2014 American West Catalog

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American WestU N I V E R S I T Y O F O K L A H O M A P R E S S


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For more than eighty years, the University of Oklahoma Press has published

award-winning books about the American West and we are proud to bring

to you our latest catalog. The catalog features the newest titles from both

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On the cover: Guy Porter and Pipp across the street from V. H. Porters dry goods store (1958).

Photograph by Guy Gillette, fromA Family of the Land: The Texas Photography of Guy GillettebyAndy Wilkinson, see page 7.

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American Indian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

Art and Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Biography and Memoir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

The Arthur H. Clark Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

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American IndianLiteracy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 18201906

By James W. Parins$34.95s Cloth 296 Pages 12 b&w illus.

In Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 18201906, James W.

Parins traces the rise of bilingual literacy and intellectual life in the Cherokee

Nation during the nineteenth centurya time of intense social and political

turmoil for the tribe.

Warrior NationsThe United States and Indian Peoples

By Roger L. Nichols

$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4382-8 256 Pages

During the century following George Washingtons presidency, the United

States fought at least forty wars with various Indian tribes. Warrior Nationsis

Roger L. Nichols response to the question, Why did so much fighting take

place? Examining eight of the wars between the 1780s and 1877, Nichols

explains what started each conflict and what the eight had in common as well

as how they differed.

A Cheyenne VoiceThe Complete John Stands In Timber Interviews

By John Stands In Timber and Margot Liberty

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4379-8 504 Pages

Rarely does a primary source become available that provides new and

significant information about the history and culture of a famous American

Indian tribe. WithA Cheyenne Voice, readers now have access to a vast

ethnographic and historical trove about the Cheyenne peoplemuch of it

previously unavailable.

Transforming Ethnohistories

Narrative, Meaning, and CommunityEdited by Sebastian Felix Braun

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4394-1272 Pages

Anthropologists need history to understand how the past has shaped the

present. Historians need anthropology to help them interpret the past. Where

anthropologists and historians needs intersect is ethnohistory. Transforming

Ethnohistories comprises ten new avenues of ethnohistorical research ranging in

topic from fiddling performances to environmental disturbance and spanning

places from North Carolina to the Yukon.

Claiming Tribal IdentityThe Five Tribes and the Politics of Federal Acknowledgement

By Mark E. Miller

$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4378-1 480 Pages

In this revealing study, Mark Edwin Miller describes how and why dozens of

previously unrecognized tribal groups in the southeastern states have sought,

and sometimes won, recognition, often to the dismay of the Five Tribesthe

Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles.

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A Gathering of StatesmenRecords of the Choctaw Council Meetings, 18261828

By Peter Perkins Pitchlynn

Translated and Edited by Marcia Haag and Henry Willis

$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4349-1 180 PagesThe early decades of the nineteenth century brought intense political turmoil

and cultural change for the Choctaw Indians. While they still lived on their

native lands in central Mississippi, they would soon be forcibly removed to

Oklahoma. This book makes available for the first time a key legal document

from this turbulent period in Choctaw history.

Native American Placenames of the SouthwestA Handbook for Travelers

By William Bright

$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4311-8 176 Pages

This user-friendly guidecovering Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and

Texasprovides fascinating information about the meaning and origins of

southwestern placenames. With its unique regional approach and compact

design, the handbook is especially suitable for curious travelers.

Arapaho Womens QuillworkMotion, Life, and Creativity

By Jeffery D. Anderson

$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4283-8 256 Pages

InArapaho Womens Quillwork,Jeffrey D. Anderson brings this distinctly female

art form out of the darkness and into its rightful spotlight within the realms

of both art history and anthropology. Beautifully illustrated with more than

50 color and black-and-white images, this book is the first comprehensive

examination of quillwork within Arapaho ritualized traditions.

Contours of a PeopleMetis Family, Mobility, and History

Edited by Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall

$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4279-1 456 Pages

What does it mean to be Metis? How do the Metis understand their world,

and how do family, community, and location shape their consciousness?

Such questions inform this collection of essays on the northwestern North

American people of mixed European and Native ancestry. Volume editors

Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall go beyond the

concern with race and ethnicity to offer new ways of thinking about

Metis identity.

Blackfoot RedemptionA Blood Indians Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice

By William E. Farr

$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4287-6 344 Pages

In 1879, a Canadian Blackfoot known as Spopee, or Turtle, shot and killed

a white man. Captured as a fugitive, Spopee narrowly escaped execution,

instead landing in an insane asylum in Washington, D.C., where he fell silent.

Spopee thus disappeared for more than thirty years, until a delegation of

American Blackfeet discovered him and exacted a pardon from President

Woodrow Wilson. After re-emerging into society like a modern-day Rip Van

Winkle, Spopee spent the final year of his life on the Blackfeet Reservationin Montana, in a world that had changed irrevocably from the one he had

known before his confinement.


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Native Performers in Wild West ShowsFrom Buffalo Bill to Euro Disney

By Linda Scarangella McNenly

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4281-4 280 Pages

Drawing on interviews with contemporary Native performers anddescendants of twentieth-century Native performers, Linda Scarangella

McNenly elicits insider perspectives to suggest new interpretations of their

performances in Wild West shows.

From the Hands of a WeaverOlympic Peninsula Basketry through Time

Edited by Jacilee Wray

$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4245-6 304 Pages

For millennia, Native artists on Olympic Peninsula, in what is now

northwestern Washington, have created coiled and woven baskets using treeroots, bark, plant stemsand meticulous skill. From the Hands of a Weaver

presents the traditional art of basket making among the peninsulas Native

peoples and describes the ancient, historic, and modern practices of the craft.

Buying America from the IndiansJohnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native Land Rights

By Blake A. Watson

$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4244-9 254 Pages

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Johnson v. McIntosh established the basic

principles that govern American Indian property rights to this day. Blake A.

Watsons examination of this case and its impact offers a comprehensive

historical and legal overview of Native land rights since the European

discovery of the New World.

American Indians and the Mass MediaEdited by Meta G. Carstarphen and John P. Sanchez

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4234-0 312 Pages

Most American Indians today live in urban areas, but the mass media still

rely on Indian imagery stuck in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.The essays collected in American Indians and the Mass Mediaexplore Native

experience and the mainstream medias impact on American Indian histories,

cultures, and communities.

Telling Stories in the Face of DangerLanguage Renewal in Native American Communities

Edited by Paul V. Kroskrity

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4227-2 288 Pages

The contributors to this volume explore Native American storytelling both as

a response to and a symptom of language endangerment. The essays show

how traditional stories, and their nontraditional written descendants, such as

poetry and graphic novels, help to maintain Native cultures and languages.

Fort Clark and Its Indian NeighborsA Trading Post on the Upper Missouri

By W. Raymond Wood, William J. Hunt, Jr., and Randy H. Williams

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4213-5 328 Pages

Fort Clark was a thriving trading post between 1830 and 1860 in what is

today western North Dakota. It also served as a way station for artists,scientists, and other western chroniclers, including Maximilian of Wied, Karl

Bodmer, and George Catlin, whose works are primary sources on the Mandan

and Hidatsa Indians in the area. This book, by a team of anthropologists, is

the first to integrate new archaeological evidence with the historical record.


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Red Power RisingThe National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism

By Bradley Shreve

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4178-7 288 Pages

During the 1960s, American Indian youth were swept up in a movementcalled Red Powera civil rights struggle fueled by intertribal activism. While

some define the movement as militant and others see it as peaceful, there is

one common assumption about its history: Red Power began with the Indian

takeover of Alcatraz in 1969. Or did it?

Wives and HusbandsGender and Age in Southern Arapaho History

By Loretta Fowler

$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4116-9 400 Pages

In Wives and Husbands, distinguished anthropologist Loretta Fowler deepens

readers understanding of the gendered dimension of cultural encounters

by exploring how the Arapaho gender system affected and was affected by

the encounter with Americans as government officials, troops, missionaries,

and settlers moved west into Arapaho country. Through the life stories of

individual Arapahos, she vividly illustrates the experiences and actions of each

cohort during a time when Americans tried to impose gender asymmetry and

to undermine the Arapahos hierarchical age relations.

