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An engaging ride through Oklahoma’s untold cinematic history
wooley shot in oklahoma

Shot in Oklahoma
A Century of Sooner State Cinema
By John Wooley
When inventor and movie studio pioneer Thomas Edison wanted to capture western
magic on film in 1904, where did he send his crew?
To Oklahoma’s 101 Ranch near Ponca City. And when Francis Ford Coppola readied
young actors Tom Cruise and Matt Dillon to portray teen class strife in the 1983 movie
The Outsiders, he took cast and crew to Tulsa, the setting of S. E. Hinton’s acclaimed
novel. From Edison to Coppola and beyond, Oklahoma has served as both backdrop
and home base for cinematic productions. The only book to chronicle the history
of made-in-Oklahoma films, John Wooley’s Shot in Oklahoma explores the variety,
spunk, and ingenuity of moviemaking in the Sooner State over more than a century.
Wooley’s trek through cinematic history, buttressed by meticulous research and

interviews, hits the big films readers have heard of—but maybe didn’t realize were
volume 7 in the stories and storytellers series
shot in the state—along with lesser-known offerings. We also get the films’ intriguing
backstories. For instance, President Theodore Roosevelt’s fascination with a man
April
purportedly able to catch a wolf in his hands led to The Wolf Hunt, shot in the $16.95 paper 978-0-8061-4174-9
Wichita Mountains and screened in the White House in 1909. Over time, homegrown 320 Pages, 6 X 9
33 B&W Illus.
movies such as Where the Red Fern Grows (1974, 2003) have given way to feature
oklahoma/entertainment
films including The Outsiders and Rain Man (1988). Throughout this tale, Wooley
draws attention to unsung aspects of state and cinematic history, including early
all-black movies lensed in Oklahoma’s African American towns and films starring
American Indian leads.
With a nod to more recent Hollywood productions such as Twister (1996) and
Elizabethtown (2005), Wooley ultimately explores how a low-budget slasher movie
created in Oklahoma in the 1980s transformed the movie business worldwide.
Of Related Interest
Punctuated with photographs and including a filmography of more than one hundred
John Ford
productions filmed in the state, Shot in Oklahoma offers movie lovers and historians
Hollywood’s Old Master
alike an engaging ride through untold cinematic history. By Ronald L. Davis
$24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2916-7
John Wooley, formerly entertainment writer with the Tulsa World, has written, co-
Duke
written, or edited more than 20 books, including the recent novel, Ghost Band, and The Life and Image of John Wayne
the nonfiction From the Blue Devils to Red Dirt: The Colors of Oklahoma Music. By Ronald L. Davis
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3329-4
Call Me Lucky
A Texan in Hollywood
By Robert Hinkle and Mike Farris
$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4093-3
On the cover: Photograph by J. Don Cook

2 new books spring/summer 2011
A new novel by the master storyteller that explores

anaya randy lopez goes home
what it means to go home
Randy Lopez Goes Home

A Novel
By Rudolfo Anaya
When he was a young man, Randy Lopez left his village in northern New Mexico to seek
his fortune. Since then, he has learned some of the secrets of success in the Anglo world—
and even written a book called Life Among the Gringos. But something has been missing.
Now he returns to Agua Bendita to reconnect with his past and to find the wisdom the
Anglo world has not provided. In this allegorical account of Randy’s final journey, master
storyteller Rudolfo Anaya tackles life’s big questions with a light touch.
Randy’s entry into the haunted canyon that leads to his ancestral home begins on the
Day of the Dead. Reuniting with his padrinos—his godparents—and hoping to meet
up with his lost love, Sofia, Randy encounters a series of spirits: coyotes, cowboys,
Death, and the devil. Each one engages him in a conversation about life. It is Randy’s
old teacher Miss Libriana who suggests his new purpose. She gives him a book,
volume 9 in the Chicana & Chicano Visions
How to Build a Bridge. Only the bridge—which is both literal and figurative, like
of the Américas Series
everything else in this story—can enable Randy to complete his journey.
June Readers acquainted with Anaya’s fiction will find themselves in familiar territory
$19.95 cloth 978-0-8061-4189-3
168 pages, 5.5 X 8.5
here. Randy Lopez, like all Anaya’s protagonists, is on a spiritual quest. But both
Fiction those new to and familiar with Anaya will recognize this philosophical meditation as
part of a long literary tradition going back to Homer, Dante, and the Bible. Richly
allusive and uniquely witty, Randy Lopez Goes Home presents man’s quest for
meaning in a touching, thought-provoking narrative that will resound with young
adults and mature readers alike.
Often referred to as “the godfather of Chicano literature,” Rudolfo Anaya is the

author of numerous books, including the classic Bless Me, Ultima. His most recent
Of Related Interest
works include a collection of short stories—The Man Who Could Fly and Other
The Essays
Stories—and a nonfiction compilation, The Essays.
By Rudolfo Anaya
$24.95s CLOTH 978-0-8061-4023-0
The Man Who Could Fly

and Other Stories
By Rudolfo Anaya
$12.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-3738-4
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More than just another damned killer
remley Kit carson

Kit Carson
The Life of an American Border Man
By David Remley
History has portrayed Christopher “Kit” Carson in black and white. Best known as a
nineteenth-century frontier hero, he has been represented more recently as an Indian
killer responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Navajos. Biographer David Remley
counters these polarized views, finding Carson to be less than a mythical hero, but
more than a simpleminded rascal with a rifle.
Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man strikes a balance between pre-
vailing notions about this quintessential western figure. Whereas the dime novelists
exploited Carson’s popular reputation, Remley reveals that the real man was depend-
able, ethical, and—for his day—relatively open-minded. Sifting through the extensive
scholarship about Kit, the author illuminates the key dimensions of Carson’s life,
including his often neglected Scots-Irish heritage. His people’s dire poverty and rest-
Volume 27 in the Oklahoma Western
lessness, their clannish rural life and sternly Protestant character, committed Carson,
Biographies
like his Scots-Irish ancestors, to loyalty and duty and to following his leader into
battle without question. may
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Remley also places Carson in the context of his times by exploring his controversial 320 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
relations with American Indians. Although despised for the merciless warfare he led 25 B&W Illus., 2 maps
biography
on General James H. Carleton’s behalf against the Navajos, Carson lived amicably
among many Indian people, including the Utes and Jicarillas, whom he served as
U.S. government agent. Happily married to Waa-Nibe, an Arapaho woman, until her
death, he formed a lasting friendship with their daughter, Adaline.
Remley sees Carson as a complicated man struggling to master life on America’s

borders, those highly unstable areas where people of different races, cultures, and
languages met, mixed, and fought, sometimes against each other, sometimes together, Of Related Interest
for the possession of home, hunting rights, and honor.
Dear Old Kit
The Historical Christopher Carson
David Remley is the author of Crooked Road: The Story of the Alaska Highway;
By Harvey Lewis Carter
Adios Nuevo Mexico: The Santa Fe Journal of John Watts in 1859; and Bell Ranch: $19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-2253-3
Cattle Ranching in the Southwest, 1824–1946. Kit Carson
A Portrait in Courage
By M. Morgan Estergreen and Edgar L. Hewett
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-1601-3
The Taos Trappers

