Stationery and miscellaneous items
John Wiley & Sons Bat Masterson
£18.86
John Wiley & Sons Oklahoma Seminoles
Trade ReviewOklahoma Seminoles is a much-needed ethnography of a native American population that has been frequently overlooked or underplayed in the anthropological literature. The main focus of the volume is on medicine and magic. However, Seminole history, ceremonialism, sports and games, religion, mortuary practices, folklore, and culture change are also treated. . . . At this point the book represents the best general source of ethnographic information about the Oklahoma Seminoles available in the literature. Both historians and anthropologists should find it useful."" - Journal of Southern History""James Howard has provided a valuable contribution in this description of 'traditional' religious, magical, and medical belief practice among the contemporary Seminole Indians of Oklahoma. . . . The book's major strength is that it is a comprehensive descriptive overview of its subject. An additional strength lies in the illustrations by Willie Lena, which reflect the view of a native traditionalist and are ethnographic documents in themselves."" - Ethnohistory""This is a valuable scholarly source for comparative studies with other tribes or for the impact of white culture upon an uprooted native people."" - Journal of the West
£22.61
John Wiley & Sons Popol Vuh
Book SynopsisThe first complete version in English of the “Book of the People” of the Quiche Maya, the most powerful nation of the Guatemalan highlands in pre-Conquest times. Generally regarded as America's oldest book, the Popol Vuh is the most important of the five pieces of the great library treasures of the Maya that survived the Spanish Conquest.
£17.06
John Wiley & Sons Hoover Dam
Book SynopsisThe construction of the Hoover Dam 1931-1936 is the theme of this book. The author describes the victories and hardships, the men that were broken and those who triumphed, and examines the company town that was created and still survives.
£18.86
John Wiley & Sons The Chilkat Dancing Blanket
Book SynopsisTell the life story of a magnificent woven robe which graced the shoulders of Indian nobility from Yakutat, Alaska to Vancouver Island. The story unfolds to tell of the women who wove it, of the source and inspiration for the designs which adorn it, and of the pride and esteem in which it was held by the society which gave it birth.
£29.28
John Wiley & Sons Time and Reality in the Thought of the Maya
Book SynopsisExamines the ancient Maya's obsession with time: they believed a flow of divine time determined man's destiny and their calendars and astronomical computations were replete with time-related myths. The author describes these beliefs and their influence on the life of the Maya.
£20.66
John Wiley & Sons The Presidio
Trade ReviewMax L. Moorhead . . . tells us at the outset that his institutional study of the presidio on New Spain's northern frontier is meant 'to define the subject more sharply, to determine more fully its impact on the human environment, and to date the several presidios and fix their locations more precisely than has been done in the past.' . . . Moorhead does well what he said he would do. He makes the shot. If another measure of good history is its suggestion of further topics, he has scored twice with one book."" - Pacific Historical Review""Throughout his career Moorhead's work has been the epitome of historical scholarship; he has set standards for others to reach. Presidio fits this mold. . . . Moorhead has not only a firm grip on his source material but also an incisive understanding of the Spanish mind."" - Journal of American History
£22.61
John Wiley & Sons Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters
Book SynopsisAn encyclopedia of data on 255 gunmen of the American West. This scholarly reference work includes dates and places of birth and death, as well as aliases, nicknames, occupations and a brief biography, followed in chronological order by detailed accounts of verified gunfights by each individual.
£22.46
John Wiley & Sons Okla Hannali
Book SynopsisThis is the tale of Hannali Innominee, a "Mingo" or natural lord of the 19th-century Choctaw Indian, and a fictionalized epic history of his people in the 19th-century.
£17.06
John Wiley & Sons The Witch of Goingsnake
£15.26
John Wiley & Sons The Pueblo Indian Revolt of 1696 and the Franciscan Missions in New Mexico
Book SynopsisThe first translation of the Franciscan letters and other documents related to the Pueblo revolt of 1696, this collection provides a portrait of the conflict between Franciscan missionary zeal and the Pueblo holy men, who fought a losing battle to preserve their traditional way of life.