War Party in BluePawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army

By Mark van de Logt

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4139-8 368 Pages

Between 1864 and 1877, during the height of the Plains Indian wars, Pawnee

Indian scouts rendered invaluable service to the United States Army. They led

missions deep into contested territory, tracked resisting bands, spearheaded

attacks against enemy camps, and on more than one occasion saved

American troops from disaster on the field of battle. InWar Party in Blue,

Mark van de Logt tells the story of the Pawnee scouts from their perspective,

detailing the battles in which they served and recounting hitherto neglectedepisodes.

Choctaw Crime and Punishment, 18841907By Devon Abbott Mihesuah

$32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4052-0 352 Pages

During the decades between the Civil War and the establishment of

Oklahoma statehood, Choctaws suffered almost daily from murders, thefts,

and assaultsusually at the hands of white intruders, but increasingly by

Choctaws themselves. This book focuses on two previously unexplored

murder cases to illustrate the intense factionalism that emerged among

tribal members during those lawless years as conservative Nationalists and

proassimilation Progressives fought for control of the Choctaw Nation.

C O N N E C T W I T H U S

F A C E B O O K . C O M / O U P R E S S T W I T T E R . C O M / O U P R E S S

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Art and PhotographyChronicling the West for Harpers

Coast to Coast with Frenzeny & Tavernier in 18731874By Claudine Chalmers

$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4376-7 272 Pages

The opening of the West after the Civil War drew a flood of Americans and

immigrants to the frontier. Among the liveliest records of the westering of the

1870s is the series of prints collected for the first time in this book. Chronicling

the West for Harpersshowcases 100 illustrations made for the magazine

by French artists Paul Frenzeny and Jules Tavernier on a cross-country

assignment in 1873 and 1874.

A Family of the LandThe Texas Photography of Guy Gillette

By Andy Wilkinson

$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4404-7 144 Pages

Since he first dreamed of a career in photography, Guy Gillette has traveled

regularly to his wifes familys ranch, located outside the small town of

Crockett, Texas. When Gillette first came to the Porter Place, as the ranch

has always been known, he began to photograph the Porter family and their

land. Thanks to Gillettes sense of composition, these wonderful black-and-

white photographs, dating from the 1940s, led to his career as a magazinephotographer. Collected here for the first time, they document small-town life

in East Texas, where Guy Gillettes sons, the musical duo the Gillette Brothers,

still run cattle.A Family of the Landoffers a portrait of a community over a half

century during which remarkably little has changed.

Painters and the American West, Vol. IIContributions by Sarah A. Hunt, James P. Ronda, Joan Carpenter Troccoli

and John Wilmerding

$80.00 Cloth 978-0-9881774-0-6 344 Pages

Distributed for American Museum of Western Art Anschutz CollectionIn 2010, the Anschutz Collection became the American Museum of Western

ArtThe Anschutz Collection, a public museum. Painters and the American West,

Volume II isa companion and sequel to the award-winning Painters and the

American West: The Anschutz Collection, published in 2000. The present volume

includes the finest works featured in the earlier book, along with major recent

acquisitions.

Woody CrumboContributions by Minisa Crumbo Halsey, Ruthe Blalock Jones,

Carole Klein, Robert Perry, and Kimberly RoblinPhotographs by Robert S. Cross

$24.95s Paper 978-0-9819799-5-3 148 Pages

Distributed forGilcrease Museum

The Gilcrease Museum has the honor of possessing the largest extant body

of Woodrow Wilson Crumbos delightful and finely crafted work, which is

celebrated and interpreted within the pages of this book.

A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit CountryVincent Soboleff in Alaska

By Sergei Kan

$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4290-6 288 Pages

This book is a rich record of life in small-town southeastern Alaska in the

late 1800s and early 1900s. It is the first book to showcase the photographs

of Vincent Soboleff, an amateur Russian American photographer whose

community included Tlingit Indians from a nearby village as well as Russian

Americans.


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Karl Bodmers America RevisitedLandscape Views Across Time

Photography by Robert M. Lindholm

$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3831-2 192 Pages

Less than thirty years after Lewis and Clark completed their epic journey,Prince Maximilian of Wied set off on his own expedition across North

America. Accompanying the prince on this voyage Swiss artist Karl Bodmer,

whose drawings and watercolors now rank among the great treasures of

nineteenth-century American art. This lavishly illustrated book juxtaposes

Bodmers landscape images with modern-day photographs of the

same views, allowing readers to see what has changed, and what seems

unchanged, since the time Maximilian and Bodmer made their storied trip

up the Missouri River.

A President in YellowstoneThe F. Jay Haynes Photographic Album of Chester Arthurs 1883 Expedition

By Frank H. Goodyear III

$36.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4355-2 192 Pages

On the morning of July 30, 1883, President Chester A. Arthur embarked on a

trip of historic proportions. His destination was Yellowstone National Park,

established by an act of Congress only eleven years earlier. Arthurs host

and primary guide would be Philip H. Sheridan, the famed Union general.

Also slated to join the expedition was a young photographer, Frank Jay

Haynes. This elegantand fascinatingbook showcases Hayness remarkablephotographic album from their six-week journey.

The James T. Bialac Native American Art CollectionSelected Works

With essays by Christina E. Burke, W. Jackson Rushing III, Rennard

Strickland, Christy Vezolles, Edwin L. Wade, and Mark Andrew White

$60.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-4299-9

$29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4304-0 240 Pages

Published in cooperation with the Fred Jones Jr.Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma

One of the most important collections of modern Native American artassembled by one individual, theJames T. Bialac Native American Art Collectionis

an encyclopedic compilation of easel paintings and three-dimensional works.

Showcased in this stunning catalogue, the collection comprises nearly four

thousand items, including drawings, sculptures, prints, kachinas, jewelry,

ceramics, rattles, baskets, and textiles. Along with its rich sampling of works

from the Bialac Collection, this catalogue offers informative essays by art

historians, who draw on their areas of expertise to explain the significance of

the artwork.

Elevating Western American ArtDeveloping an Institute in the Cultural Capital of the Rockies

Edited by Thomas Brent Smith

$34.95 Cloth 978-0-914738-72-5

$24.95 Paper 978-0-914738-71-8 320 Pages

Distributed for Denver Art Museum

Unprecedented in size and scope, this special issue of Western Passages

celebrates the full range of the western American art holdings at the Denver

Art Museum. Published to mark the tenth anniversary of the Denver Art

Museums Petrie Institute of Western American Art, Elevating Western AmericanArt: Developing an Institute in the Cultural Capital of the Rockiesincludes thirty

essays by art historians from across the United States and Canada as well as

a comprehensive history of the growth of Denvers impressive collection of art

of the American West.


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Scenery, Curiosities, and Stupendous RocksWilliam Quesenburys Overland Sketches, 18501851

By David Royce Murphy

With contributions by Michael L. Tate and Michael Farrell

$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4219-7 304 PagesLong before Hollywood brought the landscapes of the American West to movie

screens, clever impresarios invented ways of simulating the experience of 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. Scenery,

Curiosities, and Stupendous Rocksgathers 71 of Quesenburys sketches from the

Jones expedition illuminated by eyewitness accounts from the period, modern

maps, contemporary photographs, and descriptive notes.

Plains Indian ArtThe Pioneering Work of John C. Ewers

Edited by Jane Ewers Robinson

$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3061-3 224 Pages

The study of Plains Indian art has been shaped by the expertise, wisdom, and

inspired leadership of John Canfield Ewers (190997). Ewerss publications

have long been required reading for anyone interested in art and the cultures of

the Plains peoples. This vividly illustrated collection of Ewerss writings presents

studies first published inAmerican Indian Art Magazineand other periodicalsbetween 1968 and 1992.

The Eugene B. Adkins CollectionSelected Works

With contributions by Jane Ford Aebersold, Christina E. Burke, James Pick,

B. Byron Price, W. Jackson Rushing III, Mary Jo Watson, and Mark A. White

$60.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-4100-8

$29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4101-5 304 Pages

A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Eugene B. Adkins (19202006) spent nearly four

decades acquiring his extraordinary collection of Native American and Americansouthwestern art, including paintings, photographs, jewelry, baskets, textiles,

and ceramics by many renowned artists and artisans. This stunning volume

features full-color reproductions of significant works from the Adkins Collection.

Arapaho JourneysPhotographs and Stories from the Wind River Reservation

By Sara Wiles

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4158-9 256 Pages

In what is now Colorado and Wyoming, the Northern Arapahos thrived

for centuries, connected by strong spirituality and kinship and community

structures that allowed them to survive in the rugged environment. Wiles

captures that life on film and in words in Arapaho Journeys, an inside look at

thirty years on the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming.

