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Contents
American Indian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Military History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Chickasaw Press. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Best Sellers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
on the cover: Rodeo Cowgirls Bessie and Ruby Dickey, Tucumcari, New Mexico,
Rodeo, circa 1918. Courtesy National cowboy and western heritage museum,
McCarroll Family Trust Collection, RC2006.076.045
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American Indian
A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest
Third Edition
By Robert H. Ruby, John A. Brown, and Cary C. Collins
$26.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4024-7 · 448 pages
The Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest inhabit a vast region extending
from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean and from California to
British Columbia. For more than two decades, this book has served as a
standard reference on these diverse peoples. Now, in the wake of renewed
tribal self-determination, this revised edition reflects the many recent political,
economic, and cultural developments shaping these Native communities.
A Place of Refuge
Maynard Dixon’s Arizona
By Thomas Brent Smith
With an additional essay by Donald J. Hagerty
$49.95s Cloth · 978-0-911611-36-6 · 160 pages
Western painter Maynard Dixon once pronounced “Arizona” “the magic
name of a land bright and mysterious, of sun and sand, of tragedy and stark
endeavor.” The California-born Dixon first traveled to Arizona in 1900 to absorb
what he believed was a vanishing West. Dixon found Arizona a visually inspiring
and spiritual place that shaped the course of his paintings and ultimately
defined him. A Place of Refuge: Maynard Dixon’s Arizona is the first book to focus
solely on the renowned painter’s depictions of Arizona subjects.
Forging a Nation
The American History Collection at Gilcrease Museum
Contributions by Kimberly Roblin, Amanda Lett,
Eric Singleton, and Randy Ramer
$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-9725657-9-0 · 250 pages
$24.95s Paper · 978-0-9725657-8-3 · 250 pages
Forging a Nation: The American History Collection at Gilcrease Museum explores the
history of the United States as told through art, artifacts, and archival materials
that illuminate some three hundred years of a shared cultural experience. Drawn
entirely from the diverse and noted collections of the Gilcrease Museum, this
volume examines the foundations of the American republic from colonial times
through the Early National period.
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CHARLES M. RUSSELL
A Catalogue Raisonné
Edited by B. Byron Price
$125.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3836-7 · 352 pages
Charles M. Russell is our most beloved artist of the American West. His
paintings, sketches, sculpture, illustrated letters, and stories are an unequalled
legacy. Lavishly illustrated with more than 200 color and black-and-white
reproductions of Russell’s greatest works, this beautiful volume features essays
by Russell experts and scholars who address important aspects of the artist’s
life and career. Inside the book is a unique key code that allows purchasers
to access a private online catalogue (www.russellraisonne.com) of more than
4,000 works Russell created and signed during his lifetime.
IN CONTEMPORARY RHYTHM
The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein
By Peter H. Hassrick and Elizabeth J. Cunningham
$65.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3937-1 · 416 pages
$34.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3948-7 · 416 pages
One of the founders of the Taos Society of Artists, Ernest L. Blumenschein
was perhaps the most complex and accomplished of all the painters
associated with that pioneering organization. This volume is the definitive
work on Blumenschein’s life and art, reproducing masterworks from a new
exhibit along with additional works and historical photographs to form the
most comprehensive assemblage of his paintings ever published.
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SCULPTOR IN BUCKSKIN
The Autobiography of Alexander Phimister Proctor
Second Edition
Edited by Katharine C. Ebner
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4007-0 · 244 pages
This new edition of Proctor’s autobiography provides a thorough introduction
to a distinctively American artist whose monumental sculptures and statues
adorn parks, public buildings, and museums, as well as private homes and
businesses across the country. The text takes the reader on a far-flung journey
from his birth in Ontario and childhood in Denver to his travels as a young
man throughout the United States and eventually to Paris.
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Bandido
The Life and Times of Tiburcio Vasquez
By John Boessenecker
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4127-5 · 512 pages
Tiburcio Vasquez is, next to Joaquin Murrieta, America’s most infamous
Hispanic bandit. After he was hanged as a murderer in 1875, the Chicago
Tribune called him “the most noted desperado of modern times.” Bandido pulls
back the curtain on a life story shrouded in myth—a myth created by Vasquez
himself and abetted by writers who saw a tale ripe for embellishment.