£22.61
John Wiley & Sons The CattleTrailing Industry
Trade ReviewSkaggs has performed a service in focusing the attention of historians on an important but neglected aspect of the cattle business."" - W. Turrentine Jackson""This book definitely has its place both in business history and in western history."" - Joe B. Frantz, Journal of American History""By diligent research [Skaggs] has pieced together the careers of some twenty men who moved, according to his estimates, three fourths of all the cattle driven for sale to railhead markets and northern ranges during the era of the long drive. Though not oblivious of the adventurous and humorous aspects of their lives, Skaggs sees them as profit-oriented entrepreneurs, innovative and capable of improvisation in adjusting to their economically hazardous occupation. . . . This is the kind of history that will put the West in proper perspective."" - Lewis Atherton, Pacific Historical Review""[Skaggs] has given us the record we have never had, a record of name, date, time and place. He has brought these 'cattle-trailing contractors,' who have long been names in legends, back into a rich and earthy aliveness. He calls them American geniuses, and that they were."" - Great Plains Journal
£17.04
John Wiley & Sons The Horse Soldier 19171943 World War I the Peacetime Army World War II
Book SynopsisCovers the final 25 years in the history of the cavalryman: the World War I years, when the US Cavalry fought for the first time as part of an allied force; the peacetime years, when the cavalry was largely a "show" force; and World War II, when mechanization finally outmoded the horse soldier.Trade ReviewThe late Randy Steffen has produced what is probably the most wellresearched, accurate book in The Horse Soldier series. The detailed pen and ink drawings, as always, are first rate. The volume stands as a fine memorial to Steffen and a fitting salute to the old Army."" - Journal of Arizona History""This volume is filled with thorough research and exact documentation. . . . This entire series will stand as the authoritative work on the American horse soldier's equipment and uniforms."" - South Dakota History ""Randy Steffen's The Horse Soldier is indeed a definitive reference. Artists, museum curators, collectors, writers, historians, and exhibit preparers concerned about the historical accuracy relative to the uniforms, arms, and equipment of the United States Cavalry will find these volumes indispensable."" - Colorado Magazine
£24.83
John Wiley & Sons The Apaches
Book SynopsisThis is an account of the history and activities of the Apache Indians, as well as the tortuous course of events that led to the tribe's subjugation. The author examines a racial and cultural struggle in which the duplicity of white government officials proved to be a decisive factor.
£18.86
John Wiley & Sons John Selman Gunfighter
Book SynopsisThis text examining the life of John Selman, a typical frontiersman of the American Old West, covers his Civil War service and his escapades in Texas and New Mexico.Trade ReviewSelman was a typical frontier character. He grew up on the edge of civilization; fought with (and deserted) the Confederacy, became the leader of a hard-case gang in New Mexico during Lincoln County War days, and ended his career as a more-or-less respectable policeman in El Paso. He secured for himself a place in frontier history by killing John Wesley Hardin in the Acme Saloon on August 19, 1895. Eight months later, on April 5, 1896, be himself was shot and killed in an El Paso alley. Metz gathers up the scattered pieces of the Selman saga with extraordinary skill and puts them together in a well-told narrative."" - Journal of Arizona History""This book goes much further than a discussion of the Hardin affair. It shows both sides of John Selman in an unbiased, factual way and describes a good many other interesting anecdotes in the life of Selman from his Civil War service to his escapades in Texas and New Mexico. While he did serve at times in various capacities as an officer of the law, his life story leaves little doubt in the mind's eye that here was basically a cold-blooded, vicious sociopath. . . . John Selman, before he, too, was gunned down, bad outlived all of the other gunslingers of the Old West and his passing really noted the passing of an era."" - Annals of Wyoming""This is quite a book about one of the West's most infamous gunmen, about whom very little bas been written. Mr. Metz has done a workmanlike job. His research was extensive and there are thirty-six pages of notes, a bibliography, and records of personal interviews."" - Denver Westerners' Roundup
£17.04
John Wiley & Sons Caudillos
Book SynopsisIn this volume, the editor presents conflicting interpretations of Spanish American caudillos in essays written by an international group of historians, anthropologists, sociologists, journalists and caudillos themselves.
