12.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-3738-4
Randy’s entry into the haunted canyon that leads to his ancestral home begins on the Day of the Dead. Reuniting with his padrinos—his godparents—and hoping to meet up with his lost love, Sofia, Randy encounters a series of spirits: coyotes, cowboys, Death, and the devil. Each one engages him in a conversation about life. It is Randy’s old teacher Miss Libriana who suggests his new purpose. She gives him a book, How to Build a Bridge. Only the bridge—which is both literal and figurative, like everything else in this story—can enable Randy to complete his journey. Readers acquainted with Anaya’s fiction will find themselves in familiar territory here. Randy Lopez, like all Anaya’s protagonists, is on a spiritual quest. But both those new to and familiar with Anaya will recognize this philosophical meditation as part of a long literary tradition going back to Homer, Dante, and the Bible. Richly allusive and uniquely witty, Randy Lopez Goes Home presents man’s quest for meaning in a touching, thought-provoking narrative that will resound with young adults and mature readers alike. Often referred to as “the godfather of Chicano literature,” Rudolfo Anaya is the author of numerous books, including the classic Bless Me, Ultima. His most recent works include a collection of short stories—The Man Who Could Fly and Other Stories—and a nonfiction compilation, The Essays.
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remley Kit carson
More than just another damned killer
Kit Carson The Life of an American Border Man By David Remley History has portrayed Christopher “Kit” Carson in black and white. Best known as a nineteenth-century frontier hero, he has been represented more recently as an Indian killer responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Navajos. Biographer David Remley counters these polarized views, finding Carson to be less than a mythical hero, but more than a simpleminded rascal with a rifle. Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man strikes a balance between prevailing notions about this quintessential western figure. Whereas the dime novelists exploited Carson’s popular reputation, Remley reveals that the real man was dependable, ethical, and—for his day—relatively open-minded. Sifting through the extensive scholarship about Kit, the author illuminates the key dimensions of Carson’s life, including his often neglected Scots-Irish heritage. His people’s dire poverty and restlessness, their clannish rural life and sternly Protestant character, committed Carson, like his Scots-Irish ancestors, to loyalty and duty and to following his leader into battle without question. Remley also places Carson in the context of his times by exploring his controversial relations with American Indians. Although despised for the merciless warfare he led on General James H. Carleton’s behalf against the Navajos, Carson lived amicably among many Indian people, including the Utes and Jicarillas, whom he served as U.S. government agent. Happily married to Waa-Nibe, an Arapaho woman, until her death, he formed a lasting friendship with their daughter, Adaline. Remley sees Carson as a complicated man struggling to master life on America’s borders, those highly unstable areas where people of different races, cultures, and languages met, mixed, and fought, sometimes against each other, sometimes together, for the possession of home, hunting rights, and honor. David Remley is the author of Crooked Road: The Story of the Alaska Highway; Adios Nuevo Mexico: The Santa Fe Journal of John Watts in 1859; and Bell Ranch: Cattle Ranching in the Southwest, 1824–1946.
Volume 27 in the Oklahoma Western Biographies may $24.95 cloth 978-0-8061-4172-5 320 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 25 B&W Illus., 2 maps biography
Of Related Interest Dear Old Kit The Historical Christopher Carson By Harvey Lewis Carter $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2253-3 Kit Carson A Portrait in Courage By M. Morgan Estergreen and Edgar L. Hewett $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-1601-3 The Taos Trappers The Fur Trade in the Far Southwest, 1540–1846 By David J. Weber $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-1702-7
Cook Shooting from the Hip
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An award-winning photojournalist celebrates the spirit and people of Oklahoma
Shooting from the Hip Photographs and Essays By J. Don Cook Foreword by James Garner “Plunge into this wonderful book and be delighted by the luminous images of J. Don Cook. Some will make you cry; some will make you smile, but you will be moved.” —James Garner
may $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4180-0 144 pages, 11 X 11 75 B&W Illus. art and photography/oklahoma
In this heartfelt tribute to the spirit and people of Oklahoma, one of the state’s most distinguished photojournalists shows that he is equally talented as a photographer and writer. Showcasing black-and-white photographs and fifty short essays, Shooting from the Hip portrays Oklahoma’s people, animals, lifestyles, landscapes, and weather in all their diversity. Cowboys, kids, tornados, trucks, rattlesnakes, fiddlers— J. Don Cook has seen them all, and through his poignant essays, he allows us not only to see them but to understand them as he does. After a hardscrabble boyhood, Cook became a photographer at the age of twenty when he took a job with the Ada Evening News in southern Oklahoma. His first assignment was to photograph six abandoned puppies at the city dump—an apt foreshadowing of his career, for he has always been drawn to the poor, the disenfranchised, and the downtrodden.
Of Related Interest Oklahoma: A History By W. David Baird and Danney Goble $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3910-4 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4197-8 Voices from the Heartland Edited by Caroline Taylor $19.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3858-9 $14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4031-5 Oklahoma: Portrait of America By Libby Bender $49.95 Cloth 978-0-9800214-0-0
In addition to the brief essays that accompany his photographs, Cook shares some of his own life experiences in a moving introduction and epilogue. His unsparing account of some of the worst moments of his difficult youth and his meditations on how he used these hardships to become an artist can only be called inspirational. “At seven I didn’t know any better,” he writes, “and believed I had few choices. But I quickly learned to cope—to feint, to dodge, to hide, to read, to run, to survive, to make art—and I did it all, shooting from the hip.” J. Don Cook, a resident of Oklahoma City, is an award-winning photojournalist, artist, poet, and business entrepreneur. Nominated three times for a Pulitzer Prize and named News Photographer of the Year seven times by the Oklahoma Press Association, his photographs have appeared in such magazines as National Geographic and Time. James Garner, the acclaimed film and television actor, is best known for his leading roles in the television series Maverick and the The Rockford Files. He is a native of Norman, Oklahoma.
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First Manhattans A History of the Indians of Greater New York By Robert S. Grumet The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world’s most cherished legends. Few people know that the Indians who made the fabled sale were Munsees whose ancestral homeland lay between the lower Hudson and upper Delaware river valleys. The story of the Munsee people has long lain unnoticed in broader histories of the Delaware Nation. First Manhattans, a concise and lively distillation of the author’s comprehensive The Munsee Indians, resurrects the lost history of this forgotten people, from their earliest contacts with Europeans to their final expulsion just before the American Revolution. Anthropologist Robert S. Grumet rescues from obscurity Mattano, Tackapousha, Mamanuchqua, and other Munsee sachems whose influence on Dutch and British settlers helped shape the course of early American history in the mid-Atlantic heartland. He looks past the legendary sale of Manhattan to show for the first time how Munsee leaders forestalled land-hungry colonists by selling small tracts whose vaguely worded and bounded titles kept courts busy—and settlers out—for more than 150 years. Ravaged by disease, war, and alcohol, the Munsees finally emigrated to reservations in Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Ontario, where most of their descendants still live today. With the four hundredth anniversary of Hudson’s voyage to the river that bears his name, this book shows how Indians and settlers struggled, through land deals and other transactions, to reconcile cultural ideals with political realities. It offers a wide audience access to the most authoritative treatment of the Munsee experience—one that restores this people to their place in history. Robert S. Grumet, anthropologist and retired National Park Service archeologist, is a Senior Research Associate with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His numerous publications include The Lenapes and The Munsee Indians: A History.
april $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4163-3 256 Pages, 5.5 X 8.5 4 B&W Illus., 9 maps American Indian/history
Of Related Interest Native People of Southern New England, 1500–1650 By Kathleen J. Bragdon $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-2803-0 $21.95s Paper 978-08061-3126-9 Native People of Southern New England, 1650–1775 By Kathleen J. Bragdon $32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4004-9 New England Frontier, 3rd Edition Puritans and Indians 1620-1675 By Alden T. Vaughan $26.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2718-7
grumet First manhattans
A concise history of the Indians said to have sold Manhattan for $24
Duncan, tolles, hassrick, walker shaping the west · dubin grand procession
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Grand Procession
Shaping the West
Contemporary Artistic Visions
American Sculptors of
of American Indians
the 19th Century
The Diker Collection at the
With contributions by Alice Levi
Denver Art Museum
Duncan, Thayer Tolles, Peter
By Lois Sherr Dubin
Hassrick, and Andrew Walker.
The premier collection of contemporary American Indian sculptural art figures
Explores the art and influence of sculptors of the American West
Shaping the West, the sixth edition of Western Passages, focuses on sculpture—an often overlooked, neglected, and misunderstood form of artistic expression. Sculpture has too often taken a backseat to painting, and this is equally true for western American art. Almost everyone recognizes Frederic Remington’s iconic bronze The Broncho Buster, but beyond this and a few other examples the familiarity begins to wane. Yet when one surveys the quality and professionalism of sculptors working in western themes during the late 1800s and early 1900s, the output is astounding. During this period in American art, sculpture could rank as the more popular medium given the significance and frequency of public commissions and the mass appeal of smaller bronzes. So why are these accomplished and celebrated artists and artworks not widely known to us today? This generously illustrated book aims to help rectify and explore that conundrum. Thayer Tolles (Metropolitan Museum of Art) discusses Augustus Saint-Gaudens, his work, and the western legacy left by his disciples. Peter Hassrick (Denver Art Museum) reveals new aspects of the life and poetic work of Solon Borglum. While highlighting the work of Hermon Atkins MacNeil. Andrew Walker (St. Louis Art Museum) illustrates how the 1904 World’s Fair included a monumental sculpture initiative. An additional essay by Hassrick focuses on the diverse portrayals of cowboy imagery following the success of Remington’s Broncho Buster. And Sarah Boehme (Stark Museum) contributes an essay on Charles M. Russell’s little-known works in mixed-media and wax and on current efforts to preserve them. Alice Levi Duncan (Gerald Peters Gallery) sets the scene with her introduction.
Grand Procession celebrates a remarkable new tradition-based, contemporary American Indian art form. From a heritage rooted in dolls and ledger-book drawings, a fresh and exciting sculptural art featuring human and animal figures has evolved since the mid-1980s. Typically around two feet tall and meticulously clothed in elaborate beaded and quilled ceremonial dress, the figures carefully emulate Plains and Plateau traditions of the mid-ninteenth to early twentieth centuries. The premier collection of these figures, created by five awardwinning Native American women artists—Rhonda Holy Bear (Lakota), Jamie Okuma (Luiseno), and the Growing Thunder family (Assiniboine-Sioux): Joyce Growing Thunder, her daughter Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty, and granddaughter, Jessica Growing Thunder—has been brilliantly assembled by Charles and Valerie Diker. While each figure is a strong work of art, the assemblage of figures is particularly powerful. Beautifully illustrated, this volume will appeal to all those interested in American Indian art and crafts, contemporary and historic Indian lifeways, sculpture, and dolls. Grand Procession crosses many boundaries. Curator Nancy Blomberg of the Denver Art Museum and author Lois Dubin trace the history of the figures and place the artists and the figures within the context of American Indian and Great Plains art and aesthetics. Tom Armstrong, Director Emeritus of the Whitney Museum of American Art, conveys his impression of the genre as works of abstraction. Distributed for Denver Art Museum
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Generations
Art and World View in
The Helen Cox Kersting
Cherokee Life
Collection of Southwestern
By Chadwick Smith,
Cultural Arts
Rennard Strickland,
Edited by James H. Nottage
and Benny Smith Showcasing Native American arts from the Southwest at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
A beautifully illustrated volume of Cherokee art and philosophy
In Building One Fire, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation Chad Smith and renowned Cherokee-Osage scholar and author Rennard Strickland present a unique look at Cherokee art through the lens of Cherokee philosophy. Since the time when Water Spider brought the gift of fire to the Cherokee people, the One Fire, “the Ancient Lady,” has been at the center of Cherokee spiritual life. From this fire, which represents community, the white smoke of prayer rises to Nitsudunvha, One Who Is Always Above. In return Nitsudunvha sends to each person four sets of gifts with which to develop mind, body, and spirit. These gifts are part of Cherokee consciousness and creativity and take visible form, subtly or directly, in works created by Cherokee artists. A visual feast of Cherokee art, this volume presents more than 200 artworks by some 80 artists. Building One Fire speaks to what it means to be Cherokee. Chadwick “Corntassel” Smith has served as Principal Chief of the Cherokee people since 1999. Rennard Strickland has written and edited more than 35 books. Smithy B. “Benny” Smith, a revered Cherokee elder, was educated in the ancient ceremonial and spiritual customs of Keetoowah life. DISTRIBUTED FOR THE CHEROKEE NATION AVAILABLE $24.95 CLOTH 978-1-6165896-0-8 224 PAGES, 9 x 9 200 COLOR ILLUS. AMERICAN INDIAN/ART & PHOTOGRAPY
Lavishly illustrated, Generations celebrates the nearly 800 works of Native American art in The Helen Cox Kersting Collection, including pottery, jewelry, baskets, weavings, katsinas, and paintings. Representing the work of Native artists from the late 1800s to the present, the collection demonstrates the survival and flowering of work by Navajo, Pueblo, and other American Indian artists across the generations. Helen Cox Kersting grew up in Illinois, but gained fame as an opera star in Europe. Kersting became a sophisticated collector of exceptional work by famed jewelers, such as Leo Poblano, John Gordon Leak, Charles Loloma, and Frank Dishta, and she was fascinated by the pottery of masters such as Maria Martinez, Lucy Lewis, Margaret Tafoya, and Nampeyo. Creations by leading Native artists today, including brilliant works by Veronica Poblano, Tammy Garcia, Grace Medicine Flower, Jacob Koopee, and Les Namingha, were added to the collection. Generations presents a visual feast of Native arts of the American Southwest, with approximately 550 color plates. Essays by James H. Nottage, Diana F. Pardue (Heard Museum), and Bruce Bernstein (Santa Fe Indian Market) provide insights into the history of the collection. James H. Nottage is Vice President and Chief Curatorial Officer at the Eiteljorg Museum. Distributed for the Eiteljorg Museum January $75.00 Cloth 978-0-9798495-1-0 460 Pages, 9 X 12 549 color and 7 b&w illus. Art & Photography/American Indian
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Building One Fire
sinner, jansen Turning point · wylie the irish general
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Turning Points
new in paper
A Memoir
The Irish General
By George A. “Bud” Sinner
Thomas Francis Meagher
and Bob Jansen
By Paul R. Wylie
A candid memoir of a strong, outspoken North Dakota governor
The remarkable story of the Irish revolutionary, Civil War general, and Montana governor
George “Bud” Sinner was the governor of North Dakota from 1984 to1992, one of the most difficult periods in North Dakota history. Sinner became governor during a time of crisis on the northern Great Plains: the traditional problems of outmigration and uncertain commodity prices were dramatically worsened by a protracted drought, weak tax revenues, high interest rates, and one of the greatest farm foreclosure crises in American history.
