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An unvarnished account o the American statesman known or his
outspokenness, credibility, and willingness to rise above politics
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Shortly beore Wyomings Alan K. Simpson was elected majority whip o the United
States Senate, he decided to keep a journal. I am going to make notes when I gethome in the evening, as to what happened during each day. Now the senators
longtime chie o sta, Donald Loren Hardy, has drawn extensively on Simpsons
personal papers and nineteen-volume diary to write this unvarnished account o a
storied lie and political career.
Simpson gave ull authorial control to Hardy, telling him, Don, just tell the truth,
the whole truth, as you always have. Leave teeth, hair, and eyeballs on the oor, i
that results rom telling the truth. Taking Simpson at his word, Hardy shows readersa thrill-seeking teenager in Cody and a tireless politician who has thoroughly enjoyed
his work. Full o entertaining tales and moments o historical signifcance, Shooting
rom the Lip oers a privileged and revealing backstage view o late-twentieth-
century American politics.
Hardys richly anecdotal account reveals the roles Simpson played during such critical
events as the Iran-Contra scandal and Clarence Thomass confrmation hearings. It
divulges the senators candid views o seven American presidents and scores o other
national and world luminaries. Simpson is a politician unettered by partisanship.
Among President George H. W. Bushs closest compatriots, he was also a close riend
and admirer o Senator Ted Kennedy and was never araid to publicly challenge the
positions or tactics o ellow lawmakers, Democratic and Republican alike.
Simpsons ability to use truth and humor as both sword and shield, combined with
his years o experience and issue mastery, has led to an impressive post-Senate career.
In 2010, or example, he co-chaired President Barack Obamas Commission on Fiscal
Responsibility and Reorm. Shooting rom the Lip portrays a statesman punching
sacred cows, challenging the media, and grappling with some o the nations most
difcult challenges.
Dnad lren Hardserved or 18 years as Senator Alan K. Simpsons Press Secretary
and Chie o Sta, then served as Director o Government Aairs at the Smithsonian
Institution. Retired, he now engages in humanitarian eorts overseas and resides
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Showcases a premier
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A native o Tulsa, Oklahoma, Eugene B. Adkins
(19202006) spent nearly our decades acquiring his extraordinary collection o Native
American and American southwestern art. His vast assemblage includes paintings,
photographs, jewelry, baskets, textiles, and ceramics by many o the Southwests most
renowned artists and artisans. This stunning volume eatures ull-color reproductions
o signifcant works rom the Adkins Collection, some o which are reproduced here
or the frst time.
Adkins began collecting in the 1960s, when American southwestern art enjoyed
a resurgence in popularity. Ultimately his holdings encompassed works by such
distinguished American artists as Maynard Dixon, Dorothy Eugenie Brett, Charles
Bird King, Alred Jacob Miller, Charles M. Russell, and Joseph H. Sharp. In
addition, Adkins was a passionate and prescient connoisseur o Native American
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art and artiacts, and his wide-ranging collection o works by Native artists includes
paintings by T. C. Cannon, sculpture by Mara Martnez, and jewelry by CharlesLoloma, all o which are represented in this book.
Along with its rich photographic sampling o works by Native and non-Native
artists, The Eugene B. Adkins Collection oers inormative essays by art historians
and curators, whose areas o expertise coincide with Adkinss own interests. The
volume also eatures a oreword by David L. Boren, President o the University o
Oklahoma, and a preace by Randall Suolk, Director o the Philbrook Museum
o Art in Tulsa, and Ghislain dHumires, Director o the Fred Jones Jr. Museum oArt at the University o Oklahoma. These two museums, which share a commitment
to preserving Native American art and artiacts, are joint stewards o the Eugene B.
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examines the arguments both or and against wind generation.
In an earlier book, historian Robert W. Righter traced the ways people have used
wind since the dawn o civilization. In Windall, he explains how wind is transormedinto energy and examines the land-use decisions that aect the establishment o new
wind arms. The book also discusses the role o tax credits and other government
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in cities.
Currently the worlds astest-growing source o energy, wind generation has also given
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Rbert W. Righter is Research Proessor o History at Southern Methodist Uni-
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A comprehensive history o our largest state
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The largest by ar o the fty states, Alaska is also the state o greatest mystery and
diversity. And, as Claus-M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick show in this comprehensivesurvey, the history o Alaskas peoples and the development o its economy have
matched the diversity o its land- and seascapes.
Alaska: A History begins by examining the regions geography and the Native
peoples who inhabited it or thousands o years beore the frst Europeans arrived.
The Russians claimed northern North America by right o discovery in 1741. During
their occupation o Russian America the region was little more than an outpost or
ur hunters and traders. When the czar sold the territory to the United States in 1867,nobody knew what to do with Sewards Folly.
Mainland America paid little attention to the new acquisition until a rush o gold
seekers ooded into the Yukon Territory. In 1906 Congress granted Alaska Territory
a voteless delegate and in 1912 gave it a territorial legislature. Not until 1959,
however, was Alaskas long-sought goal o statehood realized. During World War
II, Alaskas place along the great circle route rom the United States to Asia frmly
established its military importance, which was underscored during the Cold War.
The developing military garrison brought ederal money and many new residents.
Then the discovery o huge oil and natural-gas deposits gave a measure o economic
security to the state.
Alaska: A History provides a ull chronological survey o the regions and states
history, including the precedent-setting Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act o 1971,
which compensated Native Americans or their losses; the eect o the oil industry
and the trans-Alaska pipeline on the economy; the Exxon Valdez oil spill; and Alaska
politics through the early 2000s.
Cas-M. Naske is retired as Proessor o History at the University o Alaska. A
longtime resident o the state, he is the author o many works on Alaska history.
Herman E. Stnick (19172002) was or many years head o the Department o
History at the University o Alaska. Naske and Slotnick co-authored Alaska: A
History o the 49th State.
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DarySToRIESofolD-TIMEoKlAHoMA A rousing collection o tales rom Indian Territory
and the Sooner State
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Do you know how Oklahoma came to have a panhandle? Did you know that
Washington Irving once visited what is now Oklahoma? Can you name the ofcial
state rock, or list the courses in the ofcial state meal? The answers to these questions,
and others you may not have thought to ask, can be ound in this engaging collection
o tales by renowned journalist-historian David Dary.
Most o the stories gathered here frst appeared as newspaper articles during the state
centennial in 2007. For this volume Dary has revised and expanded themand added
new ones. He begins with an overview o Oklahomas rich and varied history and
geography, describing the origins o its trails, rails, and waterways and recounting the
many tales o buried treasure that are part o Oklahoma lore.