£24.83
John Wiley & Sons The Powhatan Indians of Virginia
£22.61
John Wiley & Sons Peyote Religion
Book SynopsisA history of peyotism, an important Native American religious movement. Presenting ethnographic and ethnohistorical data, rather than a theoretical exegesis, the study of this pan-tribal movement should appeal to anthropologists and historians, as well as those interested in religious groups.
£20.66
John Wiley & Sons The Osage Ceremonial Dance InLonSchka
Book SynopsisDevoted to a single contemporary Osage ceremonial, the I'n-Lon-Schka dance, this book recounts the dance, music, dress and social organization of a modern symbol of Osage identity.
£18.95
John Wiley & Sons Dallas Stoudenmire
Book SynopsisTraces the career of Dallas Stoudenmire, a gunman from East Texas who became city marshal of El Paso in 1881, with orders to clean up the town. Stoudenmire was involved in some sensational shootings, including the town's most famous gunfight in which four dead men in five seconds set a record.
£17.04
John Wiley & Sons Deep Enough
Book SynopsisFrank Crampton's autobiography of mining runs the gamut of experience, from bindle-stiff, to hard-rock miner, to mining engineer, as he works his way from Cripple Creek through almost every mining camp of importance in the West of the USA from 1900 to 1920.
£18.86
John Wiley & Sons Views from the Apache Frontier
Book SynopsisLieutenant Jose Cortes of the Spanish Royal Corps of Engineers was a keen observer of the native people of the Northern Borderlands of New Spain, and his 18th-century report provides a closely-informed, well-organised understanding of Apaches. Extensive annotations are included.
£18.16
John Wiley & Sons Indian School Days
Book SynopsisThis is the autobiography of an Ojibway boy who was taken from his family in 1939 aged ten and placed in a Jesuit boarding school in northern Ontario. The school intended to assimilate Indian boys, but the pupils learned instead a subculture of survival that helped them cope with the alien setting.
£17.06
John Wiley & Sons No Duty to Retreat
Book SynopsisWhen faced with a deadly threat, Americans have the right to stand their ground and fight - that is, they have no duty to retreat. This study of violence and American values examines violence not only on the American frontier and in American society at large, but in American jurisprudence as well.
£22.61
John Wiley & Sons Battles and Skirmishes of the Great Sioux War 18761877
Book SynopsisThis account presents the military side of the struggle represented by the Great Sioux War, and offers 15 accounts, with maps, of the many engagements as they were observed by participating officers, enlisted men, scouts, surgeons and newspaper correspondents.
£17.06
John Wiley & Sons Other Destinies
Book SynopsisThis is a critical analysis of novels written between 1854 and today by American Indian authors. It takes as its theme the search for self-discovery and cultural recovery, drawing upon a broad range of literary theory to analyze issues of marginalisation and cultural survival.
£22.61
John Wiley & Sons The West of Wild Bill Hickok
Book SynopsisOf all the Old West figures whose images eventually found their way into our popular culture, none was better known than Wild Bill Hickok. This book reproduces in one volume nearly all the known portraits of Wild Bill, together with photographs of his family, his friends and his foes.
£18.86
John Wiley & Sons Chickasaw
Book SynopsisThis first scholarly dictionary of the Chickasaw language contains a Chickasaw-English section with approximately 12,000 main entries, secondary entries, and cross-references; an English-Chickasaw index; and an extensive introductory section describing the structure of Chickasaw words.Trade ReviewA landmark achievement in Chickasaw language revitalization."" - Great Plains Research
£27.50
John Wiley & Sons The Odes of Horace
Book SynopsisIn this work, Steele Commmager examines the odes of Horace, paying particular attention both to their language and structure and also to the effect a poem is intended to, or does, produce.
