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Contents

American Indian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Art & Photography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Biography & Memior. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Literature & Fiction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Military History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

The Arthur H. Clark Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Chickasaw Press. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Cherokee National Press. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Best Sellers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Forthcoming Books Spring 2011. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

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on the cover: Rodeo Cowgirls Bessie and Ruby Dickey, Tucumcari, New Mexico,
Rodeo, circa 1918. Courtesy National cowboy and western heritage museum,
McCarroll Family Trust Collection, RC2006.076.045
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American Indian
A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest
Third Edition
By Robert H. Ruby, John A. Brown, and Cary C. Collins
$26.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4024-7 · 448 pages
The Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest inhabit a vast region extending
from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean and from California to
British Columbia. For more than two decades, this book has served as a
standard reference on these diverse peoples. Now, in the wake of renewed
tribal self-determination, this revised edition reflects the many recent political,
economic, and cultural developments shaping these Native communities.

Dreaming with the Ancestors

Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico
By Shirley Boteler Mock
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4053-7 · 400 pages
Indian freedmen and their descendants have garnered much public and
scholarly attention, but women’s roles have largely been absent from that
discussion. In Dreaming with the Ancestors, Shirley Boteler Mock explores the
role that Black Seminole women have played in shaping and perpetuating a
culture born of African roots and shaped by southeastern Native American
and Mexican influences.

War Party in Blue

Pawnee Indian 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. In War 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 neglected
episodes.

From Cochise to Geronimo

The Chiricahua Apaches, 1874–1886
By Edwin R. Sweeney
$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4150-3 · 640 pages
In the decade after the death of their revered chief Cochise in 1874, the
Chiricahua Apaches struggled to survive as a people and their relations with
the U.S. government further deteriorated. In From Cochise to Geronimo, Edwin
R. Sweeney builds on his previous biographies of Chiricahua leaders Cochise
and Mangas Coloradas to offer a definitive history of the turbulent period
between Cochise’s death and Geronimo’s surrender in 1886.

The Peyote Road

Religious Freedom and the Native American Church
By Thomas C. Maroukis
$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4109-1 · 272 pages
Despite challenges by the federal government to restrict the use of Peyote,
the Native American Church, which uses the hallucinogenic cactus as a
religious sacrament, has become the largest indigenous denomination among
American Indians today. The Peyote Road examines the history of the NAC,
including its legal struggles to defend the controversial use of Peyote.
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American Indians and the Fight for Equal Voting Rights

By Laughlin McDonald
$55.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4113-8 · 360 pages
The struggle for voting rights was not limited to African Americans in the
South. American Indians also faced discrimination at the polls and still do
today. This book explores their fight for equal voting rights and carefully
documents how non-Indian officials have tried to maintain dominance over
Native peoples despite the rights they are guaranteed as American citizens.

Kiowa Military Societies

Ethnohistory and Ritual
By William C. Meadows
$75.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4072-8 · 472 pages
For Kiowa Indians, military societies have special significance. They serve not
only to honor veterans and celebrate and publicize martial achievements but
also to foster strong role models for younger tribal members. To this day, these
societies serve to maintain traditional Kiowa values, culture, and ethnic identity.
William C. Meadows now provides a detailed account of the ritual structures,
ceremonial composition, and historical development of each society.

The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma

A Legal History
By L. Susan Work
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4089-6 · 376 pages
When it adopted a new constitution in 1969, the Seminole Nation was the
first of the Five Tribes in Oklahoma to formally reorganize its government.
In the face of an American legal system that sought either to destroy its
nationhood or to impede its self-government, the Seminole Nation tenaciously
retained its internal autonomy, cultural vitality, and economic subsistence.
Here, L. Susan Work draws on her experience as a tribal attorney to present
the first legal history of the twentieth-century Seminole Nation.

FULL COURT QUEST

The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School Basketball Champions of the World
By Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith
$29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3973-9 · 496 pages
Most fans of women’s basketball would be startled to learn that girls’ teams
were making their mark more than a century ago—and that none was more
prominent than a team from an isolated Indian boarding school in Montana.
Playing like “lambent flames” across the polished floors of dance halls,
armories, and gymnasiums, the girls from Fort Shaw stormed the state to
emerge as Montana’s first basketball champions. Taking their game to the
1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, these young women introduced an international
audience to the fledgling game and returned home with a trophy declaring
them champions.  Full-Court Quest offers a rare glimpse into American Indian
life and into the world of women’s basketball before “girls’ rules” temporarily
shackled the sport.

INDIAN TRIBES OF OKLAHOMA

A Guide
By Blue Clark
$29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4060-5 · 416 pages
Oklahoma is home to nearly forty American Indian tribes, and it includes
the largest Native population of any state. As a result, many Americans
think of the state as “Indian Country.” Blue Clark, an enrolled member
of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, has rendered a completely new guide
for information on the state’s Native peoples that reflects the drastic
transformation of Indian Country in recent years.  As a synthesis of current
knowledge, this book places the state’s Indians in their contemporary context
as no other book has done.
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CHOCTAW CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, 1884–1907

By 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 assaults—usually 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 pro-
assimilation Progressives fought for control of the Choctaw Nation.

THE INDIAN SOUTHWEST, 1580–1830

By Gary Clayton Anderson
$24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4067-4 · 384 pages
In The Indian Southwest, 1580-1830 demonstrates that, in the face of European
conquest, severe drought, and disease, Indians in the Southwest proved
remarkably adaptable and dynamic, remaining independent actors and
even prospering. Some tribes temporarily joined Spanish missions or
assimilated into other tribes. Others survived by remaining on the fringe of
Spanish settlement, migrating, and expanding exchange relationships with
other tribes. Still others incorporated remnant bands and individuals and
strengthened their economic systems. The vibrancy of southwestern Indian
societies today is due in part to the exchange-based political economies their
ancestors created almost three centuries ago.

INDIAN ALLIANCES AND THE SPANISH IN THE SOUTHWEST, 750–1750

By William B. Carter
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4009-4 · 312 pages
When considering the history of the Southwest, scholars have typically
viewed Apaches, Navajos, and other Athabaskans as marauders who preyed
on Pueblo towns and Spanish settlements. William Carter now offers a
multilayered reassessment of historical events and environmental and social
change to show how mutually supportive networks among Native peoples
created alliances in the centuries before and after Spanish settlement.

Art & Photography

Life at the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Agency
The Photographs of Annette Ross Hume
By Kristina L Southwell and John R. Lovett
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4138-1 · 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.

Building One Fire

Art and World View in Cherokee Life
By Chadwick Smith, Rennard Strickland, and Benny Smith
$24.95 Cloth · 978-1-61658-960-8 · 224 pages
In Building One Fire, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation Chad Smith and
renowned Cherokee-Osage scholar and author Rennard Strickland present a
unique look at Cherokee art through the lens of Cherokee philosophy. Since
the time when Water Spider brought the gift of fire to the Cherokee people, the
One Fire, “the Ancient Lady,” has been at the center of Cherokee spiritual life.
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Charlie Russell and Friends

By Peter H. Hassrick, Brian W. Dippie, Thomas Brent Smith, and Mark Andrew White
$10.95 Paper · 978-0-914738-64-0 · 72 pages
Although he was painfully reserved among strangers, the artist Charles M.
Russell had a knack for making lifelong friends. This issue of Western Passages
is devoted to one group among Russell’s diverse tribe of comrades: his fellow
artists. Five distinguished scholars consider the painters and illustrators with
whom Russell associated, gauging the contributions of some to his artistic
progress and assessing the debt owed by others to his work. Particular attention
is paid to Russell’s friendships with his protégé Joe De Yong, sporting artist
Philip Goodwin, and “kindred spirit” and famed interpreter of the Southwest
Maynard Dixon.

Visions of the Big Sky

Painting 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 Rocky
Mountain 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 region’s character.

Luis Ortega’s Rawhide Artistry

Braiding in the California Tradition
By Chuck Stormes and Don Reeves
$55.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4055-1 · 160 pages
$29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4091-9 · 160 pages
An acclaimed rawhide braider of horse gear, Luis Ortega elevated his craft to
collectible art and influenced a generation of gear makers. This book is the
most comprehensive overview of his life, art, and career and the first book-
length work on rawhide braiding in North America, charting changes in horse
gear over five decades.

