2013 Spring Trade Catalog

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Vermont Historical Society

Center for Great Plains Studies

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Best Documentary Book

h KANSAS NOTABLE BOOK Kansas Center for the Book NORTHERN CHEYENNE EXODUS IN HISTORY AND MEMORY

By James N. Leiker and Ramon Powers

h AMY ALLEN PRICE MILITARY

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NEW ENGLAND TO GOLD RUSH

GEORGE CROOK

HISTORY AWARD

Utah Division of State History

CALIFORNIA

From the Redwoods to Appomattox

Utah Division of State History

By Paul Magid

The Journal of Alfred and Chastina PLAYING WITH SHADOWS

W. Rix, 1849–1854

$39.95 CLOTH

THE MORMON REBELLION

Voices of Dissent in the Mormon West

Edited by Lynn A. Bonfield

978-0-8061-4207-4

America’s First Civil War, 1857–1858

By Polly Aird, Jeff Nichols, and

$45.00 CLOTH

By David L. Bigler and Will Bagley

Will Bagley

978-0-87062-392-9

$24.95 PAPER

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978-0-87062-380-6

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Environment (Silver Medal)

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Publisher Association THE EUGENE B. ADKINS

SHOOTING FROM THE LIP

WINDFALL

COLLECTION

The Life of Senator Al Simpson

Wind Energy in America Today

Selected Works

By Donald Loren Hardy

By Robert Righter

By Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art and

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Philbrook Museum of Art

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978-0-8061-4192-3

h SOUTHWEST BOOK DESIGN & PRODUCTION AWARDS Art & Photography Book New Mexico Book Association PLAINS INDIAN ART The Pioneering Work of John C. Ewers Edited by Jane Ewers Robinson $39.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-3061-3

h SOUTHWEST BOOK DESIGN & PRODUCTION AWARDS Best of Show and Best Scholarly Technical Book New Mexico Book Association SCENERY, CURIOSITIES, AND

$29.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-4101-5

STUPENDOUS ROCKS William Quesenbury’s Overland Sketches, 1850–1851

By David Royce Murphy $45.00 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4219-7

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On the front: Arapaho Spotted Cradle head ornament.

Courtesy Smithsonian Institution, Department of Anthropology, no. 200604.

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Sandalwood Death A Novel

By Mo Yan Translated by Howard Goldblatt This powerful novel by Mo Yan—one of contemporary China’s most famous and prolific writers—is both a stirring love story and an unsparing critique of political corruption during the final years of the Qing Dynasty, China’s last imperial epoch.

Sandalwood Death is set during the Boxer Rebellion (1898–1901)—an antiimperialist struggle waged by North China’s farmers and craftsmen in opposition to Western influence. Against a broad historical canvas, the novel centers on the interplay between its female protagonist, Sun Meiniang, and the three paternal figures in her life. One of these men is her biological father, Sun Bing, an opera virtuoso and a leader of the Boxer Rebellion. As the bitter events surrounding the revolt unfold, we watch Sun Bing march toward his cruel fate, the gruesome “sandalwood punishment,” whose purpose, as in crucifixions, is to keep the condemned individual alive in mind-numbing pain as long as possible.

Filled with the sensual imagery and lacerating expressions for which Mo Yan is so celebrated, Sandalwood Death brilliantly exhibits a range of artistic styles, from stylized arias and poetry to the antiquated idiom of late Imperial China to contemporary prose. Its starkly beautiful language is here masterfully rendered into English by renowned translator Howard Goldblatt.

Mo Yan (literally, “don’t speak”) is the pen name of Guan Moye. Born in 1955 in Gaomi, Shandong province, he is the author of ten novels and more than seventy short stories. Mo Yan is the winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature and the 2009 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature. Howard Goldblatt is an award-winning translator of numerous works of contemporary Chinese literature, including six other novels by Mo Yan.

Volume 2 in the Chinese Literature Today Book Series

january $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4339-2 424 Pages, 6 × 9 Fiction

Of Related Interest Winter Sun Poems

By Shi Zhi Translated by Jonathan Stalling Introduction by Zhang Qinghua $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4241-8

mo YAN SANDALWOOD DEATH

A powerful and innovative novel by the 2012 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

DeARMENT GUNFIGHTER IN GOTHAM

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After the famed ex-lawman put his gun in his desk drawer and became a sportswriter

Gunfighter in Gotham Bat Masterson’s New York City Years

By Robert K. DeArment The legend of Bat Masterson as the heroic sheriff of Dodge City, Kansas, began in 1881 when an acquaintance duped a New York Sun reporter into writing Masterson up as a man-killing gunfighter. That he later moved to New York City to write a widely followed sports column for eighteen years is one of history’s great ironies, as Robert K. DeArment relates in this engaging new book.

February $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4263-0 304 pages, 5.5 × 8.5 15 b&w illus.

Biography/sports history

Of Related Interests Bat Masterson The Man and the Legend

By Robert K. DeArment $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2221-2 Doc Holliday A Family Portrait

By Karen Holliday Tanner $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3320-1 The West of Wild Bill Hickok

By Joseph G. Rosa $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2680-7

William Barclay “Bat” Masterson spent the first half of his adult life in the West, planting the seeds for his later legend as he moved from Texas to Kansas and then Colorado. In Denver his gambling habit and combative nature drew him to the still-developing sport of prizefighting. Masterson attended almost every important match in the United States from the 1880s to 1921, first as a professional gambler betting on the bouts, and later as a promoter and referee. Ultimately, Bat stumbled into writing about the sport.

In Gunfighter in Gotham, DeArment tells how Bat Masterson built a second career from a column in the New York Morning Telegraph. Bat’s articles not only covered sports but also reflected his outspoken opinions on war, crime, politics, and a changing society. As his renown as a boxing expert grew, his opinions were picked up by other newspaper editors and reprinted throughout the country and abroad.

He counted President Theodore Roosevelt among his friends and readers.

This follow-up to DeArment’s definitive biography of the Old West legend narrates the final chapter of Masterson’s storied life. Far removed from the sweeping western plains and dusty cowtown streets of his younger days, Bat Masterson, in New York City, became “a ham reporter,” as he called himself, “a Broadway guy.”

Robert K. DeArment is the author or editor of a score of books and numerous articles on law and order in the American West, including the three-volume Deadly Dozen: Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West; Assault on the Deadwood Stage: Road Agents and Shotgun Messengers; and Bat Masterson: The Man and the Legend.

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anaya the old man’s love story

A deeply personal tale of love and loss

The Old Man’s Love Story

By Rudolfo Anaya “There was an old man who dwelt in the land of New Mexico, and he lost his wife.” From that opening line, this tender novella is at once universal and deeply personal. The nameless narrator, a writer, shares his most intimate thoughts about his wife, their life together, and her death. But just as death is inseparable from life, his wife seems still to be with him. Her memory and words permeate his days. In The Old Man’s Love Story, master storyteller Rudolfo Anaya crafts the tale of a lifelong love that ultimately transcends death.

An elegy not just for the dead but for the vitality of youth, the old man’s story captures both the heartaches and ironies of old age. We follow him as he proceeds through days of grief and memory, buying his few groceries, driving slower than the other travelers on the road. He talks with his wife along the way. “Go slow,” he hears her admonish. As he sits in the garden with their dogs, he senses her worry over his loneliness. A year passes. He longs to care for someone, but—to love again?

Like characters in Anaya’s previous fiction, the old man lives in a real New Mexico, but one inhabited by spirits. Death provides a gateway to other worlds, just as memories connect him to other times and places. When he eventually begins a new friendship with a woman, a widow, they share a bittersweet understanding of joy mixed with sorrow, promise mixed with loss.

Volume 12 in the Chicana & Chicano Visions of the Américas series

April $19.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4357-6 176 pages, 6 × 9 Fiction

Anaya’s reflections, as shared through the experiences of this old man, point to the power and importance of love at every stage of life. Lyrical and earthy, sad yet suffused with humor, The Old Man’s Love Story will speak to all readers, perhaps especially to those who have suffered a recent loss.

Rudolfo Anaya is the author of numerous essays, plays, and books, including the classic novel Bless Me, Ultima and Randy Lopez Goes Home.

Of Related Interest Randy Lopez Goes Home A Novel

By Rudolfo Anaya $19.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4189-3 The Man Who Could Fly and Other Stories

By Rudolfo Anaya $12.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3738-4 Billy the Kid and Other Plays

By Rudolfo Anaya $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4225-8

skogen not all heroes

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A Vietnam veteran's unflinching account of his tour of duty as a criminal investigator with the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigation Division.

Not All Heroes An Unapologetic Memoir of the Vietnam War, 1971–1972

By Gary E. Skogen Foreword by Clay S. Jenkinson Gary Skogen’s tour in Vietnam (1971–72) was the best year of his life. Living with fellow CID investigators in an isolated hooch overlooking the South China Sea at the U.S. base at Chu Lai, Skogen enforced military drug laws during his working hours and yet managed to pursue a life of perfect hedonism—far from the farm life in southwestern North Dakota where he grew up. With unlimited access to cheap beer, a wide variety of compliant Vietnamese women, and a jeep he had somehow commandeered, Skogen perfected his criminal investigative skills at a time when U.S. troop morale had reached its nadir.

Distributed for the Dakota Institute

June $29.95 CLOTH 978-0-9834059-6-2 258 PAGES, 6 × 9

This unconventional, unheroic, and unapologetic book is not a typical Vietnam memoir. Together with 80 percent of the two million men and women who served in Vietnam, Skogen spent his time behind the scenes at a large support base. He did not slog on midnight patrols through Viet Cong tunnels or rice paddies studded with booby traps. He spent his year investigating the men who endangered the lives of their fellow soldiers by giving themselves over to unrestrained drug use.

10 B&W ILLUS., 2 maps Memoir/military history

Of Related Interest After My Lai My Year Commanding First Platoon, Charlie Company

By Gary W. Bray $16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4045-2 The American Experience in Vietnam A Reader

By Grace Sevy $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2390-5 Vietnam The Heartland Remembers

By Stanley W. Beesley $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2162-8

Skogen’s gritty narrative proves that some whose names are incised on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall died in less than heroic circumstances. Backed by impeccable research in the files of the National Archives and Records Administration, this unromanticized account reveals the sordidness of the war in its late phases, and questions the validity of seeing all Vietnam veterans as victims.

Originally entitled The Best of Times, Not All Heroes is really two beautifully integrated narratives in one: a gripping account of the Apocalypse Now endgame of the Vietnam War, and a M*A*S*H–like romp through Skogen’s yearlong tropical vacation in a pleasure ground where sexual favors were too cheap to meter.

Born and raised in Hettinger, North Dakota, Gary E. Skogen, a Vietnam veteran, is retired from the Los Angeles Police Department. He did active duty in the U.S. Army from January 1966 to September 1973 and served in Vietnam from February 1971 to January 1972. Clay S. Jenkinson, Director of the Dakota Institute, is the author of eight books and a documentary filmmaker.

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Native American Placenames of the Southwest A Handbook for Travelers

By William Bright Edited and with an Introduction by Alice Anderton and Sean O’Neill Have you ever driven through a small town with an intriguing name like Wyandotte or Cuyamungue and wondered where that name came from? Or how such wellknown placenames as Tucson, Waco, or Tulsa originated?

Native American placenames like these occur all across the American Southwest.

This user-friendly guide—covering Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas— provides fascinating information about the meaning and origins of southwestern placenames. With its unique regional approach and compact design, the handbook is especially suitable for curious travelers.

Written by distinguished linguist William Bright, the handbook is organized alphabetically, and its entries for places—including towns, cities, counties, parks, and geographic landmarks—are concise and easy to read. Entries give the state and county, along with all available information on pronunciation, the name of the language from which the name derives, the name’s literal meaning, and relevant history. In their introduction to the handbook, editors Alice Anderton and Sean O’Neill provide easy-to-understand pronunciation keys for English and Native languages. They further explain basic linguistic terminology and common southwestern geographical terms such as mesa, canyon, and barranca. The book also features maps showing all counties in each of the southwestern states, a list of Native languages and language families, and contact information for tribal headquarters throughout the Southwest.