The Fur Trade in the Far Southwest, 1540–1846
By David J. Weber
$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-1702-7
An award-winning photojournalist celebrates the spirit

Cook Shooting from the Hip
and people of Oklahoma
Shooting from the Hip

Photographs and Essays
By J. Don Cook
Foreword by James Garner
“Plunge into this wonderful book and be delighted by the luminous images of J. Don
Cook. Some will make you cry; some will make you smile, but you will be moved.”
—James Garner
In this heartfelt tribute to the spirit and people of Oklahoma, one of the state’s most
distinguished photojournalists shows that he is equally talented as a photographer
and writer. Showcasing black-and-white photographs and fifty short essays, Shoot-
may ing from the Hip portrays Oklahoma’s people, animals, lifestyles, landscapes, and
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4180-0
weather in all their diversity. Cowboys, kids, tornados, trucks, rattlesnakes, fiddlers—
144 pages, 11 X 11
75 B&W Illus. J. Don Cook has seen them all, and through his poignant essays, he allows us not
art and photography/oklahoma only to see them but to understand them as he does.
After a hardscrabble boyhood, Cook became a photographer at the age of twenty

when he took a job with the Ada Evening News in southern Oklahoma. His first
assignment was to photograph six abandoned puppies at the city dump—an apt fore-
shadowing of his career, for he has always been drawn to the poor, the disenfran-
chised, and the downtrodden.
In addition to the brief essays that accompany his photographs, Cook shares some
Of Related Interest of his own life experiences in a moving introduction and epilogue. His unsparing
Oklahoma: A History account of some of the worst moments of his difficult youth and his meditations on
By W. David Baird and Danney Goble
$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3910-4
how he used these hardships to become an artist can only be called inspirational.
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4197-8 “At seven I didn’t know any better,” he writes, “and believed I had few choices. But
Voices from the Heartland I quickly learned to cope—to feint, to dodge, to hide, to read, to run, to survive, to
Edited by Caroline Taylor make art—and I did it all, shooting from the hip.”
$19.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3858-9
$14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4031-5 J. Don Cook, a resident of Oklahoma City, is an award-winning photojournalist, artist,
Oklahoma: Portrait of America poet, and business entrepreneur. Nominated three times for a Pulitzer Prize and named
By Libby Bender
$49.95 Cloth 978-0-9800214-0-0
News Photographer of the Year seven times by the Oklahoma Press Association, his
photographs have appeared in such magazines as National Geographic and Time.
James Garner, the acclaimed film and television actor, is best known for his leading
roles in the television series Maverick and the The Rockford Files. He is a native of
Norman, Oklahoma.
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A concise history of the Indians said to have
grumet First manhattans

sold Manhattan for $24
First Manhattans
A History of the Indians of Greater New York
By Robert S. Grumet
The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world’s most cherished legends. Few
people know that the Indians who made the fabled sale were Munsees whose an-
cestral homeland lay between the lower Hudson and upper Delaware river valleys.
The story of the Munsee people has long lain unnoticed in broader histories of the
Delaware Nation.
First Manhattans, a concise and lively distillation of the author’s comprehensive The
Munsee Indians, resurrects the lost history of this forgotten people, from their earliest
contacts with Europeans to their final expulsion just before the American Revolution.
Anthropologist Robert S. Grumet rescues from obscurity Mattano, Tackapousha,
Mamanuchqua, and other Munsee sachems whose influence on Dutch and Brit-
ish settlers helped shape the course of early American history in the mid-Atlantic
heartland. He looks past the legendary sale of Manhattan to show for the first time april
how Munsee leaders forestalled land-hungry colonists by selling small tracts whose $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4163-3
256 Pages, 5.5 X 8.5
vaguely worded and bounded titles kept courts busy—and settlers out—for more
4 B&W Illus., 9 maps
than 150 years. American Indian/history
Ravaged by disease, war, and alcohol, the Munsees finally emigrated to reservations
in Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Ontario, where most of their descendants still live to-
day. With the four hundredth anniversary of Hudson’s voyage to the river that bears
his name, this book shows how Indians and settlers struggled, through land deals and
other transactions, to reconcile cultural ideals with political realities. It offers a wide
audience access to the most authoritative treatment of the Munsee experience—one
that restores this people to their place in history. Of Related Interest
Native People of Southern New England,
Robert S. Grumet, anthropologist and retired National Park Service archeologist, is a 1500–1650
Senior Research Associate with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the By Kathleen J. Bragdon
$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-2803-0
University of Pennsylvania. His numerous publications include The Lenapes and The
$21.95s Paper 978-08061-3126-9
Munsee Indians: A History.
Native People of Southern New England,
1650–1775
By Kathleen J. Bragdon
$32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4004-9
New England Frontier, 3rd Edition

Puritans and Indians 1620-1675
By Alden T. Vaughan
$26.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2718-7
Grand Procession
Duncan, tolles, hassrick, walker shaping the west · dubin grand procession
Shaping the West

Contemporary Artistic Visions
American Sculptors of
of American Indians
the 19th Century
The Diker Collection at the
With contributions by Alice Levi
Denver Art Museum
Duncan, Thayer Tolles, Peter
By Lois Sherr Dubin
Hassrick, and Andrew Walker.
The premier collection of

