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Congratulations to our Recent Award Winners
h Outstanding Book on Wild West History
h Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize
h Smith-Pettit Best Book on Latter-Day Saint History
Wild West History Association
Center for Great Plains Studies
The John Whitmer Historical Association
h Best Biography
h Robert M. Utley Award/Best Book on Military History
The Mormon Rebellion
International Latino Book Awards
Western History Association Bandido
h W. turrentine jackson Award/ Best First Book on the History of the West Western History Association
America’s First Civil War, 1857–1858
Indian Blues
By David L. Bigler and Will Bagley
American Indians and the Politics of Music,
The Life and Times of Tiburcio Vasquez
Hancock’s War
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Conflict on the Southern Plains
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By John W. Troutman
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Wyoming Range War
Red Cloud’s War
Horace Plunkett in America
Dude Ranching in
The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County
The Bozeman Trail, 1866–1868
An Irish Aristocrat on the Wyoming Range
Yellowstone Country
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By John D. McDermott
By Lawrence M. Woods
Larry Larom and Valley Ranch, 1915–1969
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On the front: Dancer, Powwow Indian, 2000, by R. G. Miller (Mohawk). Oil on canvas. (Collection of the artist)
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Dear Jay, Love Dad Bud Wilkinson’s Letters to His Son By Jay Wilkinson Foreword by Mike Krzyzewski “A timeless guide for all of us.”—Bill Cosby College football fans need no introduction to Bud Wilkinson, but few of them know the great University of Oklahoma football coach as a devoted father. In Dear Jay, Love Dad, Jay Wilkinson, Bud’s younger son, shares forty-seven letters his father wrote to him while he was in college and graduate school. Spanning the early to mid-1960s, these letters reveal Bud’s deep love for his son, as well as the philosophy and values that led to his remarkable success in sports and in life. Beginning with the first letter Bud wrote when Jay left home, this collection shows a father guiding his son toward his own path while stressing the importance of service to others. The embodiment of the scholar-athlete, Bud mixes encouragement with intellectual discussions. When Jay reads American philosopher William James for a class at Duke University, his father, a serious student of literature, reads the book, too, and uses its insights to help Jay deal with the challenges of his freshman year. Bud writes about his own challenges, as well, including his debate over whether to accept the Kennedy administration’s invitation to head the President’s Council on Physical Fitness. Jay’s comments about each of these letters provide context and further insight. By the time Jay becomes a graduate student at the Episcopal Theological School, the correspondence turns toward religion and politics, as Bud reflects on the philosophical issues of the day and on his unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate in 1964. His belief that the greatest leaders are not always the most popular made him an unlikely politician even then, but a wonderful role model and interlocutor for his son. Bud’s thoughts on ethics in business and politics are as inspiring today as when he wrote them a half-century ago. Jay Wilkinson is a motivational speaker and author of Bud Wilkinson: An Intimate Portrait of an American Legend. Mike Krzyzewski is Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Duke University.
January $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4247-0 208 Pages, 5.5 × 8.5 15 B&W Illus. Memoir
Of Related Interest Forty-seven Straight The Wilkinson Era at Oklahoma By Harold Keith Foreword by Berry Tramel $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-3569-4 An Autumn Remembered Bud Wilkinson’s Legendary ’56 Sooners By Gary T. King Foreword by Barry Switzer $16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3786-5
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CHINESE LITERATURE TODAY Book Series
Announcing
Chinese Literature Today Book Series The University of Oklahoma Press, Chinese Literature Today, World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s College of Arts and Sciences, and Beijing Normal University’s College of Chinese Language and Literature are pleased to announce an exciting new 10-volume book series focusing on contemporary Chinese literature in partnership with China’s National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (NOCFL). The Chinese Literature Today Book Series will focus on English translations of critically acclaimed works of poetry, fiction, and drama written by Chinese authors.
VOLUME 1 IN THE CHINESE LITERATURE TODAY BOOK SERIES
Winter Sun Poems Shi Zhi Translated by Jonathan Stalling Introduction by Zhang Qinghua January $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4241-8 208 Pages, 6 × 9 Poetry
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SHI ZHI WINTER SUN
Born as Guo Lusheng in 1948, at the height of the Chinese Civil War, Shi Zhi joined the People’s Liberation Army at the age of twenty-three. Discharged early, he entered into a period of severe depression and spent much of the next three decades living in mental hospitals under harsh conditions. Taking the pen name of Shi Zhi, meaning “index finger,” to evoke the image of people pointing at his back, he continued to write poetry through these tumultuous years. The voice of this besieged poet, burdened with exile and illness, captured the spirit of his generation and now inspires young readers.
Shi Zhi has been a major force in Chinese poetry since 1968, when several of his poems were circulated as secret handwritten manuscripts in the midst of China’s Cultural Revolution. He gave voice to the aspirations of dispirited youth, and although once relegated to obscurity, he is today celebrated as one of China’s most important cultural influences, having spawned the modern Chinese poetry revolution of the 1980s. This bilingual collection of Shi Zhi’s most significant poems, featuring an afterword by the poet himself, is the first booklength publication of his work in English.
By presenting Shi Zhi’s poems in chronological order, Winter Sun allows readers to appreciate the evolution of his poetry from his earliest work to his most recent poems. Masterfully translated by Jonathan Stalling, and with an introduction by leading poetry critic Zhang Qinghua, this landmark collection ensures that Shi Zhi’s poetry—so important to Chinese readers during the most challenging of times—will engage the hearts and minds of new readers the world over for years to come.
Jonathan Stalling is Assistant Professor of English at the
Zhang Qinghua is Professor of Modern and Contemporary
University of Oklahoma. The author of numerous
Chinese Literature at Beijing Normal University. He is the
publications, he is also a cofounder and an editor of Chinese
author of several books of literary criticism and is an editor
Literature Today magazine.
of Chinese Literature Today magazine.
baker american windmills • GOINS, Goble HISTORICAL ATLAS OF OKLAHOMA
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Historical Atlas of Oklahoma
American Windmills An Album of Historic Photographs By T. Lindsay Baker
Fourth Edition By Charles Robert Goins and Danney Goble Cartography by James H. Anderson
Pictures of wind machines offer a compelling slice of Americana
From the earliest days of European settlement, windmills have been an instantly recognizable feature of the American landscape. This book is the first devoted to photographs of historic wind machines from throughout North America. T. Lindsay Baker has written about the history of wind power for twenty-five years. His album contains nearly 200 striking historic images captured by professional windmiller B. H. “Tex” Burdick and retrieved from the corporate archives of windmill manufacturers. They depict windmill manufacture, distribution, and use in all regions of the United States, with an emphasis on the Great Plains—not only on ranches and farms but also alongside railroads, in industry, and even in urban areas. In his introduction, photography historian John Carter provides an overview of the importance of windmills in rural life and Americans’ compulsion for photographing them. American Windmills preserves an important part of the enduring record of life in the United States. T. Lindsay Baker, who holds the W. K. Gordon Chair in Industrial History at Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas, is Director of the W. K. Gordon Center for Industrial History, Thurber, Texas, and editor of the Windmiller’s Gazette. He is the author of A Field Guide to American Windmills and North American Windmill Manufacturers’ Trade Literature: A Descriptive Guide. John Carter is Senior Research Associate at the Nebraska State Historical Society and an award-winning photograph curator.
Introduction by David L. Boren This fully revised atlas includes 173 new color maps
The Historical Atlas of Oklahoma has been an indispensable reference for longer than four decades. This fourth edition of the atlas is much more than an updated version. Oklahoma authors Charles Robert Goins and Danney Goble are joined by seventeen contributing scholars and other professionals to present 119 topics. Like earlier editions, this historical atlas describes Oklahoma’s landforms and natural resources and traces the state’s geographic history from the earliest hunter-gatherer bands to today’s mostly urban inhabitants. New to this edition are maps exploring additional aspects of the state’s economy and its diverse society, politics, and culture, such as black history, women’s experiences, and the musicians, writers, and other artists identified with the state. Reflecting the most up-todate information as of 2005 from the U.S. Census Bureau and other sources, this Historical Atlas of Oklahoma will be an invaluable resource for scholars, teachers, students, and any reader who wants to know more about the history of Oklahoma. Charles Robert Goins is Professor Emeritus of Regional and City Planning and Architecture in the College of Architecture at the University of Oklahoma. The late Danney Goble was Professor of Letters at the University of Oklahoma and the awardwinning author or coauthor of eight books about Oklahoma and Oklahomans. February
February $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4249-4 168 Pages, 9 × 9 179 B&W Illus. History/Photography
$29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3483-3 304 Pages, 12 × 9 109 color illus., 173 color maps U.S. History/Atlas
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Calamity Jane
Kit Carson
The Woman and the Legend By James D. McLaird
The Life of an American Border Man By David Remley
The life of a Wild West legend
More than just another damned killer
“The definitive biography of Martha Jane Canary.”—L.A. Times This book is a biography of Martha Canary, the woman known as Calamity Jane. Written by one of today’s foremost authorities on this notorious character of the Old West, it is a meticulously researched account of how an alcoholic prostitute was transformed into a Wild West heroine, correcting previous depictions as it traces the making of the legend. Always on the move across the northern plains, from boomtown to boomtown, Canary did in fact ride into Deadwood with Wild Bill Hickok (although she’d only met him recently) and accompanied some military expeditions. But after her death at 47, her adventures were exaggerated and new ones invented. In truth, Martha Canary was more camp follower than scout, and McLaird has mined countless newspapers and eyewitness accounts to show just what kind of woman she really was. He paints a compelling portrait of an unconventional woman who more than once turned the tables on those who sought to condemn or patronize her. James D. McLaird is Professor Emeritus of History, Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, South Dakota. He is the author of numerous articles on western history and myth-making, focusing especially on South Dakota and the Black Hills. February $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4251-7 396 Pages, 7 × 10 48 B&W Illus., 3 maps Biography
“Highly recommended as a useful and balanced academic study.”—Library Journal Best known as a nineteenth-century frontier hero, Christopher “Kit” Carson 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. Remley also places Carson in the context of his times by exploring his controversial relations with American Indians. He 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 January $19.95 Paper 978-8061-4273-9 320 pages, 5.5 × 8.5 25 B&W Illus., 2 maps Biography
MCLAIRD CALAMITY JANE • REMLEY KIT CARSON
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HARRIS, buckley ZEBULON PIKE, THOMAS JEFFERSON, AND THE OPENING OF THE AMERICAN WEST
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Seven prominent historians reassess the explorer for whom Pikes Peak was named
Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West Edited by Matthew L. Harris and Jay H. Buckley In life and in death, fame and glory eluded Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779–1813). The ambitious young military officer and explorer, best known for a mountain peak that he neither scaled nor named, was destined to live in the shadows of more famous contemporaries—explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. This collection of thought-provoking essays rescues Pike from his undeserved obscurity. It does so by providing a nuanced assessment of Pike and his actions within the larger context of American imperial ambition in the time of Jefferson.
April $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4243-2 256 Pages, 6 × 9 14 B&W Illus., 2 Maps U.S. History
Of Related Interest Thomas Jefferson and the Rocky Mountains Exploring the West from Monticello By Donald Jackson Foreword by James P. Ronda $24.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-2504-6 Southern Counterpart to Lewis and Clark The Freeman and Custis Expedition of 1806 By Thomas Freeman and Peter Custis Edited, with introduction and epilogue, by Dan L. Flores $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-1941-0
Pike’s accomplishments as an explorer and mapmaker and as a soldier during the War of 1812 have been tainted by his alleged connection to Aaron Burr’s conspiracy to separate the trans-Appalachian region from the United States. For two hundred years historians have debated whether Pike was an explorer or a spy, whether he knew about the Burr Conspiracy or was just a loyal foot soldier. This book moves beyond that controversy to offer new scholarly perspectives on Pike’s career. The essayists—all prominent historians of the American West—examine Pike’s expeditions and writings, which provided an image of the Southwest that would shape American culture for decades. John Logan Allen explores Pike’s contributions to science and cartography; James P. Ronda and Leo E. Oliva address his relationships with Native peoples and Spanish officials; Jay H. Buckley chronicles Pike’s life and compares Pike to other Jeffersonian explorers; Jared Orsi discusses the impact of his expeditions on the environment; and William E. Foley examines his role in Burr’s conspiracy. Together the essays assess Pike’s accomplishments and shortcomings as an explorer, soldier, empire builder, and family man. Pike’s 1810 journals and maps gave Americans an important glimpse of the headwaters of the Mississippi and the southwestern borderlands, and his account of the opportunities for trade between the Mississippi Valley and New Mexico offered a blueprint for the Santa Fe Trail. This volume is the first in more than a generation to offer new scholarly perspectives on the career of an overlooked figure in the opening of the American West. Matthew L. Harris is Associate Professor of History at Colorado State University– Pueblo and coeditor of The Founding Fathers and the Debate over Religion in Revolutionary America: A History in Documents. Jay H. Buckley is Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University, coauthor of By His Own Hand? The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis, and author of William Clark: Indian Diplomat.