A Place of Refuge
Maynard Dixon’s Arizona
By Thomas Brent Smith
With an additional essay by Donald J. Hagerty
$49.95s Cloth · 978-0-911611-36-6 · 160 pages
Western painter Maynard Dixon once pronounced “Arizona” “the magic
name of a land bright and mysterious, of sun and sand, of tragedy and stark
endeavor.” The California-born Dixon first traveled to Arizona in 1900 to absorb
what he believed was a vanishing West. Dixon found Arizona a visually inspiring
and spiritual place that shaped the course of his paintings and ultimately
defined him. A Place of Refuge: Maynard Dixon’s Arizona is the first book to focus
solely on the renowned painter’s depictions of Arizona subjects.

Forging a Nation
The American History Collection at Gilcrease Museum
Contributions by Kimberly Roblin, Amanda Lett,
Eric Singleton, and Randy Ramer
$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-9725657-9-0 · 250 pages
$24.95s Paper · 978-0-9725657-8-3 · 250 pages
Forging a Nation: The American History Collection at Gilcrease Museum explores the
history of the United States as told through art, artifacts, and archival materials
that illuminate some three hundred years of a shared cultural experience. Drawn
entirely from the diverse and noted collections of the Gilcrease Museum, this
volume examines the foundations of the American republic from colonial times
through the Early National period.
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THE MASTERWORKS OF CHARLES M. RUSSELL

A Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture
Edited by Joan Carpenter Troccoli
$65.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4081-0 · 304 pages
$39.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4097-1 · 304 pages
In 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 book—a companion volume to the acclaimed Charles M. Russell: A
Catalogue Raisonné, edited by B. Byron Price—showcases many of the artist’s
best-known works and chronicles the sources and evolution of his style.

CHARLES M. RUSSELL
A Catalogue Raisonné
Edited by B. Byron Price
$125.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3836-7 · 352 pages
Charles M. Russell is our most beloved artist of the American West. His
paintings, sketches, sculpture, illustrated letters, and stories are an unequalled
legacy. Lavishly illustrated with more than 200 color and black-and-white
reproductions of Russell’s greatest works, this beautiful volume features essays
by Russell experts and scholars who address important aspects of the artist’s
life and career. Inside the book is a unique key code that allows purchasers
to access a private online catalogue (www.russellraisonne.com) of more than
4,000 works Russell created and signed during his lifetime.

THE WEST OF THE IMAGINATION

Second Edition
By William H. Goetzmann and William N. Goetzmann
$65.00 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3533-5 · 640 pages
For many people, “western art” immediately conjures images by Frederic
Remington or Georgia O’Keeffe—but there’s so much more. This new edition
by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and his son is significantly expanded
and updated and shows that the West is a vibrant mirror of American cultural
diversity. Through 450 illustrations—more than half of them in color—the
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.

WILDLIFE IN AMERICAN ART

Masterworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art
By Adam Duncan Harris
$55.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4015-5 · 320 pages
$35.00 Paper · 978-0-8061-4099-5 · 320 pages
The National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming, has assembled
the most comprehensive collection of paintings and sculptures portraying
North American wildlife in the world. Wildlife in American Art presents a
generous sampling of the museum’s holdings, charts the history of this
enduring theme in American art, and explores the evolving relationship
between Americans and the natural resources of this continent.

IN CONTEMPORARY RHYTHM
The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein
By Peter H. Hassrick and Elizabeth J. Cunningham
$65.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3937-1 · 416 pages
$34.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3948-7 · 416 pages
One of the founders of the Taos Society of Artists, Ernest L. Blumenschein
was perhaps the most complex and accomplished of all the painters
associated with that pioneering organization. This volume is the definitive
work on Blumenschein’s life and art, reproducing masterworks from a new
exhibit along with additional works and historical photographs to form the
most comprehensive assemblage of his paintings ever published.
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SPANISH MUSTANGS IN THE GREAT AMERICAN WEST

Return of the Horse to America
By John S. Hockensmith
$49.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-9975-7 · 204 pages
Horses are an integral part of the American experience. Yet prior to the
arrival of Spanish explorers in the 1500s, horses had been absent from North
America for millennia. In this beautifully illustrated volume, celebrated equine
photographer John S. Hockensmith reveals how the return of horses with the
conquistadors both altered American Indian cultures and later supported the
development of the United States.
Distributed for John S. Hockensmith

FACES OF THE FRONTIER

Photographic Portraits from the American West, 1845–1924
By Frank H. Goodyear III
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4082-7 · 320 pages
Faces of the Frontier showcases more than 140 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. The names of some are familiar—
Teddy Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Sitting Bull, Annie Oakley. The names of others
may be less well known, but they played a significant role in re-creating the
American West. These are all people of the West, and their portraits give us a
unique glimpse into a lost time and place.

CHARLES DEAS AND 1840s AMERICA

By Carol Clark
$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4030-8 · 248 pages
Charles Deas (1818–67), 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. This handsome volume—featuring more than 150 illustrations, 70 in
color—is the first book exclusively devoted to Deas.

JULIUS SEYLER AND THE BLACKFEET

An Impressionist at Glacier National Park
By William E. Farr
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4014-8 · 256 pages
Julius Seyler and the Blackfeet showcases the life and work of a German
Impressionist artist, who portrayed a “vanished” West. This book marks
both an appreciation of Seyler’s unique art and a fascinating glimpse into
the promotion of a national park in its early years. Farr presents more than
one hundred images—many in color—including Seyler’s major works from
Glacier, other paintings from his European years, and historic photographs
from the park.

SCULPTOR IN BUCKSKIN
The Autobiography of Alexander Phimister Proctor
Second Edition
Edited by Katharine C. Ebner
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4007-0 · 244 pages
This new edition of Proctor’s autobiography provides a thorough introduction
to a distinctively American artist whose monumental sculptures and statues
adorn parks, public buildings, and museums, as well as private homes and
businesses across the country. The text takes the reader on a far-flung journey
from his birth in Ontario and childhood in Denver to his travels as a young
man throughout the United States and eventually to Paris.
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LANTERNS ON THE PRAIRIE

The Blackfeet Photographs of Walter McClintock
Edited by Steven L. Grafe
$60.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4022-3 · 336 pages
$34.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4029-2 · 336 pages
Lanterns on the Prairie explores the motivations of the players in photographer
Walter McClintock’s story and the historic context of his engagement with the
Blackfeet. The photographs themselves provide an irreplaceable visual record of
the Blackfeet during a pivotal period in their history.

Biography & Memior

Bound Like Grass
A Memoir from the Western High Plains
By Ruth McLaughlin
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4137-4 · 200 pages
At the start of this haunting memoir, Ruth McLaughlin returns to the site
of her childhood home in rural eastern Montana. In place of her family’s
house, she finds only rubble and a blackened chimney. A fire has taken the
old farmstead and with it ninety-seven years of hard-luck memories. Amidst
the ruins, a lone tree survives, reminding her of her family’s stubborn will to
survive despite hardships that included droughts, hunger, and mental illness.
Bound Like Grass is McLaughlin’s account of her own—and her family’s—
struggle to survive on their isolated wheat and cattle farm.

Bandido
The Life and Times of Tiburcio Vasquez
By John Boessenecker
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4127-5 · 512 pages
Tiburcio Vasquez is, next to Joaquin Murrieta, America’s 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.” Bandido pulls
back the curtain on a life story shrouded in myth—a myth created by Vasquez
himself and abetted by writers who saw a tale ripe for embellishment.

Open Range
The Life of Agnes Morley Cleaveland
By Darlis A. Miller
$24.95s 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. 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.

A Pair of Shootists
The Wild West Story of S. F. Cody and Maud Lee
By Jerry Kuntz
$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4149-7 · 224 pages
In 1888, Samuel F. Cody, a twenty-one-year-old horse wrangler, met Maud
Lee, a sixteen-year-old aspiring circus performer, while touring with the Wild
West show cast of Adam Forepaugh’s Circus. A quick rapport developed
between the girl from Norristown, Pennsylvania, and the cowboy who dazzled
audiences with his good looks and fancy pistol shooting.  A Pair of Shootists
is the exuberant and sometimes heartbreaking story of the 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.
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Race and the University

A Memoir
By George Henderson
$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4129-9 · 272 pages
In 1967, George Henderson, the son of uneducated Alabama sharecroppers,
accepted a full-time professorship at the University of Oklahoma, despite
his mentor’s warning to avoid the “redneck school in a backward state.”
Henderson became the university’s third African American professor, a hire
that seemed to suggest the dissolving of racial divides. However, when real
estate agents in the university town of Norman denied the Henderson family
their first three choices of homes, the sociologist and educator realized he
still faced some formidable challenges.  In this stirring memoir, Henderson
recounts his formative years at the University of Oklahoma, during the late
1960s and early 1970s.

