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Anthropology/Archaeology 6-9 Biography 3-4 Mormon Studies 3

Nature and Environment 1 Poetry 5 Utah 2-4 Western History 2 Featured Backlist 16-20

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NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT

National Park Readers Series

The Grand Teton Reader Edited by Robert W. Righter

A selection of the best writing about Grand Teton National Park and Jackson Hole

May 2021 336 pp., 6 x 9 20 illustrations, 1 maps eBook 978-1-64769-032-8 Paper 978-1-64769-033-5 $19.95

Grand Teton National Park draws more than three million visitors annually in search of wildlife, outdoor adventure, solitude, and inspiration. This collection of writings showcases the park’s natural and human histories through stories of drama and beauty, tragedy and triumph.

Editor Robert Righter has selected thirty-five contributors whose work takes readers from the Tetons’ geological origins to the time of Euro-American encroachment and the park’s politically tumultuous creation. Selections range from Laine Thom’s Shoshone legend of the Snake River and Owen Wister’s essay “Great God! I’ve Just Killed a Bear,” to Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson’s humorous yet fearful account of crossing the Snake River, and William Owen’s first attempt to climb the Grand Teton.

Conservationists, naturalists, and environmentalists are also represented: Terry Tempest Williams chronicles her multiyear encounter with her “Range of Memory,” and Olaus and Mardy Murie recount the difficulties of “park-making” in an often-hostile human environment.

Anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the park’s wild beauty and controversial past will want to read these stories by people who lived it.

Robert W. Righter is professor emeritus at University of Texas, El Paso, and was professor of history at the University of Wyoming from 1973 to 1988. He is the author of Peaks, Politics, and Passion: Grand Teton National Park Comes of Age, among numerous others. Righter lives with his wife on the edge of Grand Teton National Park.

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The Capitol Reef Reader Edited by Stephen Trimble eBook 978-1-60781-683-6 Paperback 978-1-60781-682-9 $19.95 The Glacier Park Reader Edited by David Stanley eBook 978-1-60781-589-1 Paperback 978-1-60781-588-4 $19.95

“Bob Righter has assembled a set of fascinating historical accounts of explorers, hunters and anglers, homesteaders, and dude ranchers whose lives played out on the sage-covered lands of Jackson Hole and the magnificent mountain range that lies within Grand Teton National Park. Supplemented with interesting images and a historical timeline, Righter’s anthology invites readers into a rich past of intriguing characters, natural scenes and wildlife, and special places within this gem of a national park and international treasure.”

—Mark Harvey, North Dakota State University, Fargo; author of Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act

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Lance Newman and David Stanley, series editors

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WESTERN HISTORY / UTAH HISTORY / PUBLIC HISTORY

Western Lands, Western Voices Essays on Public History in the American West

Edited by Gregory E. Smoak

The first volume to focus on the practice of public history in the American West

August 2021 240 pp., 6 x 9 4 illustrations eBook 978-1-64769-035-9 2019 Hardcover 978-1-64769-036-6 $70.00s Paper 978-1-64769-034-2 $35.00s

CONTRIBUTORS

Laurie Arnold, Gonzaga University Stephen Aron, UCLA and the Autry National Center Leisl Carr Childers, Colorado State University Michael W. Childers, Colorado State University Mette Flynt, Historic Research Associates Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez, Arizona State University E. Richard Hart, Hart-West Associates Trisha Venisa-Alicia Martínez, University of New Mexico Brittani R. Orona, University of California, Davis Leighton M. Quarles, USDA Forest Service Jedediah S. Rogers, Utah Division of State History Virginia Scharff, University of New Mexico Gregory E. Smoak, American West Center, University of Utah Yvette Tuell, Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Richard White, Stanford University

Inspired by the fiftieth anniversary of the University of Utah’s American West Center, the oldest regional studies center in the United States, Western Lands, Western Voices explores the many dimensions of public history. This collection of thirteen essays is rooted in the real-world experiences of the authors and is the first volume to focus specifically on regional public history.