Explores the art and
contemporary American
influence of sculptors of
Indian sculptural art figures
the American West
Shaping the West, the sixth edition of Western Passages, focuses Grand Procession celebrates a remarkable new tradition-based,
on sculpture—an often overlooked, neglected, and misunderstood contemporary American Indian art form. From a heritage
form of artistic expression. Sculpture has too often taken a backseat rooted in dolls and ledger-book drawings, a fresh and exciting
to painting, and this is equally true for western American art. sculptural art featuring human and animal figures has evolved
Almost everyone recognizes Frederic Remington’s iconic bronze since the mid-1980s. Typically around two feet tall and meticu-
The Broncho Buster, but beyond this and a few other examples the lously clothed in elaborate beaded and quilled ceremonial dress,
familiarity begins to wane. Yet when one surveys the quality and the figures carefully emulate Plains and Plateau traditions of the
professionalism of sculptors working in western themes during mid-ninteenth to early twentieth centuries.
the late 1800s and early 1900s, the output is astounding. During
The premier collection of these figures, created by five award-
this period in American art, sculpture could rank as the more
winning Native American women artists—Rhonda Holy Bear
popular medium given the significance and frequency of public
(Lakota), Jamie Okuma (Luiseno), and the Growing Thunder
commissions and the mass appeal of smaller bronzes. So why are
family (Assiniboine-Sioux): Joyce Growing Thunder, her daugh-
these accomplished and celebrated artists and artworks not widely
ter Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty, and granddaughter,
known to us today? This generously illustrated book aims to help
Jessica Growing Thunder—has been brilliantly assembled by
rectify and explore that conundrum.
Charles and Valerie Diker. While each figure is a strong work of
Thayer Tolles (Metropolitan Museum of Art) discusses Augustus art, the assemblage of figures is particularly powerful.
Saint-Gaudens, his work, and the western legacy left by his disciples.
Beautifully illustrated, this volume will appeal to all those in-
Peter Hassrick (Denver Art Museum) reveals new aspects of the life
terested in American Indian art and crafts, contemporary and
and poetic work of Solon Borglum. While highlighting the work of
historic Indian lifeways, sculpture, and dolls. Grand Procession
Hermon Atkins MacNeil. Andrew Walker (St. Louis Art Museum)
crosses many boundaries.
illustrates how the 1904 World’s Fair included a monumental
sculpture initiative. An additional essay by Hassrick focuses on Curator Nancy Blomberg of the Denver Art Museum and author
the diverse portrayals of cowboy imagery following the success of Lois Dubin trace the history of the figures and place the artists
Remington’s Broncho Buster. And Sarah Boehme (Stark Museum) and the figures within the context of American Indian and Great
contributes an essay on Charles M. Russell’s little-known works Plains art and aesthetics. Tom Armstrong, Director Emeritus of
in mixed-media and wax and on current efforts to preserve them. the Whitney Museum of American Art, conveys his impression
Alice Levi Duncan (Gerald Peters Gallery) sets the scene with her of the genre as works of abstraction.
introduction.
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96 PAGES, 9 X 12 67 Color and 1 B&W illus.
95 COLOR ILLUS. art/american indian
ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
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Building One Fire Generations
smith, strickland, smith building one fire · nottage generations

Art and World View in The Helen Cox Kersting
Cherokee Life Collection of Southwestern
By Chadwick Smith, Cultural Arts
Rennard Strickland, Edited by James H. Nottage
and Benny Smith
Showcasing Native American
A beautifully illustrated arts from the Southwest at the
volume of Cherokee art Eiteljorg Museum of American
and philosophy Indians and Western Art
In Building One Fire, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation Lavishly illustrated, Generations celebrates the nearly 800 works
Chad Smith and renowned Cherokee-Osage scholar and author of Native American art in The Helen Cox Kersting Collection,
Rennard Strickland present a unique look at Cherokee art through including pottery, jewelry, baskets, weavings, katsinas, and
the lens of Cherokee philosophy. paintings. Representing the work of Native artists from the late
1800s to the present, the collection demonstrates the survival and
Since the time when Water Spider brought the gift of fire to the
flowering of work by Navajo, Pueblo, and other American Indian
Cherokee people, the One Fire, “the Ancient Lady,” has been at the
artists across the generations.
center of Cherokee spiritual life. From this fire, which represents
community, the white smoke of prayer rises to Nitsudunvha, One Helen Cox Kersting grew up in Illinois, but gained fame as an
Who Is Always Above. In return Nitsudunvha sends to each person opera star in Europe. Kersting became a sophisticated collector
four sets of gifts with which to develop mind, body, and spirit. of exceptional work by famed jewelers, such as Leo Poblano,
These gifts are part of Cherokee consciousness and creativity and John Gordon Leak, Charles Loloma, and Frank Dishta, and she
take visible form, subtly or directly, in works created by Cherokee was fascinated by the pottery of masters such as Maria Martinez,
artists. Lucy Lewis, Margaret Tafoya, and Nampeyo. Creations by
leading Native artists today, including brilliant works by Veronica
A visual feast of Cherokee art, this volume presents more than 200
Poblano, Tammy Garcia, Grace Medicine Flower, Jacob Koopee,
artworks by some 80 artists. Building One Fire speaks to what it
and Les Namingha, were added to the collection.
means to be Cherokee.
Generations presents a visual feast of Native arts of the American
Chadwick “Corntassel” Smith has served as Principal Chief of the Southwest, with approximately 550 color plates. Essays by
Cherokee people since 1999. Rennard Strickland has written and James H. Nottage, Diana F. Pardue (Heard Museum), and Bruce
edited more than 35 books. Smithy B. “Benny” Smith, a revered Bernstein (Santa Fe Indian Market) provide insights into the
Cherokee elder, was educated in the ancient ceremonial and history of the collection.
spiritual customs of Keetoowah life.
James H. Nottage is Vice President and Chief Curatorial Officer at
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January
200 COLOR ILLUS.
$75.00 Cloth 978-0-9798495-1-0
AMERICAN INDIAN/ART & PHOTOGRAPY
460 Pages, 9 X 12
549 color and 7 b&w illus.
Art & Photography/American Indian
Turning Points new in paper

sinner, jansen Turning point · wylie the irish general
A Memoir The Irish General