But the heart o any state is its people, and Dary introduces us to Oklahomans ranging
rom Indian leaders Quanah Parker and Satanta, to lawmen Bass Reeves and Bill
Tilghman, to twentieth-century perorming artists Woody Guthrie, Will Rogers, and
Gene Autry. Dary also writes about orts and stagecoaches, cattle ranching and oil,
outlaws and lawmen, inventors and politicians, and the names and pronunciation o
Oklahoma towns. And he salutes such intellectual and artistic heroes as distinguished
teacher and writer Angie Debo and artist and educator Oscar Jacobson, one o the
frst to ocus world attention on Indian art.
Reading this book is like listening to a knowledgeable old-timer regale his audience
with historical anecdotes, so it was said tall tales, and musings on what it all
means. Whether youre a native o the Sooner State or a newcomer, you are sure
to learn much rom these accounts o the people, places, history, and olklore o
Oklahoma.
Award-winning writer Daid Dar is retired as head o what is now the Gaylord
College o Journalism at the University o Oklahoma. He has published numerous
articles on the Old West and the plains region and authored eighteen previous books,
including Cowboy Culture, True Tales o the Prairies and Plains, and Frontier
Medicine.
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Ive read and enjoyed every word o this book. Its a must-read or all Sooner ans.
bARRy swITzeR
The Oklahoma Sooners dominated the world o college ootball during the 1950s.
Under the leadership o Coach Bud Wilkinson, the team won three national titles
and established an astounding record o orty-seven straight victories that still stands
today. Yet by 1959, Wilkinsons Sooners were showing signs o vulnerability, marking
the start o a new and challenging era in Oklahoma ootball. Then along came a new
oensive strategy, and OU began to dominate college ootball once again.
In Wishbone, veteran journalist Wann Smith provides an in-depth account o
Sooner ootball rom the teams fnal years under Wilkinson through its remarkable
turnaround under Coach Barry Switzer. At the heart o this story is the phenomenal
success o the Wishbone oensea hybrid oshoot o the Split-t ormation that
Wilkinson employed so successully in the 1950s. Though not without its risks,
the Wishbone oense changed the ace o college ootball and was a key actor inOklahomas resurgence in the 1970s with Switzer at the helm.
Drawing on frsthand accounts rom coaches, players, and university administrators,
many never beore published, Smith takes us behind the scenes during this exciting
comeback period to reveal not just what happened but why and how it happened.
And he brings to lie the personalities who played pivotal roles in the teams renewed
success, including Jack Mildren, Greg Pruitt, Joe Washington, Billy Sims, and many,
many others.Sooner ans, indeed all ans o college ootball, will relish this account o the remaking
o a ootball powerhouse and its return to glory.
Wann Smith, a reelance journalist and writer, has been a monthly contributor to
Sooners Illustratedmagazine since 2005.Ja Wikinsn, the son o Bud Wilkinson, is
the author oBud Wilkinson: An Intimate Portrait o an American Legend.
An exciting account o the remaking o a ootball powerhouse
and its return to glory
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WorkDoNTSHoo
TTHEGENTIlE A witty memoir o a non-Mormon teachers rookie years in Utah
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When James Work took a teaching job at the College o Southern Utah in the mid-
1960s, he knew little about teaching and even less about the customs o his Mormon
neighbors. For starters, he did not know he was a Gentile, the Mormon term or
anyone not a member o the Church o Jesus Christ o Latter-day Saints. But just as
he learned to be a religious diplomat and a black-market bourbon runner, he also
discovered that his masters degree in literature apparently qualifed him to teach
journalism, photography, creative writing, advanced essay and eature article writing,
reshman composition, and vocabulary building.
With deadpan humor, Work pokes un at his own navet in Dont Shoot the Gentile,
a memoir o his rookie years teaching at a small college in a small, mostly Mormon
town. From the frst pages, Work tells how he navigated the sometimes tricky process
o being an outsider, pulling readersno matter their religious afliationinto his
universal fsh-out-o-water tale. The title is drawn rom a hunting trip Work made
with ellow aculty members, all Mormons. When a load o buckshot whizzed over
his head, one o the party hollered, Dont shoot the Gentile! Well have to hire
another one!
Today the College o Southern Utah is a university, and Cedar City, like most small
towns in the West, is no longer so culturally isolated. James Work let in 1967 topursue a doctorate, but his remembrances o the place and its people will do more
than make readersMormon and non-Mormon alikelaugh out loud. Works
memoir will resonate with anyone who remembers the challenges and small triumphs
o a frst job in a new, strange place.
James C. Wrk is author and editor o more than a dozen books, including the
anthology Prose and Poetry o the American Westand a collection o memoir essays,
Windmills, the River and Dust: One Mans West.
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A legendary packer learns his cratand comes o agein the
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The year is 1902. A young stock-handler named Fenton Pardee has just survived
the train wreck that almost destroyed William F. Codys Wild West show. Surveyingthe trains smoldering ruinsand what is let o Codys company o stunt-riders,
trick-shooters, and stage actorsFenton realizes that turning the West into a circus
to thrill the world is no longer thrilling or him. Salvaging a saddle horse and three
pack mules, he heads back into the West, seeking the reality o the Montana Rockies.
Blue Heaven marks the return o Fenton Pardee, veteran guide and packer, who
fgured so memorably in High Country, Willard Wymans highly acclaimed frst
novel. Now Wyman moves back in time, flling in the story o the legendary packer.
As he begins his westward journey, Fenton is not nearly as sure o where he is going
as o what he wants to leave. Crossing the National Divide, he ollows Indian trails
and game trails, learning the lay o the land as he moves into a wilderness that
comorts him as it draws him ever deeper into it. Stumbling into the camp o Tommy
Yellowtail, a Flathead Indian as determined to remain in these mountains as Fenton
is to embrace them, he fnally fnds his way. Together the two men discover that
showing people what they want to preserve has its own way o keeping it alive.
The tale o Fenton and Tommyand o the women they love, one o whom is
tragically taken rom themcuts through the romance o the West to oer an earthier
reality, even as twentieth-century expansion and a looming world war threaten to
take it all away.
Wiard Wman, who resides in the coastal range o Northern Caliornia, has been
a wrangler, guide, and packer in Montanas Bob Marshall Wilderness and the Sierra
Nevada high country or more than orty years. A ormer literature instructor anddean at Colby College and Stanord University, he is Headmaster Emeritus o The
Thacher School. His previous novel, High Country, was named Best First Novel and
Best Novel o the West by the Western Writers o America.
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A unique volume o poetry that captures
hunting on the Great Plains
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Hunters Log is Timothy Murphys long-awaited book o hunting poetry. With his
aithul Labrador, Feeney, Murphy wanders in deep snow along the windbreaks o
the Sheyenne and Red River valleys, reciting poetry and fring at the pheasants Feeney
ushes. His poetry is deceptively simple, rhymed verse in the manner o Robert Frost.
Murphys poetry is internationally acclaimed, yet he is not well known on the
Great Plainswhere his unique poetic vision was shaped. Trained by Robert
Penn Warren and mentored by Richard Wilbur, Murphy has tuned his voice to the
treeless windswept landscapes o the northern plains. His poetry explores the rural
countryside o North Dakota.