Open Range
The Life of Agnes Morley Cleaveland
By Darlis A. Miller
$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4117-6 · 192 pages
Agnes Morley Cleaveland found lasting fame after publishing her memoir,
No Life for a Lady, in 1941. Her account of growing up on a cattle ranch in
west-central New Mexico captivated readers from coast to coast. In her book,
Cleaveland memorably portrayed herself and other ranch women as capable
workers and independent thinkers. In Open Range, Miller shows how a young
girl who was a fearless risk-taker grew up to be a prolific author and well-
known social activist.
A Pair of Shootists
The Wild West Story of S. F. Cody and Maud Lee
By Jerry Kuntz
$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4149-7 · 224 pages
In 1888, Samuel F. Cody, a twenty-one-year-old horse wrangler, met Maud
Lee, a sixteen-year-old aspiring circus performer, while touring with the Wild
West show cast of Adam Forepaugh’s Circus. A quick rapport developed
between the girl from Norristown, Pennsylvania, and the cowboy who dazzled
audiences with his good looks and fancy pistol shooting. A Pair of Shootists
is the exuberant and sometimes heartbreaking story of the elusive S. F. Cody
and his first wife, Maud Lee. Recounting their many dramatic exploits, this
biography also overturns the frequently romanticized view of Wild West shows.
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Pío Pico
The Last Governor of Mexican California
By Carlos Manuel Salomon
$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4090-2 · 256 pages
Two-time governor of Alta California and prominent businessman after
the U.S. annexation, Pío de Jesus Pico was a politically savvy Californio
who thrived in both the Mexican and the American periods. This is the first
biography of Pico, whose life vibrantly illustrates the opportunities and risks
faced by Mexican Americans in those transitional years.
Chief Loco
Apache Peacemaker
By Bud Shapard
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4047-6 · 376 pages
Loco was the only Apache leader to make a lasting peace with both
Americans and Mexicans. Yet most historians have ignored his efforts, and
some Chiricahua descendants have branded him as fainthearted despite his
well-known valor in combat. In this engaging biography, Bud Shapard tells
the story of this important but overlooked chief against the backdrop of the
harrowing Apache wars and eventual removal of the tribe from its homeland
to prison camps in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma.
Pipestone
My Life in an Indian Boarding School
By Adam Fortunate Eagle
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4114-5 · 248 pages
Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969,
Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable memoir of his years as a
young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. In this rare
firsthand account, Fortunate Eagle lives up to his reputation as a “contrary
warrior” by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak
and prisonlike.
N. Scott Momaday
Remembering Ancestors, Earth, and Traditions
An Annotated Bio-bibliography
By Phyllis S. Morgan
$60.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4054-4 · 352 pages
N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of House Made of Dawn
(1969) and National Medal of Arts awardee, is the elder statesman of Native
American literature and a major twentieth-century American author. This
volume marks the most comprehensive resource available on Momaday.
Along with an insightful new biography, it offers extensive, up-to-date
bibliographies of his own work and the work of others about him.
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Deadly Dozen
Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Volume 3
By Robert K. DeArment
$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4076-6 · 408 pages
For every Wild Bill Hickok or Billy the Kid, there was another western gunfighter
just as deadly but not as well known. Robert K. DeArment has earned a
reputation as the premier researcher of unknown gunfighters, and here he
offers twelve more portraits of men who weren’t glorified in legend but were
just as notorious in their day. The product of iron-clad research, this newest
Deadly Dozen delivers the goods for gunfighter buffs in search of something
different. Together the Deadly Dozen volumes constitute a Who’s Who of
western outlaws and prove that there’s more to the Wild West than Jesse James.
CALL ME LUCKY
A Texan in Hollywood
By Robert Hinkle with Mike Farris
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4093-3 · 272 pages
From his birth in Brownfield, Texas, to a family so poor “they could only
afford a tumbleweed as a pet,” Hinkle went on to gain acclaim in Hollywood
as a speech coach, actor, producer, director, and friend to the stars. Along
the way, Hinkle helped James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Rock
Hudson, and Dennis Hopper, talk like Texans for the epic film Giant and
Academy Award–winning Hud. The author appeared in numerous television
series, including Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Dragnet, and Walker, Texas Ranger.