“This engaging biography chronicles Meagher’s colorful life. An Irish revolutionary exiled to Tasmania, he escaped to New York City, where he rose and fell as a leader of the Irish-American community.”—James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Written in Sinner’s warm, approachable style, his memoirs touch upon the serious, the hilarious, and the heartbreaking. This is the story of a Catholic farm boy who studied for the priesthood but discovered that his true vocation was public service. Turning Points exhibits Bud Sinner's characteristic outspokenness about life and power, friendship and faith, agriculture and community, public affairs and personal ethics. Before his two terms as governor, George A. “Bud” Sinner had been a member of the North Dakota House of Representatives and the State Senate, served on the State Board of Higher Education, and was a partner in the family farm near Casselton, North Dakota. Bob Jansen, who worked for three newspapers before joining George Sinner’s campaign staff, was the governor’s press secretary from 1985 to 1992. He lives in Fargo, North Dakota. DISTRIBUTED FOR THE DAKOTA INSTITUTE JANUARY $29.95 CLOTH 978-0-9825597-4-1 $18.95 PAPER 978-0-9825597-5-8 350 pages, 6 x 9 10 COLOR and 23 B&W ILLUS. MEMOIR/WESTERN HISTORY
“A story worth reading, and worth remembering.”—Blue & Gray Magazine Irish patriot, Civil War general, frontier governor—Thomas Francis Meagher played key roles in three major historical arenas. Today he is hailed as a hero by some, condemned as a drunken sot by others. Paul R. Wylie recounts Meagher’s life from his boyhood and activities in the Irish revolution of 1848 to his exile to Tasmania and escape to New York, where he found fame as an orator and as editor of the Irish News. Serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, Meagher rose to the rank of brigadier general, leading the famous Irish Brigade through the Seven Days Battles, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. Wylie then narrates Meagher’s career as acting governor of Montana Territory, sorting historical truth from false claims regarding the militia he formed to combat attacking American Indians, and plumbing the mystery surrounding his death. Enhanced by rare maps and photographs depicting the Young Irelanders, the Irish Brigade, and early Montana, The Irish General offers a captivating reading experience. Paul R. Wylie is an independent researcher and retired attorney living in Bozeman, Montana. February $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4185-5 416 Pages, 6.125 X 9.25 45 B&W Illus., 4 Maps biography
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NEW IN PAPER
Oklahoma
A Letter to America
A History
By David Boren
By W. David Baird A powerful wake-up call to all Americans
and Danney Goble The only single-volume narrative history of Oklahoma for a general audience
“Lively prose, vivid biographical vignettes, and artful synthesis make this book the best brief overview of Oklahoma ever written.”—Chronicles of Oklahoma Oklahoma: A History covers the story of the Sooner State—from the tectonic formation of Oklahoma’s varied landscape, to the recovery and renewal following the Oklahoma City bombing, to the threshold of its centennial—in one readable volume. W. David Baird and Danney Goble, both authorities on the 46th state, explore Oklahoma history’s intricate tapestry of themes, stories, and perspectives, including those of the state’s diverse population of American Indians. Offering fresh insights on widely recognized history makers, such as Sequoyah, and well-known milestones like the 1889 Land Run and the Glenn Pool oil strike, the authors also reveal lesser-known but equally important Oklahoma people, places, and events. The result is a rousing, often surprising, and ever-fascinating story. W. David Baird is Dean Emeritus of Seaver College and Howard A. White Professor of History at Pepperdine University, Malibu, California. Danney Goble (1946–2007) was Professor of Classics at the University of Oklahoma. Baird and Goble, both Oklahoma natives, wrote the textbook The Story of Oklahoma, named the Oklahoma History Book of the Year by the Oklahoma Historical Society. March $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4197-8 360 pages, 6 X 9
“Wise, timely, and constructive views from one of the leading public servants and educators of our time. This book should be read, re-read, and passed along to all who care about our country and its future.”—David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of John Adams With only 6 percent of the world’s population, how long will the United States remain a global superpower? The answer, David Boren tells us in A Letter to America, depends on asking ourselves tough questions and taking a bold, objective look at ourselves. Boren explains with unsparing clarity why the country is at a crossroads and why decisive action is urgently needed and offers us an ambitious, hopeful plan. What the country needs, Boren asserts, are major reforms to restore the ability of our political system to act responsibly. We must fashion a post–Cold War foreign policy that fits twenty-first-century realities and adopt campaign finance reform that restores political power to the voters. Boren also describes how we can renew our emphasis on quality primary and secondary education, revitalize our spirit of community, and promote volunteerism. The plan Boren puts forward is optimistic and challenges Americans to look into the future, decide what we want to be and where we want to go, and then implement the policies and actions we need to take us there. Rhodes Scholar David Boren, currently President of the University of Oklahoma, was the longest-serving chairman of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee.
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JANUARY $9.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-4202-9 $14.95 CLoTH 978-0-8061-3944-9 112 PAGES, 5 x 7.5 OKLAHOMA/POLITICAL SCIENCE/LAW
baird, goble Oklahoma · boren a letter to america
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Hagan charles goodnight · barbour jedediah smith
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new in paper
Charles Goodnight
Jedediah Smith
Father of the Texas Panhandle
No Ordinary Mountain Man
By William T. Hagan
By Barton H. Barbour
The life of one of the most important cattleman of the American West
An unvarnished picture of one of the West’s most complex characters
“Fresh and valuable . . . a modern classic on the father of the Texas Panhandle.”—David Dary, author of The Santa Fe Trail
“One of the West’s greatest explorers has found the right biographer.”—Utah Historical Quarterly
A pioneer of the early range cattle industry, Charles Goodnight was an opinionated and profane but energetic and well-liked rancher. In this authoritative account, the first major reassessment of Charles Goodnight’s life in seventy years, William T. Hagan considers the role of ranching in general, and Goodnight in particular, in the development of the Texas Panhandle.
Mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow. The first Anglo-American to travel overland to California via the Southwest, Smith roamed through more of the West than anyone of his era, and his adventures quickly became the stuff of legend. Barton H. Barbour includes recently discovered documents and sifts fact from legend to offer new insights on the life and adventures of this dynamic frontiersman.
Goodnight learned the cattle business and became one of the pioneering ranchers of the Southwest. Responding to the threat of Comanche raids, he volunteered in campaigns against the Indians and trained as a scout. Hagan traces Goodnight’s life from hardscrabble farmer to cattle baron, giving close attention to lesser-known aspects of his last thirty years. He also presents a clearer picture of Goodnight’s business arrangements and investments, including the financial setbacks of his later life.
Young Jedediah Smith was influenced by notable men who were his family’s neighbors, including a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. When he was twenty-three, hard times and wanderlust set him on the road west. Barbour delves into Smith’s journals to offer compelling insights into the trader’s itineraries and personality, and turns up a letter Smith wrote late in life that illustrates his passion for geographic discovery.
As entertaining as it is informative, Charles Goodnight: Father of the Texas Panhandle takes readers back to the Palo Duro Canyon and the Staked Plains to share images of the cattleman’s life—riding the range, fighting grass fires, driving cattle to the nearest railhead—that are the very stuff of cowboy legend and lore.
Jedediah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man takes a hard look at Smith’s views of American Indians, Mexicans in California, and Hudson’s Bay Company competitors, evaluating his fur-trade dealings and exploring the character and remarkable achievements of one of the West’s most complex characters.
William T. Hagan is retired as Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. His numerous books include Taking Indian Lands and Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief.
Barton H. Barbour is Professor of History at Boise State University and the author of Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade. Volume 23 in The Oklahoma Western Biographies
Volume 21 in the Oklahoma Western Biographies
April
March
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Victory at Peleliu The 81st Infantry Division’s Pacific Campaign By Bobby C. Blair and John Peter DeCioccio When the 1st Marine Division began its invasion of Peleliu in September 1944, the operation in the South Pacific was to take but four days. In fact, capturing this small coral island in the Palaus with its strategic airstrip took two months and involved some of the bloodiest fighting of the Second World War in the Pacific. Rather than the easy conquest they were led to expect, the Marines who landed on Peleliu faced a war of attrition from the island’s Japanese defenders, who had dug tunnels and fortified the island’s rugged terrain. When the Marines’ advance stalled after a week of heavy casualties, the “Wildcats” of the 81st Infantry Division were called in, at first as support. Eventually, the 1st Marines Division was evacuated and the 81st Infantry secured the island. Now Bobby C. Blair and John Peter DeCioccio tell the story of this campaign through the eyes of the 81st Infantry to offer a revised assessment. Previous accounts of the battle have focused on the 1st Marines, all but ignoring the 81st Infantry Division’s contributions. Victory at Peleliu demonstrates that without the army’s help the marines could not have succeeded on Peleliu. Blair and DeCioccio have mined the 81st Division’s unit records and interviewed scores of veteran participants. The new data they offer challenge the orthodox view that the 81st Infantry merely mopped up an already broken enemy. Allowing their interviewees to tell much of the story, the authors also give a human face to a brutal battle. Although American efforts in the Palau Islands proved largely unnecessary to ultimately defeating the Japanese, the lessons learned on Peleliu were crucial in subsequent fighting on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The 81st Infantry’s contributions are now part of that larger story. Bobby C. Blair is an independent researcher and writer. Retired after a thirty-two-year career with Phillips Petroleum Company, he now lives in Shawnee, Oklahoma. John Peter DeCioccio (1949–2004), who began the research for this book and interviewed most of the veterans, worked in the fields of broadcast journalism and mental health in New York and Florida.
Volume 30 in the Campaigns and Commanders series
April $34.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4154-1 320 Pages, 6 x 9 15 b&w illus., 10 maps Military History
Of Related Interest Once Upon a Time In War The 99th Division in World War II By Robert E. Humphrey $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3946-3 The Wrong Stuff The Adventures and Misadventures of an 8th Air Force Aviator By Truman Smith $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3422-2 Hero Street U.S.A The Story of Little Mexico’s Fallen Soldiers By Marc Wilson $19.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4012-4
Blair, DeCioccio Victory at peleliu
A new look at one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War
boscawen the capture of louisbourg, 1758
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A comprehensive account of the pivotal battle of the Seven Years’ War
The Capture of Louisbourg, 1758 By Hugh Boscawen Louisbourg, France’s impressive fortress on Cape Breton Island’s foggy Atlantic coast, dominated access to the St. Lawrence and colonial New France for forty years in the mid-eighteenth century. In 1755, Great Britain and France stumbled into the French and Indian War, part of what (to Europe) became the Seven Years’ War—only for British forces to suffer successive defeats. In 1758, Britain and France, as well as Indian nations caught in the rivalry, fought for high stakes: the future of colonial America.
Volume 27 in the Campaigns and Commanders series
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Of Related Interest With Zeal and With Bayonets Only The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775–1783 By Matthew H. Spring $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4152-7 Never Come to Peace Again Pontiac’s Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America By David Dixon $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3656-1 The Far Reaches of Empire War in Nova Scotia, 1710–1760 By John Grenier $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3876-3
Hugh Boscawen describes how Britain’s war minister William Pitt launched four fleets in a coordinated campaign to prevent France from reinforcing Louisbourg. As the author shows, the Royal Navy outfought its opponents before General Jeffery Amherst and Brigadier James Wolfe successfully led 14,000 British regulars, including American-born redcoats, rangers, and carpenters, in a hard-fought assault landing. Together they besieged the fortress, which surrendered after forty-nine days. The victory marked a turning point in British fortunes and precipitated the end of French rule in North America. Boscawen, an experienced soldier and sailor, and a direct descendant of Admiral the Hon. Edward Boscawen, who commanded the Royal Navy fleet at Louisbourg, examines the pivotal 1758 Louisbourg campaign from both the British and French perspectives. Drawing on myriad primary sources, including previously unpublished correspondence, Boscawen also answers the question “What did the soldiers and sailors who fought there do all day?” The result is the most comprehensive history of this strategically important campaign ever written. Colonel Hugh Boscawen served thirty-two years in the Coldstream Guards, with operational service in three theaters, including Op DESERT STORM, before leaving the British Army in 2009. An eighteenth-century naval and military specialist, and a yachtsman, he has contributed to British military doctrine and to various regimental histories and journals.