Pío Pico
The Last Governor of Mexican California
By Carlos Manuel Salomon
$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4090-2 · 256 pages
Two-time governor of Alta California and prominent businessman after
the U.S. annexation, Pío de Jesus Pico was a politically savvy Californio
who thrived in both the Mexican and the American periods. This is the first
biography of Pico, whose life vibrantly illustrates the opportunities and risks
faced by Mexican Americans in those transitional years.

Chief Loco
Apache Peacemaker
By Bud Shapard
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4047-6 · 376 pages
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.

Pipestone
My Life in an Indian Boarding School
By Adam Fortunate Eagle
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4114-5 · 248 pages
Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969,
Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable memoir of his years as a
young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. In this rare
firsthand account, Fortunate Eagle lives up to his reputation as a “contrary
warrior” by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak
and prisonlike.

N. Scott Momaday
Remembering Ancestors, Earth, and Traditions
An Annotated Bio-bibliography
By Phyllis S. Morgan
$60.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4054-4 · 352 pages
N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize–winning 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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Best of Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1

By Kenneth L Holmes and Michael L. Tate
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3914-2 · 304 pages
The diaries and letters of women who braved the overland trails during the
great nineteenth-century westward migration are treasured documents in the
study of the American West. These eight firsthand accounts are among the
best ever written. They were selected for the power with which they portray
the hardship, adventure, and boundless love for friends and family that
characterized the overland experience. Some were written with the skilled pens
of educated women.

Best of Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2

Emigrant Girls on the Overland Trails
Edited 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 Women series 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.

A Rough Ride to Redemption

The Ben Daniels Story
By Robert K. DeArment and Jack DeMattos
$29.95s 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 Daniels’s 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
Brinkley author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for
America

Deadly Dozen
Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Volume 3
By Robert K. DeArment
$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4076-6 · 408 pages
For every Wild Bill Hickok or Billy the Kid, there was another western gunfighter
just as deadly but not as well known. Robert K. DeArment has earned a
reputation as the premier researcher of unknown gunfighters, and here he
offers twelve more portraits of men who weren’t glorified in legend but were
just as notorious in their day. The product of iron-clad research, this newest
Deadly Dozen delivers the goods for gunfighter buffs in search of something
different. Together the Deadly Dozen volumes constitute a Who’s Who of
western outlaws and prove that there’s more to the Wild West than Jesse James.

When I Came West

By 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 indoor
plumbing. 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 West is Laurie Wagner Buyer’s 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.
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LYNDON B. JOHNSON AND MODERN AMERICA

By Kevin J. Fernlund
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4077-3 · 192 pages
Born in a farmhouse in the Texas Hill Country, Lyndon Baines Johnson
brought a western sensibility to the White House. Kevin J. Fernlund has
written a brief, lively biography of the thirty-sixth president that better shows
how his home state molded his early years—and how the one-time Houston
schoolteacher eventually became a Texas tornado twisting across the state’s
and soon the nation’s political landscape.

J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, THE COLD WAR,

AND THE ATOMIC WEST
By Jon Hunner
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4046-9 · 272 pages
In 1922, the teenage son of a Jewish immigrant ventured from Manhattan to
New Mexico for his health. After several trips to the western retreat at Sangre
de Cristo Mountains, J. Robert Oppenheimer came to feel at home in the
American West. This is the first book to explicitly link him with the region.
J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War, and the Atomic West explores how the West
influenced Oppenheimer as a scientist and as a person—and the role he played
in influencing it.

CALL ME LUCKY
A Texan in Hollywood
By Robert Hinkle with Mike Farris
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4093-3 · 272 pages
From his birth in Brownfield, Texas, to a family so poor “they could only
afford a tumbleweed as a pet,” Hinkle went on to gain acclaim in Hollywood
as a speech coach, actor, producer, director, and friend to the stars. Along
the way, Hinkle helped James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Rock
Hudson, and Dennis Hopper, talk like Texans for the epic film Giant and
Academy Award–winning Hud. The author appeared in numerous television
series, including Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Dragnet, and Walker, Texas Ranger.
More than forty photographs, including rare behind-the-scenes glimpses of
the stars Hinkle met and befriended along the way, complement this rousing,
never-dull memoir.

JEDEDIAH SMITH
No Ordinary Mountain Man
By Barton H. Barbour
$26.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4011-7 · 228 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4169-4 · 228 Pages
Mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow. He was
the first Anglo-American to travel overland to California via the Southwest
and roamed through more of the West than anyone of his era. His adventures
quickly became the stuff of legend. Using new information and sifting fact
from legend, Barton H. Barbour now offers a fresh look at this important
figure. Dozens of monuments commemorate Smith today. This readable
book is another, giving modern readers new insight into the character and
remarkable achievements of one of the West’s most complex characters.

THE SUNDANCE KID

The Life of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh
By Donna B. Ernst
$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3982-1 · 264 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4115-2 · 264 pages
He gained renown as the sidekick of Butch Cassidy, but the Sundance Kid—
whose real name was Harry Alonzo Longabaugh—led a fuller life than history
or Hollywood has allowed. Combining genealogical research, access to family
records, and explorations in historical archives, Ernst details the Sundance
Kid’s movements to paint a complete picture of the man.
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THE GOOD TIMES ARE ALL GONE NOW

Life, Death, and Rebirth in an Idaho Mining Town
By Julie Whitesel Weston
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4075-9 · 248 Pages
Julie Whitesel Weston left her hometown of Kellogg, Idaho, but eventually it
pulled her back. Only when she returned to this mining community in the Idaho
Panhandle did she begin to see the paradoxes of the place where she grew up. Her
book combines oral history, journalistic investigation, and personal reminiscence
to take a fond but hard look at life in Kellogg during “the good times.”
“An important portrait of the interior West—the true stuff, raw and gritty, honest
to the bone.”—Craig Lesley, author of Burning Fence and Sky Fisherman

HORSES THAT BUCK

The Story of Champion Bronc Rider Bill Smith
By Margot Kahn
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3912-8 · 208 pages
When asked in an interview what he most liked about rodeo, three-time world
champion saddle-bronc rider “Cody” Bill Smith said simply, “Horses that
buck.” Inducted into the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1979 and the National
Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s Rodeo Hall of Fame in 2000, Smith
was a legend in his own time. His story is a genuine slice of rodeo life—a life of
magic for those good enough to win.

LEGACIES OF CAMELOT
Stewart and Lee Udall, American Culture, and the Arts
By L. Boyd Finch
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3879-4 · 208 pages
In Legacies of Camelot, L. Boyd Finch describes the growing partnership between
government and the arts during the Kennedy-Johnson years, a remarkable
story that until now has received only cursory attention.
“An intimate portrait of Stewart and Lee Udall, an American canvas painted
with considerable perception, sympathy, and candor.” —N. Scott Momaday,
Pulitzer Prize–winning author of House Made of Dawn

AGNES LAKE HICKOK

Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend
By Linda A. Fisher and Carrie Bowers
$29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3983-8 · 416 pages
The first woman in America to own and operate a circus, Agnes Lake spent
thirty years under the Big Top before becoming the wife of Wild Bill Hickok.
While taking her show to Abilene, she met town marshal Hickok and married
him five years later. This account of a remarkable life cuts through fictions
about Agnes’s life, including her own embellishments, to uncover her true story.

GALL
Lakota War Chief
By Robert W. Larson
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3830-5 · 320 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4036-0 · 320 pages
Called the “Fighting Cock of the Sioux” by U.S. soldiers, Hunkpapa warrior Gall
was a great Lakota chief who, along with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, resisted
efforts by the U.S. government to annex the Black Hills. Filling many gaps in
our understanding of this warrior and his relationship with Sitting Bull, this
engaging biography also offers new interpretations of the Little Bighorn that lay
to rest the contention that Gall was “Custer’s Conqueror.” Gall: Lakota War Chief
broadens our understanding of both the man and his people.
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FOLLOWING ISABELLA
Travels in Colorado Then and Now
By Robert Root
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4018-6 · 288 pages
Isabella Bird recorded her 1873 visit to Colorado Territory in her classic travel
narrative, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains. This work inspired Robert Root’s
own discovery of Colorado’s Front Range following his move from the flatlands
of Michigan. In this elegantly written book, Root retraces Bird’s three-month
journey, seeking to understand what Colorado meant to her—and what it
would come to mean for him.