By George A. “Bud” Sinner Thomas Francis Meagher
and Bob Jansen By Paul R. Wylie
A candid memoir of a strong, The remarkable story of the

outspoken North Dakota Irish revolutionary, Civil War
governor general, and Montana governor
George “Bud” Sinner was the governor of North Dakota from “This engaging biography chronicles Meagher’s colorful life. An
1984 to1992, one of the most difficult periods in North Dakota Irish revolutionary exiled to Tasmania, he escaped to New York
history. Sinner became governor during a time of crisis on the City, where he rose and fell as a leader of the Irish-American
northern Great Plains: the traditional problems of outmigration community.”—James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of
and uncertain commodity prices were dramatically worsened by Freedom: The Civil War Era
a protracted drought, weak tax revenues, high interest rates, and “A story worth reading, and worth remembering.”—Blue &
one of the greatest farm foreclosure crises in American history. Gray Magazine
Written in Sinner’s warm, approachable style, his memoirs touch
upon the serious, the hilarious, and the heartbreaking. This is Irish patriot, Civil War general, frontier governor—Thomas
the story of a Catholic farm boy who studied for the priesthood Francis Meagher played key roles in three major historical
but discovered that his true vocation was public service. Turning arenas. Today he is hailed as a hero by some, condemned as a
Points exhibits Bud Sinner's characteristic outspokenness about drunken sot by others.
life and power, friendship and faith, agriculture and community,
Paul R. Wylie recounts Meagher’s life from his boyhood and
public affairs and personal ethics.
activities in the Irish revolution of 1848 to his exile to Tasmania
Before his two terms as governor, George A. “Bud” Sinner had and escape to New York, where he found fame as an orator and
been a member of the North Dakota House of Representatives and as editor of the Irish News. Serving in the Union Army during
the State Senate, served on the State Board of Higher Education, the Civil War, Meagher rose to the rank of brigadier general,
and was a partner in the family farm near Casselton, North leading the famous Irish Brigade through the Seven Days Battles,
Dakota. Bob Jansen, who worked for three newspapers before Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville.
joining George Sinner’s campaign staff, was the governor’s press Wylie then narrates Meagher’s career as acting governor of
secretary from 1985 to 1992. He lives in Fargo, North Dakota. Montana Territory, sorting historical truth from false claims
regarding the militia he formed to combat attacking American
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Indians, and plumbing the mystery surrounding his death.
JANUARY
$29.95 CLOTH 978-0-9825597-4-1 Enhanced by rare maps and photographs depicting the Young
$18.95 PAPER 978-0-9825597-5-8 Irelanders, the Irish Brigade, and early Montana, The Irish
350 pages, 6 x 9 General offers a captivating reading experience.
10 COLOR and 23 B&W ILLUS.
MEMOIR/WESTERN HISTORY
Paul R. Wylie is an independent researcher and retired attorney
living in Bozeman, Montana.
February
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4185-5
416 Pages, 6.125 X 9.25
45 B&W Illus., 4 Maps
biography
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new in paper NEW IN PAPER
baird, goble Oklahoma · boren a letter to america

Oklahoma A Letter to America
A History By David Boren
By W. David Baird
and Danney Goble A powerful wake-up call
to all Americans
The only single-volume
narrative history of
Oklahoma for a general
audience
“Lively prose, vivid biographical vignettes, and artful synthesis “Wise, timely, and constructive views from one of the leading
make this book the best brief overview of Oklahoma ever writ- public servants and educators of our time. This book should be
ten.”—Chronicles of Oklahoma read, re-read, and passed along to all who care about our coun-
try and its future.”—David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize–win-
Oklahoma: A History covers the story of the Sooner State—from ning author of John Adams
the tectonic formation of Oklahoma’s varied landscape, to the
recovery and renewal following the Oklahoma City bombing, to With only 6 percent of the world’s population, how long will the
the threshold of its centennial—in one readable volume. United States remain a global superpower? The answer, David
Boren tells us in A Letter to America, depends on asking ourselves
W. David Baird and Danney Goble, both authorities on the
tough questions and taking a bold, objective look at ourselves.
46th state, explore Oklahoma history’s intricate tapestry of
themes, stories, and perspectives, including those of the state’s Boren explains with unsparing clarity why the country is at a
diverse population of American Indians. Offering fresh insights crossroads and why decisive action is urgently needed and offers
on widely recognized history makers, such as Sequoyah, and us an ambitious, hopeful plan. What the country needs, Boren
well-known milestones like the 1889 Land Run and the Glenn asserts, are major reforms to restore the ability of our political
Pool oil strike, the authors also reveal lesser-known but equally system to act responsibly. We must fashion a post–Cold War
important Oklahoma people, places, and events. The result is a foreign policy that fits twenty-first-century realities and adopt
rousing, often surprising, and ever-fascinating story. campaign finance reform that restores political power to the
voters.
W. David Baird is Dean Emeritus of Seaver College and Howard
A. White Professor of History at Pepperdine University, Boren also describes how we can renew our emphasis on
Malibu, California. Danney Goble (1946–2007) was Professor quality primary and secondary education, revitalize our spirit
of Classics at the University of Oklahoma. Baird and Goble, of community, and promote volunteerism. The plan Boren puts
both Oklahoma natives, wrote the textbook The Story of forward is optimistic and challenges Americans to look into the
Oklahoma, named the Oklahoma History Book of the Year by future, decide what we want to be and where we want to go, and
the Oklahoma Historical Society. then implement the policies and actions we need to take us there.
Rhodes Scholar David Boren, currently President of the

March
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4197-8 University of Oklahoma, was the longest-serving chairman of
360 pages, 6 X 9 the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee.
history/oklahoma
JANUARY
$9.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-4202-9
$14.95 CLoTH 978-0-8061-3944-9
112 PAGES, 5 x 7.5
OKLAHOMA/POLITICAL SCIENCE/LAW
new in paper
Hagan charles goodnight · barbour jedediah smith
new in paper
Charles Goodnight Jedediah Smith

Father of the Texas Panhandle No Ordinary Mountain Man
By William T. Hagan By Barton H. Barbour
The life of one of the most An unvarnished picture of one