More than forty photographs, including rare behind-the-scenes glimpses of
the stars Hinkle met and befriended along the way, complement this rousing,
never-dull memoir.
JEDEDIAH SMITH
No Ordinary Mountain Man
By Barton H. Barbour
$26.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4011-7 · 228 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4169-4 · 228 Pages
Mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow. He was
the first Anglo-American to travel overland to California via the Southwest
and roamed through more of the West than anyone of his era. His adventures
quickly became the stuff of legend. Using new information and sifting fact
from legend, Barton H. Barbour now offers a fresh look at this important
figure. Dozens of monuments commemorate Smith today. This readable
book is another, giving modern readers new insight into the character and
remarkable achievements of one of the West’s most complex characters.
LEGACIES OF CAMELOT
Stewart and Lee Udall, American Culture, and the Arts
By L. Boyd Finch
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3879-4 · 208 pages
In Legacies of Camelot, L. Boyd Finch describes the growing partnership between
government and the arts during the Kennedy-Johnson years, a remarkable
story that until now has received only cursory attention.
“An intimate portrait of Stewart and Lee Udall, an American canvas painted
with considerable perception, sympathy, and candor.” —N. Scott Momaday,
Pulitzer Prize–winning author of House Made of Dawn
GALL
Lakota War Chief
By Robert W. Larson
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3830-5 · 320 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4036-0 · 320 pages
Called the “Fighting Cock of the Sioux” by U.S. soldiers, Hunkpapa warrior Gall
was a great Lakota chief who, along with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, resisted
efforts by the U.S. government to annex the Black Hills. Filling many gaps in
our understanding of this warrior and his relationship with Sitting Bull, this
engaging biography also offers new interpretations of the Little Bighorn that lay
to rest the contention that Gall was “Custer’s Conqueror.” Gall: Lakota War Chief
broadens our understanding of both the man and his people.
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FOLLOWING ISABELLA
Travels in Colorado Then and Now
By Robert Root
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4018-6 · 288 pages
Isabella Bird recorded her 1873 visit to Colorado Territory in her classic travel
narrative, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains. This work inspired Robert Root’s
own discovery of Colorado’s Front Range following his move from the flatlands
of Michigan. In this elegantly written book, Root retraces Bird’s three-month
journey, seeking to understand what Colorado meant to her—and what it
would come to mean for him.
Environment
GOING GREEN
True Tales from Gleaners, Scavengers, and Dumpster Divers
Edited by Laura Pritchett
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4013-1 · 240 pages
For Going Green, Pritchett has gathered the work of more than twenty writers to
tell their personal stories of Dumpster diving, eating road kill, salvaging plastic
from the beach, and forgoing another trip to the mall for the thrill of bargain
hunting at yard sales and flea markets. These stories look not just at the many
ways people glean but also at the larger, thornier issues dealing with what re-
using—or not—says about our culture and priorities.Brimming with practical
and creative new ways to think about recycling, this collection invites you to
dive in and find your own way of going green.
DISAPPEARING DESERT
The Growth of Phoenix and the Culture of Sprawl
By Janine Schipper
$19.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3955-5 · 144 pages
In this provocative book, Janine Schipper examines the cultural forces that
contribute to suburban sprawl in the United States. Focusing on the Phoenix
area, she examines sustainable development in Cave Creek, various master-
planned suburbs, and the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Reservation to explore
suburbanization and ecological destruction. For anyone seeking to understand the
cultural basis for rampant development, this book uncovers the forces that drive
sprawl and searches for solutions to its seeming inevitability.
History
Beyond the American Pale
The Irish in the West, 1845–1910
By David M. Emmons
$34.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4128-2 · 540 pages
Convention has it that Irish immigrants in the nineteenth century confined
themselves mainly to industrial cities of the East and Midwest. The truth is that
Irish Catholics went everywhere in America and often had as much of a presence
in the West as in the East. In Beyond the American Pale, David M. Emmons examines
this multifaceted experience of westering Irish and, in doing so, offers a fresh and
discerning account of America’s westward expansion.