Willam Bright (1928–2006) was Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Anthropology at UCLA. His numerous publications include Native American Placenames of the United States. Alice Anderton, a linguist, editor, teaching consultant, and former Comanche language instructor, is Executive Director of the Intertribal Wordpath Society. Sean O’Neill is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma and the author of Cultural Contact and Linguistic Relativity among the Indians of Northwestern California.

april $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4311-8 176 pages, 6 × 9 4 maps American Indian/Reference

Of Related Interest Native American Placenames of the United States

By William Bright $59.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3576-2 $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3598-4 Oklahoma Place Names Revised Edition

By George H. Shirk Foreword by Muriel H. Wright $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2028-7 Indian Tribes of Oklahoma A Guide

By Blue Clark $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4061-2

BRIGHT NATIVE AMERICAN PLACENAMES OF THE SOUTHWEST

A user-friendly guide to the meaning and origins of Native American southwestern placenames

rea devil's gate • clark indian tribes of oklahoma

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NEW IN PAPER

Devil’s Gate

Indian Tribes of Oklahoma

Owning the Land, Owning the Story

By Tom Rea

A Guide

By Blue Clark

People who own the land can own the stories—at least for a time

An up-to-date guide to Oklahoma’s diverse Native peoples

“A tale that should entertain, inspire, and trouble anyone who loves the American West.”—Will Bagley, author of Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows

“An invaluable, masterfully compiled reference on Oklahoma’s contemporary Indian tribes.”—Clara Sue Kidwell, author of The Choctaws in Oklahoma: From Tribe to Nation, 1855–1970

Devil’s Gate—the name conjures difficult passage and portends a doubtful outcome. Tom Rea’s eloquent and captivating narrative traces the history of the Sweetwater River valley in central Wyoming—a remote place including Devil’s Gate, Independence Rock, and other sites along a stretch of the Oregon Trail—to show how legal ownership of a place can translate into owning its story.

Oklahoma is home to nearly forty American Indian tribes, and it includes the largest Native population of any state. As a result, many Americans think of the state as “Indian Country.”

For years readers have turned to Muriel H. Wright’s A Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma for information on the state’s Native peoples. Now Blue Clark offers a completely new guide, reflecting the drastic transformation of Indian Country in recent years.

Tom Sun, an early rancher, played a role here in the lynching of the only woman ever hanged in Wyoming. The lynching was dismissed as swift frontier justice in the wake of cattle theft, but Rea finds more complicated motives that involve land and water rights. In the 1990s, the Mormon Church purchased part of the Sun ranch to memorialize Martin’s Cove as the site of handcart pioneers who froze to death in the valley in 1856.

Tom Rea is the author of Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie’s Dinosaur, winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for contemporary nonfiction. He lives with his family in Casper, Wyoming.

March $19.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-4368-2 320 PAGES, 6 × 9

Solidly grounded in scholarship and Native oral tradition, it provides the unique story of each tribe—from the AlabamaQuassartes to the Yuchis. Each entry contains a summary of the tribe encompassing everything from origin tales and archaeological research to contemporary ceremonies and tribal businesses, along with tribal websites, suggested readings, photographs of prominent tribal members, visitor sites, and accomplishments.

Blue Clark holds the David Pendleton Chair in American Indian Studies and is Professor of History and Law at Oklahoma City University. An enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, he is the author of Lone Wolf v.

Hitchcock: Treaty Rights and Indian Law at the End of the Nineteenth Century.

24 B&W ILLUS., 2 MAPS U.S. History

Volume 261 in Civilization of the American Indian Series March $19.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-4061-2 432 PAGES, 6.125 × 9.25 45 B&W ILLUS., 1 MAP AMERICAN INDIAN/OKLAHOMA

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fox quilts

A dazzling chronicle of early California quilts and quiltmakers

Quilts California Bound, California Made, 1840–1940

By Sandi Fox The richly diverse legacy of California’s quilts is beautifully chronicled in words and images in this extraordinary collection spanning a century of quiltmaking. Here is the story of California’s quilts, from those California bound—carried on the backs of mules and horses, in covered wagons, by ship or by train—to those California made, created on the farms and in villages and cities across the state. Whether to remember friends and family back home, mourn loved ones lost, record cultural and historical events, or illustrate their new surroundings, California’s quiltmakers pieced, appliquéd, embroidered, and embellished cloth in an astonishing variety of quilts and bedcovers.

In this volume, contemporary letters, diaries, and historical records provide authentic accounts of the social, political, and cultural contexts in which California’s quilts were brought west and worked there. The nuances of each quilt— the colors, stitches, and inked inscriptions—and the stories of the women whose skilled hands crafted them highlight the significance of the quilts and the elements that define them. Sandi Fox shows that while these cloth masterpieces played a role in the country’s changing historical and cultural landscape, the techniques, patterns, and fabrics used to create them were, in fact, part of the seamless, unchanging tradition of American quiltmaking.

Sandi Fox is former Collection Curator of Quilts at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Associate Fellow, International Quilt Study Center, University of Nebraska; and Research Associate, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. She is the author of numerous books, articles, and exhibition catalogues in the field and curator of twelve major exhibitions of nineteenth-century American quilts in the United States and abroad. Her work as curator, author, and scholar has been supported by a number of important grants and fellowships, including those from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, and the Winterthur Museum. She and her husband live in Los Angeles.

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JANUARY $40.00 PAPER 978-0-9719184-0-5 208 PAGES, 8.5 × 11 204 COLOR AND B&W ILLUS. history/quilts

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The first comprehensive examination of this distinctly female art form

Arapaho Women’s Quillwork Motion, Life, and Creativity

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

February $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4283-8 216 pages, 8 × 10 14 color and 41 B&W illus.

American Indian/art

Until the early twentieth century and the disruption of removal, porcupine quillwork was practiced by many indigenous cultures throughout North America. For Arapahos, quillwork played a central role in religious life within their most ancient and sacred traditions. Quillwork was manifest in all life transitions and appeared on paraphernalia for almost all Arapaho ceremonies. Its designs and the meanings they carried were present on many objects used in everyday life, such as cradles, robes, leanback covers, moccasins, pillows, and tipi ornaments, liners, and doors.

Anderson demonstrates how, through the action of creating quillwork, Arapaho women became central participants in ritual life, often studied as the exclusive domain of men. He also shows how quillwork challenges predominant Western concepts of art and creativity: adhering to sacred patterns passed down through generations of women, it emphasized not individual creativity, but meticulous repetition and social connectivity—an approach foreign to many outside observers.

Of Related Interest Patterns of Exchange Navajo Weavers and Traders

By Teresa J. Wilkins $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4354-5 Gifts of Pride and Love Kiowa and Comanche Cradles

By Barbara Hail $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3604-2 From the Hands of a Weaver Olympic Peninsula Basketry through Time Edited by Jacilee Wray $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4245-6

Drawing on the foundational writings of early-nineteenth-century ethnographers, extensive fieldwork conducted with Northern Arapahos, and careful analysis of museum collections, Arapaho Women’s Quillwork masterfully shows the importance of this unique art form to Arapaho life and honors the devotion of the artists who maintained this tradition for so many generations.

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

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Karl Bodmer’s America Revisited Landscape Views Across Time Photography by Robert M. Lindholm Introduction and annotations by W. Raymond Wood and Robert M. Lindholm Foreword by David C. Hunt Less than thirty years after Lewis and Clark completed their epic journey, Prince Maximilian of Wied—a German naturalist—and his entourage set off on their own daring expedition across North America. Accompanying the prince on this 1832–34 voyage was Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, whose drawings and watercolors—designed to illustrate Maximilian’s journals—now rank among the great treasures of nineteenthcentury American art. This lavishly illustrated book juxtaposes Bodmer’s landscape images with modern-day photographs of the same views, allowing readers to see what has changed, and what seems unchanged, since the time Maximilian and Bodmer made their storied trip up the Missouri River.

To discover how the areas Bodmer depicted have changed over time, photographer Robert M. Lindholm and anthropologist W. Raymond Wood made several trips over a period of years, from 1985 to 2002, to locate and record the same sites—all the way from Boston Harbor, where Maximilian and Bodmer began their journey, to Fort McKenzie, in modern-day western Montana. Pairing sixty-seven Bodmer works side by side with Lindholm’s photographs of the same sites, this volume uses the comparison of old and new images to reveal alterations through time—and the encroachment of a built environment—across diverse landscapes.

Karl Bodmer’s America Revisited is at once a tribute to the artistic achievements of a premier landscape artist and a photographer who followed in his footsteps, and a valuable record of America’s ever-changing environment.

Robert M. Lindholm, retired as Assistant Attorney General in Missouri, is a photographer living in Lindsborg, Kansas. W. Raymond Wood is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and the author of Prologue to Lewis and Clark: The Mackay and Evans Expedition, among other publications.

David C. Hunt is former Director of the Stark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas, and former Curator of Art at Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha.

VOLUME 9 IN THE CHARLES M. RUSSELL CENTER SERIES ON ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE AMERICAN WEST

July $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3831-2 192 Pages, 10 × 10 145 Color photos & 1 Map U.S. History/ART & Photography

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 $85.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3888-6 The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied, Volume 2 April–September 1833 Edited by Stephen S. Witte and Marsha V. Gallagher $85.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3923-4 The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied, Volume 3 September 1833–August 1834 Edited by Stephen S. Witte and Marsha V. Gallagher $85.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3924-1

Lindholm, Wood Karl Bodmer’s America Revisited

Reveals America’s changing environment through the pairing of early landscape art with modern-day photographs

kan a russian american photographer in tlingit country

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Photographs of a multiethnic community at work and play at the turn of the past century

A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country Vincent Soboleff in Alaska

By Sergei Kan

Volume 10 in the Charles M. Russell Center Series in Art and Photography of the American West

July $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4290-6 288 Pages, 10 × 10 104 duotone and 33 b&w illus., 2 maps Photography/American Indian

Of Related Interest Lanterns on the Prairie The Blackfeet Photographs of Walter McClintock Edited by Steven L. Grafe $60.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4022-3 $34.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4029-2 A Danish Photographer of Idaho Indians Benedicte Wrensted

By Joanna Cohan Scherer Foreword by Bonnie Wuttunee-Wadsworth $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3684-4 Arapaho Journeys Photographs and Stories from the Wind River Reservation

By Sara Wiles Foreword by Frances Merle Haas $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4158-9

This book is a rich record of life in small-town southeastern Alaska in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It is the first book to showcase the photographs of Vincent Soboleff, an amateur Russian American photographer whose community included Tlingit Indians from a nearby village as well as Russian Americans, so-called Creoles, who worked in a local fertilizer factory. Using a Kodak camera, Soboleff, the son of a Russian Orthodox priest, documented the life of this multiethnic parish at work and at play until 1920. Despite their significance, few of Soboleff’s photographs have been published since their discovery in 1950. Anthropologist Sergei Kan rectifies that oversight in A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country, which brings together more than 100 of Soboleff’s striking black-andwhite images.

Combining Soboleff’s photographs with ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, Kan brings to life the communities of Killisnoo, where Soboleff grew up, and Angoon, the Tlingit village. The photographs gathered here depict Russian Creoles, Euro-Americans, the operation of the Killisnoo factory, and the daily life of its workers. But Soboleff’s work is especially valuable as a record of Tlingit life. As a member of this multiethnic community, he was able to take unusually personal photographs of people and daily life. Soboleff’s photographs offer candid and intimate glimpses into Tlingit people’s then-new economic pursuits such as commercial fishing, selling berries, and making “Indian curios” to sell to tourists.

Other images show white, Creole, and Native factory workers rubbing shoulders while keeping a certain distance during leisure time.

Kan offers readers, historians, and photography lovers a beautiful visual resource on Tlingit and Russian American life that shows how the two cultures intertwined in southeastern Alaska at the turn of the past century.

Sergei Kan is author of several books on Tlingit and Russian culture, including Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two Centuries.

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A President in Yellowstone The F. Jay Haynes Photographic Album of Chester Arthur’s 1883 Expedition

By Frank H. Goodyear III On the morning of July 30, 1883, President Chester A. Arthur embarked on a trip of historic proportions. His destination was Yellowstone National Park, established by an act of Congress only eleven years earlier. No sitting president had ever traveled this far west. Arthur’s host and primary guide would be Philip H. Sheridan, the famed Union general. Also slated to join the expedition was a young photographer, Frank Jay Haynes. This elegant—and fascinating—book showcases Haynes’s remarkable photographic album from their six-week journey.