Contributors include tribal government officials, state and federal historians, independent scholars and historical consultants, and academics. Some are distinguished historians of the American West and others are emerging voices that will shape publicly engaged scholarship in the years to come. Among the issues they address are community history and public interpretation, tribal sovereignty, and the importance of historical research for land management. The volume will be indispensable to researchers and general readers interested in museum studies, Native American studies, and public lands history and policy.

Gregory E. Smoak is director of the American West Center and associate professor of history at the University of Utah. He is the author of Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century and a forthcoming environmental history of Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. He is currently the president of the National Council on Public History.

“This collection makes a unique and important contribution to the literature of the field. I look forward to using it in my own classes. I know this sentiment will be widely shared.”

—Andy Kirk, professor of history, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

“These works go beyond just talking ABOUT public history work to show how the lives of the practitioners are part of the story as well.

This is a type historiography rooted in the context of the people who wrote it.”

—Jay M. Price, professor of history and director of the Local and Public History Program, Wichita State University

Winner of the 2019 Don D. and Catherine S. Fowler Prize

Sally in Three Worlds

An Indian Captive in the House of Brigham Young

Virginia Kerns

The story of an enslaved Indian woman told through a lens that examines and sets aside the common narrative of wild vs. tame

April 2021 288 pp., 6 x 9 7 illustrations, 3 maps eBook 978-1-64769-016-8 Hardcover 978-1-64769-011-3 $65.00s Paper 978-1-64769-015-1 $34.95

In this remarkable and deeply felt book, Virginia Kerns uncovers the singular and forgotten life of a young Indian woman who was captured in 1847 in what was then Mexican territory. Sold to a settler, a son-in-law of Brigham Young, the woman spent the next thirty years as a servant to Young’s family. Sally, as they called her, lived in the shadows, largely unseen. She was later remembered as a “wild” woman made “tame” who happily shed her past to enter a new and better life in civilization.

Drawing from a broad range of primary sources, Kerns retrieves Sally from obscurity and reconstructs her complex life before, during, and after captivity. This true story from the American past resonates deeply in the current moment, attentive as it is to killing epidemics and racial injustices. In telling Sally’s story, Kerns presents a new narrative of the American West.

Virginia Kerns is a writer, teacher, and professor emerita of anthropology at the College of William & Mary in Virginia. She is the author of three previous books, including the award-winning Scenes from the High Desert: Julian Steward’s Life and Theory.

“A remarkable glimpse of an important time in Utah history from an unusual and undervalued perspective.”

—James O’Connell, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Utah

“Like so many indigenous women, Sally never had the opportunity to tell her own story. Virginia Kerns meticulously pieced together Sally’s fascinating and engaging story from countless primary sources and gives voice to a nearly forgotten life. This book explores Mormon Utah and the dramatic dislocations and hardships of nineteenthcentury American colonization of the West from a new perspective.”

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Essays on American Indian and Mormon History P. Jane Hafen and Brenden W. Rensink eBook 978-1-60781-691-1 Hardcover 978-1-60781-690-4 $45.00 Frontier Religion Mormons and America, 1857-1907 Konden Smith Hansen eBook 978-1-60781-689-8 Hardcover 978-1-60781-688-1 $45.00

—Kelley Hays-Gilpin, professor, Northern Arizona University, and Edward Bridge Danson Chair of Anthropology at the Museum of Northern Arizona

“Captivity narratives usually focus on how white women were captured by Indians. Virginia Kerns turns this narrative on its head and conveys how a Pahvant Ute woman was enslaved in a Mormon community and compelled to spend her life away from her natal community. Superbly contextualized in the history of Utah, Kerns demonstrates how Mormon social, economic, and political life affected the life of a truly fascinating woman.”

—Nancy Parezo, professor emerita, American Indian Studies, University of Arizona

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BIOGRAPHY/ MORMON STUDIES / WESTERN HISTORY

UTAH HISTORY / DANCE HISTORY / BIOGRAPHY

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Roots and Wings

Virginia Tanner’s Dance Life and Legacy

Mary-Elizabeth Manley with Mary Ann Lee and Robert Bruce Bennett

The first book to detail Virginia Tanner’s career and her influence on the field of dance

July 2021 352 pp., 7 x 9 89 illustrations eBook 978-1-64769-031-1 Hardcover 978-1-64769-029-8 $55.00s

Roots and Wings recounts Virginia Tanner’s remarkable career as a dance artist, educator, and founder of the University of Utah’s Tanner Dance Program. From her early experiences assisting at Evelyn Davis’s dance school in Washington, D.C., to the creation of the Tanner Dance Program at the University of Utah, her influence in the field was pervasive. She channeled children’s energy, sharpened their senses, and encouraged youthful, authentic dance expression. Tanner’s work endures, continuing to echo with sensitivity and spirit in the bodies of young dancers throughout the United States and abroad.

