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Moroni and the Swastika
Mormons in Nazi Germany
By David Conley Nelson
While Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist government was persecuting Jews
and Jehovah’s Witnesses and driving forty-two small German religious sects
underground, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continued to practice
unhindered. How some fourteen thousand Mormons not only survived but thrived
in Nazi Germany is a story little known, rarely told, and occasionally rewritten
within the confines of the Church’s history—for good reason, as we see in David
Conley Nelson’s Moroni and the Swastika. A page-turning historical narrative, this
book is the first full account of how Mormons avoided Nazi persecution through
skilled collaboration with Hitler’s regime, and then eschewed postwar shame by
constructing an alternative history of wartime suffering and resistance.
The Twelfth Article of Faith and parts of the 134th Section of the Doctrine and
Covenants function as Mormonism’s equivalent of the biblical admonition to
“render unto Caesar,” a charge to cooperate with civil government, no matter
how onerous doing so may be. Resurrecting this often-violated doctrinal edict,
ecclesiastical leaders at the time developed a strategy that protected Mormons
within Nazi Germany. Furthermore, as Nelson shows, many Mormon officials
strove to fit into the Third Reich by exploiting commonalities with the Nazi state.
German Mormons emphasized a mutual interest in genealogy and a passion for
sports. They sent husbands into the Wehrmacht and sons into the Hitler Youth, and
they prayed for a German victory when the war began. They also purged Jewish
references from hymnals, lesson plans, and liturgical practices. One American
mission president even wrote an article for the official Nazi Party newspaper,
extolling parallels between Utah Mormon and German Nazi society. Nelson
documents this collaboration, as well as subsequent efforts to suppress it by
fashioning a new collective memory of ordinary German Mormons’ courage and
travails during the war.
Recovering this inconvenient past, Moroni and the Swastika restores a complex and
difficult chapter to the history of Nazi Germany and the Mormon Church in the
twentieth century—and offers new insight into the construction of historical truth.
David Conley Nelson holds a Ph.D. in history from Texas A&M University. He
served six years as an officer in the United States Marine Corps and is now an
independent researcher and commercial airline captain.
FEBRUARY
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23 B&W ILLUS., 3 MAPS, 2 TABLES
RELIGION/HISTORY
Of Related Interest
NEW PERSPECTIVES IN MORMON STUDIES
Creating and Crossing Boundaries
Edited by Quincy D. Newell and Eric F. Mason
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4313-2
GATHERING IN HARMONY
By Stephen L. Prince
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-327-1
NELSON MORONI AND THE SWASTIKA
Restores a complex and difficult chapter to
the history of the Mormon Church
COLOR A DO
A H I S T O R I C A L AT L A S
By Thomas J. Noel
Cartography by Carol Zuber-Mallison
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his is a thoroughly revised edition of the
Historical Atlas of Colorado, which was
coauthored by Tom Noel and published in 1994.
Chock-full of the best and latest information on
Colorado, this new edition features thirty new
chapters, updated text, more than 100 color maps
and 100 color photos, and a best-of listing of
Colorado authors and books, as well as a guide
to hundreds of tourist attractions.
Colorado received its name (Spanish for “red”)
after much debate and many possibilities,
including Idaho (an “Indian” name meaning
“gem of the mountains” later discovered to be a
fabrication) and Yampa (Ute for “bear”). Noel
includes other little-known but significant facts
about the state, from its status as first state in
the Union to elect women to its legislature, to its
controversial “highest state” designation, elevated
by the 2013 legalization of recreational cannabis.
Noel and cartographer Carol Zuber-Mallison map
and describe Colorado’s spectacular geography
and its fascinating past. The book’s eight parts
survey natural Colorado, from rivers and
mountains to dinosaurs and mammals; history,
from prehistoric peoples to twenty-first-century
Color-oddities; mining and manufacturing, from
the gold rush to alternative energy sources;
agriculture, including wineries and brewpubs;
transportation, from stagecoach lines to light
rail; modern Colorado, from the New Deal
to the present (including politics, history, and
information on lynchings, executions, and prisons);
recreation, covering not only hiking and skiing but
also literary locales and Colorado in the movies;
and tourism, encompassing historic landmarks,
museums, and even cemeteries. In short, this book
has information—and surprises—that anyone
interested in Colorado will relish.
Thomas J. Noel is Professor of History and Director of Public History, Preservation, and Colorado
Studies at University of Colorado Denver. He appears regularly on Denver’s Channel 9 (NBC) as
“Dr. Colorado,” writes a Sunday Denver Post column, and is the author or coauthor of more than 42
books, including Colorado: A History of the Centennial State (coauthored with Carl Abbott and Steve
Leonard) and Colorado: A Liquid History and Tavern Guide to the Highest State.
Carol Zuber-Mallison is an award-winning freelance artist specializing in maps and informational
graphics. For 14 years she was an editor and artist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Dallas
Morning News. She also created maps and graphics for the Texas Almanac and Texas: A Historical Atlas.
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COLORADO
GHOST TOWNS AND
MINING CAMPS
By Sandra Dallas
$26.95 Paper
978-0-8061-2084-3
FOLLOWING ISABELLA
Travels in Colorado
Then and Now
By Robert Root
$19.95 Paper
978-0-8061-4018-6
MINING THE SUMMIT
Colorado’s Ten Mile
District, 1860–1960
By H. Stanley Dempsey
$19.95s Paper
978-0-8061-4541-9
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An unsurpassed cartographic exploration
of the Rocky Mountain State
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Lamar
Las
Animas
38°
350
Del Norte
Walsenburg
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Alamosa
Springfield
Durango
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Defunct facility
Background: Southwestern Colorado landscape (Carol Highsmith). Top: Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde
National Park (William Henry Jackson), Durango & Silverton tourist train (Carol Highsmith),
Denver Civic Center. All courtesy Library of Congress. Bottom: Maps showing average maximum
temperatures in July and major manufacturers and employers.
FERGUSON THE LAST CAVALRYMAN
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NEW BOOKS SPRING 2015
Fills out an important chapter in American military history
The Last Cavalryman
The Life of General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr.
By Harvey Ferguson
“Truscott was one of the really tough generals,” soldier-cartoonist Bill Mauldin of
the 45th Infantry Division once wrote. “He could have eaten a ham like Patton for
breakfast any morning and picked his teeth with the man’s pearl-handled pistols.”
Not one merely to act the part of commander, Mauldin remembered, “Truscott
spent half his time at the front—the real front—with nobody in attendance but a
nervous Jeep driver and a worried aide.”
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AND COMMANDERS SERIES
MARCH
$29.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4664-5
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23 B&W ILLUS., 10 MAPS
BIOGRAPHY/MILITARY HISTORY
Of Related Interest
CARRYING THE WAR TO THE ENEMY
American Operational Art to 1945
By Michael R. Matheny
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4324-8
VICTORY AT PELELIU
The 81st Infantry Division’s Pacific Campaign
By Bobby C. Blair and John Peter DeCioccio
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4154-1
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4680-5
WILLIAM HARDING CARTER AND
THE AMERICAN ARMY
A Soldier’s Story
By Ronald G. Machoian
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3746-9
In this biography of Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., author Harvey Ferguson tells the story
of how Truscott—despite his hardscrabble beginnings, patchy education, and
questionable luck—not only made the rank of army lieutenant general, earning
a reputation as one of World War II’s most effective officers along the way, but
was also given an honorary promotion to four-star general seven years after his
retirement.
For all his accomplishments and celebrated heroic action, Truscott was not one
for self-aggrandizement, which may explain in part why historians have neglected
him until now. The Last Cavalryman, drawing on personal papers only recently
made available, gives the first full picture of this singular man’s extraordinary
life and career. Ferguson describes Truscott’s near-accidental entry into the U.S.
Cavalry (propelled by Pancho Villa’s 1916 raids) and his somewhat halting rise
through the ranks—aided by fellow cavalryman George S. Patton, Jr., who steered
him into the nascent armored force at the right time. The author takes us through
Truscott’s service in the Second World War, from creating the U.S. Army Rangers
to engineering the breakout from Anzio and leading the “masterpiece” invasion of
southern France. Ferguson finishes his narrative by detailing the general’s postwar
work with the CIA, where he acted as President Dwight Eisenhower’s eyes and ears
within the agency.
A compelling story in itself, this biography of Lucian K. Truscott, Jr.—a cavalryman
to the last—fills out an important chapter in American military history.
Harvey Ferguson is retired as Assistant Chief of the Seattle Police Department and a
former Instructor of Criminal Justice at Shoreline Community College in Shoreline,
Washington.
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Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend
By Ron J. Jackson, Jr., and Lee Spencer White
Foreword by Phil Collins
If we do in fact “remember the Alamo,” it is largely thanks to one person who
witnessed the final assault and survived: the commanding officer’s slave, a young
man known simply as Joe. What Joe saw as the Alamo fell, recounted days later
to the Texas Cabinet, has come down to us in records and newspaper reports. But
who Joe was, where he came from, and what happened to him have all remained
mysterious until now. In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, authors
Ron J. Jackson, Jr., and Lee Spencer White have fully restored this pivotal yet elusive
figure to his place in the American story.
The twenty-year-old Joe stood with his master, Lt. Colonel Travis, against the
Mexican army in the early hours of March 6, 1836. After Travis fell, Joe watched
the battle’s last moments from a hiding place. He was later taken first to Bexar and
questioned by Santa Anna about the Texan army, and then to the revolutionary
capitol, where he gave his testimony with evident candor.
With these few facts in hand, Jackson and White searched through plantation
ledgers, journals, memoirs, slave narratives, ship logs, newspapers, letters, and court
documents. Their decades-long effort has revealed the outline of Joe’s biography,
alongside some startling facts: most notably, that Joe was the younger brother of
the famous escaped slave and abolitionist narrator William Wells Brown, as well as
the grandson of legendary trailblazer Daniel Boone. Their book traces Joe’s story
from his birth in Kentucky through his life in slavery—which, in a grotesque irony,
resumed after he took part in the Texans’ battle for independence—to his eventual
escape and disappearance into the shadows of history.
Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend recovers a true American character
from obscurity and expands our view of events central to the emergence of Texas.
Ron J. Jackson, Jr., is a professional journalist and author of Alamo Legacy:
Alamo Descendants Remember the Alamo and Blood Prairie: Perilous Adventures
on the Oklahoma Frontier. Lee Spencer White is an independent researcher,
preservationist, and consultant for the History Channel, Dearg Films, and the BBC.
Phil Collins is a singer-songwriter, an Alamo history aficionado, and the author of
The Alamo and Beyond: A Collector’s Journey.
MARCH
$29.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4703-1
352 PAGES, 6 × 9
15 B&W ILLUS., 5 MAPS
BIOGRAPHY/U.S. HISTORY
Of Related Interest
THE CONQUEST OF TEXAS
Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820–1875
By Gary Clayton Anderson
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3698-1
BLACK TEXANS
A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528–1995
By Alwyn Barr
$24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2878-8
SAM HOUSTON
By James L. Haley
$24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3644-8
JACKSON, WHITE JOE, THE SLAVE WHO BECAME AN ALAMO LEGEND
Recovers from obscurity a true American character
CHILES CALIFORNIA’S CHANNEL ISLANDS
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NEW BOOKS SPRING 2015
An engaging introduction to the natural and human
landscape of a unique corner of the world
California’s Channel Islands
A History
By Frederic Caire Chiles
Prehistoric foragers, conquistadors, missionaries, adventurers, hunters, and rugged
agriculturalists parade across the histories of these little-known islands on the
horizon of twenty-first century Southern California. This chain of eight islands
is home to a biodiversity unrivaled anywhere on Earth. In addition, the Channel
Islands reveal the complex geology and the natural and human history of this part
of the world, from the first human probing of the continent we now call North
America to modern-day ranchers, vineyardists, yachtsmen, and backpackers.
FEBRUARY
$19.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-4687-4
296 PAGES, 6.125 × 9.25
65 B&W ILLUS., 9 MAPS
U.S. HISTORY
Of Related Interest
Not far below the largely undisturbed surface of these islands are the traces of
a California that flourished before historical time, vestiges of a complex forager
culture originating with the first humans to cross the Bering Land Bridge and spread
down the Pacific coast. This culture came to an end a mere 450 years ago with
the arrival of Spanish conquistadors and missionaries, whose practices effectively
depopulated the archipelago. The largely empty islands in turn attracted AngloAmerican agriculturalists, including Frederic Caire Chiles’s own ancestors, who
battled the elements to build empires based on cattle, sheep, wine, and wool. Today
adventure tourism is the heart of the islands’ economy, with the late-twentiethcentury formation of Channel Islands National Park, which opened five of the
islands to the general public.
For visitors and armchair travelers alike, this book weaves the strands of natural
history, island ecology, and human endeavor to tell the Channel Islands’ full story.
JUSTINIAN CAIRE AND SANTA CRUZ ISLAND
The Rise and Fall of a California Dynasty
By Frederic Caire Chiles
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-400-1
SANTA CRUZ ISLAND
A History of Conflict and Diversity
By John Gherini, Doyce B. Nunis, and Marla Daily
$39.50s Cloth 978-0-87062-264-9
CALIFORNIA THROUGH RUSSIAN EYES, 1806–1848
Translated and edited by James R. Gibson
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-421-6
Frederic Caire Chiles is the author of Justinian Caire and Santa Cruz Island:
The Rise and Fall of a California Dynasty. He holds a Ph.D. in history from the
University of California–Santa Barbara and divides his time between London, Italy,
and California.
