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congratulations to our recent Award Winners
h GREAT PLAINS
DISTINGUISHED BOOK PRIZE
center for great plains studies
h KANSAS NOTABLE BOOK
Kansas center for the book
NORTHERN CHEYENNE EXODUS
IN HISTORY AND MEMORY
by James N. leiker and ramon powers
$19.95 PAPER
978-0-8061-4370-5
h SPUR AWARD
best Western Nonfiction biography
Western Writers of America
GEORGE CROOK
From the redwoods to Appomattox
by paul magid
$39.95 CLOTH
978-0-8061-4207-4
h SPUR AWARD
best Western Nonfiction Historical
Western Writers of America
h AMY ALLEN PRICE MILITARY
HISTORY AWARD
utah Division of state History
THE MORMON REBELLION
America’s First civil War, 1857–1858
by David l. bigler and Will bagley
$24.95 PAPER
978-0-8061-4315-6
h SMITH-PETTIT
FOUNDATION AWARD
best Documentary book
in utah History
utah Division of state History
PLAYING WITH SHADOWS
Voices of Dissent in the mormon West
by polly Aird, Jeff Nichols, and
Will bagley
$45.00 CLOTH
978-0-87062-380-6
h RICHARD O. HATHAWAY AWARD
Vermont Historical society
NEW ENGLAND TO GOLD RUSH
CALIFORNIA
The Journal of Alfred and chastina
W. rix, 1849–1854
edited by lynn A. bonfield
$45.00 CLOTH
978-0-87062-392-9
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Art & photography book
Independent book
publisher Association
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PRODUCTION AWARDS
Art & photography book
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PLAINS INDIAN ART
The pioneering Work of
John c. ewers
edited by Jane ewers robinson
$39.95 CLOTH
978-0-8061-3061-3
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Interior Design: 1–2 colors
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SCENERY, CURIOSITIES, AND
STUPENDOUS ROCKS
William Quesenbury’s overland
sketches, 1850–1851
by David royce murphy
$45.00 CLOTH
978-0-8061-4219-7
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Design/Illustration
oklahoma center for the book
THE EUGENE B. ADKINS
COLLECTION
selected Works
by Fred Jones Jr. museum of Art and
philbrook museum of Art
$29.95 PAPER
978-0-8061-4101-5
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biography (silver medal)
Independent publishers
SHOOTING FROM THE LIP
The life of senator Al simpson
by Donald loren Hardy
$19.95 PAPER
978-0-8061-4320-0
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environment (silver medal)
ForeWord Reviews
WINDFALL
Wind energy in America Today
by robert righter
$19.95 PAPER
978-0-8061-4192-3
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winter sunpoemsby shi ZhiTranslated by Jonathan stalling Introduction by Zhang Qinghua$19.95 paper 978-0-8061-4241-8
january
$24.95 paper 978-0-8061-4339-2
424 pages, 6 × 9
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volume 2 in the chinese literature today
book series
sandalwood Deatha novel
by mo Yan
Translated by Howard goldblatt
This powerful novel by Mo Yan—one of contemporary China’s most famous and
prolific writers—is both a stirring love story and an unsparing critique of political
corruption during the final years of the Qing Dynasty, China’s last imperial epoch.
Sandalwood Death is set during the Boxer Rebellion (1898–1901)—an anti-
imperialist struggle waged by North China’s farmers and craftsmen in opposition
to Western influence. Against a broad historical canvas, the novel centers on the
interplay between its female protagonist, Sun Meiniang, and the three paternal
figures in her life. One of these men is her biological father, Sun Bing, an opera
virtuoso and a leader of the Boxer Rebellion. As the bitter events surrounding
the revolt unfold, we watch Sun Bing march toward his cruel fate, the gruesome
“sandalwood punishment,” whose purpose, as in crucifixions, is to keep the
condemned individual alive in mind-numbing pain as long as possible.
Filled with the sensual imagery and lacerating expressions for which Mo Yan is
so celebrated, Sandalwood Death brilliantly exhibits a range of artistic styles,
from stylized arias and poetry to the antiquated idiom of late Imperial China to
contemporary prose. Its starkly beautiful language is here masterfully rendered into
English by renowned translator Howard Goldblatt.
Mo Yan (literally, “don’t speak”) is the pen name of Guan Moye. Born in 1955 in
Gaomi, Shandong province, he is the author of ten novels and more than seventy
short stories. Mo Yan is the winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature and the
2009 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature. Howard Goldblatt is an award-winning
translator of numerous works of contemporary Chinese literature, including six
other novels by Mo Yan.
A powerful and innovative novel by the 2012 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
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bat mastersonThe man and the legendby robert K. DeArment$24.95 paper 978-0-8061-2221-2
doc hollidayA Family portraitby Karen Holliday Tanner$19.95 paper 978-0-8061-3320-1
the west of wild bill hickokby Joseph g. rosa$19.95 paper 978-0-8061-2680-7
february
$29.95 cloth 978-0-8061-4263-0
304 pages, 5.5 × 8.5
15 b&w illus.
biography/sports history
gunfighter in gothambat masterson’s new york city years
by robert K. DeArment
The legend of Bat Masterson as the heroic sheriff of Dodge City, Kansas, began
in 1881 when an acquaintance duped a New York Sun reporter into writing
Masterson up as a man-killing gunfighter. That he later moved to New York City
to write a widely followed sports column for eighteen years is one of history’s great
ironies, as Robert K. DeArment relates in this engaging new book.
William Barclay “Bat” Masterson spent the first half of his adult life in the West,
planting the seeds for his later legend as he moved from Texas to Kansas and then
Colorado. In Denver his gambling habit and combative nature drew him to the
still-developing sport of prizefighting. Masterson attended almost every important
match in the United States from the 1880s to 1921, first as a professional gambler
betting on the bouts, and later as a promoter and referee. Ultimately, Bat stumbled
into writing about the sport.
In Gunfighter in Gotham, DeArment tells how Bat Masterson built a second career
from a column in the New York Morning Telegraph. Bat’s articles not only covered
sports but also reflected his outspoken opinions on war, crime, politics, and a
changing society. As his renown as a boxing expert grew, his opinions were picked
up by other newspaper editors and reprinted throughout the country and abroad.
He counted President Theodore Roosevelt among his friends and readers.
This follow-up to DeArment’s definitive biography of the Old West legend narrates
the final chapter of Masterson’s storied life. Far removed from the sweeping western
plains and dusty cowtown streets of his younger days, Bat Masterson, in New York
City, became “a ham reporter,” as he called himself, “a Broadway guy.”
Robert K. DeArment is the author or editor of a score of books and numerous
articles on law and order in the American West, including the three-volume Deadly
Dozen: Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West; Assault on the Deadwood Stage:
Road Agents and Shotgun Messengers; and Bat Masterson: The Man and the
Legend.
After the famed ex-lawman put his gun in his desk drawer and became a sportswriter
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A deeply personal tale of love and loss
The old man’s love storyby rudolfo Anaya
“There was an old man who dwelt in the land of New Mexico, and he lost his
wife.” From that opening line, this tender novella is at once universal and deeply
personal. The nameless narrator, a writer, shares his most intimate thoughts about
his wife, their life together, and her death. But just as death is inseparable from life,
his wife seems still to be with him. Her memory and words permeate his days. In
The Old Man’s Love Story, master storyteller Rudolfo Anaya crafts the tale of a
lifelong love that ultimately transcends death.
An elegy not just for the dead but for the vitality of youth, the old man’s story
captures both the heartaches and ironies of old age. We follow him as he proceeds
through days of grief and memory, buying his few groceries, driving slower than
the other travelers on the road. He talks with his wife along the way. “Go slow,” he
hears her admonish. As he sits in the garden with their dogs, he senses her worry
over his loneliness. A year passes. He longs to care for someone, but—to love again?
Like characters in Anaya’s previous fiction, the old man lives in a real New Mexico,
but one inhabited by spirits. Death provides a gateway to other worlds, just as
memories connect him to other times and places. When he eventually begins a new
friendship with a woman, a widow, they share a bittersweet understanding of joy
mixed with sorrow, promise mixed with loss.
Anaya’s reflections, as shared through the experiences of this old man, point to
the power and importance of love at every stage of life. Lyrical and earthy, sad yet
suffused with humor, The Old Man’s Love Story will speak to all readers, perhaps
especially to those who have suffered a recent loss.
Rudolfo Anaya is the author of numerous essays, plays, and books, including the
classic novel Bless Me, Ultima and Randy Lopez Goes Home.
april
$19.95 cloth 978-0-8061-4357-6
176 pages, 6 × 9
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randy lopez goes homeA Novelby rudolfo Anaya$19.95 cloth 978-0-8061-4189-3
the man who could fly and other storiesby rudolfo Anaya$12.95 cloth 978-0-8061-3738-4
billy the kid and other playsby rudolfo Anaya$24.95s paper 978-0-8061-4225-8
volume 12 in the chicana & chicano
visions of the américas series
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S A Vietnam veteran's unflinching account of his tour of duty as a criminal investigator with the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigation Division.
june
$29.95 cloth 978-0-9834059-6-2
258 pages, 6 × 9
10 b&w illus., 2 maps
memoir/military history
Not All Heroesan unapologetic memoir of the vietnam war, 1971–1972
by gary e. skogen
Foreword by clay s. Jenkinson
Gary Skogen’s tour in Vietnam (1971–72) was the best year of his life. Living with
fellow CID investigators in an isolated hooch overlooking the South China Sea at
the U.S. base at Chu Lai, Skogen enforced military drug laws during his working
hours and yet managed to pursue a life of perfect hedonism—far from the farm life
in southwestern North Dakota where he grew up. With unlimited access to cheap
beer, a wide variety of compliant Vietnamese women, and a jeep he had somehow
commandeered, Skogen perfected his criminal investigative skills at a time when
U.S. troop morale had reached its nadir.
This unconventional, unheroic, and unapologetic book is not a typical Vietnam
memoir. Together with 80 percent of the two million men and women who served
in Vietnam, Skogen spent his time behind the scenes at a large support base. He did
not slog on midnight patrols through Viet Cong tunnels or rice paddies studded
with booby traps. He spent his year investigating the men who endangered the lives
of their fellow soldiers by giving themselves over to unrestrained drug use.
Skogen’s gritty narrative proves that some whose names are incised on the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall died in less than heroic circumstances. Backed
by impeccable research in the files of the National Archives and Records
Administration, this unromanticized account reveals the sordidness of the war in its
late phases, and questions the validity of seeing all Vietnam veterans as victims.
Originally entitled The Best of Times, Not All Heroes is really two beautifully
integrated narratives in one: a gripping account of the Apocalypse Now endgame of
the Vietnam War, and a M*A*S*H–like romp through Skogen’s yearlong tropical
vacation in a pleasure ground where sexual favors were too cheap to meter.
Born and raised in Hettinger, North Dakota, Gary E. Skogen, a Vietnam veteran,
is retired from the Los Angeles Police Department. He did active duty in the U.S.
Army from January 1966 to September 1973 and served in Vietnam from February
1971 to January 1972. Clay S. Jenkinson, Director of the Dakota Institute, is the
author of eight books and a documentary filmmaker.
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after my laimy Year commanding First platoon, charlie companyby gary W. bray$16.95 paper 978-0-8061-4045-2
the american experience in vietnamA readerby grace sevy$24.95s paper 978-0-8061-2390-5
vietnamThe Heartland remembersby stanley W. beesley$24.95s paper 978-0-8061-2162-8
distributed for the dakota institute
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$19.95 paper 978-0-8061-4311-8
176 pages, 6 × 9
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american indian/reference
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native american placenames of the united statesby William bright$59.95s cloth 978-0-8061-3576-2$29.95 paper 978-0-8061-3598-4
oklahoma place names revised edition by george H. shirkForeword by muriel H. Wright$19.95 paper 978-0-8061-2028-7
indian tribes of oklahomaA guideby blue clark $19.95 paper 978-0-8061-4061-2
Native American placenames of the southwest a handbook for travelers
by William bright
edited and with an Introduction by Alice Anderton and sean o’Neill
Have you ever driven through a small town with an intriguing name like Wyandotte
or Cuyamungue and wondered where that name came from? Or how such well-
known placenames as Tucson, Waco, or Tulsa originated?