By revealing both the broader and specific themes of Tanner’s career and legacy, this narrative fills an important void. While exploring Tanner’s story, it also recognizes the value of unique instructional methodologies for teaching dance to young children and the vital role the arts play in children’s lives.

Mary-Elizabeth Manley is professor emerita and senior scholar in York University’s Dance Department. Her research has been published extensively in Dance and the Child International (daCi) Congress conference proceedings.

She was the chief editor for daCi’s First 30 Years: Rich Returns and directed ARTStart, a children’s community dance and arts program at York University.

Mary Ann Lee is director of the University of Utah Tanner Dance Program and Children’s Dance Theatre and adjunct associate professor of Modern Dance in the School of Dance at the University of Utah. She has published articles and a book on dance pedagogy for young dancers.

Robert Bruce Bennett (1915–2006) was the husband of Virginia Tanner and the business manager of the Virginia Tanner Creative Dance Studio and the Children’s Dance Theatre.

“This work is a significant contribution. Biographical information on people such as Virginia Tanner, who devoted their lives to the development of children through the arts, is almost nonexistent.”

—Douglas C. Sonntag, emeritus Director of Dance, National Endowment for the Arts

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Ballet West: A Fifty-Year Celebration Ballet West Hardcover 978-1-60781-376-7 $39.95 True Valor Barney Clark and the Utah Artificial Heart Don B. Olsen Hardcover 978-1-60781-391-0 $24.95

POETRY

Winner of the 2020 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize

Benjamin Gucciardi West Portal is the name of the neighborhood in San Francisco, California, where poet Benjamin Gucciardi grew up. It is also one of the names of the Pillars of Heracles—the entryway to the afterworld. Drawing on William Carlos Williams’s assertion that “the local is the only thing that is universal,” West Portal investigates the Bay Area’s urban and rural landscapes along with the memories and people that reside there. Interweaving the narrative of the death of the poet's sister with the environmental and socioeconomic realities of the current moment, the poems in West Portal illuminate the experience of loss, and the attempt to create meaning in the wake of devastation. Through poems that are prayerful, observant, elegiac, pained, dreamlike, philosophical, and compassionate, the book asks: What do we consider holy?

What is virtue? What should any of us value about our relationship to place or our relationship with each other?

July 2021 64 pp., 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 eBook 978-1-64769-041-0 Paper 978-1-64769-0403 $14.95

Benjamin Gucciardi is the author of the chapbook I Ask My Sister’s Ghost (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press). His poems have appeared in AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, Best New Poets, Harvard Review, New Ohio Review, Orion Magazine, Southern Indiana Review, and other journals. He has received BOOTH’s Prize for Unexpected Literature, the Milton Kessler Memorial Prize from Harpur Palate, the Trifecta Poetry Prize from Iron Horse Literary Review and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prize, as well as awards and fellowships from the Sewanee Writer’s Conference, Jentel Foundation, PLAYA, and Artsmith. He also works with refugee and immigrant youth in Oakland, California, through Soccer Without Borders, an organization he founded in 2006.

“The beautiful and the terrible live alongside each other in this work.

And so often, they’re actually the same thing. Or they are happening all at once. There is such deep searching in this book and such formal precision. And the language is luminous, which makes the harrowing physical and psychic landscape even more profound. At the center of this world is the ghost of the poet’s sister who proves that ghosts are always the best teachers. They see us.”

—Gabrielle Calvocoressi, author of Rocket Fantastic

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Catechesis Lindsay Lusby eBook 978-1-60781-698-0 Paper 978-1-60781-697-3 $14.95 gone bird in the glass hours Zachary Asher eBook 978-1-60781-769-7 Paper 978-1-60781-768-0 $14.95

“I revere books of poems that accomplish three things: praying, singing, and storytelling. The poems in West Portal achieve all three.