Heavily inuenced by Spanish philosopher Jos Ortega y Gassets Meditation onHunting, Murphy sees hunting as a spiritual activity. There is nothing cloistered in
his poetry. He tramps through the tall grass prairie o eastern Dakota and along the
ridges and buttes that overlook the mighty Missouri, then cooks up what he kills
in exquisite stews and ragouts. Timothy Murphys genius is to write poetry that is
accessible to all, simultaneously simple and proound, and deeply imbued with the
spirit o place.
Born in 1951,Timth Mrph
grew up in the Red River Valley o the North. Since
graduating rom Yale College as Scholar o the House in Poetry in 1972, he has
armed and hunted in the Dakotas. Murphys work includes the poetry collections
The Deed o Git (1998), Very Far North (2002), and Mortal States and Faint
Thunder (2011) and a memoir in verse and prose, Set the Ploughshare Deep (2002).
The Labrador retrievers celebrated in Hunters Logare Elmwoods Diktynna Thea,
Elmwoods Maud Gonne, and Elmwoods Bold Fenian.
DIsTRIbuTeD FoR THe DAkoTA InsTITuTe
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Theodore Roosevelt ventured into the American West to seek authentic rontier
experience and the strenuous lie. The New York aristocrat traveled to western
Dakota Territory in 1883 to kill his frst bualo. He got his bualo, but he also ell
in love with the badlands o what is now North Dakota.
On impulse, Roosevelt invested a signifcant portion o his wealth in two badlands
ranches, and he spent the better part o 188387 ranching, hunting, serving as deputy
sheri, writing books, and attempting to become an authentic American cowboy.
In North Dakota the New York dude became the Theodore Roosevelt who led acowboy brigade o cavalrymen up Kettle and San Juan Hills in 1898 and then led
the American people into the twentieth century as the twenty-sixth president o the
United States.
This book contains 70 stories, many set in Dakota Territory, about Roosevelts
lie as an adventurer, politician, and man o letters, lavishly illustrated with more
than 100 photographs, some never previously published. Clay S. Jenkinsons
introduction assesses what Roosevelt learned rom his sojourn in the West, includinghis commitment to conservation o Americas natural resources. With a oreword
by best-selling biographer Douglas Brinkley, this book tells the story o Theodore
Roosevelts lie in his own words, careully excerpted rom his 1913 autobiography.
Ca S. Jenkinsn, Director o the Dakota Institute, is the author o eight books, a
documentary flmmaker, and ounder o the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson
State University. A Rhodes Scholar and winner o the National Humanities Medal,
Jenkinson was educated at the University o Minnesota and Oxord University.
Dgas Brinkeis the author oThe Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and
the Crusade or America.
A lavishly illustrated collection o Teddy Roosevelt's stories o his
Dakota years
July
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DIsTRIbuTeD FoR THe DAkoTA InsTITuTe
Two distinctive collections o poetry celebrating
the northern Great Plains
July
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Timothy Murphy is a major American poet who lives on the Great Plains. A
ascinating and complicated man and a child o the northern prairie, he writes
deceptively simple poetry. Murphy has been a grain and hog armer and, like Wallace
Stevens, an insurance salesman, but the twin joys o his lie are poetry and hunting.
This double book, Mortal Stakes and Faint Thunder, is the frst o several volumes o
his poetry to be published by the Dakota Institute Press.
Murphys poetry explores aith, amily, spirituality, death, arming, riendship, love,
and sexuality, yet it is prooundly rooted in placethe Red River watershed in North
Dakota and western Minnesota. He tries to make sense o the wide sweep o the
northern plains, to explore how place shapes poetry and how poetry shapes ones
experience o place.
Murphy is an unpretentious man with a abulous poetic pedigree. He studied with
Robert Penn Warren at Yale, who passed him on to Richard Wilbur with a note
saying, Because hes the best man weve got. Murphy likens his poetry to the work
o Robert Frost, and, like Frost, he preers to work in rhyme.
Born in 1951,Timth Mrphgrew up in the Red River valley o the North. Since
graduating rom Yale College as Scholar o the House in Poetry in 1972, he has
armed and hunted in the Dakotas. Murphys work includes the poetry collections
The Deed o Git(1998); Very Far North (2002); a memoir in verse and prose, Set the
Ploughshare Deep (2002); and a new volume o hunting poetry, Hunters Log(2011).
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THe kRess coLLecTIon ATTHe DenVeR ART museumB agc D
The Samuel H. Kress Foundation was ormed to celebrate art by making it accessible
to the entire country. Published on the ftieth anniversary o the oundations 1961git to the Denver Art Museum o thirty-seven masterworksrom the mid-ourteenth
to the mid-seventeenth centurythis guide to the collection continues and honors the
Samuel H. Kress Foundations enduring artistic vision.
With more than 100 color illustrations, this lavishly illustrated catalogue presents
readers with beautiul images and individual entries, including provenance and
specifc literature, detailing each work in the Kress Collection at the Denver Art
Museum.
A native Italian, Angeica Dane is Associate Curator in Painting and Sculpture at
the Denver Art Museum, where she curated Cities o Splendor: A Journey through
Renaissance Italy (2011). Prior to joining the Denver Art Museum, Daneo was
research assistant in the early European art department o the Saint Louis Art
Museum, where she worked on the international exhibition Orazio and Artemisia
Gentileschi: Father and Daughter Painters in Baroque Italy and the symposium
Artemisia Gentileschi: Taking Stock.
A beautiully illustrated catalogue o the Kress Collection at the
Denver Art Museum
JuLy
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From the colorul to the exasperating in the early Snake River
trapping expeditions
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Alexander Ross, the pioneer recorder o the early ur trade in the ar northern West,
led a beaver trapping expedition in 1824 into the vast, unamiliar territory east otrading posts in the Pacifc Northwest. He and his men ventured deep into Snake River
country in present-day Idaho and Montana. In this narrative, based on the accounts
let by Ross and others, historian and legal scholar John Phillip Reid describes
the experiences o the earliest Hudsons Bay Company ur-trapping expeditions
ventures usually overlooked by historiansand explores the interaction between the
diverse cultures o the Pacifc Northwest.
Ross recorded in exquisite detail the endless vexations o managing a brigade drawn
rom the widest possible mixtures o ethnic backgrounds and nationalitieshis men
included mtis (or mixed-bloods), Americans, Canadians, and Native reemen
(independent contractors) rom over a dozen Indian nations. Rosss accounts reveal
the consequences o running low on supplies and having to butcher the animals, and
how hunting game or sport threatened the stock o ammunition and the condition o
the horses. Entire expeditions were at the mercy o the most careless trapper and the
weakest horse. Hiring guides was chancy, or local tribesmen did not always know the
locations o beaver streams, or even the terrain ahead. Religion could be problematic,as well; both French Canadians andIroquois reused to work on Catholic holy days.