Life at the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita AgencyThe Photographs of Annette Ross Hume

By Kristina L. Southwell and John R. Lovett

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4138-1 256 Pages

Anadarko, Oklahoma, bills itself today as the Indian Capital of the Nation,but it was a drowsy frontier village when budding photographer Annette Ross

Hume arrived in 1890. Home to a federal agency charged with serving the

many American Indian tribes in the area, the town burgeoned when the U.S.

government auctioned off building lots at the turn of the twentieth century.

Hume faithfully documented its explosive growth and the American Indians

she encountered. Her extraordinary photographs are collected here for the

first time.


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Visions of the Big SkyPainting and Photographing the Northern Rocky Mountain West

By Dan Flores

$45.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-3897-8 248 Pages

From the Wind River Range to the Canadian border, the northern RockyMountain West is an outsized land of stunning dimensions and emotive

power. In Visions of the Big Sky, Dan Flores revisits the Northern Rockies artistic

tradition to explore its diversity and richness. In his essays about the artists,

photographers, and thematic historical imagery of the region, he blends art

and cultural history with personal reflection to assess the formation of the

regions character.

Charles Deas and 1840s AmericaBy Carol Clark

$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4030-8 248 Pages

Charles Deas (181867), an enigmatic figure on the edge of mainstream

artistic circles in mid-nineteenth-century New York, went west to explore

new opportunities and subjects in 1840. From his adopted hometown of

St. Louis, Deas sent his iconic paintings of fur trappers and Indians back

east for exhibition and sale, briefly winning the recognition that had earlier

eluded him.

Wildlife in American ArtMasterworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art

By Adam D. Harris

$55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4015-5

$35.00 Paper 978-0-8061-4099-5 320 Pages

For more than two decades, the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson,

Wyoming, has honored and sustained the tradition of wildlife in American art

by assembling the most comprehensive collection of paintings and sculptures

portraying North American wildlife in the world. Wildlife in American Art

presents for the first time a generous sampling of the museums holdings,

charts the history of this enduring theme in American art, and explores the

evolving relationship between Americans and the natural resources of thiscontinent.

Faces of the FrontierPhotographic Portraits from the American West, 18451924

By Frank H. Goodyear III

$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4082-7 320 Pages

Faces of the Frontiershowcases more than 120 photographic portraits of

leaders, statesmen, soldiers, laborers, activists, criminals, and others, all

posed before the cameras that made their way to nearly every mining shanty-

town and frontier outpost on the prairie. Drawing primarily on the collection

of the National Portrait Gallery, this book depicts many of the people who

helped transform the West between the end of the Mexican War and passage

of the Indian Citizenship Act.

The West of the ImaginationSecond Edition

By William H. Goetzmann and William N. Goetzmann

$65.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-3533-5 640 Pages

A landmark overview of western American art, the original edition of The Westof the Imaginationbrought the region to wide public attention as a companion

to a popular PBS series of the same name. This book, significantly expanded

and updated, shows that the West is a vibrant mirror of American cultural

diversity. Through 450 illustrationsmore than 300 in colorthe authors

trace the visual evolution of the myth of the American West, from unknown

frontier to repository of American values, covering popular and high arts alike.


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The Masterworks of Charles M. RussellA Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture

By Joan C. Troccoli

$65.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-4081-0

$39.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4097-1 304 PagesIn the decades bracketing the turn of the twentieth century, Charles M. Russell

depicted the American West in a fresh, personal, and deeply moving way. This

handsome booka companion volume to the acclaimed Charles M. Russell: A

Catalogue Raisonn, edited by B. Byron Priceshowcases many of the artists best-

known works and chronicles the sources and evolution of his style.

Biography and MemoirUnder the EagleSamuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker

By Samuel Holiday and Robert S. Mcpherson

$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4389-7 288 Pages

Samuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by the

Marine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit

secret communications on the battlefield. Based on extensive interviews with

Robert S. McPherson, Under the Eagleis Holidays vivid account of his own

story. It is the only book-length oral history of a Navajo code talker in whichthe narrator relates his experiences in his own voice and words.

Conversations with Barry LopezWalking the Path of Imagination

By William E. Tydeman

$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4407-8 232 Pages

Known as an advocate for the endangered earth, Barry Lopez is one of

Americas preeminent writers on nature. This invigorating book invites readers

to sit down with Lopez and his friend William E. Tydeman to engage with

their conversations about activism, the life of the mind, and all things literary.

Even readers who think they know everything there is to know about Lopez

will learn much from this richly informative book, both from Tydemans

concise biography of Lopez and from the dialogue about Lopezs ideas and

experiences.

Red Dirt WomenAt Home on the Oklahoma Plains

By Susan Kates

$14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4359-0 152 Pages

In Red Dirt Women, Susan Kates challenges one-dimensional characterizations

of women by exploringand celebratingthe lives of contemporary

Oklahoma women whose experiences are anything but predictable.

Buffalo Bill on the Silver ScreenThe Films of William F. Cody

By Sandra K. Sagala

$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4361-3 232 Pages

For more than thirty years, William F. Buffalo Bill Cody entertained

audiences across the United States and Europe with his Wild West show.Scores of books have been written about Codys fabled career as a showman,

but his involvement in the film industryfollowing the dissolution of his

traveling showis less well known. In Buffalo Bill on the Silver Screen, Sandra

K. Sagala chronicles the fascinating story of Codys venture into filmmaking

during the early cinema period.


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Rough BreaksA Wyoming High Country Memoir

By Laurie Wagner Buyer

$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4375-0 256 Pages

When twenty-eight-year-old Laurie Wagner hired on at the O Bar Y Ranchin western Wyoming, she was a novice to ranching life but no stranger

to isolated locations. As revealed in her celebrated memoir When I Came

West, Laurie had already spent years living in a rustic cabin in the Montana

wilderness with a troubled Vietnam veteran. Rough Breaksrecounts the next

chapter in her life, beginning with her painful break from Bill Atkinson, and

unfolding into a modern day saga of life on a remote cattle ranch.

Miera y PachecoA Renaissance Spaniard in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico

By John L. Kessell$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4377-4 232 Pages

Remembered today as an early cartographer and prolific religious artist, don

Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco engaged during his lifetime in a surprising array

of other pursuits: engineer and militia captain on Indian campaigns, district

officer, merchant, debt collector, metallurgist, luckless silver miner, presidial

soldier, dam builder, and rancher. This long-overdue, richly illustrated

biography recounts Mieras complex life in cinematic detail, from his birth in

Cantabria, Spain, to his death in Santa Fe at age seventy-one.

Ernest L. BlumenscheinThe Life of an American Artist

By Robert W. Larson and Carole B. Larson

$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4334-7 344 Pages

Few who appreciate the visual arts or the American Southwest can behold the

masterpieces Sangre de Cristo Mountains orHaystack, Taos Valley, 1927or Bend

in the River, 1941and come away without a vivid image burned into memory.

This biography examines the character and life experiences that made Ernest

L. Blumenschein one of the foremost artists of the twentieth century.

Gunfighter in GothamBat Mastersons New York City Years

By Robert K. DeArment

$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4263-0 304 Pages

The legend of Bat Masterson as the heroic sheriff of Dodge City, Kansas,

began in 1881 when an acquaintance duped a New York Sunreporter into

writing Masterson up as a man-killing gunfighter. That he later moved to

New York City to write a widely followed sports column for eighteen years is

one of historys great ironies, as Robert K. DeArment relates in this engaging

new book.

When Law Was in the HolsterThe Frontier Life of Bob Paul

By John Boessenecker

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4285-2 464 Pages

One of the great lawmen of the Old West, Bob Paul (18301901) cast a giant

shadow across the frontiers of California and Arizona Territory for nearly fifty

years. Today he is remembered mainly for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and

his involvement in the stirring events surrounding the famous 1881 gunfightnear the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. This long-overdue biography fills

crucial gaps in Pauls story and recounts a life of almost constant adventure.


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That Fiend in HellSoapy Smith in Legend

By Catherine Holder Spude

$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4280-7 304 Pages

As the Klondike gold rush peaked in spring 1898, adventurers and gamblersrubbed shoulders with town-builders and gold-panners in Skagway, Alaska.