important cattleman of the of the West’s most complex
American West characters
“Fresh and valuable . . . a modern classic on the father of the “One of the West’s greatest explorers has found the right biog-
Texas Panhandle.”—David Dary, author of The Santa Fe Trail rapher.”—Utah Historical Quarterly
A pioneer of the early range cattle industry, Charles Goodnight Mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic
was an opinionated and profane but energetic and well-liked shadow. The first Anglo-American to travel overland to Califor-
rancher. In this authoritative account, the first major reassess- nia via the Southwest, Smith roamed through more of the West
ment of Charles Goodnight’s life in seventy years, William T. than anyone of his era, and his adventures quickly became the
Hagan considers the role of ranching in general, and Goodnight stuff of legend. Barton H. Barbour includes recently discovered
in particular, in the development of the Texas Panhandle. documents and sifts fact from legend to offer new insights on the
Goodnight learned the cattle business and became one of the life and adventures of this dynamic frontiersman.
pioneering ranchers of the Southwest. Responding to the threat Young Jedediah Smith was influenced by notable men who
of Comanche raids, he volunteered in campaigns against the In- were his family’s neighbors, including a member of the Lewis
dians and trained as a scout. Hagan traces Goodnight’s life from and Clark expedition. When he was twenty-three, hard times
hardscrabble farmer to cattle baron, giving close attention to and wanderlust set him on the road west. Barbour delves into
lesser-known aspects of his last thirty years. He also presents Smith’s journals to offer compelling insights into the trader’s
a clearer picture of Goodnight’s business arrangements and in- itineraries and personality, and turns up a letter Smith wrote
vestments, including the financial setbacks of his later life. late in life that illustrates his passion for geographic discovery.
As entertaining as it is informative, Charles Goodnight: Father of Jedediah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man takes a hard
the Texas Panhandle takes readers back to the Palo Duro Canyon look at Smith’s views of American Indians, Mexicans in Cali-
and the Staked Plains to share images of the cattleman’s life—rid- fornia, and Hudson’s Bay Company competitors, evaluating his
ing the range, fighting grass fires, driving cattle to the nearest rail- fur-trade dealings and exploring the character and remarkable
head—that are the very stuff of cowboy legend and lore. achievements of one of the West’s most complex characters.
William T. Hagan is retired as Professor of History at the Barton H. Barbour is Professor of History at Boise State University
University of Oklahoma. His numerous books include Taking and the author of Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade.
Indian Lands and Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief.
Volume 23 in The Oklahoma Western Biographies
Volume 21 in the Oklahoma Western Biographies April
March $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4196-1
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A new look at one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War
Blair, DeCioccio Victory at peleliu

Victory at Peleliu
The 81st Infantry Division’s Pacific Campaign
By Bobby C. Blair and John Peter DeCioccio
When the 1st Marine Division began its invasion of Peleliu in September 1944, the
operation in the South Pacific was to take but four days. In fact, capturing this small
coral island in the Palaus with its strategic airstrip took two months and involved
some of the bloodiest fighting of the Second World War in the Pacific. Rather than
the easy conquest they were led to expect, the Marines who landed on Peleliu faced a
war of attrition from the island’s Japanese defenders, who had dug tunnels and forti-
fied the island’s rugged terrain. When the Marines’ advance stalled after a week of
heavy casualties, the “Wildcats” of the 81st Infantry Division were called in, at first
as support. Eventually, the 1st Marines Division was evacuated and the 81st Infantry
secured the island.
Now Bobby C. Blair and John Peter DeCioccio tell the story of this campaign through
Volume 30 in the Campaigns and
the eyes of the 81st Infantry to offer a revised assessment. Previous accounts of the
Commanders series
battle have focused on the 1st Marines, all but ignoring the 81st Infantry Division’s
contributions. Victory at Peleliu demonstrates that without the army’s help the ma- April
rines could not have succeeded on Peleliu. $34.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4154-1
320 Pages, 6 x 9
Blair and DeCioccio have mined the 81st Division’s unit records and interviewed scores 15 b&w illus., 10 maps
Military History
of veteran participants. The new data they offer challenge the orthodox view that the
81st Infantry merely mopped up an already broken enemy. Allowing their interviewees
to tell much of the story, the authors also give a human face to a brutal battle.
Although American efforts in the Palau Islands proved largely unnecessary to ulti-
mately defeating the Japanese, the lessons learned on Peleliu were crucial in subse-
quent fighting on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The 81st Infantry’s contributions are now
part of that larger story.
Of Related Interest
Bobby C. Blair is an independent researcher and writer. Retired after a thirty-two-year
Once Upon a Time In War
career with Phillips Petroleum Company, he now lives in Shawnee, Oklahoma. John The 99th Division in World War II
Peter DeCioccio (1949–2004), who began the research for this book and interviewed By Robert E. Humphrey
$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3946-3
most of the veterans, worked in the fields of broadcast journalism and mental health
in New York and Florida. The Wrong Stuff
The Adventures and Misadventures of an
8th Air Force Aviator
By Truman Smith
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3422-2
Hero Street U.S.A

The Story of Little Mexico’s Fallen Soldiers
By Marc Wilson
$19.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4012-4
A comprehensive account of the pivotal battle of the

boscawen the capture of louisbourg, 1758
Seven Years’ War
The Capture of Louisbourg, 1758

By Hugh Boscawen
Louisbourg, France’s impressive fortress on Cape Breton Island’s foggy Atlantic
coast, dominated access to the St. Lawrence and colonial New France for forty years
in the mid-eighteenth century. In 1755, Great Britain and France stumbled into the
French and Indian War, part of what (to Europe) became the Seven Years’ War—only
for British forces to suffer successive defeats. In 1758, Britain and France, as well
as Indian nations caught in the rivalry, fought for high stakes: the future of colonial
America.
Hugh Boscawen describes how Britain’s war minister William Pitt launched four
fleets in a coordinated campaign to prevent France from reinforcing Louisbourg. As
the author shows, the Royal Navy outfought its opponents before General Jeffery
Amherst and Brigadier James Wolfe successfully led 14,000 British regulars, includ-
ing American-born redcoats, rangers, and carpenters, in a hard-fought assault land-
Volume 27 in the Campaigns and ing. Together they besieged the fortress, which surrendered after forty-nine days. The
Commanders series victory marked a turning point in British fortunes and precipitated the end of French
rule in North America.
april
$39.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4155-8 Boscawen, an experienced soldier and sailor, and a direct descendant of Admiral
408 pages, 6 x 9
the Hon. Edward Boscawen, who commanded the Royal Navy fleet at Louisbourg,
24 b&w illus., 6 maps
Military history examines the pivotal 1758 Louisbourg campaign from both the British and French
perspectives. Drawing on myriad primary sources, including previously unpublished
correspondence, Boscawen also answers the question “What did the soldiers and
sailors who fought there do all day?” The result is the most comprehensive history of
this strategically important campaign ever written.
Colonel Hugh Boscawen served thirty-two years in the Coldstream Guards, with op-
erational service in three theaters, including Op DESERT STORM, before leaving
Of Related Interest the British Army in 2009. An eighteenth-century naval and military specialist, and a
With Zeal and With Bayonets Only yachtsman, he has contributed to British military doctrine and to various regimental
The British Army on Campaign in North America, histories and journals.
1775–1783
By Matthew H. Spring
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Never Come to Peace Again