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Carrying the War to the Enemy American Operational Art to 1945 By Michael R. Matheny Military commanders turn tactics into strategic victory by means of “operational art,” the knowledge and creative imagination commanders and staff employ in designing, synchronizing, and conducting battles and major operations to achieve strategic goals. Until now, historians of military theory have generally agreed that modern operational art developed between the first and second world wars, not in the United States but in Germany and the Soviet Union, whose armies were supposedly the innovators and greatest practitioners of operational art. Some have even claimed that U.S. forces struggled in World War II because their commanders had no systematic understanding of operational art. Michael R. Matheny believes previous studies have not appreciated the evolution of U.S. military thinking at the operational level. Although they may rightly point to the U.S. Army’s failure to modernize or develop a sophisticated combined arms doctrine during the interwar years, they focus too much on technology or tactical doctrine. In his revealing account, Matheny shows that it was at the operational level, particularly in mounting joint and combined operations, that senior American commanders excelled—and laid a foundation for their country’s victory in World War II. Matheny draws on archival materials from military educational institutions, planning documents, and operational records of World War II campaigns. Examining in detail the development of American operational art as land, sea, and air power matured in the twentieth century, he shows that, contrary to conventional wisdom, U.S. war colleges educated and trained commanders during the interwar years specifically for the operational art they employed in World War II. After 1945, in the face of nuclear warfare, the American military largely abandoned operational art. But since the Vietnam War, U.S. commanders have found operational art increasingly important as they pursue modern global and expeditionary warfare requiring coordination among multiple service branches and the forces of allied countries. Michael R. Matheny retired after 30 years with the U.S. Army to earn a Ph.D. in military history and join the faculty of the Department of Military Strategy, Planning, and Operations at the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.
Volume 28 in the Campaigns and Commanders series
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Of Related Interest The Uncivil War Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861–1865 By Robert R. Mackey $21.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3736-0 William Harding Carter and the American Army A Soldier’s Story By Ronald G. Machoian $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3746-9 Clash of Arms How the Allies Won in Normandy By Russell A. Hart $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3605-9
matheny carrying the war to the enemy
Surprising new evidence of operational art among U.S. commanders in World War II
Moon wellington’s two-front war
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Wellington’s battle with Napoleon abroad and bureaucracy at home
Wellington’s T wo-Front War The Peninsular Campaigns, at Home and Abroad, 1808–1814 By Joshua Moon Sir Arthur Wellesley’s 1808–14 campaigns against Napoleon’s forces in the Iberian Peninsula have drawn the attention of scholars and soldiers for two centuries. Yet, until now, no study has focused on the problems that Wellesley, later known as the Duke of Wellington, encountered on the home front before his eventual triumph beyond the Pyrenees. In Wellington’s Two-Front War, Joshua Moon not only surveys Wellington’s command of British forces against the French but also describes the battles Wellington fought in England—with an archaic military command structure, bureaucracy, and fickle public opinion.
Volume 29 in the Campaigns and Commanders series
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Of Related Interest On wellington A Critique of Waterloo By Carl von Clausewitz Edited by Peter Hofschröer $32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4108-4 Architects of Empire The Duke of Wellington and His Brothers By John Severn $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3810-7 Napoleon and Berlin The Franco-Prussian War in North Germany, 1813 By Michael V. Leggiere $39.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3399-7
In this detailed and accessible account, Moon traces Wellington’s command of British forces during the six years of warfare against the French. Almost immediately upon landing in Portugal in 1808, Wellington was hampered by his government’s struggle to plan a strategy for victory. From that point on, Moon argues, the military’s outdated promotion system, political maneuvering, and bureaucratic inertia—all subject to public opinion and a hostile press—thwarted Wellington’s efforts, almost costing him the victory. Drawing on archival sources in the United Kingdom and at the United States Military Academy, Moon goes well beyond detailing military operations to delve into the larger effects of domestic policies, bureaucracy, and coalition building on strategy. Ultimately, Moon shows, the second front of Wellington’s “two-front war” was as difficult as the better-known struggle against Napoleon’s troops and harsh conditions abroad. As this book demonstrates, it was only through strategic vision and relentless determination that Wellington attained the hard-fought victory. Moon’s multifaceted examination of the commander and his frustrations offers valuable insight into the complexities of fighting faraway battles under the scrutiny at home of government agencies and the press—issues still relevant today. Joshua Moon is a Major in the U.S. Army. Formerly Assistant Professor of History at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he now serves in Hawaii.
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Our Centennial Indian War and the Life of General Custer By Frances Fuller Victor Introduction by Jerome A. Greene Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer was widely known as a Civil War figure, author, and successful cavalry leader before his spectacular defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 by Lakota and Northern Cheyenne Indians. His actions—and those of his troops—would have been of public interest even without their final, bloody outcome. A ready audience of readers was hungry for information about the engagement and about their fallen hero when Frances Fuller Victor’s book appeared in spring 1877. Published even before the Great Sioux War had ended, Our Centennial Indian War and the Life of General Custer was the first contemporary and comprehensive account of the successive army operations in 1876 and early 1877. It was a major accomplishment. Victor drew information from a wide range of sources—including personal letters, war correspondents’ dispatches, and government documents—to explain the lengthy, disjointed struggle between the army and the Lakota-Cheyenne coalition. She also offered one of the earliest biographical assessments of Custer, its most noted military participant.
Volume 68 in the Western Frontier Library series
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Compared to other period writings, Victor’s narrative is smooth and dispassionate, devoid of conjecture and judgment. In addition, her account contains rare Indian perspectives on the Little Bighorn battle, including Lakota testimony that has not previously appeared elsewhere. Featuring an introduction by historian Jerome A. Greene, this edition of Our Centennial Indian War provides a remarkable window into contemporary thinking about an iconic event. Frances Fuller Victor (1826–1902) was a writer and historian who wrote prolifically, and sometimes without due acknowledgment, on the history of the American West, especially the Pacific Northwest. Jerome A. Greene is retired as Research Historian for the National Park Service. He is the author of numerous books, including most recently Beyond Bear’s Paw: The Nez Perce Indians in Canada.
Of Related Interest The Custer Reader By Paul Andrew Hutton $26.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3465-9 Cavalier in Buckskin Revised Edition Robert Utley $21.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3387-4 They Died with Custer Soldiers’ Bones from the Battle of the Little Big Horn By D. Douglas Scott, P. Willey, and Mellisa A. Connor $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3507-6
victor our centennial indian war and the life of general custer
The first book published on the Battle of the Little Bighorn
tanner,tanner the bronco bill gang
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How a Texas cowboy came to lead a band of outlaws who menaced the frontier Southwest
The Bronco Bill Gang By Karen Holliday Tanner and John D. Tanner “An information-packed, good old narrative piece of history.”—ROGER D. MCGRATH, author of Gunfighters, Highwaymen, and Vigilantes: Violence on the Frontier The short, bloody career of “Bronco Bill” Walters and his gang captures the devilmay-care violence of the Wild West. In this detailed narrative of the gang’s crime spree in territorial New Mexico and Arizona, two experts in outlaw history offer a gunshot-by-gunshot account of how some especially dangerous outlaws plied their trade in 1898.
May $29.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4165-7 320 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 27 B&w Illus., 2 maps western history
William Walters reached New Mexico Territory from Texas in the late 1880s and quickly gained a reputation for his ability to sit a horse and for his violent ways. The Bronco Bill Gang skillfully dissects his propensity for trouble and shows how he soon found himself in the territorial penitentiary. In the spring of 1898, after a sojourn stealing horses in Arizona, Walters and four apprentice outlaws turned to armed robbery, holding up passenger trains on the Santa Fe Railroad in Grants and Belén, New Mexico. By the time a Wells Fargo posse captured Bronco Bill, two of the outlaws, two deputies, and a Navajo tracker had been killed in gunfights. Anyone with a taste for western history or an interest in New Mexico and Arizona in the bad old days will find this book irresistible. The authors’ attention to the ways Bill and his men fell into a life of crime shows us the real West, where cowboys and gunmen could wind up on either side of the law. The Bronco Bill Gang is the first book to explore this fabled band of outlaws who crisscrossed the American Southwest.
Of Related Interest Last Hurrah of the James-Younger Gang By Robert Barr Smith $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3353-9 Daltons! The Raid on Coffeyville, Kansas By Robert Barr Smith $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2994-5 Doc Holliday A Family Portrait By Karen H. Tanner $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3320-1
Karen Holliday Tanner is the author of Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait. John D. Tanner is Professor Emeritus of History at Palomar College, San Marcos, California. Both are recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Wild West History Association. The Tanners have together written numerous articles and four books, including Last of the Old-Time Outlaws: The George West Musgrave Story.
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The Mormon Rebellion America’s First Civil War, 1857–1858 By David L. Bigler and Will Bagley In 1857 President James Buchanan ordered U.S. troops to Utah to replace Brigham Young as governor and restore order in what the federal government viewed as a territory in rebellion. In this compelling narrative, award-winning authors David L. Bigler and Will Bagley use long-suppressed sources to show that—contrary to common perception—the Mormon rebellion was not the result of Buchanan’s “blunder,” nor was it a David-and-Goliath tale in which an abused religious minority heroically defied the imperial ambitions of an unjust and tyrannical government. They argue that Mormon leaders had their own far-reaching ambitions and fully intended to establish an independent nation—the Kingdom of God—in the West. Long overshadowed by the Civil War, the tragic story of this conflict involved a tense and protracted clash pitting Brigham Young’s Nauvoo Legion against Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston and the U.S. Army’s Utah Expedition. In the end, the conflict between the two armies saw no pitched battles, but in the authors’ view, Buchanan’s decision to order troops to Utah, his so-called blunder, eventually proved decisive and beneficial for both Mormons and the American republic.
April $34.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4135-0 384 pages, 6 x 9 27 b&w Illus., 1 map Western history
A rich exploration of events and forces that presaged the Civil War, The Mormon Rebellion broadens our understanding of both antebellum America and Utah’s frontier theocracy and offers a challenging reinterpretation of a controversial chapter in Mormon annals. David L. Bigler, former director of the Utah Board of State History, is an independent historian whose books on Utah, California, and western American history include Forgotten Kingdom: The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847–1896. Will Bagley, an independent historian of the West, is the author or editor of numerous books, including Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Mountain Meadows Massacre and So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848.
Of Related Interest So Rugged and Mountainous Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848 By Will Bagley $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4103-9 Blood of the Prophets Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows By Will Bagley $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3639-4 At Sword’s Point, Part 1 A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858 By William P. MacKinnon $45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-353-0
bigler, bagley The mormon rebellion
America’s first civil war played out in the Far West
DeArment assault on the deadwood stage
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The riveting—and real-life—story of violent crime in an iconic western community
Assault on the Deadwood Stage Road Agents and Shotgun Messengers By Robert K. DeArment Foreword by Joseph G. Rosa In the 1870s, Deadwood was a thriving—and largely lawless—boomtown. And as any fan of western history and films knows, stagecoach robberies were a regular feature of life in this fabled region of Dakota Territory. Now, for the first time, Robert K. DeArment tells the story of the “good guys and bad guys” behind these violent crimes: the road agents who wreaked havoc on Deadwood’s roadways and the shotgun messengers who battled to protect stagecoach passengers and their valuable cargo.
may $24.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4182-4 272 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 29 b&w Illus., 1 map Western history
Of Related Interest A Rough Ride to Redemption The Ben Daniels Story By Robert K. DeArment and Jack DeMattos Foreword by William B. Secrest $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4112-1 Deadly Dozen, Volume 2 Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West By Robert K. DeArment $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3863-3 Deadly Dozen, Volume 3 Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West By Robert K. DeArment $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4076-6
DeArment shows in dramatic detail how for two years gangs of robbers ruled the road, perpetrating holdups and killings, until lawmen and stage-company and railroad agents finally brought an end to the mayhem. The characters populating this violent tale include such legendary figures as Wild Bill Hickok and the famous railroad detective James L. “Whispering” Smith, a formidable opponent of bandits. We also get to know the men who operated the stages, the lawmen and company men who ran and defended the coaches, and the outlaws who fought against them. DeArment tells where these men came from and what became of them after the outlawry ended. He ends his account in the 1880s with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show and its spectacular rendition of a shotgun robbery, featuring an actual Deadwood stagecoach. After nearly a century and a half, the Deadwood stage continues to command our attention. Robert K. DeArment is the author of numerous books about law and order in the American West, including Deadly Dozen, Volumes 1–3, and Ballots and Bullets: The Bloody County Seat Wars of Kansas. Joseph G. Rosa is the author of the definitive biography of Wild Bill Hickok, They Called Him Wild Bill: The Life and Adventures of James Butler Hickok, among other publications.