Volume 11 in the Charles M. Russell

A premier nineteenth-century landscape photographer, F. Jay Haynes, as he was known professionally, originally compiled the leather-bound album as a commemorative piece. As only six copies are known to exist, it has rarely been seen. The album’s 104 images are accompanied by captions written by General Sheridan’s brother, Colonel Michael V. Sheridan, who wrote daily dispatches that were distributed by the Associated Press.

Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West

June $36.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4355-2 192 Pages, 11 × 11 125 Illus., 1 map Photography/U.S. History

In his informative introduction, historian Frank H. Goodyear III provides background about the excursion and explains the historic and aesthetic significance of Haynes’s photographs. He then re-creates Arthur’s journey by reintroducing Haynes’s stunning images—along with Sheridan’s original captions—including views of the Tetons and other landmarks; portraits of President Arthur, General Sheridan, and fellow travelers engaged in activities along the route; and images of the Shoshone and Arapaho leaders who gathered to greet the visiting party.

Of Related Interest

Published on the occasion of the reopening of the Haynes Photography Shop in Yellowstone, A President in Yellowstone offers a unique entry into the park’s storied past.

Faces of the Frontier Photographic Portraits from the American West, 1845–1924

By Frank H. Goodyear III $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4082-7

Frank H. Goodyear III is Associate Curator of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. His previous books include Faces of the Frontier: Photographic Portraits from the American West, 1845–1924; Zaida Ben-Yusuf: New York Portrait Photographer; and Red Cloud: Photographs of a Lakota Chief.

peoples of the plateau The Indian Photographs of Lee Moorhouse, 1898–1915

By Steven L. Grafe $29.95 Paper 978-08061-3742-1 Life at the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Agency The Photographs of Annette Ross Hume

By Kristina L. Southwell and John R. Lovett $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4138-1

goodyear a president in yellowstone

A rare photographic album documenting the first presidential visit to Yellowstone National Park

MOORE EMPIRE ON DISPLAY

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A multidisciplinary look at an American celebration of manly imperialism

Empire on Display San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915

By Sarah J. Moore The world’s fair of 1915 celebrated both the completion of the Panama Canal and the rebuilding of San Francisco following the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire. The exposition spotlighted the canal and the city as gateways to the Pacific, where the American empire could now expand after its victory in the SpanishAmerican War. Empire on Display is the first book to examine the Panama-Pacific International Exposition through the lenses of art history and cultural studies, focusing on the event’s expansionist and masculinist symbolism.

May $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4348-4 256 Pages, 6 × 9 15 Color Photos and 49 B&W Illus.

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“Pulls together the most important strands of cultural politics at a key turning point in American history in ways that no other book quite accomplishes and no reader will ever forget.”—T. J. Boisseau, coeditor of Gendering the Fair: Histories of Women and Gender at World’s Fairs

The exposition displayed evidence—visual, spatial, geographic, cartographic, and ideological—of America’s imperial ambitions and accomplishments. Representations of the Panama Canal play a central role in Moore’s argument, much as they did at the fair itself. Embodying a manly empire of global dimensions, the canal was depicted in statues and a gigantic working replica, as well as on commemorative stamps, maps, murals, postcards, medals, and advertisements. Just as San Francisco’s rebuilding symbolized America’s will to overcome the forces of nature, the Panama Canal represented the triumph of U.S. technology and sheer determination to realize the centuries-old dream of opening a passage between the seas.

Extensively illustrated, Moore’s book vividly recalls many other features of the fair, including a seventy-five-foot-tall Uncle Sam. American railroads, in their heyday in 1915, contributed a five-acre scale model of Yellowstone, complete with miniature geysers that erupted at regular intervals. A mini–Grand Canyon featured a village where some twenty Pueblo Indians lived throughout the fair.

Moore interprets these visual and cultural artifacts as layered narratives of progress, civilization, social Darwinism, and manliness. Much as the globe had ostensibly shrunk with the completion of the Panama Canal, the Panama-Pacific International Exposition compressed the world and represented it in miniature to celebrate a reinvigorated, imperial, masculine, and technologically advanced nation.

As San Francisco bids to host another world’s fair, in 2020, Moore’s rich analytic approach gives readers much to ponder about symbolism, American identity, and contemporary parallels to the past.

Sarah J. Moore is Professor of Art History at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and author of John White Alexander and the Search for National Identity: Cosmopolitan American Art, 1880–1915.

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Ernest L. Blumenschein The Life of an American Artist

By Robert W. Larson and Carole B. Larson Few who appreciate the visual arts or the American Southwest can behold the masterpieces Sangre de Cristo Mountains or Haystack, Taos Valley, 1927 or Bend in the River, 1941 and come away without a vivid image burned into memory. The creator of these and many other depictions of the Southwest and its people was Ernest L. Blumenschein, cofounder of the famous Taos art colony. This insightful, comprehensive biography examines the character and life experiences that made Blumenschein one of the foremost artists of the twentieth century.

Robert W. Larson and Carole B. Larson begin their life of “Blumy” with his Ohio childhood and trace his development as an artist from early study in Cincinnati, New York City, and Paris through his first career as a book and magazine illustrator. Blumenschein and artist Bert G. Phillips discovered the budding art community of Taos, New Mexico, in 1898. In 1915 the two along with Joseph Henry Sharp, E. Irving Couse, and other like-minded artists organized the Taos Society of Artists, famous for preferring American subjects over European themes popular at the time.

Leaving illustration work behind, Blumenschein sought a distinctive place in his American homeland and in fine-art painting. He moved with his family to Taos in 1919 and began his long career as a figurative and landscape painter, becoming prominent among American artists for his Pueblo Indian figures and stunning southwestern landscapes.

Robert Larson calls Blumenschein a “transformational artist,” trained classically but drawing to a limited degree on abstract representation. Placing Blumy’s life in the context of World War I, the Great Depression, and other national and world events, the authors show how an artistic genius turned a fascination with the people, light, and color of New Mexico into a body of work of lasting significance to the international art world.

Robert W. Larson is the author of numerous articles and books on the history of the American West, including Gall: Lakota War Chief. The late Carole B. Larson was a journalist for the Roswell Daily Record and author of Forgotten Frontier: The Story of Southeastern New Mexico.

VOLUME 28 IN THE OKLAHOMA WESTERN BIOGRAPHIES

May $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4334-7 344 Pages, 5.5 × 8.5 16 Color photos &16 B&W Illus. art/Biography

Of Related Interest In Contemporary Rhythm The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein

By Peter H. Hassrick and Elizabeth J. Cunningham $34.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3948-7 John Muir Apostle of Nature

By Thurman Wilkins $21.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2797-2 John Ford Hollywood’s Old Master

By Ronald L. Davis $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2916-7

LARSON, LARSON ERNEST L. BLUMENSCHEIN

A concise biography of the world-renowned Taos Society artist

ENGLISH BY ALL ACCOUNTS

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A fine-grained examination of small-town society and daily life in the late 1800s

By All Accounts General Stores and Community Life in Texas and Indian Territory

By Linda English The general store in late-nineteenth-century America was often the economic heart of a small town. Merchants sold goods necessary for residents’ daily survival and extended credit to many of their customers; cash-poor farmers relied on merchants for their economic well-being just as the retailers needed customers to purchase their wares. But there was more to this mutual dependence than economics. Store owners often helped found churches and other institutions, and they and their customers worshiped together, sent their children to the same schools, and in times of crisis, came to one another’s assistance.

Volume 6 in the Race and Culture in the American West series

March $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4352-1 256 Pages, 6 × 9 13 B&W Illus., 2 Maps U.S. History

Of Related Interest Women of Oklahoma, 1890–1920

By Linda Williams Reese $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2999-0 Dreaming with the Ancestors Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico

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

For this social and cultural history, Linda English combed store account ledgers from the 1870s and 1880s and found in them the experiences of thousands of people in Texas and Indian Territory. Particularly revealing are her insights into the everyday lives of women, immigrants, and ethnic and racial minorities, especially African Americans and American Indians.

A store’s ledger entries yield a wealth of detail about its proprietor, customers, and merchandise. As a local gathering place, the general store witnessed many aspects of residents’ daily lives—many of them recorded, if hastily, in account books. In a small community with only one store, the clientele would include white, black, and Indian shoppers and, in some locales, Mexican American and other immigrants.

Flour, coffee, salt, potatoes, tobacco, domestic fabrics, and other staples typified most purchases, but occasional luxury items reflected the buyer’s desire for refinement and upward mobility. Recognizing that townspeople often accessed the wider world through the general store, English also traces the impact of national concerns on remote rural areas—including Reconstruction, race relations, women’s rights, and temperance campaigns.

In describing the social status of store owners and their economic and political roles in both small agricultural communities and larger towns, English fleshes out the fascinating history of daily life in Indian Territory and Texas in a time of transition.

Linda English is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas–Pan American.

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Cotton and Conquest How the Plantation System Acquired Texas

By Roger G. Kennedy Foreword by William deBuys This sweeping work of history explains the westward spread of cotton agriculture and slave labor across the South and into Texas during the decades before the Civil War. In arguing that the U.S. acquisition of Texas originated with planters’ need for new lands to devote to cotton cultivation, celebrated author Roger G. Kennedy takes a long view. Locating the genesis of Southern expansionism in the Jeffersonian era, Cotton and Conquest stretches from 1790 through the end of the Civil War, weaving international commerce, American party politics, technological innovation, Indian-white relations, frontier surveying practices, and various social, economic, and political events into the tapestry of Texas history.

The innumerable dots the author deftly connects take the story far beyond Texas.

Kennedy begins with a detailed chronicle of the commerce linking British and French textile mills and merchants with Southern cotton plantations. When the cotton states seceded from the Union, they overestimated British and French dependence on Southern cotton. As a result, the Southern plantocracy believed that the British would continue supporting the use of slaves in order to sustain the supply of cotton—a miscalculation with dire consequences for the Confederacy.

As cartographers and surveyors located boundaries specified in new international treaties and alliances, they violated earlier agreements with Indian tribes. The Indians were to be displaced yet again, now from Texas cotton lands. The plantation system was thus a prime mover behind Indian removal, Kennedy shows, and it yielded power and riches for planters, bankers, merchants, millers, land speculators, Indian-fighting generals and politicians, and slave traders.

In Texas, at the plantation system’s farthest geographic reach, cotton scored its last triumphs. No one who seeks to understand the complex history of Texas can overlook this book.

Roger G. Kennedy (1926–2011) served as Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History and then of the National Park Service. He authored numerous articles and books, including Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character and Mr. Jefferson’s Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase. William deBuys is an award-winning author of seven books, including A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest.

june $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4346-0 352 Pages, 6.125 × 9.25 3 Maps U.S. History

Of Related Interests Black Texans A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528–1995 Second Edition

By Alwyn Barr $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2878-8 The Civil War in the Western Territories Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah

By Ray C. Colton $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1902-1 Sam Houston

By James L. Haley $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3644-8

kennedy cotton and conquest

A wide-ranging narrative spanning the invention of the cotton gin and the Civil War

Steiner Regionalists on the Left

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Sixteen writers and artists who fought injustice while remaining attached to the West

Regionalists on the Left Radical Voices from the American West Edited by Michael C. Steiner “Nothing is more anathema to a serious radical than regionalism,” Berkeley English professor Henry Nash Smith asserted in 1980. Although regionalism in the American West has often been characterized as an inherently conservative, backward-looking force, regionalist impulses have in fact taken various forms throughout U.S. history. The essays collected in Regionalists on the Left uncover the tradition of left-leaning western regionalism during the 1930s and 1940s.

may $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4340-8 328 Pages, 6.125 × 9.25 16 B&W Illus.

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Of Related Interests Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History

By Gary Topping $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3561-8 The Future of the Southern Plains Edited by Sherry L. Smith $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3553-3 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3735-3 The Natural West Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains

By Dan Flores $29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3304-1 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3537-3

Editor Michael C. Steiner has assembled a group of distinguished scholars who explore the lives and works of sixteen progressive western intellectuals, authors, and artists, ranging from nationally prominent figures such as John Steinbeck and Carey McWilliams to equally influential, though less well known, figures such as Angie Debo and Américo Paredes. Although they never constituted a unified movement complete with manifestos or specific goals, the thinkers and leaders examined in this volume raised voices of protest against racial, environmental, and working-class injustices during the Depression era that reverberate in the twenty-first century.