BABY DOE TABOR

The Madwoman in the Cabin
By Judy Nolte Temple
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4035-3 · 280 pages
The story of Baby Doe Tabor has seduced America for more than a century. 
Elizabeth McCourt “Baby Doe” Tabor was the stuff of legend. The stunning
divorcée married Colorado’s wealthiest mining magnate and became “the Silver
Queen of the West.” Horace and Baby Doe mesmerized the world with their
wealth and extravagance. But Baby Doe’s life was also a morality play. Almost
overnight, the Tabors’ wealth disappeared when depression struck in 1893.

OKLAHOMA ROUGH RIDER

Billy McGinty’s Own Story
Edited with Commentary and Notes by Jim Fulbright and Albert Stehno
$75.00s Limited Edition Cloth · 978-0-87062-356-1 · 232 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3935-7 · 232 pages
When Americans answered the call-to-arms after the sinking of the USS Maine
in 1898, a wiry little Oklahoman was in the front ranks. Veteran cowboy Billy
McGinty put his horseman’s skills to work as one of Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough
Riders and participated in the battle of Las Guasimas, the attack on San Juan
Heights, and the siege of Santiago. Oklahoma Rough Rider recounts McGinty’s
exploits on the battlefield and later on the stage.

Environment
GOING GREEN
True Tales from Gleaners, Scavengers, and Dumpster Divers
Edited by Laura Pritchett
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4013-1 · 240 pages
For Going Green, Pritchett has gathered the work of more than twenty writers to
tell their personal stories of Dumpster diving, eating road kill, salvaging plastic
from the beach, and forgoing another trip to the mall for the thrill of bargain
hunting at yard sales and flea markets. These stories look not just at the many
ways people glean but also at the larger, thornier issues dealing with what re-
using—or not—says about our culture and priorities.Brimming with practical
and creative new ways to think about recycling, this collection invites you to
dive in and find your own way of going green.

OUR BETTER NATURE

Environment and the Making of San Francisco
By Phillip J. Dreyfus
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3958-6 · 240 pages
Few cities are so dramatically identified with their environment as San Francisco—
the landscape of hills, the expansive bay, the engulfing fog, and even the deadly
fault line shifting below. Yet most residents think of the city itself as separate from
the natural environment on which it depends.  In Our Better Nature,  Philip J. Dreyfus
recounts the history of San Francisco from Indian village to world-class metropolis,
focusing on the interactions between the city and the land and on the generations
of people who have transformed them both.
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DISAPPEARING DESERT
The Growth of Phoenix and the Culture of Sprawl
By Janine Schipper
$19.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3955-5 · 144 pages
In this provocative book, Janine Schipper examines the cultural forces that
contribute to suburban sprawl in the United States. Focusing on the Phoenix
area, she examines sustainable development in Cave Creek, various master-
planned suburbs, and the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Reservation to explore
suburbanization and ecological destruction. For anyone seeking to understand the
cultural basis for rampant development, this book uncovers the forces that drive
sprawl and searches for solutions to its seeming inevitability.

History
Beyond the American Pale
The Irish in the West, 1845–1910
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, David M. Emmons examines
this multifaceted experience of westering Irish and, in doing so, offers a fresh and
discerning account of America’s westward expansion.

So Rugged and Mountainous

Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848
By Will Bagley
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4103-9 · 480 pages
The story of America’s 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 continent—and 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.

Wyoming Range War

The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County
By John W. Davis
$29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4106-0 · 384 pages
Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West’s most notorious
range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land and
census records, newspapers, and trial transcripts, Davis has produced an all-
new interpretation. He looks at the conflict from the perspective of Johnson
County residents—those whose home territory was invaded and many of whom
the invaders targeted for murder—and finds that, contrary to the received
explanation, these people were not thieves and rustlers but legitimate citizens.

Texas
A Historical Atlas
By A. Ray Stephens
Cartography by Carol Zuber-Mallison
$39.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3873-2 · 448 pages
For twenty years the Historical Atlas of Texas stood as a trusted resource for
students and aficionados of the state. Now this key reference has been thoroughly
updated and expanded—and even rechristened. Texas: A Historical Atlas more
accurately reflects the Lone Star State at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
Its 86 entries feature 175 full color maps—more than twice the number in the
original volume—illustrating the most significant aspects of the state’s history,
geography, and current affairs.
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THE NORTH AMERICAN JOURNALS OF

PRINCE MAXIMILIAN OF WIED
Volume I: May 1832–April 1833
Edited by Stephen S. Witte and Marsha V. Gallagher
$295.00s Leather Edition 978-0-87062-365-3 · 544 pages
$85.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3888-6 · 544 pages
Made famous through the paintings of Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, the North
American expedition of German naturalist Prince Maximilian of Wied in
1832–34 was the first scientific exploration of the Missouri River’s upper
reaches since the epic journey of Lewis and Clark almost thirty years earlier. This
collector’s-quality, oversized volume, the first of a three-volume set, draws on
the Maximilian-Bodmer Collection at Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska.

The North American Journals of

Prince Maximilian of Wied
Volume 2: April-September 1833
Edited by Stephen S. Witte and Marsha V. Gallagher
$295.00s Leather Edition · 978-0-8706-2366-0 · 612 pages
$85.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3923-4 · 612 pages
The first of the three volumes of the North American Journals recounts the
prince’s journey from Europe to St. Louis—then the edge of the frontier.
Volume II vividly narrates his experiences on the upper Missouri and offers an
unparalleled view of the region and the peoples native to it.

Arena legacy
The Heritage of American Rodeo
By Richard C. Rattenbury
$65.00 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4084-1 · 432 pages
From its roots in cowboy and vaquero culture to the big-business excitement
of today’s 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. This lavishly
illustrated volume is the first to depict rodeo’s material and graphic heritage.

Pendleton Round-Up at 100

Oregon’s Legendary Rodeo
By Michael Bales and Ann Terry Hill
$60.00 Cloth · 978-0-88240-773-9 · 302 pages
$35.00 Paper · 978-0-88240-774-6 · 302 pages
Every September since 1910, the Pendleton Round-Up has drawn thousands
of rodeo fans to a small town in eastern Oregon. For seven days, the crowds
in Pendleton thrill to contests that range from bull riding and bronc busting
to barrel racing and bareback Indian relays. This extravagantly illustrated
book commemorates the centennial of the Round-Up and captures its
enduring appeal in Oregon, the Pacific Northwest, and the world of rodeo.

River of Promise
Lewis and Clark on the Columbia
By David L. Nicandri
$29.95 Cloth · 978-0-9825597-0-3 · 325 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-9825597-1-0 · 325 pages
In the many published accounts of the Lewis and Clark expedition, historians
have tended to undervalue the explorers’ encounter with Columbia River
country. River of Promise fills a significant gap in our understanding of Lewis
and Clark’s legendary expedition. Historian David L. Nicandri shifts the
focus to an essential goal of the explorers: to discover the headwaters of the
Columbia and a water route to the Pacific Ocean.
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The Character of Meriwether Lewis

Explorer in the Wilderness
By Clay S. Jenkinson
$29.95 Cloth · 978-0-9825597-2-7 · 250 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-9825597-3-4 · 250 pages
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.

America’s Folklorist
B. A. Botkin and American Culture
Edited by Lawrence Rodgers and Jerrold Hirsch
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4111-4 · 296 pages
Folklorist, writer, editor, regionalist, cultural activist—Benjamin Albert Botkin
(1901–1975) was an American intellectual who made a mark on the twentieth
century, even though most people may be unaware of it. This book, the first to
reevaluate the legacy of Botkin in the history of American culture, celebrates his
centenary through a collection of writings that assess his influence on scholarship
and the American scene.

Beyond Bear’s Paw

The Nez Perce Indians in Canada
By Jerome A. Greene
$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4068-1 · 264 pages
In the fall of 1877, Nez Perce Indians were desperately fleeing U.S. Army troops. After
a 1,700-mile journey across Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana, the Nez Perces headed
for the Canadian border. But the army caught up with them at the Bear’s Paw
Mountains in northern Montana, and following a devastating battle, Chief Joseph
and most of his people surrendered. Beyond Bear’s Paw is the first book to explore
the fate of these “nontreaty” Indians. It offers new perspectives on the Nez Perces’
struggle for freedom, their hapless rejection, and their ultimate cultural renewal.