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Saloons, Prostitutes, and
Temperance in Alaska Territory
By Catherine Holder Spude
Prostitution, gambling, and saloons were a vital, if not universally welcome, part
of life in frontier boomtowns. In Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska
Territory, Catherine Holder Spude explores the rise and fall of these enterprises in
Skagway, Alaska, between the gold rush of 1897 and the enactment of Prohibition
in 1918. Her gritty account offers a case study in the clash between working-class
men and middle-class women, and in the growth of women’s political and economic
power in the West.
Where most books about vice in the West depict a rambunctious sin-scape, this one
addresses money and politics. Focusing on the ambitions and resources of individual
prostitutes and madams, landlords and saloon owners, lawmen, politicians, and
reformers, Spude brings issues of gender and class to life in a place and time when
vice equaled money and money controlled politics. Women of all classes learned
how to manipulate both money and politics, ultimately deciding how to practice
and regulate individual freedoms.
As Progressive reforms swept America in the early twentieth century, middle-class
women in Skagway won power, Spude shows, at the expense of the values and vices
of the working-class men who had dominated the population in the town’s earliest
days. Reform began when a citizens’ committee purged Skagway of card sharks
and con men in 1898, and culminated when middle-class businessmen sided with
their wives—giving them the power to vote—and in the process banned gambling,
prostitution, and saloons.
Today, a century after the era Spude describes, Skagway’s tourist industry
perpetuates the stereotypes of good times in saloons and bordellos. This book
instead takes readers inside Skagway’s real dens of iniquity, before and after their
demise, and depicts frontier Skagway and its people as they really were. It will open
the eyes of historians and tourists alike.
Catherine Holder Spude is author of “That Fiend in Hell”: Soapy Smith in Legend
and Sin and Grace: A Historical Novel of the Skagway, Alaska, Sporting Wars, as
well as coeditor of Eldorado! The Archaeology of Gold Mining in the Far North.
FEBRUARY
$24.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4660-7
344 PAGES, 6 × 9
24 B&W ILLUS., 3 MAPS, 3 TABLES
U.S. HISTORY
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“THAT FIEND IN HELL”
Soapy Smith in Legend
By Catherine Holder Spude
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4280-7
ALASKA
A History
By Claus M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick
$39.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4040-7
$24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4666-9
A RUSSIAN AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER
IN TLINGIT COUNTRY
Vincent Soboleff in Alaska
By Sergei Kan
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4290-6
SPUDE SALOONS, PROSTITUTES, AND TEMPERANCE IN ALASKA TERRITORY
Working-class vice and middle-class reform
on North America’s Last Frontier
CONLEY WIL USDI
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NEW BOOKS SPRING 2015
A once-influential man recalls his life with
a deep sense of Cherokee history
Wil Usdi
Thoughts from the Asylum, a Cherokee Novella
By Robert J. Conley
Foreword by Luther Wilson
Adopted into the Cherokee tribe as a teenager, William Holland Thomas
(1805–1893), known to the Cherokees as Wil Usdi (Little Will), went on to have
a distinguished career as lawyer, politician, and soldier. He spent the last decades
of his life in a mental hospital, where the pioneering ethnographer James Mooney
interviewed him extensively about Cherokee lifeways. The true story of Wil Usdi’s
life forms the basis for this historical novella, the final published work of fiction by
the late award-winning Cherokee author Robert J. Conley.
VOLUME 64 IN THE AMERICAN INDIAN
LITERATURE AND CRITICAL STUDIES SERIES
FEBRUARY
$14.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-4659-1
160 PAGES, 5 × 8.5
1 B&W ILLUS.
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MOUNTAIN WINDSONG
A Novel of the Trail of Tears
By Robert J. Conley
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2746-0
THE PEACE CHIEF
A Novel
By Robert J. Conley
$5.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3368-3
CHEROKEE DRAGON
A Novel
By Robert J. Conley
$5.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3370-6
Conley tells Wil’s story through the recollection of the old man’s memories. Wil
learns the Cherokee language while working at a trading post. The chief Yonaguska
adopts the fatherless Wil, seeing to it that the boy dresses like a Cherokee and, for
all practical purposes, becomes one. Later, representing the Eastern Band of the
Cherokees in their negotiations with the federal government, Wil helps them remain
in their ancestral lands in North Carolina when most other Cherokees are sent off
on the Trail of Tears to the Indian Territory. Thus, Wil becomes popularly known as
the white chief of the tribe. He continues making money as a merchant and in 1848
is elected to the North Carolina state senate, where he assists in the creation of a
railroad system to serve the copper mines in neighboring Tennessee. During the Civil
War, he leads a Cherokee battalion in the Confederate Army and tries to persuade his
cousin Jefferson Davis to expand the battalion of fierce warriors into a regiment. His
achievements make his admission into an insane asylum all the more tragic.
The Wil Usdi of Conley’s story is in increasingly bad health, mistreated in a mental
institution that to twenty-first-century readers is little more than a jail. He dreams
of women and warfare and boyhood games of stickball. Yet even in his demented
state, Wil is proud of his accomplishments and never loses his conviction that
Indians are “more human than whites.” Weaving together the disconnected stories
of Wil Usdi’s life, Conley’s blend of thorough research and imaginative prose gives
readers a deep sense of post-removal Cherokee history.
Venerated Cherokee writer Robert J. Conley (1940–2014) is the author of Cherokee
Thoughts: Honest and Uncensored, as well as numerous novels, including The Witch
of Goingsnake and Other Stories and Mountain Windsong: A Novel of the Trail of
Tears. Luther Wilson is retired as Director of the University of New Mexico Press.
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Surviving Desires
Making and Selling Native Jewellery in the American Southwest
By Henrietta Lidchi
In its classic union of gleaming silver and blue turquoise, Native American jewellery
of the Southwest is an iconic art form. Internationally recognized and locally
significant, Native American jewellery has a compelling history—it represents
the persistence of tradition while encapsulating the vitality of Native American
communities and the continuously transforming nature of the jewellery makers’ art.
Author Henrietta Lidchi focuses on jewellery in the cultural economy of the
Southwest, exploring jewellery making as a decorative art form in constant
transition. She describes the jewellery as subject to a number of desires, controlled
at different times by government agencies, individual entrepreneurs, traders,
curators, and Native American communities. Lidchi explores the jewellery as craft,
material culture, commodity, and adornment. Considering the impact of tourism,
she discusses fakes in the market and the artists’ desires to codify traditional styles,
explaining how that can affect stylistic development and value. Surviving Desires
suggests the complexity and reinvention innate to Native American jewellery as a
commercial craft.
Drawing on the author’s archival research and on interviews she conducted with
Native American jewellers and with traders, dealers, and curators, this volume
examines British collecting, exchanges between British and American institutions,
and the development of the British Museum’s contemporary collection.
Lavishly illustrated with 300 color photographs of jewellery in the British Museum,
the National Museums Scotland, and major collections in the United States,
Surviving Desires presents many previously unpublished pieces and showcases
works by Native American jewellers who include the best-known names in the field
today. The volume is a visually stunning exploration of the symbolic, economic, and
communal value of jewellery in the American Southwest.
Henrietta Lidchi, an anthropologist and curator, is currently Keeper of the
Department of World Cultures at National Museums Scotland. She is coeditor of
Imaging the Arctic (1998) and Visual Currencies (2009).
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Selected Works
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PLAINS INDIAN ART
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Horses That Buck
Invasion of Laos, 1971
The Story of Champion
Bronc Rider Bill Smith
By Margot Kahn
Lam Son 719
By Robert D. Sander
INVASION OF LAOS, 1971
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LEWIS AND CLARK AMONG THE NEZ PERCE
HORSES THAT BUCK
Strangers in the Land of the Nimiipuu
By Allen V. Pinkham and Steven R. Evans
Foreword by Frederick E. Hoxie
“More than two centuries after Lewis
and Clark . . . we at last have a full
account of that encounter from an Indian
perspective.”—Elliott West
This breakthrough in Lewis and Clark
studies explores the relationship between
Jefferson’s Corps of Discovery and
a single tribe, finding insights about
what the explorers understood and
misunderstood about Nez Perce lifeways.
Including Nez Perce oral tradition,
the authors reevaluate the Lewis and
Clark expedition west of the Bitterroot
Mountains.
Allen V. Pinkham, a storytelling elder,
served on the Nez Perce Tribal Executive
Committee and the National Lewis and
Clark Bicentennial Council. Researcher
Steven R. Evans taught history at LewisClark State College, Lewiston, Idaho.
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Inducted into the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame
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Writer Margot Kahn spent seven years
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In 1971, a South Vietnamese Army corps,
with U.S. air support, launched the largest
airmobile operation in the history of
warfare, Lam Son 719. The objective: to
sever the North Vietnamese Army’s Ho
Chi Minh Trail. The outcome: defeat of
the South Vietnamese Army and heavy
losses of U.S. helicopters and aircrews,
but a preemptive strike that met President
Richard Nixon’s political objectives.
Robert Sander, a helicopter pilot in Lam
Son 719, explores why an operation of
such importance failed. A powerful work
of military and political history, this book
offers eloquent testimony that “failure,
like success, cannot be measured in
absolute terms.”
Robert D. Sander served twenty-five years
in the U.S. Army and retired as a colonel
in 1993.
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A Strange Mixture
The Art and Politics of Painting Pueblo Indians
By Sascha T. Scott
Attracted to the rich ceremonial life and unique architecture of the New Mexico
pueblos, many early-twentieth-century artists depicted Pueblo peoples, places, and
culture in paintings. These artists’ encounters with Pueblo Indians fostered their
awareness of Native political struggles and led them to join with Pueblo communities
to champion Indian rights. In this book, art historian Sascha T. Scott examines the
ways in which non-Pueblo and Pueblo artists advocated for American Indian cultures
by confronting some of the cultural, legal, and political issues of the day.
Scott closely examines the work of five diverse artists, exploring how their art was
shaped by and helped to shape Indian politics. She places the art within the context
of the interwar period, 1915–30, a time when federal Indian policy shifted away
from forced assimilation and toward preservation of Native cultures. Through
careful analysis of paintings by Ernest L. Blumenschein, John Sloan, Marsden
Hartley, and Awa Tsireh (Alfonso Roybal), Scott shows how their depictions of
thriving Pueblo life and rituals promoted cultural preservation and challenged the
pervasive romanticizing theme of the “vanishing Indian.” Georgia O’Keeffe’s images
of Pueblo dances, which connect abstraction with lived experience, testify to the
legacy of these political and aesthetic transformations.
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Scott makes use of anthropology, history, and indigenous studies in her art historical
narrative. She is one of the first scholars to address varied responses to issues of
cultural preservation by aesthetically and culturally diverse artists, including Pueblo
painters. Beautifully designed, this book features nearly sixty artworks reproduced
in full color.
Sascha T. Scott is Assistant Professor of American Art and a member of the
Native American Studies faculty at Syracuse University. The author of articles
on Southwestern art, she has received a Clements Research Fellowship from the
Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University.
THE NAVAJO AND PUEBLO SILVERSMITHS
By John Adair
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2215-1
AMERICAN INDIANS IN BRITISH ART, 1700–1840
By Stephanie Pratt
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PATTERNS OF EXCHANGE
Navajo Weavers and Traders
By Teresa J. Wilkins
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SCOTT A STRANGE MIXTURE
Examines how New Mexico artists promoted cultural preservation
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AU T O M O B I LE P IONEERS ,1900–1909
Edited by Peter J. Blodgett
Top: Snowy range from Bald Mountain, Colo. (ca. 1900).
Photograph by William Henry Jackson. Bottom:
advertisement design study for Pierce Arrow
automobiles (ca. 1915). By Edward Penfield. Both
images courtesy Libary of Congress Prints and
Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
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Explores the beginning of Americans’ love affair
with the automobile—and the road west
In the first years of the twentieth century, motoring across the vast
expanses west of the Mississippi was at the very least an adventure and at most an
audacious stunt. As more motorists ventured forth, such travel became a curiosity
and, within a few decades, commonplace. For aspiring western travelers, automobiles
formed an integral part of their search for new experiences and destinations—and
like explorers and thrill seekers from earlier ages, these adventurers kept records
of their experiences. The scores of articles, pamphlets, and books they published,
collected for the first time in Motoring West, create a vibrant picture of the American
West in the age of automotive ascendancy, as viewed from behind the wheel.
Documenting the very beginning of Americans’ love affair with the automobile,
the pieces in this volume—the first of a planned multivolume series—offer a
panorama of motoring travelers’ visions of the burgeoning West in the first decade
of the twentieth century. Historian Peter J. Blodgett’s sources range from forgotten
archives to company brochures to magazines such as Harper’s Monthly, Sunset,
and Outing. Under headlines touting adventures in “touring,” “land cruising,” and
“camping out with an automobile,” voices from motoring’s early days instruct,
inform, and entertain. They chart routes through “wild landscapes,” explain the
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“touring outfits.” Blodgett’s engaging introductions to the volume and each piece
couch the writers’ commentaries within their time.
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travel, the burgeoning flow of traffic would eventually and forever alter the western
landscape and the westering motorist’s experience. The dispatches in Motoring
West illustrate not only how the automobile opened the American West before
1909 to more and more travelers, but also how the West began to change with
their arrival.
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Manuscripts at the Huntington Library and author of Land of Golden Dreams:
California in the Gold Rush Decade, 1848–1858.