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The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied Volume III: September 1833–August 1834 Edited by Stephen S. Witte and Marsha V. Gallagher Translated by Dieter Karch Foreword by Jack F. Becker • Introduction by Marsha V. Gallagher Few historical chronicles are as informative and eloquent as the journals written by Prince Maximilian of Wied as a record of his journey into the North American interior in 1833–34, following the route Lewis and Clark had taken almost thirty years earlier. Maximilian’s memorable descriptions of topography, Native peoples, natural history, and the burgeoning fur trade were further brought to life through the now-familiar watercolors and prints of Karl Bodmer, the young Swiss artist who accompanied him. The first two volumes of the North American Journals recount the prince’s journey from Europe to St. Louis, then up the Missouri some 2,500 river miles to the expedition’s western endpoint, Fort McKenzie, in what is today Montana. In this third, and final, volume, Maximilian vividly narrates his extended stay at Fort Clark (near today’s Bismarck, North Dakota) and his return journey eastward across America and on to his home in Germany. Despite subzero temperatures and a shortage of food at Fort Clark during the winter of 1833–34, Maximilian continued to study and interview the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians who lived nearby, recording descriptions of their social customs, religious rituals, languages, material culture, and art. This handsome, oversize volume not only reproduces the prince’s historic document but also features every one of his illustrations—nearly 100 in all, including several in color—from the original journal, along with other watercolors, now housed at Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. Publication of these journals, fifty years in the making and complete with extensive annotation, opens the 1830s American West to modern readers in an indispensable scholarly resource and a work of lasting beauty. The translation, annotation, and publication of the Maximilian journals is a project of the Margre H. Durham Center for Western Studies, Joslyn Art Museum. Prince Maximilian Alexander Philipp (1782–1867), explorer, naturalist, and ethnologist from the city of Neuwied, Germany, first won acclaim for his expedition to Brazil in 1815–17. Stephen S. Witte is Editor of the Maximilian Journals Project and Research Assistant Professor, Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Marsha V. Gallagher is Associate Editor and Director of the Maximilian Journals Project, Joslyn Art Museum. Dieter Karch is Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Jack F. Becker is Director of Joslyn Art Museum.
June $85.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3924-1 $295.00n Leather 978-0-87062-367-7 544 Pages, 8 × 12 10 Color and 101 B&W Illus., 6 Maps U.S. History
Of Related Interest The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied, Volume 1 May 1832–April 1833 Edited by Stephen S. Witte and Marsha V. Gallagher Foreword by John Wilson Translated by William J. Orr, Paul Schach, and Dieter Karch $85.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3888-6 $295.00n Leather 978-0-87062-365-3 The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied, Volume 2 April–September 1833 Edited by Stephen S. Witte and Marsha V. Gallagher Foreword by J. Brooks Joyner Translated by William J. Orr, Paul Schach, and Dieter Karch $85.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3923-4 $295.00n Leather 978-0-87062-366-0
maximilian of wied THE NORTH AMERICAN JOURNALS OF PRINCE MAXIMILIAN OF WIED, Vol. 3
The most complete record of this major expedition ever to appear in English
murray, Heumann gunfight at the eco-corral
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An innovative exploration of environmental themes in classic and contemporary Westerns
Gunfight at the Eco-Corral Western Cinema and the Environment By Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann Most film critics point to classic conflicts—good versus evil, right versus wrong, civilization versus savagery—as defining themes of the American Western. In this provocative examination of Westerns from Tumbleweeds (1925) to Rango (2011), Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann argue for a more expansive view that moves beyond traditional conflicts to encompass environmental themes and struggles. The environment, after all, is the fundamental stage for most western stories, from land rush dramas that pit “sod busters” against ranchers to conflicts between mining-town communities and corporations. Because environmental issues lie at the forefront of so many conflicts today, Murray and Heumann believe that the Western is ripe for such new examination.
Environment/Film Studies
Drawing on perspectives from both film studies and environmental history, the authors show how western films frequently deal with issues related to land use and different ways of looking at the natural world. In films as diverse as Gene Autry musicals, early John Wayne B-Westerns, and revisionist critiques such as the 2010 remake of True Grit, resources are exploited in the name of progress. Beginning with an analysis of two iconic Westerns, Shane and The Searchers, Murray and Heumann identify the environmental dichotomies—previously overlooked by critics—that are broached in both films, and they clarify the history that lies behind the environmental debates in these films and many others.
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How do Westerns respond to the historical contexts they present? And what do those responses suggest about American views of nature and its exploitation? The conflicts these movies address grow out of differing views of progress, frequently in relation to technology. The authors show that such binary oppositions tend to blur when examined closely, demonstrating that environmental issues are often more complex than we realize.
April $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4246-3 272 Pages, 5.5 × 8.5 24 B&W Illus.
Playing Cowboys Low Culture and High Art in the Western By Robert Murray Davis $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-2627-2 Rainbow bridge to monument valley Making the Modern Old West By Thomas J. Harvey $34.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4190-9
Robin L. Murray is Professor of English and Coordinator of the Film Studies Minor at Eastern Illinois University. Joseph K. Heumann is Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies at Eastern Illinois University, where he taught film studies for thirty years. Murray and Heumann are the coauthors of Ecology and Popular Film: Cinema on the Edge and That’s All Folks?: Ecocritical Readings of American Animated Features.
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Into the Breach at Pusan The 1st Provisional Marine Brigade in the Korean War By Kenneth W. Estes In the opening campaign of the Korean War, the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade participated in a massive effort by United States and South Korean forces in 1950 to turn back the North Korean invasion of the Republic of Korea. The brigade’s actions loom large in marine lore. According to most accounts, traditional Marine Corps discipline, training, and fighting spirit saved the day as the marines rescued an unprepared U.S. 8th Army, which had been pushed back to the “Pusan Perimeter” at the southeastern tip of the Korean peninsula. Historian and retired marine Kenneth W. Estes undertakes a fresh investigation of the marines’ and Eighth Army’s fight for Pusan. Into the Breach at Pusan corrects discrepancies in earlier works (including the official histories) to offer a detailed account of the campaign and place it in historical context. volume 31 in the campaigns and
Drawing on combat records, command reports, and biographical materials, Estes describes the mobilization, organization, and operations of 1st Brigade during the first three months of American participation in the Korean War. Focusing on the battalions, companies, and platoons that faced the hardened soldiers of the North Korean army, he brings the reader directly to the battlefield. The story he reveals there, woven with the voices of soldiers and officers, is one of cooperation rather than interservice rivalry. At the same time, he clarifies differences in the organizational cultures of the U.S. Army and the Marine Corps. Into the Breach at Pusan is scrupulously fair to both the army and the marines. Estes sets the record straight in crediting the 8th Army with saving itself during the Pusan Perimeter campaign, but he also affirms that the army’s suffering would have been much greater without the crucial, timely performance of the 1st Provisional Marine Brigade. Kenneth W. Estes, a marine lieutenant colonel who served from 1969 to 1993, is author of Marines under Armor: The Marines and the Armored Fighting Vehicle, 1916–2000 and coauthor of Tanks on the Beaches: A Marine Tanker in the Pacific War. He has edited the Marine Officer’s Guide since 1985.
commanders series April $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4254-8 216 Pages, 6 × 9 36 B&W Illus., 4 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 Victory at Peleliu The 81st Infantry Division's Pacific Campaign By Bobby C. Blair and John Peter DeCioccio $34.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4154-1
estes into the breach at pusan
A fresh investigation of the marines’ performance at the Pusan Perimeter
mcginty a toast to eclipse
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The definitive history of a legendary California wine and nineteenth-century San Francisco
A Toast to Eclipse Arpad Haraszthy and the Sparkling Wine of Old San Francisco By Brian McGinty The sparkling wines of California rival the best French Champagnes today, but their place at our tables came about through careful craftsmanship that began more than a century ago. The predecessor of today’s California bubbly was Eclipse Champagne, the first commercially successful California sparkling wine, produced by Arpad Haraszthy in the mid- to late nineteenth century. In A Toast to Eclipse, Brian McGinty offers a definitive history of the wine, exploring California’s winemaking past and two of the people who put the state’s varietal wines on the map: Arpad and his father Agoston Haraszthy, the legendary “father of California viticulture.”
March $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4248-7 256 Pages, 6 × 9 26 B&W Illus. U.S. History/Wine
Of Related Interest Lola Montez The California Adventures of Europe’s Notorious Courtesan By James F. Varley $29.50 CLOTH 978-0-87062-243-4 Justinian Caire and Santa Cruz Island The Rise and Fall of a California Dynasty By Frederic C. Chiles Foreword by Marla Daily $34.95 CLOTH 978-0-87062-400-1
Inspired by his father’s dream of making California one of the world’s great viticultural regions, Arpad Haraszthy (1840–1900) pursued that goal at a time when the best grapes for making California wine had yet to be discovered, when the best locations for vineyards had not yet been established, and when the public could hardly believe that good wine could be made in a country overrun with gold miners and desperados. As a young man, Arpad spent two years in the Champagne country of northeastern France, studying the classic methods of French sparkling wine manufacture, before bringing his knowledge home to California. As McGinty shows, the story of the award-winning wine Haraszthy created is also the story of San Francisco during its heyday as the largest, most dynamic city in the American West. McGinty reveals new information about California varietals and winemaking districts, and probes the controversy about whether Agoston Haraszthy introduced the Zinfandel grape to the Golden State. Aficionados of wine and of California history will find this narrative insightful and refreshing, and all readers will gain an appreciation for Arpad Haraszthy, Eclipse, and the delicate process of making a wine sparkle. Brian McGinty is an attorney and historian who specializes in American history, wine, and law. He is the author of nine books, including Strong Wine: The Life and Legend of Agoston Haraszthy.
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Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala By Megan E. O’Neil Now shrouded in Guatemalan jungle, the ancient Maya city of Piedras Negras flourished between the sixth and ninth centuries c.e., when its rulers erected monumental limestone sculptures carved with hieroglyphic texts and images of themselves and family members, advisers, and captives. In Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala, Megan E. O’Neil offers new ways to understand these stelae, altars, and panels by exploring how ancient Maya people interacted with them. These monuments, considered sacred, were one of the community’s important forms of cultural and religious expression. Stelae may have held the essence of rulers they commemorated, and the objects remained loci for reverence of those rulers after they died. Using a variety of evidence, O’Neil examines how the forms, compositions, and contexts of the sculptures invited people to engage with them and the figures they embodied. She looks at these monuments not as inert bearers of images but as palpable presences that existed in real space at specific historical moments. Her analysis brings to the fore the material and affective force of these powerful objects that were seen, touched, and manipulated in the past. O’Neil investigates the monuments not only at the moment of their creation but also in later years and shows how they changed over time. She argues that the relationships among sculptures of different generations were performed in processions, through which ancient Maya people integrated historical dialogues and ancestral commemoration into the landscape. With the help of 150 illustrations, O’Neil reveals these sculptures’ continuing life histories, which in the past century have included their fragmentation and transformation into commodities sold on the international art market. Shedding light on modern-day transposition and display of these ancient monuments, O’Neil’s study contributes to ongoing discussions of cultural patrimony. Megan E. O’Neil is Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of William and Mary. She received her BA and PhD from Yale University and her MA from the University of Texas at Austin. She has participated in archaeological projects in Belize, Mexico, and Guatemala.
May $55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4257-9 328 Pages, 8 × 10 10 Color and 123 B&W Illus., 17 Maps Latin America/Sculpture
Of Related Interest Aztec Art By Esther Pasztory $36.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-2536-7 The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs Volume One: The Classic Period Inscriptions By Martha J. Macri and Matthew G. Looper $65.00s CLOTH 978-0-8061-3497-0 The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs Volume Two: Codical Texts By Martha J. Macri and Gabrielle Vail $65.00s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4071-1
O’neil engaging ancient maya sculpture at piedras negras, guatemala
Offers new ways to understand ancient Maya sculpture
KEATING IROQUOIS ART, POWER, AND HISTORY
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A provocative exploration of indigenous art history and contemporary art practice
Iroquois Art, Power, and History By Neal B. Keating In this richly illustrated book, Neal B. Keating explores Iroquois visual expression through more than five thousand years, from its emergence in ancient North America into the early twenty-first century. Drawing on extensive archival research and fieldwork with Iroquois artists and communities, Keating foregrounds the voices and visions of Iroquois peoples, revealing how they have continuously used visual expression to adapt creatively to shifting political and economic environments.