Native American placenames like these occur all across the American Southwest.
This user-friendly guide—covering Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas—
provides fascinating information about the meaning and origins of southwestern
placenames. With its unique regional approach and compact design, the handbook
is especially suitable for curious travelers.
Written by distinguished linguist William Bright, the handbook is organized
alphabetically, and its entries for places—including towns, cities, counties, parks,
and geographic landmarks—are concise and easy to read. Entries give the state
and county, along with all available information on pronunciation, the name
of the language from which the name derives, the name’s literal meaning, and
relevant history. In their introduction to the handbook, editors Alice Anderton
and Sean O’Neill provide easy-to-understand pronunciation keys for English and
Native languages. They further explain basic linguistic terminology and common
southwestern geographical terms such as mesa, canyon, and barranca. The book
also features maps showing all counties in each of the southwestern states, a list
of Native languages and language families, and contact information for tribal
headquarters throughout the Southwest.
Willam Bright (1928–2006) was Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and
Anthropology at UCLA. His numerous publications include Native American
Placenames of the United States. Alice Anderton, a linguist, editor, teaching
consultant, and former Comanche language instructor, is Executive Director of
the Intertribal Wordpath Society. Sean O’Neill is Associate Professor of Linguistics
at the University of Oklahoma and the author of Cultural Contact and Linguistic
Relativity among the Indians of Northwestern California.
A user-friendly guide to the meaning and origins of Native American southwestern placenames
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Indian Tribes of oklahomaa guide
by blue clark
An up-to-date guide to Oklahoma’s diverse Native peoples
“An invaluable, masterfully compiled reference on Oklahoma’s contemporary Indian tribes.”—Clara Sue Kidwell, author of The
Choctaws in Oklahoma: From Tribe to Nation, 1855–1970
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.” For years readers have turned to Muriel H. Wright’s A Guide
to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma for information on the state’s Native peoples. Now Blue Clark offers a completely new guide, reflecting the drastic transformation of Indian Country in recent years.
Solidly grounded in scholarship and Native oral tradition, it provides the unique story of each tribe—from the Alabama-Quassartes to the Yuchis. Each entry contains a summary of the tribe encompassing everything from origin tales and archaeological research to contemporary ceremonies and tribal businesses, along with tribal websites, suggested readings, photographs of prominent tribal members, visitor sites, and accomplishments.
Blue Clark holds the David Pendleton Chair in American Indian Studies and is Professor of History and Law at Oklahoma City University. An enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, he is the author of Lone Wolf v.
Hitchcock: Treaty Rights and Indian Law at the End of the
Nineteenth Century.
Volume 261 IN cIVIlIZATIoN oF THe AmerIcAN INDIAN serIes
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432 pAges, 6.125 × 9.25
45 b&W Illus., 1 mAp
AmerIcAN INDIAN/oKlAHomA
new in paper
Devil’s gateowning the land, owning the
story
by Tom rea
People who own the land can own the stories—at least for a time
“A tale that should entertain, inspire, and trouble anyone who loves the American West.”—Will Bagley, author of Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at
Mountain Meadows
Devil’s Gate—the name conjures difficult passage and portends a doubtful outcome. Tom Rea’s eloquent and captivating narrative traces the history of the Sweetwater River valley in central Wyoming—a remote place including Devil’s Gate, Independence Rock, and other sites along a stretch of the Oregon Trail—to show how legal ownership of a place can translate into owning its story.
Tom Sun, an early rancher, played a role here in the lynching of the only woman ever hanged in Wyoming. The lynching was dismissed as swift frontier justice in the wake of cattle theft, but Rea finds more complicated motives that involve land and water rights. In the 1990s, the Mormon Church purchased part of the Sun ranch to memorialize Martin’s Cove as the site of handcart pioneers who froze to death in the valley in 1856.
Tom Rea is the author of Bone Wars: The Excavation and
Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie’s Dinosaur, winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for contemporary nonfiction. He lives with his family in Casper, Wyoming.
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320 pAges, 6 × 9
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A dazzling chronicle of early California quilts and quiltmakers
Quiltscalifornia bound, california made, 1840–1940
by sandi Fox
The richly diverse legacy of California’s quilts is beautifully chronicled in words and
images in this extraordinary collection spanning a century of quiltmaking. Here is
the story of California’s quilts, from those California bound—carried on the backs
of mules and horses, in covered wagons, by ship or by train—to those California
made, created on the farms and in villages and cities across the state. Whether to
remember friends and family back home, mourn loved ones lost, record cultural
and historical events, or illustrate their new surroundings, California’s quiltmakers
pieced, appliquéd, embroidered, and embellished cloth in an astonishing variety of
quilts and bedcovers.
In this volume, contemporary letters, diaries, and historical records provide
authentic accounts of the social, political, and cultural contexts in which
California’s quilts were brought west and worked there. The nuances of each quilt—
the colors, stitches, and inked inscriptions—and the stories of the women whose
skilled hands crafted them highlight the significance of the quilts and the elements
that define them. Sandi Fox shows that while these cloth masterpieces played a role
in the country’s changing historical and cultural landscape, the techniques, patterns,
and fabrics used to create them were, in fact, part of the seamless, unchanging
tradition of American quiltmaking.
Sandi Fox is former Collection Curator of Quilts at the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art; Associate Fellow, International Quilt Study Center, University
of Nebraska; and Research Associate, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
County. She is the author of numerous books, articles, and exhibition catalogues in
the field and curator of twelve major exhibitions of nineteenth-century American
quilts in the United States and abroad. Her work as curator, author, and scholar has
been supported by a number of important grants and fellowships, including those
from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, and the
Winterthur Museum. She and her husband live in Los Angeles.
$40.00 paper 978-0-9719184-0-5
208 pages, 8.5 × 11
204 color and b&w illus.
history/quilts
distributed for sandi fox
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The first comprehensive examination of this distinctly female art form
february
$39.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4283-8
216 pages, 8 × 10
14 color and 41 b&w illus.
american indian/art
Arapaho Women’s Quillworkmotion, life, and creativity
by Jeffrey D. Anderson
More than a hundred years ago, anthropologists and other researchers collected and
studied hundreds of examples of quillwork once created by Arapaho women. Since
that time, however, other types of Plains Indian art, such as beadwork and male
art forms, have received greater attention. In Arapaho Women’s Quillwork, Jeffrey
D. Anderson brings this distinctly female art form out of the darkness and into its
rightful spotlight within the realms of both art history and anthropology. Beautifully
illustrated with more than 50 color and black-and-white images, this book is the first
comprehensive examination of quillwork within Arapaho ritualized traditions.
Until the early twentieth century and the disruption of removal, porcupine quillwork
was practiced by many indigenous cultures throughout North America. For
Arapahos, quillwork played a central role in religious life within their most ancient
and sacred traditions. Quillwork was manifest in all life transitions and appeared on
paraphernalia for almost all Arapaho ceremonies. Its designs and the meanings they
carried were present on many objects used in everyday life, such as cradles, robes,
leanback covers, moccasins, pillows, and tipi ornaments, liners, and doors.
Anderson demonstrates how, through the action of creating quillwork, Arapaho
women became central participants in ritual life, often studied as the exclusive
domain of men. He also shows how quillwork challenges predominant Western
concepts of art and creativity: adhering to sacred patterns passed down through
generations of women, it emphasized not individual creativity, but meticulous
repetition and social connectivity—an approach foreign to many outside observers.
Drawing on the foundational writings of early-nineteenth-century ethnographers,
extensive fieldwork conducted with Northern Arapahos, and careful analysis
of museum collections, Arapaho Women’s Quillwork masterfully shows the
importance of this unique art form to Arapaho life and honors the devotion of the
artists who maintained this tradition for so many generations.
Jeffrey D. Anderson is Professor of Anthropology at Hobart and William Smith
Colleges. He is the author of One Hundred Years of Old Man Sage: An Arapaho
Life Story and The Four Hills of Life: Northern Arapaho Knowledge and Life
Movement.
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patterns of exchangeNavajo Weavers and Tradersby Teresa J. Wilkins$19.95s paper 978-0-8061-4354-5
gifts of pride and loveKiowa and comanche cradlesby barbara Hail$29.95 paper 978-0-8061-3604-2
from the hands of a weaverolympic peninsula basketry through Timeedited by Jacilee Wray$45.00s cloth 978-0-8061-4245-6
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Reveals America’s changing environment through the pairing of early landscape art with modern-day photographs
Karl bodmer’s America revisitedlandscape views across time
photography by robert m. lindholm
Introduction and annotations by W. raymond Wood and
robert m. lindholm
Foreword by David c. Hunt
Less than thirty years after Lewis and Clark completed their epic journey, Prince
Maximilian of Wied—a German naturalist—and his entourage set off on their own
daring expedition across North America. Accompanying the prince on this 1832–34
voyage was Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, whose drawings and watercolors—designed to
illustrate Maximilian’s journals—now rank among the great treasures of nineteenth-
century American art. This lavishly illustrated book juxtaposes Bodmer’s landscape
images with modern-day photographs of the same views, allowing readers to see what
has changed, and what seems unchanged, since the time Maximilian and Bodmer made
their storied trip up the Missouri River.
To discover how the areas Bodmer depicted have changed over time, photographer
Robert M. Lindholm and anthropologist W. Raymond Wood made several trips
over a period of years, from 1985 to 2002, to locate and record the same sites—all
the way from Boston Harbor, where Maximilian and Bodmer began their journey,
to Fort McKenzie, in modern-day western Montana. Pairing sixty-seven Bodmer
works side by side with Lindholm’s photographs of the same sites, this volume uses
the comparison of old and new images to reveal alterations through time—and the
encroachment of a built environment—across diverse landscapes.
Karl Bodmer’s America Revisited is at once a tribute to the artistic achievements of
a premier landscape artist and a photographer who followed in his footsteps, and a
valuable record of America’s ever-changing environment.
Robert M. Lindholm, retired as Assistant Attorney General in Missouri, is a
photographer living in Lindsborg, Kansas. W. Raymond Wood is Professor Emeritus of
Anthropology at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and the author of Prologue to
Lewis and Clark: The Mackay and Evans Expedition, among other publications.
David C. Hunt is former Director of the Stark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas, and
former Curator of Art at Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha.
july
$45.00s cloth 978-0-8061-3831-2
192 pages, 10 × 10
145 color photos & 1 map
u.s. history/art & photography
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the north american journals of prince maximilian of wied, volume 1may 1832–April 1833 edited by stephen s. Witte and marsha V. gallagher$85.00s cloth 978-0-8061-3888-6
the north american journals of prince maximilian of wied, volume 2April–september 1833edited by stephen s. Witte and marsha V. gallagher$85.00s cloth 978-0-8061-3923-4
the north american journals of prince maximilian of wied, volume 3september 1833–August 1834edited by stephen s. Witte and marsha V. gallagher$85.00s cloth 978-0-8061-3924-1
volume 9 in the charles m. russell center
series on art and photography of the
american west
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$39.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4290-6
288 pages, 10 × 10
104 duotone and 33 b&w illus., 2 maps
photography/american indian
A russian American photographer in Tlingit countryvincent soboleff in alaska
by sergei Kan
This book is a rich record of life in small-town southeastern Alaska in the late
1800s and early 1900s. It is the first book to showcase the photographs of Vincent
Soboleff, an amateur Russian American photographer whose community included
Tlingit Indians from a nearby village as well as Russian Americans, so-called
Creoles, who worked in a local fertilizer factory. Using a Kodak camera, Soboleff,
the son of a Russian Orthodox priest, documented the life of this multiethnic
parish at work and at play until 1920. Despite their significance, few of Soboleff’s
photographs have been published since their discovery in 1950. Anthropologist
Sergei Kan rectifies that oversight in A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit
Country, which brings together more than 100 of Soboleff’s striking black-and-
white images.