More than merely chronicling Rosss accounts, Reid uses early trapping expeditions as
a lens or examining legal, institutional, and commercial behavior among the diverse
population the ur trade drew together. In addition, he assesses broader issues such as
cultural conict between Ross and his men, and the Hudsons Bay Companys drive
to discourage American settlement in the Northwest by exterminating the beaver
there. Those interested in the history o the early Northwest will fnd this well-crated
saga both engaging and enlightening.
Jhn Phiip Reid is Proessor o Law Emeritus at the New York University School
o Law and author o numerous books, including Contested Empire: Peter Skene
Ogden and the Snake River Expeditions.
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Uses science to understand survival among the West's
most storied overlanders
An ARcHAeoLoGy oF DesPeRATIoneplrig th Dr Part Aldr cr cap
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The Donner Party is almost inextricably linked with cannibalism. In truth, we know
remarkably little about what actually happened to the starving travelers stranded in
the Sierra Nevada in the winter o 184647. Combining the approaches o history,
ethnohistory, archaeology, bioarchaeology, and social anthropology, this innovative
look at the Donner Partys experience at the Alder Creek Camp oers insights into
many long-unsolved mysteries.
Centered on archaeological investigations in the summers o 2003 and 2004 near
Truckee, Caliornia, the book includes detailed analyses o artiacts and bones that
suggest what lie was like in this survival camp. Microscopic investigations o tiny bone
ragments reveal butchery scars and microstructure that illuminate what the Donner
amilies may have eaten beore the fnal days o desperation, how they prepared
what served as ood, and whether they actually butchered and ate their deceased
companions. The contributors reassess old data with new analytic techniques and, byexamining both physical evidence and oral testimony rom observers and survivors,
add new dimensions to the historical narrative.
The authors integration o a variety o approachesincluding narratives o the
Washoe Indians who observed the Donner Partydestroys some myths, deconstructs
much o the olklore about the stranded party, and demonstrates that novel approaches
can shed new light on events we thought we understood.
Ke J. Dinis Associate Proessor o Anthropology at the University o Montanaand author oBoomtown Saloons: Archaeology and History in Virginia City.Jie M.
Schabitskis Senior Research Archaeologist at the Museum o Natural and Cultural
History, University o Oregon, and the editor oBox Oce Archaeology: Rening
Hollywoods Portrayals o the Past. Shannn A. Nak is Associate Proessor o
Anthropology at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, and
author o House o Mourning: A Biocultural History o the Mountain Meadows
Massacre.
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Fort Cla rk a n d I t sIndIan neIghbors
A Trading Post on the Upper Missouri
W. rym W Wiim J. hu, J. ry h. Wiim
A history o the ur trade at this historic site, including the latest
archaeological ndings
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A thriving ur trade post between 1830 and 1860, Fort Clark, in what is today
western North Dakota, also served as a way station or artists, scientists, missionaries,soldiers, and other western chroniclers traveling along the Upper Missouri River. The
written and visual legacies o these visitorsamong them the German prince-explorer
Maximilian o Wied, Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, and American painter-author George
Catlinhave long been the primary sources o inormation on the cultures o the
Mandan and Hidatsa Indians, the peoples who met the frst ur traders in the area.
This book, by a team o anthropologists, is the frst thorough account o the ur trade
at Fort Clark to integrate new archaeological evidence with the historical record.
The Mandans built a village in about 1822 near the site o what would become
Fort Clark; ater the 1837 smallpox epidemic that decimated them, the village was
occupied by Arikaras until they abandoned it in 1862. Because it has never been
plowed, the site o Fort Clark and the adjacent Mandan/Arikara village are rich
in archaeological inormation. The authors describe the environmental and cultural
setting o the ort (named ater William Clark o the Lewis and Clark expedition),
including the social profle o the ur traders who lived there. They also chronicle the
histories o the Mandans and the Arikaras beore and during the occupation o thepost and the village.
The authors conclude by assessing the resultspublished here or the frst timeo
the archaeological program that investigated the ort and adjacent Indian villages at
Fort Clark State Historic Site. By vividly depicting the conict and cooperation in and
around the ort, this book reveals the various cultures interdependence.
W. Ramnd Wd is Proessor Emeritus o Anthropology at the University o
Missouri, Columbia. He has authored or edited numerous articles and books onwestern American history and archaeology, including Prologue to Lewis and Clark:
The Mackay and Evans Expedition.Wiiam J. Hnt, Jr., is an archaeologist with the
National Park Service. Rand H. Wiiamsholds a Ph.D. in anthropology rom the
University o Missouri at Columbia.
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The rst ull biography o the agent who dared to walk between
Indians and whites
neD wynkooP AnD THe LoneLy RoADFRom sAnD cReekB l k
When Edward W. Wynkoop arrived in Colorado Territory during the 1858 gold rush,
he was one o many ambitious newcomers seeking wealth in a promising land mostlyinhabited by American Indians. Ater he worked as a miner, sheri, bartender, and
land speculator, Wynkoops lie drastically changed ater he joined the First Colorado
Volunteers to fght or the Union during the Civil War. This sympathetic but critical
biography centers on his subsequent eorts to prevent war with Indians during the
volatile 1860s.
A central theme o Louis Krats engaging narrative is Wynkoops daring in standing
up to Anglo-Americans and attempting to end the 1864 Indian war. The Indians
may have been dangerous enemies obstructing progress, but they were also human
beings. Many whites thought otherwise, and at daybreak on November 29, 1864,
the Colorado Volunteers attacked Black Kettles sleeping camp. Upon learning o the
disaster now known as the Sand Creek Massacre, Wynkoop was appalled and spoke
out vehemently against the action.
Many o his contemporaries damned his views, but Wynkoop devoted the rest o his
career as a soldier and then as a U.S. Indian agent to helping Cheyennes and Arapahos
to survive. The tribes lieways still centered on the dwindling herds o bualo, but
now they needed guns to hunt. Krat reveals how hard Wynkoop worked to persuade
the Indian Bureau to provide the tribes with frearms along with their allotments o
ood and clothinga hard sell to a government bent on protecting white settlers and
paving the way or American expansion.
In the wake o Sand Creek, Wynkoop strove to prevent General Winfeld Scott
Hancock rom destroying a Cheyenne-Sioux village in 1867, only to have the general
ignore him and start a war. Fearing more innocent people would die, Wynkoopresigned rom the Indian Bureau but, not long thereater, receded into obscurity.
Now, thanks to Louis Krat, we may appreciate Wynkoop as a man o conscience
who dared to walk between Indians and Anglo-Americans but was oten powerless
to prevent the tragic consequences o their conict.
Writer, historian, and lecturer lis Krat is the author o our books, including
Custer and the Cheyenne and Gatewood& Geronimo.