Sharing a deep affection for their native and adopted places within the West, these individuals felt a strong sense of avoidable and remediable wrong done to the land and the people who lived upon it, motivating them to seek the root causes of social problems and demand change. Regionalists on the Left shows also that this radical regionalism in the West often took urban, working-class, and multicultural forms.

Other books have dealt with western regionalism in general, but this volume is unique in its focus on left-leaning regionalists, including such lesser-known writers as B. A. Botkin, Carlos Bulosan, Sanora Babb, and Joe Jones. Tracing the relationship between politics and place across the West, Regionalists on the Left highlights a significant but neglected strain of western thought and expression.

Michael C. Steiner is Professor Emeritus of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. He has authored award-winning articles and co-authored or co-edited several books including Region and Regionalism in the United States; Mapping American Culture; and Many Wests: Place, Culture, and Regional Identity.

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An Aristocracy of Color Race and Reconstruction in California and the West, 1850–1890

By D. Michael Bottoms

In the South after the Civil War, the reassertion of white supremacy tended to pit white against black. In the West, by contrast, a radically different drama emerged, particularly in multiracial, multiethnic California. State elections in California to ratify Reconstruction-era amendments to the U.S. Constitution raised the question of whether extending suffrage to black Californians might also lead to the political participation of thousands of Chinese immigrants.

As historian D. Michael Bottoms shows in An Aristocracy of Color, many white Californians saw in this and other Reconstruction legislation a threat to the fragile racial hierarchy they had imposed on the state’s legal system during the 1850s.

But nonwhite Californians—blacks and Chinese in particular—recognized an unprecedented opportunity to reshape the state’s race relations. Drawing on court records, political debates, and eyewitness accounts, Bottoms brings to life the monumental battle that followed.

Bottoms begins by analyzing white Californians’ mid-century efforts to prohibit nonwhite testimony against whites in court. Challenges to these laws by blacks and Chinese during Reconstruction followed a trajectory that would be repeated in later contests. Each minority challenged the others for higher status in court, at the polls, in education, and elsewhere, employing stereotypes and ideas of racial difference popular among whites to argue for its own rightful place in “civilized” society.

Whites contributed to the melee by occasionally yielding to blacks in order to keep the Chinese and California Indians at a disadvantage.

These dynamics reverberated in other state legal systems throughout the West in the mid- to late 1800s and nationwide in the twentieth century. As An Aristocracy of Color reveals, Reconstruction outside of the South briefly promised an opportunity for broader equality but in the end strengthened and preserved the racial hierarchy that favored whites.

D. Michael Bottoms studies race and law in the nineteenth-century American West.

He is currently visiting Assistant Professor of History at Whitman College.

Volume 5 in the Race and Culture in the American West series

February $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4335-4 288 Pages, 6 × 9 14 B&W Illus.

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Of Related Interest The Black Regulars, 1866–1898

By William A. Dobak and Thomas D. Phillips $34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3340-9 Contest for California From Spanish Colonization to the American Conquest

By Stephen G. Hyslop $39.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-411-7

Bottoms an aristocracy of color

A fascinating, disturbing study of Reconstruction in the multiracial West

Grumet Manhattan to Minisink

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A guide to more than 500 actual and invented Indian place names

Manhattan to Minisink American Indian Place Names of Greater New York and Vicinity

By Robert S. Grumet Drivers exiting the New Jersey Turnpike for Perth Amboy, and map readers marveling at all the places in Pennsylvania named Lackawanna, need no longer wonder how these names originated. Manhattan to Minisink provides the histories of more than five hundred place names in the Greater New York area, including the five boroughs, western Long Island, the New York counties north of the city, and parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. Robert S. Grumet, a leading ethnohistorian specializing in the region’s Indian peoples, draws on his meticulous research and deep knowledge to determine the origins of Native, and Nativesounding, place names.

june $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4336-1 272 Pages, 6 × 9 4 Maps American Indian/Reference

Grumet divides his encyclopedic entries into two parts. The first comprises an alphabetical listing of nearly 340 Indian place names preserved in colonial records, located by county and state. Each entry includes the name’s language of origin, if known, and a brief discussion of its etymology, including its earliest known occurrence in written records, the history of its appearance on maps, and the name’s current status.

The book’s second section presents nearly 200 place names that, though widely believed to be of Indian origin, are “imports, inventions, invocations, or impostors.”

Mistranslations are abundant in place names, and Grumet has ferreted out the mistakes and deceptions among home-grown colonial etymologies that New Yorkers have accepted for centuries.

Of Related Interest Native American Placenames of the United States

By William Bright $59.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3576-2 $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3598-4 First Manhattans A History of the Indians of Greater New York

By Robert S. Grumet $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4163-3 The Unkechaug Indians of Eastern Long Island A History

By John A. Strong $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4212-8

Complete with a concise history of Greater New York, a discussion of the region’s naming practices, a useful timeline, and four maps, this is an invaluable resource both for scholars and for readers who want a more intimate knowledge of the place where they live or visit.

Anthropologist and retired National Park Service Archaeologist Robert S. Grumet is Senior Research Associate with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His numerous publications include Native American Place Names in New York City and First Manhattans: A History of the Indians of Greater New York.

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A Gathering of Statesmen Records of the Choctaw Council Meetings, 1826–1828

By Peter Perkins Pitchlynn Translated and Edited by Marcia Haag and Henry Willis Introduction by Clara Sue Kidwell The early decades of the nineteenth century brought intense political turmoil and cultural change for the Choctaw Indians. While they still lived on their native lands in central Mississippi, they would soon be forcibly removed to Oklahoma. This book makes available for the first time a key legal document from this turbulent period in Choctaw history. Originally written in Choctaw by Peter Perkins Pitchlynn (1806–1881), and painstakingly translated by linguist Marcia Haag and native speaker Henry Willis, the document is reproduced here in both Choctaw and English, with original text and translation appearing side by side.

A leader and future chief of the Choctaw Nation, Pitchlynn created this record in the wake of a series of Choctaw Council meetings that occurred during the years 1826–1828. The council consisted of chiefs and other tribal statesmen from the nation’s three districts. Their goal for these meetings was to uphold traditions of Choctaw leadership and provide guidance on conduct for Choctaw people “according to a common mind.”

April $29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4349-1 180 Pages, 6 × 9 7 Illus., 2 maps American Indian

Featuring an in-depth introduction by historian Clara Sue Kidwell, this book is an important foundational source for understanding the evolution of the Choctaw Nation and its eventual adoption of a formal constitution.

Marcia Haag is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma.

Henry Willis, a native Choctaw speaker, serves as a consultant for the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Language Program. Haag and Willis are coauthors of Choctaw Language and Culture: Chahta Anumpa, Volumes 1 and 2. Clara Sue Kidwell is the author of Choctaws and Missionaries in Mississippi, 1818–1918, and The Choctaws in Oklahoma: From Tribe to Nation, 1855–1970.

Of Related Interest On the Drafting of Tribal Constitutions

By Felix S. Cohen Edited by David E. Wilkins $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3806-0 The Choctaws in Oklahoma From Tribe to Nation, 1855–1970

By Clara Sue Kidwell $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4006-3 Choctaw Language and Culture Chahta Anumpa, Volume 2

By Marcia Haag and Henry Willis $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3339-3

pitchlynn, HAAG, WILLIS a gathering of statesmen

A significant Choctaw legal document, available in Choctaw and English for the first time

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Reappraises the Punitive Expeditions through firsthand accounts

Columns of Vengeance Soldiers, Sioux, and the Punitive Expeditions, 1863–1864

By Paul N. Beck In summer 1862, Minnesotans found themselves fighting interconnected wars—the first against the rebellious Southern states, and the second an internal war against the Sioux. While the Civil War was more important to the future of the United States, the Dakota War of 1862 proved far more destructive to the people of Minnesota—both whites and American Indians. It led to U.S. military action against the Sioux, divided the Dakotas over whether to fight or not, and left hundreds of white settlers dead. In Columns of Vengeance, historian Paul N. Beck offers a reappraisal of the Punitive Expeditions of 1863 and 1864, the U.S. Army’s response to the Dakota War of 1862.

May $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4344-6 320 Pages, 5.5 × 8.5 6 b&w illus., 2 maps American Indian/Military history

Of Related Interest Battles and Skirmishes of the Great Sioux War, 1876–1877 The Military View

By Jerome A. Greene $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2669-2 Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux War, 1854–1856

By R. Eli Paul $34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3590-8 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4275-3 Sagebrush Soldier Private William Earl Smith’s View of the Sioux War of 1876

By Sherry L. Smith $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3335-5

Whereas previous accounts have approached the Punitive Expeditions as a military campaign of the Indian Wars, Beck argues that the expeditions were also an extension of the Civil War. The strategy and tactics reflected those of the war in the East, and Civil War operations directly affected planning and logistics in the West.

Beck also examines the devastating impact the expeditions had on the various bands and tribes of the Sioux. Whites viewed the expeditions as punishment—“columns of vengeance” sent against those Dakotas who had started the war in 1862—yet the majority of the Sioux the army encountered had little or nothing to do with the earlier uprising in Minnesota.

Rather than relying only on the official records of the commanding officers involved, Beck presents a much fuller picture of the conflict by consulting the letters, diaries, and personal accounts of the common soldiers who took part in the expeditions, as well as rare personal narratives from the Dakotas. Drawing on a wealth of firsthand accounts and linking the Punitive Expeditions of 1863 and 1864 to the overall Civil War experience, Columns of Vengeance offers fresh insight into an important chapter in the development of U.S. military operations against the Sioux.

Paul N. Beck is Professor of History at Wisconsin Lutheran College, Milwaukee, and author of Inkpaduta: Dakota Leader.

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Dragoons in Apacheland Conquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 1846–1861

By William S. Kiser In the fifteen years prior to the American Civil War, the U.S. Army established a presence in southern New Mexico, the homeland of Mescalero, Mimbres, and Mogollon bands of the Apache Indians. From the army’s perspective, the Apaches presented an obstacle to be overcome in making the region—newly acquired in the Mexican-American War—safe for Anglo settlers. In Dragoons in Apacheland, William S. Kiser recounts the conflicts that ensued and examines how both Apache warriors and American troops shaped the future of the Southwest Borderlands.

Kiser narrates two distinct contests. The Apaches were defending their territory against the encroachment of soldiers and settlers. At the same time, the AngloAmericans maneuvered against one another in a competition for political and economic power and for Apache territory. Cross-cultural misunderstandings, political corruption in Santa Fe and Washington, anti-Indian racism, troublemakers among both Apaches and settlers, irresponsible army officers and troops, corrupt American and Mexican traders, and policy disagreements among government officials all contributed to the ongoing hostilities. Kiser examines the behaviors and motivations of individuals involved in all aspects of these local, regional, and national disputes.

Kiser is one of only a few historians to deal with this crucial period in Indian-white relations in the Southwest—and the first to detail the experiences of the First and Second United States Dragoons, elite mounted troops better equipped and trained than infantry to confront Apache guerrilla warriors more accustomed to the southwestern environment. Often led by the Gila leader Mangas Coloradas, the Apaches fought desperately to protect their lands and way of life. The Americans, Kiser shows, used unauthorized tactics of total warfare, encouraging field units to attack villages and destroy crops and livestock, particularly when the Apaches refused to engage the troops in pitched battles.

Kiser’s insights into the pre–Civil War conflicts in southern New Mexico are essential to a deeper understanding of the larger U.S.-Apache war that culminated in the heroic resistance of Cochise, Victorio, and Geronimo.

William S. Kiser is author of Turmoil on the Rio Grande: The Territorial History of the Mesilla Valley, 1846–1865.