Prairie Republic
The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879–1889
By Jon K. Lauck
$32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4110-7 · 256 pages
American democratic ideals, civic republicanism, public morality, and
Christianity were the dominant forces at work during South Dakota’s formative
decade. In our cynical age, such a claim seems either remarkably naïve or
hopelessly outdated.
Now Jon K. Lauck examines anew the values we like to think were at work during
the founding of our western states. Taking Dakota Territory as a laboratory for
examining a formative stage of western politics, Lauck finds that settlers from
New England and the Midwest brought democratic practices and republican
values to the northern plains and invoked them as guiding principles in the drive
for South Dakota statehood.

Droppers
America’s First Hippie Commune, Drop City
By Mark Matthews
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4058-2 · 248 pages
Sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll. In popular imagination, these words seem to
capture the atmosphere of 1960s hippie communes. Yet when the first hippie
commune was founded in 1965 outside Trinidad, Colorado, the goal wasn’t one
long party but rather a new society that integrated life and art. In Droppers, Mark
Matthews chronicles the rise and fall of this utopian community, exploring the
goals behind its creation and the factors that eventually led to its dissolution.
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FLYING ACROSS AMERICA

The Airline Passenger Experience
By Daniel L. Rust
$45.00 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3870-1 · 272 pages
In this colorful history, the author traces the evolution of commercial air
travel. Rust’s narrative brims with firsthand accounts from such celebrities as
Will Rogers as well as from ordinary Americans. Enlivened by more than one
hundred illustrations, including vintage brochures, posters, and photographs,
Flying Across America reminds today’s airline passengers of what they have
gained—and what they have lost—in the transcontinental flying experience.

OKLAHOMA
A History
By W. David Baird and Danney Goble
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3910-4 · 352 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4197-8 · 352 Pages
The first comprehensive narrative to bring the story of the Sooner State to the
threshold of its centennial, this book includes both the well-known and the
not-so-familiar of the state’s people, events, and places. Enhanced by more
than 40 illustrations, including 11 maps, this definitive history of the state
ensures that experiences shared by Oklahomans of the past will be passed on
to future generations.

A DECENT, ORDERLY LYNCHING

The Montana Vigilantes
By Frederick Allen
$120.00 Leather Bound · 978-0-8061-3651-6 · 496 pages
$34.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3637-0 · 496 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4038-4 · 496 pages
Combing through original sources, including eyewitness accounts never before
published, Frederick Allen concludes that the vigilantes were justified in their
early actions, as they fought violent crime in a remote corner beyond the
reach of government. Allen’s sharply drawn characterizations are woven into a
masterfully written narrative that will change textbook accounts of Montana’s
early days—and challenge our thinking on the essence of justice.

AMBER WAVES AND UNDERTOW

Peril, Hope, Sweat, and Downright Nonchalance in Dry Wheat Country
By Steve Turner
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4005-6 · 224 pages
Amber Waves and Undertow is a thoughtful depiction of an exceptional place
that puts the difficulties of individual farmers in national and global contexts,
showing us that only by understanding the past of rural America can we
confront its future challenges. This book interweaves family narratives, historical
episodes, and Turner’s own experiences to illuminate the transformation of rural
America from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.

PUEBLOS, SPANIARDS, AND THE KINGDOM OF NEW MEXICO

By John L. Kessell
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3969-2 · 224 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4122-0 · 224 pages
For more than four hundred years in New Mexico, Pueblo Indians and
Spaniards have lived “together yet apart.” Now the preeminent historian of
that region’s colonial past offers a fresh, balanced look at the origins of a
precarious relationship. Brimming with new insights embedded in an engaging
narrative, Kessell’s work presents a clearer picture than ever before of events
leading to the Pueblo Revolt. Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico is
the definitive account of a volatile era.
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THE BILLY THE KID READER

By Frederick Nolan
$29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3849-7 · 400 pages
The Billy the Kid Reader contains some of the best articles on the Kid—including
gems no longer in print. Nolan highlights two distinct schools of Billy the
Kid studies: works of popularizers who tended to exaggerate his historical
role, and the findings of grassroots researchers who have reassessed our
perceptions of the Kid. Dozens of illustrations enhance the text, illuminating
the Kid’s career and notoriety.
“Once again Fred Nolan has validated his distinction as the world’s leading
authority on Billy the Kid. No one knows more.”—Robert M. Utley, author of
Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life

WE’LL FIND THE PLACE

The Mormon Exodus, 1846–1848
By Richard E Bennett
$21.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3838-1 · 448 pages
We’ll Find the Place tells the fascinating story of the Mormons’ exodus from
Nauvoo, Illinois, to their New Zion in the West—a story of a people’s
deliverance that has never before been completely told. A work many years in
the making, this book looks behind the scenes to reveal Mormonism on the
move, its believers sacrificing home, comfort, and sometimes life itself as they
sought a safe refuge beyond the Rocky Mountains. It is faithful both to the
convictions of the early pioneers and to the records they kept.

TEXAS DEVILS
Rangers and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1846–1861
By Michael L. Collins
$26.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3939-5 · 328 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4132-9 · 328 pages
The Texas Rangers have been the source of tall tales and the stuff of legend
as well as a growing darker reputation. But the story of the Rangers along the
Mexican border between Texas statehood and the onset of the Civil War has
been largely overlooked—until now.
This engaging history pulls readers back to a chaotic time along the lower Rio
Grande in the mid-nineteenth century that challenges the time-honored image
of “good guys in white hats” to reveal the more complicated and sobering
reality behind the Ranger Myth.

“THEY ARE ALL RED OUT HERE”

Socialist Politics in the Pacific Northwest, 1895–1925
By Jeffrey A. Johnson
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3967-8 · 240 pages
In this first book to fully examine the development of the American Socialist
Party in the Northwest, Jeffrey A. Johnson draws a sharp picture of one of the
most vigorous left-wing organizations of this era. A work of political and labor
history that uncovers alternative social and political visions in the American
West, this book is a major contribution to the ongoing debate over why
socialism never grew deep roots in American soil and no longer thrives here.

CONFLICT ON THE RIO GRANDE

Water and the Law, 1879–1939
By Douglas R. Littlefield
$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3998-2 · 344 pages
In this first scholarly treatment of the politics of water law along the
Rio Grande, Douglas R. Littlefield describes those early interstate and
international water-apportionment conflicts and explains how they relate
to the development of western water law and policy and to international
relations with Mexico.
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A GREAT DAY TO FIGHT FIRE

Mann Gulch, 1949
By Mark Matthews
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3857-2 · 280 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4034-6 · 280 pages
Mann Gulch, Montana, 1949. Sixteen men ventured into hell to fight a
raging wildfire; only three came out alive. Searing the fire into the nation’s
consciousness, Norman Maclean chronicled the Mann Gulch tragedy in
his award-winning book Young Men and Fire. Still, the silence of the victims’
families robbed Maclean’s account of an essential personal dimension.
Shifting the focus from the fire to the men who fought it, Mark Matthews now
provides that perspective.

RIDING FOR THE BRAND

150 Years of Cowden Ranching
By Michael Pettit
$29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3718-6 · 320 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4044-5 · 320 pages
Folks all over West Texas and eastern New Mexico will tell you: Cowdens
have been ranching here for as long as anyone can remember. Award-winning
writer Michael Pettit, a Cowden descendant and former rancher, offers a
compelling portrait of this genuine American ranching family.
Riding for the Brand spans six generations and two states to serve up a real slice
of the Old West, complete with cowboys and Indians, cattle and buffalo,
open range and barbed wire.

RACE AND THE WAR ON POVERTY

From Watts to East L.A.
By Robert Bauman
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3965-4 · 192 pages
President Johnson’s War on Poverty did more than offer aid to needy
Americans; in some cities, it also sparked both racial conflict and
cooperation. Race and the War on Poverty shows how the struggle to end
poverty evolved in ways that would have surprised its planners, supporters,
and detractors—and that what began as a grand vision at the national level
continues to thrive on the streets of the community.

RADICAL L.A.
From Coxey’s Army to the Watts Riots, 1894–1965
By Errol Wayne Stevens
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4002-5 · 352 pages
When the depression of the 1890s prompted unemployed workers from Los
Angeles to join a nationwide march on Washington, “Coxey’s Army” marked
the birth of radicalism in that city. In this first book to trace the subsequent
struggle between the radical left and L.A.’s power structure, Errol Wayne
Stevens tells how both sides shaped the city’s character from the turn of the
twentieth century through the civil rights era.

