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Representations of first contact - the first meetings of European explorers and Native Americans - have always had a central place in America’s historical and visual record. Kate Elliott looks at paintings by artists from George Catlin to Charles M. Russell and explores what first contact images tell us about constructing national myths.

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In 1921 Tulsa's Greenwood District, known then as the nation's “Black Wall Street”, was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the US. But on May 31 of that year, a white mob invaded Greenwood. Tulsa, 1921 shines new light into the shadows that have long been cast over this extraordinary instance of racial violence.

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Ovid's Metamorphosesis a weaving-together of classical myths, extending in time from the creation of the world to the death of Julius Caesar. This volume provides the Latin text of the first five books of the poem and the most detailed commentary available in English of these books.

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Combining the approaches of history, ethnohistory, archaeology, bioarchaeology, and social anthropology, this innovative look at the Donner Party's experience at the Alder Creek Camp offers insights into many long-unsolved mysteries.

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The complete and colourful saga of steamboating on the Missouri River is recounted, from its 1819 inception to the removal of the last commercial steamer in 1935. William Lass has crafted an engagingly written account that provides a panorama of transportation into and through the West.

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For the first time tells the story of the man behind the family that would become nothing short of a conservative institution, reaching its apogee in the career of William F. Buckley Jr, arguably the most prominent conservative commentator of the twentieth century.

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One of America’s most beloved folk singers, Arlo Guthrie was at the pinnacle of his fame in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Yet Guthrie’s career extends far beyond his years in the celebrity spotlight. Rising Son, written by Hank Reineke, recounts the veteran musician’s second act, from the early 1980s to the present.

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Enhances our understanding of Gene Autry as a western folk hero who, during critical times of economic recovery and international crisis, readily assumed the role of public diplomat, skilfully using his talents to persuade a marginalized populace to embrace a nationalist agenda.

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Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1807-90) grew up in Spanish California, became a leading military and political figure in Mexican California, and participated in some of the founding events of US California. This volume illuminates Vallejo’s life and history and examines the broader experience of the nineteenth-century Californio community.

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Study of the Cold War all too often shows us the war that wasn't fought. The reality, of course, is that many ‘hot’ conflicts did occur, some with the great powers' weapons and approval, others without. It is this reality, and this period of quasi-war and semiconflict, that Jonathan House plumbs in A Military History of the Cold War, 1962-1991.

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From the glacial past to the present day, these essays range across the histories of the Dakota and Ojibwe people, colonial imperial rivalries and immigration, and conflicts between the economic imperatives of resource extraction and the stewardship of nature.

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In this follow-up to his first collection of biographies of the West's most recognised man-hunters, Robert DeArment recounts the remarkable careers of eight men - Pat Garrett, John Hughes, Harry Love, Harry Morse, Frank Norfleet, Bass Reeves, Granville Stuart, and Tom Tobin - who pursued notorious criminals.

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Examines the values we like to think were at work during the founding of America’s western states. Taking Dakota Territory as a laboratory for examining a formative stage of western politics, Jon Lauck finds that settlers from New England and the Midwest invoked democratic practices as guiding principles in the drive for South Dakota statehood.

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For a brief period in the mid-twentieth century, China had the makings of a professional, apolitical military force. The Rise and Fall of an Officer Corps tells the story of that moment in the military history of modern China - how it came to be, why it ultimately failed, and what it meant for China at home and abroad.

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In this new book about Ernest Haycox's literary career, Richard Etulain tells the engrossing story of his rise through the ranks of popular magazine and serial fiction to become one of the Western's most successful creators.

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Taking in the full scope of the times, from the ideas of the Enlightenment to the passions of the French Revolution, Jonathan Abel's Guibert is the first book in English to tell the remarkable story of the man who, through his pen and political activity, truly earned the title of Father of the Grande Armée.

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Opens a critical new perspective on the emergence of modern Britain and its empire and on its early effort to create a stable and peaceful international system, an ideal debated to this day.

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In this political and legal history of the Las Vegas water supply, Christian Harrison focuses on the creation and actions of the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) to tell a story with profound implications and important lessons for water politics and natural resource policy in the twenty-first century.

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In 1856 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints employed a new means of getting converts to Great Salt Lake City who could not afford the journey otherwise. They began using handcarts. The Mormon Handcart Migration traces each stage of the journey, from the transatlantic voyage of newly converted to Great Salt Lake.

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The War of 1812 is etched into American memory with the burning of the Capitol and the White House by British forces, The Star-Spangled Banner, and the decisive naval battle of New Orleans. Now a respected British military historian offers an international perspective on the conflict to better gauge its significance.

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Artists and filmmakers in the early twentieth century reshaped our vision of the American West. In particular, the Taos Society of Artists and Maynard Dixon fostered new images, or brands, for western art. This volume examines paintings and films to demonstrate how these artists enhanced and contradicted earlier representations of the West.

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The numerous debates surrounding the Battle of the Little Big Horn have made on-the-ground evidence especially important. Kenneth Roahen's photographic legacy, explored here in more than 300 images, offers fresh insight into the battlefield's ever-changing landscape, helping visitors to better understand the history beneath their feet.

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For many diehard music fans and critics, Oklahoma-born James Talley ranks among the finest of American singer-songwriters. In this engaging, down-to-earth memoir, Talley recalls the highs and lows of his nearly fifty-year career in country music.

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For a half century, John Ellis Wool (1784-1869) was one of America's most illustrious figures - most notably as an officer in the US Army during the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and the Civil War. Courage Above All Things marks the first full biography of Wool.

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At a time when Napoleon needed all his forces to reassert French dominance in Central Europe, why did he fixate on the Prussian capital of Berlin? In Napoleon and Berlin, Michael Leggiere explores Napoleon's almost obsessive desire to capture Berlin and how this strategy ultimately lost him all of Germany.

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