February $55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3890-9 360 Pages, 8 × 10 75 Color and 44 B&W Illus., 4 maps American Indian/Art
Of Related Interest Blackfoot War Art Pictographs of the Reservation Period, 1880–2000 By L. James Dempsey $45.00s CLOTH 978-0-8061-3804-6 Plains Indian Art The Pioneering Work of John C. Ewers Edited by Jane Ewers Robinson Introduction by Evan M. Maurer Preface by Candace Greene $39.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-3061-3
Iroquois, or Haudenosaunee, peoples have long been the subjects of Western study. From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, European and EuroAmerican writers classified Iroquois works not as art but as culturally lower forms of expression. During the twentieth century, Western critics commonly rejected contemporary Native art both as art and as an “inauthentic” expression of Indianness. Keating exposes the false assumptions underlying these perceptions. Approaching his subject from the perspective of an anthropologist, he focuses on the social relations and processes that are indexed by Iroquois visual culture through time, and he shows how Iroquois images are deployed in colonized contexts. As he traces the history of Iroquois art practice, Keating seeks a middle road between ethnohistorical approaches and the activist perspectives of contemporary artists. He is one of the first scholars in Iroquois studies to emphasize painting, a popular art form among present-day Iroquois. He conceptualizes painting broadly, to include writing, incising, drawing, tattoo, body painting, photography, videography, and digital media. Featuring more than 100 color and black-and-white reproductions, this volume embraces a wide array of artworks in diverse media, prompting new appreciation— and deeper understanding—of Iroquois art and its historical and contemporary significance. Neal B. Keating is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the College of Brockport, State University of New York. The author of numerous articles and reports, he has conducted research with indigenous peoples in North America, Central America, and Southeast Asia.
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From the Hands of a Weaver Olympic Peninsula Basketry through Time Edited by Jacilee Wray Foreword by Jonathan B. Jarvis For millennia, Native artists on Olympic Peninsula, in what is now northwestern Washington, have created coiled and woven baskets using tree roots, bark, plant stems—and meticulous skill. From the Hands of a Weaver presents the traditional art of basket making among the peninsula’s Native peoples—particularly women—and describes the ancient, historic, and modern practices of the craft. Abundantly illustrated, this book also showcases the basketry collection of Olympic National Park. Baskets designed primarily for carrying and storing food have been central to the daily life of the Klallam, Twana, Quinault, Quileute, Hoh, and Makah cultures of Olympic Peninsula for thousands of years. The authors of the essays collected here, who include Native people as well as academics, explore the commonalities among these cultures and discuss their distinct weaving styles and techniques. Because basketry was interwoven with indigenous knowledge and culture throughout history, alterations in the art over time reflect important social changes. Using primary-source material as well as interviews, volume editor Jacilee Wray shows how Olympic Peninsula craftspeople participated in the development of the commercial basket industry, transforming useful but beautiful objects into creations appreciated as art. Other contributors address poaching of cedar and native grasses, and conservation efforts—contemporary challenges faced by basket makers. Appendices identify weavers and describe weaves attributed to each culture, making this an important reference for both scholars and collectors. Featuring more than 150 photographs and line drawings of historical and twentieth-century weavers and their baskets, this engaging book highlights the culture of distinct Native Northwest peoples while giving voice to individual artists, masters of a living art form. Jacilee Wray, an anthropologist with the National Park Service at Olympic Peninsula, Washington, is editor of Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula: Who We Are and coeditor of Postmistress, Mora, Wash., 1914–1915: Journal Entries and Photographs of Fannie Taylor. Jonathan B. Jarvis is director of the National Park Service.
May $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4245-6 304 pages, 8 × 10 159 B&W Illus., 1 Map American Indian/Basketry
Of Related Interest Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula Who We Are Edited by Jacilee Wray $19.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-3552-6 Patterns of Exchange Navajo Weavers and Traders By Teresa J. Wilkins $34.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-3757-5
wray from the hands of a weaver
A comprehensive survey of basket making among Olympic Peninsula’s Native peoples
MATHEWS, kalter TWENTY THOUSAND MORNINGS
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A recently discovered work by the celebrated observer of Osage life and author of Sundown
Twenty Thousand Mornings An Autobiography By John Joseph Mathews Edited and with an introduction by Susan Kalter Foreword by Charles H. Red Corn When John Joseph Mathews (1894–1979) began his career as a writer in the 1930s, he was one of only a small number of Native American authors writing for a national audience. Today he is widely recognized as a founder and shaper of twentieth-century Native American literature. Twenty Thousand Mornings is Mathews’s intimate chronicle of his formative years. Written in 1965–67 but only recently discovered, this work captures Osage life in pre-statehood Oklahoma and recounts many remarkable events in early-twentieth-century history. Volume 57 in the American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series
April $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4253-1 352 Pages, 6 × 9 10 B&W Illus. American Indian/autobiography
Of Related Interest Sundown By John Joseph Mathews $19.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-2160-4 Talking To The Moon Wildlife Adventures on the Plains and Prairies of Osage Country By John Joseph Mathews $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-2083-6 Wah’Kon-Tah The Osage and the White Man’s Road By John Joseph Mathews $24.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-1699-0
Born in Pawhuska, Osage Nation, Mathews was the only surviving son of a mixedblood Osage father and a French-American mother. Within these pages he lovingly depicts his close relationships with family members and friends. Yet always drawn to solitude and the natural world, he wanders the Osage Hills in search of tranquil swimming holes—and new adventures. Overturning misguided critical attempts to confine Mathews to either Indian or white identity, Twenty Thousand Mornings shows him as a young man of his time. He goes to dances and movies, attends the brand-new University of Oklahoma, and joins the Air Service as a flight instructor during World War I—spawning a lifelong fascination with aviation. His accounts of wartime experiences include unforgettable descriptions of his first solo flight and growing skill in night-flying. Eventually Mathews gives up piloting to become a student again, this time at Oxford University, where he begins to mature as an intellectual. In her insightful introduction and explanatory notes, Susan Kalter places Mathews’s work in the context of his life and career as a novelist, historian, naturalist, and scholar. Kalter draws on his unpublished diaries, revealing aspects of his personal life that have previously been misunderstood. In addressing the significance of this posthumous work, she posits that Twenty Thousand Mornings will “challenge, defy, and perhaps redefine studies of American Indian autobiography.” John Joseph Mathews is the author of Wah’Kon-Tah; Sundown; Talking to the Moon; Life and Death of an Oilman; and The Osages: Children of the Middle Waters, among other works. Susan Kalter is Associate Professor of American Literature and Native American Studies at Illinois State University. Charles H. Red Corn, a member of the Tzishuwashtahgi Clan (Peace Clan) of the Osage Nation, is the author of A Pipe for February.
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Buying America from the Indians Johnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native Land Rights By Blake A. Watson The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Johnson v. McIntosh established the basic principles that govern American Indian property rights to this day. In the case, more than one Anglo-American purchaser claimed title to the same land in what is now southern Illinois. The Piankeshaw Indians had deeded the land twice—once to speculators in 1775, and again, thirty years later, to the United States by treaty. The Court decided in favor of William McIntosh, who had bought the land from the U.S. government. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Marshall declared that the “discovery” of America had given “exclusive title to those who made it”— namely, the European colonizers. According to Johnson, the Piankeshaws did not own what they thought was their land. Indeed, no Indian tribe did. Blake A. Watson’s examination of Johnson v. McIntosh and its impact offers a comprehensive historical and legal overview of Native land rights since the European discovery of the New World. Watson sets the case in rich historical context. After tracing Anglo-American views of Native land rights to their European roots, Watson explains how speculative ventures in Native lands affected not only Indian peoples themselves but the causes and outcomes of the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and ratification of the Articles of Confederation. He then focuses on the transactions at issue in Johnson between the Illinois and Piankeshaw Indians, who sold their homelands, and the future shareholders of the United Illinois and Wabash Land Companies. The final chapters highlight the historical legacy of Johnson v. McIntosh for federal policy with regard to Indian lands. Taught to first-year law students as the root of title for real property in the United States, the case has also been condemned by the United Nations and others as a Eurocentric justification for the subjugation of the Indians. Watson argues that the United States should formally repudiate the discovery doctrine set forth in Johnson v. McIntosh. The thorough backstory and analysis in this book will deepen our understanding of one of the most important cases in both federal Indian law and in American property law. Blake A. Watson has served as an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice and is now Professor of Law at the University of Dayton.
May $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4244-9 456 Pages, 6.125 × 9.25 18 B&W Illus., 3 Maps American Indian/law
Of Related Interest Taking Indian Lands The Cherokee (Jerome) Commission, 1889–1893 By William T. Hagan $39.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-3513-7 $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4236-4 Uneven Ground American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law By David E. Wilkins and K. Tsianina Lomawaima $26.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-3395-9 American Indian Tribal Governments By Sharon O'Brien $26.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-2564-0
watson buying america from the indians
The backstory on the court decision that defined and limited American Indian property rights
KROSKRITY TELLING STORIES IN THE FACE OF DANGER
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Explores how storytelling can help save endangered Native languages
Telling Stories in the Face of Danger Language Renewal in Native American Communities Edited by Paul V. Kroskrity Stories are important in all human societies, and especially in those whose languages are threatened with extinction. “They aren’t just entertainment,” writes Laguna Pueblo novelist Leslie Marmon Silko in Ceremony. “They are all we have . . . to fight off illness and death. You don’t have anything if you don’t have the stories.” The contributors to this volume, all linguists and linguistic anthropologists concerned with the revitalization of indigenous languages, draw on that understanding as they explore Native American storytelling both as a response to and a symptom of language endangerment. Edited by Paul V. Kroskrity, the essays show how traditional stories, and their nontraditional written descendants, such as poetry and graphic novels, help to maintain Native cultures and languages.
February $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4227-2 288 Pages, 6 × 9 3 b&w illus., 2 maps American Indian
Of Related Interest Cultural Contact and Linguistic Relativity among the Indians of Northwestern California By Sean O’Neill $50.00s CLOTH 978-0-8061-3922-7 Muting White Noise Native American and European American Novel Traditions By James H. Cox $29.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-3679-0 $24.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4021-6
Highlighting language renewal programs, Telling Stories in the Face of Danger presents case studies from various North American communities that show tribal stories as vehicles of moral development, healing, and the construction of identity. For the Arizona Tewa, storytelling is tied to the growth and development of children, as well as to the cultivation of corn and other staples. In some Apachean and Pueblo groups, people are traditionally scolded with the rebuke: “Didn’t your grandmother ever teach you the stories?” Several essays presented here describe successful efforts to maintain, revitalize, and renew narrative traditions or to adapt them to new institutions, such as schools. Others consider less successful efforts, noting conflicts among older and younger tribal members or differences between academic and traditional language expertise or between insiders and outsiders. The contributors, some of whom are members of the communities they describe, also examine the use of narrative as an act of resistance. Telling Stories in the Face of Danger bridges the gap between anthropology, linguistics, and Native American studies. It will engage readers in a crucial dialogue as it brings ethnographic research to bear on language endangerment. Paul V. Kroskrity is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and coeditor of Native American Language Ideologies: Beliefs, Practices, and Struggles in Indian Country.
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American Indians and the Mass Media Edited by Meta G. Carstarphen and John P. Sanchez Mention “American Indian,” and the first image that comes to most people’s minds is likely to be a figment of the American mass media: A war-bonneted chief. The Land O’ Lakes maiden. Most American Indians in the twenty-first century live in urban areas, so why do the mass media still rely on Indian imagery stuck in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? How can more accurate views of contemporary Indian cultures replace such stereotypes? These and similar questions ground the essays collected in American Indians and the Mass Media, which explores Native experience and the mainstream media’s impact on American Indian histories, cultures, and communities. Chronicling milestones in the relationship between Indians and the media, some of the chapters employ a historical perspective, and others focus on contemporary practices and new technologies. All foreground American Indian perspectives missing in other books on mass communication. The historical studies examine treatment of Indians in America’s first newspaper, published in seventeenth-century Boston, and in early Cherokee newspapers; Life magazine’s depictions of Indians, including the famous photograph of Ira Hayes raising the flag at Iwo Jima; and the syndicated feature stories of Elmo Scott Watson. Among the chapters on more contemporary issues, one discusses campaigns to change offensive place-names and sports team mascots, and another looks at recent movies such as Smoke Signals and television programs that are gradually overturning the “movie Indian” stereotypes of the twentieth century. Particularly valuable are the essays highlighting authentic tribal voices in current and future media. Mark Trahant chronicles the formation of the Native American Journalists Association, perhaps the most important early Indian advocacy organization, which he helped found. As the contributions on new media point out, American Indians with access to a computer can tell their own stories—instantly to millions of people—making social networking and other Internet tools effective means for combating stereotypes. Including discussion questions for each essay and an extensive bibliography, American Indians and the Mass Media is a unique educational resource. Meta G. Carstarphen is Gaylord Endowed Professor in the Gaylord College of Journalism, University of Oklahoma, and is coeditor of Sexual Rhetoric: Media Perspectives on Sexuality, Gender, and Identity, among other books. John P. Sanchez is an Associate Professor in the College of Communications at The Pennsylvania State University. He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on teacher education, communications, and American Indian issues.
