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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

with his wie Rebecca in Montana.

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Showcases a premier

collection of Native American

and southwestern art

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

s e l e c t e d w o r k s

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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.

Adkins Collection.

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Not long ago, energy experts dismissed wind power as unreliable and capricious.

Not anymore. The industry has arrived, and the spinning blades o this new kid onthe electric power block oer hope or a partial solution to our energy problems

by converting natures energy into electricity without exposing our planet and its

inhabitants to the dangers o heat, pollution, toxicity, or depletion o irreplaceable

natural resources. Windalltells the story o this extraordinary transormation and

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

subsidies in the creation o transmission systems between the turbines and end users

in cities.

Currently the worlds astest-growing source o energy, wind generation has also given

rise to backlash. A critical advocate o wind energy whose career as a historian has

ocused on environmental controversies, Righter addresses the cultural dimensions

o resistance to wind energy and makes considered predictions about the directions

wind energy may take. His sympathetic treatment o opposing arguments regarding

landscape change, unwanted noise, bird deaths, and human medical implications

are thought-provoking, as is his recommendation that we place the lions share o

turbines on the Great Plains.

Most books on wind energy are technical manuals. Righters book does not shy

away rom scientifc explanations, but he does not write or engineers. His broad,

historically inormed vision will appeal to policy makers at the ederal, state, and

local levels and to anyone interested in a technology increasingly signifcant to

supplying Americas energy needs.

Rbert W. Righter is Research Proessor o History at Southern Methodist Uni-

versity and the author o Wind Energy in America: A History and The Battle

over Hetch Hetchy: Americas Most Controversial Dam and the Birth o Modern

Environmentalism.

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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 LoGp b t m

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

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Two distinctive collections o poetry celebrating

the northern Great Plains

July

$19.95 CloTH 978-0-9825597-6-5

$14.95 PAPER978-0-9825597-7-2

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3 coLoR ILLus.

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moRTAL sTAkes FAInT THunDeRn Ptr Tith mrph

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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FoRT cLARk AnD ITs InDIAn neIGHboRsA Tradig Pt th uppr miri

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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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murphySCE

NERy,CuRIoSITIES,

ANDSTuPENDouSRoCKS A nineteenth-century artists rsthand impressions o the American West

DecembeR

$45.00 cLoTH 978-0-8061-4219-7

304 PAGes, 11 11


ART & PHoTo/HIsToRy

sceneRy, cuRIosITI es,AnD sTuPenDous Rockswillia Qr ovrlad sth, 18501851

B Dd rc m

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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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eWers,roBins

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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TheUnkechaUg IndIansof easTern Long IsLand

J a. st

a hIsTory

stronGTHEuN

KECHAuGINDIANSofEASTER

NloNGISlAND The rst comprehensive history o the Unkechaug Indians

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B J a. sg

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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xoDuSINHISToRyANDMEMo

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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

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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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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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valley

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A cultural history o Americas red rock desert landmarks

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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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