The flow of riches lured confidence men, tooamong them Jefferson

Randolph Soapy Smith (186098), who with an entourage of bunco-men

conned and robbed the stampeders. Soapy, though, a common enough

criminal, would go down in legend as the Robin Hood of Alaska, remembered

for his charm and generosity, even for calming a lynch mob. He was later

killed in a shootout over a card game. That Fiend in Hell: Soapy Smith in Legend

is a tour de force of historical debunking that documents Smiths elevation to

western hero.

Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand CreekBy Louis Kraft

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4226-5 336 Pages

When Edward W. Wynkoop arrived in Colorado Territory during the 1858

gold rush, he was one of many ambitious newcomers seeking wealth in a

promising land mostly inhabited by American Indians. After he worked as

a miner, sheriff, bartender, and land speculator, Wynkoops life drastically

changed after he joined the First Colorado Volunteers to fight for the Union

during the Civil War. This sympathetic but critical biography centers on hissubsequent efforts to prevent war with Indians during the volatile 1860s.

Our Centennial Indian War and the Life of General CusterBy Frances Fuller Victor

$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4173-2 208 Pages

Published even before the Great Sioux War had ended,this bookwas the firstcontemporary and comprehensive account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Victor also offered one of the earliest biographical assessments of Custer.

Open RangeThe Life of Agnes Morley Cleaveland

By Darlis A. Miller

$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4117-6 192 Pages

Agnes Morley Cleaveland found lasting fame after publishing her memoir,

No Life for a Lady, in 1941. Her account of growing up on a cattle ranch in

west-central New Mexico captivated readers from coast to coast. In her book,

Cleaveland memorably portrayed herself and other ranch women as capable

workers and independent thinkers. Her life, however, was not limited to the

ranch. In Open Range, Miller shows how a young girl who was a fearless risk-

taker grew up to be a prolific author and well-known social activist.

BandidoThe Life and Times of Tiburcio Vasquez

By John Boessenecker

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4127-5 496 Pages

Tiburcio Vasquez is, next to Joaquin Murrieta, Americas most infamous

Hispanic bandit. After he was hanged as a murderer in 1875, the Chicago

Tribune called him the most noted desperado of modern times. Yet

questions about him still linger. Why did he become a bandido? Why didso many Hispanics protect him and his band? Was he a common thief and

heartless killer who got what he deserved, or was he a Mexican American

Robin Hood who suffered at the hands of a racist government? In this

engrossing biography, John Boessenecker provides definitive answers.

Boessenecker is . . . the countrys leading authority on Vasquez, and his new

book, Bandido, tells the story. . . . Vasquez was as famous as Jesse James in his

day. San Francisco Chronicle.


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A Pair of ShootistsThe Wild West Story of S. F. Cody and Maud Lee

By Jerry Kuntz

$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4149-7 224 Pages

A Pair of Shootistsis the exuberant and sometimes heartbreaking story ofthe elusive S. F. Cody and his first wife, Maud Lee. Recounting their many

dramatic exploits, this biography also overturns the frequently romanticized

view of Wild West shows.

Best of Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2Emigrant Girls on the Overland Trails

By Kenneth Holmes

$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4104-6 256 Pages

The diaries and letters of women on the overland trails in the mid- to late

nineteenth century are treasured documents. These eleven selections drawn

from the multivolume Covered Wagon Womenseries present the best first-person

trail accounts penned by women in their teens who traveled west between

1846 and 1898. Ranging in age from eleven to nineteen, unmarried and

without children of their own, these diarists had experiences different from

those of older women who carried heavier responsibilities with them on the

trail. These letters and diaries reflect both the unique perspective of youthful

optimism and the experiences common among all female emigrants.

Chief LocoApache Peacemaker

By Bud Shapard

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4047-6 376 Pages

Jlin-tay-i-tith, better known as Loco, was the only Apache leader to make a

lasting peace with both Americans and Mexicans. Yet most historians have

ignored his efforts, and some Chiricahua descendants have branded him

as fainthearted despite his well-known valor in combat. In this engaging

biography, Bud Shapard tells the story of this important but overlooked chief

against the backdrop of the harrowing Apache wars and eventual removal of the

tribe from its homeland to prison camps in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma.

A Rough Ride to RedemptionThe Ben Daniels Story

By Robert K. DeArment and Jack DeMattos

$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4112-1 264 Pages

If you want to understand the Code of the West,A Rough Ride to Redemption

is a good place to start. Historians Robert K. DeArment and Jack DeMattos

brilliantly trace gunman Ben Danielss amazing career from the Wyoming

Territorial Penitentiary to Dodge City to charging up Kettle Hill with Teddy

Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War. A marvelous book!

Douglas Brinkleyauthor of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the

Crusade for America

N. Scott MomadayRemembering Ancestors, Earth, and Traditions

An Annotated Bio-bibliography

By Phyllis S. Morgan

$60.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4054-4 400 Pages

N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of House Made of Dawn(1969) and National Medal of Arts awardee, is the elder statesman of Native

American literature and a major twentieth-century American author. This

volume marks the most comprehensive resource available on Momaday.

Along with an insightful new biography, it offers extensive, up-to-date

bibliographies of his own work and the work of others about him.


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When I Came WestBy Laurie Wagner Buyer

$14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4059-9 200 Pages

As a young college student in the early 1970s, Laurie Wagner had never

camped out, never gone hiking, and never lived without electricity or indoorplumbing. Yet she walked away from these comforts and headed for the

wildest reaches of Montana to live with a man she had not met in person.

When I Came Westis Laurie Wagner Buyers account of her terrifying and

exhilarating years in Montana as she changes from a girl too squeamish to

touch a dead mouse to a toughened frontierswoman unafraid to butcher a

domestic animal.

FictionAnimal StoriesA Lifetime Collection

By Max Evans

Illustrated by Keith Walters

$24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4366-8 440 Pages

Legendary western author Max Evans has spent his entire life working

with cows and horses. These rangeland animals, and other creatures

both domestic and wild, play pivotal roles in his stories. This magnificentcollection, beautifully illustrated by cowboy artist Keith Walters, showcases

twenty-six animal tales penned by Evans during his long and celebrated

career.

The DigIn Search of Coronados Treasure

By Sheldon Russell

$16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4360-6 246 Pages

Sheldon Russell ratchets the tension and mystery as two desperate quests

interweave in an historical-meets-modern adventure story. This thrill ride

builds to an Indiana Jonesstyle standoff and forces its charactersand

readersto grapple with an age-old proverb: all that glitters is not gold.

BonelandLinked Stories

By Nance Van Winckel

$16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4391-0 196 Pages

Lynette is recuperating from botched Lasik surgery. Her eyesight is damaged,

but as she looks back on the events of her past, she realizes she may nothave seen them correctly when she was actually living them. Her husbands

death . . . was it a suicide? The bones unearthed on her uncles Montana

ranchare they of a steer? a mastodon? a dinosaur? Her beloved cousin

Jessiedid she slip into addiction, and if so, where did the addict life take

her? The dots of Lynettes past are blurry, but she tries to focus and connect

them and to feel her way toward a more accurate vision of the person she has

been and may become.

The Old Mans Love Story

By Rudolfo Anaya$19.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4357-6 176 Pages

There was an old man who dwelt in the land of New Mexico, and he lost

his wife. From that opening line, this tender novella is at once universal and

deeply personal. In The Old Mans Love Story, master storyteller Rudolfo Anaya

crafts the tale of a lifelong love that ultimately transcends death.


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Randy Lopez Goes HomeA Novel

By Rudolfo Anaya

$19.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4189-3 152 Pages

When he was a young man, Randy Lopez left his village in northern NewMexico to seek his fortune. Since then, he has learned some of the secrets

of success in the Anglo worldand even written a book called Life Among the

Gringos. But something has been missing. Now he returns to Agua Bendita

to reconnect with his past and to find the wisdom the Anglo world has

not provided. In this allegorical account of Randys final journey, master

storyteller Rudolfo Anaya tackles lifes big questions with a light touch.

HistoryBanking in Oklahoma Before StatehoodBy Michael J. Hightower

$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4388-0 368 Pages

This lively book takes Oklahoma history into the world of Wild West

capitalism. It begins with a useful survey of banking from the early days of the

American republic until commercial patterns coalesced in the East. It then

follows the course of American expansion westward, tracing the evolution

of commerce and banking in Oklahoma from their genesis to the eve ofstatehood in 1907.