Combining Soboleff’s photographs with ethnographic fieldwork and archival
research, Kan brings to life the communities of Killisnoo, where Soboleff grew up,
and Angoon, the Tlingit village. The photographs gathered here depict Russian
Creoles, Euro-Americans, the operation of the Killisnoo factory, and the daily life
of its workers. But Soboleff’s work is especially valuable as a record of Tlingit
life. As a member of this multiethnic community, he was able to take unusually
personal photographs of people and daily life. Soboleff’s photographs offer candid
and intimate glimpses into Tlingit people’s then-new economic pursuits such as
commercial fishing, selling berries, and making “Indian curios” to sell to tourists.
Other images show white, Creole, and Native factory workers rubbing shoulders
while keeping a certain distance during leisure time.
Kan offers readers, historians, and photography lovers a beautiful visual resource
on Tlingit and Russian American life that shows how the two cultures intertwined
in southeastern Alaska at the turn of the past century.
Sergei Kan is author of several books on Tlingit and Russian culture, including
Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity through Two
Centuries.
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lanterns on the prairieThe blackfeet photographs of Walter mcclintockedited by steven l. grafe$60.00s cloth 978-0-8061-4022-3$34.95s paper 978-0-8061-4029-2
a danish photographer of idaho indiansbenedicte Wrenstedby Joanna cohan schererForeword by bonnie Wuttunee-Wadsworth$29.95s cloth 978-0-8061-3684-4
arapaho journeysphotographs and stories from the Wind river reservationby sara WilesForeword by Frances merle Haas$34.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4158-9
volume 10 in the charles m. russell
center series in art and photography of
the american west
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A rare photographic album documenting the first presidential visit to Yellowstone National Park
A president in Yellowstonethe f. jay haynes photographic album of chester arthur’s
1883 expedition
by Frank H. goodyear III
On the morning of July 30, 1883, President Chester A. Arthur embarked on a
trip of historic proportions. His destination was Yellowstone National Park,
established by an act of Congress only eleven years earlier. No sitting president
had ever traveled this far west. Arthur’s host and primary guide would be Philip H.
Sheridan, the famed Union general. Also slated to join the expedition was a young
photographer, Frank Jay Haynes. This elegant—and fascinating—book showcases
Haynes’s remarkable photographic album from their six-week journey.
A premier nineteenth-century landscape photographer, F. Jay Haynes, as he
was known professionally, originally compiled the leather-bound album as a
commemorative piece. As only six copies are known to exist, it has rarely been
seen. The album’s 104 images are accompanied by captions written by General
Sheridan’s brother, Colonel Michael V. Sheridan, who wrote daily dispatches that
were distributed by the Associated Press.
In his informative introduction, historian Frank H. Goodyear III provides background
about the excursion and explains the historic and aesthetic significance of Haynes’s
photographs. He then re-creates Arthur’s journey by reintroducing Haynes’s stunning
images—along with Sheridan’s original captions—including views of the Tetons and
other landmarks; portraits of President Arthur, General Sheridan, and fellow travelers
engaged in activities along the route; and images of the Shoshone and Arapaho
leaders who gathered to greet the visiting party.
Published on the occasion of the reopening of the Haynes Photography Shop in
Yellowstone, A President in Yellowstone offers a unique entry into the park’s
storied past.
Frank H. Goodyear III is Associate Curator of Photographs at the National
Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. His previous books include Faces
of the Frontier: Photographic Portraits from the American West, 1845–1924;
Zaida Ben-Yusuf: New York Portrait Photographer; and Red Cloud: Photographs
of a Lakota Chief.
june
$36.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4355-2
192 pages, 11 × 11
125 illus., 1 map
photography/u.s. history
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faces of the frontierphotographic portraits from the American West, 1845–1924by Frank H. goodyear III $45.00s cloth 978-0-8061-4082-7
peoples of the plateauThe Indian photographs of lee moorhouse, 1898–1915by steven l. grafe $29.95 paper 978-08061-3742-1
life at the kiowa, comanche, and wichita agencyThe photographs of Annette ross Humeby Kristina l. southwell and John r. lovett$34.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4138-1
volume 11 in the charles m. russell
center series on art and photography of
the american west
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A multidisciplinary look at an American celebration of manly imperialism
may
$34.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4348-4
256 pages, 6 × 9
15 color photos and 49 b&w illus.
u.s. history
empire on Displaysan francisco’s panama-pacific international exposition of 1915
by sarah J. moore
The world’s fair of 1915 celebrated both the completion of the Panama Canal and
the rebuilding of San Francisco following the devastating 1906 earthquake and
fire. The exposition spotlighted the canal and the city as gateways to the Pacific,
where the American empire could now expand after its victory in the Spanish-
American War. Empire on Display is the first book to examine the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition through the lenses of art history and cultural studies,
focusing on the event’s expansionist and masculinist symbolism.
The exposition displayed evidence—visual, spatial, geographic, cartographic, and
ideological—of America’s imperial ambitions and accomplishments. Representations
of the Panama Canal play a central role in Moore’s argument, much as they did
at the fair itself. Embodying a manly empire of global dimensions, the canal was
depicted in statues and a gigantic working replica, as well as on commemorative
stamps, maps, murals, postcards, medals, and advertisements. Just as San Francisco’s
rebuilding symbolized America’s will to overcome the forces of nature, the Panama
Canal represented the triumph of U.S. technology and sheer determination to realize
the centuries-old dream of opening a passage between the seas.
Extensively illustrated, Moore’s book vividly recalls many other features of the fair,
including a seventy-five-foot-tall Uncle Sam. American railroads, in their heyday in
1915, contributed a five-acre scale model of Yellowstone, complete with miniature
geysers that erupted at regular intervals. A mini–Grand Canyon featured a village
where some twenty Pueblo Indians lived throughout the fair.
Moore interprets these visual and cultural artifacts as layered narratives of
progress, civilization, social Darwinism, and manliness. Much as the globe had
ostensibly shrunk with the completion of the Panama Canal, the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition compressed the world and represented it in miniature to
celebrate a reinvigorated, imperial, masculine, and technologically advanced nation.
As San Francisco bids to host another world’s fair, in 2020, Moore’s rich analytic
approach gives readers much to ponder about symbolism, American identity, and
contemporary parallels to the past.
Sarah J. Moore is Professor of Art History at the University of Arizona, Tucson,
and author of John White Alexander and the Search for National Identity:
Cosmopolitan American Art, 1880–1915.
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ways that no other book quite ac-
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of Gendering the Fair: Histories of
Women and Gender at World’s Fairs
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A concise biography of the world-renowned Taos Society artist
ernest l. blumenscheinthe life of an american artist
by robert W. larson and carole b. larson
Few who appreciate the visual arts or the American Southwest can behold the
masterpieces Sangre de Cristo Mountains or Haystack, Taos Valley, 1927 or Bend
in the River, 1941 and come away without a vivid image burned into memory. The
creator of these and many other depictions of the Southwest and its people was
Ernest L. Blumenschein, cofounder of the famous Taos art colony. This insightful,
comprehensive biography examines the character and life experiences that made
Blumenschein one of the foremost artists of the twentieth century.
Robert W. Larson and Carole B. Larson begin their life of “Blumy” with his Ohio
childhood and trace his development as an artist from early study in Cincinnati,
New York City, and Paris through his first career as a book and magazine
illustrator. Blumenschein and artist Bert G. Phillips discovered the budding art
community of Taos, New Mexico, in 1898. In 1915 the two along with Joseph
Henry Sharp, E. Irving Couse, and other like-minded artists organized the Taos
Society of Artists, famous for preferring American subjects over European themes
popular at the time.
Leaving illustration work behind, Blumenschein sought a distinctive place in his
American homeland and in fine-art painting. He moved with his family to Taos in
1919 and began his long career as a figurative and landscape painter, becoming
prominent among American artists for his Pueblo Indian figures and stunning
southwestern landscapes.
Robert Larson calls Blumenschein a “transformational artist,” trained classically but
drawing to a limited degree on abstract representation. Placing Blumy’s life in the
context of World War I, the Great Depression, and other national and world events,
the authors show how an artistic genius turned a fascination with the people,
light, and color of New Mexico into a body of work of lasting significance to the
international art world.
Robert W. Larson is the author of numerous articles and books on the history of the
American West, including Gall: Lakota War Chief. The late Carole B. Larson was a
journalist for the Roswell Daily Record and author of Forgotten Frontier: The Story
of Southeastern New Mexico.
may
$29.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4334-7
344 pages, 5.5 × 8.5
16 color photos &16 b&w illus.
art/biography
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in contemporary rhythmThe Art of ernest l. blumenscheinby peter H. Hassrick and elizabeth J. cunningham$34.95s paper 978-0-8061-3948-7
john muirApostle of Natureby Thurman Wilkins$21.95s paper 978-0-8061-2797-2
john fordHollywood’s old masterby ronald l. Davis$24.95 paper 978-0-8061-2916-7
volume 28 in the oklahoma western biographies
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A fine-grained examination of small-town society and daily life in the late 1800s
march
$29.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4352-1
256 pages, 6 × 9
13 b&w illus., 2 maps
u.s. history
by All Accountsgeneral stores and community life in texas and indian territory
by linda english
The general store in late-nineteenth-century America was often the economic heart
of a small town. Merchants sold goods necessary for residents’ daily survival and
extended credit to many of their customers; cash-poor farmers relied on merchants
for their economic well-being just as the retailers needed customers to purchase
their wares. But there was more to this mutual dependence than economics. Store
owners often helped found churches and other institutions, and they and their
customers worshiped together, sent their children to the same schools, and in times
of crisis, came to one another’s assistance.
For this social and cultural history, Linda English combed store account ledgers
from the 1870s and 1880s and found in them the experiences of thousands of
people in Texas and Indian Territory. Particularly revealing are her insights into the
everyday lives of women, immigrants, and ethnic and racial minorities, especially
African Americans and American Indians.
A store’s ledger entries yield a wealth of detail about its proprietor, customers, and
merchandise. As a local gathering place, the general store witnessed many aspects
of residents’ daily lives—many of them recorded, if hastily, in account books. In a
small community with only one store, the clientele would include white, black, and
Indian shoppers and, in some locales, Mexican American and other immigrants.
Flour, coffee, salt, potatoes, tobacco, domestic fabrics, and other staples typified
most purchases, but occasional luxury items reflected the buyer’s desire for
refinement and upward mobility. Recognizing that townspeople often accessed the
wider world through the general store, English also traces the impact of national
concerns on remote rural areas—including Reconstruction, race relations, women’s
rights, and temperance campaigns.
In describing the social status of store owners and their economic and political roles
in both small agricultural communities and larger towns, English fleshes out the
fascinating history of daily life in Indian Territory and Texas in a time of transition.
Linda English is Assistant Professor of History at the University of
Texas–Pan American.
Of Related Interest
women of oklahoma, 1890–1920by linda Williams reese$19.95 paper 978-0-8061-2999-0
dreaming with the ancestorsblack seminole Women in Texas and mexicoby shirley boteler mock$34.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4053-7
volume 6 in the race and culture in the
american west series
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A wide-ranging narrative spanning the invention of the cotton gin and the Civil War
cotton and conquesthow the plantation system acquired texas
by roger g. Kennedy
Foreword by William debuys
This sweeping work of history explains the westward spread of cotton agriculture
and slave labor across the South and into Texas during the decades before the Civil
War. In arguing that the U.S. acquisition of Texas originated with planters’ need
for new lands to devote to cotton cultivation, celebrated author Roger G. Kennedy
takes a long view. Locating the genesis of Southern expansionism in the Jeffersonian
era, Cotton and Conquest stretches from 1790 through the end of the Civil War,
weaving international commerce, American party politics, technological innovation,
Indian-white relations, frontier surveying practices, and various social, economic,
and political events into the tapestry of Texas history.
The innumerable dots the author deftly connects take the story far beyond Texas.
Kennedy begins with a detailed chronicle of the commerce linking British and
French textile mills and merchants with Southern cotton plantations. When the
cotton states seceded from the Union, they overestimated British and French
dependence on Southern cotton. As a result, the Southern plantocracy believed
that the British would continue supporting the use of slaves in order to sustain the
supply of cotton—a miscalculation with dire consequences for the Confederacy.