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Western Heritage A Selection of Wrangler Award–Winning Articles Edited by Paul Andrew Hutton Foreword by Charles P. Schroeder The enduring fascination of the American West marks this collection of essays by distinguished historians, investigative reporters, a novelist, and a celebrated screenwriter. All of these articles have won Wrangler Awards—the western equivalent of the Oscars—presented annually by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Exciting storytelling, a hallmark of western writing, shapes every selection. C. L. Sonnichsen’s 1986 revisionist account of Geronimo’s life foreshadows the work of younger historians who continue to deepen our understanding of American Indian history. Jeffrey Pearson’s story of the death of Crazy Horse and Greg Michno’s novelistic rendering of the Lakota view of the Battle of the Little Bighorn represent history as practiced by scholars who are also powerful writers. Journalist-screenwriter William Broyles’s narrative of the King family and ranch is a Texas saga as captivating as anything by Larry McMurtry. The renowned novelist Oakley Hall writes with a historian’s precision about Wyoming, setting for The Virginian and site of the Teapot Dome scandal and the Johnson County range war. Focusing on Charles M. Russell, Raphael Cristy establishes the western artist’s importance as a writer who overturned stereotypes about American Indians. Environmental studies are showcased in Dan Flores’s essays on the demise of the great buffalo herds and the history of the horse trade. And no overview of the West would be complete without military and law enforcement history, amply represented by Robert M. Utley’s work on the Texas Rangers, Paul Hutton’s panoramic recounting of the Alamo, and Sally Denton’s new look at the controversial Mountain Meadows Massacre, incorporating the latest forensic evidence. In what serves as a fitting coda to the violent yet inspiring history of the American West, Hutton offers a stirring account of Teddy Roosevelt’s leadership at the Battle of San Juan Hill. This is a collection as pleasurable to read as it is rich with great and significant stories about one of the most enduring national epochs—the history of the great American West. Paul Andrew Hutton is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and Executive Director of Western Writers of America. He is the author of Phil Sheridan and His Army and the editor of The Custer Reader and coeditor of Soldiers West: Biographies from the Military Frontier, Second Edition. Charles P. Schroeder is Executive Director of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.
volume 9 in the Western Legacies Series
May $19.95s ORIGINAL PAPER 978-0-8061-4206-7 292 PAGES, 5.5 X 8.5 3 Maps Western History
Of Related Interest Arena Legacy The Heritage of American Rodeo By Richard C. Rattenbury $65.00 Cloth 978-8061-4084-1 A Western Legacy The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum Introduction by David Dary $59.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3728-5 $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3731-5 Soldier’s West Biographies from the Military Frontier Second Edition Edited by Paul Andrew Hutton and Durwood Ball $34.95s cloth 978-0-8061-3997-5
Hutton Western heritage
A lively sample of western American history by some of its best writers
Lawrence violent encounters
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Nine renowned historians talk frankly about their study of violence in the West
Violent Encounters Interviews on Western Massacres By Deborah and Jon Lawrence Merciless killing in the nineteenth-century American West, as this unusual book shows, was not as simple as depicted in dime novels and movie Westerns. The scholars interviewed here, experts on violence in the West, embrace a wide range of approaches and perspectives and challenge both traditional views of western expansion and politically correct ideologies. The Battle of the Little Big Horn, the Sand Creek Massacre, the Battle of the Washita, and the Mountain Meadows Massacre are iconic events that have been repeatedly described and analyzed, but the interviews included in this volume offer new points of view. Other events discussed here are little-known today, such as the Camp Grant Massacre, in which Anglo-Americans, Mexican Americans, and Tohono O’odham Indians killed more than a hundred Pinal and Aravaipa Apache men, women, and children. June $34.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4126-8 224 pages, 6.125 x 9.25 27 B&w illus., 9 maps western history
Of Related Interest The Oatman Massacre A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival By Brian McGinty $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3667-7 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3770-4 Blood of the Prophets Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows By Will Bagley $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3639-4 The Sand Creek Massacre By Stan Hoig $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1147-6
In addition to specific events, the interviews cover broader themes such as violence in early California; hostilities between the frontier army and the Sioux, including the Santee Sioux Revolt and Wounded Knee; and violence between European Americans and Great Basin tribes, such as the Bear River Massacre. The scholars interviewed include academic historians, public historians, an anthropologist, and a journalist. The interview format provides insights into the methodology and tools of historical research and allows questions and speculations often absent from conventional, written accounts. The scholars share their latest thoughts on long-standing controversies, address the political uses often made of history, and discuss the need to incorporate multiple viewpoints. Scholars and students of history and historiography will be fascinated by the nutsand-bolts information about the practice of history revealed in these interviews. In addition, readers with specific interests in the events discussed will gain much new information and many fresh insights. Deborah and Jon Lawrence have coedited Desert Tracks, the quarterly of the Southern Trails chapter of the Oregon-California Trail Association, since 2003. Deborah is an emeritus faculty member in the English Department, California State University, Fullerton, and author of Writing the Trail: Five Women’s Frontier Narratives. John is retired as a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine.
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Red Power Rising The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism By Bradley G. Shreve Foreword by Shirley Hill Witt During the 1960s, American Indian youth were swept up in a movement called Red Power—a civil rights struggle fueled by intertribal activism. While some define the movement as militant and others see it as peaceful, there is one common assumption about its history: Red Power began with the Indian takeover of Alcatraz in 1969. Or did it? In this groundbreaking book, Bradley G. Shreve sets the record straight by tracing the origins of Red Power further back in time: to the student activism of the National Indian Youth Council (NIYC), founded in Gallup, New Mexico, in 1961. Unlike other 1960s and ’70s activist groups that challenged the fundamental beliefs of their predecessors, the students who established the NIYC were determined to uphold the cultures and ideals of their elders, building on a tradition of pan-Indian organization dating back to the early twentieth century. Their cornerstone principles of tribal sovereignty, self determination, treaty rights, and cultural preservation helped ensure their survival, for in contrast to other activist groups that came and went, the NIYC is still in operation today. But Shreve also shows that the NIYC was very much a product of 1960s idealistic ferment and its leaders learned tactics from other contemporary leftist movements. By uncovering the origins of Red Power, Shreve writes an important new chapter in the history of American Indian activism. And by revealing the ideology and accomplishments of the NIYC, he ties the Red Power Movement to the larger struggle for human rights that continues to this day both in the United States and across the globe. Bradley G. Shreve is Chair of the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona. Shirley Hill Witt was a founder and vice president of the National Indian Youth Council. A distinguished anthropologist and former foreign service officer, she is a member of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation, Wolf Clan.
Volume 5 in the New Directions in Native American Studies series
april $34.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4178-7 272 pages, 6 X 9 20 B&W Illus. American Indian
Of Related Interest Ojibwa Warrior Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement By Dennis Banks, with Richard Erdoes $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3691-2 Loud Hawk The United States versus the American Indian Movement By Kenneth S. Stern $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3439-0 Heart of The Rock The Indian Invasion of Alcatraz By Adam Fortunate Eagle, with Tim Findley Foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr. $29.95 cloth 978-0-8061-3396-6 $19.95 paper 978-0-8061-3989-0
shreve red power risiing
Uncovers the origins of the Red Power movement
santiago the jar of severed hands
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Explores colonial Spanish-Apache relations in the Southwest borderlands
The Jar of Severed Hands The Spanish Deportation of Apache Prisoners of War, 1770–1810 By Mark Santiago More than two centuries after the Coronado Expedition first set foot in the region, the northern frontier of New Spain in the late 1770s was still under attack by Apache raiders. Mark Santiago’s gripping account of Spanish efforts to subdue the Apaches illuminates larger cultural and political issues in the colonial period of the Southwest and northern Mexico.
may $29.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4177-0 264 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 9 B&W Illus., 2 maps American Indian
Of Related Interest Indian Alliances and the Spanish in the Southwest, 750–1750 By William B. Carter $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4009-4 Views from the Apache Frontier Report on the Northern Provinces of New Spain By Jose Cortes Edited by Elizabeth A.H. John Translated by John Wheat $16.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2609-8 From Cochise to Geronimo The Chiricahua Apaches, 1874–1886 By Edwin R. Sweeney $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4150-3
To persuade the Apaches to abandon their homelands and accept Christian “civilization,” Spanish officials employed both the mailed fist of continuous war and the velvet glove of the reservation system. “Hostiles” captured by the Spanish would be deported, while Apaches who agreed to live in peace near the Spanish presidios would receive support. Santiago’s history of the deportation policy includes vivid descriptions of colleras, the chain gangs of Apache prisoners of war bound together for the two-month journey by mule and on foot from the northern frontier to Mexico City. The book’s arresting title, The Jar of Severed Hands, comes from a 1792 report documenting a desperate break for freedom made by a group of Apache prisoners. After subduing the prisoners and killing twelve Apache men, the Spanish soldiers verified the attempted breakout by amputating the left hands of the dead and preserving them in a jar for display to their superiors. Santiago’s nuanced analysis of deportation policy credits both the Apaches’ ability to exploit the Spanish government’s dual approach and the growing awareness on the Spaniards’ part that the peoples they referred to as Apaches were a disparate and complex assortment of tribes that could not easily be subjugated. The Jar of Severed Hands deepens our understanding of the dynamics of the relationship between Indian tribes and colonial powers in the Southwest borderlands. Mark Santiago is Director of the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces and the author of Massacre at the Yuma Crossing: Spanish Relations with the Quechans, 1779–1782.
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Arapaho Journeys Photographs and Stories from the Wind River Reservation Text and Photographs by Sara Wiles Foreword by Frances Merle Haas In what is now Colorado and Wyoming, the Northern Arapahos thrived for centuries, connected by strong spirituality and kinship and community structures that allowed them to survive in the rugged environment. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, as Anglo-Americans pushed west, Northern Arapaho life changed dramatically. Although forced to relocate to a reservation, the people endured and held on to their traditions. Today, tribal members preserve the integrity of a society that still fosters living ni’iihi’, as they call it, “in a good way.” Award-winning photographer Sara Wiles captures that life on film and in words in Arapaho Journeys, an inside look at thirty years of Northern Arapaho life on the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming.
May $34.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4158-9
Through more than 100 images and 40 essays, Wiles creates a visual and verbal mosaic of contemporary Northern Arapaho culture. Depicted in the photographs are people Wiles met at Wind River while she was a social worker, anthropology student, and adopted member of an Arapaho family. Among others pictured are Josephine Redman, an older woman wrapped in a blanket, soft light illuminating its folds, and rancher-artist Eugene Ridgely, Sr., half smiling as he intently paints a drum. Interspersed among the portraits are images of races, basketball teams, and traditional games. Wiles’s essays weave together tribal history, personal narratives, and traditional knowledge to describe modern-day reservation life and little-known aspects of Arapaho history and culture, including naming ceremonies and cultural revitalization efforts. This work broaches controversial topics, as well, including the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians.
256 Pages, 9 x 9.5
Arapaho Journeys documents not only reservation life but also Wiles’s growth as a photographer and member of the Wind River community from 1975 through 2005. This book offers readers a journey, one that will enrich their understanding of Wiles’s art—and of the Northern Arapahos’ history, culture, and lived experience.
$29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3893-0
Sara Wiles is an independent photographer, writer, and scholar who holds a master’s degree in anthropology from Indiana University. Her photographs, including the images published here for the first time, have been exhibited nationally. Frances Merle Haas is director of the Sky People Higher Education Program of the Northern Arapaho Tribe, a writer, and traditional Arapaho storyteller.
Life at the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Agency
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Of Related Interest A Northern Cheyenne Album Photographs by Thomas B. Marquis By John Woodenlegs Edited by Margot Liberty
A Danish Photographer of Idaho Indians Benedicte Wrensted By Joanna Cohan Scherer $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3684-4
The Photographs of Annette Ross Hume By Kristina L. Southwell and John R. Lovett $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4138-1
wiles arapaho journeys
Three decades of contemporary Northern Arapaho life in images and essays
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A definitive portrait of a Spanish cleric and royalist who fundamentally shaped New Spain, updated in light of newly available sources
Pedro Moya de Contreras Catholic Reform and Royal Power in New Spain, 1571–1591 Second Edition By Stafford Poole For a brief few years in the sixteenth century, Pedro Moya de Contreras was the most powerful man in the New World. A church official and loyal royalist, he came to Mexico in 1571 to establish the Inquisition and later became archbishop and viceroy for the region. This new edition of Stafford Poole’s definitive portrait of Moya de Contreras, first published in 1971, now offers an expanded understanding of this enigmatic figure’s influence on the development of New Spain.
March $45.00s cloth 978-0-8061-4171-8 352 pages, 6 X 9 8 B&W illus. Latin American studies
In tracing the career of a sixteenth-century church official and administrator who was more notable for what he did than for who he was, Poole offers a rich source of information about Spanish rule in colonial Mexico and the evolving relationship between the Spanish monarchy and the Catholic Church. For this second edition, Poole draws on newly available sources to fill in gaps regarding Moya de Contreras’s shadowy early career and final years in Spain. He also explores in greater depth the churchman’s influence as Grand Inquisitor in light of the plethora of new research and recent publications on the Spanish Inquisition. Poole shows that Moya de Contreras was as diligent at carrying out the tortures of the Inquisition as he was at exposing government and church corruption. His reforming zeal reached its culmination in his leadership of the Third Mexican Provincial Council of 1585, which enacted a legal code for the Mexican Church that lasted more than three hundred years.