Texas
A Historical Atlas
By A. Ray Stephens
Cartography by Carol Zuber-Mallison
$39.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3873-2 · 448 pages
For twenty years the Historical Atlas of Texas stood as a trusted resource for
students and aficionados of the state. Now this key reference has been thoroughly
updated and expanded—and even rechristened. Texas: A Historical Atlas more
accurately reflects the Lone Star State at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
Its 86 entries feature 175 full color maps—more than twice the number in the
original volume—illustrating the most significant aspects of the state’s history,
geography, and current affairs.
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Arena legacy
The Heritage of American Rodeo
By Richard C. Rattenbury
$65.00 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4084-1 · 432 pages
From its roots in cowboy and vaquero culture to the big-business excitement
of today’s National Finals competitions, rodeo has embodied the rugged
individualism and competitive spirit of the American West. Now the long
trajectory of rodeo culture comes fully alive in Arena Legacy. This lavishly
illustrated volume is the first to depict rodeo’s material and graphic heritage.
River of Promise
Lewis and Clark on the Columbia
By David L. Nicandri
$29.95 Cloth · 978-0-9825597-0-3 · 325 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-9825597-1-0 · 325 pages
In the many published accounts of the Lewis and Clark expedition, historians
have tended to undervalue the explorers’ encounter with Columbia River
country. River of Promise fills a significant gap in our understanding of Lewis
and Clark’s legendary expedition. Historian David L. Nicandri shifts the
focus to an essential goal of the explorers: to discover the headwaters of the
Columbia and a water route to the Pacific Ocean.
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America’s Folklorist
B. A. Botkin and American Culture
Edited by Lawrence Rodgers and Jerrold Hirsch
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4111-4 · 296 pages
Folklorist, writer, editor, regionalist, cultural activist—Benjamin Albert Botkin
(1901–1975) was an American intellectual who made a mark on the twentieth
century, even though most people may be unaware of it. This book, the first to
reevaluate the legacy of Botkin in the history of American culture, celebrates his
centenary through a collection of writings that assess his influence on scholarship
and the American scene.
Prairie Republic
The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879–1889
By Jon K. Lauck
$32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4110-7 · 256 pages
American democratic ideals, civic republicanism, public morality, and
Christianity were the dominant forces at work during South Dakota’s formative
decade. In our cynical age, such a claim seems either remarkably naïve or
hopelessly outdated.
Now Jon K. Lauck examines anew the values we like to think were at work during
the founding of our western states. Taking Dakota Territory as a laboratory for
examining a formative stage of western politics, Lauck finds that settlers from
New England and the Midwest brought democratic practices and republican
values to the northern plains and invoked them as guiding principles in the drive
for South Dakota statehood.
Droppers
America’s First Hippie Commune, Drop City
By Mark Matthews
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4058-2 · 248 pages
Sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll. In popular imagination, these words seem to
capture the atmosphere of 1960s hippie communes. Yet when the first hippie
commune was founded in 1965 outside Trinidad, Colorado, the goal wasn’t one
long party but rather a new society that integrated life and art. In Droppers, Mark
Matthews chronicles the rise and fall of this utopian community, exploring the
goals behind its creation and the factors that eventually led to its dissolution.
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OKLAHOMA
A History
By W. David Baird and Danney Goble
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3910-4 · 352 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4197-8 · 352 Pages
The first comprehensive narrative to bring the story of the Sooner State to the
threshold of its centennial, this book includes both the well-known and the
not-so-familiar of the state’s people, events, and places. Enhanced by more
than 40 illustrations, including 11 maps, this definitive history of the state
ensures that experiences shared by Oklahomans of the past will be passed on
to future generations.
TEXAS DEVILS
Rangers and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1846–1861
By Michael L. Collins
$26.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3939-5 · 328 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4132-9 · 328 pages
The Texas Rangers have been the source of tall tales and the stuff of legend
as well as a growing darker reputation. But the story of the Rangers along the
Mexican border between Texas statehood and the onset of the Civil War has
been largely overlooked—until now.
This engaging history pulls readers back to a chaotic time along the lower Rio
Grande in the mid-nineteenth century that challenges the time-honored image
of “good guys in white hats” to reveal the more complicated and sobering
reality behind the Ranger Myth.
RADICAL L.A.