As cartographers and surveyors located boundaries specified in new international
treaties and alliances, they violated earlier agreements with Indian tribes. The
Indians were to be displaced yet again, now from Texas cotton lands. The
plantation system was thus a prime mover behind Indian removal, Kennedy shows,
and it yielded power and riches for planters, bankers, merchants, millers, land
speculators, Indian-fighting generals and politicians, and slave traders.
In Texas, at the plantation system’s farthest geographic reach, cotton scored its
last triumphs. No one who seeks to understand the complex history of Texas can
overlook this book.
Roger G. Kennedy (1926–2011) served as Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s
National Museum of American History and then of the National Park Service. He
authored numerous articles and books, including Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson:
A Study in Character and Mr. Jefferson’s Lost Cause: Land, Farmers, Slavery, and
the Louisiana Purchase. William deBuys is an award-winning author of seven
books, including A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American
Southwest.
june
$34.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4346-0
352 pages, 6.125 × 9.25
3 maps
u.s. history
Of Related Interests
black texansA History of African Americans in Texas, 1528–1995 second editionby Alwyn barr$24.95 paper 978-0-8061-2878-8
the civil war in the western territoriesArizona, colorado, New mexico, and utahby ray c. colton$19.95 paper 978-0-8061-1902-1
sam houstonby James l. Haley$24.95 paper 978-0-8061-3644-8
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may
$39.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4340-8
328 pages, 6.125 × 9.25
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biography/u.s. history
regionalists on the leftradical voices from the american west
edited by michael c. steiner
“Nothing is more anathema to a serious radical than regionalism,” Berkeley
English professor Henry Nash Smith asserted in 1980. Although regionalism in
the American West has often been characterized as an inherently conservative,
backward-looking force, regionalist impulses have in fact taken various forms
throughout U.S. history. The essays collected in Regionalists on the Left uncover the
tradition of left-leaning western regionalism during the 1930s and 1940s.
Editor Michael C. Steiner has assembled a group of distinguished scholars who
explore the lives and works of sixteen progressive western intellectuals, authors, and
artists, ranging from nationally prominent figures such as John Steinbeck and Carey
McWilliams to equally influential, though less well known, figures such as Angie
Debo and Américo Paredes. Although they never constituted a unified movement
complete with manifestos or specific goals, the thinkers and leaders examined in
this volume raised voices of protest against racial, environmental, and working-class
injustices during the Depression era that reverberate in the twenty-first century.
Sharing a deep affection for their native and adopted places within the West, these
individuals felt a strong sense of avoidable and remediable wrong done to the land
and the people who lived upon it, motivating them to seek the root causes of social
problems and demand change. Regionalists on the Left shows also that this radical
regionalism in the West often took urban, working-class, and multicultural forms.
Other books have dealt with western regionalism in general, but this volume
is unique in its focus on left-leaning regionalists, including such lesser-known
writers as B. A. Botkin, Carlos Bulosan, Sanora Babb, and Joe Jones. Tracing the
relationship between politics and place across the West, Regionalists on the Left
highlights a significant but neglected strain of western thought and expression.
Michael C. Steiner is Professor Emeritus of American Studies at California State
University, Fullerton. He has authored award-winning articles and co-authored or
co-edited several books including Region and Regionalism in the United States;
Mapping American Culture; and Many Wests: Place, Culture, and Regional Identity.
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utah historians and the reconstruction of western historyby gary Topping$24.95 cloth 978-0-8061-3561-8
the future of the southern plainsedited by sherry l. smith$29.95s cloth 978-0-8061-3553-3$19.95s paper 978-0-8061-3735-3
the natural westenvironmental History in the great plains and rocky mountainsby Dan Flores$29.95 cloth 978-0-8061-3304-1$19.95 paper 978-0-8061-3537-3
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A fascinating, disturbing study of Reconstruction in the multiracial West
An Aristocracy of colorrace and reconstruction in california and the west, 1850–1890
by D. michael bottoms
In the South after the Civil War, the reassertion of white supremacy tended to pit
white against black. In the West, by contrast, a radically different drama emerged,
particularly in multiracial, multiethnic California. State elections in California to
ratify Reconstruction-era amendments to the U.S. Constitution raised the question
of whether extending suffrage to black Californians might also lead to the political
participation of thousands of Chinese immigrants.
As historian D. Michael Bottoms shows in An Aristocracy of Color, many white
Californians saw in this and other Reconstruction legislation a threat to the fragile
racial hierarchy they had imposed on the state’s legal system during the 1850s.
But nonwhite Californians—blacks and Chinese in particular—recognized an
unprecedented opportunity to reshape the state’s race relations. Drawing on court
records, political debates, and eyewitness accounts, Bottoms brings to life the
monumental battle that followed.
Bottoms begins by analyzing white Californians’ mid-century efforts to prohibit
nonwhite testimony against whites in court. Challenges to these laws by blacks and
Chinese during Reconstruction followed a trajectory that would be repeated in later
contests. Each minority challenged the others for higher status in court, at the polls,
in education, and elsewhere, employing stereotypes and ideas of racial difference
popular among whites to argue for its own rightful place in “civilized” society.
Whites contributed to the melee by occasionally yielding to blacks in order to keep
the Chinese and California Indians at a disadvantage.
These dynamics reverberated in other state legal systems throughout the West in the
mid- to late 1800s and nationwide in the twentieth century. As An Aristocracy of
Color reveals, Reconstruction outside of the South briefly promised an opportunity
for broader equality but in the end strengthened and preserved the racial hierarchy
that favored whites.
D. Michael Bottoms studies race and law in the nineteenth-century American West.
He is currently visiting Assistant Professor of History at Whitman College.
february
$34.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4335-4
288 pages, 6 × 9
14 b&w illus.
u.s. history
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the black regulars, 1866–1898by William A. Dobak and Thomas D. phillips$34.95 cloth 978-0-8061-3340-9
contest for californiaFrom spanish colonization to the American conquestby stephen g. Hyslop$39.95s cloth 978-0-87062-411-7
volume 5 in the race and culture in the
american west series
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june
$34.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4336-1
272 pages, 6 × 9
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american indian/reference
manhattan to minisinkamerican indian place names of greater new york and vicinity
by robert s. grumet
Drivers exiting the New Jersey Turnpike for Perth Amboy, and map readers
marveling at all the places in Pennsylvania named Lackawanna, need no longer
wonder how these names originated. Manhattan to Minisink provides the histories
of more than five hundred place names in the Greater New York area, including the
five boroughs, western Long Island, the New York counties north of the city, and
parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. Robert S. Grumet, a leading
ethnohistorian specializing in the region’s Indian peoples, draws on his meticulous
research and deep knowledge to determine the origins of Native, and Native-
sounding, place names.
Grumet divides his encyclopedic entries into two parts. The first comprises an
alphabetical listing of nearly 340 Indian place names preserved in colonial records,
located by county and state. Each entry includes the name’s language of origin,
if known, and a brief discussion of its etymology, including its earliest known
occurrence in written records, the history of its appearance on maps, and the name’s
current status.
The book’s second section presents nearly 200 place names that, though widely
believed to be of Indian origin, are “imports, inventions, invocations, or impostors.”
Mistranslations are abundant in place names, and Grumet has ferreted out the
mistakes and deceptions among home-grown colonial etymologies that New
Yorkers have accepted for centuries.
Complete with a concise history of Greater New York, a discussion of the region’s
naming practices, a useful timeline, and four maps, this is an invaluable resource
both for scholars and for readers who want a more intimate knowledge of the place
where they live or visit.
Anthropologist and retired National Park Service Archaeologist Robert S. Grumet is Senior Research Associate with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at
the University of Pennsylvania. His numerous publications include Native American
Place Names in New York City and First Manhattans: A History of the Indians of
Greater New York.
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native american placenames of the united statesby William bright$59.95s cloth 978-0-8061-3576-2$29.95 paper 978-0-8061-3598-4
first manhattansA History of the Indians of greater New Yorkby robert s. grumet$19.95 paper 978-0-8061-4163-3
the unkechaug indians of eastern long islandA Historyby John A. strong$29.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4212-8
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A significant Choctaw legal document, available in Choctaw and English for the first time
A gathering of statesmenrecords of the choctaw council meetings, 1826–1828
by peter perkins pitchlynn
Translated and edited by marcia Haag and Henry Willis
Introduction by clara sue Kidwell
The early decades of the nineteenth century brought intense political turmoil and
cultural change for the Choctaw Indians. While they still lived on their native lands
in central Mississippi, they would soon be forcibly removed to Oklahoma. This
book makes available for the first time a key legal document from this turbulent
period in Choctaw history. Originally written in Choctaw by Peter Perkins
Pitchlynn (1806–1881), and painstakingly translated by linguist Marcia Haag and
native speaker Henry Willis, the document is reproduced here in both Choctaw and
English, with original text and translation appearing side by side.
A leader and future chief of the Choctaw Nation, Pitchlynn created this record in
the wake of a series of Choctaw Council meetings that occurred during the years
1826–1828. The council consisted of chiefs and other tribal statesmen from the
nation’s three districts. Their goal for these meetings was to uphold traditions
of Choctaw leadership and provide guidance on conduct for Choctaw people
“according to a common mind.”
Featuring an in-depth introduction by historian Clara Sue Kidwell, this book is an
important foundational source for understanding the evolution of the Choctaw
Nation and its eventual adoption of a formal constitution.
Marcia Haag is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma.
Henry Willis, a native Choctaw speaker, serves as a consultant for the Choctaw
Nation of Oklahoma Language Program. Haag and Willis are coauthors of
Choctaw Language and Culture: Chahta Anumpa, Volumes 1 and 2. Clara Sue Kidwell is the author of Choctaws and Missionaries in Mississippi, 1818–1918, and
The Choctaws in Oklahoma: From Tribe to Nation, 1855–1970.
april
$29.95s paper 978-0-8061-4349-1
180 pages, 6 × 9
7 illus., 2 maps
american indian
Of Related Interest
on the drafting of tribal constitutionsby Felix s. cohenedited by David e. Wilkins$34.95s cloth 978-0-8061-3806-0
the choctaws in oklahomaFrom Tribe to Nation, 1855–1970by clara sue Kidwell$19.95s paper 978-0-8061-4006-3
choctaw language and culturechahta Anumpa, Volume 2by marcia Haag and Henry Willis$29.95 paper 978-0-8061-3339-3
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may
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320 pages, 5.5 × 8.5
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american indian/military history
columns of Vengeancesoldiers, sioux, and the punitive expeditions, 1863–1864
by paul N. beck
In summer 1862, Minnesotans found themselves fighting interconnected wars—the
first against the rebellious Southern states, and the second an internal war against
the Sioux. While the Civil War was more important to the future of the United
States, the Dakota War of 1862 proved far more destructive to the people of
Minnesota—both whites and American Indians. It led to U.S. military action against
the Sioux, divided the Dakotas over whether to fight or not, and left hundreds
of white settlers dead. In Columns of Vengeance, historian Paul N. Beck offers a
reappraisal of the Punitive Expeditions of 1863 and 1864, the U.S. Army’s response
to the Dakota War of 1862.
Whereas previous accounts have approached the Punitive Expeditions as a military
campaign of the Indian Wars, Beck argues that the expeditions were also an
extension of the Civil War. The strategy and tactics reflected those of the war in the
East, and Civil War operations directly affected planning and logistics in the West.
Beck also examines the devastating impact the expeditions had on the various bands
and tribes of the Sioux. Whites viewed the expeditions as punishment—“columns
of vengeance” sent against those Dakotas who had started the war in 1862—yet
the majority of the Sioux the army encountered had little or nothing to do with the
earlier uprising in Minnesota.
Rather than relying only on the official records of the commanding officers involved,
Beck presents a much fuller picture of the conflict by consulting the letters, diaries,
and personal accounts of the common soldiers who took part in the expeditions, as
well as rare personal narratives from the Dakotas. Drawing on a wealth of firsthand
accounts and linking the Punitive Expeditions of 1863 and 1864 to the overall Civil
War experience, Columns of Vengeance offers fresh insight into an important chapter
in the development of U.S. military operations against the Sioux.
Paul N. Beck is Professor of History at Wisconsin Lutheran College, Milwaukee,
and author of Inkpaduta: Dakota Leader.