Of Related Interest Juan de Ovando Governing the Spanish Empire in the Reign of Philip II By Stafford Poole $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3592-2 Bonfires of Culture Franciscans, Indigenous Leaders, and the Inquisition in Early Mexico, 1524–1540 By Patricia Lopes Don $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4049-0 The Conquest of America The Question of the Other By Tzvetan Todorov $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3137-5
Stafford Poole, C.M., is an independent researcher and ordained priest who devotes himself to the study of Nahuatl. Widely known for his writings on Our Lady of Guadalupe, he is the author of numerous publications, including Juan de Ovando: Governing the Spanish Empire in the Reign of Philip II.
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After Moctezuma Indigenous Politics and Self-Government in Mexico City, 1524–1730 By William F. Connell The Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519 left the capital city, Tenochtitlan, in ruins. Conquistador Hernán Cortés, following the city’s surrender in 1521, established a governing body to organize its reconstruction. Cortés was careful to appoint native people to govern who had held positions of authority before his arrival, establishing a pattern that endured for centuries. William F. Connell’s After Moctezuma: Indigenous Politics and Self-Government in Mexico City, 1524–1730 reveals how native self-government in former Tenochtitlan evolved over time as the city and its population changed. Drawing on extensive research in Mexico’s Archivo General de la Nación, Connell shows how the hereditary political system of the Mexica was converted into a government by elected town councilmen, patterned after the Spanish cabildo, or municipal council. In the process, the Spanish relied upon existing Mexica administrative entities—the native ethnic state, or altepetl of Mexico Tenochtitlan, became the parcialidad of San Juan Tenochtitlan, for instance—preserving indigenous ideas of government within an imposed Spanish structure. Over time, the electoral system undermined the preconquest elite and introduced new native political players, facilitating social change. By the early eighteenth century, a process that had begun in the 1500s with the demise of Moctezuma and the royal line of Tenochtitlan had resulted in a politically independent indigenous cabildo. After Moctezuma is the first systematic study of the indigenous political structures at the heart of New Spain. With careful attention to relations among colonial officials and indigenous power brokers, Connell shows that the ongoing contest for control of indigenous government in Mexico City made possible a new kind of political system neither wholly indigenous nor entirely Spanish. Ultimately, he offers insight into the political voice Tenochtitlan’s indigenous people gained with the ability to choose their own leaders—exercising power that endured through the end of the colonial period and beyond. William F. Connell, an Associate Professor of History at Christopher Newport University, specializes in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mexico and Latin America. His articles have appeared in the Colonial Latin American Historical Review and the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History.
March $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4175-6 352 Pages, 6 X 9 4 B&W Illus., 1 map, 3 tables Latin American Studies
Of Related Interest The Tenochca Empire of Ancient Mexico The Triple Alliance of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan By Pedro Carrasco $55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3144-3 $39.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4199-2 Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500–1700 By Susan Kellogg $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3685-1 Santiago de Guatemala, 1541–1773 City, Caste, and the Colonial Experience By Christopher H. Lutz $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2911-2
connell after moctezuma
The first study of indigenous political dynamics in Tenochtitlan after the Spanish invasion
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Using red teams in today’s counterterrorism training
Red Teams and Counterterrorism Training By Stephen Sloan and Robert J. Bunker With a chapter by Roberta Sloan Foreword by David Boren
May $19.95s paper 978-0-8061-4183-1 160 Pages, 5.5 X 8.5 13 B&W Illus. Law enforcement
Of Related Interest Insurgency, Terrorism, and Crime Shadows from the Past and Portents for the Future By Max G. Manwaring $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3970-8 Uncomfortable Wars Revisited By John T. Fishel and Max G. Manwaring $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3711-7 $29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3988-3 Gangs, Pseudo-Militaries, and Other Modern Mercenaries New Dynamics in Uncomfortable Wars By Max G. Manwaring $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4146-6
Keeping ahead of terrorists requires innovative, up-to-date training. This followup to Stephen Sloan’s pioneering 1981 book, Simulating Terrorism, takes stock of twenty-first-century terrorism—then equips readers to effectively counter it. Quickly canvassing the evolution of terrorism—and of counterterrorism efforts—over the past thirty years, co-authors Sloan and Robert J. Bunker draw on examples from the early 2000s, following the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, to emphasize the need to prevent or respond quickly to “active aggressors”—terrorists who announce their presence and seek credibility through killing. Training for such situations requires realistic simulations—whose effectiveness, the authors show, depends on incorporating red teams; that is, the groups that play the part of active aggressors. In Red Teams and Counterterrorism Training, Sloan and Bunker, developers of simulation-driven counterterrorist training, take readers through the prerequisites for and basic principles of conducting a successful simulation and preparing responders to face threats—whether from teenage shooters or from sophisticated terrorist organizations. The authors clearly explain how to create an effective red team whose members can operate from within the terrorists’ mindset. An innovative chapter by theater professional Roberta Sloan demonstrates how to use dramatic techniques to teach red teams believable role-playing. Rounding out this book, a case study of the 2009 shooting at Fort Hood illustrates the cost of failures in intelligence and underscores the still-current need for serious attention to potential threats. First responders—whether civilian or military—will find Red Teams and Counterterrorism Training indispensible as they address and deter terrorism now and in the future. A pioneer in terrorism research and education, Stephen Sloan is the author of fourteen books, including Simulating Terrorism and Terrorism: The Present Threat in Context. Robert J. Bunker, an expert on unconventional security threats, is the editor of numerous books, including Networks, Terrorism, and Global Insurgency. Roberta Sloan is an actor and director and Professor of Theater at Temple University, where she is also Head of Theater Education. Rhodes Scholar David Boren, currently President of the University of Oklahoma, was the longest-serving chairman of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee.
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Euripides’ Electra A Commentary By H. M. Roisman and C. A. E. Luschnig “Once this book hits the shelves, there will be no need for another commentary on Euripides’ Electra for decades—if ever again.”—KARELISA HARTIGAN, author of Ambiguity and Self-Deception: The Apollo and Artemis Plays of Euripides Among the best-known Greek tragedies, Electra is also one of the plays students of Greek often read in the original language. It tells the story of how Electra and her brother, Orestes, avenge the murder of their father, Agamemnon, by their mother and her lover. H. M. Roisman and C. A. E. Luschnig have developed a new edition of this seminal tragedy designed for twenty-first-century classrooms. Included with the Greek text are a useful introduction, line-by-line commentary, and other materials in English, all intended to support intermediate and advanced undergraduate students. Electra’s gripping story and almost contemporary feel help make the play accessible and interesting to modern audiences. The liberties Euripides took with the traditional myth and the playwright’s attitudes toward the gods can inspire fruitful classroom discussion about fifth-century Athenian thought, manners, and morals. Roisman and Luschnig invite readers to compare Euripides’ treatment of the myth with those of Aeschylus and Sophocles and with variant presentations in epic and lyric poetry, later drama, and modern film. The introduction also places the play in historical context and describes conventions of the Greek theater specific to the work. Extensive appendices provide a complete metrical analysis of the play, helpful notes on grammar and syntax, an index of verbs, and a Greek-English glossary. In short, the authors have included everything students need to support and enhance their reading of Electra in its original language. H. M. Roisman is the Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Classics at Colby College, Waterville, Maine. She is the author of numerous articles and several books, including Nothing Is As It Seems: The Tragedy of the Implicit in Euripides’ Hippolytus. C. A. E. Luschnig is Professor Emerita of Classics at the University of Idaho, the author of several books, and a cotranslator of The Electra Plays. Together, Roisman and Luschnig have published Euripides’ Alcestis: A Commentary.
Volume 38 in the Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture
January $32.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4119-0 352 pages, 6 X 9 4 B&W Illus. Classical Studies
Of Related Interest Euripides’ Alcestis With Notes and Commentary by C. A. E. Luschnig and H. M. Roisman $49.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3458-1 $26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3574-8
roisman,luschnig euripides’ electra
Designed for today’s students, the most comprehensive edition of the classic Greek play
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Plato’s classic text combined with a helpful grammar review
Eros at the Banquet Reviewing Greek with Plato’s Symposium By Louise Pratt “This coherent and thoughtful book addresses the dearth of intermediate materials for Greek students and teachers. In a very teacherly way, evidencing many years in the classroom and great concern for students, the author has offered an important solution to this deficiency.”—Drew Keller, author of Learn to Read Latin After studying ancient Greek for a year, students often become discouraged when presented with unabridged classical texts that offer only minimal supportive apparatus. In welcome contrast, this intermediate-level textbook reinforces the first-year lessons and enables students to read Plato’s Symposium, one of the most engaging works in Attic Greek, the dialect taught in most first-year courses. Volume 40 in the Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture
January $29.95s paper 978-0-8061-4142-8 400 pages, 7 x 10 25 B&W illus. Classical studies
To meet the needs of students who are reading extended passages of challenging Greek for the first time, Louise Pratt, a classical scholar with more than twenty years’ teaching experience, has lightly condensed the early readings, supplementing them with review exercises and new vocabulary. She includes the remaining portion of the dialogue in its entirety to give students the experience of reading Plato’s imaginative dialogue in all its richness. All readings are glossed, with explanatory notes appearing on the same page as the relevant texts. Enlivened by twenty-five illustrations, Eros at the Banquet also features an introduction explaining the Symposium’s historical and philosophical significance, a comprehensive glossary, and an up-to-date bibliography. Instructors may also supplement this volume with Pratt’s The Essentials of Greek Grammar: A Reference for Intermediate Readers of Attic Greek, which includes many examples from the Symposium.
Of Related Interest Plato’s Apology of Socrates A Commentary By Paul Allen Miller and Charles Platter $26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4025-4 Selections from Plato By Lewis Leaming Forman $26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3776-6 Selections from Homer’s Iliad By Allen Rogers Benner $26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3363-8
Louise Pratt is Professor of Classics at Emory University. She is the author of Lying and Poetry from Homer to Pindar: Falsehood and Deception in Archaic Greek Poetics.
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The Essentials of Greek Grammar A Reference for Intermediate Readers of Attic Greek By Louise Pratt Designed for intermediate-level students, this textbook presents an outline of the essential forms and syntax of ancient Attic Greek. A perfect supplement to Louise Pratt’s Eros at the Banquet, it also stands alone as a useful resource for any student seeking to move beyond the basics of Greek into the exciting experience of reading classical literature in its original language. The Essentials of Greek Grammar is based on the author’s many years of classroom experience and on the handouts she developed and fine-tuned to supplement a variety of textbooks and approaches. In part 1 of the volume, Pratt covers the following: • morphology and parts of speech in increasing order of complexity from articles and pronouns through adjectives • active and passive participles • nouns, with a summary of endings and examples of the three declensions • verbs, with summaries and examples of regular and irregular forms Part 2 presents syntax, moving from the relatively straightforward case uses of nouns and pronouns, to the uses and positions of adjectives and the complexities of verb types and moods. Pratt also includes miscellaneous figures of speech and a handy appendix listing two hundred common Attic verbs and their principal parts.
Volume 39 in the Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture
January $16.95s paper 978-0-8061-4143-5 156 pages, 6.125 x 9.25 101 tables classical studies
Louise Pratt is Professor of Classics at Emory University. She is the author of Lying and Poetry from Homer to Pindar: Falsehood and Deception in Archaic Greek Poetics.
Of Related Interest A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges By George Autenrieth $29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-1289-3 A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect By Richard John Cunliffe $32.95s Paper 978-0-8061-1430-9 Homeric Greek Revised Edition By Clyde Pharr and John Wright $32.95s Paper 978-0-8061-1937-3
pratt the essentials of greek grammar
The first textbook to offer a systematic grammar review of Attic Greek
ryan, perkins ovid’s amores
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Enhances understanding—and appreciation— of Ovid’s love poetry
Ovid’s Amores, Book One A Commentary By Maureen B. Ryan and Caroline A. Perkins Students of Latin have long enjoyed the poetry of Ovid, but his love poems, aptly titled Amores, have proved more difficult to introduce into the classroom. Curricular changes and increased appreciation of sophisticated love poetry are finally making room for the Amores. This edition of the first book of the Amores—the only one available for both intermediate- and advanced-level classes—addresses the needs of students of varying abilities and experience, helping them comprehend, and more fully enjoy, the rich complexities of Ovid’s poetry.
Volume 41 in the Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture
january $24.95s paper 978-0-8061-4144-2 264 pages, 5.5 X 8.5 classical studies
In their introduction to the volume, Maureen B. Ryan and Caroline A. Perkins recount Ovid’s career as a poet, describe the elegiac genre, and explain elegiac meter and style. For the Latin text, they briefly introduce each poem, acquainting students with relevant subject matter and themes. Their commentary provides helpful notes clarifying grammatical constructions, word order, ellipsis, and other complexities of the Latin language that can challenge even the most experienced student. On the assumption that students will gain skills as they work through each poem, Ryan and Perkins give extensive and repeated assistance at the beginning of the text, tapering off as the student’s facility increases. Throughout their commentary, they highlight thematic points of interest; explain mythological, cultural, and literary allusions; and stress the importance of Ovid’s literary innovations. In addition to the critical apparatus accompanying each poem, this volume features a glossary of literary terms, a comprehensive Latin-to-English vocabulary, and an up-do-date bibliography.