BETWEEN TWO RIVERS

The Atrisco Land Grant in Albuquerque
By Joseph P. Sanchez
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3902-9 · 256 pages
Located in Albuquerque’s south valley, Atrisco is a vibrant community that
predates the city, harking back to a land grant awarded in 1692. Joseph P.
Sánchez explores the evolution of this parcel over the four centuries since the
first Spanish settlers arrived. He tracks its transformation from an individual
to a community grant, peeling away the layers of historical events that
have made Atrisco the last piece of undeveloped real estate in a growing
metropolitan area.
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Literature & Fiction

The Green Corn Rebellion
A Novel by William Cunningham
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4057-5 · 256 pages
First published in 1935, The Green Corn Rebellion tells the story of Jim Tetley,
who wants simply to be a good farmer—if the banks will only let him. As Jim
copes with poverty, family rivalries, and community tensions, he must also
weigh the need to respond to the call for armed rebellion.

PUSHING THE BEAR

After the Trail of Tears
By Diane Glancy
$14.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4069-8 · 176 pages
Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears tells the story of the Cherokees’
resettlement in the hard years following Removal, a story never before
explored in fiction. In this sequel to her popular 1996 novel Pushing the Bear: A
Novel of the Trail of Tears, author Diane Glancy continues the tale of Cherokee
brothers O-ga-na-ya and Knobowtee and their families, as well the Reverend
Jesse Bushyhead, a Cherokee Christian minister. The book follows their
travails in Indian Territory as they attempt to build cabins, raise crops, and
adjust to new realities.

THE ESSAYS
By Rudolfo Anaya
$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4023-0 · 312 pages
While best known for Bless Me, Ultima, and other novels, Rudolfo Anaya’s
writing also takes the form of nonfiction, and in these 54 essays he draws on
both his heritage as a Mexican American and his gift for storytelling. Besides
tackling issues such as censorship, racism, education, and sexual politics,
Anaya explores the tragedies and triumphs of his own life.

CHEROKEE THOUGHTS
Honest and Uncensored
By Robert J. Conley
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3943-2 · 196 pages
Gaming and chiefing. Imposters and freedmen. Distinguished novelist Robert
J. Conley examines some of the most interesting facets of the Cherokee world.
In 26 essays laced with humor, understatement, and even open sarcasm, this
popular writer takes on politics, culture, his people’s history, and what it
means to be Cherokee. As provocative as it is entertaining, Cherokee Thoughts
will intrigue tribal members and anyone with an interest in the Cherokee people.

HIGH COUNTRY
A Novel
By Willard Wyman
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3697-4 · 368 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3899-2 · 368 pages
During the Great Depression, young Ty Hardin is sent from his family’s failing
Montana ranch to learn from the last of the great mule packers, Fenton
Pardee, legendary in the Montana Rockies for his packing adventures across
the Swan Range all the way to the Big Divide. High Country follows Ty through
this apprenticeship and into World War II, where he watches trucks and
jeeps replace the army’s mules. Wounded and shipped home, Ty recovers
by packing into the Montana mountains he loves. After his mentor dies, Ty
leaves Montana for the Sierra Nevada—the highest country of all—where he
becomes a legend in his own right.
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HARPSONG
By Rilla Askew
$24.95 Cloth· 978-0-8061-3823-7 · 256 pages
$14.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3928-9 · 256 pages
In this moving, redemptive tale inspired by Oklahoma folk heroes, Rilla Askew
continues her exploration of the American story. Harpsong is a novel of love
and loss, of adventure and renewal, and of a wayfaring orphan’s search for
home—all set to the sounds of Harlan’s harmonica.

ON NATIVE GROUND
Memoirs and Impressions
By Jim Barnes
$16.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4092-6 · 296 pages
On Native Ground takes us from Jim Barnes’s boyhood in rural southeastern
Oklahoma during the Great Depression and World War II through his mature
years as an internationally recognized poet. Of Choctaw and Welsh ancestry,
Barnes is often identified as a Native American poet. He emphasizes his desire
to be recognized for his art, not his blood. Yet he speaks eloquently here of his
attachment to his “native ground,” the Choctaw region in Oklahoma—for him
“the land where memory dwells.”

Military History
A Perfect Gibraltar
The 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
century’s most gruesome battlefields. Chris D. Dishman conveys in a vivid
narrative the intensity and drama of the Battle of Monterrey, which marked
the first time U.S. troops engaged in prolonged urban combat.

Civil War Arkansas, 1863

The Battle for a State
By Mark K. Christ
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4087-2 · 336 pages
The Arkansas River Valley is one of the most fertile regions in the South.
During the Civil War, the river also served as a vital artery for moving troops
and supplies. In 1863 the battle to wrest control of the valley was, in effect,
a battle for the state itself. In spite of its importance, however, this campaign
is often overshadowed by the siege of Vicksburg. Now Mark K. Christ offers
the first detailed military assessment of parallel events in Arkansas, describing
their consequences for both Union and Confederate powers.

SOLDIERS WEST
Biographies from the Military Frontier
Second Edition
Edited by Paul Andrew Hutton and Durwood Ball
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3997-5 · 416 pages
From the War of 1812 to the end of the nineteenth century, U.S. Army
officers were instrumental in shaping the American West. Soldiers West views
the turbulent history of the West from the perspective of fifteen senior army
officers—including new biographical portraits of Stephen W. Kearny, Philip St.
George Cooke, James H. Carleton, John M. Chivington, and Oliver O. Howard.
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CLASS AND RACE IN THE FRONTIER ARMY

Military Life in the West, 1870–1890
By Kevin Adams
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3981-4 · 312 pages
Class and Race in the Frontier Army marks the first application of recent research
on class, race, and ethnicity to the social and cultural history of military
life on the western frontier. Adams draws on a wealth of military records
and soldiers’ diaries and letters to reconstruct everyday army life and shows
that the frontier army was characterized by a “Victorian class divide” that
overshadowed ethnic prejudices.

JAYHAWKERS
The Civil War Brigade of James Henry Lane
By Bryce Benedict
$32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3999-9 · 352 pages
No person excited greater emotion in Kansas than James Henry Lane, the
U.S. senator who led a volunteer brigade in 1861–62. In fighting numerous
skirmishes, liberating hundreds of slaves, burning portions of four towns,
and murdering half a dozen men, Lane and his brigade garnered national
attention as the saviors of Kansas and the terror of Missouri. This first book-
length study of the “jayhawkers,” as the men of Lane’s brigade were known,
takes a fresh look at their exploits and notoriety.

THE FALL OF A BLACK ARMY OFFICER

Racism and the Myth of Henry O. Flipper
By Charles M. Robinson III
$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3521-2 · 216 pages
Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper was a former slave who rose to become the
first African American graduate of West Point. While serving in the Army, he
was charged with embezzlement and conduct unbecoming an officer and
a gentleman. He was acquitted of embezzlement but convicted of conduct
unbecoming, and therefore, dismissed from the service. Because of Flipper’s
efforts to clear his name, many assumed that he had been railroaded because
he was black. In The Fall of a Black Army Officer, Robinson finds that Flipper was
the author of his own problems.

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Red Cloud’s War

The Bozeman Trail, 1866-1868
By John D. McDermott
$75.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-376-9 · 704 pages
$225.00s Limited Edition · 978-0-87062-377-6 · 704 pages
Red Cloud’s War recounts how the discovery of gold in Montana in 1863 led
to the opening of a 250-mile route from Fort Laramie to the goldfields near
Virginia City, and the fortification of this route with three military posts.
Oglala chief Red Cloud mounted a campaign of armed resistance against
the army and Montana-bound settlers. The United States Army suffered one
setback after another causing its reputation for effectiveness to dissipate.

Vineyards and Vaqueros

Indian Labor and the Economic Expansion of Southern California,
1771–1877
By George Harwood Phillips
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-391-2 · 384 pages
Indian labor was vital to the early economic development of the Los Angeles
region. This first volume in the new series Before Gold: California under Spain
and Mexico explores for the first time Native contributions to early Southern
California. Featuring more than two-dozen illustrations and maps, Vineyards
and Vaqueros demonstrates that no history of the region is complete without a
consideration of the Indian contribution.