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$34.95 cLoTH 978-0-8061-4226-5
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NERy,CuRIoSITIES,
ANDSTuPENDouSRoCKS A nineteenth-century artists rsthand impressions o the American West
DecembeR
$45.00 cLoTH 978-0-8061-4219-7
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sceneRy, cuRIosITI es,AnD sTuPenDous Rockswillia Qr ovrlad sth, 18501851
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Long beore Hollywood brought the landscapes o the American West to
movie screens, clever impresarios invented ways o simulating the experience
o western travel and selling it to mass audiences. In 1851, entrepreneur
John Wesley Jones hired artist William Quesenbury to join such a venture.
Quesenbury and other artists traveled the overland trails through Nebraska
Territory to sketch the scenery, curiosities, and stupendous rocks they
encountered, and Jones used selected material or his Pantoscope, agigantic, scrolling panoramic painting. Scenery, Curiosities, and Stupendous
Rocks gathers 71 o Quesenburys sketches rom the Jones expedition and a gold rush
trip the year beore. These works in pencil are illuminated by eyewitness accounts
rom the period, modern maps, contemporary photographs, and descriptive notes.
David Royce Murphy, Michael L. Tate, and Michael Farrell set Quesenburys
depictions, including Pikes Peak and Courthouse Rock, in historical context. Their
insightul essays oer accounts o the artists mid-century travels, the worlds o
panoramic art and feld exploration, and the contemporary conception o natural
space. In exploring these topics, the book oers alternate conclusions about the
purpose o the sketches. Joness moving panorama opened in late 1852 under the
title Pantoscope o Caliornia, Nebraska & Kansas, Salt Lake & the Mormons and
was wildly popular on Boston and New York stages.
Today, the Quesenbury sketches are all that remains o Joness project. The sketches
reproduced here, rare records o that ambitious enterprise as well as the sights en
route to Caliornia gold, oer evidence o the way mid-nineteenth-century Americans
envisioned the West.
Daid Rce Mrphis Senior Research Architect or the Nebraska State Historical
Society and author o numerous articles on architecture and place. Michae l. Tate,
Proessor o History at the University o Nebraska, Omaha, is author o nine books,
including Indians and Emigrants: Encounters on the Overland Trails. Michae
farre, a Nebraska public television producer, has produced 18 documentary shows,
including In Search o the Oregon Trailand The Platte River Road.
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onPlAINSINDIANART
A lavishly illustrated collection o the renowned ethnohistorian's
seminal essays
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For almost three-quarters o a century, the study o Plains Indian art has been shaped
by the expertise, wisdom, and inspired leadership o John Canfeld Ewers (1909
97). Based on years o feld research with Native Americans, careul scholarship,
and exhaustive frsthand studies o museum collections around the world, Ewerss
publications have long been required reading or anyone interested in the cultures
o the Plains peoples, especially their visual art traditions. This vividly illustrated
collection o Ewerss writings presents studies frst published in American Indian ArtMagazine and other periodicals between 1968 and 1992.
Tracing the history o the pictorial art o Plains peoples rom images on rock suraces
to the walls o modern museums, the essays reect the principal interests o this
pioneering scholar o ethnohistory, who was himsel a talented artist: the depiction
o tribal lie and ritual, individual war honors, and aspects o sacred power basic to
traditional Plains cultures. Chapters are devoted to particular tribal artsBlackeet
picture writing and Assiniboin antelope-horn headdresses, or exampleas well as
the work o particular artists. Ewers also traces interactions between Plains Indian
artists and Euro-American artists and anthropologists.
Available or the frst time in book orm, the inuential cultural and historical studies
collected heretogether with all 140 illustrations that Ewers selected or them,
including many now in ull colorremain vital to our understanding o the Native
peoples o the Great Plains.
Jhn C. Ewersserved as Director o what is now the Smithsonian Institutions NationalMuseum o American History and was Ethnologist Emeritus with the Smithsonian.
His many publications include The Blackeet: Raiders on the Northwestern Plains
and Plains Indian History and Culture: Essays on Continuity and Change. Jane
Ewers Rbinsn, John C. Ewerss daughter, is retired as a program analyst or the
U.S. Ofce o Surace Mining Reclamation and Enorcement. Candace S. Greene
is a North American ethnologist with the National Museum o Natural History,
Smithsonian Institution, and author oOne Hundred Summers: A Kiowa Calendar
Record. Ean M. Marer,ormer director o the Minneapolis Institute o the Arts, isauthor oVisions o the People: A Pictorial History o Plains Indian Lie.
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KECHAuGINDIANSofEASTER
NloNGISlAND The rst comprehensive history o the Unkechaug Indians
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Few people may realize that Long Island is still home to American Indians, theregions original inhabitants. One o the oldest reservations in the United States
the Poospatuck Reservationis located in Suolk County, the densely populated
eastern extreme o the greater New York area. The Unkechaug Indians, known also
by the name o their reservation, are recognized by the State o New York but not
by the ederal government. This narrative accountwritten by a noted authority
on the Algonquin peoples o Long Islandis the frst comprehensive history o the
Unkechaug Indians.
Drawing on archaeological and documentary sources, John A. Strong traces the story
o the Unkechaugs rom their ancestral past, predating the arrival o Europeans, to the
present day. He describes their frst encounters with British settlers, who introduced
to New Englands indigenous peoples guns, blankets, cloth, metal tools, kettles, as
well as disease and alcohol.
Although granted a large reservation in perpetuity, the Unkechaugs were, like many
Indian tribes, the victims o broken promises, and their landholdings diminished
rom several thousand acres to fty-fve. Despite their losses, the Unkechaugs have
persisted in maintaining their cultural traditions and autonomy by taking measures
to boost their economy, preserve their language, strengthen their communal bonds,
and deend themselves against legal challenges.
In early histories o Long Island, the Unkechaugs fgured only as a colorul backdrop
to celebratory stories o British settlement. Strongs account, which includes extensive
testimony rom tribal members themselves, brings the Unkechaugs out o the shadows
o history and establishes a permanent record o their struggle to survive as a distinct
community.
Jhn A. Strng is Proessor Emeritus o History and American Studies at Long Island
University. He is the author o numerous publications, including The Montaukett
Indians o Eastern Long Island,Algonquian Peoples o Long Island rom Earliest
Times to 1700, and We Are Still Here!: The Algonquian Peoples o Long Island
Today. He recently served as an expert witness in the ederal court case Gristedes
Foods v. Poospatuck (Unkechaug) Nation.
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How the Northern Cheyenne exodus has been remembered, told,
and retold
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The exodus o the Northern Cheyennes in 1878 and 1879, an attempt to ee rom
Indian Territory to their Montana homeland, is an important event in AmericanIndian history. It is equally important in the history o towns like Oberlin, Kansas,
where Cheyenne warriors killed more than orty settlers. The Cheyennes, in turn,
suered losses through violent encounters with the U.S. Army. More than a century
later, the story remains amiliar because it has been told by historians and novelists,
and on flm. In The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory , James N.