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HOCHSCHILD, EINSTEIN DO FACTS MATTER?
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What citizens know, don’t know, and only think they
know, and what political difference it makes
Do Facts Matter?
Information and Misinformation in American Politics
By Jennifer Hochschild and Katherine Levine Einstein
A democracy falters when most of its citizens are uninformed or misinformed, when
misinformation affects political decisions and actions, or when political actors
foment misinformation—the state of affairs the United States faces today, as this
timely book makes painfully clear. In Do Facts Matter? Jennifer L. Hochschild and
Katherine Levine Einstein start with Thomas Jefferson’s ideal citizen, who knows
and uses correct information to make policy or political choices. What, then, the
authors ask, are the consequences if citizens are informed but do not act on their
knowledge? More serious, what if they do act, but on incorrect information?
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DISCONNECT
The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics
By Morris P. Fiorina
With Samuel J. Abrams
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PARTY WARS
Polarization and the Politics of National Policy Making
By Barbara Sinclair
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THE SENATE SYNDROME
The Evolution of Procedural Warfare
in the Modern U.S. Senate
By Steven S. Smith
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Analyzing the use, nonuse, and misuse of facts in various cases—such as the call
to impeach Bill Clinton, the response to global warming, Clarence Thomas’s
appointment to the Supreme Court, the case for invading Iraq, beliefs about Barack
Obama’s birthplace and religion, and the Affordable Care Act—Hochschild and
Einstein argue persuasively that errors of commission (that is, acting on falsehoods)
are even more troublesome than errors of omission. While citizens’ inability or
unwillingness to use the facts they know in their political decision making may be
frustrating, their acquisition and use of incorrect “knowledge” pose a far greater
threat to a democratic political system.
Do Facts Matter? looks beyond individual citizens to the role that political elites
play in informing, misinforming, and encouraging or discouraging the use of
accurate or mistaken information or beliefs. Hochschild and Einstein show that if
a well-informed electorate remains a crucial component of a successful democracy,
the deliberate concealment of political facts poses its greatest threat.
Jennifer L. Hochschild is Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and
Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. The
author, coauthor, or editor of numerous articles, chapters, and books, her most
recent publications include Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration,
Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America
and Bringing Outsiders In: Transatlantic Perspectives on Immigrant Political
Incorporation. Katherine Levine Einstein is Assistant Professor of Political Science
at Boston University. Her current research focuses on racial inequality, political
segregation, and the splintering of U.S. metropolitan areas.
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HERTZKE, HARPER RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN AMERICA
An interdisciplinary collection of essays
on an essential American liberty
Religious Freedom in America
Constitutional Roots and Contemporary Challenges
Edited by Allen D. Hertzke
Preface by Kyle Harper
“This fine collection of essays could not be timelier. Bringing historical, juridical, and
social science perspectives to bear on contemporary challenges, the authors and editors
point the way to a society in which diverse religions may not only peacefully coexist but
flourish, and where no one is forced to choose between religious obligations and civic
duties.”—MARY ANN GLENDON, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University
Religious freedom, anchored in conscience rights, is foundational to the U.S.
democratic experiment. The question of what freedom of conscience means—what its
scope and limits are, according to the Constitution—sparks often-heated debate. At a
moment when such questions loom ever larger in the nation’s contentious politics, this
timely book offers invaluable historical, empirical, philosophical, and analytical insight
into the American constitutional heritage of religious liberty.
As the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume attest, understanding religious
freedom demands taking multiple perspectives. The historians guide us through
the legacy of religious freedom, from the nation’s founding and the rise of public
education, through the waves of immigration that added successive layers of diversity
to American society. The social scientists discuss the swift, striking effects of judicial
decision making and the battles over free exercise in a complex, bureaucratic society.
Advocates remind us of the tensions abiding in schools and other familiar institutions,
and of the role minorities play in shaping free exercise under our constitutional regime.
And the jurists emphasize that this is a messy area of constitutional law.
What emerges most clearly from these essays is that, under increasing pressure from
both religious and secular forces, this First Amendment freedom demands our full
attention and understanding.
Allen D. Hertzke is David Ross Boyd Professor of Political Science, and Faculty Fellow
in Religious Freedom with the Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage,
at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Freeing God’s Children: The
Unlikely Alliance for Global Human Rights and editor of The Future of Religious
Freedom: Global Challenges. Kyle Harper is Interim Senior Vice President and Provost
and founding director of the Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage at
the University of Oklahoma. He is author of Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD
275–425 and From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality.
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THE THIRD WAVE
Democratization in the Late 20th Century
By Samuel P. Huntington
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A new and unique perspective on California
during a transformative period
The Army Surveys of Gold Rush California
Reports of Topographical Engineers, 1849–1851
Edited by Gary Clayton Anderson and Laura Lee Anderson
As the army’s topographical engineer in California from 1849 to 1851, George
Horatio Derby wrote detailed reports on the region, its people, its resources, and
its geography—providing critical information for an understaffed military charged
with bringing order to a vast new empire along the Pacific Slope. Early maps and
reports by pioneers, trappers, and newspapermen, even by such professionals as
John C. Frémont and William Emory, were limited in scope and often unreliable.
In contrast, those authored by Derby and the army’s other trained topographical
engineers were remarkably accurate, extensive, and richly descriptive. Long buried
in the files of the National Archives, they have also remained largely unknown, even
to historians.
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California Mormons and the Great Rush for Riches
By Kenneth N. Owens
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CALIFORNIA ODYSSEY
An Overland Journey on the Southern Trails, 1849
By William R. Goulding
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Collected and reproduced here for the first time, these journals and maps offer a
new and unique perspective on California in the mid-nineteenth century. Derby’s
reports and journals appear alongside those of Robert Stockton Williamson,
William H. Warner, Edward O. C. Ord, Nathaniel Lyon, Henry Walton Wessells,
and Erasmus Darwin Keyes. These documents offer extraordinary firsthand views of
the environment, natural resources, geography, and early settlement, as well as the
effects of disease on Native and white populations. The writers’ detailed, often witty
insights offer new understandings of life in California during an era of momentous
change.
Historian Gary Clayton Anderson and anthropologist Laura Lee Anderson provide
historical, geographic, and biographical context in the book’s introduction and in
headnotes and annotations for each journal. With these editorial enhancements, the
documents reveal as much of the character of their authors and their time as of the
land and peoples they so carefully describe.
Gary Clayton Anderson, George Lynn Cross Professor of History at the University
of Oklahoma, is the author of The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the
Promised Land, 1820–1875 and Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian: The Crime That
Should Haunt America. Laura Lee Anderson is the editor of Being Dakota: Tales
and Traditions of the Sisseton and Wahpeton.
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Surveying the Yellowstone, 1872
Edited by M. John Lubetkin
Hoping to complete its transcontinental route, the Northern Pacific Railroad set
out in 1872 to survey the Yellowstone Valley. An emissary from the Lakota chief
Sitting Bull had warned the two surveying expeditions (eastern and western) not to
enter the valley. But no one—certainly no Northern Pacific investor—was worried
about taking the Indian threat seriously.
As it turned out, the Indians were deadly serious—and successful. The firsthand
accounts compiled here by M. John Lubetkin document the survey’s three-month
struggle with the Lakotas and other Plains Indian people. Before Custer: Surveying
the Yellowstone, 1872 tells the story of a military and public relations disaster.
Much to the surprised dismay of U.S. Army strategists and railroad executives, the
Indians repeatedly harrassed army forces of nearly a thousand men. One surveying
party turned back, without meeting its objectives, after a determined attack led by
Sitting Bull. The other also retreated, and one ambush it encountered resulted in
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of the railroad’s lead engineer.
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for the country. When the Northern Pacific’s expansion plans were thwarted,
the nation’s largest private banking house failed, leading to the Panic of 1873.
The fighting brought Sitting Bull to national attention and led directly to George
Armstrong Custer’s transfer to the Department of Dakota.
The vivid eyewitness accounts artfully assembled here reveal the failures of
alcoholic army commanders and show personal encounters between soldiers and
Indians, among them the formidable Lakota warrior known as Gall. Before Custer
tells of a little-known but crucial episode in the history of westward expansion and
Native peoples’ efforts to halt that expansion.
M. John Lubetkin is a retired cable television executive and the author of Custer
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Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873, winner
of the Little Big Horn Associates’ John M. Carroll Award (Book of the Year) and a
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How the United States Army Waged War
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The controversial general tests his military mettle against
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The Gray Fox
George Crook and the Indian Wars
By Paul Magid
George Crook was one of the most prominent military figures of the latenineteenth-century Indian Wars. Yet today his name is largely unrecognized despite
the important role he played in such pivotal events in western history as the
Custer fight at the Little Big Horn, the death of Crazy Horse, and the Geronimo
campaigns. As Paul Magid portrays Crook in this highly readable second volume
of a projected three-volume biography, the general was an innovative and eccentric
soldier, with a complex and often contradictory personality, whose activities often
generated intense controversy. Though known for his uncompromising ferocity in
battle, he nevertheless respected his enemy and grew to know and respect them.
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From the Redwoods to Appomattox
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GENERAL GEORGE CROOK
His Autobiography
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GENERAL CROOK AND THE WESTERN FRONTIER
By Charles M. Robinson III
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Describing campaigns against the Paiutes, Apaches, Sioux, and Cheyennes, Magid’s
vivid narrative explores Crook’s abilities as an Indian fighter. The Apaches, among
the fiercest peoples in the West, called Crook the Gray Fox after an animal viewed
in their culture as a herald of impending death. Generals Grant and Sherman both
regarded him as indispensable to their efforts to subjugate the western tribes.
Though noted for his aggressiveness in combat, Crook was a reticent officer who
rarely raised his voice, habitually dressed in shabby civilian attire, and often rode
a mule in the field. He was also self-confident to the point of arrogance, harbored
fierce grudges, and because he marched to his own beat, got along poorly with his
superiors. He had many enduring friendships both in- and outside the army, though
he divulged little of his inner self to others and some of his closest comrades knew
he could be cold and insensitive.
As Magid relates these crucial episodes of Crook’s life, a dominant contradiction
emerges: while he was an unforgiving warrior in the field, he not infrequently risked
his career to do battle with his military superiors and with politicians in Washington
to obtain fair treatment for the very people against whom he fought. Upon hearing
of the general’s death in 1890, Chief Red Cloud spoke for his Sioux people: “He, at
least, never lied to us. His words gave the people hope.”
Paul Magid, a retired attorney who worked with the Peace Corps, then served as
General Counsel of the African Development Foundation, is the author of George
Crook: From the Redwoods to Appomattox.
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The Battle of Lake Champlain
A “Brilliant and Extraordinary Victory”
By John H. Schroeder
On September 11, 1814, an American naval squadron under Master Commandant
Thomas Macdonough defeated a formidable British force on Lake Champlain
under the command of Captain George Downie, effectively ending the British
invasion of the Champlain Valley during the War of 1812. This decisive battle
had far-reaching repercussions in Canada, the United States, England, and Ghent,
Belgium, where peace talks were under way. Examining the naval and land
campaign in strategic, political, and military terms, from planning to execution to
outcome, The Battle of Lake Champlain offers the most thorough account written
of this pivotal moment in American history.
For decades the Champlain corridor—a direct and accessible invasion route
between Lower Canada and the northern United States—had been hotly contested
in wars for control of the region. In exploring the crucial issue of why it took two
years for the United States and Britain to confront each other on Lake Champlain,
historian John H. Schroeder recounts the war’s early years, the failed U.S. invasions
of Canada in 1812 and 1813, and the ensuing naval race for control of the lake in
1814. To explain how the Americans achieved their unexpected victory, Schroeder
weighs the effects on both sides of preparations and planning, personal valor and
cowardice, command decisions both brilliant and ill-conceived, and sheer luck both
good and bad.
Previous histories have claimed that the War of 1812 ended with Andrew Jackson’s
victory at the Battle of New Orleans. Schroeder demonstrates that the United
States really won the war four months before—at Plattsburgh on Lake Champlain.
Through a comprehensive analysis of politics and diplomacy, Schroeder shows that
the victory at Lake Champlain prompted the British to moderate their demands at
Ghent, bringing the war directly and swiftly to an end before Jackson’s spectacular
victory in January 1815.
John H. Schroeder is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin–
Milwaukee. He is the author of Commodore John Rodgers: Paragon of the Early
American Navy and Matthew Calbraith Perry: Antebellum Sailor and Diplomat.
VOLUME 49 IN THE CAMPAIGNS
AND COMMANDERS SERIES
MARCH
$26.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4693-5
184 PAGES, 6 × 9
6 B&W ILLUS., 4 MAPS, 1 TABLE
U.S. HISTORY/MILITARY HISTORY
Of Related Interest
THE WAR OF 1812 IN THE AGE OF NAPOLEON
By Jeremy Black
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4078-0
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4458-0
THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR AND
THE CONQUEST OF NEW FRANCE
By William R. Nester
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4435-1
NO TURNING POINT
The Saratoga Campaign in Perspective
By Theodore Corbett
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4276-0
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4661-4
SCHROEDER THE BATTLE OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN
Explores how the Americans achieved a
remarkable and unexpected victory
MILLS COLD WAR IN A COLD LAND
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NEW BOOKS SPRING 2015
A nuanced account of how middle America
experienced Cold War politics and policies
Cold War in a Cold Land
Fighting Communism on the Northern Plains
By David W. Mills
Most communists, as any plains state patriot would have told you in the 1950s,
lived in Los Angeles or New York City, not Minot, North Dakota. The Cold War as
it played out across the Great Plains was not the Cold War of the American cities
and coasts. Nor was it tempered much by midwestern isolationism, as common
wisdom has it. In this book, David W. Mills offers an enlightening look at what
most of the heartland was up to while America was united in its war on Reds. Cold
War in a Cold Land adopts a regional perspective to develop a new understanding
of a critical chapter in the nation’s history.