April $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4234-0 312 Pages, 6.125 × 9.25 8 B&W Illus. American Indian
Of Related Interest Reasoning Together The Native Critics Collective $24.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-3887-9
carstarphen, sanchez american indians and the mass media
Explores the mainstream media’s impact on American Indians— and Indians’ use of those media to tell their own stories
graening, fenolio, slay cave life of oklahoma and arkansas
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new books spring 2012
A lavishly illustrated exploration of underground fauna in the Ozarks and surrounding cave regions
Cave Life of Oklahoma and Arkansas Exploration and Conservation of Subterranean Biodiversity By G. O. Graening, Danté B. Fenolio, and Michael E. Slay Speleobiology, the study of cave life, is a relatively new science. The diversity of species that live in caves, springs, and aquifers is just beginning to be documented, and much of the underground world has yet to be explored. The surveys of cave life reported in this book represent an important step forward in understanding the biodiversity of caves in Oklahoma and Arkansas.
volume 10 in the animal natural history series February $59.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4223-4 248 Pages, 6.125 × 9.25 179 Color and 4 B&W Illus., 12 Maps Biology
Of Related Interest The Real Roadrunner By Martha Anne Maxon $39.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-3676-9 North American Watersnakes A Natural History By J. Whitfield Gibbons, Michael E. Dorcas $49.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-3599-1 Remarkable Shrimps Adaptations and Natural History of the Carideans By Raymond T Bauer $59.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-3555-7
The project whose research led to the publication of Cave Life of Oklahoma and Arkansas began in the 1970s as a study of Ozark cavefish and expanded to encompass two states and involve a number of research topics and collaborators. The authors and their team donned snorkeling gear, cave suits, and climbing harnesses and descended into caves in Oklahoma and Arkansas to study, inventory, and photograph this hidden world. The result is a comprehensive checklist of the region’s cave fauna, complete with descriptions of these rare animals’ distribution and ecological niches. The cast of characters ranges from familiar and charismatic species, such as cave crayfish and gray bats, to rare and bizarre fauna, such as blind salamanders and cave dung beetles. More than 175 full-color illustrations include stunning, never-before-seen photographs (from the cameras of Dave Bunnel, Tim Ernst, and Danté B. Fenolio, among others) of cave animals—even some newly discovered species. The authors also address conservation of subterranean biodiversity, discussing not only threats to cave life such as invasive species, resource extraction, and habitat loss, but also current methods of preservation and protection, including legislation, land acquisition, people management, and cave gates. The book’s appendices provide a comprehensive cave bibliography and checklists of subterranean animals for each cave. Speleology is critical to science. Subterranean organisms are key indicators of groundwater quality, and their adaptations can lead to advances in medicine. Cave Life of Oklahoma and Arkansas advances our knowledge of, and can thus help us save, subterranean ecosystems—among the world’s last frontiers. Conservation biologist G. O. Graening teaches at California State University, Sacramento, and is founder of Natural Investigations Company, an environmental consulting firm. Danté B. Fenolio is a photographer and amphibian conservation scientist with the Atlanta Botanical Garden. Michael E. Slay is Ozark Karst program director with the Ozark Highlands office of The Nature Conservancy.
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The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale A Variorum Edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales, Volume II, Parts 5A and 5B By Geoffrey Chaucer Edited by Mark Allen and John H. Fisher The Wife of Bath is the most vibrant character in The Canterbury Tales—and arguably the most famous. In creating his brilliant portrayal of the talkative wife, Chaucer weaves a dazzling array of allusions to biblical, classical, patristic, and vernacular sources. These two volumes—the most recent contribution to the Variorum Chaucer series—integrate six hundred years of scholarship on The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale. Editors Mark Allen and John H. Fisher present a comprehensive record of the textual traditions of the tale and of the critical commentary from the earliest manuscripts to the mid-1990s. Part A (the first volume) includes the text of Chaucer’s poem, accompanied by exhaustive collation of the ten most valuable manuscript witnesses to the text and all twenty-two of the major editions. Also included in Part A are an introduction to the text, and extensive discussions of sources and analogues, genres, theoretical approaches, and major themes. A bibliographical index concludes the scholarly apparatus in Part A. In Part B (the second volume), the editors present a line-by-line, often word-by-word, record of the legacy of Chaucer’s text, including variants, glosses, editors’ notes, and observations by scholars through the ages. Mark Allen is Professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is the author of various publications in medieval studies, and he serves as the bibliographer for the New Chaucer Society. John H. Fisher is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Tennessee. A renowned medievalist and authority on the development of standard English, he is the author of The Importance of Chaucer and John Gower: Moral Philosopher and Friend of Chaucer, among other works. Allen and Fisher are coeditors of The Complete Poetry and Prose of Geoffrey Chaucer and The Complete Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer; and coauthors of The Essential Chaucer: An Annotated Bibliography of Major Modern Studies.
February $90.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4224-1 776 Pages, 7 × 10 1 B&W Illus., 1 Color Literature/Poetry
Of Related Interest A Treatise on the Astrolabe By Geoffrey Chaucer Edited by Sigmund Eisner $75.00s CLOTH 978-0-8061-3413-0 The Romaunt of the Rose By Geoffrey Chaucer Edited by Charles Dahlberg $75.00s CLOTH 978-0-8061-3147-4 The Summoner’s Tale By Geoffrey Chaucer Edited by John F. Plummer III $55.00s CLOTH 978-0-8061-2744-6
chaucer, allen, fisher the wife of bath's prologue and tale
An essential resource for scholars and students of Middle English language and literature
PHARR, wright, debnar HOMERIC GREEK
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A revised and expanded version addressing the needs of today’s teachers and students
Homeric Greek A Book for Beginners Fourth Edition By Clyde Pharr, John Wright, and Paula Debnar For many years, Homeric Greek has been a standard textbook for first-year Greek courses in college and preparatory schools. It offers students the exciting experience of learning to read a Homeric poem in the original language, while introducing them to the fundamentals of ancient Greek. This fourth edition addresses the needs of today’s teachers and students, while retaining those elements of the original book responsible for its longevity. Written and subsequently revised by Clyde Pharr, Homeric Greek was further revised by John Wright in 1985. Paula Debnar has revised the book once again by significantly expanding the introductory material in its first forty lessons. Notable features of this new edition include: April $34.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4164-0 456 Pages, 7 × 10 1 Map Language/Greek
· Clear definitions of grammatical terms and explanations of forms and syntax · Easy-to-read charts of grammatical paradigms · A new reference map of the Aegean region, including sites mentioned in the first book of the Iliad · An index of the book’s section on grammar · A larger, more attractive format for the entire text, including more legible Greek characters
Of Related Interest Euripides' Electra A Commentary By H. M. Roisman and C. A. E. Luschnig $32.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4119-0 Eros at the Banquet Reviewing Greek with Plato's Symposium By Louise Pratt $29.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4142-8 The Essentials of Greek Grammar A Reference for Intermediate Readers of Attic Greek By Louise Pratt $16.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4143-5
Ideally suited for classroom use but also accessible to independent learners, this fourth edition of Homeric Greek ensures continued life for a book that has stood the test of time. Clyde Pharr (1885–1972) was head of the Classics Department at Vanderbilt University. John Wright is Professor Emeritus of Classics at Northwestern University. Paula Debnar is Professor of Classics at Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of Speaking the Same Language: Speech and Audience in Thucydides’ Spartan Debates.
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The Student’s Catullus Fourth Edition By Daniel H. Garrison Although his audacious, erotic, and satirical verses survived the Middle Ages in only a single copy, Catullus has become in our time a canonical author, ranking in popularity and importance with Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. And for students and teachers of Latin, Daniel H. Garrison’s The Student’s Catullus is a definitive introductory text. This fourth edition, thoroughly revised, makes Catullus’ famous poems more accessible than ever. A comprehensive reference, The Student’s Catullus includes the following features: · A brief overview of Catullus’s life and artistic persona · A fresh recension of all 113 poems · A commentary in English on each poem, explaining difficult points of Latin and salient aspects of Catullus’ artistry
Volume 5 in the Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture
· A Who’s Who of the people in Catallus’ poems · An explanation of Catullan meters
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· A glossary of literary terms used in the commentary
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· A complete Latin-English Catullan vocabulary
Language/Latin
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· Six reference maps New to this fourth edition are dozens of additional notes to aid comprehension, more nuanced definitions in the vocabulary list, and amplified information in the appendices. In addition, Garrison has expanded his introduction to include tips for students and teachers. Drawing on years of classroom experience, Garrison urges readers to avoid rote translation and instead engage thoroughly with the poet’s delightful language, syntax, structure, and rhythm. Daniel H. Garrison is Professor of Classics at Northwestern University. His numerous publications include Horace: Epodes and Odes, a New Annotated Latin Edition and Sexual Culture in Ancient Greece.
Of Related Interest Virgil A Study in Civilized Poetry By Brooks Otis $26.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-2782-8 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
garrison the student's catullus
A new edition of a definitive introductory text
benario caesar's gallic war
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An accessible commentary geared to Advanced Placement high school programs and college classes
Caesar’s Gallic War A Commentary By Herbert W. Benario A classic of western literature, Julius Caesar’s Gallic War is also a staple of Latin language instruction at both the high school and college levels. This new edition for students, prepared by a senior classical scholar and translator, is among the most comprehensive available and will be especially valuable because Caesar is one of the two authors chosen for the new Advanced Placement curriculum in high school Latin.
volume 46 in the oklahoma series in classical culture March $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4252-4 176 Pages, 5.5 × 8.5 5 b&w illus., 1 map History/Ancient
The Gallic War is a lively autobiographical account. Caesar writes passionately of his military exploits in Gaul (58–51 b.c.), the region embracing territories we know today as France, Germany, and Britain. Including all 933 AP line selections from Caesar’s Latin text, this edition begins with Benario’s introduction to the life and career of Julius Caesar, followed by a brief history of Rome and the Gauls from the fourth century b.c. to Caesar’s consulship, when he conducted annual campaigns to subdue the Gallic threat once and for all. The volume also features: · A brief analysis of the Gallic War and of Caesar’s prose style · Benario’s extensive commentary, which leads the student through grammatical complexities, explains Caesar’s rhetorical, geographical, and historical references, and illuminates aspects of Roman life ranging from military technology to astronomy · A comprehensive vocabulary · A list of suggested readings
Of Related Interest Horace Epodes and Odes; A New Annotated Latin Edition By Daniel H. Garrison $26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3057-6 Caesar and the Crisis of the Roman Aristocracy A Civil War Reader By James S. Ruebel $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3963-0
Benario’s wide-ranging commentary lends this book a value that goes beyond the classroom. Reading Caesar in this edition is not the plodding exercise in translation that generations of high school Latin students once endured. Instead readers see Rome’s Gallic frontier as one of its greatest military commanders saw it, reminding us why Caesar’s De bello Gallico has endured for more than two thousand years. Herbert W. Benario is Professor Emeritus of Classics at Emory University and the author, translator, or editor of numerous articles and books, including Tacitus’ Agricola, Germany, and Dialogue on Orators.
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The Natural Histories of Pliny the Elder An Advanced Reader and Grammar Review By P. L. Chambers For students of Latin—even those at an advanced level—reading original works by Latin authors can be daunting. Students must remember a seemingly endless array of grammatical rules and vocabulary, and often the material to be translated seems dull and lengthy beyond endurance. Here P. L. Chambers overcomes these challenges through her engaging presentation of the writings of Pliny the Elder. Pliny the Elder (23–79 a.d.) was a military officer and imperial administrator of the early Roman Empire. His avid interest in natural phenomena led him to write the Natural Histories, an encyclopedic work encompassing subjects as diverse as astronomy, geography, biology, zoology, botany, medicine, and gemology. The passages from the Natural Histories included here for translation are enjoyable to read and revealing of what first-century Romans thought about their world. Accompanying the Latin texts are the following features: · Quick grammatical reviews at the start of each chapter · Examples from the Latin passages that demonstrate relevant grammatical topics
January $24.95s paper 978-0-8061-4215-9 172 Pages, 8.5 × 11 1 map Language/Latin
· Sentence exercises based on the original text · End-of-chapter vocabulary lists specific to the chapter readings · Grammatical tables at the end of the book for quick reference · A glossary that includes basic vocabulary · A teacher’s key, available to instructors upon request Classroom-tested by the author, this appealing reader motivates students to continue their study of Latin and provides a welcome alternative for instructors seeking accessible textbooks for their students. P. L. Chambers is an instructor in the Department of Classics and Letters at the University of Oklahoma. The recipient of numerous awards for outstanding teaching, she is the author of Latin Alive and Well: An Introductory Text and The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius: An Intermediate Reader and Grammar Review.