New MexicoA History

By Joseph P. Snchez, Robert L. Spude, and Art Gmez

$26.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4256-2 376 Pages

New Mexico: A Historyis a vital source for anyone seeking to understand

the complex interactions of the indigenous inhabitants, Spanish settlers,

immigrants, and their descendants who have created New Mexico and who

shape its future.

Shooting Arrows and Slinging MudCuster, the Press, and the Little Bighorn

By James E. Mueller

$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4398-9 272 Pages

In Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud, James E. Mueller draws on exhaustive

research of period newspapers to explore press coverage of the Battle of the

Little Big Horn. As he analyzes a wide range of accountssome grim, some

circumspect, some even laced with humorMueller offers a unique take onthe dramatic events that so shook the American public.

Main Street OklahomaStories of Twentieth-Century America

Edited by Linda W. Reese and Patricia Loughlin

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4401-6 288 Pages

Oklahoma historian Angie Debo once observed that all the forces of United

States history have come to bear in the development of the Sooner State.

This collection of essays provides a series of snapshots reflecting both the

singularity of the Oklahoma experience and the states connections toAmericas broader history.


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American Ski ResortArchitecture, Style, Experience

By Margaret Supplee Smith

$45.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-4295-1 352 Pages

In this magnificent book, architectural historian Margaret Supplee Smithtraces the evolution of the ski resort in North America. Brimming with

photographs of spectacular scenery, intriguing buildings, and colorful

personalities, American Ski Resort is the first book to explore the combined

phenomena of skiing, tourism, and architecture from a national perspective.

Assassination and CommemorationJFK, Dallas, and The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

By Stephen Fagin

$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4358-3 272 Pages

The shots that killed President John F. Kennedy in November 1963 were fired

from the sixth floor of a nondescript warehouse at the edge of Dealey Plaza

in downtown Dallas. That floor in the Texas School Book Depository became

a museum exhibit in 1989 and was designated part of a National Historic

Landmark District in 1993. This book recounts the slow and painful process

by which a city and a nation came to terms with its collective memory of the

assassination and its aftermath.

Cotton and ConquestHow the Plantation System Acquired Texas

By Roger G. Kennedy

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4346-0 352 Pages

This sweeping work of history explains the westward spread of cotton

agriculture and slave labor across the South and into Texas during the

decades before the Civil War. Cotton and Conquestweaves international

commerce, American party politics, technological innovation, Indian-white

relations, frontier surveying practices, and various social, economic, and

political events into the tapestry of Texas history.

Empire on DisplaySan Franciscos Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915

By Sarah J. Moore

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4348-4 256 Pages

The worlds fair of 1915 celebrated both the completion of the Panama Canal

and the rebuilding of San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake and fire.

The exposition spotlighted the canal and the city as gateways to the Pacific.

Empire on Displayis the first book to examine the Panama-Pacific International

Exposition through the lenses of art history and cultural studies, focusing on

the events expansionist and masculinist symbolism.

Oklahomas Indian New DealBy Jon S. Blackman

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4351-4 192 Pages

This first book-length history of the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act explains

the laws origins, enactment, implementation, and impact, and shows how

the act played a unique role in the Indian New Deal.

Columns of Vengeance

Soldiers, Sioux, and the Punitive Expeditions, 18631864By Paul N. Beck

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4344-6 320 Pages

Drawing on a wealth of firsthand accounts and linking the Punitive

Expeditions of 1863 and 1864 to the overall Civil War experience, Columns of

Vengeanceoffers fresh insight into an important chapter in the development of

U.S. military operations against the Sioux.


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Regionalists on the LeftRadical Voices from the American West

Edited by Michael C. Steiner

$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4340-8 328 Pages

Although regionalism in the American West has often been characterized asan inherently conservative, backward-looking force, regionalist impulses have

in fact taken various forms throughout U.S. history. The essays collected in

Regionalists on the Leftuncover the tradition of left-leaning western regionalism

during the 1930s and 1940s.

Los Angeles in Civil War Days, 18601865By John W. Robinson

$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4312-5 204 Pages

Most accounts of Californias role in the Civil War focus on the northern part

of the state, San Francisco in particular. InLos Angeles in Civil War Days, John

W. Robinson looks to the southern half and offers an enlightening sketch of

Los Angeles and its people, politics, and economic trends from 1860 to 1865.

Drawing on contemporary reports in the Los Angeles Star, Southern News, and

other sources, Robinson shows how the war came to Los Angeles and narrates

the struggle between the pro-southern faction and the Unionists.

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

By Douglas D. Scott, Peter Bleed, and Stephen Damm

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4347-7 232 Pages

On a chilly January morning in 1872, the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia arrived

in North Platte, Nebraska for a grand buffalo hunt. In this fascinating book,

Douglas D. Scott, Peter Bleed, and Stephen Damm combine archaeological

and historical research to offer an expansive and accurate portrayal of this

singular diplomatic event.

Dragoons in ApachelandConquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 18461861

By William S. Kiser$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4314-9 376 Pages

In the fifteen years prior to the American Civil War, the U.S. Army established

a presence in the Apache Indian homeland of southern New Mexico. In

Dragoons in Apacheland, Kiser recounts the conflicts that ensued and examines

how both Apache warriors and American troops shaped the future of the

Southwest Borderlands.

Uncovering HistoryArchaeological Investigations at the Little Bighorn

By Douglas D. Scott

$32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4350-7 272 Pages

In Uncovering History, renowned archaeologist Douglas D. Scott offers a

comprehensive account of investigations at the Little Bighorn, from the

earliest collecting efforts to early-twentieth-century findings. Scott expands

our understanding of the battle, its protagonists, and the enduring legacy of

the battlefield as a national memorial.

By All Accounts

General Stores and Community Life in Texas and Indian TerritoryBy Linda English

$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4352-1 256 Pages

The general store in late-nineteenth-century America was often the economic

heart of a small town. Cash-poor farmers relied on merchants for their

economic well-being just as the retailers needed customers to purchase their

wares. In describing the social status of store owners and their economic and

political roles in both small and large towns, English fleshes out the fascinating

history of daily life in Indian Territory and Texas in a time of transition.


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New Perspectives in Mormon StudiesCreating and Crossing Boundaries

Edited by Quincy D. Newell and Eric F. Mason

$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4313-2 248 Pages

Scholarship in Mormon studies has often focused on a few key events andindividuals in Mormon history. One of the main purposes of this volume is to

define and cross boundaries. The essays collected by Quincy D. Newell and

Eric F. Mason in this interdisciplinary volume expand the conversation.

An Aristocracy of ColorRace and Reconstruction in California and the West, 18501890

By D. Michael Bottoms

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4335-4 288 Pages

White Californians saw in Reconstruction legislation a threat to the racial

hierarchy they had imposed on the states legal system during the 1850s.

But nonwhite Californians recognized an opportunity to reshape the states

race relations. Drawing on court records, political debates, and eyewitness

accounts, Bottoms brings to life the monumental battle that followed.

QuiltsCalifornia Bound, California Made, 18401940

By Sandi Fox

$40.00 Paper 978-0-9719184-0-5 208 Pages

Distributed for Sandi Fox

The richly diverse legacy of Californias quilts is beautifully chronicled in

words and images in this extraordinary collection spanning a century of

quiltmaking. Here is the story of Californias quilts, from those California

boundcarried on the backs of mules and horses, in covered wagons, by ship

or by trainto those California made, created on the farms and in villages

and cities across the state.

Quest for FlightJohn J. Montgomery and the Dawn of Aviation in the West

By Craig S. Harwood and Gary B. Fogel$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4264-7 256 Pages

The Wright brothers have long received the lions share of credit for inventing

the airplane. But a California scientist succeeded in flying gliders twenty

years before the Wrights powered flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Quest for

Flightreveals the amazing accomplishments of John J. Montgomery, a prolific

inventor who piloted the glider he designed in 1883 in the first controlled

flights of a heavier-than-air craft in the Western Hemisphere.

The Essential WestCollected Essays

By Elliott West

$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4296-8 336 Pages

This collection of essays by distinguished historian and accomplished writer,

Elliott West, weaves the western story into that of the nation and the world

beyond, from Kansas and Montana to Haiti, Africa, and the court of

Louis XV.