MARCH
$29.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4694-2
304 PAGES, 6 × 9
23 B&W ILLUS., 2 MAPS
U.S. HISTORY
Of Related Interest
A MILITARY HISTORY OF THE COLD WAR, 1944–1962
By Jonathan M. House
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4262-3
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, THE COLD
WAR, AND THE ATOMIC WEST
By Jon Hunner
$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4046-9
“THEY ARE ALL RED OUT HERE”
Socialist Politics in the Pacific Northwest, 1895–1925
By Jeffrey A. Johnson
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3967-8
Marx himself had no hope that landholding farmers would rise up as communist
revolutionaries. So it should come as no surprise that in places like South Dakota,
where 70 percent of the population owned land and worked for themselves,
people didn’t take the threat of internal subversion very seriously. Mills plumbs the
historical record to show how residents of the plains states—while deeply patriotic
and supportive of the nation’s foreign policy—responded less than enthusiastically
to national anticommunist programs. Only South Dakota, for example, adopted
a loyalty oath, and it was fervently opposed throughout the state. Only Montana,
prodded by one state legislator, formed an investigation committee—one that never
investigated anyone and was quickly disbanded. Plains state people were, however,
“highly churched” and enthusiastically embraced federal attempts to use religion
as a bulwark against atheistic communist ideology. Even more enthusiastic was the
Great Plains response to the military buildup that accompanied Cold War politics,
as the construction of airbases and missile fields brought untold economic benefits
to the region.
A much-needed, nuanced account of how average citizens in middle America
experienced Cold War politics and policies, Cold War in a Cold Land is a significant
addition to the history of both the Cold War and the Great Plains.
David W. Mills holds a Ph.D. from North Dakota State University and teaches
American, European, and military history at Minnesota West Community and
Technical College in Worthington.
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The Great Call-Up
The Guard, the Border, and the Mexican Revolution
By Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler
On June 18, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson called up virtually the entire army
National Guard, some 150,000 men, to meet an armed threat to the United
States: border raids covertly sponsored by a Mexican government in the throes
of revolution. The Great Call-Up tells for the first time the complete story of this
unprecedented deployment and its significance in the history of the National Guard,
World War I, and U.S.-Mexico relations.
Often confused with the regular-army operation against Pancho Villa and
overshadowed by the U.S. entry into World War I, the great call-up is finally given
due treatment here by two premier authorities on the history of the Southwest
border. Marshaling evidence drawn from newspapers, state archives, reports to
Congress, and War Department documents, Charles H. Harris III and Louis R.
Sadler trace the call-up’s state-based deployment from San Antonio and Corpus
Christi, along the Texas and Arizona borders, to California. Along the way, they
tell the story of this mass mobilization by examining each unit as it was called
up by state, considering its composition, missions, and internal politics. Through
this period of intensive training, the Guard became a truly cohesive national, then
international, force. Some units would even go directly from U.S. border service to
the battlefields of World War I France, remaining overseas until 1919.
JANUARY
$45.00s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4645-4
568 PAGES, 6.125 × 9.25
35 B&W ILLUS., 2 MAPS, 1 TABLE
U.S. HISTORY
Of Related Interest
Balancing sweeping change over time with a keen eye for detail, The Great Call-Up
unveils a little-known yet vital chapter in American military history.
Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler are professors emeritus of history at New
Mexico State University, Las Cruces. They are the coauthors of a half-dozen books,
including The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade,
1910–1920; The Secret War in El Paso: Mexican Revolutionary Intrigue, 1906–
1920; and The Plan de San Diego: Tejano Rebellion, Mexican Intrigue.
PANCHO VILLA’S REVOLUTION BY HEADLINES
By Mark Cronlund Anderson
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3375-1
DRAGOONS IN APACHELAND
Conquest and Resistance in Southern
New Mexico, 1846–1861
By William S. Kiser
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4314-9
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4650-8
FORT BOWIE, ARIZONA
Combat Post of the Southwest, 1858–1894
By Douglas C. McChristian
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3781-0
HARRIS, SADLER THE GREAT CALL-UP
Unveils a little-known yet vital chapter
in American military history
HERRERA JUAN BAUTISTA DE ANZA
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NEW BOOKS SPRING 2015
Shows Anza’s importance as both soldier and
administrator in shaping New Mexico’s history
Juan Bautista de Anza
The King’s Governor in New Mexico
By Carlos R. Herrera
Juan Bautista de Anza arrived in Santa Fe at a time when New Mexico, like
Spain’s other North American colonies, faced heightened threats from Indians
and international rivals. As governor of New Mexico from 1778 to 1788, Anza
enacted a series of changes in the colony’s governance that helped preserve it as a
Spanish territory and strengthen the larger empire to which it belonged. Although
Anza is best known for his travels to California as a young man, this book, the first
comprehensive biography of Anza, shows his greater historical importance as a
soldier and administrator in the history of North America.
FEBRUARY
$29.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4644-7
320 PAGES, 6 × 9
10 B&W ILLUS., 2 MAPS
BIOGRAPHY
Of Related Interest
MIERA Y PACHECO
A Renaissance Spaniard in EighteenthCentury New Mexico
By John L. Kessell
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4377-4
PUEBLOS, SPANIARDS, AND THE
KINGDOM OF NEW MEXICO
By John L. Kessell
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4122-0
INDIAN ALLIANCES AND THE SPANISH
IN THE SOUTHWEST, 750–1750
By William B. Carter
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4302-6
Historian Carlos R. Herrera argues that Anza’s formative years in Sonora, Mexico,
contributed to his success as a colonial administrator. Having grown up in New
Spain’s northern territory, Anza knew the daily challenges that the various ethnic
groups encountered in this region of limited resources, and he saw both the
advantages and the pitfalls of the region’s strong Franciscan presence. Anza’s
knowledge of frontier terrains and peoples helped make him a more effective
military and political leader.
When raiding tribes threatened the colony during his tenure as governor, Anza rode
into battle, killing the great Comanche war chief Cuerno Verde in 1779 and later
engineering a peace treaty formally concluded in 1786. As the colonial overseer of
the imperial policies known as the Bourbon Reforms, he also implemented a series
of changes in the colony’s bureaucratic, judicial, and religious institutions. Charged
with militarizing New Mexico so that it could contribute to the maintenance of the
empire, Anza curtailed the social, political, and economic power the Franciscans
had long enjoyed and increased Spain’s authority in the region.
By combining administrative history with narrative biography, Herrera shows that
Juan Bautista de Anza was more than an explorer. Devoted equally to the Spanish
empire and to the North American region he knew intimately, Governor Anza
shaped the history of New Mexico at a critical juncture.
Carlos R. Herrera is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Borderlands
Institute at San Diego State University–Imperial Valley. His numerous articles have
appeared in the Journal of the Southwest and Journal of the History of Sexuality.
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Junípero Serra
California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary
By Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
Franciscan missionary friar Junípero Serra (1713–1784), one of the most widely
known and influential inhabitants of early California, embodied many of the ideas
and practices that animated the Spanish presence in the Americas. In this definitive
biography, translators and historians Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
bring this complex figure to life and illuminate the Spanish period of California and
the American Southwest.
In Junípero Serra: California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary,
Beebe and Senkewicz focus on Serra’s religious identity and his relations with Native
peoples. They intersperse their narrative with new and accessible translations of many
of Serra’s letters and sermons, which allows his voice to be heard in a more direct and
engaging fashion.
Serra spent thirty-four years as a missionary to Indians in Mexico and California. He
believed that paternalistic religious rule offered Indians a better life than their oppressive
exploitation by colonial soldiers and settlers, which he deemed the only realistic
alternative available to them at that time and place. Serra’s unswerving commitment
to his vision embroiled him in frequent conflicts with California’s governors, soldiers,
native peoples, and even his fellow missionaries. Yet because he prevailed often enough,
he was able to place his unique stamp on the first years of California’s history.
Beebe and Senkewicz interpret Junípero Serra neither as a saint nor as the
personification of the Black Legend. They recount his life from his birth in a small
farming village on Mallorca. They detail his experiences in central Mexico and Baja
California, as well as the tumultuous fifteen years he spent as founder of the California
missions. Serra’s Franciscan ideals are analyzed in their eighteenth century context,
which allows readers to understand more fully the differences and similarities between
his world and ours. Combining history, culture, and linguistics, this new study conveys
the power and nuance of Serra’s voice and, ultimately, his impact on history.
Rose Marie Beebe is Professor of Spanish Literature at Santa Clara University. Robert
M. Senkewicz is Professor of History at Santa Clara University. Together they have
authored and edited numerous books, including The History of Alta California, Lands
of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535–1846; Testimonios: Early
California through the Eyes of Women, 1815–1848; and “To Toil in That Vineyard of
the Lord”: Contemporary Scholarship on Junípero Serra.
VOLUME 3 IN THE BEFORE GOLD: CALIFORNIA
UNDER SPAIN AND MEXICO SERIES
MARCH
$39.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4868-7
514 PAGES, 7 × 10
61 B&W ILLUS., 37 COLOR PLATES, 11 MAPS
BIOGRAPHY
Of Related Interest
CONTEST FOR CALIFORNIA
From Spanish Colonization to the American Conquest
By Stephen G. Hyslop
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-87062-411-7
WITH ANZA TO CALIFORNIA, 1775–1776
The Journal of Pedro Font, O.F.M.
By Pedro Font
Translated by Alan K. Brown
$55.00s Cloth 978-0-87062-375-2
SPAIN IN THE SOUTHWEST
A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico,
Arizona, Texas, and California
By John L. Kessell
$24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3484-0
BEEBE, SENKEWICZ JUNÍPERO SERRA
Conveys the power and nuance of Serra’s voice and his
impact on California and the American Southwest
SCHARNHORST OWEN WISTER AND THE WEST
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How the American West shaped Owen Wister’s life and writings
Owen Wister and the West
By Gary Scharnhorst
From James Fenimore Cooper to Gary Cooper, stories set in the American West
have served as vehicles for topical commentary. More than any other pioneer of the
genre, Owen Wister turned the Western into a form of social and political critique,
touching on such issues as race, the environment, women’s rights, and immigration.
In Owen Wister and the West, a biographical-literary account of Wister’s life and
writings, Gary Scharnhorst shows how the West shaped Wister’s career and ideas,
even as he lived and worked in the East.
VOLUME 30 IN THE OKLAHOMA
WESTERN BIOGRAPHIES
MARCH
$24.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4675-1
280 PAGES, 5.5 × 8.5
9 B&W ILLUS.
BIOGRAPHY
Of Related Interest
STORIES OF THE OLD WEST
Tales of the Mining Camp, Cavalry
Troop, and Cattle Ranch
By John Seelye
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3283-9
BRET HARTE
Opening the American Literary West
By Gary Scharnhorst
$19.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3254-9
THE WISTER TRACE
Assaying Classic Western Fiction
Second Edition
By Loren D. Estleman
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4481-8
The Virginian, Wister’s claim to literary fame, was published in 1902, but his
writing career actually began in 1891 and continued for twenty-five years after the
publication of his masterpiece. Scharnhorst traces Wister’s western connections
up to and through the publication of The Virginian and shows that the author
remained deeply connected to the American West until his death in 1938. Like his
Harvard friend Theodore Roosevelt, Wister was the sickly scion of an eastern family
who recuperated in the West before returning to his home and inherited social
position. His life story is punctuated with appearances by such contemporaries as
Frederic Remington, Rudyard Kipling, and Ernest Hemingway.
Scharnhorst thoroughly discusses Wister’s experiences in the West, including a
detailed chronology of his travels and the writings that grew out of them. He
offers numerous insights into Wister’s adroit use of sources, and provides revealing
comparisons between Wister’s western works and the writings of other authors
treating the same region.
The West, Scharnhorst shows, was the crucible in which Wister tested and expressed
his political opinions, most of them startlingly conservative by present standards.
Yet The Virginian remains the template for the western novel today. More than
any other Western writer of the past century and a half, Wister’s career merits
resurrection.
Gary Scharnhorst is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico
and author of numerous books, including Bret Harte: Opening the American
Literary West and Julian Hawthorne: The Life of a Prodigal Son.
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American Mythmaker
Walter Noble Burns and the Legends of
Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín Murrieta
By Mark J. Dworkin
Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Joaquín Murrieta are fixed in the American imagination
as towering legends of the Old West. But that has not always been the case. There was
a time when these men were largely forgotten relics of a bygone era. Then, in the early
twentieth century, an obscure Chicago newspaperman changed all that.
Walter Noble Burns (1872–1932) served with the First Kentucky Infantry during
the Spanish-American War and covered General John J. Pershing’s pursuit of
Pancho Villa in Mexico as a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. However
history-making these forays may seem, they were only the beginning. In the last six
years of his life, Burns wrote three books that propelled New Mexico outlaw Billy
the Kid, Tombstone marshal Wyatt Earp, and California bandit Joaquín Murrieta
into the realm of legend.