The poetic modes are mixed and at times hybridized. Deep intelligence and deep feeling seem to hold each other in a death-gripped balance.

There’s something narrative at stake here, too. We’re taking an emotional journey that carries us from one place to another. Maybe that isn’t exactly narrative, but it borrows from narrative structure, and has something to do with a character evolving or changing over the course of a book. I love this about West Portal, a massively ambitious book.”

—David Roderick, author of The Americans and Blue Colonial

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The Geoarchaeology of a Terraced Landscape From Aztec Matlatzinco to Modern Calixtlahuaca

Aleksander Borejsza, Isabel Rodríguez López, Charles D. Frederick, and Michael E. Smith

The most painstaking archaeological exploration of the "Columbian encounter" in Mexico and a manual on how to dig terraced landscapes

July 2021 392 pp., 8 1/2 x 11 92 illustrations, 7 maps Hardcover 978-1-64769-022-9 $85.00s

The toil of several million peasant farmers in Aztec Mexico transformed lakebeds and mountainsides into a checkerboard of highly productive fields. This book charts the changing fortunes of one Aztec settlement and its terraced landscapes from the twelfth to the twenty-first century. It also follows the progress and missteps of a team of archaeologists as they pieced together this story.

Working at a settlement in the Toluca Valley of central Mexico, the authors used fieldwalking, excavation, soil and artifact analyses, maps, aerial photos, land deeds, and litigation records to reconstruct the changing landscape through time. Exploiting the methodologies and techniques of several disciplines, they bring context to eight centuries of the region’s agrarian history, exploring the effects of the Aztec and Spanish Empires, reform, and revolution on the physical shape of the Mexican countryside and the livelihoods of its people.

Accessible to specialists and nonspecialists alike, this well-illustrated and well-organized volume provides a step-by-step guide that can be applied to the study of terraced landscapes anywhere in the world.

The four authors share an interest in terraced landscapes and have worked together and on their own on a variety of archaeological projects in Mesoamerica, the Mediterranean, Poland, and the United Kingdom.

Aleksander Borejsza is professor of archaeology at the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí.

Isabel Rodríguez López works as a freelance archaeologist in Mexico.

Charles D. Frederick is a consulting geoarchaeologist and research fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the coeditor of Landscape and Land Use in Postglacial Greece (2000).

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The Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Environment of the Marismas Nacionales Michael S. Foster eBook 978-1-60781-562-4 Hardcover 978-1-60781-561-7 $70.00 Early Farming and Warfare in Northwest Mexico Robert J. Hard and John R. Roney eBook 978-1-60781-679-9 Hardcover 978-1-60781-678-2 $75.00

Michael E. Smith is professor at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. He is the author and editor of several books on the Aztecs, including Aztec City-State Capitals (2008) and The Postclassic Mesoamerican World (2003).

“This is a first-rate geoarchaeological study, an example of anthropological archaeology at its best. Few studies have dealt so effectively with the specifics of terrace construction, chronology, and function, and especially how terraces may have been modified over time through the impacts of cultural and natural forces. The book will serve as a model for future geoarchaeological studies.”

—Jeffrey R. Parsons, emeritus professor of anthropology and emeritus curator of Latin American Archaeology, University of Michigan

ARCHAEOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY

Human Ecology and Cultural Evolution in the Land of Giants

Raven Garvey

Explores fundamental relationships between environment, group size, and technology

June 2021 288 pp., 7 x 10 57 illustrations Hardcover 978-1-64769-026-7 $65.00s

Generally portrayed as a windswept wasteland of marginal use for human habitation, Patagonia is an unmatched testing ground for some of the world’s most important questions about human ecology and cultural change. In this volume, archaeologist Raven Garvey presents a critical synthesis of Patagonian prehistory, bringing an evolutionary perspective and unconventional evidence to bear on enduringly contentious issues in New World archaeology, including initial human colonization of the Americas, widespread depopulation between 8,000 and 4,000 years ago, and the transition from foraging to farming.