Of Related Interest Latin Alive and Well An Introductory Text By P. L. Chambers $24.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-3816-9 The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius An Intermediate Reader and Grammar Review By P. L. Chambers $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-3993-7
chambers the natural histories of pliny the elder
A student-friendly text with engaging and informative readings
vergil, JOHNSTON THE AENEID OF VERGIL
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A modern English translation of the Aeneid that uses Vergil’s original meter
The Aeneid of Vergil By Vergil Translated by Patricia A. Johnston “A pleasing, accurate, and effective translation, based on very sound scholarship. Johnston’s translation is ideal for classroom use.”—William S. Anderson, author of The Art of the Aeneid
Volume 43 in the Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture
january $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4205-0 336 Pages, 7 × 10 6 b&w illus., 4 maps literature/latin
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 Poems of Hesiod By R. M. Frazer $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-1846-8
At the beginning of Vergil’s epic poem—long considered a classic of Western literature—the hero Aeneas escapes from the carnage of the Trojan War and embarks on a treacherous series of adventures that eventually lead him to the future site of Rome. Vergil renders Aeneas’ dramatic story in deceptively simple but powerful language, yet the poet’s style is often lost in translation. This magnificent new English translation of the Aeneid conveys the force of the original poetry, as well as its subtle undertones, in part by employing the poet’s own metrical style. Unlike other modern translators of Vergil, who forgo meter entirely or use iambic pentameter (the meter of Shakespeare and other English poets), Patricia A. Johnston uses dactylic hexameter, the meter used by Vergil and by all ancient writers of epic poetry, beginning with Homer. Johnston also avoids elaborate or esoteric language and instead uses clear, unadorned diction to capture Vergil’s masterful simplicity. This volume is unique as well in addressing the needs of students and other readers who may be encountering Vergil’s work for the first time. In her introduction to the poem, Johnston traces the life of Vergil, describes his other works, and provides a brief plot summary of the Aeneid. Her lucid explanation of poetic meters in English and Latin is useful even for readers who thought they understood the difference between a dactyl and a spondee. Throughout the poem itself, she provides ample footnotes to explain the meaning of unfamiliar references. The volume concludes with a glossary of names and a select bibliography. Patricia A. Johnston is Professor of Classical Studies and Chair of the Program in Religious Studies at Brandeis University. Her many publications include Vergil’s Agricultural Golden Age: A Study of the Georgics and Traditio: An Introduction to the Latin Language and Its Influence. She is former president of the Vergilian Society of America.
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Acharnians, Knights, and Peace 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. Here Michael Ewans offers new and lively translations of three of Aristophanes’ earliest surviving plays: Acharnians, Knights, and Peace. While remaining faithful to the original Greek, Ewans’s translations are accessible to a modern audience—and actable on stage. The first two plays in this volume, Acharnians and Knights, satirize the Athenians for their madness in continuing the Peloponnesian War. The third play, Peace, celebrates the end to all the warmongering. This edition contains all that a reader needs to understand these plays within a broader context. In his comprehensive introduction, Ewans discusses historical, 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, Ewans draws on his own experience of directing the plays in a replica of the original theater. In sceneby-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. With its accessible format and design, this book serves as a fitting companion to Ewans’s recently published edition of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, The Women’s Festival, and Frogs. Michael Ewans has recently retired as 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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MIRTO DEATH IN THE GREEK WORLD
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Examines ancient Greek conceptions of death and the afterlife
Death in the Greek World From Homer to the Classical Age By Maria Serena Mirto Translated by A. M. Osborne In our contemporary Western society, death has become taboo. Despite its inevitability, we focus on maintaining youthfulness and well-being, while fearing death’s intrusion in our daily activities. In contrast, observes Maria Serena Mirto, the ancient Greeks embraced death more openly and effectively, developing a variety of rituals to help them grieve the dead and, in the process, alleviate anxiety and suffering. In this fascinating book, Mirto examines conceptions of death and the afterlife in the ancient Greek world, revealing few similarities—and many differences—between ancient and modern ways of approaching death.
Volume 44 in the Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture
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Exploring the cultural and religious foundations underlying Greek burial rites and customs, Mirto traces the evolution of these practices during the archaic and classical periods. She explains the relationship between the living and the dead as reflected in grave markers, epitaphs, and burial offerings and discusses the social and political dimensions of burial and lamentation. She also describes shifting beliefs about life after death, showing how concepts of immortality, depicted so memorably in Homer’s epics, began to change during the classical period. Death in the Greek World straddles the boundary between literary and religious imagination and synthesizes observations from archaeology, visual art, philosophy, politics, and law. The author places particular emphasis on Homer’s epics, the first literary testimony of an understanding of death in ancient Greece. And because these stories are still so central to Western culture, her discussion casts new light on elements we thought we had already understood. Originally written and published in Italian, this English-language translation of Death in the Greek World includes the most recent scholarship on newly discovered texts and objects, and engages the latest theoretical perspectives on the gendered roles of men and women as agents of mourning. The volume also features a new section dealing with hero cults and a new appendix outlining fundamental developments in modern studies of death in the ancient Greek world. Maria Serena Mirto is Associate Professor of Classical Philology, Department of Classics, University of Pisa, Italy. A. M. Osborne holds an MA in Modern and Medieval Languages from the University of Cambridge and an MA with distinction in Literary Translation from the University of East Anglia. A resident of the United Kingdom, she currently translates both academic and literary texts.
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Daily Life in the Hellenistic Age
A Journal of Travels into the Arkansas Territory during the Year 1819
From Alexander to Cleopatra By James Allan Evans
By Thomas Nuttall Edited by Savoie Lottinville
An exploration of the Hellenistic world in the aftermath of Alexander the Great
The Hellenistic world, ushered into existence in 323 b.c.e. through the conquests of Alexander the Great, stretched from India in the east to Sicily in the west. Within this vast region, society was multicultural, but the dominant culture was that of the Greeks (who called themselves Hellenes). The Hellenistic Age carried on the legacy of classical Greece in the visual arts, literature, science, technology, religion, and urban daily life. In Daily Life in the Hellenistic Age, James Allan Evans guides the reader through the vast conquered lands of the shortlived Hellenistic empire and its successor kingdoms. In lively narrative chapters, Evans explores such topics as marriage customs; women in Hellenistic societies; festivals, sports, and spectacles; symposia (drinking parties); the agricultural and commercial components of the polis (city-state); food and drink; education; science and technology; and the legacy of the Hellenistic age in the modern world. This revised and updated paperback edition includes two maps. James Allan Evans, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia, is the author or editor of numerous articles and books, including The Power Game in Byzantium: Antonina and the Empress Theodora and Arts and Humanities through the Eras: Ancient Greece and Rome, 1200 b.c.e.–476 c.e. April $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4255-2 272 Pages, 6.125 × 9.25 19 B&W Illus., 2 Maps History/Ancient
Follows the famous naturalist’s route from Philadelphia to the Arkansas and Red Rivers
This is the famous naturalist Thomas Nuttall’s only surviving complete journal of his American scientific explorations. The account follows Nuttall’s route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, down the Ohio River to its mouth, then down the Mississippi River to the Arkansas Post, and up the Arkansas River with a side trip to the Red River. It is filled with valuable details on the plants, animals, and geology of the region, as well as penetrating observations of the resident Native tribes, the military establishment at Fort Smith, the arrival of the first governor of Arkansas Territory, and the beginnings of white settlement. Originally published in 1980 by the University of Oklahoma Press, this fine edited version of Nuttall’s work boasts a valuable introduction, notes, maps, and bibliography by Savoie Lottinville. Thomas Nuttall was a self-educated botanist who came to the United States from Liverpool in 1808 at the age of twenty-two. Nuttall made several scientific expeditions in America during the first half of the nineteenth century. He was recognized in his time for his botanical discoveries, served for many years as a lecturer in natural science and as curator of the Cambridge Botanic Garden at Harvard, and published several books. Savoie Lottinville, a graduate of the University of Oxford, was director of the University of Oklahoma Press for thirty years and was for several years Regents Professor of History. Among the books he authored or edited are The Rhetoric of History (1976) and Travels in Norman America, 1822–1824, by Paul Wilhelm, Duke of Württemberg (1973). February $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4277-7 392 Pages, 6.125 × 9.25 13 B&W Illus. U.S. History
evans daily life in the hellenistic age • nuttall,lottinville a journal of travels into the arkansas territory during the year 1819
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The Quiché Mayas of Utatlán
Bernardino de Sahagún First Anthropologist By Miguel León-Portilla Translated by Mauricio J. Mixco
The Evolution of a Highland Guatemala Kingdom By Robert M. Carmack
Fascinating biography of the Franciscan Monk who pioneered Aztec anthropology
A powerful recreation of the ancient Quiché Maya empire
Now available in paperback for the first time since its publication in 1980, The Quiché Mayas of Utatlán offers a full account of the Quichés, the most powerful Maya group in the Guatemala highlands at the time of the Spanish Conquest. The Quichés ruled from the city they built on the highland plains, to which they gave the splendid name K’umarcaaj, but which became known throughout the Maya world as Utatlán. Robert M. Carmack re-creates the setting of this empire, and peoples it with the rulers, priests, warriors, allies, and travelers who gave it life. He describes the fall of Utatlán to the conquistadors, and the Quichés’ efforts to retain a semblance of their political structure and belief system. Drawing upon archaeological discoveries and native and Spanish written documents, Carmack has produced a work that is essential to understanding the Quiché people and indispensable to a full appreciation of the immortal work the Popol Vuh, the “first book of the New World.” Robert M. Carmack is Professor of Anthropology in the State University of New York at Albany. The Quiché Mayas of Utatlán is the product of fourteen years spent in archaeological fieldwork and research in the great libraries and repositories of the Americas and Europe. Volume 155 in The Civilization of the American Indian Series February $34.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4268-5 454 Pages, 7 × 10 38 B&W illus., 47 maps History/Mayan
“In a well-written and well-organized study, León-Portilla has expanded our understanding of prevailing views during Sahagún’s time, including insight into happenings in the Franciscan Order.”—Charles E. Dibble, editor and translator of Sahagún’s Codex en Cruz Sent from Spain on a religious crusade to Mexico to “detect the sickness of idolatry,” Bernardino de Sahagún (c. 1499–1590) instead became the first anthropologist of the New World. The Franciscan monk developed a deep appreciation for Aztec culture and the Nahuatl language. In this biography, Miguel León-Portilla presents the life story of a fascinating man who came to Mexico intent on changing the traditions and cultures he encountered but instead ended up working to preserve them, even at the cost of persecution. Sahagún was responsible for documenting numerous ancient texts and other native testimonies. He persevered in his efforts to study the native Aztecs until he had developed his own research methodology, becoming a pioneer of anthropology. Translated into English by Mauricio J. Mixco, León-Portilla’s absorbing account presents Sahagún as a complex individual— a man of his times yet a pioneer in many ways. Miguel León-Portilla is Professor Emeritus of the Institute of Historical Research at the National University of Mexico. He is the author of Aztec Thought and Culture, Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World, and more than thirty other books on Mexico and Central American Indians. Mauricio J. Mixco is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Utah. He is the author of A Mandan Grammar and A Kiliwa Grammar. February $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4271-5 340 pages, 5.5 × 8.5 40 B&W illus. Biography/latin america
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The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War
From Cochise to Geronimo
By Clarissa W. Confer
The Chiricahua Apaches, 1874–1886 By Edwin R. Sweeney
A social history of a people plunged into crisis
The final volume in the author’s trilogy on the Chiricahua Apaches
No one questions the horrific impact of the Civil War on America, but few realize its effect on American Indians. Residents of Indian Territory found the war especially devastating. Their homeland was beset not only by regular army operations but also by guerillas and bushwhackers. Complicating the situation even further, Cherokee men fought for the union as well as the confederacy and created their own “brothers’ war.” This book offers a broad overview of the war as it affected the Cherokees—a social history of a people plunged into crisis. In The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War, Clarissa W. Confer examines decision making and leadership within the tribe, campaigns and soldiering among participants on both sides, and elements of civilian life and Reconstruction. She reveals how a centuries-old culture informed the Cherokees’ choices, with influences as varied as matrilineal descent, clan affiliations, economic distribution, and decentralized government combining to distinguish the Native reaction to the war. Clarissa W. Confer is Assistant Professor of History at California University of Pennsylvania. February $16.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4267-8 216 Pages, 5.5 × 8.5 12 B&W illus., 4 maps American Indian
“Sweeney’s scholarship could not be more sound.”—Robert M. Utley, author of The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull In the decade after the death of their revered chief Cochise in 1874, the Chiricahua Apaches struggled to survive as a people and their relations with the U.S. government further deteriorated. In From Cochise to Geronimo, Edwin R. Sweeney builds on his previous biographies of Chiricahua leaders Cochise and Mangas Coloradas to offer a definitive history of the turbulent period between Cochise’s death and Geronimo’s surrender in 1886. Sweeney shows that the cataclysmic events of the 1870s and 1880s stemmed in part from seeds of distrust sown by the American military in 1861 and 1863. In 1876 and 1877, the U.S. government proposed moving the Chiricahuas from their ancestral homelands in New Mexico and Arizona to the San Carlos Reservation. From Cochise to Geronimo details the Chiricahuas’ ordeal in maintaining their identity despite forced relocations, disease epidemics, sustained warfare, and confinement. Resigned to accommodation with Americans but intent on preserving their culture, they were determined to survive as a people. Edwin R. Sweeney, retired as a professional accountant, is an independent scholar and one of the preeminent historians of the Apaches. He is the author of Cochise: Chiricahua Apache Chief and Mangas Coloradas: Chief of the Chiricahua Apaches. volume 268 in the civilization of the american indian series January $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4272-2 720 Pages, 6.125 × 9.25 24 B&W Illus., 4 maps American Indian
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Bashful No Longer
Indian Blues
An Alaskan Eskimo Ethnohistory, 1778–1988 By Wendell H. Oswalt
American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879–1934 By John W. Troutman
Documents cultural change among the Kuskokwim Eskimos of Alaska
Explores the relationship between Native musical practices and federal Indian policy
“Bashful No Longer has performed a service, not only for all students of Alaskan history, who can benefit from this overview of the Yup’iks’ past, but for all scholars who seek to understand what happens when cultures meet.”—Journal of American History Traditionally the Kuskokwim Eskimos of southwestern Alaska valued restraint, modesty, and deference—traits for which they adopted the English word bashful. However, since their first encounter with Western culture two hundred years ago, these people have become much less willing to defer to Westerners. Bashful No Longer—based on Russian-American Company records; writings of traders, missionaries, and explorers; newspaper accounts; and fieldwork conducted by the author—documents and describes the cultural change among the Kuskokwim Eskimos as first the Russians and then the Americans settled among them. In the early 1980s the Kuskokwim people originated the Native Alaskan sovereignty movement, not only to reaffirm their identity as Eskimos but to regain their earlier autonomy. The future of this cultural renaissance is difficult to predict, but one thing is certain: when intercultural conflict reached a critical level in their lives, the Kuskokwim Eskimos, in a far-reaching collective response, shed their bashfulness. Wendell H. Oswalt, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, is the author of This Land Was Theirs: A Study of Native North Americans and numerous books and articles on Alaskan Eskimos.