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battles and skirmishes of the great sioux war, 1876–1877The military Viewby Jerome A. greene$19.95 paper 978-0-8061-2669-2
blue water creek and the first sioux war, 1854–1856by r. eli paul$34.95 cloth 978-0-8061-3590-8$19.95s paper 978-0-8061-4275-3
sagebrush soldierprivate William earl smith’s View of the sioux War of 1876by sherry l. smith$19.95 paper 978-0-8061-3335-5
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The antebellum struggle for U.S. control of southern New Mexico
Dragoons in Apachelandconquest and resistance in southern new mexico, 1846–1861
by William s. Kiser
In the fifteen years prior to the American Civil War, the U.S. Army established a
presence in southern New Mexico, the homeland of Mescalero, Mimbres, and
Mogollon bands of the Apache Indians. From the army’s perspective, the Apaches
presented an obstacle to be overcome in making the region—newly acquired in
the Mexican-American War—safe for Anglo settlers. In Dragoons in Apacheland,
William S. Kiser recounts the conflicts that ensued and examines how both Apache
warriors and American troops shaped the future of the Southwest Borderlands.
Kiser narrates two distinct contests. The Apaches were defending their territory
against the encroachment of soldiers and settlers. At the same time, the Anglo-
Americans maneuvered against one another in a competition for political and
economic power and for Apache territory. Cross-cultural misunderstandings,
political corruption in Santa Fe and Washington, anti-Indian racism, troublemakers
among both Apaches and settlers, irresponsible army officers and troops, corrupt
American and Mexican traders, and policy disagreements among government
officials all contributed to the ongoing hostilities. Kiser examines the behaviors
and motivations of individuals involved in all aspects of these local, regional, and
national disputes.
Kiser is one of only a few historians to deal with this crucial period in Indian-white
relations in the Southwest—and the first to detail the experiences of the First and
Second United States Dragoons, elite mounted troops better equipped and trained
than infantry to confront Apache guerrilla warriors more accustomed to the
southwestern environment. Often led by the Gila leader Mangas Coloradas, the
Apaches fought desperately to protect their lands and way of life. The Americans,
Kiser shows, used unauthorized tactics of total warfare, encouraging field units
to attack villages and destroy crops and livestock, particularly when the Apaches
refused to engage the troops in pitched battles.
Kiser’s insights into the pre–Civil War conflicts in southern New Mexico are
essential to a deeper understanding of the larger U.S.-Apache war that culminated
in the heroic resistance of Cochise, Victorio, and Geronimo.
William S. Kiser is author of Turmoil on the Rio Grande: The Territorial History of
the Mesilla Valley, 1846–1865.
march
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376 pages, 6 × 9
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u.s. history/military
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cochisechiricahua Apache chiefby edwin r. sweeney$24.95 paper 978-0-8061-2606-7
making peace with cochiseThe 1872 Journal of captain Joseph Alton sladenedited by edwin r. sweeney$19.95 paper 978-0-8061-3978-4
from cochise to geronimoThe chiricahua Apaches, 1874–1886by edwin r. sweeney$24.95s paper 978-0-8061-4272-2
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march
$24.95s paper 978-0-8061-4347-7
232 pages, 6 × 9
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u.s. history
custer, cody, and grand Duke Alexishistorical archaeology of the royal buffalo hunt
by Douglas D. scott, peter bleed, and stephen Damm
On a chilly January morning in 1872, a special visitor arrived by train in North
Platte, Nebraska. Grand Duke Alexis of Russia had already seen the cities and
sights of the East—New York, Washington, and Niagara Falls—and now the young
nobleman was about to enjoy a western adventure: a grand buffalo hunt. His host
would be General Philip Sheridan, and the excursion would include several of the
West’s most iconic characters: George Armstrong Custer, Buffalo Bill Cody, and
Spotted Tale of the Brulé Sioux.
The Royal Buffalo Hunt, as this event is now called, has become a staple of
western lore. Yet incorrect information and misconceptions about the excursion
have prevented a clear understanding of what really took place. In this fascinating
book, Douglas D. Scott, Peter Bleed, and Stephen Damm combine archaeological
and historical research to offer an expansive and accurate portrayal of this singular
diplomatic event.
The authors focus their investigation on the Red Willow Creek encampment site,
now named Camp Alexis, the party’s only stopping place along the hunt trail
that can be located with certainty. In addition to physical artifacts, the authors
examine a plethora of primary accounts—such as railroad timetables, invitations
to balls and dinners, even sheet music commemorating the visit—to supplement
the archaeological evidence. They also reference documents from the Russian
State Archives previously unavailable to researchers, as well as recently discovered
photographs that show the layout and organization of the camp. Weaving all
these elements together, their account constitutes a valuable product of the
interdisciplinary approach known as microhistory.
Douglas D. Scott, widely known as an expert on battlefield archaeology, served as
Supervisory Archeologist, Midwest Archaeological Center, National Park Service.
He is the author of numerous books, including most recently Uncovering History:
Archaeological Investigations at the Little Bighorn. Peter Bleed is Professor
Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Stephen Damm is
a graduate student in anthropology at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.
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archaeological perspectives on the battle of the little bighornby Douglas D. scott, richard A. Fox Jr., melissa A. connor and Dick Harmon$24.95 paper 978-0-8061-3292-1
archaeological insights into the custer battleAn Assessment of the 1984 Field seasonby Douglas D. scott and richard A. Fox, Jr.$19.95s paper 978-0-8061-2065-2
they died with custersoldiers’ bones from the battle of the little bighornby Douglas D. scott, p. Willey, and melissa A. connor$21.95 paper 978-0-8061-3507-6
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The archaeological history of a legendary battle site
uncovering Historyarchaeological investigations at the little bighorn
by Douglas D. scott
Foreword by bob reece
Almost as soon as the last shot was fired in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the
battlefield became an archaeological site. For many years afterward, as fascination
with the famed 1876 fight intensified, visitors to the area scavenged the many relics
left behind. It took decades, however, before researchers began to tease information
from the battle’s debris—and the new field of battlefield archaeology began to
emerge. In Uncovering History, renowned archaeologist Douglas D. Scott offers
a comprehensive account of investigations at the Little Bighorn, from the earliest
collecting efforts to early-twentieth-century findings.
Artifacts found on a field of battle and removed without context or care are just
relics, curiosities that arouse romantic imagination. When investigators recover
these artifacts in a systematic manner, though, these items become a valuable source
of clues for reconstructing battle events. Here Scott describes how detailed analysis
of specific detritus at the Little Bighorn—such as cartridge cases, fragments of
camping equipment and clothing, and skeletal remains—have allowed researchers
to reconstruct and reinterpret the history of the conflict. In the process, he
demonstrates how major advances in technology, such as metal detection and GPS,
have expanded the capabilities of battlefield archaeologists to uncover new evidence
and analyze it with greater accuracy.
Through his broad survey of Little Bighorn archaeology across a span of 130 years,
Scott expands our understanding of the battle, its protagonists, and the enduring
legacy of the battlefield as a national memorial.
Douglas D. Scott is retired as supervisory archaeologist, Midwest Archeological
Center, National Park Service. Widely known as an expert on military archaeology,
he is the author or co-author of numerous publications, including Archaeological
Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn and They Died with Custer:
Soldiers’ Bones from the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Bob Reece is President of the
Friends of the Little Bighorn Battlefield.
april
$32.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4350-7
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u.s. history
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stricken fieldThe little bighorn since 1876by Jerome A. greene$34.95s cloth 978-0-8061-3791-9
great sioux war orders of battleHow the united states Army Waged War on the Northern plains, 1876–1877by paul l. Hedren$19.95s paper 978-0-8061-4322-4
finding sand creekHistory, Archeology, and the 1864 massacre siteby Jerome A. greene and Douglas D. scott$24.95 cloth 978-0-8061-3623-3$19.95 paper 978-0-8061-3801-5
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u.s. history
new to ou press
los Angeles in civil War Days, 1860–1865by John W. robinson
“This brief, very readable, and important book calls attention to a subject too long
neglected—the bifurcation of life in Los Angeles during the Civil War years.”—
Thomas F. Andrews, Research Historian for Special Collections, Asuza Pacific
University
Most accounts of California’s role in the Civil War focus on the northern part
of the state, San Francisco in particular. In Los Angeles in Civil War Days, John
W. Robinson looks to the southern half and offers an enlightening sketch of
Los Angeles and its people, politics, and economic trends from 1860 to 1865.
Drawing on contemporary reports in the Los Angeles Star, Southern News, and
other sources, Robinson shows how the war came to Los Angeles and narrates the
struggle between the pro-Southern faction and the Unionists.
Los Angeles in the early 1860s was a developing town, lacking many of the
refinements of civilization that San Francisco then enjoyed, and was much smaller
than the bustling metropolis we know today. The book focuses on the effects
of the war on Los Angeles, but Robinson also considers social and economic
problems to provide a broader view of the community and its place in the nation.
The Conscription Act and devalued greenbacks encited public unrest, and the
cattle-killing drought of 1862–64, a smallpox epidemic, and recurrent vigilantism
challenged Angelenos as well.
California historians and those interested in the city’s historical record will find this
book a fascinating addition to the body of California’s Civil War history.
John W. Robinson, a retired teacher and historian, is the author of numerous books
and articles on California history. He was awarded a Fellows Medallion by the
Historical Society of Southern California.
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the civil war in arizonaThe story of the california Volunteers, 1861–1865by Andrew e. masich$26.95s paper 978-0-8061-3900-5
pío picoThe last governor of mexican californiaby carlos manuel salomon$24.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4090-2$19.95s paper 978-0-8061-4237-1
reminiscences of a rangerearly Times in southern californiaby Horace bell$19.95 paper 978-0-8061-3152-8
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A comprehensive history of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in World War II
going for brokejapanese american soldiers in the war against nazi germany
by James m. mccaffrey
When Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Americans
reacted with revulsion and horror. In the patriotic war fever that followed,
thousands of volunteers—including Japanese Americans—rushed to military
recruitment centers. Except for those in the Hawaii National Guard, who made
up the 100th Infantry Battalion, the U.S. Army initially turned Japanese American
prospects away. Then, as a result of anti-Japanese fearmongering on the West Coast,
more than 100,000 Americans of Japanese descent were sent to confinement in
inland “relocation centers.” Most were natural-born citizens, their only “crime”
their ethnicity.
After the army eventually decided it would admit the second-generation Japanese
American (Nisei) volunteers, it complemented the 100th Infantry Battalion by
creating the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. This mostly Japanese American unit
consisted of soldiers drafted before Pearl Harbor, volunteers from Hawaii, and
even recruits from the relocation centers. In Going for Broke, historian James M.
McCaffrey traces these men’s experiences in World War II, from training to some of
the deadliest combat in Europe.
Weaving together the voices of numerous soldiers, McCaffrey tells of the men’s
frustrations and achievements on the U.S. mainland and abroad. Training in
Mississippi, the recruits from Hawaii and the mainland have their first encounter
with southern-style black-white segregation. Once in action, they helped push the
Germans out of Italy and France. The 442nd would go on to become one of the
most highly decorated units in the U.S. Army.
McCaffrey’s account makes clear that like other American soldiers in World War
II, the Nisei relied on their personal determination, social values, and training to
“go for broke”—to bet everything, even their lives. Ultimately, their bravery and
patriotism in the face of prejudice advanced racial harmony and opportunities for
Japanese Americans after the war.
James M. McCaffrey is Professor of History at the University of Houston–
Downtown and author of several books, including Inside the Spanish-American
War: A History Based on First-Person Accounts.
april
$34.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4337-8
408 pages, 6 × 9
15 b&w illus., 3 maps
military history
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once upon a time in warThe 99th Division in World War IIby robert e. Humphrey$24.95 cloth 978-0-8061-3946-3
bataanA survivor’s storyby lt. gene boyt with David l burch$24.95 cloth 978-0-8061-3582-3
infantry soldierHolding the lines at the battle of the bulgeby george W. Neill$19.95 paper 978-0-8061-3380-5
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328 pages, 6 × 9
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sickness, suffering, and the swordthe british regiment on campaign, 1808–1815
by Andrew bamford
Foreword by Donald e. graves
Although an army’s success is often measured in battle outcomes, its victories
depend on strengths that may be less obvious on the field. In Sickness, Suffering,
and the Sword, military historian Andrew Bamford assesses the effectiveness of the
British Army in sustained campaigning during the Napoleonic Wars. In the process,
he offers a fresh and controversial look at Britain’s military system, showing that
success or failure on campaign rested on the day-to-day experiences of regimental
units rather than the army as a whole.