Garvey’s novel hypotheses question common assumptions regarding Patagonia’s suitability for prehistoric hunter-gatherers. She makes four primary arguments: (1) the surprising lack of clothing in parts of prehistoric Patagonia supports a relatively slow initial colonization of the Americas; (2) the sparse record of human habitation during the middle Holocene may be due to prehistoric behavioral changes and archaeological sampling methods rather than population decline; (3) farming never took root in Patagonia because risks associated with farming likely outweighed potential benefits; and, finally, (4) the broad trajectory of cultural change in Patagonia owes as much to feedback between population size and technology as to conditions in the rugged Patagonian outback itself.

Raven Garvey is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. Her research combines archaeological data with evolutionary modeling to address questions at the interface of human behavioral ecology and cultural transmission theory. She is coauthor, with Robert Bettinger and Shannon Tushingham, of Hunter-Gatherers: Archaeological and Evolutionary Theory.

“This book is not just about regional prehistory—it’s about how to think about a region’s prehistory, with Patagonia as a case study. If you want an example of how to think about prehistory from the point of view of two evolutionary paradigms—human behavioral ecology and co-evolutionary theory—you will not be disappointed.”

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People and Culture in Ice Age Americas Edited by Rafael Suarez, Ciprian F. Ardelean eBook 978-1-60781-646-1 Hardcover 978-1-60781-645-4 $60.00 Hunters of the Mid-Holocene Forest James C. Chatters, Jason B. Cooper, Philippe D. Le Tourneau eBook 978-1-64769-007-6 Paper 978-1-64769-006-9 $55.00

—Robert L. Kelly, professor, anthropology, University of Wyoming

“Well written, technically and theoretically up to date. The work draws attention to a part of the Holocene hunter-gatherer world that (like Tasmania) offers a strong counter to general expectations about relationships between latitude, environmental productivity, and many aspects of forager behavior. It also offers a solution to problems worthy of further exploration.”

—James F. O’Connell, professor emeritus of anthropology, University of Utah

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Prehistoric Quarries and Terranes The Modena and Tempiute Obsidian Sources of the American Great Basin

Michael J. Shott

Quantifies two large obsidian-quarry assemblages in order to draw well-grounded conclusions about prehistoric toolstone use

June 2021 328 pp., 7 x 10 43 illustrations,11 maps Hardcover 978-1-64769-010-6 $70.00s

Because of the sheer volume of industrial debris and the limited information it yields, quarries are challenging archaeological subjects. Michael J. Shott tackles this challenge in a study of flakes and preforms from the Modena and Tempiute obsidian quarries of North America’s Great Basin. Using new statistical methods combined with experimental controls and mass analysis, Shott extracts detailed information from debris assemblages, and parses them by successive “stages” of reduction continua.

The book also reports the first test of the behavioralecology field-processing model that treats quarry biface production in continuous terms, and estimates the production efficiency of prehistoric Great Basin knappers. After mapping and interpreting the abundance and distribution of quarry products, Shott concludes by charting future lines of research in the analysis of large toolstone sources. Whatever area of the world and technological traditions they research, lithic analysts will learn much from this book’s approach to complex archaeological deposits and their constituent artifacts.

Michael J. Shott is professor emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Akron. His research focuses on stone-tool analysis and how the archaeological record formed, based on fieldwork in the American midcontinent, Great Basin, Mexico, and South America. He has authored four monographs, including Pottery Ethnoarchaeology in the Michoacán Sierra, and has edited four volumes, including Works in Stone: Contemporary Perspectives on Lithic Analysis.

“Like Shott’s previous work, the book is well written, well researched, and contains a wealth of information that will be of use to a variety of researchers. The book details the analysis of two obsidian quarries and walks the reader through how and why each analysis was conducted and the types of information that can be obtained via such analysis.”

Works in Stone Contemporary Perspectives on Lithic Analysis Edited by Michael J. Shott eBook 978-1-60781-383-5 Hardcover 978-1-60781-382-8 $35.00 Chipped Stone Technological Organization Central Place Foraging and Exchange on the Northern Great Plains Craig M. Johnson eBook 978-1-60781-673-7 Hardcover 978-1-60781-672-0 $75.00

—Andrew P. Bradbury, RPA, Principal Investigator, Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc., Lithic Specialist

“This book is about the analysis of lithic artifacts from Great Basin quarries. However, the wide-ranging approaches and inferential data that Shott used to analyze the Modena and Tempiute quarries have much broader implications to the study of quarries in general, and lithic analysis as a whole. Consequently, the book will be important to lithic analysts across the world..”