With Golden Visions Bright Before Them

Trails to the Mining West, 18491852By Will Bagley

$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4284-5

$150.00s Leather 978-0-87062-418-6 480 Pages

During the mid-nineteenth century, a quarter of a million travelers followed

the road across the plains to gold rush California. This magnificent

chronicle captures the danger, excitement, and heartbreak of Americas first

great rush for riches and its enduring consequences.


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Forty-Seventh StarNew Mexicos Struggle for Statehood

By David V. Holtby

$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4282-1 384 Pages

The most complete, original, readable, and lively account of the sixty-year

struggle between pro-statehood leaders and equally powerful anti-statehoodforces, both in New Mexico and Washington, D.C., that I have ever read.

Howard R. Lamar, Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University

Gunfight at the Eco-CorralWestern Cinema and the Environment

By Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann

$24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4246-3 272 Pages

Most film critics point to classic conflictsgood versus evil, right versus

wrong, civilization versus savageryas defining themes of the American

Western. In this provocative examination of Westerns from Tumbleweeds(1925) to Rango(2011), Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann argue for

a more expansive view that moves beyond traditional conflicts to encompass

environmental themes and struggles.

Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and theOpening of the American WestEdited by Matthew L. Harris and Jay H. Buckley

$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4243-2256 Pages

In life and in death, fame and glory eluded Zebulon Montgomery Pike. The

ambitious young military officer and explorer, best known for a mountain

peak that he neither scaled nor named, was destined to live in the shadows

of more famous contemporaries. This collection of thought-provoking essays

rescues Pike from his undeserved obscurity.

Stephen S. Witte

Marsha V. Gallagher

VOLUME ONE

May 1832April 1833

$295.00n Leather Bound

978-87062-365-3 544 Pages

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AprilSeptember 1833


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A Toast to EclipseArpad Haraszthy and the Sparkling Wine of Old San Francisco

By Brian McGinty

$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4248-7 256 Pages

The sparkling wines of California rival the best French Champagnes today,

but their place at our tables came about through careful craftsmanship thatbegan more than a century ago. The predecessor of todays California bubbly

was Eclipse Champagne, the first commercially successful California sparkling

wine, produced by Arpad Haraszthy in the mid- to late nineteenth century.

InA Toast to Eclipse, Brian McGinty offers a definitive history of the wine,

exploring Californias winemaking past and two of the people who put the

states varietal wines on the map: Arpad and his father Agoston Haraszthy,

the legendary father of California viticulture.

The Character of Meriwether Lewis

Explorer in the WildernessBy Clay S. Jenkinson

$29.95 Cloth 978-0-9825597-2-7

$19.95 Paper 978-0-9825597-3-4 250 Pages

Distributed for The Dakota Institute

Meriwether Lewis commanded the most important exploration mission in

the early history of the United States. Clay S. Jenkinson takes a fresh look

at Lewis, not to offer a paper cutout hero but to describe and explain a

hyperserious young man of great complexity who found the wilderness of

Upper Louisiana as exacting as it was exhilarating.

AlaskaA History

By Claus M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick

$39.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4040-7 420 Pages

The largest by far of the fifty states, Alaska is also the state of greatest mystery

and diversity. And, as Claus-M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick show in this

comprehensive survey, the history of Alaskas peoples and the development of

its economy have matched the diversity of its land and seascapes.

Few historical chronicles are as informative and eloquent as

the journal written by Prince Maximilian of Wied as a recordof his journey into the North American interior in 1833, following

the route Lewis and Clark had taken almost thirty years earlier.

Maximilians memorable descriptions of topography, Native

peoples, and natural history were further brought to life through

the now-familiar watercolors and sketches of Karl Bodmer, the

young Swiss artist who accompanied him.

Volume Oneof the North American Journals recounts the

princes journey from Europe to St. Louisthen the edge of the

frontier. Volume Two vividly narrates his experiences on the upperMissouri and offers an unparalleled view of the region and the

peoples native to it. In Volume Three, Maximilian vividly narrates

his extended stay at Fort Clark (near todays Bismarck, North

Dakota) and his return journey eastward across America and on

to his home in Germany.

This book is published with the assistance of the National

Historical Publications and Records Commission.

VOLUME THREE

September 1833August 1834


978-0-87062-367-7 544 Pages

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After CusterLoss and Transformation in Sioux Country

By Paul L. Hedren

$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4216-6 272 Pages

Between 1876 and 1877, the U.S. Army battled Lakota Sioux and NorthernCheyenne Indians in a series of vicious conflicts known today as the Great

Sioux War. After the defeat of Custer at the Little Big Horn in June 1876, the

army responded to its stunning loss by pouring fresh troops and resources

into the war effort. In the end, the U.S. Army prevailed, but at a significant

cost. In this unique contribution to American western history, Paul L. Hedren

examines the wars effects on the culture, environment, and geography of the

northern Great Plains, their Native inhabitants, and the Anglo-American invaders.

An Archaeology of Desperation

Exploring the Donner Partys Alder Creek CampEdited by Kelly J. Dixon, Julie M. Schablitsky, and Shannon A. Novak

With Contributions by Will Bagley, Kelsey Gray, Donald L. Hardesty, Kristin

Johnson, Sean McMurry, Jo Ann Nevers, Gwen Robbins, Penny Rucks, and

G. Richard Scott

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4210-4 384 Pages

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 of 184647. Combining the

approaches of history, ethnohistory, archaeology, bioarchaeology, and socialanthropology, this innovative look at the Donner Partys experience at the

Alder Creek Camp offers insights into many long-unsolved mysteries.

Deep Trails in the Old WestA Frontier Memoir

By Frank Clifford

Edited by Frederick Nolan

$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4186-2 336 Pages

Cowboy and drifter Frank Clifford lived a lot of livesand raised a lot of

hellin the first quarter of his life. Cliffords memoir paints a picture ofhow ranchers and ordinary folk lived, worked, and stayed alive during those

tumultuous years. Written in 1940, Deep Trails in the Old Westis likely one of

the last eyewitness histories of the old West ever to be discovered.

A Free and Hardy LifeTheodore Roosevelts Sojourn in the American West

By Clay S. Jenkinson

$45.00 Cloth 978-00982559-78-9 176 Pages

Theodore Roosevelt ventured into the American West to seek authentic

frontierexperience and the strenuous life. The New York aristocrat traveled to

western Dakota Territory in 1883 to kill his first buffalo. He got his buffalo,

but he also fell in love with the badlands of what is now North Dakota. This

book contains 70 stories, many set in Dakota Territory, about Roosevelts life

as an adventurer, politician, and man of letters, lavishly illustrated with more

than 100 photographs, some never previously published.

Violent EncountersInterviews on Western Massacres

By Deborah Lawrence and Jon Lawrence

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4126-8 336 Pages

Merciless killing in the nineteenth-century American West, as this unusual book

shows, was not as simple as depicted in dime novels and movie Westerns. The

scholars interviewed here, experts on violence in the West, embrace a wide

range of approaches and perspectives and challenge both traditional views of

western expansion and politically correct ideologies. Scholars and students of

history and historiography will be fascinated by the nuts-and-bolts information

about the practice of history revealed in these interviews.


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The Bronco Bill GangBy Karen Holliday Tanner and John D. Tanner, Jr.

$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4165-7 280 Pages

The short, bloody career of Bronco Bill Walters and his gang captures

the devil-may-care violence of the Wild West. In this detailed narrative ofthe gangs crime spree in territorial New Mexico and Arizona, two experts in

outlaw history offer a gunshot-by-gunshot account of how some especially

dangerous outlaws plied their trade in 1898.

Assault on the Deadwood StageRoad Agents and Shotgun Messengers

By Robert K. DeArment

$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4182-4 272 Pages

In the 1870s, Deadwood was a thrivingand largely lawlessboomtown. And

as any fan of western history and films knows, stagecoach robberies were

a regular feature of life in this fabled region of Dakota Territory. Now, for

the first time, Robert K. DeArment tells the story of the good guys and bad

guys behind these violent crimes: the road agents who wreaked havoc on

Deadwoods roadways and the shotgun messengers who battled to protect

stagecoach passengers and their valuable cargo.