“A thoroughly engaging and masterfully researched book. Indian Blues sets a high standard for future scholarship on the historical study of Native American music in the early twentieth century."—Notes From the late nineteenth century through the 1930s, the U.S. government sought to control practices of music on reservations and in Indian boarding schools. At the same time, Native singers, dancers, and musicians created new opportunities through musical performance to resist and manipulate those same policy initiatives. Why did the practice of music generate fear for government officials and opportunity for Native peoples? In this innovative study, John W. Troutman explores the politics of music at the turn of the twentieth century in three spheres: reservations, off-reservation boarding schools, and public venues such as concert halls and Chautauqua circuits. While recent scholarship has offered new insights into the experiences of “show Indians” and evolving powwow traditions, Indian Blues is the first book to explore the polyphony of Native musical practices and their relationship to federal Indian policy in this important period of American Indian history. John W. Troutman is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. Volume 3 in the New Directions in Native American Studies series January
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Lee’s Cavalrymen
Lincoln’s Cavalrymen
A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861–1865 By Edward G. Longacre
A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of the Potomac, 1861–1865 By Edward G. Longacre
Chronicles the operations and experiences of the Northern Virgina cavalry
A comprehensive history of the Union cavalry in the Civil War
“A major work . . . Longacre succeeds brilliantly in showing us a crucial, much-tested force.”—Publishers Weekly Since the first histories of the Civil War appeared after Appomattox, the cavalry has received intermittent, uneven, and even romanticized coverage. Historian Edward G. Longacre has corrected this oversight. Lee’s Cavalrymen, not only details the organizational and operational history of the mounted arm of the Army of Northern Virginia but also examines the personal experiences of officers and men. Longacre chronicles the salient characteristics of the regiments, brigades, and divisions, and explores the evolution of cavalry leadership, with emphasis on the personalities, interpersonal relationships, and operational styles of J. E. B. Stuart, Wade Hampton, Fitzhugh Lee, and other influential commanders. He has consulted dozens of collections of letters, diaries, and memoirs by cavalrymen of all ranks, and his careful study of North Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia newspapers unearthed rare cavalry-specific dispatches. Longacre also makes extensive use of an unpublished memoir of Gen. Wade Hampton, Stuart’s second-in-command. A provocative analysis of the mounted army’s organization, leadership, and tactics, Lee’s Cavalrymen is a study that no Civil War enthusiast will want to miss. Edward G. Longacre is the author of numerous articles and twenty-four books on the Civil War, including The Cavalry at Gettysburg, winner of the Fletcher Pratt Award for best nonfiction book on the Civil War, and Gentleman and Soldier: A Biography of Wade Hampton III, winner of the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award. February $26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4230-2 484 Pages, 6 × 9 7 maps U.S History/Civil War
Lincoln’s Cavalrymen describes the organizational, administrative, and operational history of the mounted arm of “Mr. Lincoln’s Army.” Historian Edward G. Longacre consulted at least fifty manuscript collections pertaining to general officers of cavalry, as well as the unpublished letters and diaries of more than 450 officers and enlisted men, representing almost every mounted unit in the Army of the Potomac. The result is the most comprehensive history of the Union cavalry to date. It covers the gamut of cavalry life—not only field operations but also the recruiting, organizing, mounting, remounting, equipping, training, tactical instruction, and war-long support of this critical branch of the nineteenthcentury army. The book vividly portrays the cavalry’s most influential commanders and assesses the depth and quality of its leadership. Longacre also seeks to place the cavalry in the context of the army and the war effort as a whole. February $26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4229-6 488 Pages, 6 × 9 10 maps U.S. History/Civil War
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Bones in the Well
Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux War, 1854–1856
Military Register of Custer’s Last Command
By R. Eli Paul
By Roger L. Williams
Documentary accounts of this pivotal event in Latter-day Saint history
Examines the conflict between the U.S. Army and Lakota Sioux
The most extensive reference available on the 7th Cavalry
The massacre at Haun’s Mill is a defining moment in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Mormons had come to Missouri at the urging of their prophet, Joseph Smith, but found themselves at odds with the original settlers. On October 7, 1838, Governor Lillburn Boggs ordered: “The Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the state.” On October 30, 1838, Missouri militia attacked the small Mormon settlement at Haun’s Mill on Shoal Creek, killing and wounding dozens.
In previous accounts, the U.S. Army’s first clashes with the powerful Sioux tribe appear as a set of irrational events with a cast of improbable characters. R. Eli Paul shows instead that the events that precipitated General William Harney’s attack on Chief Little Thunder’s Brulé village foreshadowed the entire history of conflict between the United States and the Lakota people.
Military Register of Custer’s Last Command presents for the first time the complete military history of every enlisted man on the regimental roll, with particular attention devoted to the wellknown campaigns from the Washita to Wounded Knee.
The Haun’s Mill Massacre, 1838 By Beth S. Moore
Gathered in this new work are eyewitness testimonies—heart-rending and vivid—of the massacre and its aftermath by those who were on the scene. Beth Shumway Moore holds a BA and MA in education and taught for 30 years before retiring. She is the author of Mormon Reflections: The Path to Mountain Meadows, and Legends of the Chiefs. February $19.95s paper 978-0-8061-4270-8 196 pages, 6 × 9 u.s history
The conflicts along the margins of Blue Water Creek have been overshadowed by later, more spectacular confrontations. Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux War, 1854– 1856 provides a thorough and objective narrative, using a wealth of eyewitness accounts to reveal the significance of Blue Water Creek in Lakota and U.S. history.
As the first in-depth analysis of the statistics related to the battle, Military Register of Custer’s Last Command is the most extensive work available on the 7th Cavalry. With its exhaustive bibliography, it will stand as a definitive resource for historians and enthusiasts and as a tribute to all enlisted soldiers on the western frontier.
R. Eli Paul, Museum Director of the Liberty Memorial Museum of World War One in Kansas City, Missouri, is author and editor of four books on Native American subjects.
Roger L. Williams has spent 50 years researching the 7th Cavalry and the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Now retired after a 43-year career in the commercial airline industry, he resides with his wife Carol in Arizona.
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The Southern Cheyennes By Donald J. Berthrong $29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-1199-5 · American Indian
After nearly two centuries of fighting for their lands, the Cheyennes were forced in the eighteenth century to shift their range from the Minnesota River Valley to the central and southern plains. Their turbulent, colorful history as related by Thomas J. Berthrong will interest the general reader, historian, and anthropologist alike. February
Plowman's Folly
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Adjustment, Care, Maintenance, and Repair By Don E. Teeter
Sequoyah $9.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-1056-1 · Biography
Sequoyah is widely celebrated as an unlettered Cherokee Indian who endowed his whole tribe with learning—the only man in history to conceive and perfect in its entirety an alphabet or syllabary. “A well-known historian has here told Sequoyah’s story as it deserves to be told: simply, directly, and impressively.”—New York Times February
By Edward H. Faulkner
Slim Buttes, 1876
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An Episode of the Great Sioux War By Jerome A. Greene
When Plowman’s Folly was first issued in 1943, Edward H. Faulkner startled a lethargic public, long bemused by the apparently insoluble problem of soil depletion, by saying, simply, “The fact is that no one has ever advanced a scientific reason for plowing.” With that key sentence, he opened a new era. February
The Peyote Cult Fifth Edition, Enlarged By Weston La Barre $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-2214-4 · American Indian
For half a century, readers on peyotism have devoured Weston La Barre’s fascinating original study, which began when the author, at age twenty-four, studied the rites of fifteen American Indian tribes that use Lophophora williamsii, the small, spineless, carrot-shaped peyote cactus growing in the Rio Grande Valley and southward.
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Slim Buttes, 1876 presents in vivid detail the grisly realities of the Indian Wars and the suffering experienced by both sides. For the troops who campaigned in the lonely hinterlands of America, it was bloody, dangerous, and exhausting warfare fought, as General Crook said, “without favor or hope of reward.”
The Acoustic Guitar, Vol. II
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The Acoustic Guitar, Volume II, is the sequel to Don E. Teeter’s earlier volume on guitar adjustment, care, maintenance, and repair. Volume II updates this material with new techniques and instructions on how to custom-design tools and equipment to simplify the job of repairing and refurbishing guitars. February
Al Sieber Chief of Scouts By Dan L. Thrapp Foreword by Donald E. Worcestor $24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-2770-5 · Biography
General Crook relied on Al Sieber to lead Apache scouts against renegade Apaches, who were adept at hiding and raiding from within their native terrain. In this carefully researched biography, Dan L. Thrapp gives extensive evidence for Sieber’s expertise, noting that the expeditions he accompanied were highly successful whereas those from which he was absent met with few triumphs.
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Contest for California From Spanish Colonization to the American Conquest By Stephen G. Hyslop California’s early history was both colorful and turbulent. After Europeans first explored the region in the sixteenth century, it was conquered and colonized by successive waves of adventurers and settlers. In Contest for California, awardwinning author Stephen G. Hyslop draws on a wide array of primary sources to weave an elegant narrative of this epic struggle for control of the territory that many saw as a beautiful, sprawling land of promise.
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In vivid detail, Hyslop traces the story of early California from its founding in 1769 by Spanish colonists to its annexation in 1848 by the United States. He describes the motivations and activities of colonizers and colonized alike. Using eyewitness accounts, he allows all participants—Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo-American—to have their say. Soldiers, settlers, missionaries, and merchants testify to the heroic and commonplace, the colorful and tragic, in California’s preAmerican history. Even as he acknowledges the dark side of this story, Hyslop avoids a simplistic perspective. Moving beyond the polarities that have marked late-twentieth-century California historiography, he offers nuanced portraits of such controversial figures as Junípero Serra and treats the Californios and their distinctive Hispanic culture with a respect lacking in earlier histories. Attentive to tensions within the invading groups—priests and the military during the Spanish era, merchants and settlers during the American era—he also never loses sight of their impact on the original inhabitants of the region: California’s Native peoples. He also recounts the journeys of colonists from Russia, England, and other countries who influenced the development of California as it passed from the hands of Spaniards and Mexicans to Americans.
Vineyards and Vaqueros Indian Labor and the Economic Expansion of Southern California, 1771–1877 By George Harwood Phillips $45.00s CLOTH 978-0-87062-391-2
Exhaustively researched yet concise, this book offers a much-needed alternative history of early California and its evolution from Spanish colony to American territory.
PÍo Pico The Last Governor of Mexican California By Carlos Manuel Salomon $24.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4090-2 $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4237-1
Stephen G. Hyslop is an independent scholar who has written extensively on American history and the Spanish-American frontier. He is the author of Bound for Santa Fe: The Road to New Mexico and the American Conquest, 1806–1848, and coauthor of several books published by the National Geographic Society. He also served as editor of a 23-volume series on American Indians for Time-Life Books.