—Edward Knell, professor of anthropology, California State University, Fullerton

ARCHAEOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY

Adventures in Andean Ethnoarchaeology

Dean E. Arnold

A story of adventure, personal discovery, and the challenges of doing anthropological fieldwork in the Andes

April 2021 256 pp., 6 x 9 35 illustrations, 5 maps eBook 978-1-64769-025-0 Paper 978-1-64769-024-3 $34.95

Dean Arnold takes readers on a journey into the Andes, recounting the adventures of his 1960s research in the village of Quinua, Peru. Arnold’s quest to understand how contemporary pottery production reflected current Quinua society as well as its ancient Inca and pre-Inca past is one of the earliest studies in what later became known as ethnoarchaeology.

This first-person narrative reveals the challenges of living and working in another culture and the many obstacles one can encounter while doing field research.

Arnold shares how his feelings of frustration and perceived failure led him to refocus his project, a shift that ultimately led to an entirely new perspective on pottery production in the Andes. Masterfully weaving details about Peru’s geography, ecology, history, prehistory, and culture into his story, he chronicles his change from small-town Midwesterner to a person of much broader vision, newly aware of his North American views and values.

Retracing Inca Steps is an excellent read for the lay person wishing to learn about the environment, prehistory, history, and culture of Peru as well as for students wanting to know more about the joys and rigors of fieldwork.

Dean E. Arnold is adjunct curator of Latin American anthropology at the Field Museum in Chicago and professor of anthropology emeritus at Wheaton College, where he taught for thirty-nine years. A recipient of the Society for American Archaeology’s Award for Excellence in Ceramic Studies, he has published numerous articles about pottery production and related subjects.

His five books include the seminal work Ceramic Theory and Cultural Process (Cambridge University Press, 1985).

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Decoding Andean Mythology Margarita Marín-Dale eBook 978-1-60781-509-9 Paperback 978-1-60781-508-2 $34.95 People of the Water Change and Continuity among the Uru-Chipayans of Bolivia Joseph Bastien eBook 978-1-60781-219-7 Hardcover 978-1-60781-148-0 $40.00

“In this carefully constructed narrative, Dean Arnold reviews the primary components of anthropological fieldwork while detailing the challenges and adventures of his foray into the Peruvian Andes as a neophyte graduate student. Told with delightful, illuminating commentary, Arnold’s investigations and lessons learned provide an indispensable aid for any venture into the field and for anyone seeking advice on how to cope with the unfamiliar and the unexpected.”

—Charles C. Kolb, archaeologist and retired senior program officer, National Endowment for the Humanities

“Arnold does a masterful job of weaving the history of a place into its modern context, and of highlighting the Andean way of life through its institutions. Engaging and easy to read.”

—Patrick Ryan Williams, associate curator, professor, and head of anthropology, Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum

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Frank J. Cannon

This Is the Plate

Martha Bradley-Evans

Val Holley

This book invites visitors and other explorers of Utah to see the state’s history, material culture, settlement, and natural landscape through the lens of its buildings. With more than 600 buildings as examples, this guide takes readers through Utah’s cities and rural villages, exploring neighborhoods and other built landscapes. An adobe house from the 1860s speaks volumes about the transmission of ideas, respectability, the places of origin of Utah’s white settlers, and their use of placespecific materials. The Utah State Capitol reflects the Neoclassicism preferred for statehouses throughout the nation, but its site overlooking City Creek Canyon to the east, the Great Salt Lake to the northwest, and the long view south down State Street—one of the longest streets in America—set it apart. This guide uses the diversity of Utah’s architecture to reveal its peoples, their visions for the good life, and the particular responses of their built environment to the unique and beautiful geography of the state.

Includes 276 images, many in color.

