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The official journal of the Brigham Young pioneer company is made available for the first time in this book. The arrival of Latter-day Saints in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake is one of the major events in the history of the LDS church and the West. Thomas Bullock, the author of this account, was the journal keeper of that party of pioneers.

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Recounts the reservation period of the Cheyennes and the Arapahoes in western Oklahoma. This is an investigation - and an indictment - of the assimilation and reservation policies thrust upon them in the latter half of the nineteenth century, policies that succeeded only in doing enormous damage to sturdy, vital people.

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If history is written by the victors, then as the rulers of a nation change, so too does the history. Mexico has had many distinct periods of history, demonstrating clearly that the tale changes with the writer. In National Narratives in Mexico, Enrique Florescano examines each historical vision of Mexico as it was interpreted in its own time.

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Fossil remains from Mesa Verde, Clovis, and other sites testify to the presence of First Americans. What remains unsettled, as The Search for the First Americans makes clear, is not only who these people were, where they came from, and when, but also the very nature and practice of the science searching for answers.

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The Hugh Lenox Scott ledgers contain an array of historical, linguistic, and ethnographic data - a wealth of primary-source material on Southern Plains Indian people. This remarkable resource - the largest of its kind before the late twentieth century - appears here in full for the first time.

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Offers an account of the Cheyennes' life on the Great Plains, their system of government and religion, and their relation to the fur and hide trade during their last years of freedom. Their turbulent, colourful history related by Donald Berthrong will interest the general reader as well as the historian and anthropologist.

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Richly illustrated with drawings, photographs, and maps, Politics of the Maya Court uses hieroglyphic and iconographic evidence to explore the composition and social significance of royal courts in the Late Classic period (AD 600-900), with a special emphasis on the role of courtly elites.

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Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) is often described as Winston Churchill's brainchild. But as A.R.B. Linderman reveals in this engrossing history, the real genius behind Britain's clandestine warriors was Colin Gubbins, a British officer who forged the SOE by drawing on lessons learned in irregular conflicts around the world.

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Apacheria ran from the Colorado to the Rio Grande and beyond, from the great canyons of the North for a thousand miles into Mexico. Here, where the elusive, phantomlike Apache bands roamed, life was as harsh, cruel, and pitiless as the country itself. The Conquest of Apacheria is an epic of heroism, mixed with chicanery, misunderstanding, and trag

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Tells the story of the antebellum frontier in Texas, from the Red River to El Paso, a raw and primitive country punctuated by chaos, lawlessness, and violence. During this time, the federal government and the State of Texas often worked at cross-purposes, their confused and contradictory policies leaving settlers on their own.

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In this enterprising study of an intriguing and at times ‘infernal’ regiment, Holly A. Mayer marshals personal and official accounts to reveal what the personal passions, hardships, and accommodations of the 2nd Canadian can tell us about the greater military and civil dynamics of the American Revolution.

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Amon G. Carter rose to become the founder and publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, a seat of power from which he established himself as the quintessential Texan of his era. The first in-depth biography of this outsize character, this volume chronicles a remarkable life and places it in the larger context of state and nation.

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The first woman anthropologist to work in the Southwest, Matilda Coxe Stevenson (1849-1915) helped define the contours of anthropological research at the turn of the twentieth century. In this first book-length biography of Stevenson, Darlis Miller traces one woman’s quest for professional recognition in the face of social constraints.

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Presents the work of Earnest Gouge, an important early Creek (Muskogee) author, and makes available for the first time - in Creel and English - the myths and legends of a major American Indian tribe.

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A controversial character largely known as a Union colonel who led Black soldiers in the Civil War, James Montgomery (1814-71) waged a far more personal and radical war against slavery than popular history suggests. It is the true story of this militant abolitionist that Todd Mildfelt and David Schafer tell in this volume.

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A second lieutenant fresh from West Point, Hugh Lenox Scott arrived on the northern Great Plains in the wake of the Little Bighorn debacle. The Seventh Cavalry was seeking to subdue the Plains tribes and confine them to reservations, and Scott adopted the role of negotiator. This tells the story of this unlikely, self-avowed ‘soldier of peace’.