Western HeritageA Selection of Wrangler AwardWinning Articles

Edited by Paul A. Hutton

$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4206-7 292 Pages

The enduring fascination of the American West marks this collection of

essays by distinguished historians, investigative reporters, a novelist, and a

celebrated screenwriter. All of these articles have won Wrangler Awards

the western equivalent of the Oscarspresented annually by the National

Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.

The Jar of Severed HandsThe Spanish Deportation of Apache Prisoners of War, 17701810

By Mark Santiago$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4177-0 264 Pages

More than two centuries after the Coronado Expedition first set foot in the

region, the northern frontier of New Spain in the late 1770s was still under

attack by Apache raiders. Mark Santiagos gripping account of Spanish

efforts to subdue the Apaches illuminates larger cultural and political issues

in the colonial period of the Southwest and northern Mexico.

Shot In OklahomaA Century of Sooner State Cinema

By John Wooley

$16.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4174-9 320 Pages

When Thomas Edison wanted to capture western magic on film in 1904,

where did he send his crew? To Oklahomas 101 Ranch near Ponca City.

And when Francis Ford Coppola readied young actors Tom Cruise and Matt

Dillon to portray teen class strife in the 1983 movieThe Outsiders, he took cast

and crew to Tulsa, the setting of S. E. Hintons acclaimed novel. From Edison

to Coppola and beyond, Oklahoma has served as both backdrop and home

base for cinematic productions. Shot in Oklahomaexplores the variety, spunk,

and ingenuity of movie-making in the Sooner State over more than a century.

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Arena LegacyThe Heritage of American Rodeo

By Richard C. Rattenbury

$65.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-4084-1 400 Pages

From its roots in cowboy and vaquero culture to the big-business excitementof todays National Finals competitions, rodeo has embodied the rugged

individualism and competitive spirit of the American West. Now the long

trajectory of rodeo culture comes fully alive in Arena Legacy. Showcasing the

unrivaled collections of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum,

this lavishly illustrated volume is the first to depict rodeos material and

graphic heritage.

A Perfect GibraltarThe Battle for Monterrey, Mexico, 1846

By Christopher D. Dishman$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4140-4 344 Pages

For three days in the fall of 1846, U.S. and Mexican soldiers fought fiercely in

the picturesque city of Monterrey, turning the northern Mexican town, known

for its towering mountains and luxurious gardens, into one of the nineteenth

centurys most gruesome battlefields. Led by Brigadier General Zachary Taylor,

graduates of the U.S. Military Academy encountered a city almost perfectly

protected by mountains, a river, and a vast plain. Monterreys ideal defensive

position inspired more than one U.S. soldier to call it a perfect Gibraltar.

Christopher D. Dishman conveys in a vivid narrative the intensity and dramaof the Battle of Monterrey.

Beyond the American PaleThe Irish in the West, 18451910

By David M. Emmons

$34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4128-2 540 Pages

Convention has it that Irish immigrants in the nineteenth century confined

themselves mainly to industrial cities of the East and Midwest. The truth

is that Irish Catholics went everywhere in America and often had as much

of a presence in the West as in the East. In Beyond the American Pale, DavidM. Emmons examines this multifaceted experience of westering Irish and,

in doing so, offers a fresh and discerning account of Americas westward

expansion.

So Rugged and MountainousBlazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 18121848

By Will Bagley

$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4103-9 480 Pages

The story of Americas westward migration is a powerful blend of fact and

fable. Over the course of three decades, almost a million eager fortune-

hunters, pioneers, and visionaries transformed the face of a continentand

displaced its previous inhabitants. The people who made the long and

perilous journey over the Oregon and California trails drove this swift and

astonishing change. In this magisterial volume, Will Bagley tells why and how

this massive emigration began.

Prairie RepublicThe Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879-1889

By Jon K. Lauck

$32.95s 978-0-8061-4110-7 256 Pages

Seldom is a major aspect of a historical period researched, written, and

interpreted as brilliantly as Jon Lauck has done here. This very important book

not only adds much to South Dakota history but also demonstrates methods

and approaches that could well be used in studying other pioneer territories in

the Midwest.Gilbert C. Fite, author of The Farmers Frontier, 18651900


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The Steamboat Bertrandand Missouri River CommerceBy Ronald R. Switzer

$45.00 Cloth 978-0-87062-426-1 376 Pages

On April 1, 1865, the steamboat Bertrandhit a snag in the Missouri River

and sank twenty miles north of Omaha. For more than a century thereafter,

the Bertrand remained buried until it was discovered by treasure hunters, its

cargo largely intact. This book categorizes some 300,000 artifacts recovered

from the Bertrandin 1968, and also describes the invention, manufacture,

marketing, distribution, and sale of these products and traces their route to

the frontier mining camps of Montana Territory.

Dale Morgan on the MormonsCollected Works, Part 2, 19491970

By Dale Morgan

Edited by Richard Saunders

$45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-423-0

Dale L. Morgan (19141971) remains one of the most respected historians

of the American Westand his broad and influential career one of the least

understood. Among todays scholars his reputation rests largely on his

studies of the fur trade and overland trails, yet throughout his life, Morgans

perennial goal was to complete a history of the Latter Day Saints. In this

volumethe second of a two-part setMorgans writings on the Mormons

finally receive the attention and analysis they merit.

Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone SurveyA Documentary History

Edited by M. John Lubetkin

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-422-3 320 Pages

Encompassing the saga of transcontinental railroading, cultural conflict on

the northern plains, and an array of important Indian and Anglo-American

characters, Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Surveywill fascinate Custer fans andanyone interested in the history of the American West.

California through Russian Eyes, 18061848Compiled, translated, and edited by James R. Gibson

$45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-421-6 506 Pages

In the early nineteenth century, Russia established a colony in California

that lasted until the Russian-American Company sold Fort Ross and Bodega

Bay to John Sutter in 1841. This annotated collection of Russian accounts

of Alta California, many of them translated here into English from Russian

for the first time, presents richly detailed impressions by visiting Russian

mariners, scientists, and Russian-American Company officials regarding the

environment, people, economy, and politics of the province. Gathered from

Russian archival collections and obscure journals, these testimonies represent

a major contribution to the little-known history of Russian America.

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This Far-Off Wild LandThe Upper Missour Letters of Andrew Dawson

By Lesley Wischmann, Andrew Erskine Dawson

$39.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-419-3 336 Pages

In the mid-1800s, Andrew Dawson, self-exiled from his home in Scotland,

joined the upper Missouri River fur trade and rose through the ranks of the

American Fur Company. A headstrong young man, he had come to America

at the age of twenty-four after being dismissed from his second job in two

years. His poignant sense of isolation is evident throughout his letters home

between 1844 and 1861. In This Far-Off Wild Land, Lesley Wischmann and

Andrew Erskine Dawsona relative of this colorful figurecouple an engaging

biography of Dawson with thirty-seven of his previously unpublished lettersfrom the American frontier.

Robert Newton Baskin and the Making of Modern UtahBy John Gary Maxwell

$45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-420-9 392 Pages

Robert Newton Baskins promotion of federal legislation against polygamy

and his work to bring the Mormon territory into a republican form of

government were pivotal in Utahs achievement of statehood. The result of

his efforts also contributed to the acceptance of the Church of Jesus Christ of

Latter-day Saints by the American public. In this engaging biography, Maxwell

presents Baskin as the unsung father of modern Utah.

Dale Morgan on the MormonsCollected Works

Part 1, 19391951

Edited by Richard L. Saunders

$45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-416-2

Dale L. Morgan (19141971) remains one of the most respected historians

of the American Westand his career, one of the least understood. Amongtodays scholars his reputation rests largely on his studies of the fur trade

and overland trails, yet throughout his life, Morgans primary interest was the

history of the Latter Day Saints. In this volumethe first of a two-part set

Morgans writings on the Mormons finally receive the attention and analysis

they merit.

Custer, the Seventh Cavalry, and the Little Big HornA Bibliography

By Michael OKeefe

$125.00s Cloth/2 Volume Set 978-0-87062-404-9 720 Pages

Since the shocking news first broke in 1876 of the Seventh Cavalrys disastrous

defeat at the Little Big Horn, fascination with the battleand with Lieutenant

George Armstrong Custerhas never ceased. Widespread interest in the

subject has spawned a vast outpouring of literature, which only increases

with time. This two volume bibliography of Custer literature is the first to be

published in some twenty five years and the most complete ever assembled.