Despite Burns’s remarkable command of his subjects—based on exhaustive research
and interviews—he has been largely ignored by scholars because of the popular,
even occasionally fictional, approach he employed. In American Mythmaker, the
first literary biography of Burns, Mark J. Dworkin brings Burns out of the shadows.
Through careful analysis of The Saga of Billy the Kid (1926), Tombstone, An Iliad
of the Southwest (1927), and The Robin Hood of Eldorado: The Saga of Joaquin
Murrieta (1932) and their reception, Dworkin shows how Burns used his journalistic
training to introduce the history of the American West to his era’s general readership.
In the process, Burns made his subjects household names.
Are Burns’s books fact or fiction? Was he a historian or a novelist? Dworkin
considers these questions as he uncovers the story behind Burns’s mythmaking
works. A long-overdue biography of a writer who shaped our idea of western
history, American Mythmaker documents in fascinating detail the fashioning of
some of the greatest American legends.
Mark J. Dworkin (1946–2012) is the author of Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas: Mysteries
of Ancient Civilizations of Central and South America and numerous articles,
including several on Walter Noble Burns.
MARCH
$29.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4685-0
288 PAGES, 6 × 9
12 B&W ILLUS.
BIOGRAPHY
Of Related Interest
ON A SILVER DESERT
The Life of Ernest Haycox
By Ernest Haycox Jr.
$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3564-9
THE WEST OF BILLY THE KID
By Frederick Nolan
$29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3104-7
JOHN FORD
Hollywood’s Old Master
By Ronald L. Davis
$24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2916-7
DWORKIN AMERICAN MYTHMAKER
The writer who forever shaped our idea of western history
MCPHERSON LIFE IN A CORNER
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NEW BOOKS SPRING 2015
Daily life for the first Euro-American
settlers of the Four Corners region
Life in a Corner
Cultural Episodes in Southeastern Utah, 1880–1950
By Robert S. McPherson
Community building in the Four Corners area of southeastern Utah required
specialized knowledge and a good bit of determination on the part of settlers who
wrested a livelihood from the Colorado Plateau. Robert S. McPherson, the region’s
leading historian, draws on oral history and personal archives to write about
cowboys and homesteaders, loggers and sawmill operators, law enforcement officers
and bootleggers, miners and midwives, trappers and builders. In Life in a Corner, he
shapes their stories into a fascinating mosaic of cultural and environmental history
unique to this region.
APRIL
$29.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4691-1
304 PAGES, 6 × 9
49 B&W ILLUS., 1 MAP
U.S. HISTORY
Of Related Interest
NAVAJO LAND, NAVAJO CULTURE
The Utah Experience in the Twentieth Century
By Robert S. McPherson
$24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3357-7
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3410-9
A NAVAJO LEGACY
The Life and Teachings of John Holiday
By John Holiday and Robert S. McPherson
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4176-3
UNDER THE EAGLE
Samuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker
By Samuel Holiday and Robert S. McPherson
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4389-7
McPherson demonstrates that, above all, settlers worked hard in order to succeed
in this often forbidding land. A first-person account of erecting a Latter-day Saint
tabernacle tells of volunteers using only what was under their feet or came from
a nearby mountain. Other chapters give an insider’s perspective on cowboying in
canyon country, bringing law and order to a virtually lawless land, waging war
against wolves and coyotes, and homesteading on some of the last large desert
tracts in the continental United States.
But the most gripping stories center on the ingenuity of those who lived these
personal experiences. Only a veteran trapper would think of burying an alarm clock
to attract a coyote. Only a determined bootlegger would devise a saddle made of
leather-covered copper equipped with a spigot to dispense moonshine by the cup.
Only committed, or desperate, miners would sail with a one-way “ticket” to a gold
field in a hidden desert chasm.
What were midwives being taught at the turn of the century, and how did their
practice involve equal parts religious doctrine and medical procedure? What was a
qualifying examination like for the first forest rangers? And how did small closeknit communities handle “slackers” during World War I? Life in a Corner answers
these and many other questions while offering fresh perspectives on past events and
current controversies.
Robert S. McPherson is Professor of History at Utah State University–Eastern,
Blanding Campus. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books on Navajo
history and the history of the Southwest, including Under the Eagle: Samuel
Holiday, Navajo Code Talker (with Samuel Holiday) and Viewing the Ancestors:
Perceptions of the Anaasází, Mokwicˇ, and Hisatsinom.
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William Wells and the Struggle
for the Old Northwest
By William Heath
Born to Anglo-American parents on the Appalachian frontier, captured by the
Miami Indians at the age of thirteen, and adopted into the tribe, William Wells
(1770–1812) moved between two cultures all his life but was comfortable in
neither. Vilified by some historians for his divided loyalties, he remains relatively
unknown even though he is worthy of comparison with such famous frontiersmen
as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett. William Heath’s thoroughly researched book is
the first biography of this man-in-the-middle.
A servant of empire with deep sympathies for the people his country sought to
dispossess, Wells married Chief Little Turtle’s daughter and distinguished himself
as a Miami warrior, as an American spy, and as an Indian agent whose multilingual
skills made him a valuable interpreter. Heath examines pioneer life in the Ohio
Valley from both white and Indian perspectives, yielding rich insights into Wells’s
career as well as broader events on the post-revolutionary American frontier, where
Anglo-Americans pushing westward competed with the Indian nations of the Old
Northwest for control of territory.
Wells’s unusual career, Heath emphasizes, earned him a great deal of ill will. Because
he warned the U.S. government against Tecumseh’s confederacy and the Shawnee
Prophet’s “religiously mad” followers, he was hated by those who supported
the Shawnee leaders. Because he came to question treaties he had helped bring
about, and cautioned the Indians about their harmful effects, he was distrusted
by Americans. Wells is a complicated hero, and his conflicted position reflects the
decline of coexistence and cooperation between the two cultures.
William Heath is Professor Emeritus of English at Mount Saint Mary’s College,
Emmitsburg, Maryland. He has published numerous essays and poems and is the
author of the novels The Children Bob Moses Led, Devil Dancer, and Blacksnake’s
Path: The True Adventures of William Wells.
MARCH
$34.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-5119-9
520 PAGES, 6 × 9
8 B&W ILLUS., 5 MAPS
BIOGRAPHY
Of Related Interest
BAYONETS IN THE WILDERNESS
Anthony Wayne’s Legion in the Old Northwest
By Alan D. Gaff
$32.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3930-2
THE BLACK HAWK WAR OF 1832
By Patrick J. Jung
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3994-4
PRESIDENT WASHINGTON’S INDIAN WAR
By Wiley Sword
$39.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2488-9
HEATH WILLIAM WELLS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR THE OLD NORTHWEST
The definitive biography of a conflicted hero
of the early American frontier
SARRIS GRAND AVENUE
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Connected stories that portray a multicultural
urban community in Northern California
Grand Avenue
A Novel in Stories
By Greg Sarris
Afterword by Reginald Dyck
Grand Avenue runs through the center of the Northern California town of Santa
Rosa. One stretch of it is home not only to Pomo Indians making a life outside the
reservation but also to Mexicans, blacks, and some Portuguese, all trying to find
their way among the many obstacles in their turbulent world.
Bound together by a lone ancestor, the lives of the American Indians form the core
of these stories—tales of healing cures, poison, family rituals, and a humor that
allows the inhabitants of Grand Avenue to see their own foibles with a saving grace.
VOLUME 65 IN THE AMERICAN INDIAN
LITERATURE AND CRITICAL STUDIES SERIES
MARCH
$19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-4834-2
240 PAGES, 5.5 × 8.5
FICTION/AMERICAN INDIAN
Of Related Interest
SCALPING COLUMBUS AND OTHER
DAMN INDIAN STORIES
Truths, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies
By Adam Fortunate Eagle
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4428-3
FIRESTICKS
A Collection of Stories
By Diane Glancy
$19.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-2490-2
FROM THE GLITTERING WORLD
A Navajo Story
By Irvin Morris
$24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3242-6
A teenage girl falls in love with a crippled horse marked for slaughter. An aging
healer summons her strength for one final song. A father seeks a bond with his
illegitimate son. A mother searches for the power to care for her cancer-stricken
daughter’s spirit. Here is a tapestry of lives rendered with the color, wisdom, and
quest for meaning that are characteristic of the traditional storytelling in which
they are rooted, a tradition Sarris grew up hearing and learning. Vibrant with the
emotions and realities of a changing world, these narratives—the basis of an HBO
miniseries—are all equally stunning and from the heart.
Greg Sarris is author of the anthology Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic
Approach to American Indian Texts, the novel Watermelon Nights, and scripts for
screen and stage. He is Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and
holds the Endowed Chair in Native American Studies at Sonoma State University.
Reginal Dyck is Professor of English at Capital University. His research and writing
focus on the work of Native American authors, including Greg Sarris.
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Old Three Toes and Other Tales
of Survival and Extinction
By John Joseph Mathews
Edited by Susan Kalter
The nine short stories in this collection by distinguished Osage author John Joseph
Mathews are sure to be recognized as classics of twentieth-century nature writing
and the wildlife conservation movement. The characters in Old Three Toes and
Other Tales of Survival and Extinction are coyotes, mountain lions, deer, owls,
sandhill cranes, prairie chickens—and human beings, who sometimes kill their prey
but are often outsmarted by the largest and smallest animals.
Mathews shows us the world through the animals’ eyes and ears and noses. His
convincing portrayals of their intelligence recall the fiction of Jack London and
Ernest Thompson Seton. Like these literary ancestors, Mathews originally intended
his nature stories for boys, but the stories transcend boundaries of age, gender, and
geography. Mathews writes not just to inspire his readers with nature’s beauty but
also to demonstrate the interrelatedness of humans, animals, and the landscapes
in which they interact. Timely and relevant to discussions of ecology and the
environment, his stories will reach a wide audience today, more than fifty years after
they were written.
These stories show Mathews’s ability to write precise descriptions—of a coyote
catching a field mouse, a crane eating a frog, a mountain lion playing. A hunter
himself, Mathews understood both the animals’ readiness to fight and man’s instinct
to survive. And he let readers share the dignity of the animal characters and their
refusal to acquiesce to their own extinction, particularly in the face of human
ignorance and carelessness.
Susan Kalter’s afterword provides a poignant portrait of Mathews and traces the
inspirations for the short stories in this collection. Thoughtfully annotated, these
stories are the only published examples of Mathews’s hitherto unknown short
fiction and will add to his stature as an important American Indian writer.
John Joseph Mathews (1879–1979), is author of several books, including The
Osages: Children of the Middle Waters and Talking to the Moon: Wildlife
Adventures on the Plains and Prairies of Osage Country. Susan Kalter is editor of
Twenty Thousand Mornings, an autobiography by John Joseph Mathews.
VOLUME 63 IN THE AMERICAN INDIAN
LITERATURE AND CRITICAL STUDIES SERIES
JANUARY
$19.95s PAPER 978-0-8061-5120-5
200 PAGES, 6 × 9
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WAH’KON-TAH
The Osage and the White Man’s Road
By John Joseph Mathews
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-1699-0
SUNDOWN
By John Joseph Mathews
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2160-4
TWENTY THOUSAND MORNINGS
An Autobiography
By John Joseph Mathews
Edited by Susan Kalter
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4253-1
MATHEWS, KALTER OLD THREE TOES AND OTHER TALES OF SURVIVAL AND EXTINCTION
John Joseph Mathews’s writing at its best—in nine
previously unpublished stories about nature
WETZEL GATHERING THE POTAWATOMI NATION
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Advances scholarly and popular dialogues
about Native nationhood
Gathering the Potawatomi Nation
Revitalization and Identity
By Christopher Wetzel
Following the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, the Potawatomis, once concentrated around
southern Lake Michigan, increasingly dispersed into nine bands across four states,
two countries, and a thousand miles. How is it, author Christopher Wetzel asks,
that these scattered people, with different characteristics and traditions cultivated
over two centuries, have reclaimed their common cultural heritage in recent years
as the Potawatomi Nation? And why a “nation”—not a band or a tribe—in an
age when nations seem increasingly impermanent? Gathering the Potawatomi
Nation explores the recent invigoration of Potawatomi nationhood, looks at how
marginalized communities adopt to social change, and reveals the critical role that
culture plays in connecting the two.
Published through the Recovering Languages and
Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
MARCH
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216 PAGES, 6 × 9
16 B&W ILLUS., 4 MAPS, 2 TABLES, 2 GRAPHS
AMERICAN INDIAN
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Wetzel’s perspective on recent developments in the struggle for indigenous
sovereignty goes far beyond current political, legal, and economic explanations.
Focusing on the specific mechanisms through which the Potawatomi Nation has
been reimagined, “national brokers,” he finds, are keys to the process, traveling
between the bands, sharing information, and encouraging tribal members to work
together as a nation. Language revitalization programs are critical because they
promote the exchange of specific cultural knowledge, affirm the value of collective
enterprise, and remind people of their place in a larger national community. At the
annual Gathering of the Potawatomi Nation, participants draw on this common
cultural knowledge to integrate the multiple meanings of being Potawatomi.
Fittingly, the Potawatomis themselves have the last word in this book: members
respond directly to Wetzel’s study, providing readers with a unique opportunity to
witness the conversations that shape the ever-evolving Potawatomi Nation.
Combining social and cultural history with firsthand observations, Gathering the
Potawatomi Nation advances both scholarly and popular dialogues about Native
nationhood.