£24.83
John Wiley & Sons The King Ranch Quarter Horses
Book SynopsisThe fabled King Ranch of South Texas was renowned for its breed of horses. Here is the story of the ranch and its horses, how they were bred, and what they have achieved.
£22.61
John Wiley & Sons Quanah Parker Comanche Chief
Book SynopsisThe son of white captive Cynthia Ann Parker, Quanah Parker rose from able warrior to tribal leader on the Comanche reservation. In this crisp and readable biography, William Hagan presents a well-balanced portrait of Quanah Parker, the chief, and Quanah, the man torn between two worlds.
£16.11
John Wiley & Sons Strangers in Blood
£22.61
John Wiley & Sons The Amazing Death of Calf Shirt
£17.06
John Wiley & Sons The Greek Language
£22.46
John Wiley & Sons A Texas Frontier
Book SynopsisSurveys the formative development of northwest Texas where the Clear Fork of the Brazos cuts a path between the timbered region and the treeless plains beyond. Based on primary sources, and sensitive to recent historiographical trends, this book reinterprets and amplifies an old and familiar story of frontier development.
£18.00
John Wiley & Sons Source Material on the History and Ethnology of the Caddo Indians
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1942, this work provides a reference source on the Caddo Indians. It presents their history and culture according to the principal French, Spanish and English sources. Beginning with De Soto's encounters in 1521, the work traces Caddo history through to the 1890s.
£27.06
John Wiley & Sons James J. Hill
Book SynopsisAn interpretive biography of the builder of the transcontinental railroad. An entrepreneur, Hill spent 15 years building what was to become the Great Northern Railway. His story touches on transportation, agriculture, mining, and town building, as the author explores Hill's complex life.
£17.06
John Wiley & Sons An Oklahoma I Had Never Seen Before
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£17.06
John Wiley & Sons Indian Women of Early Mexico
Trade ReviewA welcome addition to the colonial Mexican bibliography, both as a supplementary textbook for university teaching and as a scholarly resource. . . . The book's fourteen essays are distinguished by their regional foci and cluster thematically around women in the family, inheritance, marital patterns, and sexuality as well as women's roles as economic producers and active participants in religious movements and open rebellions in the context of Iberian colonialism."" - American Historical Review""This volume takes the reader on a most rewarding voyage of rediscovery of Indian womanhood in colonial Mexico. . . . Without having to argue any brand of historical feminism, or strictly adhering to anyWestern theoretical conceptualization, the authors succeed in putting together a compelling array of information that both fascinates and informs."" - Journal of Latin American Studies
£24.83
John Wiley & Sons Bad Medicine and Good
Book SynopsisThis texts collects together 44 stories covering Kiowa history from the 1700s through the 1940s, all gleaned from interviews with Kiowas (who actually took part in the events or recalled them from the accounts of their elders), and the notes of Captain Hugh L. Scott at Fort Sill.
£17.06
John Wiley & Sons Apaches
£18.86
John Wiley & Sons Black Elk
Book SynopsisThis biography of Black Elk is based on extensive interviews with Lucy Looks Twice, the holy man's last surviving child, as well as others who knew him personally. It portrays him as a victim of Western subjugation, doomed to live out his life as a relic of the past.
£17.06
John Wiley & Sons The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
Book SynopsisThis text explores eight decades of New Mexican history leading up to the revolt, describing how Spanish colonial overlords had disrupted Pueblo life in far-reaching ways. It explains how the Pueblo Indians' violent success stemmed from a unity of disparate factions and secret planning.
£25.98
John Wiley & Sons Lawman Life and Times of Harry Morse 18351912 The
£31.95
John Wiley & Sons The Making of the Roman Army From Republic to Empire
Book SynopsisThe Making of the Roman Army explores how a small citizen militia guarding a village on the banks of the Tiber evolved into the professional Roman army.
£19.60
John Wiley & Sons Lone Wolf Gonzaullas Texas Ranger
£17.95
John Wiley & Sons Poem of the Cid A modern translation with notes by Paul Blackburn
£18.95
John Wiley & Sons Unlikely Warriors General Benjamin Grierson and His Family
£17.95