March $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4314-9 376 Pages, 6 × 9 18 B&W Illus., 2 Maps U.S. History/Military

Of Related Interest Cochise Chiricahua Apache Chief

By Edwin R. Sweeney $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2606-7 Making Peace with Cochise The 1872 Journal of Captain Joseph Alton Sladen Edited by Edwin R. Sweeney $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3978-4 From Cochise to Geronimo The Chiricahua Apaches, 1874–1886

By Edwin R. Sweeney $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4272-2

kiser dragoons in apacheland

The antebellum struggle for U.S. control of southern New Mexico

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An innovative exploration of a legendary excursion on the western plains

Custer, Cody, and Grand Duke Alexis Historical Archaeology of the Royal Buffalo Hunt

By Douglas D. Scott, Peter Bleed, and Stephen Damm On a chilly January morning in 1872, a special visitor arrived by train in North Platte, Nebraska. Grand Duke Alexis of Russia had already seen the cities and sights of the East—New York, Washington, and Niagara Falls—and now the young nobleman was about to enjoy a western adventure: a grand buffalo hunt. His host would be General Philip Sheridan, and the excursion would include several of the West’s most iconic characters: George Armstrong Custer, Buffalo Bill Cody, and Spotted Tale of the Brulé Sioux.

March $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4347-7 232 Pages, 6 × 9 63 b&w Illus., 2 maps U.S. History

Of Related Interest Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn

By Douglas D. Scott, Richard A. Fox Jr., Melissa A. Connor and Dick Harmon $24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3292-1 Archaeological Insights into the Custer Battle An Assessment of the 1984 Field Season

By Douglas D. Scott and Richard A. Fox, Jr. $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2065-2 They Died With Custer Soldiers’ Bones from the Battle of the Little Bighorn

By Douglas D. Scott, P. Willey, and Melissa A. Connor $21.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3507-6

The Royal Buffalo Hunt, as this event is now called, has become a staple of western lore. Yet incorrect information and misconceptions about the excursion have prevented a clear understanding of what really took place. In this fascinating book, Douglas D. Scott, Peter Bleed, and Stephen Damm combine archaeological and historical research to offer an expansive and accurate portrayal of this singular diplomatic event.

The authors focus their investigation on the Red Willow Creek encampment site, now named Camp Alexis, the party’s only stopping place along the hunt trail that can be located with certainty. In addition to physical artifacts, the authors examine a plethora of primary accounts—such as railroad timetables, invitations to balls and dinners, even sheet music commemorating the visit—to supplement the archaeological evidence. They also reference documents from the Russian State Archives previously unavailable to researchers, as well as recently discovered photographs that show the layout and organization of the camp. Weaving all these elements together, their account constitutes a valuable product of the interdisciplinary approach known as microhistory.

Douglas D. Scott, widely known as an expert on battlefield archaeology, served as Supervisory Archeologist, Midwest Archaeological Center, National Park Service.

He is the author of numerous books, including most recently Uncovering History: Archaeological Investigations at the Little Bighorn. Peter Bleed is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Stephen Damm is a graduate student in anthropology at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.

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Uncovering History Archaeological Investigations at the Little Bighorn

By Douglas D. Scott Foreword by Bob Reece Almost as soon as the last shot was fired in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the battlefield became an archaeological site. For many years afterward, as fascination with the famed 1876 fight intensified, visitors to the area scavenged the many relics left behind. It took decades, however, before researchers began to tease information from the battle’s debris—and the new field of battlefield archaeology began to emerge. In Uncovering History, renowned archaeologist Douglas D. Scott offers a comprehensive account of investigations at the Little Bighorn, from the earliest collecting efforts to early-twentieth-century findings.

Artifacts found on a field of battle and removed without context or care are just relics, curiosities that arouse romantic imagination. When investigators recover these artifacts in a systematic manner, though, these items become a valuable source of clues for reconstructing battle events. Here Scott describes how detailed analysis of specific detritus at the Little Bighorn—such as cartridge cases, fragments of camping equipment and clothing, and skeletal remains—have allowed researchers to reconstruct and reinterpret the history of the conflict. In the process, he demonstrates how major advances in technology, such as metal detection and GPS, have expanded the capabilities of battlefield archaeologists to uncover new evidence and analyze it with greater accuracy.

Through his broad survey of Little Bighorn archaeology across a span of 130 years, Scott expands our understanding of the battle, its protagonists, and the enduring legacy of the battlefield as a national memorial.

Douglas D. Scott is retired as supervisory archaeologist, Midwest Archeological Center, National Park Service. Widely known as an expert on military archaeology, he is the author or co-author of numerous publications, including Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn and They Died with Custer: Soldiers’ Bones from the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Bob Reece is President of the Friends of the Little Bighorn Battlefield.

april $32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4350-7 272 Pages, 6 × 9 53 B&W Illus., 1 Map U.S. History

Of Related Interest Stricken Field The Little Bighorn since 1876

By Jerome A. Greene $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3791-9 Great Sioux War Orders of Battle How the United States Army Waged War on the Northern Plains, 1876–1877

By Paul L. Hedren $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4322-4 Finding Sand Creek History, Archeology, and the 1864 Massacre Site

By Jerome A. Greene and Douglas D. Scott $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3623-3 $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3801-5

scott uncovering history

The archaeological history of a legendary battle site

Robinson Los Angeles in Civil War Days, 1860–1865

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How the southern California community responded to the War Between the States

NEW to ou press

Los Angeles in Civil War Days, 1860–1865

By John W. Robinson “This brief, very readable, and important book calls attention to a subject too long neglected—the bifurcation of life in Los Angeles during the Civil War years.”— Thomas F. Andrews, Research Historian for Special Collections, Asuza Pacific University Most accounts of California’s role in the Civil War focus on the northern part of the state, San Francisco in particular. In Los Angeles in Civil War Days, John W. Robinson looks to the southern half and offers an enlightening sketch of Los Angeles and its people, politics, and economic trends from 1860 to 1865.

Drawing on contemporary reports in the Los Angeles Star, Southern News, and other sources, Robinson shows how the war came to Los Angeles and narrates the struggle between the pro-Southern faction and the Unionists.

May $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4312-5 204 Pages, 6 × 9 26 B&W Illus., 2 MapS U.S. History

Of Related Interest The Civil War in Arizona The Story of the California Volunteers, 1861–1865

By Andrew E. Masich $26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3900-5 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 Reminiscences of a Ranger Early Times in Southern California

By Horace Bell $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3152-8

Los Angeles in the early 1860s was a developing town, lacking many of the refinements of civilization that San Francisco then enjoyed, and was much smaller than the bustling metropolis we know today. The book focuses on the effects of the war on Los Angeles, but Robinson also considers social and economic problems to provide a broader view of the community and its place in the nation.

The Conscription Act and devalued greenbacks encited public unrest, and the cattle-killing drought of 1862–64, a smallpox epidemic, and recurrent vigilantism challenged Angelenos as well.

California historians and those interested in the city’s historical record will find this book a fascinating addition to the body of California’s Civil War history.

John W. Robinson, a retired teacher and historian, is the author of numerous books and articles on California history. He was awarded a Fellows Medallion by the Historical Society of Southern California.

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Going for Broke Japanese American Soldiers in the War against Nazi Germany

By James M. McCaffrey When Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Americans reacted with revulsion and horror. In the patriotic war fever that followed, thousands of volunteers—including Japanese Americans—rushed to military recruitment centers. Except for those in the Hawaii National Guard, who made up the 100th Infantry Battalion, the U.S. Army initially turned Japanese American prospects away. Then, as a result of anti-Japanese fearmongering on the West Coast, more than 100,000 Americans of Japanese descent were sent to confinement in inland “relocation centers.” Most were natural-born citizens, their only “crime” their ethnicity.

After the army eventually decided it would admit the second-generation Japanese American (Nisei) volunteers, it complemented the 100th Infantry Battalion by creating the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. This mostly Japanese American unit consisted of soldiers drafted before Pearl Harbor, volunteers from Hawaii, and even recruits from the relocation centers. In Going for Broke, historian James M. McCaffrey traces these men’s experiences in World War II, from training to some of the deadliest combat in Europe.

Weaving together the voices of numerous soldiers, McCaffrey tells of the men’s frustrations and achievements on the U.S. mainland and abroad. Training in Mississippi, the recruits from Hawaii and the mainland have their first encounter with southern-style black-white segregation. Once in action, they helped push the Germans out of Italy and France. The 442nd would go on to become one of the most highly decorated units in the U.S. Army.

McCaffrey’s account makes clear that like other American soldiers in World War II, the Nisei relied on their personal determination, social values, and training to “go for broke”—to bet everything, even their lives. Ultimately, their bravery and patriotism in the face of prejudice advanced racial harmony and opportunities for Japanese Americans after the war.

James M. McCaffrey is Professor of History at the University of Houston– Downtown and author of several books, including Inside the Spanish-American War: A History Based on First-Person Accounts.

Volume 36 in the Campaigns & Commanders series

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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 Bataan A Survivor’s Story

By Lt. Gene Boyt with David L Burch $24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3582-3 Infantry Soldier Holding the Lines at the Battle of the Bulge

By George W. Neill $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3380-5

mccaffrey going for broke

A comprehensive history of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in World War II

bamford sickness, suffering, and the sword

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How Britain’s regimental system influenced success on the battlefield

Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword The British Regiment on Campaign, 1808–1815

By Andrew Bamford Foreword by Donald E. Graves Although an army’s success is often measured in battle outcomes, its victories depend on strengths that may be less obvious on the field. In Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword, military historian Andrew Bamford assesses the effectiveness of the British Army in sustained campaigning during the Napoleonic Wars. In the process, he offers a fresh and controversial look at Britain’s military system, showing that success or failure on campaign rested on the day-to-day experiences of regimental units rather than the army as a whole.

Volume 37 in the Campaigns & Commanders series

may $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4343-9 328 Pages, 6 × 9 10 B&W illus., 15 tables Military History

Of Related Interest All for the King’s Shilling The British Soldier under Wellington, 1808–1814

By Edward J. Coss $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4105-3 On Wellington A Critique of Waterloo

By Carl von Clausewitz Translated and edited by Peter Hofschröer $32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4108-4 Wellington’s Two-Front War The Peninsular Campaigns, at Home and Abroad, 1808–1814

By Joshua Moon $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4157-2

Bamford draws his title from the words of Captain Moyle Sherer, who during the winter of 1816–1817 wrote an account of his service during the Peninsular War: “My regiment has never been very roughly handled in the field. . . But, alas! What between sickness, suffering, and the sword, few, very few of those men are now in existence.” Bamford argues that those daily scourges of such often-ignored factors as noncombat deaths and equine strength and losses determined outcomes on the battlefield.

In the nineteenth century, the British Army was a collection of regiments rather than a single unified body, and the regimental system bore the responsibility of supplying manpower on that field. Between 1808 and 1815, when Britain was fighting a global conflict far greater than its military capabilities, the system nearly collapsed.

Only a few advantages narrowly outweighed the army’s increasing inability to meet manpower requirements. This book examines those critical dynamics in Britain’s major early-nineteenth-century campaigns: the Peninsular War (1808–1814), the Walcheren Expedition (1809), the American War (1812–1815), and the growing commitments in northern Europe from 1813 on.

Drawn from primary documents, Bamford’s statistical analysis compares the vast disparities between regiments and different theatres of war and complements recent studies of health and sickness in the British Army.

Andrew Bamford is a freelance historian and writer. Military historian Donald E. Graves is the author of several books, including most recently Dragon Rampant: The Royal Welch Fusiliers at War, 1793–1815.

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A Generous and Merciful Enemy Life for German Prisoners of War during the American Revolution

By Daniel Krebs Some 37,000 soldiers from six German principalities, collectively remembered as Hessians, entered service as British auxiliaries in the American War of Independence. At times, they constituted a third of the British army in North America, and thousands of them were imprisoned by the Americans. Despite the importance of Germans in the British war effort, historians have largely overlooked these men. Drawing on research in German military records and common soldiers’ letters and diaries, Daniel Krebs places the prisoners on center stage in A Generous and Merciful Enemy, portraying them as individuals rather than simply as numbers in casualty lists.

Setting his account in the context of British and European politics and warfare, Krebs explains the motivations of the German states that provided contract soldiers for the British army. We think of the Hessians as mercenaries, but, as he shows, many were conscripts. Some were new recruits; others, veterans. Some wanted to stay in the New World after the war. Krebs further describes how the Germans were made prisoners, either through capture or surrender, and brings to life their experiences in captivity from New England to Havana, Cuba.

Krebs discusses prison conditions in detail, addressing both the American approach to war prisoners and the prisoners’ responses to their experience. He assesses American efforts as a “generous and merciful enemy” to use the prisoners as economic, military, and propagandistic assets. In the process, he never loses sight of the impact of imprisonment on the POWs themselves.