Leiker and Ramon Powers explore how the event has been remembered, told, and
retold. They examine the recollections o Indians and settlers and their descendants,
and they consider local history, mass-media treatments, and literature to drawthought-provoking conclusions about how this story has changed over time.
The Cheyennes journey has always been recounted in melodramatic stereotypes,
and or the last fty years most versions have eatured noble savages trying to
reclaim their birthright. Here, Leiker and Powers deconstruct those stereotypes and
transcend them, pointing out that history is never so simple. The Cheyennes ight,
they write, had let white and Indian bones alike scattered along its route rom
Oklahoma to Montana. In this view, the descendants o the Cheyennes and thesettlers they encountered are all westerners who need history as a way o explaining
the bones and arrowheads that littered the plains.
Leiker and Powers depict a rural West whose diverse peoplesEuro-American and
Native American alikeseek to preserve their heritage through memory and history.
Anyone who lives in the contemporary Great Plains or who wants to understand the
West as a whole will fnd this book compelling.
James N. leikeris author oRacial Borders: Black Soldiers along the Rio Grande andAssociate Proessor o History at Johnson County Community College in Overland
Park, Kansas. Ramn Pwers, ormerly Executive Director o the Kansas State
Historical Society, is author o articles on Plains Indians history.
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BussWINNINGTHEWESTWITHWoRDS How American settlers accomplished Indian Removal through
language and imagery
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Indian Removal was a process both physical and symbolic, accomplished not only
at gunpoint but also through language. In the Midwest, white settlers came to speak
and write o Indians in the past tense, even though they were still present. Winning
the West with Words explores the ways nineteenth-century Anglo-Americans used
language, rhetoric, and narrative to claim cultural ownership o the region that
comprises present-day Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
Historian James Joseph Buss borrows rom literary studies, geography, and an-
thropology to examine images o stalwart pioneers and vanished Indians used
by American settlers in portraying an empty landscape in which they established
arms, towns, and civilized governments. He demonstrates how this now-amiliar
narrative came to replace a more complicated history o cooperation, adaptation,
and violence between peoples o dierent cultures.
Buss scrutinizes a wide range o sourcestravel journals, captivity narratives, treaty
council ceremonies, settler petitions, artistic representations, newspaper editorials,
late-nineteenth-century county histories, and public celebrations such as regional
airs and centennial pageants and paradesto show how white Americans used
language, metaphor, and imagery to accomplish the symbolic removal o Nativepeoples rom the region south o the Great Lakes. Ultimately, he concludes that
the popular image o the white yeoman pioneer was employed to support powerul
narratives about westward expansion, American democracy, and unlimited national
progress. Buss probes beneath this narrative o conquest to show the ways Indians,
ar rom being passive, participated in shaping historical memoryand oten used
Anglo-Americans own words to subvert removal attempts.
By grounding his study in place rather than ocusing on a single group o people, Bussgoes beyond the conventional uses o history, giving readers a new understanding not
just o the history o the Midwest but o the power o creation narratives.
James Jseph Bss is Assistant Proessor o History at Oklahoma City University.
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CushmanTHE
CHERoKEESyllABARy
A new perspective on Sequoyahs enduring invention
THe cHeRokee s yLLAbARyWriting the Pepes Perseerance
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In 1821, Sequoyah, a Cherokee metalworker and inventor, introduced a writing
system that he had been developing or more than a decade. His creationthe
Cherokee syllabaryhelped his people learn to read and write within fve years
and became a principal part o their identity. This groundbreaking study traces the
creation, dissemination, and evolution o Sequoyahs syllabary rom script to print
to digital orms. Breaking with conventional understanding, author Ellen Cushman
shows that the syllabary was not based on alphabetic writing, as is oten thought, but
rather on Cherokee syllables and, more importantly, on Cherokee meanings.
Employing an engaging narrative approach, Cushman relates how Sequoyah created
the syllabary apart rom Western alphabetic models. But he called it an alphabet
because he anticipated the Western assumption that only alphabetic writing
is legitimate. Calling the syllabary an alphabet, though, has led to our current
misunderstanding o just what it is and o the genius behind ituntil now.
In her opening chapters, Cushman traces the history o Sequoyahs invention and
explains the logic o the syllabarys structure and the graphic relationships among the
characters, both o which might have made the system easy or native speakers to use.
Later chapters address the syllabarys enduring signifcance, showing how it allowedCherokees to protect, enact, and codiy their knowledge and to weave non-Cherokee
concepts into their language and lie. The result was their enhanced ability to adapt
to social change on and in Cherokee terms.
Cushman adeptly explains complex linguistic concepts in an accessible style, even
as she displays impressive understanding o interrelated issues in Native American
studies, colonial studies, cultural anthropology, linguistics, rhetoric, and literacy
studies. Proound, like the invention it explores, The Cherokee Syllabary will reshapethe study o Cherokee history and culture.
Een Cshman, Associate Proessor o Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
at Michigan State University and citizen o the Cherokee Nation, is co-editor o
Literacy: A Critical Sourcebook and author oThe Struggle and the Tools: Oral and
Literate Strategies in an Inner City Community.
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maGiD
GEoRGECRooK A new assessment o the rontier army commander, ocusing on
his early career
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Renowned or his prominent role in the Apache and Sioux wars, General George
Crook (182890) was considered by William Tecumseh Sherman to be his greatest
Indian-fghting general. Although Crook was eared by Indian opponents on the
battlefeld, in deeat the tribes ound him a true riend and advocate who earned their
trust and riendship when he spoke out in their deense against political corruption
and greed.
Paul Magids detailed and engaging narrative ocuses on Crooks early years through
the end o the Civil War. Magid begins with Crooks boyhood on the Ohio rontier
and his education at West Point, then recounts his nine years military service in
Caliornia during the height o the Gold Rush. It was in the Far West that Crook
acquired the experience and skills essential to his success as an Indian fghter.
This is primarily an account o Crooks dramatic and sometimes controversial role in
the Civil War, in which he was involved on three ronts, in West Virginia, Tennessee,
and Virginia. Crook saw action during the battle o Antietam and played important
roles in two major oensives in the Shenandoah Valley and in the Chattanooga
and Appomattox campaigns. His courage, leadership, and tactical skills won him
the respect and admiration o his commanding ofcers, including Generals Grantand Sheridan. He soon rose to the rank o major general and received our brevet
promotions or bravery and meritorious service. Along the way, he led both inantry
and cavalry, pioneered innovations in guerrilla warare, conducted raids deep into
enemy territory, and endured a kidnapping by Conederate partisans.
George Crook oers insight into the inuences that later would make this general
both a nemesis o the Indian tribes and their ardent advocate, and it illuminates the
personality o this most enigmatic and eccentric o army ofcers.