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A central character in legends and histories of the Old West, Billy the Kid rivals such western icons as Jesse James and General George Armstrong Custer for the number of books and movies his brief, violent life inspired. This volume introduces readers to the most significant of these written and filmed works.

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How can paleontologists know what a living dinosaur was like more than a hundred million years ago, particularly when only partial skeletons remain? Focusing on one large carnivorous dinosaur, Acrocanthosaurus, paleontologist Kenneth Carpenter explains the process, pairing scholarly findings with more than 75 colour illustrations.

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Over five centuries of foreign rule, Native American pueblos have confronted attacks on their sovereignty and encroachments on their land and water rights. How five New Mexico and Texas pueblos did this, in some cases multiple times, forms the history of cultural resilience and tenacity chronicled in Pueblo Sovereignty.

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In this engaging narrative, acclaimed historian R. David Edmunds combines careful research with creative storytelling to give voice to indigenous individuals and families and to illustrate the impact of pivotal events on their lives. A nonfiction account accompanies each narrative to provide necessary historical and cultural context.

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Louise Siddons fills a curious gap in the history of American art by exploring - and indeed salvaging – J. JayMcVicker's career and contributions to international modernism. Featuring nearly one hundred colour reproductions of McVicker's works, Centering Modernism showcases the extraordinary range of his artistry.

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Combining military biography, historical analysis, and political insight, Politician in Uniform provides an expanded and balanced view of Lew Wallace's military career - and offers the reader a new understanding of the experience of a voluntary general like Lew Wallace.

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In May 1776 more than 200 Indian warriors attacked Continental forces at the Cedars, west of Montreal. In three days' fighting, the Native Americans and their British and Canadian allies forced the American fort to surrender. In this book, Mark Anderson focuses on the Native participants - their motivations, conduct, and the impact on their world.

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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.

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Describes the history of the 1600-mile-long Chihuahua Trail, or "King's Highway", that stretched from Santa Fe to Chihuahua and the interior cities of Mexico. The book describes the caravans of the Sante Fe traders who exchanged American goods and hardware for Mexican silver and mules.

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The belief that Native Americans might belong to the fabled ‘lost tribes of Israel’-Israelites driven from their homeland around 740 BCE-took hold among Anglo-Americans and Indigenous peoples in the United States during its first half century. Matthew Dougherty explores what this idea can tell us about religious nationalism in early America.

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Presiding from 1875 to 1896 over the US Court for the Western Judicial District of Arkansas, Isaac Charles Parker attained notoriety as the ‘Hanging Judge’ responsible for law and order in Indian Territory. This first Parker biography in four decades presents his unique brand of frontier justice within the legal and political context of his time.

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Presents naturalist Thomas Nuttall's only surviving complete journal of his American scientific explorations. The account follows Nuttall's route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, down the Ohio River to its mouth, then down the Mississippi River to the Arkansas Post, and up the Arkansas River with a side trip to the Red River.

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Collects, defines, and correlates the month names in every recorded Maya calendrical tradition from the first hieroglyphic inscriptions to the present - an undertaking critical to unlocking and understanding the iconography and cosmology of the ancient Maya world.

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Forget Doris Day singing on the stagecoach. Forget Robin Weigert's gritty portrayal on HBO's Deadwood. The real Calamity Jane was someone the likes of whom you've never encountered. That is, until now. This is the definitive biography of Martha Canary, the woman popularly known as Calamity Jane.

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Widely acclaimed as the founder of Chicano literature, Rudolfo Anaya is one of America's most compelling and prolific authors. The Forked Juniper illuminates both the artistry of Anaya's writings and the culture, history, and diverse religious traditions of his beloved Nuevo Mexico.

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In this detailed and deeply researched account of the most famous cavalry raid of the Civil War, author Bruce Venter describes an expedition that was carefully planned but poorly executed. His thoughtful reinterpretations and well-reasoned observations put to rest many myths and misperceptions.

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