THE POTAWATOMIS
Keepers of the Fire
By R. David Edmunds
$24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2069-0
A NATION OF STATESMEN
The Political Culture of the StockbridgeMunsee Mohicans, 1815–1972
By James W. Oberly
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3932-6
Christopher Wetzel is Associate Professor of Sociology at Stonehill College in
Easton, Massachusetts. His numerous articles on politics, culture, and social
movements have been published in journals such as American Behavioral Scientist,
Environmental Practice, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Research in Social
Movements, Conflicts, and Change, among others.
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Clyde Warrior
Tradition, Community, and Red Power
By Paul R. McKenzie-Jones
The phrase Red Power, coined by Clyde Warrior (1939–1968) in the 1960s,
introduced militant rhetoric into American Indian activism. In this first-ever
biography of Warrior, historian Paul R. McKenzie-Jones presents the Ponca leader
as the architect of the Red Power movement, spotlighting him as one of the most
significant and influential figures in the fight for Indian rights.
The Red Power movement arose in reaction to centuries of oppressive federal
oversight of American Indian peoples. It comprised an assortment of grassroots
organizations that fought for treaty rights, tribal sovereignty, self-determination,
cultural preservation, and cultural relevancy in education. A cofounder of the
National Indian Youth Council, Warrior was among the movement’s most
prominent spokespeople. Throughout the 1960s, he blazed a trail of cultural and
political reawakening in Indian Country, using a combination of ultranationalistic
rhetoric and direct action protest.
McKenzie-Jones uses interviews with some of Warrior’s closest associates to
delineate the complexity of community, tradition, culture, and tribal identity
that shaped Warrior’s activism. For too many years, McKenzie-Jones maintains,
Warrior’s death at age twenty-nine overshadowed his intellect and achievements.
Red Power has been categorized as an American Indian interpretation of Black
Power that emerged after his death. This groundbreaking book brings to light,
however, previously unchronicled connections between Red Power and Black
Power that show the movements emerging side by side as militant, urgent calls for
social change. Warrior borrowed only the slogan as a metaphor for cultural and
community integrity.
Descended from hereditary chiefs, Warrior was immersed in Ponca history and
language from birth. McKenzie-Jones shows how this intimate experience, and the
perspective gained from participating in powwows, summer workshops, and college
Indian organizations, shaped Warrior’s intertribal approach to Indian affairs. This
long-overdue biography explores how Clyde Warrior’s commitment to culture,
community, and tradition formed the basis for his vision of Red Power.
Paul R. McKenzie-Jones is Visiting Lecturer in American Indian Studies at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES SERIES
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OJIBWA WARRIOR
Dennis Banks and the Rise of the
American Indian Movement
By Dennis Banks
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3691-2
RED POWER RISING
The National Indian Youth Council and
the Origins of Native Activism
By Bradley G. Shreve
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4178-7
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4365-1
LOUD HAWK
The United States Versus the American Indian Movement
By Kenneth S. Stern
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3439-0
MCKENZIE-JONES CLYDE WARRIOR
The long-overdue biography of a foundational
figure in American Indian activism
KELTON CHEROKEE MEDICINE, COLONIAL GERMS
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Looks past convenient narratives to uncover the root
cause of indigenous suffering and depopulation
Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs
An Indigenous Nation’s Fight against Smallpox, 1518–1824
By Paul Kelton
How smallpox, or Variola, caused widespread devastation during the European
colonization of the Americas is a well-known story. But as historian Paul Kelton
informs us, that’s precisely what it is: a convenient story. In Cherokee Medicine,
Colonial Germs Kelton challenges the “virgin soil thesis,” or the widely held belief
that Natives’ lack of immunities and their inept healers were responsible for their
downfall. Eschewing the metaphors and hyperbole routinely associated with the
impact of smallpox, he firmly shifts the focus to the root cause of indigenous
suffering and depopulation—colonialism writ large; not disease.
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“I CHOOSE LIFE”
Contemporary Medical and Religious
Practices in the Navajo World
By Maureen Trudelle Schwarz
$50.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3941-8
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3961-6
CHEROKEE TRAGEDY
The Ridge Family and the Decimation of a People
By Thurman Wilkins
$24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2188-8
CHEROKEE MEDICINE MAN
The Life and Work of a Modern-Day Healer
By Robert J. Conley
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3877-0
Kelton’s account begins with the long, false dawn between 1518 and the midseventeenth century, when sporadic encounters with Europeans did little to bring
Cherokees into the wider circulation of guns, goods, and germs that had begun to
transform Native worlds. By the 1690s English-inspired slave raids had triggered
a massive smallpox epidemic that struck the Cherokees for the first time. Through
the eighteenth century, Cherokees repeatedly responded to real and threatened
epidemics—and they did so effectively by drawing on their own medicine. Yet they
also faced terribly destructive physical violence from the British during the AngloCherokee War (1759–1761) and from American militias during the Revolutionary
War. Having suffered much more from the scourge of war than from smallpox,
the Cherokee population rebounded during the nineteenth century and, without
abandoning Native medical practices and beliefs, Cherokees took part in the
nascent global effort to eradicate Variola by embracing vaccination.
A far more complex and nuanced history of Variola among American Indians
emerges from these pages, one that privileges the lived experiences of the
Cherokees over the story of their supposedly ill-equipped immune systems and
counterproductive responses. Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs shows us how
Europeans and their American descendants have obscured the past with the stories
they left behind, and how these stories have perpetuated a simplistic understanding
of colonialism.
Paul Kelton is a Professor of History at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. He is
the author of Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native
Southeast, 1492–1715.
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Cherokee Reference Grammar
By Brad Montgomery-Anderson
The Cherokees have the oldest and best-known Native American writing system in
the United States. Invented by Sequoyah and made public in 1821, it was rapidly
adopted, leading to nineteenth-century Cherokee literacy rates as high as 90
percent. This writing system, the Cherokee syllabary, is fully explained and used
throughout this volume, the first and only complete published grammar of the
Cherokee language.
Although the Cherokee Reference Grammar focuses on the dialect spoken by the
Cherokees in Oklahoma—the Cherokee Nation and the United Keetoowah Band
of Cherokee Indians—it provides the grammatical foundation upon which all the
dialects are based. In his introduction, author Brad Montgomery-Anderson offers
a brief account of Cherokee history and language revitalization initiatives, as well
as instructions for using this grammar. The book then delves into an explanation of
Cherokee pronunciation, orthography, parts of speech, and syntax.
While the book is intended as a reference grammar for experienced scholars,
Montgomery-Anderson presents the information in accessible stages, moving from
easier examples to more complex linguistic structures. Examples are taken from
a variety of sources, including many from the Cherokee Phoenix. Audio clips of
various text examples throughout can be found on the accompanying CD. The
volume also includes three appendices: a glossary keyed to the text; a typescript for
the CD/audio component; and a collection of literary texts: two traditional stories
and a historical account of a search party traveling up the Arkansas River.
The Cherokee Nation, as the second-largest tribe in the United States and the
largest in Oklahoma, along with the United Keetoowah Band, and the Eastern
band of Cherokees, have a large number of people who speak their native language.
Like other tribes, they have seen a sharp decline in the number of native speakers,
particularly among the young, but they have responded with ambitious programs
for preserving and revitalizing Cherokee culture and language. Cherokee Reference
Grammar will serve as a vital resource in advancing these efforts to understand
Cherokee history, language, and culture on their own terms.
Brad Montgomery-Anderson is Associate Professor in the Department of Cherokee
and Indigenous Studies at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
He received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Kansas.
Published through the Recovering Languages and
Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
JUNE
$45.00s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4342-2
536 PAGES, 6 × 9
3 FIGURES, 29 TABLES, 1 CD
AMERICAN INDIAN/LANGUAGE
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THE CHEROKEE SYLLABARY
Writing the People’s Perseverance
By Ellen Cushman
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4220-3
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4373-6
BEGINNING CHEROKEE
By Ruth Bradley Holmes and Betty Sharp Smith
$32.95 Paper 978-0-8061-1463-7
LITERACY AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE IN
THE CHEROKEE NATION, 1820–1906
By James W. Parins
$34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4399-6
MONTGOMERY-ANDERSON CHEROKEE REFERENCE GRAMMAR
The most comprehensive linguistic grammar
of the Cherokee language
OWENS RED DREAMS, WHITE NIGHTMARES
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How white fears of Indian collaboration drove
national policy in early America
Red Dreams, White Nightmares
Pan-Indian Alliances in the Anglo-American Mind, 1763–1815
By Robert M. Owens
From the end of Pontiac’s War in 1763 through the War of 1812, fear—even
paranoia—drove Anglo-American Indian policies. In Red Dreams, White
Nightmares, Robert M. Owens views conflicts between whites and Natives in this
era—invariably treated as discrete, regional affairs—as the inextricably related
struggles they were.
MARCH
$32.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4646-1
320 PAGES, 6 × 9
8 B&W ILLUS., 1 MAP
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MR. JEFFERSON’S HAMMER
William Henry Harrison and the Origins
of American Indian Policy
By Robert M. Owens
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4198-5
NEVER COME TO PEACE AGAIN
Pontiac’s Uprising and the Fate of the
British Empire in North America
By David Dixon
$34.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3656-1
THE POTAWATOMIS
Keepers of the Fire
By R. David Edmunds
$24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2069-0
As this book makes clear, the Indian wars north of the Ohio River make sense only
within the context of Indians’ efforts to recruit their southern cousins to their cause.
The massive threat such alliances posed, recognized by contemporary whites from
all walks of life, prompted a terror that proved a major factor in the formulation
of Indian and military policy in North America. Indian unity, especially in the form
of military alliance, was the most consistent, universal fear of Anglo-Americans
in the late colonial, Revolutionary, and early national periods. This fear was so
pervasive—and so useful for unifying whites—that Americans exploited it long after
the threat of a general Indian alliance had passed.
As the nineteenth century wore on, and as slavery became more widespread and
crucial to the American South, fears shifted to Indian alliances with former slaves,
and eventually to slave rebellion in general. The growing American nation needed
and utilized a rhetorical threat from the other to justify the uglier aspects of empire
building—a phenomenon that Owens tracks through a vast array of primary sources.
Drawing on eighteen different archives, covering four nations and eleven states,
and on more than six-dozen period newspapers—and incorporating the views of
British and Spanish authorities as well as their American rivals—Red Dreams, White
Nightmares is the most comprehensive account ever written of how fear, oftentimes
resulting in “Indian-hating,” directly influenced national policy in early America.
Robert M. Owens is Associate Professor of History at Wichita State University and
author of Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of
American Indian Policy.
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Teaching Indigenous Students
Honoring Place, Community, and Culture
Edited by Jon Reyhner
Indigenous students learn and retain more when teachers value the language and
culture of the students’ community and incorporate them into the curriculum. This
is a principle enshrined in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
(2007) and borne out both by the successes of Indigenous-language immersion
schools and by the failures of past assimilationist practices and the recent Englishonly policies of the No Child Left Behind Act in the United States.
Teaching Indigenous Students puts culturally based education squarely into
practice. The volume, edited and with an introduction by leading American Indian
education scholar Jon Reyhner, brings together new and dynamic research from
established and emerging voices in the field of American Indian and Indigenous
education. All of the contributions show how the quality of education for
Indigenous students can be improved through the promotion of culturally and
linguistically appropriate schooling.
Grounded in place, community, and culture, the approaches set out in this volume
reflect the firsthand experiences of teachers and students in interacting not just with
texts and one another, but also with the local community and environment. The
authors address the specifics of teaching the full range of subjects—from learning
literacy using culturally meaningful texts to inquiry-based science curricula, and
from math instruction that incorporates real-world experience to social studies that
blend oral history and local culture with national and world history.
Teaching Indigenous Students also emphasizes the importance of art, music, and
physical education, both traditional and modern, in producing well-rounded
human beings and helping students establish their identity as twenty-first-century
Indigenous peoples. Surveying the work of Indigenous-language immersion
schools around the world, this volume also holds out hope for the revitalization of
Indigenous languages and traditional cultural values.
Jon Reyhner is Professor of Bilingual and Multicultural Education in the
Department of Education Specialties at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff. He
has worked with the Apaches, Navajos, Blackfeet, and other Native groups. He
is the coauthor of American Indian Education: A History and editor of Effective
Language Education Practices and Native Language Survival.
APRIL
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AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATION
A History
By Jon Reyhner and Jeanne Eder
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3783-4
TEACHING AMERICAN INDIAN STUDENTS
Edited by Jon Reyhner
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2674-6
LEARNING TO WRITE “INDIAN”
The Boarding School Experience and
American Indian Literature
By Amelia V. Katanski
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3852-7
REYHNER TEACHING INDIGENOUS STUDENTS
New research on education grounded in
Native languages and cultures
BASSIE-SWEET, LAUGHLIN, HOPKINS, BRIZUELA CASIMIR THE CH’OL MAYA OF CHIAPAS
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Explores continuities between ancient and
contemporary Maya rituals and beliefs
The Ch’ol Maya of Chiapas
Edited by Karen Bassie-Sweet
With Robert M. Laughlin, Nicholas A. Hopkins,
and Andrés Brizuela Casimir
The Ch’ol Maya who live in the western Mexican state of Chiapas are direct
descendants of the Maya of the Classic Period. Exploring their history and culture,
volume editor Karen Bassie-Sweet and the other authors assembled here uncover
continuity between contemporary Maya rituals and beliefs and their ancient
counterparts.