Utah’s path to statehood was the most tortuous in U.S. history, primarily because of the Mormon practice of polygamy. Frank J. Cannon, newspaperman, Congressional delegate, and senator, guided Utah toward becoming the forty-fifth state in the Union in 1896.

In the 1880s, Congress dealt with the intransigence of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints over polygamy by enacting punitive new laws. Mormon lobbyists who pleaded for relief in Washington came home empty-handed before Cannon finally broke the logjam. He persuaded President Grover Cleveland to appoint judges who would deal mercifully with convicted polygamists and dissuaded Congress from disenfranchising all members by pledging that the church would abandon polygamy. But when Utah elected Mormon apostle Reed Smoot to the U.S. Senate in 1903, Cannon condemned the LDS Church for reneging on its pledges to stay out of politics. Utah’s subsequent displeasure with Cannon ensured that his critical role in its statehood would be buried by omission.

Edited by Carol A. Edison, Eric A. Eliason, Lynne S. McNeill

FEATURED BACKLIST

An Architectural Travel Guide to Utah

336 pp., 7 x 10 eBook 978-1-64769-009-0 Paper 978-1-64769-008-3 $36.95

Saint, Senator, Scoundrel

336 pp., 6 x 9 eBook 978-1-64769-014-4 Hardcover 978-1-64769-012-0 $60.00 Paper 978-1-64769-013-7 $29.95

Utah Food Traditions

The first book-length treatment of Utah’s distinctive food heritage, this volume contains work by more than sixty subject-matter experts, including scholars, community members, event organizers, journalists, bloggers, photographers, and food producers. It features recipes and photographs of food and beverages.

Utah’s food history is traced from precontact Native American times through the arrival of multinational Mormon pioneers, miners, farmers, and others to today’s moment of “foodie” creativity, craft beers, “fast-casual” restaurant-chain development, and a flourishing immigrant food scene. Contributors also explore the historical and cultural background for scores of food-related tools, techniques, dishes, traditions, festivals, and distinctive ingredients from the state’s religious, regional, and ethnic communities as well as Utah-based companies. In a state much influenced by Latter-day Saint history and culture, iconic items like Jell-O salads, funeral potatoes, fry sauce, and the distinctive “Utah scone” have emerged as self-conscious signals of an ecumenical Utah identity.

450 pp., 8 1/2 x 9 1/2 eBook 978-1-60781-741-3 Paper 978-1-60781-740-6 $34.95

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A Box Elder Publication

Every Last Breath A Memoir of Two Illnesses Joanne Jacobson

114 pp., 5 x 7 eBook 978-1-64769-003-8 Paper 978-1-64769-001-4 $17.95

A Visual History of the 1853 Gunnison Expedition Robert Shlaer In 1853 Richard Hovendon Kern was hired as topographer and artist for a government-sponsored reconnaissance led by Captain John Williams Gunnison. Kern sketched landscape panoramas as the group made its way from St. Louis toward San Francisco. But when the expedition reached Sevier Lake, Utah territory, it was attacked by a band of Indians.

Seven men, including Kern and Gunnison, were killed and Kern’s drawings were stolen. The sketches were soon recovered and eventually carried to Washington, D.C. Richard Kern’s Far West Sketches juxtaposes Kern’s drawings with Shlaer’s photographs, presenting 389 illustrations in geographic sequence from east to west, as well as a detailed narrative of the expedition.

An associated website will include maps, drawings, and photographs so that they can be enlarged, compared, and studied in detail, providing an immersive experience of this important but ill-fated expedition.

368 pp., 11 x 8 1/2 eBook 978-1-64769-018-2 Hardcover 978-1-64769-019-9 $70.00 Paper 978-1-64769-017-5 $44.95

Troubadour on the Road to Gold William B. Lorton’s 1849 Journal to California Edited by LeRoy Johnson and Jean Johnson Foreword by Richard L. Saunders

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When Joanne Jacobson’s writing about her mother’s respiratory illness was interrupted by her own diagnosis with a rare blood disorder, she found her perspective profoundly altered. Every Last Breath follows these two illnesses as they grow unexpectedly intertwined.

Rejecting a fixed, retrospective point of view and the forward-moving trajectory of conventional memoir, Jacobson brings the reader to the emotionally raw present—where potentially fatal illness and end of life both remain, emphatically, life.