From Coxey’s Army to the Watts Riots, 1894–1965
By Errol Wayne Stevens
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4002-5 · 352 pages
When the depression of the 1890s prompted unemployed workers from Los
Angeles to join a nationwide march on Washington, “Coxey’s Army” marked
the birth of radicalism in that city. In this first book to trace the subsequent
struggle between the radical left and L.A.’s power structure, Errol Wayne
Stevens tells how both sides shaped the city’s character from the turn of the
twentieth century through the civil rights era.
THE ESSAYS
By Rudolfo Anaya
$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4023-0 · 312 pages
While best known for Bless Me, Ultima, and other novels, Rudolfo Anaya’s
writing also takes the form of nonfiction, and in these 54 essays he draws on
both his heritage as a Mexican American and his gift for storytelling. Besides
tackling issues such as censorship, racism, education, and sexual politics,
Anaya explores the tragedies and triumphs of his own life.
CHEROKEE THOUGHTS
Honest and Uncensored
By Robert J. Conley
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3943-2 · 196 pages
Gaming and chiefing. Imposters and freedmen. Distinguished novelist Robert
J. Conley examines some of the most interesting facets of the Cherokee world.
In 26 essays laced with humor, understatement, and even open sarcasm, this
popular writer takes on politics, culture, his people’s history, and what it
means to be Cherokee. As provocative as it is entertaining, Cherokee Thoughts
will intrigue tribal members and anyone with an interest in the Cherokee people.
HIGH COUNTRY
A Novel
By Willard Wyman
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3697-4 · 368 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3899-2 · 368 pages
During the Great Depression, young Ty Hardin is sent from his family’s failing
Montana ranch to learn from the last of the great mule packers, Fenton
Pardee, legendary in the Montana Rockies for his packing adventures across
the Swan Range all the way to the Big Divide. High Country follows Ty through
this apprenticeship and into World War II, where he watches trucks and
jeeps replace the army’s mules. Wounded and shipped home, Ty recovers
by packing into the Montana mountains he loves. After his mentor dies, Ty
leaves Montana for the Sierra Nevada—the highest country of all—where he
becomes a legend in his own right.
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HARPSONG
By Rilla Askew
$24.95 Cloth· 978-0-8061-3823-7 · 256 pages
$14.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3928-9 · 256 pages
In this moving, redemptive tale inspired by Oklahoma folk heroes, Rilla Askew
continues her exploration of the American story. Harpsong is a novel of love
and loss, of adventure and renewal, and of a wayfaring orphan’s search for
home—all set to the sounds of Harlan’s harmonica.
ON NATIVE GROUND
Memoirs and Impressions
By Jim Barnes
$16.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4092-6 · 296 pages
On Native Ground takes us from Jim Barnes’s boyhood in rural southeastern
Oklahoma during the Great Depression and World War II through his mature
years as an internationally recognized poet. Of Choctaw and Welsh ancestry,
Barnes is often identified as a Native American poet. He emphasizes his desire
to be recognized for his art, not his blood. Yet he speaks eloquently here of his
attachment to his “native ground,” the Choctaw region in Oklahoma—for him
“the land where memory dwells.”
Military History
A Perfect Gibraltar
The Battle for Monterrey, Mexico, 1846
By Christopher D. Dishman
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4140-4 · 344 pages
For three days in the fall of 1846, U.S. and Mexican soldiers fought fiercely in
the picturesque city of Monterrey, turning the northern Mexican town, known
for its towering mountains and luxurious gardens, into one of the nineteenth
century’s most gruesome battlefields. Chris D. Dishman conveys in a vivid
narrative the intensity and drama of the Battle of Monterrey, which marked
the first time U.S. troops engaged in prolonged urban combat.
SOLDIERS WEST
Biographies from the Military Frontier
Second Edition
Edited by Paul Andrew Hutton and Durwood Ball
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3997-5 · 416 pages
From the War of 1812 to the end of the nineteenth century, U.S. Army
officers were instrumental in shaping the American West. Soldiers West views
the turbulent history of the West from the perspective of fifteen senior army
officers—including new biographical portraits of Stephen W. Kearny, Philip St.
George Cooke, James H. Carleton, John M. Chivington, and Oliver O. Howard.