Dude Ranching in Yellowstone Country

Larry Larom and Valley Ranch, 1915–1969
By W. Hudson Kensel
$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-384-4 · 256 pages
After riding a stagecoach in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show at Madison Square
Garden in 1910, Princeton student Iriving H. “Larry” Larom was determined
to live a life in the West. Later that year, Larom made the first of four summer
trips to Wyoming, where he was a guest at Jim McLaughlin’s Valley Ranch,
nestled in a scenic valley in the upper South Fork of the Shoshone River.
Larom became so enamored of the magnificent wilderness environment and
the prospects of becoming a dude rancher that he abandoned his life as a
New York socialite. Partnering with Brooks Brothers heir and Yale student
Winthrop Brooks, he purchased Valley Ranch in 1915.

Steamboats West
The 1859 American Fur Company Missouri River Expedition
By Lawrence H. Larsen and Barbara J. Cottrell
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-385-1 · 256 pages
In 1859, the American Fur Company set out on what would then be the
longest steamboat trip in North American history. Steamboats West is an
adventure story that navigates the rocky rapids of the upper Missouri to offer
a fascinating account of travel to the raw frontier past the pale of settlement.
It was a venture that extended trade deep into the Northwest and made an
enormous stride in transportation.
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The Nauvoo Legion in Illinois

A History of the Mormon Militia, 1841–1846
By Richard E. Bennett, Susan Easton Black, and Donald Q. Cannon
$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-382-0 · 440 pages
When the Mormons established their theocratic city of Nauvoo on the
banks of the Mississippi in 1839, they made self-defense a priority, having
encountered persecution, violence, and forcible expulsion elsewhere.
Organized under Illinois law, the Nauvoo Legion was a city militia made
up primarily of Latter-day Saints. This comprehensive work on the history,
structure, and purpose of the Nauvoo Legion traces its unique story from its
founding to the Mormon exodus in 1846.

Murder of a Landscape
The California Farmer-Smelter War, 1897–1916
By Khaled J. Bloom
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-396-7 · 240 pages,
Between 1896 and 1919, air pollution from large-scale copper smelting in
northern California’s Shasta County severely damaged crops and timber in
a 1,000-square-mile region. The poisons from these smelters created the
nation’s largest man-made desert. This book traces the development of that
environmental catastrophe and explains a long, complex, and rancorous
struggle that involved several corporations, hundreds of farmers and
ranchers, and all levels of government.

Hancock’s War
Conflict on the Southern Plains
By William Y. Chalfant
$59.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-371-4 · 544 pages
$125.00s Special Edition · 978-0-87062-374-5 · 544 pages
William Y. Chalfant has devoted years of research to produce a detailed
narrative covering the entire scope of Hancock’s “Expedition for the Plains.”
This first thorough scholarly history of the ill-conceived expedition offers
an unequivocal evaluation of military strategies and a culturally sensitive
interpretation of Indian motivations and reactions.

Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake

George R. Maxwell, Civil War Hero and
Federal Marshal Among the Mormons
By John Gary Maxwell
$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-388-2 · 384 pages
Follow distinguished Civil War service that took one of his legs and rendered
an arm useless, General George R. Maxwell was sent to Utah Territory and
charged—first as Register of Land, then as U.S. marshal—with bringing the
Mormons into compliance with federal law. John Gary Maxwell’s biography
of General Maxwell (no relation) both celebrates an unsung war hero and
presents the history of the longest episode of civil disobedience in U.S. history
from the point of view of the young, non-Mormon who lived through it.
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Patrick Connor’s War

The 1865 Powder River Indian Expedition
By David E. Wagner
$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-393-6 · 296 pages
$125.00s Special Edition · 978-0-87062-395-0 · 296 pages
The summer of 1865 marked the transition from the Civil War to Indian war
on the western plains. With the rest of the country’s attention still focused on
the East, the U.S. Army began an often forgotten campaign against the Sioux,
Cheyenne, and Arapaho. Led by Gen. Patrick Connor, the Powder River Indian
Expedition into Wyoming sought to punish tribes for raids earlier that year.
Patrick Connor’s War describes the troops’ movement into hostile territory while
struggling with bad weather, supply shortages, and communication problems.

Horace Plunkett in America

An Irish Aristocrat on the Wyoming Range
By Lawrence M. Woods
$36.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-394-3 · 296 pages
When Horace Plunkett left Britain for the American West in 1879, seeking relief
for lung problems, he launched a ranching career in Wyoming that influenced
the cattle industry and altered the course of his own life. Previous biographers
have studied his career in British politics and his involvement in the agricultural
cooperative movement. Lawrence M. Woods now offers a detailed look at
Plunkett’s American years.

MORMON CONVERT, MORMON DEFECTOR

A Scottish Immigrant in the American West, 1848–1861
By Polly Aird
$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-369-1 · 320 pages
Peter McAuslan heeded Mormon missionaries spreading the faith in his native
Scotland and wholeheartedly converted in 1848. McAuslan and his family left
Scotland for Utah, but soon after arriving, Peter’s doubts grew about the religious
community. Historian Polly Aird tells the story of how McAuslan first embraced,
then came to question, and ultimately renounced the Mormon faith and left Utah.

AT STANDING ROCK AND WOUNDED KNEE

The Journals and Papers of Father Francis M. Craft, 1888–1890
Edited and Annotated by Thomas W. Foley
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-372-1 · 288 pages
During the turbulent final years of the Indian Wars, Father Francis M. Craft,
a young Catholic priest entered service as a missionary to the Sioux Indians in
Dakota Territory. His journals provide valuable insights into reservation life,
including the federal acquisition of Sioux lands and tensions between the Catholic
Church and the Indian Bureau. By drawing on Craft’s eyewitness report of
Wounded Knee, Foley offers a bold reinterpretation of that event as a genuine
battle rather than a massacre.

CALIFORNIA ODYSSEY
An Overland Journey on the Southern Trails, 1849
By William R. Goulding
Edited by Patricia A. Etter
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-373-8 · 360 pages
In 1849, William R. Goulding and the Knickerbocker Exploring Company struck out
for California on the southern route—a road less traveled. This rare first-person diary
of the southern Gold Rush trails, introduced and annotated by Patricia A. Etter,
highlights an important alternative route to the Pacific Coast.
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FORT LARAMIE
Military Bastion on the High Plains
By Douglas C. McChristian
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-360-8 · 448 pages
Douglas C. McChristian has written the first complete history of Fort
Laramie, chronicling every critical stage in its existence, including its addition
to the National Park System. He draws on an extraordinary array of archival
materials—including those at Fort Laramie National Historic Site—to present
new data about the fort and new interpretations of historical events.

ON THE WESTERN TRAILS

The Overland Diaries of Washington Peck
Edited by Susan M. Erb
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-379-0 · 296 pages
A cooper and farmer from Ontario, Canada, Washington Peck (1801–89)
spent decades traveling across the western frontier before finally settling in
Washington Territory. Peck’s chronicle of his itinerant life offers fresh insight
into some of the less traveled emigrant routes across the nineteenth-century
West.

DODGE CITY
The Early Years, 1872–1886
By Wm. B. Shillingberg
$49.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-378-3 · 480 pages
The most famous cattle town of the trail-driving era, Dodge City, Kansas,
holds a special allure for western historians and enthusiasts alike. Wm.
B. Shillingberg now goes beyond the violence for which the town became
notorious, more fully documenting its early history by uncovering the
economic, political, and social forces that shaped Dodge. Drawing on a wide
range of primary sources, from city records to personal papers, Dodge City: The
Early Years, 1872–1886 surpasses previous accounts of the town by depicting
complex individuals and events in greater depth and detail.

POWDER RIVER ODYSSEY

Nelson Cole’s Western Campaign of 1865,
The Journals of Lyman G. Bennett and Other Eyewitness Accounts
By David E. Wagner
$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-359-2 · 288 pages
Powder River Odyssey: Nelson Cole’s Western Campaign of 1865 is a detailed
recounting of the difficult campaign that presaged the post–Civil War Indian
wars of the western plains. The book tells the story of this largely forgotten
campaign at the pivotal moment when the Civil War ended and the Indian
wars captured national attention.