Adding new dimensions to an important but often neglected topic in military history, Krebs probes the origins of the modern treatment of POWs. An epilogue describes an almost-forgotten 1785 treaty between the United States and Prussia, the first in western legal history to regulate the treatment of prisoners of war.

Daniel Krebs is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Louisville, Kentucky.

Volume 38 in the Campaigns & Commanders series

april $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4356-9 344 Pages, 6 × 9 7 b&w Illus., 2 maps, 9 tables Military History

Of Related Interest A Hessian Diary of the American Revolution

By Johann Conrad Döhla Edited by Bruce E. Burgoyne $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2530-5 Our Last Mission A World War II Prisoner in Germany

By Dawn Trimble Bunyak $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3717-9 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

krebs a generous and merciful enemy

Explores German POW experiences during the War of Independence

jackson politics of the maya court

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An innovative examination of Maya royal courts, emphasizing the role of the nobility

Politics of the Maya Court Hierarchy and Change in the Late Classic Period

By Sarah E. Jackson In recent decades, advances in deciphering Maya hieroglyphic writing have given scholars new tools for understanding key aspects of ancient Maya society. This book—the first comprehensive examination of the Maya royal court—exemplifies the importance of these new sources. Authored by anthropologist Sarah E. Jackson and richly illustrated with drawings, photographs, and maps, Politics of the Maya Court uses hieroglyphic and iconographic evidence to explore the composition and social significance of royal courts in the Late Classic period (a.d. 600–900), with a special emphasis on the role of courtly elites.

A book in the Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Culture initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

May $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4341-5 248 Pages, 8 × 10 49 B&W Illus., 4 Maps Latin American Studies

As Jackson explains, the Maya region of southern Mexico and Central America was not a unified empire but a loosely aggregated culture area composed of independent kingdoms. Royal courts had a presence in large, central communities from Chiapas to Yucatan and the highlands of Guatemala and western Honduras.

Each major polity was ruled by a k’uhul ajaw, or holy lord, who embodied intertwined aspects of religious and political authority. The hieroglyphic texts that adorned walls, furniture, and portable items in these centers of power provide specific information about the positions, roles, and meanings of the courts. Jackson uses these documents as keys to understanding Classic Maya political hierarchy and, specifically, the institution of the royal court. Within this context, she investigates the lives of the nobility and the participation of elites in court politics.

By identifying particular individuals and their life stories, Jackson humanizes Maya society, showing how events resulted from the actions and choices of specific people.

Of Related Interest

Jackson’s innovative portrayal of court membership provides a foundation for scholarship on the nature, functions, and responsibilities of Maya royal courts.

Mesoamerican Elites An Archaeological Assessment

By Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase $29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3542-7

Sarah E. Jackson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cincinnati.

Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala

By Megan E. O’Neil $55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4257-9 After Moctezuma Indigenous Politics and Self-Government in Mexico City, 1524–1730

By William F. Connell $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4175-6

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Translating Maya Hieroglyphs

By Scott A. J. Johnson Maya hieroglyphic writing may seem impossibly opaque to beginning students, but scholar Scott A. J. Johnson presents it as a regular and comprehensible system in this engaging, easy-to-follow textbook. The only comprehensive introduction designed specifically for those new to the study, Translating Maya Hieroglyphs uses a hands-on approach to teach learners the current state of Maya epigraphy.

Johnson shows readers step by step how to translate ancient Maya glyphs. He begins by describing how to break down a Mayan text into individual glyphs in the correct reading order, and then explains the different types of glyphs and how they function in the script. Finally, he shows how to systematically convert a Mayan inscription into modern English.

Not simply a reference volume, Translating Maya Hieroglyphs is pedagogically arranged so that it functions as an introductory foreign-language textbook.

Chapters cover key topics, including spelling, dates and numbers, basic grammar, and verbs. Formal linguistic information is accessibly explained, while worksheets and exercises complement and reinforce the material covered in the text. Glyph blocks and phrases drawn from actual monuments illustrate the variety and scribal virtuosity of Maya writing.

The Maya writing system has not been fully deciphered. Throughout the text, Johnson outlines and explains the outstanding disputes among Mayanists. At the end of each chapter, he offers sources for further reading. Helpful appendices provide quick reference to vocabulary, glyph meanings, and calendrical data for students undertaking a translation.

The study of Maya glyphs has long been an arcane subject known only to a few specialists. This book will change that. Taking advantage of the great strides scholars have made in deciphering hieroglyphs in the past four decades, Translating Maya Hieroglyphs brings this knowledge to a broader audience, including archaeologists and budding epigraphers.

Scott A. J. Johnson teaches at Grande Prairie Regional College in Alberta, Canada.

He completed his doctoral work at Tulane University and is the author of several articles and book chapters on Maya archaeology and epigraphy.

A book in the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

may $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4333-0 320 Pages, 8.5 × 11 69 B&W Illus., 1 map, 27 tables Latin American Studies

Of Related Interest 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 The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing Edited by Stephen Houston, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos and David Stuart $65.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3204-4

johnson translating maya hieroglyphs

A step-by-step guide to reading Maya glyphs

Hawkins, McDonald, Adams Crisis of Governance in Maya Guatemala

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Explores the breakdown in governance in two Maya communities

Crisis of Governance in Maya Guatemala Indigenous Responses to a Failing State Edited by John P. Hawkins, James H. McDonald, and Walter Randolph Adams The possibility of violence beneath a thin veneer of civil society is a fact of daily life for twenty-first-century Guatemalans, from field laborers to the president of the country. Crisis of Governance in Maya Guatemala explores the causes and consequences of governmental failure by focusing on life in two K’iche’ Maya communities in the country’s western highlands. The contributors to this volume, who lived among the villagers for some time, include both undergraduate students and distinguished scholars. They describe the ways Mayas struggle to survive and make sense of their lives, both within their communities and in relation to the politico-economic institutions of the nation and the world.

April $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4345-3 280 Pages, 6 × 9 15 B&W Illus., 2 MAPs, 6 tables Latin American Studies

Of Related Interest Health Care in Maya Guatemala Confronting Medical Pluralism in a Developing Country Edited by Walter Randolph Adams and John P. Hawkins $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3859-6 Roads to Change in Maya Guatemala A Field School Approach to Understanding the K’iche’ Edited by John P. Hawkins and Walter Randolph Adams $29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3708-7 $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3730-8 Maya Resurgence in Guatemala Q’eqchi’ Experiences

By Richard Wilson $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3195-5

Since Guatemala’s thirty-six-year civil war ended in 1996, the state has been dysfunctional, the country’s economy precarious, and physical safety uncertain. The intrusion of Mexican cartels led the U.S. State Department to declare Guatemala “the epicenter of the drug threat” in Central America. Rapid cultural change, weak state governance, organized crime, pervasive corruption, and ethnic exclusion provide the backdrop for the studies in this volume.

Seven nuanced ethnographies collected here reveal the complexities of indigenous life and describe physical and cultural conflicts within and between villages, between insiders and outsiders, and between local and federal governments. Many of these essays point to a tragic irony: the communities seem largely forgotten by the government until the state seeks to capture their resources—timber, minerals, votes. Other chapters portray villages responding to criminal activity through lynch mobs and by labeling nonconformist youth as gang members.

In focusing on the internal dynamics of poor, marginal communities in Guatemala, this book explores the realities of life for indigenous people on all continents who are faced with the social changes brought about by war and globalization.

John P. Hawkins is Professor of Anthropology at Brigham Young University.

James H. McDonald is Professor of Anthropology and Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Southern Utah University. Walter Randolph Adams is an independent scholar living in Guatemala and former Research Professor at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University.

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The Nine-Banded Armadillo A Natural History

By W. J. Loughry and Colleen M. McDonough The word armadillo is Spanish for “little armored one.” This midsize mammal that looks like a walking tank is a source of fascination for many people but a mystery to almost all. Dating back at least eleven million years, the nocturnal, burrowing insectivore was for centuries mistaken for a cross between a hedgehog and a turtle, but it actually belongs to the mammalian superorder Xenarthra that includes sloths and anteaters. Biologists W. J. Loughry and Colleen M. McDonough have studied the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) for more than twenty years.

Their richly illustrated book offers the first comprehensive review of everything scientists know about this unique animal.

Engaging both scientists and a broader public, Loughry and McDonough describe the armadillo’s anatomy and physiology and all aspects of its ecology, behavior, and evolution. They also compare the nine-banded armadillo with twenty or so other, related species. The authors pay special attention to three key features of armadillo biology—reproduction, disease, and habitat expansion—and why they matter.

Armadillos reproduce in a unique and puzzling manner: females always give birth to litters of genetically identical quadruplets, a strategy not found in any other vertebrates. Nine-banded armadillos are also the only vertebrates except for humans known to contract leprosy naturally. And what about habitat expansion?

The authors suggest that the armadillo’s remarkable spread across the southeastern United States may be the consequence of its most notable feature: a tough, protective carapace.

Biologists, evolutionists, students, and all those interested in this curious creature will find The Nine-Banded Armadillo rich in information and insight. This comprehensive analysis will stand as the definitive scientific reference for years to come and a source of pleasure for the general public.

W. J. Loughry and Colleen M. McDonough both received their Ph.D.s in animal behavior from the University of California at Davis. They are now Professors of Biology at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia. They endeavor to live well.

Volume 11 in the Animal Natural History Series

March $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4310-1 336 Pages, 6.125 × 9.25 85 B&W Illus., 2 Maps Animal Science

Of Related Interest North American Box Turtles A Natural History

By C. Kenneth Dodd, Jr. $29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3501-4 North American Watersnakes A Natural History

By J. Whitfield Gibbons and Michael E. Dorcas $49.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3599-1 The Real Roadrunner

By Martha Anne Maxon $39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3676-9

loughry, mcdonough the nine-banded armadillo

The definitive book on the armadillo, by the world’s leading experts

Blackman The Oklahoma indian new deal

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Oklahoma’s Indian New Deal

By Jon S. Blackman Among the New Deal programs that transformed American life in the 1930s was legislation known as the Indian New Deal, whose centerpiece was the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) of 1934. Oddly, much of that law did not apply to Native residents of Oklahoma, even though a large percentage of the country’s Native American population resided there in the 1930s and no other state was home to so many different tribes. The Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act (OIWA), passed by Congress in 1936, brought Oklahoma Indians under all of the IRA’s provisions, but included other measures that applied only to Oklahoma’s tribal population.

This first book-length history of the OIWA explains the law’s origins, enactment, implementation, and impact, and shows how the act played a unique role in the Indian New Deal.

May $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4351-4 192 Pages, 6 × 9 13 B&W ILLUS., 2 maps American Indian/Oklahoma

Of Related Interest The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma A Legal History

By L. Susan Work $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4089-6 The Indian Reorganization Act Congresses and Bills

By Vine Deloria, Jr. $75.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3398-0 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

In the early decades of the twentieth century, white farmers, entrepreneurs, and lawyers used allotment policies and other legal means to gain control of thousands of acres of Indian land in Oklahoma. To counter the accumulated effects of this history, the OIWA specified how tribes could strengthen government by adopting new constitutions, and it enabled both tribes and individual Indians to obtain financial credit and land. Virulent opposition to the bill came from oil, timber, mining, farming, and ranching interests. Jon S. Blackman’s narrative of the legislative battle reveals the roles of bureaucrats, politicians, and tribal members in drafting and enacting the law.

Although the OIWA encouraged tribes to organize for political and economic purposes, it yielded mixed results. It did not produce a significant increase in Indian land ownership in Oklahoma, and only a small percentage of Indian households applied for OIWA loans. Yet the act increased member participation in tribal affairs, enhanced Indian relations with non-Indian businesses and government, promoted greater Indian influence in government programs—and, as Blackman shows, became a springboard to the self-determination movements of the 1950s and 1960s.

Currently employed by the U.S. State Department, Jon S. Blackman is an independent historian who focuses on federal Indian policy.

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New Perspectives in Mormon Studies

Edited by Zach P. Messitte and Suzette R. Grillot

Creating and Crossing Boundaries

Edited by Quincy D. Newell and Eric F. Mason Foreword by Jan Shipps

A concise and accessible survey of contemporary issues in international relations

Since the end of the Cold War, interaction among communities across the globe has increased exponentially. Globalization has changed how we live, how we communicate, what we eat, and how we travel around the world. What do such social, political, and economic changes mean in a twenty-first-century context?