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
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The first English translation of a key document in the early history of California, the Pacific Northwest, and British Columbia
Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, 1792 Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra and the Nootka Sound Controversy By Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra Translation by Freeman M. Tovell Introduced and edited by Freeman M. Tovell, Robin Inglis, and Iris H. W. Engstrand Foreword by Chief Michael Maquinna In 1792, Spanish naval officer and explorer Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra sailed from San Blas, Mexico, to Nootka Sound, on the west coast of present-day Vancouver Island. For nearly three years, he had been immersed in the aftermath of the Nootka Crisis of 1789, a dispute between Britain and Spain over sovereignty in the North Pacific. He was journeying north as his government’s commissioner to hand over Spanish-occupied territory at Nootka. This book offers the first published English translation of Bodega’s journal, a remarkable account of his travels along the Northwest Coast of America, encounters with Native peoples— most notably, Chief Maquinna—and the friendship that developed between Bodega and his British counterpart, George Vancouver. Until now, Bodega’s journal has been available only in Spanish publications or in manuscript form. This much-needed English-language edition results from the collaboration of three preeminent scholars of the Pacific Northwest, who provide an in-depth introduction and extensive footnotes that make the translation accessible to a contemporary audience. Also included in this edition is a generous selection of Bodega’s original charts and illustrations created by the artists who worked with José Mariano Moziño and José Maldonado, two scientists who—at Bodega’s insistence—accompanied him on his expedition to Nootka. Freeman M. Tovell served for many years in the Canadian Department of External Affairs and as a lecturer in history and political science at the University of Victoria. Robin Inglis is former director of the Vancouver Maritime Museum and North Vancouver Museum and Archives. Iris H. W. Engstrand is Professor of History at the University of San Diego. Chief Michael Maquinna, of the Mowachaht First Nation, is a descendant of the original Chief Maquinna.
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Of Related Interest Exploring with Lewis and Clark The 1804 Journal of Charles Floyd By James J. Holmberg Foreword by Gary E. Moulton $45.00s CLOTH 978-0-8061-3674-5 Voyage of Sutil and Mexicana, 1792 The Last Spanish Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America By John Kendrick $32.50 CLOTH 978-0-87062-203-8
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haldane gold-mining boomtown
An intimate portrait of a frontier town and its settlers
Gold-Mining Boomtown People of White Oaks, Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory By Roberta Key Haldane The town of White Oaks, New Mexico Territory, was born in 1879 when prospectors discovered gold at nearby Baxter Mountain. In Gold-Mining Boomtown, Roberta Key Haldane offers an intimate portrait of the southeastern New Mexico community by profiling more than forty families and individuals who made their homes there during its heyday.
May $45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-410-0 336 Pages, 8.5 × 11 274 B&W Illus., 1 Map U.S. History
Of Related Interest Pat F. Garrett’s The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid An Annotated Edition By Pat F. Garrett With Notes and Commentary by Frederick Nolan $24.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-3869-5 Deep Trails in the Old West A Frontier Memoir By Frank Clifford Edited by Frederick Nolan $29.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4186-2
Today, fewer than a hundred people live in White Oaks. Its frontier incarnation, located a scant twenty-eight miles from the notorious Lincoln, is remembered largely because of its association with famous westerners. Billy the Kid and his gang were familiar visitors to the town. When a popular deputy was gunned down in 1880, the citizens resolved to rid their community of outlaws. Pat Garrett, running for sheriff of Lincoln County, was soon campaigning in White Oaks. But there was more to the town than gold mining and frontier violence. In addition to outlaws, lawmen, and miners, Haldane introduces readers to ranchers, doctors, saloonkeepers, and stagecoach owners. José Aguayo, a lawyer from an old Spanish family, defended Billy the Kid, survived the Lincoln County War, and moved to the White Oaks vicinity in 1890, where his family became famous for the goat cheese they sold to the town’s elite. Readers also meet a New England sea captain and his wife (a Samoan princess, no less), a black entrepreneur, Chinese miners, the “Cattle Queen of New Mexico,” and an undertaker with an international criminal past. The White Oaks that Haldane uncovers—and depicts with lively prose and more than 250 photographs—is a microcosm of the Old West in its diversity and evolution from mining camp to thriving burg to the near–ghost town it is today. Anyone interested in the history of the Southwest will enjoy this richly detailed account. Roberta Key Haldane, a native of Lincoln County, is coauthor of Corralled in Old Lincoln County, New Mexico: The Lin Branum Family of Coyote Canyon and the I Bar X.
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A sweeping, stockholder’s-eye view of the heyday of western mining
Bonanzas & Borrascas Gold Lust and Silver Sharks, 1848–1884 Copper Kings and Stock Frenzies, 1885–1918 By Richard E. Lingenfelter This two-volume study of the heyday of gold, silver, and copper mining in the American West is unique in both scope and approach. Here is a saga of mines and money, of the richly profitable bonanzas and crushingly profitless borrascas of the West. Richard E. Lingenfelter describes how miners, managers, investors, and speculators produced enormous wealth—spurring the American economy, attracting myriads of Argonauts and settlers, and transforming the West and the nation. This tale of great expectations follows the money from rich pockets of ore and the bulging pockets of investors and speculators through mills, smelters, and stock markets. Some of the greatest stockholder losses came from insider looting and market manipulation. Bonanzas & Borrascas ties together the fortunes of East and West by exploring the impact of eastern investors and speculators on western mines, as well as the generally unrecognized impact of the western mines on Wall Street and Washington, D.C. The cast of characters includes an array of financial, political, and cultural icons ranging from Hearst, Guggenheim, Baruch, and Hoover to Fremont, Edison, and Twain.
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Gold Lust and Silver Sharks, 1848–1884 moves from the early years when western investors and speculators dominated both the mines and the markets, to the early 1880s, after San Francisco’s mining sharks were driven to New York. The companion volume, Copper Kings and Stock Frenzies, 1885–1918, begins with that watershed and reveals how easterners bought control of most of the large mines to further exploit eastern markets for even bigger profits and losses. At the same time, developing technology opened ever greater deposits of lower-grade ore in the West, and copper became the leading metal as the electrification of the nation drove up demand and prices. Both volumes are illustrated with stock certificates of many of the companies discussed. The stories Lingenfelter tells of past speculative bubbles and fraud illuminate the speculative greed of the present and remind us that where a lot of money is involved, things are seldom as they seem. Richard E. Lingenfelter is a Research Physicist with the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California, San Diego. Among the numerous books he has authored, coauthored, or edited are The Hardrock Miners: A History of the Mining Labor Movement in the American West, 1863–1893 and Death Valley & the Amargosa: A Land of Illusion.
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petersen west from salt lake
Excerpts from the diaries of settlers traveling the Central Overland Trail from Salt Lake City to California
West from Salt Lake Diaries from the Central Overland Trail Edited by Jesse G. Petersen Prior to 1859, overland travelers leaving Salt Lake City for California had but two alternatives. They could go north into Idaho, then turn southwest and follow the Humboldt River into northern California, or they could head south, following segments of the Old Spanish Trail, and enter southern California. Both routes were long and tortuous. In the summer of 1859, Captain James Simpson blazed a more direct trail by leading an expedition across the desert. Simpson’s is the route the Pony Express and the Overland Stage adopted. But emigrants in covered wagons also traveled the Central Overland Trail, and this is the first book to collect their day-by-day accounts.
Volume 23 in the American Trails Series March $34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-407-0 320 Pages, 6.125 × 9.25 9 Maps U.S. History
Of Related Interest California Odyssey An Overland Journey on the Southern Trails, 1849 By William R. Goulding Edited by Patricia A. Etter Foreword by Howard R. Lamar $45.00s CLOTH 978-0-87062-373-8 On the Western Trails The Overland Diaries of Washington Peck By Susan M. Erb $45.00s CLOTH 978-0-87062-379-0 Best of Covered Wagon Women Emigrant Girls on the Overland Trails Edited by Kenneth L. Holmes Introduction by Melody M. Miyamoto $19.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-4104-6
Based on ten years of research, West from Salt Lake includes excerpts from twentythree emigrant diaries, many previously unpublished. Using Simpson’s diary to trace his route, editor Jesse G. Petersen has located each campsite and shows which of Simpson’s two alternative wagon roads the parties traveled. In addition to the annotated emigrant accounts, Petersen excerpts four documents by non-emigrants: two by soldiers and two by employees of the Pony Express and its predecessor. The diaries are rich in anecdotes on the challenges of the overland crossing, especially through desert. One traveler provisioned her party with fresh food meant to last a month, only to find that the produce wilted in the arid heat and the “tub of fresh butter . . . was soon turned by the hot sun of the desert into liquid oil.” A major theme of the diaries is the continuing quest for water and forage grass for the travelers and their animals, but readers will also catch glimpses of Indians, soldiers, and miners. “Our men are all off prospecting,” writes one diarist, “hoping to discover a rich silver mine.” But having “never [seen] a silver mine until a few days ago[,] they would not know a valuable piece of ore if they should find one.” Trail enthusiasts and students of westering migration history will welcome this detailed view of the previously neglected Central Overland Trail. Jesse G. Petersen, a retired law enforcement officer with a lifelong interest in transportation history, is the author of two books on the Lincoln Highway and A Route for the Overland Stage: James H. Simpson’s 1859 Trail across the Great Basin.
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Assesses how the British general’s leadership contributed to the Revolutionary War’s major turning point
Burgoyne and the Saratoga Campaign His Papers By Douglas R. Cubbison The American victory over the British at Saratoga in 1777 was arguably the pivotal event of the American Revolutionary War. The British defeat led France and Spain to declare war on Britain, transforming a colonial uprising into a world war and, by distracting the British with a European conflict, assuring the colonists’ success. The British troops at Saratoga were led by Lieutenant General John Burgoyne, and two years after his defeat he faced a parliamentary investigation into his conduct of the campaign. In Burgoyne and the Saratoga Campaign, Douglas R. Cubbison presents the papers that Burgoyne gathered preparatory to his appearance before Parliament, together with Cubbison’s own interpretive narrative of the campaign, based on these documents and other sources. The papers, most of them published here for the first time, comprise Burgoyne’s correspondence with the governor general of Canada, the British secretary of state for America, and the commander of the British army during the Saratoga expedition. The letters and reports outline the campaign’s political organization and planning, logistical preparations, and implementation. Burgoyne is one of the most colorful and fascinating figures of the American Revolution. A successful British commander in Portugal during the Seven Years’ War, he was also a popular playwright, and those of his letters included and carefully annotated here reflect his literary gifts. At the outbreak of the revolution in 1775, Burgoyne was promoted to major general. Thanks largely to his political connections, he was dispatched in 1776 to lead the detachment of the British army sent to stop the rebels from seizing Canada. Cubbison concludes that the ultimate defeat of this expedition at Saratoga was due to lax planning in London and in the field. Burgoyne’s cavalry career in Europe had not prepared him for warfare along the waterways and deep in the woods of Canada and New York. The general also seriously underestimated the capabilities of the American rebels. The documents Burgoyne assembled in 1779—and Cubbison’s narrative and analysis of the challenges faced by Burgoyne and his associates—are crucial for understanding this turning point in the Revolutionary War. Douglas R. Cubbison, a former U.S. Army Field Artillery Officer and Command Historian, is President of Stone Fort Consulting, a historic preservation and interpretation consulting firm. He is author of four previous books, including The American Northern Theater Army in 1776: The Ruin and Reconstruction of the Continental Force.
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Of Related Interests 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 Bayonets in the Wilderness Anthony Wayne’s Legion in the Old Northwest By Alan D. Gaff $32.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-3930-2 Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy By Robert M. Owens $19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4198-5
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pierce Companion to Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum
A lavishly illustrated primer to the Denver Art Museum’s Spanish Colonial Art collection
Companion to Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum By Donna Pierce The Denver Art Museum counts among its greatest resources a world-renowned Spanish Colonial collection rich in art from all over Latin America. Initiated in 1936, the Spanish Colonial collection has grown dramatically over the years to include more than 3,000 objects. It is the best collection of its type in the United States, and in many areas, it is the most comprehensive collection outside the country of origin. The museum’s Spanish Colonial galleries include significant paintings, sculpture, furniture, silver, and decorative arts from the period.
FEBRUARY $19.95s PAPER 978-0-914738-78-7 106 pages, 6 × 9 110 color images, 2 maps ART/LATIN AMERICA
Of Related Interest Asia and Spanish America Trans-Pacific Artistic and Cultural Exchange, 1500–1850 By Ronald Otsuka Edited by Donna Pierce $39.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-9973-3 The Arts of South America, 1492–1850 Edited by Donna Pierce $39.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-9976-4 Nature and Spirit Ancient Costa Rican Treasures in the Mayer Collection at the Denver Art Museum Margaret Young-Sánchez $49.95s CLOTH 978-0-9147-3868-8
This lavishly illustrated volume—the first ever devoted to the museum’s Spanish Colonial collection as a whole—serves as a primer to this stellar art collection, framing it within the historical context of the early modern world and the first era of global trade. Organized by theme rather than chronology, it features photographs of more than 100 objects from all areas of Spanish America and the southwestern United States. Subjects discussed include, but are not limited to, the continuity of native traditions, church and mission art, hybrid art forms, regional styles, and the art of everyday life. Donna Pierce is Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator of Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum and Head of the New World Department. She curated the groundbreaking 2004 exhibition Painting a New World: Mexican Art and Life, 1521–1821 at the Denver Art Museum and edited and coauthored the companion publication of the same title. She has collaborated on exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and Museum of New Mexico and has published extensively in the field.