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MAYA SACRED GEOGRAPHY AND
THE CREATOR DEITIES
By Karen Bassie-Sweet
$50.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3957-9
MAYA LORDS AND LORDSHIP
The Formation of Colonial Society in Yucatán, 1350–1600
By Sergio Quezada
Translated by Terry Rugeley
$34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4422-1
POLITICS OF THE MAYA COURT
Hierarchy and Change in the Late Classic Period
By Sarah E. Jackson
$29.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4341-5
With evocative and thoughtful essays by leading scholars of Maya culture, The
Ch’ol Maya of Chiapas, the first collection to focus fully on the Ch’ol Maya, takes
readers deep into ancient caves and reveals new dimensions of Ch’ol cosmology.
In contemporary Ch’ol culture the contributors find a wealth of historical
material that they then interweave with archaeological data to yield surprising
and illuminating insights. The colonial and twentieth-century descendants of the
Post-Classic Period Ch’ol and Lacandon Ch’ol, for instance, provide a window on
the history and conquest of the early Maya. Several authors examine Early Classic
paintings in the Ch’ol ritual cave known as Jolja that document ancient cave
ceremonies not unlike Ch’ol rituals performed today, such as petitioning a cavedwelling mountain spirit for health, rain, and abundant harvests.
Other essays investigate deities identified with caves, mountains, lightning, and
meteors to trace the continuity of ancient Maya beliefs through the centuries,
in particular the ancient origin of contemporary rituals centering on the Ch’ol
mountain deity Don Juan. An appendix containing three Ch’ol folktales and their
English translations rounds out the volume.
Charting paths literal and figurative to earlier trade routes, pre-Columbian sites,
and ancient rituals and beliefs, The Ch’ol Maya of Chiapas opens a fresh, richly
informed perspective on Maya culture as it has evolved and endured over the ages.
Karen Bassie-Sweet is Research Associate at the University of Calgary and codirects
the Jolja Cave Project in Mexico. She is author of Maya Sacred Geography and
the Creator Deities. Robert M. Laughlin is author of Mayan Tales from Chiapas,
Mexico. Nicholas A. Hopkins is coeditor of Essays on Otomanguean Culture
History. Andrés Brizuela Casimir is an archaeologist and Head of the Department
of Historical Monuments of the State of Chiapas.
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The Lienzo of Tlapiltepec
A Painted History from the Northern Mixteca
Edited by Arni Brownstone
With contributions by Nicholas Johnson and Bas van Doesburg
Foreword by Elizabeth Hill Boone
For centuries, indigenous rulers of Mesoamerica commissioned elaborate pictorial
histories to maintain their claims to power, land, and privilege—a practice they
continued under Spanish authority after the conquest. The Lienzo of Tlapiltepec
is one such history. An intricate pictographic document on cotton cloth measuring
156 by 66.5 inches, the lienzo was produced by an Indian painter-scribe of great
skill during the sixteenth century in the northern Mixteca, in the Mexican state of
Oaxaca. It depicts events dating from the eleventh century to the early years of the
Spanish colony. Housed since 1919 in the Royal Ontario Museum of Canada, the
lienzo is a work of such complexity and reach that few scholars possess the tools to
understand its message and context. The contributors to this volume are among that
select few.
In four chapters, front matter, and two appendices accompanied by detailed, fullcolor illustrations, scholars Arni Brownstone, Nicholas Johnson, Bas van Doesburg,
Eckehard Dolinski, Michael Swanton, and Elizabeth Hill Boone describe what a
lienzo is and how it was made. They also explain the particular origin, format, and
content of the Lienzo of Tlapiltepec—as well as its place within the larger world
of Mexican painted history. The contributors furthermore explore the artistry
and visual experience of the work. A final essay documents past illustrations of
the lienzo, including the one rendered for this book, which employed innovative
processes to recover long faded colors.
Unique in its detail, scope, and depth, this is the first volume to offer a full
description and analysis of the Lienzo of Tlapiltepec and to grant widespread access
to this extraordinary repository of history.
Arni Brownstone is Assistant Curator at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto,
Ontario, and author of War Paint: Blackfoot and Sarcee Painted Robes in the Royal
Ontario Museum. Nicholas Johnson is Research Associate at the Royal Ontario
Museum and former associate editor of artscanada, a national magazine of the
visual arts in Toronto. Bas van Doesburg is author of several books and articles on
pictographic texts from the Oaxaca area, including Codices Cuicatecos: Porfirio Diaz
y Fernandez Leal. Elizabeth Hill Boone is author of numerous Mesoamerican studies,
including Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs.
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98 COLOR ILLUS., 4 MAPS, 3 TABLES
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TLACUILOLLI
Style and Contents of the Mexican Pictorial
Manuscripts with a Catalog of the Borgia Group
By Karl Anton Nowotny
$75.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3653-0
MESOAMERICAN MEMORY
Enduring Systems of Remembrance
By Amos Megged and Stephanie Wood
$55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4235-7
CODEX CHIMALPAHIN
Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan,
Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and Other
Nahua Altepetl in Central Mexico
By don Domingo de San Anton Munon Chimalpahin
Quauhtlehuanitzin
Translated and edited by Arthur J. O. Anderson
and Susan Schroeder
$49.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-2921-1
BROWNSTONE, JOHNSON, VAN DOESBURG THE LIENZO OF TLAPILTEPEC
The first book to explore fully the Lienzo of Tlapiltepec
FAUST, RICHTER THE HUASTECA
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Brings critical attention to a key, but
understudied, Mesoamerican region
The Huasteca
Culture, History, and Interregional Exchange
Edited by Katherine A. Faust and Kim N. Richter
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256 PAGES, 8 × 10
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LATIN AMERICA
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FEEDING CHILAPA
The Birth, Life, and Death of a Mexican Region
By Chris Kyle
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3920-3
$26.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3921-0
INDIAN CONQUISTADORS
Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica
Edited by Laura E. Matthew and Michel R. Oudijk
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-3854-1
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4325-5
MESOAMERICAN MEMORY
Enduring Systems of Remembrance
By Amos Megged and Stephanie Wood
$55.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4235-7
The Huasteca, a region on the northern Gulf Coast of Mexico, was for centuries
a pre-Columbian crossroads for peoples, cultures, arts, and trade. Its multiethnic
inhabitants influenced, and were influenced by, surrounding regions, ferrying unique
artistic styles, languages, and other cultural elements to neighboring areas and
beyond. In The Huasteca: Culture, History, and Interregional Exchange, a range
of authorities on art, history, archaeology, and cultural anthropology bring longoverdue attention to the region’s rich contributions to the pre-Columbian world.
They also assess, to a lesser degree, how the Huasteca fared from colonial times
to the present. The authors call critical, even urgent attention to a region highly
significant to Mesoamerican history but long neglected by scholars.
Editors Katherine A. Faust and Kim N. Richter put the plight and the importance
of the Huasteca into historical and cultural context. They address challenges to
study of the region, ranging from confusion about the term “Huasteca” (a legacy
of the Aztec conquest in the late fifteenth century) to present-day misconceptions
about the region’s role in pre-Columbian history. Many of the contributions
included here consider the Huasteca’s interactions with other regions, particularly
the American Southeast and the southern Gulf Coast of Mexico. Pre-Columbian
Huastec inhabitants, for example, wore trapezoid-shaped shell ornaments unique in
Mesoamerica but similar to those found along the Mississippi River.
With extensive examples drawn from archaeological evidence, and supported by
nearly 200 images, the contributors explore the Huasteca as a junction where art,
material culture, customs, ritual practices, and languages were exchanged. While
most of the essays focus on pre-Columbian periods, a few address the early colonial
period and contemporary agricultural and religious practices. Together, these essays
illuminate the Huasteca’s significant legacy and the cross-cultural connections that
still resonate in the region today.
Katherine A. Faust is coeditor of Mesoamerican Figurines: Small-Scale Indices of
Large-Scale Social Phenomena. Kim N. Richter is a Senior Research Specialist to the
Director at the Getty Research Institute.
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Yellowstone Denied
Colorado’s Ten Mile
District, 1860–1960
By H. Stanley Dempsey
and James E. Fell, Jr.
The Life of Gustavus
Cheyney Doane
By Kim Allen Scott
How lasting fame eluded one of
Yellowstone’s earliest explorers
How miners and corporations
extracted minerals in
one of the Rockies’ most
challenging environments
Although Ten Mile’s history and situation were unique, the
district reflected developments throughout Colorado and
the mining West. Each new discovery triggered a large-scale
mobilization of capital and labor, the use of more advanced
technology, and the ongoing development of the infrastructure
needed to support mining—themes that characterized American
mining during the century covered in this fascinating book.
Stanley Dempsey negotiated the 1960s acquisition of much
of the Ten Mile Mining District and owns Dempsey and
Company in the Denver area. James E. Fell, Jr., professor at the
University of Colorado Denver, is the author of Ores to Metals
and coauthor of 100 Years Up High: Colorado Mountains &
Mountaineers.
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who strove for recognition throughout his life. Scott’s critical
biography examines Doane’s accomplishments and failures,
and traces the frustrated efforts of his widow to see her
husband properly enshrined in history. A psychological portrait
of a complex and intriguing individual, Yellowstone Denied
is also a revealing look at military culture, scientific discovery,
and western expansion.
Kim Allen Scott is Professor and University Archivist at
Montana State University, Bozeman. His numerous articles on
Yellowstone National Park, Montana history, and the Civil War
have appeared in Montana The Magazine of Western History,
the Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Kansas History, and the
Missouri Historical Review.
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SCOTT YELLOWSTONE DENIED
Twenty years later came a silver stampede, followed by more
dramatic events: the shooting of a bonanza king, a devastating
fire, a railroad war, and the invention of a world-famous piece
of mining machinery. During World War I came the rush to
mine molybdenum, the metal that made Ten Mile one of the
world’s most important mining districts.
A frontier soldier and explorer extraordinaire, Gustavus
Cheyney Doane was no stranger to historical events. Between
1863 and 1892, he fought in the Civil War, participated in
every major Indian battle in Montana Territory, and led the
first scientific reconnaissance into the Yellowstone country—his
report on that expedition contributed to the establishment of
Yellowstone National Park. During his thirty years in uniform,
Doane was always close to being at the right place at the right
time to secure lasting fame, yet that fame always eluded him.
DEMPSEY, FELL MINING THE SUMMIT
Colorado’s Ten Mile Mining District was north of Leadville
and south of Copper Mountain. Adventurers came to Ten
Mile in 1860, searching for gold—instant wealth. But digging
through snowdrifts in summer was too much work, the gold
petered out, and the boom collapsed.
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South Pass
Gateway to a Continent
By Will Bagley
Army Surgeon, Agent
to the Sioux
By Candy Moulton
A history of the famous cleft
in the Rockies and an elegant
plea for its preservation
MOULTON VALENTINE T. MCGILLYCUDDY
BAGLEY SOUTH PASS
A doctor and Indian
agent’s fascinating life on
the northern plains
In September 1877, hundreds of Sioux and soldiers at Camp
Robinson crowded around a fatally injured Lakota leader.
A young doctor forced his way through the crowd, only to
see the victim fading before him. It was the famed Crazy
Horse. From intense moments like this to encounters with
legendary figures Calamity Jane and Red Cloud, Valentine T.
McGillycuddy (1849–1939) witnessed key events in American
history that changed the lives of Native people forever. In
this biography, Candy Moulton explores McGillycuddy’s
fascinating experiences on the northern plains as topographer,
cartographer, physician, and Indian agent.
Moulton presents a colorful character—a cultured physician
who could outdrink trail-hardened soldiers. Her vivid prose
traces McGillycuddy’s work mapping out the U.S.-Canadian
border; treating wounded from the battles of the Rosebud,
Little Bighorn, and Slim Buttes; tending Crazy Horse during
his final hours; and serving as Sioux agent at Pine Ridge,
where he clashed with Chief Red Cloud over the government’s
assimilation policies. Moulton also weaves in the story of
McGillycuddy’s devoted first wife, Fanny, who followed her
husband west and wrote of the realities of camp life.
This long-overdue biography offers an engaging adventure
story and insight into a period of tumultuous change.
Wallace Stegner called South Pass “one of the most deceptive
and impressive places in the West.” Nowhere can travelers cross
the Rockies so easily as through this high, treeless valley in
Wyoming immediately south of the Wind River Mountains. In
this narrative, award-winning author Will Bagley explains the
significance of South Pass to U.S. history and the development of
the American West.
Fur traders first saw South Pass in 1812. From the early 1840s
until the completion of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific
Railroads almost forty years later, emigrants on the Oregon,
California, and Mormon Trails used South Pass, transforming
the American West in a single generation. Bagley traces the
history of its earliest inhabitants and adventurers—Indian
peoples, trappers and fur traders, missionaries, and governmentcommissioned explorers. Later, California gold rushers, Latterday Saints, and settlers traversed this singular gap in the Rockies.
South Pass offers a rich history. The Overland Stage, Pony
Express, and first transcontinental telegraph all came through
the region, and nearly a century later, President Dwight D.
Eisenhower designated South Pass as one of America’s first
National Historic Landmarks.
Candy Moulton is the award-winning author of eleven books
on western history, including Chief Joseph: Guardian of the
People and Everyday Life among the American Indians, 1800
to 1900. She lives in Wyoming.