Understanding the Global Community explores these and other key questions, offering a concise overview of contemporary topics in international relations. Edited by Zach P. Messitte and Suzette R. Grillot, with contributions from prominent scholars across various disciplines, this accessible survey is perfectly suited for undergraduate courses in international and area studies as well as for anyone seeking a clearer understanding of today’s major global concerns.

Unique in its approach, Understanding the Global Community examines both international issues and regional perspectives.

The first half of the book explores overarching global themes, including American foreign policy, international security, humanitarian intervention, and the global economy. The second half addresses nationalism and its challenge to the development of a global community, with region-specific chapters focusing on historic and contemporary issues in China, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. A glossary at the end of the book provides useful definitions of key terms and concepts.

Zach P. Messitte is President of Ripon College in Wisconsin. He previously served as the first Dean of the College of International Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Suzette R. Grillot is Interim Dean of the College of International Studies and Max and Heidi Berry Chair and Professor in International Studies at the University of Oklahoma.

February $26.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4338-5 296 Pages, 6.125 × 9.25 International Studies

Mormon and non-Mormon scholars explore boundaries within Mormon studies

Scholarship in Mormon studies has often focused on a few key events and individuals in Mormon history. The essays collected

by Quincy D. Newell and Eric F. Mason in this interdisciplinary volume expand the conversation.

One of the main purposes of this volume is to define and cross boundaries. Part 1 addresses internal boundaries—walls that divide some Mormons from others. One chapter examines Joseph Smith’s writings on economic matters and argues that he sought to make social distinctions irrelevant. Another considers Jane James, an African American Latter-day Saint, and her experiences at the intersection of religious and racial identity In part 2, contributors consider Mormonism's influence on Pentecostal leader John Alexander Dowie and relationships between Mormonism and other religious movements, including Methodism and Presbyterianism. Other chapters compare Mormonism and Islam and examine the group Ex-Mormons for Jesus/Saints Alive in Jesus.

Part 3 deals with Mormonism in the academy and the ongoing evolution of Mormon studies. Written by contributors from a variety of backgrounds, these essays will spark scholarly dialogue across the disciplines.

Quincy D. Newell is the author of Constructing Lives at Mission San Francisco: Native Californians and Hispanic Colonists, 1776–1821. Eric F. Mason is the author of “You Are a Priest Forever”: Second Temple Jewish Messianism and the Priestly Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews. Jan Shipps is the author or editor of several books on Mormonism, including Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the Mormons.

March $24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4313-2 248 Pages, 6 × 9 Religion/Mormon

messitte, grillot understanding the global community • newell, mason new perspectives in mormon studies

Understanding the Global Community

Raugh Wavell in the Middle East, 1939–1941 • cushman the cherokee syllabary

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Wavell in the Middle East, 1939–1941

The Cherokee Syllabary Writing the People’s Perseverance

By Ellen Cushman

A Study in Generalship

By Harold E. Raugh, Jr. An in-depth profile of one of Britain’s most respected yet enigmatic generals

This masterly study of generalship covers two years of intense operational activity during which Field Marshal Wavell, as Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, was at one point conducting no fewer than five campaigns simultaneously. Two of those campaigns will stand in history as truly great victories, and one—the campaign in Greece in 1941—as a source of endless controversy.

Harold E. Raugh, Jr., has drawn upon previously unavailable official documents and interviewed or corresponded with a wide range of soldiers who served under Wavell. Raugh shows how Wavell’s early experience as a soldier and budding commander were reflected in his later decision making and shrewd military vision.

Although Wavell’s charismatic personality endeared him to all who served under him and earned him the profound respect of his fellows, and even of the enemy, his natural taciturnity brought him into conflict with his political masters. In spite of his enormous military achievements at one of the most critical periods in his country’s history, Wavell has been undeservedly relegated to obscurity—a historical oversight that Raugh corrects with this richly detailed book.

A new perspective on Sequoyah’s enduring invention

In 1821, Sequoyah, a Cherokee metalworker and inventor, introduced a writing system that he had been developing for more than a decade. His creation—the Cherokee syllabary— helped his people learn to read and write within five years and became a principal part of their identity. This groundbreaking study traces the creation, dissemination, and evolution of Sequoyah’s syllabary from script to print to digital forms.

Breaking with conventional understanding, Ellen Cushman shows that the syllabary was not based on alphabetic writing, but on Cherokee syllables and, more importantly, on Cherokee meanings.

Cushman traces the history of Sequoyah’s invention and the syllabary’s enduring significance, showing how it allowed Cherokees to protect, enact, and codify their knowledge and to weave non-Cherokee concepts into their language and life. The result was their enhanced ability to adapt to social change on and in Cherokee terms.

Profound, like the invention it explores, The Cherokee Syllabary will reshape the study of Cherokee history and culture.

Harold E. Raugh, Jr., is the Command Historian of U.S. Army V Corps in Heidelberg, Germany. Retired from the U.S. Army as a Lieutenant Colonel, he is the author of four books including Fort Ord and Presidio of Monterey.

Ellen Cushman, Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan State University and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, is coeditor of Literacy: A Critical Sourcebook and author of The Struggle and the Tools: Oral and Literate Strategies in an Inner City Community.

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$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4305-7

Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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Volume 56 in the American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series

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Patterns of Exchange

American Indians in British Art, 1700–1840

Navajo Weavers and Traders

By Teresa J. Wilkins

By Stephanie Pratt

Reveals the complex relationship between Navajo weavers and reservation traders

“By looking at both sides of the relationship, Wilkins presents a perspective that has been missing from other studies.”—Choice The Navajo rugs and textiles people admire and buy today are the result of many historical influences, particularly the interaction between Navajo weavers and the traders who guided their production and controlled their sale. John Lorenzo Hubbell and other late-nineteenth-century traders were convinced they knew which patterns and colors would appeal to Anglo-American buyers, and so they heavily encouraged those designs. In Patterns of Exchange, Teresa J. Wilkins traces the intricate play of cultural, economic, and personal relationships between artists and traders that guided Navajo weavers to produce textiles that are today emblems of the Native American Southwest.

The Navajos valued their relationships with Hubbell and other trading post operators and did not always see themselves as exploited victims of a capitalist system. Because of Navajo cultural traditions of gift-giving, the artists slowly adapted patterns and colors the traders requested and even came to revere certain designs as “the weaving of the ancestors.”

Teresa J. Wilkins is Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico, Gallup. A weaver herself, she is a former student of weaving authority Joe Ben Wheat.

Explores British representations of American Indians before and after the Revolutionary War

Ask anyone the world over to identify a figure in buckskins with a feather bonnet, and the answer will be “Indian.” Many works of art produced by non-Native artists have reflected such a limited viewpoint. In American Indians in British Art, 1700–1840, Stephanie Pratt explores for the first time an artistic tradition that avoided simplification and that instead portrayed Native peoples in a surprisingly complex light.

During the eighteenth century, the British allied themselves with Indian tribes to counter the American colonial rebellion. In response, British artists produced a large volume of work focusing on American Indians. Although these works depicted their subjects as either noble or ignoble savages, they also represented Indians as active participants in contemporary society.

Pratt places artistic works in historical context and traces a movement away from abstraction, in which Indians were symbols rather than actual people, to representational art, which portrayed Indians as actors on the colonial stage.

American Indians in British Art, 1700–1840, is richly illustrated, with some artworks published here for the first time.

Stephanie Pratt, a tribal member of the Crow Creek Dakota Sioux, is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom.

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Navajo Lifeways

The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory

Contemporary Issues, Ancient Knowledge

By Maureen Trudelle Schwarz Foreword by Louise Lamphere

By James N. Leiker and Ramon Powers

Places contemporary events within ancient Navajo traditions

How the Northern Cheyenne exodus has been remembered, told, and retold

“I think what is always really amazing to me is that Navajo are never amazed by anything that happens. Because it is like in a lot of our stories they are already there.”—Sunny Dooley, Navajo Storyteller

“Exceptionally well-written. . . . The authors do not sacrifice the power of the story itself . . . one of the most dramatic, touching, and disturbing of its time.”—Elliott West, author of The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story

During the final decade of the twentieth century, Navajo people had to confront a number of challenges, from unexplained illness, the effects of uranium mining, and problem drinking to threats to their land rights and spirituality. Yet no matter how alarming these issues, Navajo people made sense of them by drawing guidance from what they regarded as their charter for life, their origin stories.

The exodus of the Northern Cheyennes in 1878 and 1879, an attempt to flee from Indian Territory to their Montana homeland, is an iconic event in American Indian history. It also looms large in the history of towns like Oberlin, Kansas, where Cheyenne warriors killed more than forty settlers. The story has been told by historians and novelists, and on film.

Through extensive interviews, Maureen Trudelle Schwarz allows Navajos to speak for themselves on the ways they find to respond to crises and chronic issues. In capturing what Navajos say and think about themselves, Schwarz presents this southwestern people’s perceptions, values, and sense of place in the world.

Maureen Trudelle Schwarz, Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University in New York, is the author of “I Choose Life”: Contemporary Medical and Religious Practices in the Navajo World. Louise Lamphere, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, University of New Mexico, is the author of Weaving Women’s Lives: Three Generations in a Navajo Family.

Now James N. Leiker and Ramon Powers examine the recollections of Indians and settlers and their descendants, considering local history, mass media, and literature to draw thought-provoking conclusions. “The Cheyennes’ flight,” they write, “left white and Indian bones alike scattered along its route from Oklahoma to Montana.” They depict a West whose diverse peoples—Euro-American and Native American—seek to preserve their heritage through memory and history.

James N. Leiker, author of Racial Borders: Black Soldiers along the Rio Grande, is Associate Professor of History, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas.

Ramon Powers, formerly Executive Director of the Kansas State Historical Society, is author of numerous articles on Plains Indians history.

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Buffalo Inc.

The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs

American Indians and Economic Development

By Sebastian Felix Braun

Volume One: The Classic Period Inscriptions

By Martha J. Macri and Matthew G. Looper

Buffalo as a business on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation

“Explores issues of sustainability, economic development, sovereignty, ecology, health, representation of history, and the intersection of all of these complex concepts: place.”

—SciTech Book News Some American Indian tribes on the Great Plains have turned to bison ranching in recent years as a culturally and ecologically sustainable economic development program.

This book focuses on one enterprise on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation to determine whether such projects have fulfilled expectations and how they fit with traditional and contemporary Lakota values.

Sebastian Felix Braun examines the creation of Pte Hca Ka, Inc., and its management styles as they evolved over fifteen years—a compelling picture of cultural change. Braun traces Pte Hca Ka’s origin as a self-sustaining project that sought to combine traditional values with modern technology. Presenting both sides of the argument, he shows how the company tried to operate on cultural and ecological ideals until the tribal government shed its cultural agenda in favor of pure business.

In Buffalo Inc., bison serve as a test case for a broader look at sustainability, economic development, tribal politics, and cultural identity.

Sebastian Felix Braun is Associate Professor in the Department of Indian Studies at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.

“A major contribution to the field.”—Michael Coe, author of Breaking the Maya Code For hundreds of years, Maya artists and scholars used hieroglyphs to record their history and culture. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, archaeologists, photographers, and artists recorded the Maya carvings, often by transporting box cameras and plaster casts through the jungle on muleback.

The New Catalog is a guide to all known hieroglyphic symbols of Classic Maya script, presenting the findings of the most reliable scholars in Maya epigraphy. An essential resource for students of Maya texts, it is also accessible to nonspecialists with an interest in Mesoamerica.

This volume focuses on texts from the Classic Period (150–900 c.e.) found on carved stone monuments, stucco wall panels, wooden lintels, carved and painted pottery, murals, and small objects of jadeite, shell, bone, and wood.

Martha J. Macri, Rumsey Endowed Chair in California Indian Studies and Director of the Native American Language Center at the University of California, Davis, is coauthor of The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, Volume Two: The Codical Texts. Matthew G. Looper, Professor of Art and Art History at California State University, Chico, is the author of To Be Like Gods: Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization.