Bamford draws his title from the words of Captain Moyle Sherer, who during the
winter of 1816–1817 wrote an account of his service during the Peninsular War:
“My regiment has never been very roughly handled in the field. . . But, alas! What
between sickness, suffering, and the sword, few, very few of those men are now in
existence.” Bamford argues that those daily scourges of such often-ignored factors
as noncombat deaths and equine strength and losses determined outcomes on the
battlefield.
In the nineteenth century, the British Army was a collection of regiments rather than
a single unified body, and the regimental system bore the responsibility of supplying
manpower on that field. Between 1808 and 1815, when Britain was fighting a
global conflict far greater than its military capabilities, the system nearly collapsed.
Only a few advantages narrowly outweighed the army’s increasing inability to meet
manpower requirements. This book examines those critical dynamics in Britain’s
major early-nineteenth-century campaigns: the Peninsular War (1808–1814), the
Walcheren Expedition (1809), the American War (1812–1815), and the growing
commitments in northern Europe from 1813 on.
Drawn from primary documents, Bamford’s statistical analysis compares the vast
disparities between regiments and different theatres of war and complements recent
studies of health and sickness in the British Army.
Andrew Bamford is a freelance historian and writer. Military historian Donald E. Graves is the author of several books, including most recently Dragon Rampant:
The Royal Welch Fusiliers at War, 1793–1815.
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all for the king’s shillingThe british soldier under Wellington, 1808–1814by edward J. coss$39.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4105-3
on wellingtonA critique of Waterlooby carl von clausewitz Translated and edited by peter Hofschröer$32.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4108-4
wellington’s two-front warThe peninsular campaigns, at Home and Abroad, 1808–1814by Joshua moon$34.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4157-2
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Explores German POW experiences during the War of Independence
A generous and merciful enemylife for german prisoners of war during the american revolution
by Daniel Krebs
Some 37,000 soldiers from six German principalities, collectively remembered
as Hessians, entered service as British auxiliaries in the American War of
Independence. At times, they constituted a third of the British army in North
America, and thousands of them were imprisoned by the Americans. Despite the
importance of Germans in the British war effort, historians have largely overlooked
these men. Drawing on research in German military records and common soldiers’
letters and diaries, Daniel Krebs places the prisoners on center stage in A Generous
and Merciful Enemy, portraying them as individuals rather than simply as numbers
in casualty lists.
Setting his account in the context of British and European politics and warfare,
Krebs explains the motivations of the German states that provided contract soldiers
for the British army. We think of the Hessians as mercenaries, but, as he shows,
many were conscripts. Some were new recruits; others, veterans. Some wanted to
stay in the New World after the war. Krebs further describes how the Germans
were made prisoners, either through capture or surrender, and brings to life their
experiences in captivity from New England to Havana, Cuba.
Krebs discusses prison conditions in detail, addressing both the American approach
to war prisoners and the prisoners’ responses to their experience. He assesses
American efforts as a “generous and merciful enemy” to use the prisoners as
economic, military, and propagandistic assets. In the process, he never loses sight of
the impact of imprisonment on the POWs themselves.
Adding new dimensions to an important but often neglected topic in military
history, Krebs probes the origins of the modern treatment of POWs. An epilogue
describes an almost-forgotten 1785 treaty between the United States and Prussia,
the first in western legal history to regulate the treatment of prisoners of war.
Daniel Krebs is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Louisville,
Kentucky.
april
$34.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4356-9
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military history
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a hessian diary of the american revolutionby Johann conrad Döhlaedited by bruce e. burgoyne$19.95s paper 978-0-8061-2530-5
our last missionA World War II prisoner in germanyby Dawn Trimble bunyak$19.95 paper 978-0-8061-3717-9
with zeal and with bayonets onlyThe british Army on campaign in North America, 1775–1783by matthew H. spring$19.95s paper 978-0-8061-4152-7
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role of the nobility
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latin american studies
politics of the maya courthierarchy and change in the late classic period
by sarah e. Jackson
In recent decades, advances in deciphering Maya hieroglyphic writing have given
scholars new tools for understanding key aspects of ancient Maya society. This
book—the first comprehensive examination of the Maya royal court—exemplifies
the importance of these new sources. Authored by anthropologist Sarah E. Jackson
and richly illustrated with drawings, photographs, and maps, Politics of the Maya
Court uses hieroglyphic and iconographic evidence to explore the composition and
social significance of royal courts in the Late Classic period (a.d. 600–900), with a
special emphasis on the role of courtly elites.
As Jackson explains, the Maya region of southern Mexico and Central America
was not a unified empire but a loosely aggregated culture area composed of
independent kingdoms. Royal courts had a presence in large, central communities
from Chiapas to Yucatan and the highlands of Guatemala and western Honduras.
Each major polity was ruled by a k’uhul ajaw, or holy lord, who embodied
intertwined aspects of religious and political authority. The hieroglyphic texts that
adorned walls, furniture, and portable items in these centers of power provide
specific information about the positions, roles, and meanings of the courts. Jackson
uses these documents as keys to understanding Classic Maya political hierarchy
and, specifically, the institution of the royal court. Within this context, she
investigates the lives of the nobility and the participation of elites in court politics.
By identifying particular individuals and their life stories, Jackson humanizes Maya
society, showing how events resulted from the actions and choices of specific people.
Jackson’s innovative portrayal of court membership provides a foundation for
scholarship on the nature, functions, and responsibilities of Maya royal courts.
Sarah E. Jackson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the
University of Cincinnati.
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after moctezumaIndigenous politics and self-government in mexico city, 1524–1730by William F. connell$45.00s cloth 978-0-8061-4175-6
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A step-by-step guide to reading Maya glyphs
Translating maya Hieroglyphsby scott A. J. Johnson
Maya hieroglyphic writing may seem impossibly opaque to beginning students,
but scholar Scott A. J. Johnson presents it as a regular and comprehensible system
in this engaging, easy-to-follow textbook. The only comprehensive introduction
designed specifically for those new to the study, Translating Maya Hieroglyphs uses
a hands-on approach to teach learners the current state of Maya epigraphy.
Johnson shows readers step by step how to translate ancient Maya glyphs. He
begins by describing how to break down a Mayan text into individual glyphs in
the correct reading order, and then explains the different types of glyphs and how
they function in the script. Finally, he shows how to systematically convert a Mayan
inscription into modern English.
Not simply a reference volume, Translating Maya Hieroglyphs is pedagogically
arranged so that it functions as an introductory foreign-language textbook.
Chapters cover key topics, including spelling, dates and numbers, basic grammar,
and verbs. Formal linguistic information is accessibly explained, while worksheets
and exercises complement and reinforce the material covered in the text. Glyph
blocks and phrases drawn from actual monuments illustrate the variety and scribal
virtuosity of Maya writing.
The Maya writing system has not been fully deciphered. Throughout the text,
Johnson outlines and explains the outstanding disputes among Mayanists. At
the end of each chapter, he offers sources for further reading. Helpful appendices
provide quick reference to vocabulary, glyph meanings, and calendrical data for
students undertaking a translation.
The study of Maya glyphs has long been an arcane subject known only to a few
specialists. This book will change that. Taking advantage of the great strides
scholars have made in deciphering hieroglyphs in the past four decades, Translating
Maya Hieroglyphs brings this knowledge to a broader audience, including
archaeologists and budding epigraphers.
Scott A. J. Johnson teaches at Grande Prairie Regional College in Alberta, Canada.
He completed his doctoral work at Tulane University and is the author of several
articles and book chapters on Maya archaeology and epigraphy.
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the new catalog of maya hieroglyphsVolume one: The classic period Inscriptionsby martha J. macri and matthew g. looper$65.00s cloth 978-0-8061-3497-0
the new catalog of maya hieroglyphsVolume Two: codical Textsby martha J. macri and gabrielle Vail$65.00s cloth 978-0-8061-4071-1
the decipherment of ancient maya writingedited by stephen Houston, oswaldo chinchilla mazariegos and David stuart$65.00s cloth 978-0-8061-3204-4
a book in the recovering languages
and literacies of the americas
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april
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latin american studies
crisis of governance in maya guatemalaindigenous responses to a failing state
edited by John p. Hawkins, James H. mcDonald,
and Walter randolph Adams
The possibility of violence beneath a thin veneer of civil society is a fact of daily
life for twenty-first-century Guatemalans, from field laborers to the president of
the country. Crisis of Governance in Maya Guatemala explores the causes and
consequences of governmental failure by focusing on life in two K’iche’ Maya
communities in the country’s western highlands. The contributors to this volume,
who lived among the villagers for some time, include both undergraduate students
and distinguished scholars. They describe the ways Mayas struggle to survive and
make sense of their lives, both within their communities and in relation to the
politico-economic institutions of the nation and the world.
Since Guatemala’s thirty-six-year civil war ended in 1996, the state has been
dysfunctional, the country’s economy precarious, and physical safety uncertain. The
intrusion of Mexican cartels led the U.S. State Department to declare Guatemala
“the epicenter of the drug threat” in Central America. Rapid cultural change, weak
state governance, organized crime, pervasive corruption, and ethnic exclusion
provide the backdrop for the studies in this volume.
Seven nuanced ethnographies collected here reveal the complexities of indigenous
life and describe physical and cultural conflicts within and between villages,
between insiders and outsiders, and between local and federal governments. Many
of these essays point to a tragic irony: the communities seem largely forgotten by
the government until the state seeks to capture their resources—timber, minerals,
votes. Other chapters portray villages responding to criminal activity through lynch
mobs and by labeling nonconformist youth as gang members.
In focusing on the internal dynamics of poor, marginal communities in Guatemala,
this book explores the realities of life for indigenous people on all continents who
are faced with the social changes brought about by war and globalization.
John P. Hawkins is Professor of Anthropology at Brigham Young University. James H. McDonald is Professor of Anthropology and Dean of Humanities
and Social Sciences at Southern Utah University. Walter Randolph Adams is an
independent scholar living in Guatemala and former Research Professor at the
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University.
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health care in maya guatemalaconfronting medical pluralism in a Developing countryedited by Walter randolph Adams and John p. Hawkins $19.95s paper 978-0-8061-3859-6
roads to change in maya guatemalaA Field school Approach to understanding the K’iche’edited by John p. Hawkins and Walter randolph Adams$29.95s cloth 978-0-8061-3708-7$19.95s paper 978-0-8061-3730-8
maya resurgence in guatemalaQ’eqchi’ experiencesby richard Wilson$19.95s paper 978-0-8061-3195-5
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The definitive book on the armadillo, by the world’s leading experts
The Nine-banded Armadilloa natural history
by W. J. loughry and colleen m. mcDonough
The word armadillo is Spanish for “little armored one.” This midsize mammal that
looks like a walking tank is a source of fascination for many people but a mystery
to almost all. Dating back at least eleven million years, the nocturnal, burrowing
insectivore was for centuries mistaken for a cross between a hedgehog and a turtle,
but it actually belongs to the mammalian superorder Xenarthra that includes sloths
and anteaters. Biologists W. J. Loughry and Colleen M. McDonough have studied
the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) for more than twenty years.
Their richly illustrated book offers the first comprehensive review of everything
scientists know about this unique animal.
Engaging both scientists and a broader public, Loughry and McDonough describe
the armadillo’s anatomy and physiology and all aspects of its ecology, behavior, and
evolution. They also compare the nine-banded armadillo with twenty or so other,
related species. The authors pay special attention to three key features of armadillo
biology—reproduction, disease, and habitat expansion—and why they matter.