Pontiac’s Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire
in North America
By David Dixon
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The Far Reaches of Empire

War in Nova Scotia, 1710–1760
By John Grenier
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Surprising new evidence of operational art among U.S.
matheny carrying the war to the enemy

commanders in World War II
Carrying the War to the Enemy

American Operational Art to 1945
By Michael R. Matheny
Military commanders turn tactics into strategic victory by means of “operational
art,” the knowledge and creative imagination commanders and staff employ in
designing, synchronizing, and conducting battles and major operations to achieve
strategic goals. Until now, historians of military theory have generally agreed that
modern operational art developed between the first and second world wars, not in
the United States but in Germany and the Soviet Union, whose armies were suppos-
edly the innovators and greatest practitioners of operational art. Some have even
claimed that U.S. forces struggled in World War II because their commanders had no
systematic understanding of operational art.
Michael R. Matheny believes previous studies have not appreciated the evolution of
U.S. military thinking at the operational level. Although they may rightly point to the
U.S. Army’s failure to modernize or develop a sophisticated combined arms doctrine
Commanders series
during the interwar years, they focus too much on technology or tactical doctrine. In
his revealing account, Matheny shows that it was at the operational level, particu- april
larly in mounting joint and combined operations, that senior American commanders $45.00s cloth 978-0-8061-4156-5
320 pages, 6 x 9
excelled—and laid a foundation for their country’s victory in World War II.
military history
Matheny draws on archival materials from military educational institutions, plan-
ning documents, and operational records of World War II campaigns. Examining in
detail the development of American operational art as land, sea, and air power ma-
tured in the twentieth century, he shows that, contrary to conventional wisdom, U.S.
war colleges educated and trained commanders during the interwar years specifically
for the operational art they employed in World War II.
After 1945, in the face of nuclear warfare, the American military largely abandoned
operational art. But since the Vietnam War, U.S. commanders have found opera- Of Related Interest
tional art increasingly important as they pursue modern global and expeditionary The Uncivil War
Irregular Warfare in the Upper South, 1861–1865
warfare requiring coordination among multiple service branches and the forces of By Robert R. Mackey
allied countries. $21.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3736-0
William Harding Carter and the

Michael R. Matheny retired after 30 years with the U.S. Army to earn a Ph.D. in American Army
military history and join the faculty of the Department of Military Strategy, Planning, A Soldier’s Story
By Ronald G. Machoian
and Operations at the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.
$39.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-3746-9
Clash of Arms
How the Allies Won in Normandy
By Russell A. Hart
$24.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3605-9
Wellington’s battle with Napoleon abroad and

Moon wellington’s two-front war
bureaucracy at home
Wellington’s T wo-Front War

The Peninsular Campaigns, at Home and Abroad, 1808–1814
By Joshua Moon
Sir Arthur Wellesley’s 1808–14 campaigns against Napoleon’s forces in the Iberian
Peninsula have drawn the attention of scholars and soldiers for two centuries. Yet,
until now, no study has focused on the problems that Wellesley, later known as the
Duke of Wellington, encountered on the home front before his eventual triumph
beyond the Pyrenees. In Wellington’s Two-Front War, Joshua Moon not only surveys
Wellington’s command of British forces against the French but also describes the
battles Wellington fought in England—with an archaic military command structure,
bureaucracy, and fickle public opinion.
In this detailed and accessible account, Moon traces Wellington’s command of British
forces during the six years of warfare against the French. Almost immediately upon
landing in Portugal in 1808, Wellington was hampered by his government’s strug-
gle to plan a strategy for victory. From that point on, Moon argues, the military’s
Commanders series
outdated promotion system, political maneuvering, and bureaucratic inertia—all
april subject to public opinion and a hostile press—thwarted Wellington’s efforts, almost
$34.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4157-2 costing him the victory. Drawing on archival sources in the United Kingdom and at
272 pages, 6 x 9
9 B&W Illus., 1 Map
the United States Military Academy, Moon goes well beyond detailing military opera-
Military history tions to delve into the larger effects of domestic policies, bureaucracy, and coalition
building on strategy.
Ultimately, Moon shows, the second front of Wellington’s “two-front war” was as
difficult as the better-known struggle against Napoleon’s troops and harsh conditions
abroad. As this book demonstrates, it was only through strategic vision and relentless
determination that Wellington attained the hard-fought victory. Moon’s multifaceted
examination of the commander and his frustrations offers valuable insight into the
Of Related Interest complexities of fighting faraway battles under the scrutiny at home of government
On wellington agencies and the press—issues still relevant today.
A Critique of Waterloo
By Carl von Clausewitz Joshua Moon is a Major in the U.S. Army. Formerly Assistant Professor of History at
Edited by Peter Hofschröer the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he now serves in Hawaii.
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Architects of Empire
The Duke of Wellington and His Brothers
By John Severn
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Napoleon and Berlin

The Franco-Prussian War in North Germany, 1813
By Michael V. Leggiere
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The first book published on the Battle of the Little Bighorn
victor our centennial indian war and the life of general custer
Our Centennial Indian War and the
Life of General Custer
By Frances Fuller Victor
Introduction by Jerome A. Greene
Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer was widely known as a Civil War figure, au-
thor, and successful cavalry leader before his spectacular defeat at the Battle of the
Little Bighorn in 1876 by Lakota and Northern Cheyenne Indians. His actions—and
those of his troops—would have been of public interest even without their final,
bloody outcome. A ready audience of readers was hungry for information about the
engagement and about their fallen hero when Frances Fuller Victor’s book appeared
in spring 1877.
Published even before the Great Sioux War had ended, Our Centennial Indian War
and the Life of General Custer was the first contemporary and comprehensive ac-
count of the successive army operations in 1876 and early 1877. It was a major
Volume 68 in the Western Frontier
accomplishment. Victor drew information from a wide range of sources—including Library series
personal letters, war correspondents’ dispatches, and government documents—to
explain the lengthy, disjointed struggle between the army and the Lakota-Cheyenne march
$29.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4173-2
coalition. She also offered one of the earliest biographical assessments of Custer, its 208 pages, 5 x 7.5
most noted military participant. 6 B&W Illus., 2 maps
Western history
Compared to other period writings, Victor’s narrative is smooth and dispassionate,
devoid of conjecture and judgment. In addition, her account contains rare Indian
perspectives on the Little Bighorn battle, including Lakota testimony that has not
previously appeared elsewhere. Featuring an introduction by historian Jerome A.
Greene, this edition of Our Centennial Indian War provides a remarkable window
into contemporary thinking about an iconic event.
Frances Fuller Victor (1826–1902) was a writer and historian who wrote prolifically, and Of Related Interest
sometimes without due acknowledgment, on the history of the American West, especially
The Custer Reader
the Pacific Northwest. Jerome A. Greene is retired as Research Historian for the National By Paul Andrew Hutton
Park Service. He is the author of numerous books, including most recently Beyond Bear’s $26.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3465-9
Paw: The Nez Perce Indians in Canada. Cavalier in Buckskin