Of Related Interest Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Books 1–5 By William S. Anderson $32.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2894-8 Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Books 6–10 By William S. Anderson $32.95s Paper 978-0-8061-1456-9 The student’s ovid Selections from the Metamorphoses By Margaret Worsham Musgrove $26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3220-4
Maureen B. Ryan is Lecturer in the Department of Classical Languages and Literature at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Caroline A. Perkins is Professor of Classics at Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia.
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Selections from herodotus Second Edition By Amy Barbour and Megan O. Drinkwater “A handsome edition. . . . The difficult task of selection is well done and the introduction has a very full account of the dialect and syntax of Herodotus, as well as valuable sections on his life, writings, and style.”—Classical Review The writings of Herodotus, historian, observer, and delightful storyteller, have long been favorites among teachers and students of the Greek language. The selections in this book will provide reading in the second year for the student who has begun his or her Greek with Homer and who presumably has had no acquaintance with Attic Greek. The book is equally well fitted for the use of the student who has begun in the orthodox fashion with Attic Greek and followed it by Homer. This second Oklahoma edition is enhanced by Megan O. Drinkwater’s addition of chapter and section references to the complete works of Herodotus. Amy L. Barbour was Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Smith College. Megan O. Drinkwater is Assistant Professor of Classics at Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia.
january $32.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4170-1 408 Pages, 5.5 X 8 1 B&W Illus., 4 Maps classical studies
Of Related Interest Euripides’ Alcestis With Notes and Commentary by C. A. E. Luschnig and H. M. Roisman $49.95s cloth 978-0-8061-3458-1 $26.95s paper 978-0-8061-3574-8 Selections from Plato by Lewis Leaming Forman Foreword by Alexander Tulin $26.95s paper 978-0-8061-3776-6 Lysias Selected Speeches by Charles Darwin Adams $26.95s paper 978-0-8061-1396-8
barbour, drinkwater selections from herodotus
A new edition of a classic text on Herodotus
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Sparkling—and stage-ready—translations of three classic plays
Lysistrata, The Women’s Festival, and Frogs By Aristophanes Translated and with theatrical commentaries by Michael Ewans Most readers nowadays encounter the plays of Aristophanes in the classroom, not the theater. Yet the “father of comedy” wrote his plays for the stage, not as literary texts. Many English translations of the plays were written decades ago, and in their outdated language they fail to capture the dramatic liveliness of the original comedies. Now Michael Ewans offers new and lively translations of three of Aristophanes’ finest plays: Lysistrata, The Women’s Festival, and Frogs. While remaining faithful to the original Greek, these translations are accessible to a modern audience—and actable on stage.
Volume 42 in the Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture
january $34.95s paper 978-0-8061-4151-0 352 pages, 6 x 9 2 B&w illus., 1 map Classical studies
Of Related Interest The Iliad By Homer Translated by Herbert Jordan $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3942-5 $16.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3974-6 The Iliad as Politics The Performance of Political Thought By Dean Hammer $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3366-9 The Poems of Hesiod By R. M. Frazer $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-1846-8
Here readers will discover—in all its uncensored glory—the often raw sexual and scatological language Aristophanes used in his fantastically inventive works. This edition also contains all that a reader needs to understand the plays within a broader context. In his comprehensive introduction, Ewans discusses political and social aspects of Aristophanic comedy, the conventions of Greek theater, and the challenges of translating ancient Greek into modern English. In his theatrical commentaries— a unique feature of this edition—Ewans draws on his own experience of directing the plays in a replica of the original theater. In scene-by-scene analysis, he provides insight into the major issues each play raises in performance. The volume concludes with two glossaries—one of proper names and the other of Greek terms—as well as a bibliography that includes the most recent scholarship on Aristophanic comedy. Michael Ewans is Professor of Drama at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. An experienced translator of ancient Greek drama, he has also directed numerous full productions of Greek plays. His published works include translations of plays by Sophocles and Aeschylus as well as three books on opera.
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Women Who Nature and Spirit
Pioneered Oklahoma
Ancient Costa Rican
Stories from the WPA
Treasures in the Mayer
Narratives
Collection at the
Edited by Terri M. Baker and
Denver Art Museum
Connie Oliver Henshaw
By Margaret Young-Sánchez
Foreword by M. Susan Savage Interviews of Oklahoma history’s diverse women
Treasures of Costa Rican art Assembled almost entirely by Frederick and Jan Mayer, The Denver Art Museum’s collection of ancient Costa Rican art is one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world, and it is a major component of the museum’s acclaimed holdings in New World art. Nature and Spirit reveals to the modern world the richness and sophistication of indigenous thought and the incredible beauty of native art in the Americas. Costa Rica boasts an astounding variety of wildlife. So it is not surprising that animals and supernatural human-animal hybrids are often depicted in the ornate gold, jade, stone, and ceramic objects fashioned by the region’s ancient peoples. These treasures offer insights into the nature and spirit of their makers. Generously illustrated and engagingly organized, Nature and Spirit is both an excellent introduction to Costa Rican art and an essential addition to any collection on native peoples of the Americas. Essays by art historians Margaret Young-Sánchez (Denver Art Museum) and Heather Orr (Western State College, Colorado), archaeologists Michael Snarskis (Costa Rica) and John Hoopes (University of Kansas), and anthropologist and linguist David Mora Marín (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) illuminate ancient Costa Rican artistic styles, as well as cultural and religious beliefs, and place the works in archaeological context. Margaret Young-Sánchez is Chief Curator and the Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator of Pre-Columbian Art at the Denver Art Museum.
They came in land runs and on the Trail of Tears, sometimes with families, sometimes alone. But the women who first came to Oklahoma all had trials to face—and stories to tell. In this stirring collection, the women who settled what would become Oklahoma tell their own stories in their own words. From thousands of interviews conducted by the Works Progress Administration in 1936–37 and preserved in the Indian Pioneer Papers of Oklahoma, editors Terri M. Baker and Connie Oliver Henshaw have selected the words of women from a wide range of socioeconomic groups, ethnic backgrounds, and geographical locations to relate the pioneer experience as it was really lived. Elegantly written, skillfully edited, Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma reflects the everyday will and courage to survive of Oklahoma’s founding mothers. It conveys the violence of a frontier culture set in a landscape of stark beauty where death was always just a heartbeat away. Theirs is the story of real Oklahoma, writ large—and in a distinctly female hand.
Terri M. Baker, a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is Professor of English at Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, where she focuses on American Indian literature. Connie Oliver Henshaw is an Instructor in English s at Northeastern State University. M. Susan Savage, currently Oklahoma Secretary of State, is the first woman to have served as Tulsa Mayor. March
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$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3846-6 248 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 10 B&W ILLUS., 1 map Oklahoma /Western History
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Reissued
The Newcomers to a New Land Series In 1980, the University of Oklahoma Press published a ten-book series titled Newcomers to a New Land that described and analyzed the role of the major ethnic groups that have contributed to the history of Oklahoma. The series was part of Oklahoma Image, a project sponsored by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries and the Oklahoma Library Association and made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
In response to numerous requests, the University of Oklahoma Press has reissued all ten volumes in the series. Published unaltered from the original editions, these books continue to have both historical and cultural value for reasons the series editorial committee stated so well: “Though not large in number as compared to those in some other states, immigrants from various European nations left a marked impact on Oklahoma’s history. As in the larger United States, they
worked in many economic and social roles that enriched the state’s life. Indians have played a crucial part in Oklahoma’s history, even to giving the state her name. Blacks and Mexicans have also fulfilled a special set of roles, and will continue to affect Oklahoma’s future. The history of each of these groups is unique, well worth remembering to both their heirs and to other people in the state and nation. Their stories come from the past, but continue on to the future.”
Books in the Newcomers to a New Land Series Available in march
The Poles in Oklahoma By Richard M. Bernard
The Germans from Russia in Oklahoma By Douglas Hale
$9.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1630-3 · 102 Pages · 5.5 X 8.5
$9.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1620-4 · 90 Pages · 5.5 X 8.5
The Czechs in Oklahoma
The Germans in Oklahoma
By Karel D. Bicha
By Richard C. Rohrs
$9.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1618-1 · 90 Pages · 5.5 X 8.5
$9.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1673-0 · 78 Pages · 5.5 X 8.5
The British and Irish in Oklahoma
The Mexicans in Oklahoma
By Patrick J. Blessing
By Michael M. Smith
$9.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1672-3 · 82 Pages · 5.5 X 8.5
$9.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1631-0 · 90 Pages · 5.5 X 8.5
The Italians in Oklahoma
The Indians in Oklahoma
By Kenny L. Brown
By Rennard Strickland
$9.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1624-2 · 86 Pages · 5.5 X 8.5
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1675-4 · 188 Pages · 5.5 X 8.5
The Blacks in Oklahoma
The Jews in Oklahoma
By Jimmie Lewis Franklin $9.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1671-6 · 90 Pages · 5.5 X 8.5
By Henry J. Tobias $9.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1676-1 · 90 Pages · 5.5 X 8.5
Edi tor i a l Co mmi t t ee
H. Wayne Morgan, Chair University of Oklahoma Douglas Hale Oklahoma State University Rennard Strickland University of Tulsa
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Forced Federalism
A Navajo Legacy
Contemporary Challenges to
The Life and Teachings of
Indigenous Nationhood
John Holiday
By Jeff Corntassel and
By John Holiday and
Richard C. Witmer II
Robert S. McPherson
Foreword by A vivid portrait of the life of a traditional twentieth-century Navajo medicine man
Lindsay G. Robertson A critical evaluation of a new era in American Indian policy
Over the past twenty years, American Indian policy has shifted from self-determination to “forced federalism,” as indigenous nations in the United States have encountered new threats from state and local governments over such issues as taxation, gaming, and homeland security. During the forced federalism era (1988– present), public perceptions of indigenous peoples as “rich Indians” have been just as damaging to Native nations as anti-sovereignty legislation. This book examines how state governments have manipulated “rich Indian” images when setting policies targeting indigenous peoples, and how indigenous nations have responded. Drawing on original survey data collected from Native governments and on interviews with indigenous leaders, Jeff Corntassel and Richard C. Witmer II examine the power dynamics of the indigenous nation– state compacting system to show how electoral activism among indigenous peoples has increased their political power. The authors warn that current widespread Native participation in non-Native politics is undermining both the political and cultural foundations of indigenous nationhood, and they offer specific strategies for preparing indigenous communities to meet future challenges. Jeff Corntassel is Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor for the Indigenous Governance Programs at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Richard C. Witmer II is Associate Professor of Political Science, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska. Lindsay G. Robertson is Judge Haskell A. Holloman Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the American Indian Law and Policy Center at the University of Oklahoma. Volume 3 in the American Indian Law and Policy Series
For more than ninety years, Navajo medicine man John Holiday has watched the sun rise over the rock formations of his home in Monument Valley. At an early age, Holiday began an apprenticeship with his grandfather to learn the Blessingway ceremony, and as a youth, he performed rainmaking ceremonies and practiced healing. Holiday experienced the invasion of Monument Valley by whites and later participated in the early filmmaking industry, working with director John Ford and actor John Wayne. Life in the desert was rooted in the livestock industry and sometimes provided only a hand-to-mouth existence. Holiday was employed in the 1930s with the Civilian Conservation Corps, served a brief stint in the military, mined uranium on the Navajo Reservation in the 1950s, and worked on the railroad. Robert S. McPherson interviewed Holiday extensively to record his full and fascinating life. Holiday tells his grandparents’ stories of the Long Walk era, discusses attitudes about the land, relates Navajo religious stories, and recounts his training as a medicine man. A Navajo Legacy reflects the thoughts of a traditional practitioner who has found in life both beauty and lessons for future generations. John Holiday is a practicing traditional Navajo medicine man living in Monument Valley, Utah. Robert S. McPherson, the author of Navajo Land, Navajo Culture: The Utah Experience in the Twentieth Century and eight other books about the Four Corners, teaches at the University of Utah and the College of Eastern Utah’s San Juan Campus.
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Tribal Wars of the
Cowboy Life on the
Southern Plains
Llano Estacado
By Stan Hoig
By V. H. Whitlock (Ol’ Waddy)
A concise history of Plains Indian tribal warfare
Authentic tales of cowboy life on the southwestern frontier
Few people who cross the Great Plains today remember that for centuries the land was a battleground where Indian nations fought one another for their own survival. Even among those aware of the history, Plains Indian conflicts have been seen largely in terms of American conquest.
Tribal Wars of the Southern Plains is a comprehensive account of Indian conflicts in the area between the Platte River and the Rio Grande, from the first written reports of the Spaniards in the sixteenth century through the U.S.-Cheyenne Battle of the Sand Hills in 1875. This readable volume traces the victories and defeats of such chiefs as Lone Wolf, Satanta, Black Kettle, and Dull Knife as they signed treaties, led attacks, battled for land, and defended their villages in the plains—home to the Wichitas, Commanches, Cheyennes, Arapahos, Kiowas, Osages, Pawnees, and other Indian tribes. Unlike many previous studies of the Plains Indian wars, this one-volume synthesis chronicles both the Indian-white wars and the intertribal conflicts. Stan Hoig details the numerous battles and the major treaties. He also explains the Plains Indian warrior ethic and the role of medicine men, the Sun Dance, tactics, and spirituality in Plains warfare. Stan Hoig was Professor of Journalism at the University of Central Oklahoma and the author of many books on American Indians and the American West, including The Sand Creek Massacre and the award-winning Peace Chiefs of the Cheyenne.