Armadillos reproduce in a unique and puzzling manner: females always give
birth to litters of genetically identical quadruplets, a strategy not found in any
other vertebrates. Nine-banded armadillos are also the only vertebrates except for
humans known to contract leprosy naturally. And what about habitat expansion?
The authors suggest that the armadillo’s remarkable spread across the southeastern
United States may be the consequence of its most notable feature: a tough,
protective carapace.
Biologists, evolutionists, students, and all those interested in this curious creature
will find The Nine-Banded Armadillo rich in information and insight. This
comprehensive analysis will stand as the definitive scientific reference for years to
come and a source of pleasure for the general public.
W. J. Loughry and Colleen M. McDonough both received their Ph.D.s in animal
behavior from the University of California at Davis. They are now Professors of
Biology at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia. They endeavor to live
well.
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north american box turtlesA Natural Historyby c. Kenneth Dodd, Jr.$29.95s paper 978-0-8061-3501-4
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oklahoma’s Indian New Dealby Jon s. blackman
Among the New Deal programs that transformed American life in the 1930s was
legislation known as the Indian New Deal, whose centerpiece was the Indian
Reorganization Act (IRA) of 1934. Oddly, much of that law did not apply to Native
residents of Oklahoma, even though a large percentage of the country’s Native
American population resided there in the 1930s and no other state was home to
so many different tribes. The Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act (OIWA), passed by
Congress in 1936, brought Oklahoma Indians under all of the IRA’s provisions,
but included other measures that applied only to Oklahoma’s tribal population.
This first book-length history of the OIWA explains the law’s origins, enactment,
implementation, and impact, and shows how the act played a unique role in the
Indian New Deal.
In the early decades of the twentieth century, white farmers, entrepreneurs, and
lawyers used allotment policies and other legal means to gain control of thousands
of acres of Indian land in Oklahoma. To counter the accumulated effects of this
history, the OIWA specified how tribes could strengthen government by adopting
new constitutions, and it enabled both tribes and individual Indians to obtain
financial credit and land. Virulent opposition to the bill came from oil, timber,
mining, farming, and ranching interests. Jon S. Blackman’s narrative of the
legislative battle reveals the roles of bureaucrats, politicians, and tribal members in
drafting and enacting the law.
Although the OIWA encouraged tribes to organize for political and economic
purposes, it yielded mixed results. It did not produce a significant increase in Indian
land ownership in Oklahoma, and only a small percentage of Indian households
applied for OIWA loans. Yet the act increased member participation in tribal affairs,
enhanced Indian relations with non-Indian businesses and government, promoted
greater Indian influence in government programs—and, as Blackman shows, became
a springboard to the self-determination movements of the 1950s and 1960s.
Currently employed by the U.S. State Department, Jon S. Blackman is an
independent historian who focuses on federal Indian policy.
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New perspectives in mormon studiescreating and crossing boundaries
edited by Quincy D. Newell
and eric F. mason
Foreword by Jan shipps
Mormon and non-Mormon scholars explore boundaries within Mormon studies
Scholarship in Mormon studies has often focused on a few key events and individuals in Mormon history. The essays collected by Quincy D. Newell and Eric F. Mason in this interdisciplinary volume expand the conversation.
One of the main purposes of this volume is to define and cross boundaries. Part 1 addresses internal boundaries—walls that divide some Mormons from others. One chapter examines Joseph Smith’s writings on economic matters and argues that he sought to make social distinctions irrelevant. Another considers Jane James, an African American Latter-day Saint, and her experiences at the intersection of religious and racial identity
In part 2, contributors consider Mormonism's influence on Pentecostal leader John Alexander Dowie and relationships between Mormonism and other religious movements, including Methodism and Presbyterianism. Other chapters compare Mormonism and Islam and examine the group Ex-Mormons for Jesus/Saints Alive in Jesus.
Part 3 deals with Mormonism in the academy and the ongoing evolution of Mormon studies. Written by contributors from a variety of backgrounds, these essays will spark scholarly dialogue across the disciplines.
Quincy D. Newell is the author of Constructing Lives at Mission
San Francisco: Native Californians and Hispanic Colonists,
1776–1821. Eric F. Mason is the author of “You Are a Priest
Forever”: Second Temple Jewish Messianism and the Priestly
Christology of the Epistle to the Hebrews. Jan Shipps is the author or editor of several books on Mormonism, including
Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the
Mormons.
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understanding the global communityedited by Zach p. messitte and
suzette r. grillot
A concise and accessible survey of contemporary issues in international relations
Since the end of the Cold War, interaction among communities across the globe has increased exponentially. Globalization has changed how we live, how we communicate, what we eat, and how we travel around the world. What do such social, political, and economic changes mean in a twenty-first-century context?
Understanding the Global Community explores these and other key questions, offering a concise overview of contemporary topics in international relations. Edited by Zach P. Messitte and Suzette R. Grillot, with contributions from prominent scholars across various disciplines, this accessible survey is perfectly suited for undergraduate courses in international and area studies as well as for anyone seeking a clearer understanding of today’s major global concerns.
Unique in its approach, Understanding the Global Community
examines both international issues and regional perspectives. The first half of the book explores overarching global themes, including American foreign policy, international security, humanitarian intervention, and the global economy. The second half addresses nationalism and its challenge to the development of a global community, with region-specific chapters focusing on historic and contemporary issues in China, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. A glossary at the end of the book provides useful definitions of key terms and concepts.
Zach P. Messitte is President of Ripon College in Wisconsin. He previously served as the first Dean of the College of International Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Suzette R. Grillot is Interim Dean of the College of International Studies and Max and Heidi Berry Chair and Professor in International Studies at the University of Oklahoma.
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Wavell in the middle east, 1939–1941a study in generalship
by Harold e. raugh, Jr.
An in-depth profile of one of Britain’s most respected yet enigmatic generals
This masterly study of generalship covers two years of intense operational activity during which Field Marshal Wavell, as Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, was at one point conducting no fewer than five campaigns simultaneously. Two of those campaigns will stand in history as truly great victories, and one—the campaign in Greece in 1941—as a source of endless controversy.
Harold E. Raugh, Jr., has drawn upon previously unavailable official documents and interviewed or corresponded with a wide range of soldiers who served under Wavell. Raugh shows how Wavell’s early experience as a soldier and budding commander were reflected in his later decision making and shrewd military vision.
Although Wavell’s charismatic personality endeared him to all who served under him and earned him the profound respect of his fellows, and even of the enemy, his natural taciturnity brought him into conflict with his political masters. In spite of his enormous military achievements at one of the most critical periods in his country’s history, Wavell has been undeservedly relegated to obscurity—a historical oversight that Raugh corrects with this richly detailed book.
Harold E. Raugh, Jr., is the Command Historian of U.S. Army V Corps in Heidelberg, Germany. Retired from the U.S. Army as a Lieutenant Colonel, he is the author of four books including Fort Ord and Presidio of Monterey.
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The cherokee syllabarywriting the people’s
perseverance
by ellen cushman
A new perspective on Sequoyah’s enduring invention
In 1821, Sequoyah, a Cherokee metalworker and inventor, introduced a writing system that he had been developing for more than a decade. His creation—the Cherokee syllabary—helped his people learn to read and write within five years and became a principal part of their identity. This groundbreaking study traces the creation, dissemination, and evolution of Sequoyah’s syllabary from script to print to digital forms. Breaking with conventional understanding, Ellen Cushman shows that the syllabary was not based on alphabetic writing, but on Cherokee syllables and, more importantly, on Cherokee meanings.
Cushman traces the history of Sequoyah’s invention and the syllabary’s enduring significance, showing how it allowed Cherokees to protect, enact, and codify their knowledge and to weave non-Cherokee concepts into their language and life. The result was their enhanced ability to adapt to social change on and in Cherokee terms.
Profound, like the invention it explores, The Cherokee
Syllabary will reshape the study of Cherokee history and culture.
Ellen Cushman, Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan State University and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, is coeditor of Literacy: A Critical
Sourcebook and author of The Struggle and the Tools: Oral
and Literate Strategies in an Inner City Community.
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patterns of exchangenavajo weavers and traders
by Teresa J. Wilkins
Reveals the complex relationship between Navajo weavers and reservation traders
“By looking at both sides of the relationship, Wilkins presents a perspective that has been missing from other studies.”—Choice
The Navajo rugs and textiles people admire and buy today are the result of many historical influences, particularly the interaction between Navajo weavers and the traders who guided their production and controlled their sale. John Lorenzo Hubbell and other late-nineteenth-century traders were convinced they knew which patterns and colors would appeal to Anglo-American buyers, and so they heavily encouraged those designs. In Patterns of Exchange, Teresa J. Wilkins traces the intricate play of cultural, economic, and personal relationships between artists and traders that guided Navajo weavers to produce textiles that are today emblems of the Native American Southwest.
The Navajos valued their relationships with Hubbell and other trading post operators and did not always see themselves as exploited victims of a capitalist system. Because of Navajo cultural traditions of gift-giving, the artists slowly adapted patterns and colors the traders requested and even came to revere certain designs as “the weaving of the ancestors.”
Teresa J. Wilkins is Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico, Gallup. A weaver herself, she is a former student of weaving authority Joe Ben Wheat.
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American Indians in british Art, 1700–1840by stephanie pratt
Explores British representations of American Indians before and after the Revolutionary War
Ask anyone the world over to identify a figure in buckskins with a feather bonnet, and the answer will be “Indian.” Many works of art produced by non-Native artists have reflected such a limited viewpoint. In American Indians in British Art, 1700–1840, Stephanie Pratt explores for the first time an artistic tradition that avoided simplification and that instead portrayed Native peoples in a surprisingly complex light.
During the eighteenth century, the British allied themselves with Indian tribes to counter the American colonial rebellion. In response, British artists produced a large volume of work focusing on American Indians. Although these works depicted their subjects as either noble or ignoble savages, they also represented Indians as active participants in contemporary society.
Pratt places artistic works in historical context and traces a movement away from abstraction, in which Indians were symbols rather than actual people, to representational art, which portrayed Indians as actors on the colonial stage.
American Indians in British Art, 1700–1840, is richly illustrated, with some artworks published here for the first time.
Stephanie Pratt, a tribal member of the Crow Creek Dakota Sioux, is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom.
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The Northern cheyenne exodus in History and memoryby James N. leiker and
ramon powers
How the Northern Cheyenne exodus has been remembered, told, and retold
“Exceptionally well-written. . . . The authors do not sacrifice the power of the story itself . . . one of the most dramatic, touching, and disturbing of its time.”—Elliott West, author of The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story
The exodus of the Northern Cheyennes in 1878 and 1879, an attempt to flee from Indian Territory to their Montana homeland, is an iconic event in American Indian history. It also looms large in the history of towns like Oberlin, Kansas, where Cheyenne warriors killed more than forty settlers. The story has been told by historians and novelists, and on film.
Now James N. Leiker and Ramon Powers examine the recollections of Indians and settlers and their descendants, considering local history, mass media, and literature to draw thought-provoking conclusions. “The Cheyennes’ flight,” they write, “left white and Indian bones alike scattered along its route from Oklahoma to Montana.” They depict a West whose diverse peoples—Euro-American and Native American—seek to preserve their heritage through memory and history.
James N. Leiker, author of Racial Borders: Black Soldiers
along the Rio Grande, is Associate Professor of History, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas. Ramon Powers, formerly Executive Director of the Kansas State Historical Society, is author of numerous articles on Plains Indians history.
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Navajo lifewayscontemporary issues, ancient
knowledge
by maureen Trudelle schwarz
Foreword by louise lamphere
Places contemporary events within ancient Navajo traditions
“I think what is always really amazing to me is that Navajo are never amazed by anything that happens. Because it is like in a lot of our stories they are already there.”—Sunny Dooley, Navajo Storyteller
During the final decade of the twentieth century, Navajo people had to confront a number of challenges, from unexplained illness, the effects of uranium mining, and problem drinking to threats to their land rights and spirituality. Yet no matter how alarming these issues, Navajo people made sense of them by drawing guidance from what they regarded as their charter for life, their origin stories.
Through extensive interviews, Maureen Trudelle Schwarz allows Navajos to speak for themselves on the ways they find to respond to crises and chronic issues. In capturing what Navajos say and think about themselves, Schwarz presents this southwestern people’s perceptions, values, and sense of place in the world.