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Robert Newton Baskin and the Making of Modern Utah

By John Gary Maxwell For years Robert Newton Baskin (1837–1918) may have been the most hated man in Utah. Yet his promotion of federal legislation against polygamy in the late 1800s and his work to bring the Mormon territory into a republican form of government were pivotal in Utah’s achievement of statehood. The results of his efforts also contributed to the acceptance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by the American public. In this engaging biography—the first full-length analysis of the man—author John Gary Maxwell presents Baskin as the unsung father of modern Utah. As Maxwell shows, Baskin’s life was defined by conflict and paradox.

Volume 37 in the Western Frontiersmen Series

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Educated at Harvard Law School, Baskin lived as a member of a minority: a “gentile” in Mormon Utah. A loner, he was highly respected but not often included in the camaraderie of contemporary non-Mormon professionals. When it came to the Saints, Baskin’s role in the legal aftermath of the Mountain Meadows massacre did not endear him to the Mormon people or their leadership. He was convinced that Brigham Young made John D. Lee the scapegoat—the planner and perpetrator of the massacre—to obscure complicity of the LDS church.

Baskin was successful in Utah politics despite using polygamy as a sledgehammer against Utah’s theocratic government and despite his role as a federal prosecutor.

He was twice elected mayor of Salt Lake City, served in the Utah legislature, and became chief justice of the Utah Supreme Court. He was also a visionary city planner—the force behind the construction of the Salt Lake City and County Building, which remains the architectural rival of the city’s Mormon temple.

For more than a century historians have maligned Baskin or ignored him. Maxwell brings the man to life in this long-overdue exploration of a central figure in the history of Utah and of the LDS church.

John Gary Maxwell is the author of Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake: George R. Maxwell, Civil War Hero and Federal Marshal among the Mormons.

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This Far-Off Wild Land The Upper Missouri Letters of Andrew Dawson

By Lesley Wischmann and Andrew Erskine Dawson In the mid-1800s, Andrew Dawson, self-exiled from his home in Scotland, joined the upper Missouri River fur trade and rose through the ranks of the American Fur Company. A headstrong young man, he had come to America at the age of twentyfour after being dismissed from his second job in two years. His poignant sense of isolation is evident throughout his letters home between 1844 and 1861. In This Far-Off Wild Land, Lesley Wischmann and Andrew Erskine Dawson—a relative of this colorful figure—couple an engaging biography of Dawson with thirty-seven of his previously unpublished letters from the American frontier.

Three years after he landed in St. Louis, Dawson went up the Missouri in 1847 to what is now North Dakota and Montana, taking command of Fort Berthold, Fort Clark, and eventually Fort Benton, the premier fur trade post of the day. Fort Berthold and Fort Clark, where Dawson worked until 1854, remain two of the least documented American Fur Company posts. His letters infuse life, and occasional high drama, to the stories of these forgotten outposts. At Fort Benton, his insight in establishing commercial warehouses helped the company keep pace with the changing frontier. By the time Dawson returned to Scotland—after twenty years in what he labeled a far-off, wild land—he had risen to become the last “King of the Upper Missouri.”

Thoughtfully annotated, Dawson’s letters, discovered only recently by his relatives, provide a rare glimpse into the lonely life of a fur trader in the 1840s and 1850s.

Unlike the impersonal business correspondence that makes up most fur trade writings, Dawson’s letters are wonderfully human, suffused with raw emotion.

Combining careful research with a compelling story, the authors flesh out the forces that shaped Dawson’s personality and the historical events he recorded.

Lesley Wischmann is the author of Frontier Diplomats: Alexander Culbertson and Natoyist-Siksina’ among the Blackfeet. Andrew Erskine Dawson, a resident of England and retired public servant, is great-grand-nephew of Andrew Dawson.

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Shamans, Witches, and Maya Priests Native Religion and Ritual in Highland Guatemala

By Krystyna Deuss “A rich and riveting description of the vanishing traditions of Highland Mayan costumbreros.” —Journal of Folklore Research Enlivened with 102 photographs and 50 figures and maps, Shamans, Witches, and Maya Priests explores the “old ways” that still prevail in the Q’anjob’al, Akatek, and Chuj communities of the remote northwestern Cuchumatán Mountains. Krystyna Deuss provides vivid descriptions and images of the traditional rites and rituals she witnessed during fifteen years of fieldwork. These sacred moments include blood sacrifices for the good of the community and private shamanic rituals—as well as black magic. Deuss also includes a selection of the prayers she recorded.

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“An outstanding contribution to the field of ethnographic studies in highland Guatemala. Not only is it an informed and insightful account of her work among the Maya Prayersayers in the Cuchumatanes region of Guatemala, but it is also a truly great read—an evocative portrait of Maya traditionalists attempting to maintain the practice of their ancient faith in the face of remarkably trying circumstances. Many of the ceremonies she describes have already ceased to be performed, and others are in imminent danger of disappearing forever. This book is therefore, in some cases, the last eyewitness account of traditional rituals that had survived for centuries.” —Allen J. Christenson, translator of Popul Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Maya “A comprehensive study of a little-known area of Guatemala, this book is an invaluable contribution to Maya studies. The author’s attention to ethnographic detail is revealed through the text, diagrams, and the astonishing photographs, which set a new standard for documentation. At the same time, the succinct style of writing assures the accessibility of the book to nonspecialists.”—Matthew G. Looper, coauthor of The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, Volume 1: The Classic Period Inscriptions Krystyna Deuss founded the Guatemalan Maya Centre in 1990 and spends five months each year in Guatemala continuing her research into the customs of the Highland Maya. She is the author of Indian Costumes from Guatemala.

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A lavishly illustrated volume on pre-Columbian art and modern-day archaeology

Pre-Columbian Art & Archaeology Essays in Honor of Frederick R. Mayer Edited by Margaret Young-Sánchez Symposia presented at the Denver Art Museum in 2002 and 2007 focused, respectively, on pre-Columbian art in the museum collection and the art and archaeology of ancient Costa Rica. Edited by Denver Art Museum curator Margaret Young-Sánchez, this lavishly illustrated volume brings together newly revised and expanded symposium papers from pre-Columbian scholars, while paying tribute to the legacy of Denver philanthropist Frederick R. Mayer—a generous supporter of archaeological and art historical research, scientific analysis, and scholarly publication.

Archaeology’s elder statesman Michael Coe (Yale University) provides a lively description of twentieth-century pre-Columbian archaeology and the personalities who shaped its intellectual history. Using traditional and scientific analyses of archaeological ceramics, Frederick W. Lange (LSA Associates, Inc.) and Ronald L. Bishop (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History) consider the transmission of technical and cultural knowledge in ancient Costa Rica and Nicaragua. The late Michael J. Snarskis of the Tayutic Foundation reports on his final archaeological excavation, at Loma Corral in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, where an undisturbed two-thousand-year-old cemetery contained high-status burials, local and imported ceramics, and jade ornaments. Warwick Bray (University College, London), examines pre-Columbian gold items from Panama, including their uses and meaning, as part of the “Parita Treasure” excavated in the early 1960s. Margaret Young-Sánchez (Denver Art Museum), presents the construction and iconography of early (ad 200–400) Tiwanaku-style folding pouches from the south-central Andes. And Carol Mackey (California State University, Northridge) and Joanne Pillsbury (Getty Research Institute) describe and analyze an important silver beaker decorated with detailed ritual and mythological scenes from the Lambayeque (Sicán) civilization of northern Peru (ad 800–1350).

Margaret Young-Sánchez, Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator of pre-Columbian Art at the Denver Art Museum, is the editor of Marajó: Ancient Ceramics from the Mouth of the Amazon, Nature and Spirit: Ancient Costa Rican Treasures in the Mayer Collection at the Denver Art Museum, and Tiwanaku: Papers from the 2005 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum.

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DeArment, Gunfighter in Gotham, 2 Devil’s Gate, Rea, 6 Dragoons in Apacheland, Kiser, 21 Deuss, Shamans, Witches, and Maya Priests, 40

Kan, A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country, 10 Karl Bodmer’s America Revisited, Lindholm/Wood, 9 Kennedy, Cotton and Conquest, 15 Kiser, Dragoons in Apacheland, 21 Krebs, A Generous and Merciful Enemy, 27

Native American Placenames of the Southwest, Bright, 5 Navajo Lifeways, Schwarz, 36 New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, The, Macri/Looper, 37 Newell/Mason, New Perspectives in Mormon Studies, 33 New Perspectives in Mormon Studies, Newell/Mason, 33 Nine-Banded Armadillo, The, Loughry/McDonough, 31 Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory, The, Leiker/Powers, 36 Not All Heroes, Skogen, 4

B Bamford, Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword, 26 Beck, Columns of Vengeance, 20 Blackman, Oklahoma’s Indian New Deal, 32 Bottoms, An Aristocracy of Color, 17 Braun, Buffalo Inc., 37 Bright, Native American Placenames of the Southwest, 5 Buffalo Inc., Braun, 37

By All Accounts, English, 14

C Cherokee Syllabary, The, Cushman, 34 Clark, Indian Tribes of Oklahoma, 6 Columns of Vengeance, Beck, 20 Cotton and Conquest, Kennedy, 15 Crisis of Governance in Maya Guatemala, Hawkins/ McDonald/Adams, 30 Cushman, The Cherokee Syllabary, 34 Custer, Cody, and Grand Duke Alexis, Scott/Bleed/Damm, 22

E Empire on Display, Moore, 12 English, By All Accounts, 14 Ernest L. Blumenschein, Larson/ Larson, 13

F Fox, Quilts, 7

G Gathering of Statesmen, A, Pitchlynn/Haag/Willis, 19 Generous and Merciful Enemy, A, Krebs, 27 Going for Broke, McCaffrey, 25 Goodyear, A President in Yellowstone, 11 Grumet, Manhattan to Minisink, 18 Gunfighter in Gotham, DeArment, 2

H Hawkins/McDonald/Adams, Crisis of Governance in Maya Guatemala, 30

I Indian Tribes of Oklahoma, Clark, 6

J Jackson, Politics of the Maya Court, 28 Johnson, Translating Maya Hieroglyphs, 29

L Larson/Larson, Ernest L. Blumenschein, 13 Leiker/Powers, The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory, 36 Lindholm/Wood, Karl Bodmer’s America Revisited, 9 Los Angeles in Civil War Days, 1860–1865, Robinson, 24 Loughry/McDonough, The Nine-Banded Armadillo, 31

M Macri/Looper, The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, 37 Manhattan to Minisink, Grumet, 18 Maxwell, Robert Newton Baskin and the Making of Modern Utah, 38 McCaffrey, Going for Broke, 25 Messitte/Grillot, Understanding the Global Community, 33 Moore, Empire on Display, 12 Mo Yan, Sandlewood Death, 1

O Oklahoma’s Indian New Deal, Blackman, 32 Old Man’s Love Story, The, Anaya, 3

P Patterns of Exchange, Wilkins, 35 Pitchlynn/Haag/Willis, A Gathering of Statesmen, 19 Politics of the Maya Court, Jackson, 28 Pratt, American Indians in British Art, 1700–1840, 35 Pre-Columbian Art & Archaeology, Young-Sánchez, 41 President in Yellowstone, A, Goodyear, 11

Q Quilts, Fox, 7

R Raugh, Wavell in the Middle East, 1939–1941, 34 Rea, Devil’s Gate, 6 Regionalists on the Left, Steiner, 16 Robert Newton Baskin and

the Making of Modern Utah, Maxwell, 38 Robinson, Los Angeles in Civil War Days, 1860–1865, 24 Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country, A, Kan, 10

S Sandlewood Death, Mo Yan, 1 Schwarz, Navajo Lifeways, 36 Scott, Uncovering History, 23 Scott/Bleed/Damm, Custer, Cody, and Grand Duke Alexis, 22 Shamans, Witches, and Maya Priests, Deuss, 40 Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword, Bamford, 26 Skogen, Not All Heroes, 4 Steiner, Regionalists on the Left, 16

T This Far-Off Wild Land, Wischmann/Dawson, 39 Translating Maya Hieroglyphs, Johnson, 29

U Uncovering History, Scott, 23 Understanding the Global Community, Messitte/Grillot, 33

W Wavell in the Middle East, 1939–1941, Raugh, 34 Wilkins, Patterns of Exchange, 35 Wischmann/Dawson, This FarOff Wild Land, 39

Y Young-Sánchez, Pre-Columbian Art & Archaeology, 41

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