Will Bagley is the author of more than a dozen books on the
American West, including So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing
the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848 and With
Golden Visions Bright Before Them: Trails to the Mining West,
1849–1852, the first two volumes in his series Overland West:
The Story of the Oregon and California Trails.
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The Darkest Period
Pre-removal
Choctaw History
The Kanza Indians and Their
Last Homeland, 1846–1873
By Ronald D. Parks
The story of the Kanza
Indians before removal
to the Indian Territory
During what chief Allegawaho called this “darkest period” in
1871, the Kanzas’ reservation population diminished by more
than 60 percent. As one survivor put it, “They died of a broken
heart, they died of a broken spirit.” Yet, the Kanzas persisted in
their struggle to exercise political autonomy and maintained their
traditional customs to the time of removal in 1873, and beyond.
Ronald D. Parks is former assistant director of the Historic
Sites division of the Kansas State Historical Society and former
administrator of the Kaw (Kanza) Mission State Historic Site.
He has published numerous articles about the Kanzas.
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VOLUME 273 IN THE CIVILIZATION OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN SERIES
Since the 1990s, new research and thinking have dramatically
reshaped our understanding of Choctaw history before
removal. In this unique volume, Greg O’Brien brings together
ten groundbreaking essays that reveal where Choctaw history
has been and where it is going.
Distinguished scholars James Taylor Carson, Patricia Galloway,
and Clara Sue Kidwell join editor Greg O’Brien to present
today’s most important research, while Choctaw writer
and filmmaker LeAnne Howe offers a vital counterpoint to
conventional scholarly views. In a chronological survey of
topics spanning the precontact era to the 1830s, essayists
take stock of the great achievements in recent Choctaw
ethnohistory.
Pre-removal Choctaw History is an indispensable resource for
scholars and students of American Indian history, ethnohistory,
and anthropology.
Greg O’Brien is Associate Professor of History and Director
of Graduate Studies at the University of North Carolina,
Greensboro. He is the author of Choctaws in a Revolutionary
Age, 1750–1830.
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O’BRIEN PRE-REMOVAL CHOCTAW HISTORY
During their last years in Kansas, the Kanzas confronted
powerful Euro-American forces: government officials,
Protestant educators, predatory economic interests, and a host
of continent-wide events that affected them profoundly. As
settlers invaded Kanza homelands and the prairie was plowed,
game disappeared. The Kanzas’ holy sites were desecrated and
the people were essentially confined to the reservation.
Essential essays on
Choctaw history
PARKS THE DARKEST PERIOD
Before relocation to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma,
the Kanza Indians spent twenty-seven years on a reservation
near Council Grove, Kansas, on the Santa Fe Trail. The Darkest
Period tells of those years of decline following the loss of the
tribe’s homeland in Kansas. Ronald D. Parks uses accounts by
agents, missionaries, journalists, and ethnographers to address
the big picture—the effects of Manifest Destiny—and the local,
the Santa Fe Trail’s devastating impact on the tribe.
Exploring New Paths
Edited by Greg O’Brien
MCNENLY NATIVE PERFORMERS IN WILD WEST SHOWS
HEAT-MOON, WALLACE AN OSAGE JOURNEY TO EUROPE, 1827–1830
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An Osage Journey to
Europe, 1827–1830
From Buffalo Bill to Euro Disney
By Linda Scarangella McNenly
Three French Accounts
Edited and translated by
William Least Heat-Moon
and James K. Wallace
A thought-provoking
examination of Wild
West shows—from the
Native perspective
Some may dismiss Buffalo Bill Cody’s world-famous Wild West
shows as promoters of stereotypes and clichés, but looking at
this unique American genre from the Native American point of
view provides thought-provoking new perspectives. Focusing
on the experiences of Native performers, Linda Scarangella
McNenly begins with Buffalo Bill’s 1880s pageants, and
then traces continuing performances of these acts in regional
celebrations in Canada and the United States—and even at
Euro Disney.
Drawing on interviews with contemporary Native American
performers and descendants of twentieth-century performers,
McNenly finds new interpretations of their performances and
fresh insights on archival materials, especially photographs.
Some Native performers saw Wild West shows not as
demeaning, but as opportunities for travel, employment, and
recognition—and as a means to preserve and express cultural
traditions. Other Native families guided their own careers and
created their own Wild West shows.
Today, Native performers at Buffalo Bill Days in Sheridan,
Wyoming, wear their own regalia and choreograph their own
performances. Through dancing and music, they express their
vision of a contemporary Native identity based on powwow
cultures.
Linda Scarangella McNenly, an independent scholar and
instructor, received her Ph.D. in anthropology from McMaster
University and lectures in anthropology at the University of
Toronto.
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A rare glimpse at nineteenthcentury European perspectives
on American Indians
In 1827 six Osages—four men and two women—traveled to
Europe escorted by three Americans. Their visit was big news
in France, where three short publications about the travelers
appeared almost immediately. Virtually lost since the 1830s, all
three accounts are translated and annotated here for the first
time in English. Among the earliest writings on Osage history
and culture, these accounts provide unique insights into Osage
life and European perceptions of American Indians.
William Least Heat-Moon’s introduction poignantly tells of
people leaving one alien nation, the United States, to visit an
even more alien culture an ocean away. In France the Osages
found themselves lionized as “noble savages.” They went to the
theater, rode in a hot-air balloon, and even had an audience with
the king. Many Europeans ogled them as if they were exhibits
in a freak show. As the entourage moved through Belgium,
Holland, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, interest in the Osages
declined. Soon they were reduced to begging in the suburbs of
Paris, without the means to return home.
An Osage Journey to Europe, 1827–1839 offers scholars and
general readers both a compelling story and a singular glimpse
into nineteenth-century cultural exchange.
William Least Heat-Moon is the author of Blue Highways:
A Journey into America and, most recently, Writing Blue
Highways: The Story of How a Book Happened. James K.
Wallace is Professor Emeritus of French at the University of
Missouri.
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All Canada in the
Hands of the British
Bracketing the Enemy
A Generous and Merciful Enemy
Forward Observers in World War II
By John R. Walker
Life for German Prisoners of War
during the American Revolution
By Daniel Krebs
ALL CANADA IN THE HANDS OF THE BRITISH
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General Jeffery Amherst and the 1760
Campaign to Conquer New France
By Douglas R. Cubbison
Amherst took command of British forces
in North America in 1759 and secured
victories at Fort Duquesne, Louisbourg,
Quebec, Fort Ticonderoga, and Niagara.
Amherst confronted French resurgence at
Quebec and mounted sieges at Isle aux
Noix and Fort Lévis. Ahead of his time
in strategy and tactics, Amherst and his
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John R. Walker, a Vietnam veteran of the
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Kent State University, Ohio.
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We think of Hessians as mercenaries, but
many were conscripts. Some wanted to
stay in the New World after the war. Krebs
describes how Germans were made prisoners
of war and relates their experiences in
captivity from New England to Havana,
Cuba. He assesses American efforts to use
the prisoners as economic, military, and
propagandistic assets, and also describes a
1785 treaty between the United States and
Prussia, regulating the treatment of prisoners
of war.
Daniel Krebs is Assistant Professor of
History at the University of Louisville,
Kentucky.
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A GENEROUS AND MERCIFUL ENEMY
Douglas R. Cubbison, a former U.S. Army
Field Artillery Officer and Command
Historian, is also author of The American
Northern Theater Army in 1776:
The Ruin and Reconstruction of the
Continental Force.
During World War II, forward observers
accompanied infantrymen at the front.
For the first time, gun crews could bring
deadly accurate fire on enemy positions.
Examining the 37th Division in the Pacific
and the 87th in Europe, John R. Walker
reveals the dangers involved in forward
observer duty and shows how vital these
unsung heroes were to ground operations,
sometimes even leading soldiers into
battle.
Some 37,000 German soldiers, Hessians,
served in the British Army during the
American War of Independence. Using
German military records and soldiers’ letters
and diaries, Daniel Krebs portrays the
Hessians as individuals, not just numbers in
casualty lists.
BRACKETING THE ENEMY
In 1760, General Jeffery Amherst led the
British campaign that captured Montreal
and began the end of French colonial rule
in North America. This book examines
Amherst’s successful military strategy and
soldiers’ experiences on both sides.
After World War II, General George
Patton declared that artillery had won the
war. Yet, crucial to the success of these big
guns were forward observers, artillerymen
on the front lines who directed fire.
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Index
A
F
All Canada in the Hands of the British,
Cubbison, 43
American Mythmaker, Dworkin, 25
Anderson/Anderson, The Army Surveys of
Gold Rush California, 16
Army Surveys of Gold Rush California, The,
Anderson/Anderson, 16
Faust/Richter, The Huasteca, 38
Ferguson, The Last Cavalryman, 4
B
Bagley, South Pass, 40
Bassie-Sweet, et al., The Ch’ol Maya of
Chiapas, 36
Battle of Lake Champlain, The, Schroeder, 19
Beebe/Senkewicz, Junípero Serra, 23
Before Custer, Lubetkin, 17
Blodgett, Motoring West, 12–13
Bracketing the Enemy, Walker, 43
Brownstone, et al., The Lienzo of Tlapiltepec, 37
C
California’s Channel Islands, Chiles, 6
Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs, Kelton, 32
Cherokee Reference Grammar, MontgomeryAnderson, 33
Chiles, California’s Channel Islands, 6
Ch’ol Maya of Chiapas, The, Bassie-Sweet,
et al., 36
Clyde Warrior, McKenzie-Jones, 31
Cold War in a Cold Land, Mills, 20
Colorado, Noel/Zuber-Mallison, 2–3
Conley, Wil Usdi, 8
Cubbison, All Canada in the Hands of the
British, 43
D
Darkest Period, The, Parks, 41
Dempsey/Fell, Mining the Summit, 39
Do Facts Matter? Hochschild/Einstein, 14
Dworkin, American Mythmaker, 25
G
Gathering the Potawatomi Nation, Wetzel, 30
Generous and Merciful Enemy, A, Krebs, 43
Grand Avenue, Sarris, 28
Gray Fox, The, Magid, 18
Great Call-Up, The, Harris/Sadler, 21
H
Harris/Sadler, The Great Call-Up, 21
Heat-Moon/Wallace, An Osage Journey to
Europe, 1827–1830, 42
Heath, William Wells and the Struggle for the
Old Northwest, 27
Herrera, Juan Bautista de Anza, 22
Hertzke, Religious Freedom in America, 15
Hochschild/Einstein, Do Facts Matter? 14
Horses That Buck, Kahn, 10
Huasteca, The, Faust/Richter, 38
Lienzo of Tlapiltepec, The, Brownstone
et al., 37
Life in a Corner, McPherson, 26
Lubetkin, Before Custer, 17
M
Magid, The Gray Fox, 18
Mathews, Old Three Toes and Other Tales of
Survival and Extinction, 29
McKenzie-Jones, Clyde Warrior, 31
McNenly, Native Performers in Wild West
Shows, 42
McPherson, Life in a Corner, 26
Mills, Cold War in a Cold Land, 20
Mining the Summit, Dempsey/Fell, 39
Montgomery-Anderson, Cherokee Reference
Grammar, 33
Moroni and the Swastika, Nelson, 1
Moulton, Valentine T. McGillycuddy, 40
N
Invasion of Laos, 1971, Sander, 10
Native Performers in Wild West Shows,
McNenly, 42
Nelson, Moroni and the Swastika, 1
Noel/Zuber-Mallison, Colorado, 2–3
J
O
I
Jackson/White, Joe, the Slave Who Became an
Alamo Legend, 5
Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend,
Jackson/White, 5
Juan Bautista de Anza, Herrera, 22
Junípero Serra, Beebe/Senkewicz, 23
K
Kahn, Horses That Buck, 10
Kelton, Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs, 32
Krebs, A Generous and Merciful Enemy, 43
L
Last Cavalryman, The, Ferguson, 4
Lewis and Clark among the Nez Perce,
Pinkham/Evans, 10
Lidchi, Surviving Desires, 9
R
Red Dreams, White Nightmares, Owens, 34
Religious Freedom in America, Hertzke/
Harper, 15
Reyhner, Teaching Indigenous Students, 35
S
Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska
Territory, Spude, 7
Sander, Invasion of Laos, 1971, 10
Sarris, Grand Avenue, 28
Scharnhorst, Owen Wister and the West, 24
Schroeder, The Battle of Lake Champlain, 19
Scott, K., A Strange Mixture, 11
Scott, S., Yellowstone Denied, 39
South Pass, Bagley, 40
Spude, Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in
Alaska Territory, 7
Strange Mixture, A, Scott, 11
Surviving Desires, Lidchi, 9
T
Teaching Indigenous Students, Reyhner, 35
V
Valentine T. McGillycuddy, Moulton, 40
O’Brien, Pre-removal Choctaw History, 41
Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and
Extinction, Mathews, 29
Osage Journey to Europe, 1827–1830, An,
Heat-Moon/Wallace, 42
Owen Wister and the West, Scharnhorst, 24
Owens, Red Dreams, White Nightmares, 34
W
P
Yellowstone Denied, Scott, 39
Walker, Bracketing the Enemy, 43
Wetzel, Gathering the Potawatomi Nation, 30
Wil Usdi, Conley, 8
William Wells and the Struggle for the Old
Northwest, Heath, 27
Y
Parks, The Darkest Period, 41
Pinkham/Evans, Lewis and Clark among the
Nez Perce, 10
Pre-removal Choctaw History, O’Brien, 41
(Above) Island chain of Channel Island National Park at the
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