Revised Edition
Robert Utley
$21.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3387-4
They Died with Custer

Soldiers’ Bones from the Battle of the Little Big Horn
By D. Douglas Scott, P. Willey, and Mellisa A. Connor
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3507-6
How a Texas cowboy came to lead a band of outlaws who

tanner,tanner the bronco bill gang
menaced the frontier Southwest
The Bronco Bill Gang

By Karen Holliday Tanner and John D. Tanner
“An information-packed, good old narrative piece of history.”—ROGER D.

MCGRATH, author of Gunfighters, Highwaymen, and Vigilantes: Violence on the
Frontier
The short, bloody career of “Bronco Bill” Walters and his gang captures the devil-
may-care violence of the Wild West. In this detailed narrative of the gang’s crime
spree in territorial New Mexico and Arizona, two experts in outlaw history offer a
gunshot-by-gunshot account of how some especially dangerous outlaws plied their
trade in 1898.
William Walters reached New Mexico Territory from Texas in the late 1880s and
quickly gained a reputation for his ability to sit a horse and for his violent ways. The
Bronco Bill Gang skillfully dissects his propensity for trouble and shows how he soon
May
found himself in the territorial penitentiary. In the spring of 1898, after a sojourn
$29.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4165-7 stealing horses in Arizona, Walters and four apprentice outlaws turned to armed rob-
320 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
bery, holding up passenger trains on the Santa Fe Railroad in Grants and Belén, New
27 B&w Illus., 2 maps
western history Mexico. By the time a Wells Fargo posse captured Bronco Bill, two of the outlaws,
two deputies, and a Navajo tracker had been killed in gunfights.
Anyone with a taste for western history or an interest in New Mexico and Arizona in
the bad old days will find this book irresistible. The authors’ attention to the ways Bill
and his men fell into a life of crime shows us the real West, where cowboys and gun-
men could wind up on either side of the law. The Bronco Bill Gang is the first book to
explore this fabled band of outlaws who crisscrossed the American Southwest.
Of Related Interest Karen Holliday Tanner is the author of Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait. John D.
Last Hurrah of the James-Younger Gang Tanner is Professor Emeritus of History at Palomar College, San Marcos, California.
By Robert Barr Smith
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3353-9
Both are recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Wild West History
Association. The Tanners have together written numerous articles and four books,
Daltons!
The Raid on Coffeyville, Kansas including Last of the Old-Time Outlaws: The George West Musgrave Story.
By Robert Barr Smith
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-2994-5
Doc Holliday
A Family Portrait
By Karen H. Tanner
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3320-1
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America’s first civil war played out in the Far West
bigler, bagley The mormon rebellion

The Mormon Rebellion
America’s First Civil War, 1857–1858
By David L. Bigler and Will Bagley
In 1857 President James Buchanan ordered U.S. troops to Utah to replace Brigham
Young as governor and restore order in what the federal government viewed as a
territory in rebellion. In this compelling narrative, award-winning authors David L.
Bigler and Will Bagley use long-suppressed sources to show that—contrary to com-
mon perception—the Mormon rebellion was not the result of Buchanan’s “blunder,”
nor was it a David-and-Goliath tale in which an abused religious minority heroically
defied the imperial ambitions of an unjust and tyrannical government. They argue
that Mormon leaders had their own far-reaching ambitions and fully intended to
establish an independent nation—the Kingdom of God—in the West.
Long overshadowed by the Civil War, the tragic story of this conflict involved a
tense and protracted clash pitting Brigham Young’s Nauvoo Legion against Colonel
Albert Sidney Johnston and the U.S. Army’s Utah Expedition. In the end, the conflict
April
between the two armies saw no pitched battles, but in the authors’ view, Buchanan’s $34.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4135-0
decision to order troops to Utah, his so-called blunder, eventually proved decisive and 384 pages, 6 x 9
27 b&w Illus., 1 map
beneficial for both Mormons and the American republic. Western history
A rich exploration of events and forces that presaged the Civil War, The Mormon
Rebellion broadens our understanding of both antebellum America and Utah’s fron-
tier theocracy and offers a challenging reinterpretation of a controversial chapter in
Mormon annals.
David L. Bigler, former director of the Utah Board of State History, is an independent
historian whose books on Utah, California, and western American history include
Forgotten Kingdom: The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847–1896. Of Related Interest
Will Bagley, an independent historian of the West, is the author or editor of numerous So Rugged and Mountainous
Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California,
books, including Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Mountain Meadows
1812–1848
Massacre and So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and Cali- By Will Bagley
fornia, 1812–1848. $45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4103-9
Blood of the Prophets

Brigham Young and the Massacre at
Mountain Meadows
By Will Bagley
$24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3639-4
At Sword’s Point, Part 1

A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858
By William P. MacKinnon
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The riveting—and real-life—story of violent crime in an iconic

DeArment assault on the deadwood stage
western community
Assault on the Deadwood Stage