Pa Magid is a retired attorney who worked with the Peace Corps, then served as
General Counsel o the Arican Development Foundation. Since leaving government
in 1999, he has devoted himsel to research and writing about General Crook.
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heDrenAfTER
CuSTER
How the northern plains were remade in the
late nineteenth century
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Between 1876 and 1877, the U.S. Army battled Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne
Indians in a series o vicious conicts known today as the Great Sioux War. Ater
the deeat o Custer at the Little Big Horn in June 1876, the army responded to its
stunning loss by pouring resh troops and resources into the war eort. In the end,
the U.S. Army prevailed, but at a signifcant cost. In this unique contribution to
American western history, Paul L. Hedren examines the wars eects on the culture,
environment, and geography o the northern Great Plains, their Native inhabitants,
and the Anglo-American invaders.
As Hedren explains, U.S. military control o the northern plains ollowing the Great
Sioux War permitted the Northern Pacifc Railroad to extend westward rom the
Missouri River. The new transcontinental line brought hide hunters who targeted the
great northern bualo herds and ultimately destroyed them. A de-bualoed prairie
lured cattlemen, who in turn spawned their own culture. Through orced surrender
o their lands and lieways, Lakotas and Northern Cheyennes now experienced even
more stress and calamity than they had endured during the war itsel. The victors,
meanwhile, aced a dierent set o challenges, among them providing security or the
railroad crews, hide hunters, and cattlemen.
Hedren is the frst scholar to examine the events o 187677 and their atermath as
a whole, taking into account relationships among military leaders, the building o
orts, and the armys eorts to memorialize the war and its victims. Woven into his
narrative are the voices o those who witnessed such events as the burial o Custer,
the laying o railroad track, or the sudden surround o a bualo herd. Their personal
testimonies lend both vibrancy and pathos to this story o irreversible change in
Sioux Country.
Pa l. Hedren is a retired National Park Service superintendent and an award-
winning historian living in Omaha, Nebraska. His numerous publications include
First Scalp or Custer, Fort Laramie in 1876, We Trailed the Sioux, and Great Sioux
War Orders o Battle.
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ClifforD,nolanDEEPTRAIlSIN
THEolDWEST A newly discovered memoir captures lie in the Wild West
o Billy the Kid
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Cowboy and driter Frank Cliord lived a lot o livesand raised a lot o hellinthe frst quarter o his lie. The number o times he changed his nameCliord being
just one o themsuggests that he oten traveled just steps ahead o the law. During
the 1870s and 1880s his restless spirit led him all over the Southwest, crossing the
paths o many o the eras most notorious characters, most notably Clay Allison and
Billy the Kid.
More than just an entertaining and inormative narrative o his Wild West adventures,
Cliords memoir also paints a picture o how ranchers and ordinary olk lived,worked, and stayed alive during those tumultuous years. Written in 1940 and edited
and annotated by Frederick Nolan, Deep Trails in the Old Westis likely one o the
last eyewitness histories o the old West ever to be discovered.
As Frank Cliord, the author rode with outlaw Clay Allisons Colax County
vigilantes, traveled with Charlie Siringo, cowboyed on the Bell Ranch, contended
with Apaches, and mined or gold in Hillsboro. In 1880 he was one o the Panhandle
cowboys sent into New Mexico to recover cattle stolen by Billy the Kid and his
compaerosand in the process he got to know the Kid dangerously well.
In unveiling this work, Nolan aithully preserves Cliords own words, providing
helpul annotation without censoring either the authors strong opinions or his racial
biases. For all its roughness, Deep Trails in the Old Westis a rich resource o rontier
lore, customs, and manners, told by a man who saw the Old West at its wildestand
lived to tell the tale.
frederick Nan is a leading authority on outlaws and gunfghters o the Old West.His award-winning books include The West o Billy the Kid; The Wild West: History,
Myth, and the Making o America; The Lincoln County War: A Documentary
History; and The Billy the Kid Reader.
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anayaBIllyTHEKIDANDoTHERPlAyS
Seven plays by the master o Chicano storytelling
bILLy THe kID AnD oTHeR PLAysB rd a
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While award-winning author Rudolo Anaya is known primarily as a novelist, his
genius is also evident in dramatic works perormed regularly in his native New
Mexico and throughout the world. Billy the Kid and Other Plays collects seven o
these works and oers them together or the frst time.
Like his novels, many o Anayas plays are built rom the olklore o the Southwest.
This volume opens with The Season o La Llorona, in which Anaya uses the
Mexican legend o the dreaded crying woman with that o La Malinche, mistress
and adviser to Hernn Corts. Southwestern lore also shapes the title play, which
provides a Mexican American perspective on the Kidor Bilito, as he is known in
New Mexicoalong with keen insight into the slipperiness o history. The Farolitos
o Christmas and Matachines uncover both the sweet and the sinister in stories behind
seasonal New Mexican rituals.
Other plays here address loss o the old waysarming, connection to the land, the
primacy o amilywhile showing the power o change. The mystery Who Killed
Don Jos? uses the murder o a wealthy sheep rancher to look at political corruption
and modernization. Ay, Compadre! and Angie address aging and death, though with
rereshing humor and optimism.
Elegant and poetic, intense and unny, these are the plays Anaya considers his best.
The author tells how each originated, while Cecilia J. Aragn and Robert Con Davis-
Undiano oer critical analysis and perormance history. Both Anaya ans and readers
new to his work will fnd this collection a rich trove, as will community theaters and
scholars in Chicano literature and drama.
Rd Anaa is author o numerous works o fction and nonfction, including the
classic novel Bless Me, Ultima and, more recently, Randy Lopez Goes Home. Ceciia
J. Aragn is Assistant Proessor o Chicano Studies at the University o Wyoming,
Laramie. Rbert Cn Dais-undian is Neustadt Proessor in Comparative Literature
at the University o Oklahoma, Norman.
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airD,niChols,BaGleyPlAyING
WITHSHADoWS
VoLume 13 In THe kInGDom In THe wesT seRIes
The personal journeys o our Latter-day Saints who came to
doubt the aith
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This collection o narratives by our individuals who abandoned Mormonism
apostates, as Brigham Young and other Latter-day Saint leaders labeled them
provides an overview o dissent rom the beginning o the religion to the early
twentieth century and presents a wide range o disaection with the aith or its
leaders.
Instead o ocusing on a single disheartened individual or sect, this collectionincludes
dissenters with dierent motivations and a wide range o experiences. Some devout
Mormon converts, fnding Brigham Youngs implementation o the Kingdom o God
disillusioning, turned their backs on religion in general. Yet mostnever lost their love
or their ellow Mormons or their longing or the ideal society they had dreamed o
building.