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smith elevating western american art
A highly collectible book celebrating the western American art holdings at the Denver Art Museum
Elevating Western American Art Developing an Institute in the Cultural Capital of the Rockies Edited by Thomas Brent Smith Introduction by Marlene Chambers Unprecedented in size and scope, this special issue of Western Passages celebrates the full range of the western American art holdings at the Denver Art Museum. Published to mark the tenth anniversary of the museum’s Petrie Institute of Western American Art, Elevating Western American Art: Developing an Institute in the Cultural Capital of the Rockies includes thirty essays by art historians from across the United States and Canada as well as a comprehensive history of the growth of Denver’s impressive collection of art of the American West. More than twenty of the museum’s undisputed masterworks are discussed in detail, from George Catlin’s Cutting Ceremony and Charles Deas’s Long Jakes to Frederic Remington’s The Cheyenne and Charles Russell’s In the Enemy’s Country. Unique among its peers in being a dedicated western American art department within an encyclopedic museum, the Petrie Institute is able to draw on the resources of other museum departments to provide a broad context for its holdings. Essays by Denver Art Museum curators on objects that relate to western American art but are displayed and cared for in other museum departments—a portion of a New Mexican altarpiece, a magnificent Native American coat, a Japanese woodblock print depicting Yosemite—demonstrate both the inclusive nature of the Petrie Institute’s approach and the fact that western American art stubbornly and gloriously refuses to be fenced in by traditional art historical boundaries. Special attention is paid, as well, to contemporary artists of western American art, whose work is generously represented in the book’s more than 300 color illustrations. This highly collectible book—an essential addition to any art library—is a testament to the artists whose work it so handsomely portrays and to the many benefactors, staff, and supporters, over a period of more than a hundred years, who have made it possible for western American art to find a home at the Denver Art Museum. Thomas Brent Smith is director of the Petrie Institute of Western American Art at the Denver Art Museum and author of A Place of Refuge: Maynard Dixon’s Arizona. Smith was a Robert S. and Grace B. Kerr Foundation graduate fellow at the University of Oklahoma’s Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art and Photography of the American West. Marlene Chambers was director of publications at the Denver Art Museum for thirty years. Her essays on museum-related topics have appeared in Museum News, The Exhibitionist, and Curator: The Museum Journal.
MARCH $34.95 CLOTH 978-0-914738-72-5 $24.95 PAPER 978-0-914738-71-8 320 PAGES, 9 x 12 300 color illus. ART
Of Related Interest Shaping the West American Sculptors of the 19th Century Contributions by Thayer Tolles, Peter H. Hassrick, Andrew Walker, and Sarah Boehme $10.95 PAPER 978-0-9147-3866-4 Colorado The Artist’s Muse Contributions by Natasha Brandstatter, Meredith M. Evans, Peter H. Hassrick, and Nicole A. Parks $10.95 PAPER 978-0-9147-3860-2
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pickering • peace medals
An exploration of the power, artistry, and historical significance of peace medals
Peace Medals Negotiating Power in Early America Edited by Robert B. Pickering Contributions by John W. Adams, Bruce W. Arnold, George J. Fuld, Frank H. Goodyear III, Duane H. King, Skyler Liechty, Tony Lopez, F. Kent Reilly III, and Barry D. Tayman.
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“Peace and Friendship.” This noble phrase, emblazoned on the back of silver peace medals given by American presidents to chiefs of important tribes in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is also a glorified representation of the real interactions between the American or European governments and Native American tribes. Peace Medals: Negotiating Power in Early America presents stories of people and events behind the medals, offering insight into the symbolic value of medals from colonial and tribal perspectives spanning several generations up to the present day. The peace medals themselves are beautiful examples of medallic artistry, but their real importance is in their historical significance. Consisting of eight articles written from a multidisciplinary approach, Peace Medals focuses on the history and significance of the medals, the traditions they represent, and the individuals involved. The contributors, including numismatic historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, and museum curators, explore how the American government used the medals in negotiations with powerful chiefs to secure trading partnerships and political allegiance against European colonial powers, and also discusses British, French, and Spanish medals as part of European negotiating strategies to create Indian allies on the American continent. The origin of peace medals and their synchrony with tribal traditions demonstrate how these high-status emblems evolved, while an examination of medals in a contemporary context reveals their continuing historical importance. Peace Medals is richly illustrated with paintings and historical photographs that depict rarely seen images of British, French, and Spanish medals in addition to a selection of American medals. Taken together, the articles provide an expansive view of medallic artistry from the eighteenth to the twentieth century and offer new insights into their history. Most of the images are from the extraordinary collections of the Gilcrease Museum.
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jenkinson for the love of north dakota and other essays
Humorous and passionate, literate and lyrical essays about the history and future of North Dakota
For the Love of North Dakota and Other Essays Sundays with Clay in the Bismarck Tribune By Clay S. Jenkinson Clay S. Jenkinson’s love affair with North Dakota and the Great Plains is the central theme of his life. For the Love of North Dakota is a compilation of essays—many of which began as newspaper columns in the Bismarck Tribune—that explores two themes: the changing face of North Dakota as it makes the transition from an agrarian enclave at the heart of the North American continent to a more globally connected urban and industrial society; and the spirit of place of North Dakota, an isolated, windswept, subarctic grassland that has its own enchantment and astonishing beauty. Jenkinson writes lovingly about the Little Missouri River Valley and the badlands of western North Dakota, the magnificence of plains blizzards and thunderstorms, driving the American West without any settled destination in mind, about the lingering rituals of small-town life, and about North Dakota’s search for a postagrarian identity. Jenkinson emerges in these essays as the most significant voice of concern about the future of the Great Plains in North Dakota, of family farming and heritage ranching, of the sanctity of the Missouri River, and the quiet landscapes that have made North Dakotans a unique rural people. Clay S. Jenkinson was voted Bismarck, North Dakota’s best writer by readers of the Bismarck Tribune in 2011. He has lived throughout the American West and was educated at the University of Minnesota, Vanderbilt, the University of Colorado, and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Jenkinson is the founder of the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University and the Director of the Dakota Institute.
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Acharnians, Knights, and Peace, Aristophanes/ Ewans, 25 Acoustic Guitar, The, Vol. 2, Teeter, 33 Aeneid of Vergil, The, Vergil/Johnston, 24 Al Sieber, Thrapp, 33 American Indians and the Mass Media, Carstarphen/Sanchez, 17 American Windmills, Baker, 4 Aristophanes/Ewans, Acharnians, Knights, and Peace, 25
Daily Life in the Hellenistic Age, Evans, 27 Dear Jay, Love Dad, Wilkinson, 1 Death in the Greek World, Mirto, 26
La Barre, The Peyote Cult, 33 Lee’s Cavalrymen, Longacre, 31 León-Portilla, Bernardino de Sahagún, 28 Lincoln’s Cavalrymen, Longacre, 31 Lingenfelter, Bonanzas & Borrascas, Vols. 1 and 2, 37 Longacre, Lee’s Cavalrymen, 31 Longacre, Lincoln’s Cavalrymen, 31
Remley, Kit Carson, 5
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E Elevating Western American Art, Smith, 41 Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala, O’Neil, 11 Estes, Into the Breach at Pusan, 9 Evans, Daily Life in the Hellenistic Age, 27
F Faulkner, Plowman’s Folly, 33 For the Love of North Dakota and other Essays, Jenkinson, 43 Foreman, Sequoyah, 33 From Cochise to Geronimo, Sweeney, 29 From the Hands of a Weaver, Wray, 13
Baker, American Windmills, 4 Bashful No Longer, Oswalt, 30 Benario, Caesar’s Gallic War, 22 Bernardino de Sahagún, León-Portilla, 28 Berthrong, The Southern Cheyennes, 33 Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux War, 1854–1856, Paul, 32 Bodega/Tovell/Inglis/Engstrand, Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, 1792, 35 Bonanzas & Borrascas, Vols. 1 and 2, Lingenfelter, 37 Bones in the Well, Moore, 32 Burgoyne and the Saratoga Campaign, Cubbison, 39 Buying America from the Indians, Watson, 15
Garrison, The Student’s Catullus, 21 Goins/Goble, Historical Atlas of Oklahoma, 4 Gold-Mining Boomtown, Haldane, 36 Graening/Fenolio/Slay, Cave Life of Oklahoma and Arkansas, 18 Greene, Slim Buttes, 1876, 33 Gunfight at the Eco-Corral, Murray/ Heumann, 8
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Caesar’s Gallic War, Benario, 22 Calamity Jane, McLaird, 5 Carmack, The Quiché Mayas of Utatlán, 28 Carstarphen/Sanchez, American Indians and the Mass Media, 17 Cave Life of Oklahoma and Arkansas, Graening/ Fenolio/Slay, 18 Chambers, The Natural Histories of Pliny the Elder, 23 Chaucer/Allen/Fisher, The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, 19 Cherokee Nation in the Civil War, The, Confer, 29 Companion to Spanish Colonial Art in the Collection of the Denver Art Museum, Pierce, 40 Confer, The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War, 29 Contest for California, Hyslop, 34 Cubbison, Burgoyne and the Saratoga Campaign, 39
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Haldane, Gold-Mining Boomtown, 36 Harris/Buckley, Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West, 6 Historical Atlas of Oklahoma, Goins/Goble, 4 Homeric Greek, Pharr/Wright/Debnar, 20 Hyslop, Contest for California, 34
I Indian Blues, Troutman, 30 Into the Breach at Pusan, Estes, 9 Iroquois Art, Power, and History, Keating, 12
J Jenkinson, For the Love of North Dakota and other Essays, 43 Journal of Travels into the Arkansas Territory during the Year 1819, A, Nuttall/Lottinville, 27
K Keating, Iroquois Art, Power, and History, 12 Kit Carson, Remley, 5 Kroskrity, Telling Stories in the Face of Danger, 16
M Mathews/Kalter, Twenty Thousand Mornings, 14 Maximilian/Witte/Gallagher, The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied, Vol. 3, 7 McGinty, A Toast to Eclipse, 10 McLaird, Calamity Jane, 5 Military Register of Custer’s Last Command, Williams, 32 Mirto, Death in the Greek World, 26 Moore, Bones in the Well, 32 Murray/Heumann, Gunfight at the Eco-Corral, 8
N Natural Histories of Pliny the Elder, The, Chambers, 23 North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied, The, Vol. 3, Maximilian/Witte/ Gallagher, 7 Nuttall/Lottinville, A Journal of Travels into the Arkansas Territory during the Year 1819, 27
O O’Neil, Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala, 11 Oswalt, Bashful No Longer, 30
P Paul, Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux War, 1854–1856, 32 Peace Medals, Pickering, 42 Petersen, West from Salt Lake, 38 Peyote Cult, The, La Barre, 33 Pharr/Wright/Debnar, Homeric Greek, 20 Pickering, Peace Medals, 42 Pierce, Companion to Spanish Colonial Art in the Collection of the Denver Art Museum, 40 Plowman’s Folly, Faulkner, 33
Q Quiché Mayas of Utatlán, The, Carmack, 28
S Sequoyah, Foreman, 33 Shi Zhi/Stalling, Winter Sun, 2–3 Slim Buttes, 1876, Greene, 33 Smith, Elevating Western American Art, 41 Southern Cheyennes, The, Berthrong, 33 Student’s Catullus, The, Garrison, 21 Sweeney, From Cochise to Geronimo, 29
T Teeter, The Acoustic Guitar, Vol. 2, 33 Telling Stories in the Face of Danger, Kroskrity, 16 Thrapp, Al Sieber, 33 Toast to Eclipse, A, McGinty, 10 Troutman, Indian Blues, 30 Twenty Thousand Mornings, Mathews/ Kalter, 14
V Vergil/Johnston, The Aeneid of Vergil, 24 Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, 1792, Bodega/Tovell/Inglis/Engstrand, 35
W Watson, Buying America from the Indians, 15 West from Salt Lake, Petersen, 38 Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, The, Chaucer/ Allen/Fisher, 19 Wilkinson, Dear Jay, Love Dad, 1 Williams, Military Register of Custer’s Last Command, 32 Winter Sun, Shi Zhi/Stalling, 2–3 Wray, From the Hands of a Weaver, 13
Z Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West, Harris/Buckley, 6
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