In 1887, Vivian H. Whitlock went with his brother and widowed mother to live with his uncle, George Causey, a buffalo hunter turned rancher, at his ranch on the Llano Estacado (Staked Plains) in New Mexico. Here Whitlock describes—vividly, realistically, and with humor—what life was like on those vast, desolate plains at the turn of the century. Among the visitors to the Causey ranch were old cowboys who grumbled about the “nesters,” young cowboys “on the dodge” from the law, homesteaders in covered wagons, and Texas Rangers with prisoners who used the ranch as a “watering place.” At sixteen, Whitlock got a job as a cowpuncher with the Littlefield (LFD) ranch. Riding the open range, he branded calves, braved blizzards, and rode herd on a hot-headed cowboy friend who frequented the gambling dens and brothels of the frontier towns. Whitlock attended some of the first rodeos and went to parties where nesters and cattleman forgot their differences while the barbeque and dancing lasted. At one party the young cowboy met his future wife, whom he stole from her disgruntled rancher father in a daring, and hilarious, elopement. The stories in Cowboy Life on the Llano Estacado are so vivid that readers will feel themselves jar around in the saddle and find themselves picking catclaw thorns from their clothes. For thirty years, Vivian H. Whitlock wrote about the West for newspapers and magazines under the pen name Ol’ Waddy (old cowhand).
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Child of the
Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer
Fighting Tenth
William Henry Harrison
On the Frontier with
and the Origins of American
the Buffalo Soldiers
Indian Policy
By Forrestine C. Hooker
By Robert M. Owens
Edited by Steve Wilson Explores Harrison’s role in U.S-Indian treaty making
The drama of western settlement and the Indian wars as seen through the eyes of a young girl “No one knew when the bugle sounded reveille what would happen before taps that night.” Forrestine “Birdie” Cooper learned at an early age that growing up on the western frontier meant that each new day brought a fresh adventure. Birdie’s father, Charles Cooper, was an officer in the Tenth U.S. Cavalry, known as the Buffalo Soldiers, one of four regiments of black troops with white officers. The Buffalo Soldiers made headlines with their battles against Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Lone Wolf, Billy the Kid, and Pancho Villa. These momentous events were just everyday life, and these men of valor, playmates in the childhood escapades of Birdie Cooper. Later in life, after she had married and published several novels, Forrestine Cooper Hooker began writing her memoir, which remained unfinished when she died in 1932. Steve Wilson edited the manuscript into publishable form. The compelling yet humorous stories told in Child of the Fighting Tenth capture the drama of the settlement of the American West, the Indian wars on the plains, and the Geronimo campaign in the Southwest and Mexico as seen through the eyes of a young girl. In this memoir, Birdie Cooper draws us into her world, offering a vibrant portrait of behind-the-scenes life on the western frontier. Forrestine Cooper Hooker wrote nine novels for young adults based on her childhood and life as a ranch woman in southern Arizona. Steve Wilson, Director Emeritus of the Museum of the Great Plains in Lawton, Oklahoma, served in Vietnam with the Fourth Infantry Division as an army combat correspondent. He is the author of Oklahoma Treasures and Treasure Tales, The Spider Rock Treasure: A Texas Mystery of Lost Spanish Gold, and Wichita Falls: A Pictorial History.
“A thorough and engaging account of how the man who became Tecumseh’s nemesis . . . built his career on dispossessing American Indians of their lands and advancing the expansionist policies of the new nation.”—Colin G. Calloway, author of One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark “A cogent and compelling addition to the scholarship of Indianwhite relations, the frontier, and the culture and politics of the early nineteenth century.” —Journal of America’s Military Past Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison was instrumental in shaping American Indian policy during the early years of westward expansion. More than a study of Harrison the man, Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer offers a cultural biography that surveys the military, political, and social world of the Ohio Valley and the frontier. Robert M. Owens traces Harrison’s political career as secretary of the Northwest Territory, territorial delegate to Congress, and governor of Indiana Territory, as well as his military leadership and involvement with Indian relations. Thomas Jefferson found Harrison the ideal agent to carry out his administration’s ruthless campaign to extinguish Indian land titles. To this day, we live with the echoes of Harrison’s proclamations, the boundaries set by his treaties, and the ramifications of his actions. Robert M. Owens is Associate Professor of History at Wichita State University, Kansas. january $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4198-5 344 pages, 6 X 9 12 B&W Illus., 8 Maps
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The Tenochca Empire of
Pioneer Cattleman in
Ancient Mexico
Montana
The Triple Alliance of
The Story of the Circle C Ranch
Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco,
By Walt Coburn
and Tlacopan A vivid portrait of ranchers cowboys, Indans, and outlaws in the West
By Pedro Carrasco Examines the political and social structure of the ancient Tenochca Empire
The most important political entity in pre-Spanish Mesoamerica was the Tenochca Empire, founded in 1428 when the three kingdoms of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan formed an alliance that controlled the Basin of Mexico and other extensive areas of Mesoamerica. In The Tenochca Empire of Ancient Mexico, Pedro Carrasco incorporates years of research in the archives of Mexico and Spain and compares primary sources from all three of the great kingdoms.
In 1886, Robert Coburn bought 30,000 acres of land from Granville Stuart. The tract lay in the long shadows of the Little Rockies of Montana, and Coburn called it a “cattleman’s paradise.” Then the still-remembered blizzard of the following winter erased half of his stock. This is the story of how Coburn overcame long odds, proved that the Circle C was, indeed, the “paradise” he envisioned, and emerged as one of the progressive men of Montana.
Within a unique political structure, each of the three allied capitals headed a group of kingdoms in the core of the empire, and each possessed settlements of peasants both in its own domain and in the other two capitals. The Tenochca Empire also conquered extensive regions from the Gulf Coast to the Pacific, imposing a complex system of political control and tribute collection. Although local rulers usually remained in the conquered areas, empirical envoys frequently intervened in local affairs, and the empire sent settlers to establish military colonies in the newly conquered areas.
Coburn had a brief but memorable encounter with Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces in 1877. As always in the frontier country, men were sometimes on the side of the law, sometimes on the outside of the law. Among these were Pike Landusky, the notorious Kid Curry and his brothers, Jim Winters, and Charles Siringo. Artist Charles M. Russell was also a visitor to the Circle C.
Carrasco goes beyond cataloging and locating conquests and tributary towns to define components of the tripartite empire and determine how it functioned.
Walt Coburn, in writing about his father’s life and times, called upon both his own memories of the past and a well of unwritten history heard around Circle C campfires. He was the author of many popular western novels and stories, including “Old Yeller.”
Pedro Carrasco, the author or editor of numerous books on native Mesoamerican peoples, is retired as Professor of Anthropology and History, State University of New York, Stony Brook.
Pioneer Cattleman in Montana will appeal to everyone interested in the “most colorful, romantic, lawless era in the history of western America.”
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Forging a Nation
Search for the Native
The American History
American Purebloods
Collection at Gilcrease Museum
Third Edition
Contributions by: Kimberly
By Charles Banks Wilson
Roblin, Amanda Lett,
Foreword by Herman J. Viola
Eric Singleton, Randy Ramer A remarkable gallery of American Indian portraits
Foreword by Duane H. King Explores the foundations of the American republic
Forging a Nation: The American History Collection at Gilcrease Museum explores that struggle—the history of the United States—as told through art, artifacts, and archival materials that illuminate some three hundred years of a shared cultural experience. Drawn entirely from the diverse and noted collections of the Gilcrease Museum, this volume examines the foundations of the American republic from colonial times through the Early National period. With essays focused on some of the finest artworks, artifacts, and documents in the Gilcrease Museum collection, Forging a Nation offers a unique examination of early American life. The catalog of artists includes such essential American painters as Charles Willson Peale, John Singleton Copley, Robert Feke, Benjamin West, George Catlin, Alfred Jacob Miller, Emanuel Leutze, John Vanderlyn, William Tylee Ranney, and John Wesley Jarvis. Also included are rare sculptures by Jean Antoine Houdon, Hiram Powers, and Augustus SaintGaudens and an extensive array of American archival treasures, including a handwritten transcription of the Declaration of Independence itself.
“Wilson’s perceptive sense of subject and sympathetic aesthetic rendering infuse into the ‘tired composite of sags and wrinkles’ of each pureblood countenance features which in a mystic way communicate uniqueness of ethnicity, the pain of inter-cultural conflict and strife, and the quiet determination to sustain ‘the old way’ in a fast-changing world.”—Peter Early, Washington Post Over several decades, renowned Oklahoma artist Charles Banks Wilson sought out “purebloods” (that is, Indians of a single tribal heritage) of each of Oklahoma’s tribes to create a gallery of American Indian portraits. Search for the Native American Purebloods captures the state’s visual heritage in a series of seventy-seven remarkable pencil drawings, each accompanied by a narrative describing Wilson’s visits with the subject. The first edition, Search for the Purebloods, served as a catalogue for an exhibition of the artist’s work at the United States Capitol. This third edition contains thirteen additional drawings and an afterword by Wilson. Out of print since 2005, the book is once again available with the generous assistance of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma.
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Charles Banks Wilson has received many honors as a painter, lithographer, illustrator, and muralist. He is coauthor of The Lithographs of Charles Banks Wilson (University of Oklahoma Press). Herman J. Viola is Curator Emeritus at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and the author of The North American Indians. february $24.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-3285-3 64 pages, 8.25 X 10.25 77 B&W illus. American Indian/Art & Photography
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A unique resource with a new perspective on the U.S. Army in the Great Sioux War
Great Sioux War Orders of Battle How the United States Army Waged War on the Northern Plains, 1876–1877 By Paul L. Hedren Lasting nearly two years, the Great Sioux War pitted almost one-third of the U.S. Army against Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyennes. By the time it ended, this grueling war had played out on twenty-seven different battlefields scattered across five states, resulted in hundreds of casualties, cost millions of dollars, and transformed the landscape and the lives of survivors on both sides. It also entrenched a view of the army as largely inept.
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In this compelling sourcebook, Paul Hedren uses extensive documentation to demonstrate that the American army adapted quickly to the challenges of fighting this unconventional war and was more effectively led and better equipped than is customarily believed. While it lost at Powder River and at the Little Big Horn, it did not lose the Great Sioux War. In the first part of this volume, Hedren considers concepts of doctrine, training, culture, and matériel to aid understanding of the army’s structure and disposition. In part two he dissects the twenty-eight Great Sioux War deployments in chronological order, including documentation of command structures, regiments, and companies employed. In the concluding section, the author addresses how an otherwise sound American army was defeated in two battles and nearly lost a third. The book also features seven helpful appendices, a glossary, and an oversized map showing forts, encampments, and battle sites. By expanding his purview to encompass all of the war’s battles—along with troop movements, strategies, and tactics—Hedren offers an authoritative account of the conduct of U.S. forces in a campaign all too frequently misunderstood.
Fort Laramie Military Bastion of the High Plains By Douglas C. McChristian $45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-360-8 Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux War, 1854–1856 By R. Eli Paul $34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3590-8 Hancock’s War Conflict on the Southern Plains By William Y. Chalfant $59.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-371-4
Paul L. Hedren is a retired National Park Service superintendent and an awardwinning historian living in Omaha, Nebraska. His numerous publications include First Scalp for Custer, Fort Laramie in 1876, and We Trailed the Sioux.
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A doctor and Indian agent’s fascinating life on the northern plains
Valentine T. McGillycuddy Army Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux By Candy Moulton On a September day in 1877, hundreds of Sioux and soldiers at Camp Robinson crowded around a fatally injured Lakota leader. A young doctor forced his way through the crowd, only to see the victim fading before him. It was the famed Crazy Horse. From intense moments like this to encounters with such legendary western figures as Calamity Jane and Red Cloud, Valentine Trant O’Connell McGillycuddy’s life (1849–1939) encapsulated key events in American history that changed the lives of Native people forever. In Valentine T. McGillycuddy: Army Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux, the first biography of the man in seventy years, award-winning author Candy Moulton explores McGillycuddy’s fascinating experiences on the northern plains as topographer, cartographer, physician, and Indian agent. Drawing on family papers, interviews, government documents, and a host of other sources, Moulton presents a colorful character—a thin, blue-eyed, cultured physician who could outdrink trail-hardened soldiers. In fresh, vivid prose, she traces McGillycuddy’s work mapping out the U.S.-Canadian border; treating the wounded from the battles of the Rosebud, the Little Bighorn, and Slim Buttes; tending to Crazy Horse during his final hours; and serving as agent to the Sioux at Pine Ridge, where he clashed with Chief Red Cloud over the government’s assimilation policies. Along the way, Moulton weaves in the perspective of McGillycuddy’s devoted first wife, Fanny, who followed her husband west and wrote of the realities of camp life. McGillycuddy’s doctoring of Crazy Horse marked only one point of his interaction with American Indians. But those relationships were also just one aspect of his life in the West, which extended well into the twentieth century. Enhanced by more than 20 photographs, this long-overdue biography offers general readers and historians an engaging adventure story as well as insight into a period of tumultuous change. Candy Moulton is the award-winning author of eleven books on western history, including Chief Joseph: Guardian of the People and Everyday Life among the American Indians, 1800 to 1900. She lives in Wyoming.