Maureen Trudelle Schwarz, Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University in New York, is the author of “I Choose
Life”: Contemporary Medical and Religious Practices in the
Navajo World. Louise Lamphere, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, University of New Mexico, is the author of Weaving Women’s Lives: Three Generations in
a Navajo Family.
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The New catalog of maya Hieroglyphsvolume one: the classic
period inscriptions
by martha J. macri and
matthew g. looper
“A major contribution to the field.”—Michael Coe, author of Breaking the Maya Code
For hundreds of years, Maya artists and scholars used hieroglyphs to record their history and culture. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, archaeologists, photographers, and artists recorded the Maya carvings, often by transporting box cameras and plaster casts through the jungle on muleback.
The New Catalog is a guide to all known hieroglyphic symbols of Classic Maya script, presenting the findings of the most reliable scholars in Maya epigraphy. An essential resource for students of Maya texts, it is also accessible to nonspecialists with an interest in Mesoamerica.
This volume focuses on texts from the Classic Period (150–900 c.e.) found on carved stone monuments, stucco wall panels, wooden lintels, carved and painted pottery, murals, and small objects of jadeite, shell, bone, and wood.
Martha J. Macri, Rumsey Endowed Chair in California Indian Studies and Director of the Native American Language Center at the University of California, Davis, is coauthor of The New
Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, Volume Two: The Codical
Texts. Matthew G. Looper, Professor of Art and Art History at California State University, Chico, is the author of To Be Like
Gods: Dance in Ancient Maya Civilization.
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buffalo Inc.american indians and economic
development
by sebastian Felix braun
Buffalo as a business on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation
“Explores issues of sustainability, economic development, sovereignty, ecology, health, representation of history, and the intersection of all of these complex concepts: place.” —SciTech Book News
Some American Indian tribes on the Great Plains have turned to bison ranching in recent years as a culturally and ecologically sustainable economic development program. This book focuses on one enterprise on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation to determine whether such projects have fulfilled expectations and how they fit with traditional and contemporary Lakota values.
Sebastian Felix Braun examines the creation of Pte Hca Ka, Inc., and its management styles as they evolved over fifteen years—a compelling picture of cultural change. Braun traces Pte Hca Ka’s origin as a self-sustaining project that sought to combine traditional values with modern technology. Presenting both sides of the argument, he shows how the company tried to operate on cultural and ecological ideals until the tribal government shed its cultural agenda in favor of pure business.
In Buffalo Inc., bison serve as a test case for a broader look at sustainability, economic development, tribal politics, and cultural identity.
Sebastian Felix Braun is Associate Professor in the Department of Indian Studies at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.
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robert Newton baskin and the making of modern utahby John gary maxwell
For years Robert Newton Baskin (1837–1918) may have been the most hated man
in Utah. Yet his promotion of federal legislation against polygamy in the late 1800s
and his work to bring the Mormon territory into a republican form of government
were pivotal in Utah’s achievement of statehood. The results of his efforts also
contributed to the acceptance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by
the American public. In this engaging biography—the first full-length analysis of the
man—author John Gary Maxwell presents Baskin as the unsung father of modern
Utah. As Maxwell shows, Baskin’s life was defined by conflict and paradox.
Educated at Harvard Law School, Baskin lived as a member of a minority: a
“gentile” in Mormon Utah. A loner, he was highly respected but not often included
in the camaraderie of contemporary non-Mormon professionals. When it came to
the Saints, Baskin’s role in the legal aftermath of the Mountain Meadows massacre
did not endear him to the Mormon people or their leadership. He was convinced
that Brigham Young made John D. Lee the scapegoat—the planner and perpetrator
of the massacre—to obscure complicity of the LDS church.
Baskin was successful in Utah politics despite using polygamy as a sledgehammer
against Utah’s theocratic government and despite his role as a federal prosecutor.
He was twice elected mayor of Salt Lake City, served in the Utah legislature, and
became chief justice of the Utah Supreme Court. He was also a visionary city
planner—the force behind the construction of the Salt Lake City and County
Building, which remains the architectural rival of the city’s Mormon temple.
For more than a century historians have maligned Baskin or ignored him. Maxwell
brings the man to life in this long-overdue exploration of a central figure in the
history of Utah and of the LDS church.
John Gary Maxwell is the author of Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake: George R.
Maxwell, Civil War Hero and Federal Marshal among the Mormons.
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gettysburg to great salt lakegeorge r. maxwell, civil War Hero and Federal marshal among the mormonsby John gary maxwell$39.95s cloth 978-0-87062-388-2
mormon convert, mormon defectorA scottish Immigrant in the American West, 1848–1861by polly Aird$39.95s cloth 978-0-87062-369-1
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This Far-off Wild landthe upper missouri letters of andrew dawson
by lesley Wischmann and Andrew erskine Dawson
In the mid-1800s, Andrew Dawson, self-exiled from his home in Scotland, joined
the upper Missouri River fur trade and rose through the ranks of the American Fur
Company. A headstrong young man, he had come to America at the age of twenty-
four after being dismissed from his second job in two years. His poignant sense of
isolation is evident throughout his letters home between 1844 and 1861. In This
Far-Off Wild Land, Lesley Wischmann and Andrew Erskine Dawson—a relative of
this colorful figure—couple an engaging biography of Dawson with thirty-seven of
his previously unpublished letters from the American frontier.
Three years after he landed in St. Louis, Dawson went up the Missouri in 1847
to what is now North Dakota and Montana, taking command of Fort Berthold,
Fort Clark, and eventually Fort Benton, the premier fur trade post of the day. Fort
Berthold and Fort Clark, where Dawson worked until 1854, remain two of the least
documented American Fur Company posts. His letters infuse life, and occasional
high drama, to the stories of these forgotten outposts. At Fort Benton, his insight
in establishing commercial warehouses helped the company keep pace with the
changing frontier. By the time Dawson returned to Scotland—after twenty years in
what he labeled a far-off, wild land—he had risen to become the last “King of the
Upper Missouri.”
Thoughtfully annotated, Dawson’s letters, discovered only recently by his relatives,
provide a rare glimpse into the lonely life of a fur trader in the 1840s and 1850s.
Unlike the impersonal business correspondence that makes up most fur trade
writings, Dawson’s letters are wonderfully human, suffused with raw emotion.
Combining careful research with a compelling story, the authors flesh out the forces
that shaped Dawson’s personality and the historical events he recorded.
Lesley Wischmann is the author of Frontier Diplomats: Alexander Culbertson and
Natoyist-Siksina’ among the Blackfeet. Andrew Erskine Dawson, a resident of
England and retired public servant, is great-grand-nephew of Andrew Dawson.
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AAmerican Indians in British Art,
1700–1840, pratt, 35Anaya, The Old Man’s Love
Story, 3Anderson, Arapaho Women’s
Quillwork, 8Arapaho Women’s Quillwork,
Anderson, 8Aristocracy of Color, An, bottoms, 17
Bbamford, Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword, 26beck, Columns of Vengeance, 20blackman, Oklahoma’s Indian
New Deal, 32bottoms, An Aristocracy of
Color, 17 braun, Buffalo Inc., 37bright, Native American
Placenames of the Southwest, 5Buffalo Inc., braun, 37By All Accounts, english, 14
CCherokee Syllabary, The, cushman, 34clark, Indian Tribes of Oklahoma, 6 Columns of Vengeance, beck, 20Cotton and Conquest, Kennedy, 15Crisis of Governance in Maya
Guatemala, Hawkins/mcDonald/Adams, 30
cushman, The Cherokee Syllabary, 34
Custer, Cody, and Grand Duke Alexis, scott/bleed/Damm, 22
DDeArment, Gunfighter in Gotham,
2Devil’s Gate, rea, 6Dragoons in Apacheland, Kiser, 21Deuss, Shamans, Witches, and
Maya Priests, 40
EEmpire on Display, moore, 12english, By All Accounts, 14Ernest L. Blumenschein, larson/
larson, 13
FFox, Quilts, 7
GGathering of Statesmen, A,
pitchlynn/Haag/Willis, 19Generous and Merciful Enemy, A,
Krebs, 27Going for Broke, mccaffrey, 25goodyear, A President in
Yellowstone, 11grumet, Manhattan to Minisink,
18Gunfighter in Gotham, DeArment,
2
HHawkins/mcDonald/Adams,
Crisis of Governance in Maya Guatemala, 30
IIndian Tribes of Oklahoma,
clark, 6
JJackson, Politics of the Maya
Court, 28Johnson, Translating Maya
Hieroglyphs, 29
KKan, A Russian American
Photographer in Tlingit Country, 10
Karl Bodmer’s America Revisited, lindholm/Wood, 9
Kennedy, Cotton and Conquest, 15
Kiser, Dragoons in Apacheland, 21Krebs, A Generous and Merciful
Enemy, 27
Llarson/larson, Ernest L.
Blumenschein, 13leiker/powers, The Northern
Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory, 36
lindholm/Wood, Karl Bodmer’s America Revisited, 9
Los Angeles in Civil War Days, 1860–1865, robinson, 24
loughry/mcDonough, The Nine-Banded Armadillo, 31
mmacri/looper, The New Catalog
of Maya Hieroglyphs, 37Manhattan to Minisink, grumet,
18maxwell, Robert Newton Baskin
and the Making of Modern Utah, 38
mccaffrey, Going for Broke, 25messitte/grillot, Understanding
the Global Community, 33moore, Empire on Display, 12mo Yan, Sandlewood Death, 1
NNative American Placenames of the
Southwest, bright, 5Navajo Lifeways, schwarz, 36New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs,
The, macri/looper, 37Newell/mason, New Perspectives
in Mormon Studies, 33New Perspectives in Mormon
Studies, Newell/mason, 33Nine-Banded Armadillo, The,
loughry/mcDonough, 31Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory, The, leiker/powers, 36 Not All Heroes, skogen, 4
OOklahoma’s Indian New Deal,
blackman, 32Old Man’s Love Story, The,
Anaya, 3
pPatterns of Exchange, Wilkins, 35pitchlynn/Haag/Willis, A
Gathering of Statesmen, 19Politics of the Maya Court,
Jackson, 28pratt, American Indians in British
Art, 1700–1840, 35Pre-Columbian Art & Archaeology,
Young-sánchez, 41President in Yellowstone, A,
goodyear, 11
qQuilts, Fox, 7
Rraugh, Wavell in the Middle East,
1939–1941, 34rea, Devil’s Gate, 6Regionalists on the Left, steiner,
16Robert Newton Baskin and
the Making of Modern Utah, maxwell, 38
robinson, Los Angeles in Civil War Days, 1860–1865, 24
Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country, A, Kan, 10
SSandlewood Death, mo Yan, 1schwarz, Navajo Lifeways, 36scott, Uncovering History, 23scott/bleed/Damm, Custer,
Cody, and Grand Duke Alexis, 22Shamans, Witches, and Maya
Priests, Deuss, 40Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword,
bamford, 26skogen, Not All Heroes, 4steiner, Regionalists on the Left, 16
TThis Far-Off Wild Land,
Wischmann/Dawson, 39Translating Maya Hieroglyphs,
Johnson, 29
UUncovering History, scott, 23Understanding the Global
Community, messitte/grillot, 33
WWavell in the Middle East,
1939–1941, raugh, 34Wilkins, Patterns of Exchange, 35Wischmann/Dawson, This Far-
Off Wild Land, 39
YYoung-sánchez, Pre-Columbian
Art & Archaeology, 41
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The university of oklahoma press will publish an english-
language edition of mo Yan’s 2004 novel Tanxiangxing
(Sandalwood Death), translated by Howard goldblatt,
in January 2013 as part of its chinese literature Today
book series. This powerful novel by mo Yan—one of
contemporary china’s most famous and prolific writers—
is both a stirring love story and an unsparing critique of
political corruption during the final years of the Qing
Dynasty, china’s last imperial epoch.
s a n d a l w o o d d e a t hA Novel
Mo YanWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Translated by Howard Goldblatt
PHOTO: JOHANNES KOLFHAUS, GYMN. MARIENTHAL
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