Newspaper articles, personal letters, journals, and sermons provide context or the
testaments collected herethose o George Armstrong Hicks, Charles Derry, Ann
Gordge, and Brigham Young Hampton. The our range rom those who elt Brigham
Young had not lived up to the precepts o Mormonism, to backouts who gave up
and let Utah, to a plural wie who constructed a rich antasy world, to a devoted
Latter-day Saint who gave his all only to eel betrayed by hisleaders. Young warnedone dissenting group that they were not playing with shadows, but with the
voice and the hand o the Almighty; accordingly, many dissenters eared or their
livelihoods, and some, or their lives.
Historians will value the range o belies, opinions, complaints, hopes, and ears
expressed in these careully annotated lie histories. An antidote to anti-Mormon
sensationalism, these detailed chronicles o deeply personal journeys add subtlety and
a human dimension to our understanding o the Mormon past.
Independent historian P Aird is the author oMormon Convert, Mormon De-
ector: A Scottish Immigrant in the American West, 18481861. Je Nichs is
Associate Proessor o History at Westminster College, Salt Lake City, and the author
oProstitution, Polygamy, and Power: Salt Lake City, 18471918. Wi Bagehas
written or edited nineteen books, including So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the
Trails to Oregon and Caliornia, 18121848.
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A long-overdue look at one o Mormonisms most infuential leaders
PARLey P. PRATT AnD THe mAkInG oFmoRmonIsmedd d w cb b Gg k. ag,
mw J. Gw, d D J. s
Parley P. Pratt joined the Church o Jesus Christ o Latter-day Saints in 1830 andwas murdered in 1857 by the estranged husband o his twelth plural wie. An
original member o the Churchs Quorum o the Twelve Apostles, Pratt played a key
leadership role or the Mormons. His writings, including poetry, apologetics, and an
autobiography, helped defne Mormon theology and identity, and his hymns remain
popular today.
Arguably Mormonisms most inuential early leader ater Joseph Smith and Brigham
Young, Pratt is also one o its least understood. This collection o essays uses Pratts
lie and writings as a means or gaining insight on early Latter-day Saint history,
including the Churchs initial internationalization, vibrant print culture, development
o a unique theology, amily dynamics, and the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
This ascinating compilation sets Pratt and Mormonism in the context o American
religion and culture. The contributors examine Pratts political and religious struggles
on behal o Mormonism. His murder is also situated within competing narratives
o religious martyrdom and sexual deviance, Victorian domestic ideals and domestic
abuse.
Because Pratt was killed in Arkansas, the massacre o Arkansas emigrants at Mountain
Meadows in Utah has long been viewed as vengeance or his death. This well-crated
collection shows that view to be oversimplifed. The narratives that emerge here will
appeal to anyone seeking to understand the nuances o early Mormon history in the
context o one o its most important and controversial fgures.
Gregr K. Armstrngis Chair o the Department o World Languages at the Universityo ArkansasFort Smith and author o numerous articles on language learning.
Matthew J. Grwis Director o Publications, LDS Church History Department, and
author oLiberty to the Downtrodden: Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reormer.
Dennis J. Sier is Associate Proessor o English at the University o ArkansasFort
Smith and author oThe Infuence o the Roman Poet Ovid on Shakespeares A
Midsummer Nights Dream.
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Ch
ilesJuSTINIANCAIREANDSAN
TACRuzISlAND The saga o the amily that controlled the storied island
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One o the abled Channel Islands o Southern Caliornia, Santa Cruz was oncethe largest privately owned island o the coast o the continental United States.
This multiaceted account traces the islands history rom its aboriginal Chumash
population to its acquisition by The Nature Conservancy at the end o the twentieth
century. The heart o the book, however, is a amily saga: the story o French migr
Justinian Caire and his descendants, who owned and occupied the island or more
than fty years. The author, descended rom Caire, uses amily archives unavailable
to earlier historians to recount the ull, previously untold story.
Justinian Caire and Santa Cruz Islandopens with Caires early lie as a San Francisco
businessman and his acquisition o Santa Cruz Island, where he created a ranching
kingdom based on sheep, cattle, and wine. Frederic Caire Chiles examines the business
practices o the Justinian Caire and Santa Cruz Island companies, documenting the
islands economic ups and downs and the environmental impact o ranching in
those days. Above all, he looks at the amilys daily lie on the island rom the mid-
nineteenth into the twentieth century. This epic contains tragic elements, as well.
What began as a proftable ranch and an idyllic retreat ended in the amily dividedby bitter litigation and the orced sale o the island. Family diaries and letters enable
Chiles to tell the story o an intensely private clan and its struggle to hold an island
dynasty together.
The history o Santa Cruz Island has never been told so thoroughly or so well. Replete
with intimate portraits and high drama, this Caliornia story will move readers as it
inorms them.
frederic Caire Chies holds a doctorate in history rom the University o Caliornia,Santa Barbara. He is a reelance writer and the ormer managing director o Positive
Image, Ltd., a marketing communications frm in England. Mara Daiis president o
the Santa Cruz Island Foundation and author oCaliornias Channel Islands: 1001
Questions Answered.
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The Colorado River Plateau is home to two o the best-known landscapes in the
world: Rainbow Bridge in southern Utah and Monument Valley on the Utah-Arizona
border. Twentieth-century popular culture made these places icons o the American
West, and advertising continues to exploit their signifcance today. In Rainbow
Bridge to Monument Valley, Thomas J. Harvey artully tells how Navajos and Anglo-
Americans created abrics o meaning out o this stunning desert landscape, space
that western novelist Zane Grey called the storehouse o unlived years, where a
rugged, more authentic lie beckoned. Harvey explores the dierent ways in which
the two societies imbued the landscape with deep cultural signifcance.
Navajos long ago incorporated Rainbow Bridge into the complex origin story
that embodies their religion and worldview. In the early 1900s, archaeologists
crossed paths with Grey in the Rainbow Bridge area. Grey, credited with making
the modern western novel popular, sought reedom rom the contemporary world
and reimagined the landscape or his own purposes. In the process, Harvey shows,
Grey erased most o the Navajo inhabitants. This view o the landscape culminated
in flmmaker John Fords use o Monument Valley as the setting or his epic mid-
twentieth-century Westerns. Harvey extends the story into the late twentieth century
when environmentalists sought to set aside Rainbow Bridge as a symbolic remnant
o nature untainted by modernization.
Tourists continue to ock to Monument Valley and Rainbow Bridge, as they have or
a century, but the landscapes are most amiliar today because o their appearances
in advertising. Monument Valley has been used to sell perume, beer, and sport
utility vehicles. Encompassing the history o the Navajo, archaeology, literature,
flm, environmentalism, and tourism, Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley explores
how these rock ormations, Navajo sacred spaces still, have become embedded in the
modern identity o the American Westand o the nation itsel.
Thmas J. Hareis a reporter or the Salt Lake Tribune and co-editor oImagining
the Big Open: Nature, Identity, and Play in the New West.
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