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JAYHAWKERS
The Civil War Brigade of James Henry Lane
By Bryce Benedict
$32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3999-9 · 352 pages
No person excited greater emotion in Kansas than James Henry Lane, the
U.S. senator who led a volunteer brigade in 1861–62. In fighting numerous
skirmishes, liberating hundreds of slaves, burning portions of four towns,
and murdering half a dozen men, Lane and his brigade garnered national
attention as the saviors of Kansas and the terror of Missouri. This first book-
length study of the “jayhawkers,” as the men of Lane’s brigade were known,
takes a fresh look at their exploits and notoriety.
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Steamboats West
The 1859 American Fur Company Missouri River Expedition
By Lawrence H. Larsen and Barbara J. Cottrell
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-385-1 · 256 pages
In 1859, the American Fur Company set out on what would then be the
longest steamboat trip in North American history. Steamboats West is an
adventure story that navigates the rocky rapids of the upper Missouri to offer
a fascinating account of travel to the raw frontier past the pale of settlement.
It was a venture that extended trade deep into the Northwest and made an
enormous stride in transportation.
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Murder of a Landscape
The California Farmer-Smelter War, 1897–1916
By Khaled J. Bloom
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-396-7 · 240 pages,
Between 1896 and 1919, air pollution from large-scale copper smelting in
northern California’s Shasta County severely damaged crops and timber in
a 1,000-square-mile region. The poisons from these smelters created the
nation’s largest man-made desert. This book traces the development of that
environmental catastrophe and explains a long, complex, and rancorous
struggle that involved several corporations, hundreds of farmers and
ranchers, and all levels of government.
Hancock’s War
Conflict on the Southern Plains
By William Y. Chalfant
$59.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-371-4 · 544 pages
$125.00s Special Edition · 978-0-87062-374-5 · 544 pages
William Y. Chalfant has devoted years of research to produce a detailed
narrative covering the entire scope of Hancock’s “Expedition for the Plains.”
This first thorough scholarly history of the ill-conceived expedition offers
an unequivocal evaluation of military strategies and a culturally sensitive
interpretation of Indian motivations and reactions.
CALIFORNIA ODYSSEY
An Overland Journey on the Southern Trails, 1849
By William R. Goulding
Edited by Patricia A. Etter
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-373-8 · 360 pages
In 1849, William R. Goulding and the Knickerbocker Exploring Company struck out
for California on the southern route—a road less traveled. This rare first-person diary
of the southern Gold Rush trails, introduced and annotated by Patricia A. Etter,
highlights an important alternative route to the Pacific Coast.
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FORT LARAMIE
Military Bastion on the High Plains
By Douglas C. McChristian
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-360-8 · 448 pages
Douglas C. McChristian has written the first complete history of Fort
Laramie, chronicling every critical stage in its existence, including its addition
to the National Park System. He draws on an extraordinary array of archival
materials—including those at Fort Laramie National Historic Site—to present
new data about the fort and new interpretations of historical events.
DODGE CITY
The Early Years, 1872–1886
By Wm. B. Shillingberg
$49.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-378-3 · 480 pages
The most famous cattle town of the trail-driving era, Dodge City, Kansas,
holds a special allure for western historians and enthusiasts alike. Wm.
B. Shillingberg now goes beyond the violence for which the town became
notorious, more fully documenting its early history by uncovering the
economic, political, and social forces that shaped Dodge. Drawing on a wide
range of primary sources, from city records to personal papers, Dodge City: The
Early Years, 1872–1886 surpasses previous accounts of the town by depicting
complex individuals and events in greater depth and detail.
Chickasaw Press
CHICKASAW RENAISSANCE
By Phillip Carroll Morgan
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-8-7 · 240 pages
When Oklahoma achieved statehood in 1907, the U.S. government declared
Chickasaw titles to tribal lands null and void. The Chickasaw Nation was, in
effect, legally abolished. Yet for the next sixty years, the Chickasaws struggled
to regain their sovereign identity, and eventually, in 1970, Congress enacted
legislation allowing the Five Tribes, including the Chickasaws, to elect their
own governing officers. In 1983, the Chickasaws adopted a new constitution
for their nation.
In Chickasaw Renaissance, Phillip Carroll Morgan profiles the experiences of the
Chickasaw people during this tumultuous period in their history, from the
dissolution of their government to the resurgence of their nation.