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Of Related Interest Crazy Horse A Lakota Life By Kingsley M. Bray $34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3785-8 $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3986-9 At Standing Rock and Wounded Knee The Journals and Papers of Father Francis M. Craft, 1888–1890 By Thomas W. Foley Foreword by Michael F. Steltenkamp $45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-372-1
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With Anza to California, 1775–1776 The Journal of Pedro Font, O.F.M. Translated and edited by Alan K. Brown Juan Bautista de Anza led the Spanish colonizing expedition in 1775–76 that opened a trail from Arizona to California and established a presidio at San Francisco Bay. Franciscan missionary Fray Pedro Font accompanied Anza. As chaplain and geographer, Font kept a detailed daily record of the expedition’s progress that today is considered one of the fundamental documents of exploration in the American Southwest.
Volume 1 in the Early California Commentaries series
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Of Related Interest the Voyage of Sutil and Mexicana, 1792 The Last Spanish Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America By John Kendrick $32.50s Cloth 978-0-87062-203-8 Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico By John L. Kessell $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3969-2 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4122-0 Spain in the Southwest A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California By John L. Kessell $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3484-0
This new edition includes Font’s recently discovered field journal—the actual notes he wrote on the trail. Previously published only in Spanish, this journal contains many details and perspectives not found in the two “official” versions that Font prepared after the expedition. It supplants the 1930 edition prepared by Herbert Eugene Bolton, which was based solely on Font’s “official” texts. With Anza to California, 1775–1776 interweaves and correlates for the first time all existing texts of Font’s journal and incorporates the latest research on this pathbreaking expedition. Editor Alan K. Brown has rendered a more accurate translation, allowing us to relive the journey through Font’s eyes as the friar presents a panorama of history, geography, and ecology. Font also describes the interaction between Hispanic settlers and Native peoples—revealing Spanish relations with the Quechans on the Colorado River and the Kumeyaay uprising in San Diego. Featuring maps and relief profiles drawn by Font, along with new maps prepared by Brown, this edition includes an extensive introduction and copious explanatory notes. It is the most complete account of the Anza expedition and a foundational primary source in California and Southwest history. Alan K. Brown (1933–2009) taught Medieval languages and literature at the Ohio State University, among other institutions. He published numerous articles and reviews on western U.S. history and authored or translated several books, including A Description of Distant Roads: Original Journals of the First Expedition into California, 1769–1770.
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A unique husband-and-wife journal chronicles life during the gold rush era
New England to Gold Rush California The Journal of Alfred and Chastina W. Rix, 1849–1854 Edited with commentary by Lynn A. Bonfield On July 29, 1849, after an eight-year courtship, two young schoolteachers were married in a small town in northern Vermont. Their story could easily have been lost to history, except that Alfred and Chastina Rix had the foresight to begin recording their observations in a joint journal. Their unique husband-and-wife account, which captures the turbulence of life and events during the gold rush era, is also a personal—and compelling—chronicle of a singular family’s separation and reunion. When the Rixes began their journal, abolition, temperance, and the westward movement dominated New England culture and politics. Stricken with “gold fever,” Alfred headed to California, while Chastina stayed behind. Alone with their young son in Vermont, Chastina continued the journal, describing her loneliness and fatigue as she labored to maintain the household, and summarizing Alfred’s frequent letters. After establishing himself economically in San Francisco, Alfred urged his wife to join him. Chastina and their two-year-old son traveled by ship, via Panama, to California, where the couple resumed their journal, continuing the pattern of alternating entries and detailing life in the burgeoning city. Alfred’s concluding notes at the end of the journal are an abrupt reminder that, just as now, life in the middle of the nineteenth century could bring unexpected and personal tragedy. In her careful editing of the journal, Lynn A. Bonfield has preserved its original spelling and punctuation while enriching the story with photographs and insightful annotations. Her lively chapter introductions place the journal in the context of both New England and California history and culture. Lynn A. Bonfield is retired director of the Labor Archives and Research Center at San Francisco State University. She is coauthor of Roxana’s Children: The Biography of a Nineteenth-Century Vermont Family, among other publications.
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In the Whirlpool The Pre-Manifesto Letters of President Wilford Woodruff to the William Atkin Family, 1885–1890 Edited by Reid L. Neilson With contributions by Thomas G. Alexander and Jan Shipps Political and religious turmoil in the late 1800s plagued the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its leaders. As Utah statehood loomed, Congress aggressively moved against Mormons who engaged in polygamy. More than a thousand men were jailed and others were forced into hiding. One of those who went into hiding in 1879 was Wilford Woodruff, who became church president in 1887. Woodruff sought sanctuary with the family of William and Rachel Atkin and others throughout the 1880s. This never-before-published collection of Woodruff’s letters to the Atkins, edited by Reid L. Neilson, reveals the church leader’s political and spiritual conflicts in the five years leading up to his 1890 Manifesto, which officially disallowed polygamy. may $29.95s cloth 978-0-87062-390-5 240 pages, 6 x 9 18 B&W Illus., 1 map religion/mormonism
Doing the Works of Abraham Mormon Polygamy: Its Origin, Practice, and Demise By B. Carmon Hardy $39.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-344-8 Reflections of a Mormon Historian Leonard J. Arrington on the New Mormon History By Leonard J. Arrington, Reid L. Neilson, and Ronald W. Walker $36.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-348-6 The Forgotten Kingdom The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847–1896 By David L. Bigler $39.50s Cloth 978-0-87062-282-3
Woodruff’s nearly 60 letters reproduced here depict a man “in the midst of a whirlpool.” The church leader believed he and his people were being denied the basic American right to practice the religion of their choice, yet he recognized that polygamy was incompatible with American society. The letters also reveal Woodruff’s humanity—his longing to be with friends, his sorrow over the loss of his first wife, and his struggle with illness. Essays by Neilson, Jan Shipps, and Thomas G. Alexander provide context for Woodruff’s writing. Neilson discusses the Atkins’ family life, Alexander offers a history of plural marriage among Mormons, and Shipps analyzes the impact of the Manifesto on Mormon women and men. Nearly 20 images further flesh out the correspondence and its depiction of Mormon people—who were then, like Woodruff, in the midst of change. Reid L. Neilson is Managing Director of the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and author and editor of numerous books on Mormonism. Thomas G. Alexander is Lemuel Hardison Redd, Jr., Professor of Western American History Emeritus at Brigham Young University and author of Mormonism in Transition: A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890–1930. Jan Shipps is Professor Emeritus of History and Religious Studies at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis and author of Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition.
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After Moctezuma, Connell, 25 Anaya, Randy Lopez Goes Home, 2 Arapaho Journeys, Wiles, 23 Aristophanes/Ewans, Lysistrata, The Women’s Festival, and Frogs, 32 Assault on the Deadwood Stage, DeArment, 18
Eros at the Banquet, Pratt, 28 Essentials of Greek Grammar, The, Pratt, 29 Euripides’ Electra, Roisman/Luschnig, 27
Lawrence/Lawrence, Violent Encounters, 20 Letter to America, A, Boren, 9 Lysistrata, The Women’s Festival and Frogs, Aristophanes/Ewans, 32
Santiago, The Jar of Severed Hands, 22 Search for the Native American Purebloods, Wilson, 39 Selections from Herodotus, Barbour/Drinkwater, 31 Shaping the West, Duncan/Tolles/Hassrick/ Walker, 6 Shooting from the Hip, Cook, 4 Shot in Oklahoma, Wooley, 1 Shreve, Red Power Rising, 21 Sinner/Jansen, Turning Points, 8 Sloan/Bunker, Red Teams and Counterterrorism Training, 26 Smith, The Mexicans in Oklahoma, 34 Smith/Stickland/Smith, Building One Fire, 7 Strickland, The Indians in Oklahoma, 34
B Baird/Goble, Oklahoma, 9 Baker/Henshaw, Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma, 33 Barbour, Jedediah Smith, 10 Barbour/Drinkwater, Selections from Herodotus, 31 Bernard, The Poles in Oklahoma, 34 Bicha, The Czechs in Oklahoma, 34 Bigler/Bagley, The Mormon Rebellion, 17 Blacks in Oklahoma, The, Franklin, 34 Blair/DeCioccio, Victory at Peleliu, 11 Blessing, The British and Irish in Oklahoma, 34 Boren, A Letter to America, 9 Boscawen, The Capture of Louisbourg, 1758, 12 British and Irish in Oklahoma, The, Blessing, 34 Bronco Bill Gang, The, Tanner/Tanner, 16 Brown, The Italians in Oklahoma, 34 Building One Fire, Smith/Stickland/Smith, 7
C Capture of Louisbourg, 1758, The, Boscawen, 12 Carrasco, The Tenochca Empire of Ancient Mexico, 38 Carrying the War to the Enemy, Matheny, 13 Charles Goodnight, Hagan, 10 Child of the Fighting Tenth, Hooker/Wilson, 37 Coburn, Pioneer Cattleman in Montana, 38 Connell, After Moctezuma, 25 Cook, Shooting from the Hip, 4 Corntassel/Witmer, Forced Federalism, 35 Cowboy Life on the Llano Estacado, Whitlock, 36 Czechs in Oklahoma, The, Bicha, 34
D DeArment, Assault on the Deadwood Stage, 18 Dubin, Grand Procession, 6 Duncan/Tolles/Hassrick/Walker, Shaping the West, 6
F First Manhattans, Grumet, 5 Font/Brown, With Anza to California, 1775–1776, 42 Forced Federalism, Corntassel/Witmer, 35 Forging a Nation, Roblin/Lett/Singleton/ Ramer, 39 Franklin, The Blacks in Oklahoma, 34
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Generations, Nottage, 7 Germans from Russia in Oklahoma, The, Hale, 34 Germans in Oklahoma, The, Rohrs, 34 Grand Procession, Dubin, 6 Great Sioux War Orders of Battle, Hedren, 40 Grumet, First Manhattans, 5
Nature and Spirit, Young-Sánchez, 33 Navajo Legacy, A, Holiday/McPherson, 35 Neilson, In the Whirlpool, 44 New England to Gold Rush California, Rix/ Bonfield, 43 Nottage, Generations, 7
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Oklahoma, Baird/Goble, 9 Our Centennial Indian War and the Life of General Custer, Victor, 15 Ovid’s Amores, Book One, Ryan/Perkins, 30 Owens, Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer, 37
Hagan, Charles Goodnight, 10 Hale, The Germans from Russia in Oklahoma, 34 Hedren, Great Sioux War Orders of Battle, 40 Hoig, Tribal Wars of the Southern Plains, 36 Holiday/McPherson, A Navajo Legacy, 35 Hooker/Wilson, Child of the Fighting Tenth, 37 Hutton, Western Heritage, 19
I Indians in Oklahoma, The, Strickland, 34 In the Whirlpool, Neilson, 44 Irish General, The, Wylie, 8 Italians in Oklahoma, The, Brown, 34
J Jar of Severed Hands, The, Santiago, 22 Jedediah Smith, Barbour, 10 Jews in Oklahoma, The, Tobias, 34
K Kit Carson, Remley, 3
Matheny, Carrying the War to the Enemy, 13 Mexicans in Oklahoma, The, Smith, 34 Moon, Wellington’s Two-Front War, 14 Mormon Rebellion, The, Bigler/Bagley, 17 Moulton, Valentine T. McGillycuddy, 41 Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer, Owens, 37
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P Pedro Moya de Contreras, Poole, 24 Pioneer Cattleman in Montana, Coburn, 38 Poles in Oklahoma, The, Bernard, 34 Poole, Pedro Moya de Contreras, 24 Pratt, Eros at the Banquet, 28 Pratt, The Essentials of Greek Grammar, 29
R Randy Lopez Goes Home, Anaya, 2 Red Power Rising, Shreve, 21 Red Teams and Counterterrorism Training, Sloan/ Bunker, 26 Remley, Kit Carson, 3 Rix/Bonfield, New England to Gold Rush California, 43 Roblin/Lett/Singleton/Ramer, Forging a Nation, 39 Rohrs, The Germans in Oklahoma, 34 Roisman/Luschnig, Euripides’ Electra, 27 Ryan/Perkins, Ovid’s Amores, Book One, 30
T Tanner/Tanner, The Bronco Bill Gang, 16 Tenochca Empire of Ancient Mexico, The, Carrasco, 38 Tobias, The Jews in Oklahoma, 34 Tribal Wars of the Southern Plains, Hoig, 36 Turning Points, Sinner/Jansen, 8
V Valentine T. McGillycuddy, Moulton, 41 Victor, Our Centennial Indian War and the Life of General Custer, 15 Victory at Peleliu, Blair/DeCioccio, 11 Violent Encounters, Lawrence/Lawrence, 20
W Wellington’s Two-Front War, Moon, 14 Western Heritage, Hutton, 19 Whitlock, Cowboy Life on the Llano Estacado, 36 Wiles, Arapaho Journeys, 23 Wilson, Search for the Native American Purebloods, 39 With Anza to California, 1775–1776, Font/ Brown, 42 Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma, Baker/ Henshaw, 33 Wooley, Shot in Oklahoma, 1 Wylie, The Irish General, 8
Y Young-Sánchez, Nature and Spirit, 33
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