As chronic illness blurs the distinction between illness and wellness, she discovers how a lifetime of relapse and remission can invite transformation. Written at the fluid, unsettling boundary between prose and poetry, these essays offer a narrative diagnosis of ongoing revision.

Richard Kern’s Far West Sketches

During the California Gold Rush, many of the miners and merchants who hoped to strike it rich in California left behind letters and journals that provide valuable insights into one of the great migrations in American history. Of all the journals and diaries left behind, William B. Lorton’s is perhaps the most informative and complete. It captures glimpses of a growing Salt Lake City, the hardships of Death Valley, and the extraordinary and mundane aspects of daily life on the road to gold. With resilience and a droll sense of humor, Lorton shares accounts of life-threatening stampedes, dangerous hailstorms, mysteriously moving rocks, and slithering sidewinders. The inclusion of images, maps, and the editors’ detailed notes make this a volume that will entertain and inform.

350 pp., 7 x10 eBook 978-1-60781-780-2 Hardcover 978-1-60781-778-9 $75.00 Paper 978-1-60781-779-6 $45.00

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With Grit and Determination

Hunters of the MidHolocene Forest

Dutton’s Dirty Diggers

Women in Great Basin and

Granite Falls, Washington

Camps in the American

James C. Chatters, Jason B. Cooper, & Philippe D. LeTourneau

Catherine S. Fowler

A Century of Change for American Archaeology

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Edited by Suzanne Eskenazi & Nicole M. Herzog Spanning more than one hundred years of women’s careers and lives, this collection illuminates what it was and is to be a female archaeologist. These personal accounts of researchers, ethnographers, and field archaeologists in the private, public, and academic sectors highlight the unique role women have played in the development of American and Great Basin archaeology. Written by women trained or working in the Great Basin, these accounts reflect the broader landscape of American archaeology, offering a glimpse into a larger narrative about making one’s way in a historically male field. By sharing their stories, the authors highlight the positive aspects of the field, recognize the challenges that still exist, and encourage conversations about inclusion, diversity, and the future of archaeology in the Great Basin and beyond. Their authentic and intimate narratives inspire us to look at challenges not as roadblocks, but as opportunities for lifelong growth and success.

224 pp., 6 x 9 eBook 978-1-64769-005-2 Hardcover 978-1-64769-004-5 $60.00

Old Cordilleran Culture Sites at

This volume examines an almost purely lithic record known in the Puget Sound region as the Olcott Complex. Only loosely described off and on since the early 1960s by a series of researchers, none of whom used the same analytical approach, the Olcott record has never been systematically analyzed until now. As a result, this book fills in enormous gaps in our knowledge regarding the age, mode of subsistence, and adaptive strategy of the Olcott Complex.

Chatters and colleagues describe the intensive excavation of three Olcott sites that were threatened by highway construction. The book concludes by pulling those findings together to place the Olcott Complex into its proper place in regional prehistory. An exemplary model of how to conduct archaeological research, the volume demonstrates how important research issues can be addressed in a cultural resource management context.

240 pp., 8 1/2 x 11 eBook 978-1-64769-007-6 Paper 978-1-64769-006-9 $55.00

Bertha P. Dutton and the Senior Girl Scout Archaeological Southwest, 1947–1957

Catherine Fowler chronicles a significant yet little-known program for Girl Scouts in post–WWII America. At a time when women were just beginning to enter fields traditionally dominated by men, these two-week camping caravans and archaeological excavations introduced teenage girls not only to the rich cultural and scientific heritage of the American Southwest but to new career possibilities.

Dr. Bertha Dutton, curator at the Museum of New Mexico, served as trip leader. While on the road and in camp, Dutton and other experts in anthropology, archaeology, geology, natural history, and more helped the campers appreciate what they were seeing and learning.

This book details the history of the program, sharing trip itineraries and selected memories from the nearly three hundred girls who attended the camps. It also serves as a mini-biography and tribute to Bertha Dutton, who provided a role model for these young women.

344 pp., 8 x 9 eBook 978-1-60781-782-6 Hardcover 978-1-60781-783-3 $74.95 Paper 978-1-60781-781-9 $39.95

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