CHICKASAW
Unconquered and Unconquerable
By Jeannie Barbour, Dr. Amanda Cobb-Greetham, and Linda Hogan
$34.95s Cloth · 978-1-5586899-23 · 128 pages
From their homelands in the Southeast, to their removal to Indian Territory,
to their status as a thriving nation today, the Chickasaw people represent one
of the most resilient cultures in American history. Through vivid photographs
and insightful essays, this book tells the incredible story of the Chickasaws.
Featuring the award-winning photography of David Fitzgerald and essays
by Chickasaw writers Jeannie Barbour, Dr. Amanda Cobb-Greetham, and
Linda Hogan, this authoritative book brings alive the unique history and
identity of the Chickasaws. Handsomely produced, Chickasaw: Unconquered and
Unconquerable is the winner of a gold medal for design from the Independent
Publishers Association.
CHICKASAW LIVES
Volume One: Explorations in Tribal History
By Richard Green
$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-1-8 · 238 pages
Arriving from the west ages ago, Chickasaws settled in a portion of
southeastern North America. They soon became embroiled in the deadly
quest of European colonial powers to extend their empires to the New
World. By the 1730s, the Chickasaws were targeted for extermination.
But, as Richard Green shows in Chickasaw Lives, the Chickasaw people survived
and prospered. Then their one-time ally, the United States, forced the tribe to
move west to Indian Territory. After several years of despondency, the people
were again building a great nation. With some Americans clamoring for
Oklahoma statehood, the U.S. government set a date to extinguish the tribe’s
government and land base. Here for the first time is a selection of articles and
essays that explain why that did not happen.
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CHICKASAW LIVES
Volume Two: Profiles and Oral Histories
By Richard Green
$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-6-3 · 240 pages
The second volume in a series of Chickasaw Lives to be published, this
book contains 33 articles that focus on 36 tribal members, including
extraordinary performers, artists, athletes, and warriors. These
Chickasaw luminaries include an Olympic gold medalist, a recipient of the
Congressional Medal of Honor, a Chickasaw Nation attorney general who
previously rode with the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid, an internationally
renowned performance artist, a Harvard researcher who investigates and
reports on economic conditions in Indian Country, and three successive
Chickasaw governors who played crucial roles in the twentieth-century
revitalization of the tribe.
Chickasaw Lives
Volume Three: Sketches of Past and Present
By Richard Green
$20.00s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-9-4 · 250 pages
Sketches of Past and Present is the third volume in the Chickasaw Lives series.
In contrast to a conventional, chronological history, Green’s book is
a fascinating amalgam of Chickasaw epochs and characters, grouped
under headings of common themes. The reader is treated to stories
of great Chickasaw athletes in the twentieth century, as well as an essay on the
significance to Chickasaw history of the 1729 Natchez uprising. Green also offers
an essay about Chief Piomingo’s famous meeting on July 11, 1794, with George
Washington at his home in Philadelphia, along with a profile of Chickasaw
firefighters who battle dangerous wildfires throughout the United States.
Proud to Be Chickasaw
By Mike Larsen and Martha Larsen
$25.00s Cloth · 978-1-9356840-1-5 · 130 pages
In Proud to be Chickasaw, the Chickasaw master artist, Mike Larsen, and his
wife, Martha Larsen, have again teamed up to offer insights into and insider
perspectives on the lives of two dozen tribal elders, including a storyteller,
a longtime contributor to music education in Oklahoma, and a World War
II code talker. This book follows the critically acclaimed They Know Who They
Are, which exhibits Mike Larsen’s first twenty-four paintings in the series, each
accompanied by a biographical sketch of the elder by Martha Larsen.
Chickasaw Press
Chickasaw Removal
By Amanda L. Paige, Fuller L. Bumpers, and Daniel F. Littlefield Jr.
$20.00s Cloth · 978-1-9356840-0-8 · 220 pages
In the early nineteenth century, the Chickasaw Indians were a beleaguered
people. Anglo-American settlers were streaming illegally into their homelands
east of the Mississippi River. Then, in 1830, the Indian Removal Act forced
the Chickasaw Nation, along with other eastern tribes, to remove to Indian
Territory, in present-day Oklahoma. This book provides the most detailed
account to date of the Chickasaw removal, from their harrowing journey west
to their first difficult years in an unfamiliar land.
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