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Edward Hunter SnowPioneerEducatorStatesman

By Thomas G. Alexander

$34.95 Cloth 978-0-87062-415-5 432 Pages

Edward Hunter Snow played and instrumental role in the development of

southern Utah and in the growth of the Mormon church during a period of

rapid change. In this first biography of the man, Alexander presents Snow as

a servant of family, church, state, and nation.

The Indianization of Lewis and ClarkBy William R. Swagerty

$90.00s Cloth/2 Volume Set 978-0-87062-413-1 836 PagesThe Indianization of Lewis and Clarkretraces the well-known trail of Americas

most famous explorers as a journey into the heart of Native Americaa case

study of successful material adaptation and cultural borrowing.

Weapons of the Lewis and Clark ExpeditionBy Jim Garry

$32.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-412-4 208 Pages

When Meriwether Lewis began shopping for supplies and firearms to take

on the Corps of Discoverys journey west, his first stop was a federal arsenal.For the following twenty-nine months, from the time the Lewis and Clark

expedition left Camp Dubois with a cannon salute in 1804 until it announced

its return from the West Coast to St. Louis with a volley in 1806, weapons

were a crucial component of the participants tool kit. In Weapons of the Lewis

and Clark Expedition, historian Jim Garry describes the arms and ammunition

the expedition carried and the use and care those weapons received.

Terrible JusticeSioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 18541868

By Doreen Chaky$39.95 Cloth 978-0-87062-414-8 400 Pages

Doreen Chaky offers the first complete picture of the conflicts between Sioux

warriors and the American military in the mid-nineteenth century, the period

bookended by the Siouxs first major military conflicts with the U.S. Army and

the creation of the Great Sioux Reservation.

Gold-Mining BoomtownPeople of White Oaks, Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory

By Roberta Key Haldane

$45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-410-0 336 Pages

The town of White Oaks, New Mexico Territory, was born in 1879

when prospectors discovered gold at nearby Baxter Mountain. In Gold-

Mining Boomtown, Roberta Key Haldane offers an intimate portrait of the

southeastern New Mexico community by profiling more than forty families

and individuals who made their homes there during its heyday.


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Contest for CaliforniaFrom Spanish Colonization to the American Conquest

By Stephen G. Hyslop

$39.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-411-7 448 Pages

Californias early history was both colorful and turbulent. In Contest for

California, Stephen G. Hyslop draws on a wide array of primary sources to

weave an elegant narrative of this epic struggle for control of the territory that

many saw as a beautiful, sprawling land of promise.

Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, 1792Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra and the Nootka Sound Controversy

By Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra

Translation by Freeman M. Tovell

$34.95 Cloth 978-0-87062-408-7 192 Pages

This book offers the first published English translation of Juan Francisco

de la Bodega y Quadra journal, a remarkable account of his travels along

the Northwest Coast of America, encounters with Native peoples and the

friendship that developed between Bodega and his British counterpart,

George Vancouver.

West from Salt LakeDiaries from the Central Overland Trail

Edited by Jesse G. Petersen

$34.95 Cloth 978-0-87062-407-0 320 Pages

Rich in anecdotes on the challenges of the overland crossing, West from Salt

Lakereveals excerpts from the diaries of settlers traveling the Central Overland

Trail from Salt Lake City to California. Trail enthusiasts and students ofwestering migration history will welcome this detailed view of the previously

neglected Central Overland Trail.

Bonanzas and BorrascasBy Richard E. Lingenfelter

Vol. 1: Gold Lust and Silver Sharks, 1848-1884

Vol. 2: Copper Kings and Stock Frenzies, 1885-1918

(Gold Lust and Silver Sharks) $40.00 Cloth 978-0-87062-405-6 448 Pages

(Copper Kings and Stock Frenzies) $40.00 Cloth 978-0-87062-406-3 600 Pages

This two-volume study of the heyday of gold, silver, and copper mining in

the American West is unique in both scope and approach. Here is a saga of

mines and money, of the richly profitable bonanzas and crushingly profitless

borrascasof the West. Richard E. Lingenfelter describes how miners, managers,

investors, and speculators produced enormous wealthspurring the American

economy, attracting myriads of Argonauts and settlers, and transforming the

West and the nation.

Playing with ShadowsVoices of Dissent in the Mormon West

Edited by Polly Aird, Jeff Nichols, and Will Bagley

$45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-380-6 496 Pages

This collection of narratives by four individuals who abandoned Mormonism

apostates, as Brigham Young and other Latter-day Saint leaders labeled

themprovides an overview of dissent from the beginning of the religion to

the early twentieth century and presents a wide range of disaffection with the

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Parley P. Pratt and the Making of MormonismEdited and with contributions by Gregory K. Armstrong, Matthew J. Grow,

and Dennis J. Siler

$45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-401-8 352 Pages

Parley P. Pratt joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1830

and was murdered in 1857 by the estranged husband of his twelfth plural

wife. An original member of the Churchs Quorum of the Twelve Apostles,

Pratts writings helped define Mormon theology and identity, and his hymnsremain popular today. This collection of essays uses Pratts life and writings

as a means for gaining insight on early Latter-day Saint history, including the

Churchs initial internationalization, vibrant print culture, development of a

unique theology, family dynamics, and the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

Forging a Fur EmpireExpeditions in the Snake River Country, 18091824

By John Phillip Reid

$29.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-402-5 240 Pages

Alexander Ross, the pioneer recorder of the early fur trade in the far northern

West, led a beaver trapping expedition in 1824 into the vast, unfamiliar

territory east of trading posts in the Pacific Northwest. He and his men

ventured deep into Snake River country in present-day Idaho and Montana.

In this narrative, based on the accounts left by Ross and others, historian

and legal scholar John Phillip Reid describes the experiences of the earliest

Hudsons Bay Company fur-trapping expeditionsventures usually overlooked

by historiansand explores the interaction between the diverse cultures of the

Pacific Northwest.

Justinian Caire and Santa Cruz IslandThe Rise and Fall of a California Dynasty

By Frederic Caire Chiles

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-400-1 240 Pages

Santa Cruz was once the largest privately owned island off the coast of the

continental United States. This account traces the islands history from its

aboriginal Chumash population to its acquisition by The Nature Conservancy

at the end of the twentieth century. The heart of the book, however, is a

family saga: the story of French migr Justinian Caire and his descendants,

who owned and occupied the island for more than fifty years. The author,descended from Caire, uses family archives unavailable to earlier historians to

recount the previously untold story.

In the WhirlpoolThe Pre-Manifesto Letters of President Wilford Woodruff

to the William Atkin Family, 18851890

Edited by Reid L. Neilson

Contributions by Thomas G. Alexander and Jan Shipps

$29.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-390-5 224 Pages

Political and religious turmoil in the late 1800s plagued the Church of Jesus

Christ of Latter-day Saints and its leaders. As Utah statehood loomed,

Congress aggressively moved against Mormons who engaged in polygamy.

One of those who went into hiding in 1879 was Wilford Woodruff, who

became church president in 1887. This never-before-published collection of

Woodruff s letters to the Atkins, edited by Reid L. Neilson, reveals the church

leaders political and spiritual conflicts in the five years leading up to his 1890

Manifesto, which officially disallowed polygamy.


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Valentine T. McgillycuddyArmy Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux

By Candy Moulton

$34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-389-9 288 Pages

On a September day in 1877, hundreds of Sioux and soldiers at Camp

Robinson crowded around a fatally injured Lakota leader. A young doctor

forced his way through the crowd, only to see the victim fading before him.

It was the famed Crazy Horse. From intense moments like this to encounters

with such legendary western figures as Calamity Jane and Red Cloud,

Valentine T. McGillycuddys life encapsulated key events in American history

that changed the lives of Native people forever. In Valentine T. McGillycuddy

award-winning author Candy Moulton explores McGillycuddys fascinating

experiences on the northern plains.

New England to Gold Rush CaliforniaThe Journal of Alfred and Chastina W. Rix, 18491854

Edited Lynn A. Bonfield

$45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-392-9 384 Pages

On July 29, 1849, two young schoolteachers were married in a small town innorthern Vermont. Their story could easily have been lost to history, except

that Alfred and Chastina Rix had the foresight to begin recording their

observations in a joint journal. Their unique husband-and-wife account,

which captures the turbulence of life and events during t

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