MILITARY REGISTER OF CUSTER’S LAST COMMAND

By Roger L. Williams
$95.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-368-4 · 400 pages
With so much written about the actual battle at the Little Bighorn on June
25, 1876, Roger L. Williams has now compiled a wealth of data concerning
the men of the 7th Cavalry at the time of the engagement. Military Register of
Custer’s Last Command presents for the first time the complete military history
of every enlisted man on the regimental rolls, with particular attention
devoted to the well-known campaigns from the Washita to Wounded Knee.
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CHICKASAW RENAISSANCE
By Phillip Carroll Morgan
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-8-7 · 240 pages
When Oklahoma achieved statehood in 1907, the U.S. government declared
Chickasaw titles to tribal lands null and void. The Chickasaw Nation was, in
effect, legally abolished. Yet for the next sixty years, the Chickasaws struggled
to regain their sovereign identity, and eventually, in 1970, Congress enacted
legislation allowing the Five Tribes, including the Chickasaws, to elect their
own governing officers. In 1983, the Chickasaws adopted a new constitution
for their nation.
In Chickasaw Renaissance, Phillip Carroll Morgan profiles the experiences of the
Chickasaw people during this tumultuous period in their history, from the
dissolution of their government to the resurgence of their nation.

CHICKASAW
Unconquered and Unconquerable
By Jeannie Barbour, Dr. Amanda Cobb-Greetham, and Linda Hogan
$34.95s Cloth · 978-1-5586899-23 · 128 pages
From their homelands in the Southeast, to their removal to Indian Territory,
to their status as a thriving nation today, the Chickasaw people represent one
of the most resilient cultures in American history. Through vivid photographs
and insightful essays, this book tells the incredible story of the Chickasaws.
Featuring the award-winning photography of David Fitzgerald and essays
by Chickasaw writers Jeannie Barbour, Dr. Amanda Cobb-Greetham, and
Linda Hogan, this authoritative book brings alive the unique history and
identity of the Chickasaws. Handsomely produced, Chickasaw: Unconquered and
Unconquerable is the winner of a gold medal for design from the Independent
Publishers Association.

CHICKASAW LIVES
Volume One: Explorations in Tribal History
By Richard Green
$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-1-8 · 238 pages
Arriving from the west ages ago, Chickasaws settled in a portion of
southeastern North America.  They soon became embroiled in the deadly
quest of European colonial powers to extend their empires to the New
World. By the 1730s, the Chickasaws were targeted for extermination.
But, as Richard Green shows in Chickasaw Lives, the Chickasaw people survived
and prospered. Then their one-time ally, the United States, forced the tribe to
move west to Indian Territory. After several years of despondency, the people
were again building a great nation. With some Americans clamoring for
Oklahoma statehood, the U.S. government set a date to extinguish the tribe’s
government and land base.  Here for the first time is a selection of articles and
essays that explain why that did not happen.
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CHICKASAW LIVES
Volume Two: Profiles and Oral Histories
By Richard Green
$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-6-3 ·  240 pages
The second volume in a series of Chickasaw Lives to be published, this
book contains 33 articles that focus on 36 tribal members, including
extraordinary performers, artists, athletes, and warriors. These
Chickasaw luminaries include an Olympic gold medalist, a recipient of the
Congressional Medal of Honor, a Chickasaw Nation attorney general who
previously rode with the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid, an internationally
renowned performance artist, a Harvard researcher who investigates and
reports on economic conditions in Indian Country, and three successive
Chickasaw governors who played crucial roles in the twentieth-century
revitalization of the tribe.

Chickasaw Lives
Volume Three: Sketches of Past and Present
By Richard Green
$20.00s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-9-4 · 250 pages
Sketches of Past and Present is the third volume in the Chickasaw Lives series.
In contrast to a conventional, chronological history, Green’s book is
a fascinating amalgam of Chickasaw epochs and characters, grouped
under headings of common themes. The reader is treated to stories
of great Chickasaw athletes in the twentieth century, as well as an essay on the
significance to Chickasaw history of the 1729 Natchez uprising. Green also offers
an essay about Chief Piomingo’s famous meeting on July 11, 1794, with George
Washington at his home in Philadelphia, along with a profile of Chickasaw
firefighters who battle dangerous wildfires throughout the United States.

Proud to Be Chickasaw
By Mike Larsen and Martha Larsen
$25.00s Cloth · 978-1-9356840-1-5 · 130 pages
In Proud to be Chickasaw, the Chickasaw master artist, Mike Larsen, and his
wife, Martha Larsen, have again teamed up to offer insights into and insider
perspectives on the lives of two dozen tribal elders, including a storyteller,
a longtime contributor to music education in Oklahoma, and a World War
II code talker. This book follows the critically acclaimed They Know Who They
Are, which exhibits Mike Larsen’s first twenty-four paintings in the series, each
accompanied by a biographical sketch of the elder by Martha Larsen.

THEY KNOW WHO THEY ARE

Elders of the Chickasaw Nation
By Mike Larsen and Martha Larsen
$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-4-9 · 144 pages
In August 2004, Oklahoma Centennial project artist Mike Larsen approached
Chickasaw Nation leaders with an idea to honor living Chickasaw elders—
sages of his own tribe. He wanted to learn about their families and hear their
stories, and he wanted to connect with their Chickasaw strength and spirit.
Larsen’s vision was to paint a series of portraits of these elders. They Know
Who They Are is a stunning collection of living Chickasaw elders.
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Chickasaw Press
Chickasaw Removal
By Amanda L. Paige, Fuller L. Bumpers, and Daniel F. Littlefield Jr.
$20.00s Cloth · 978-1-9356840-0-8 · 220 pages
In the early nineteenth century, the Chickasaw Indians were a beleaguered
people. Anglo-American settlers were streaming illegally into their homelands
east of the Mississippi River. Then, in 1830, the Indian Removal Act forced
the Chickasaw Nation, along with other eastern tribes, to remove to Indian
Territory, in present-day Oklahoma. This book provides the most detailed
account to date of the Chickasaw removal, from their harrowing journey west
to their first difficult years in an unfamiliar land.

Never Give Up!

The Life of Pearl Carter Scott
By Paul F. Lambert
$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-0-1 · 278 pages
In this book, Paul F. Lambert recounts the remarkable life of Pearl Carter
Scott, child aviator, single mother, and revered Chickasaw elder.
Pearl and her husband raised three children, but the Great Depression and
other circumstances dissolved the family’s fortune. Then a fire destroyed most
of her and her husband’s belongings, and a few years later, she found herself
divorced and poor. Yet Pearl maintained her positive outlook even during
these difficult times. She turned to a life of service to the Chickasaw people
and became a revered tribal elder who was inducted into the Oklahoma
Aviation and Space Hall of Fame and the Chickasaw Nation Hall of Fame.

EDMUND PICKENS (OKCHANTUBBY)

First Elected Chickasaw Chief, His Life and Times
By Juanita J. Keel Tate
$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-2-5 · 108 pages
Edmund Pickens lived through a crucial period in Chickasaw history. During
Removal in 1836, he traveled with his wife and children on the sad journey
from the Chickasaw homelands to Indian Territory. Like other Chickasaws, he
faced many hardships after settling in the new territory. But as Juanita J. Keel
Tate shows in this first book-length account of Pickens’s life and times, he
persevered and triumphed as a statesman and tribal leader.

PICKED APART THE BONES

By Rebecca Hatcher Travis
$14.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-3-2 · 64 pages
For the poems in this exquisite collection, “the seeds were planted in
childhood and earth, and blossomed with family and love.” Hatcher Travis
bases her poems on memories of her Chickasaw family and the Oklahoma
landscapes surrounding her as a child. The poems also are testimonies to the
ancestors who have passed on to the next life.
Featuring the poem Picked Apart the Bones, which won the First Book Award for
Poetry from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas.
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Cherokee National Press

The Development of Law and Legal Institutions
among the Cherokees
By Thomas Lee Ballenger
$35.00s Cloth · 978-0-9826907-2-7 · 230 pages
Before the arrival of Europeans to North America, Cherokee Indians practiced
a form of justice called blood law, or clan law. In the nineteenth century,
the Cherokee Nation developed a court system that is still in use today. In
this thorough account, Thomas Lee Ballenger traces the history of Cherokee
justice from its traditional beginnings to the development of its modern-day
institutions.

Records of the Moravians among the Cherokees

Volume One: Early Contact and the
Establishment of the First Mission, 1752–1802
Volume Two: Beginnings of the Mission and
Establishment of the School, 1802–1805
Edited by C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck
Volume 1 $50.00s Cloth · 978-0-9826907-0-3 · 426 pages
Volume 2 $50.00s Cloth · 978-0-9826907-1-0 · 426 pages
In the mid-eighteenth century, members of the Moravian Church began
conducting mission work among the Cherokee people. Their archives include
valuable records of their contact with the Cherokees. Drawing from these
archives, these two volumes offer a firsthand account of daily life among the
Cherokees during the years 1752–1805. The documents contained in these
volumes provide great insight into Cherokee culture, society, customs, and
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