Road Agents and Shotgun Messengers
By Robert K. DeArment
Foreword by Joseph G. Rosa
In the 1870s, Deadwood was a thriving—and largely lawless—boomtown. And as
any fan of western history and films knows, stagecoach robberies were a regular
feature of life in this fabled region of Dakota Territory. Now, for the first time,
Robert K. DeArment tells the story of the “good guys and bad guys” behind these
violent crimes: the road agents who wreaked havoc on Deadwood’s roadways and
the shotgun messengers who battled to protect stagecoach passengers and their
valuable cargo.
DeArment shows in dramatic detail how for two years gangs of robbers ruled the
road, perpetrating holdups and killings, until lawmen and stage-company and rail-
road agents finally brought an end to the mayhem. The characters populating this
may violent tale include such legendary figures as Wild Bill Hickok and the famous rail-
$24.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4182-4 road detective James L. “Whispering” Smith, a formidable opponent of bandits. We
272 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
29 b&w Illus., 1 map also get to know the men who operated the stages, the lawmen and company men
Western history who ran and defended the coaches, and the outlaws who fought against them. DeAr-
ment tells where these men came from and what became of them after the outlawry
ended. He ends his account in the 1880s with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show and its
spectacular rendition of a shotgun robbery, featuring an actual Deadwood stage-
coach. After nearly a century and a half, the Deadwood stage continues to command
our attention.
Robert K. DeArment is the author of numerous books about law and order in the
American West, including Deadly Dozen, Volumes 1–3, and Ballots and Bullets: The
Of Related Interest
Bloody County Seat Wars of Kansas. Joseph G. Rosa is the author of the definitive
A Rough Ride to Redemption
The Ben Daniels Story biography of Wild Bill Hickok, They Called Him Wild Bill: The Life and Adventures
By Robert K. DeArment and Jack DeMattos of James Butler Hickok, among other publications.
Foreword by William B. Secrest
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Deadly Dozen, Volume 2

Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West
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Deadly Dozen, Volume 3

Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West
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A lively sample of western American history by some of
Hutton Western heritage

its best writers
Western Heritage
A Selection of Wrangler Award–Winning Articles
Edited by Paul Andrew Hutton
Foreword by Charles P. Schroeder
The enduring fascination of the American West marks this collection of essays by distinguished
historians, investigative reporters, a novelist, and a celebrated screenwriter. All of these articles
have won Wrangler Awards—the western equivalent of the Oscars—presented annually by
the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.
Exciting storytelling, a hallmark of western writing, shapes every selection. C. L.

Sonnichsen’s 1986 revisionist account of Geronimo’s life foreshadows the work of
younger historians who continue to deepen our understanding of American Indian
history. Jeffrey Pearson’s story of the death of Crazy Horse and Greg Michno’s novelistic
rendering of the Lakota view of the Battle of the Little Bighorn represent history as
practiced by scholars who are also powerful writers. volume 9 in the Western Legacies Series
Journalist-screenwriter William Broyles’s narrative of the King family and ranch is

a Texas saga as captivating as anything by Larry McMurtry. The renowned novelist May
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Oakley Hall writes with a historian’s precision about Wyoming, setting for The Virginian 292 PAGES, 5.5 X 8.5
and site of the Teapot Dome scandal and the Johnson County range war. Focusing on 3 Maps
Western History
Charles M. Russell, Raphael Cristy establishes the western artist’s importance as a writer
who overturned stereotypes about American Indians.
Environmental studies are showcased in Dan Flores’s essays on the demise of the great
buffalo herds and the history of the horse trade. And no overview of the West would be
complete without military and law enforcement history, amply represented by Robert
M. Utley’s work on the Texas Rangers, Paul Hutton’s panoramic recounting of the
Alamo, and Sally Denton’s new look at the controversial Mountain Meadows Massacre,
Of Related Interest
incorporating the latest forensic evidence. In what serves as a fitting coda to the violent
Arena Legacy
yet inspiring history of the American West, Hutton offers a stirring account of Teddy
The Heritage of American Rodeo
Roosevelt’s leadership at the Battle of San Juan Hill. By Richard C. Rattenbury
$65.00 Cloth 978-8061-4084-1
This is a collection as pleasurable to read as it is rich with great and significant stories about
A Western Legacy
one of the most enduring national epochs—the history of the great American West. The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum
Introduction by David Dary
Paul Andrew Hutton is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of New $59.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3728-5
Mexico, Albuquerque and Executive Director of Western Writers of America. He is the $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3731-5
author of Phil Sheridan and His Army and the editor of The Custer Reader and coeditor Soldier’s West
Biographies from the Military Frontier
of Soldiers West: Biographies from the Military Frontier, Second Edition. Charles P.
Second Edition
Schroeder is Executive Director of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Edited by Paul Andrew Hutton and Durwood Ball
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Nine renowned historians talk frankly about their study of

Lawrence violent encounters
violence in the West
Violent Encounters
Interviews on Western Massacres
By Deborah and Jon Lawrence
Merciless killing in the nineteenth-century American West, as this unusual book
shows, was not as simple as depicted in dime novels and movie Westerns. The schol-
ars interviewed here, experts on violence in the West, embrace a wide range of ap-
proaches and perspectives and challenge both traditional views of western expansion
and politically correct ideologies.
The Battle of the Little Big Horn, the Sand Creek Massacre, the Battle of the Washita,
and the Mountain Meadows Massacre are iconic events that have been repeatedly
described and analyzed, but the interviews included in this volume offer new points of
view. Other events discussed here are little-known today, such as the Camp Grant Mas-
sacre, in which Anglo-Americans, Mexican Americans, and Tohono O’odham Indians
killed more than a hundred Pinal and Aravaipa Apache men, women, and children.
June In addition to specific events, the interviews cover broader themes such as violence
$34.95s cloth 978-0-8061-4126-8 in early California; hostilities between the frontier army and the Sioux, including the
224 pages, 6.125 x 9.25
27 B&w illus., 9 maps
Santee Sioux Revolt and Wounded Knee; and violence between European Americans
western history and Great Basin tribes, such as the Bear River Massacre. The scholars interviewed
include academic historians, public historians, an anthropologist, and a journalist.
The interview format provides insights into the methodology and tools of historical
research and allows questions and speculations often absent from conventional, writ-
ten accounts. The scholars share their latest thoughts on long-standing controversies,
address the political uses often made of history, and discuss the need to incorporate
multiple viewpoints.
Of Related Interest Scholars and students of history and historiography will be fascinated by the nuts-
The Oatman Massacre and-bolts information about the practice of history revealed in these interviews. In
A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival
By Brian McGinty
addition, readers with specific interests in the events discussed will gain much new
$29.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-3667-7 information and many fresh insights.
$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3770-4
Blood of the Prophets

Deborah and Jon Lawrence have coedited Desert Tracks, the quarterly of the South-
Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain ern Trails chapter of the Oregon-California Trail Association, since 2003. Deborah is
Meadows
an emeritus faculty member in the English Department, California State University,
By Will Bagley
$24.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3639-4 Fullerton, and author of Writing the Trail: Five Women’s Frontier Narratives. John is
The Sand Creek Massacre retired as a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine.
By Stan Hoig
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Uncovers the origins of the Red Power movement
shreve red power risiing

Red Power Rising
The National Indian Youth Council
and the Origins of Native Activism
By Bradley G. Shreve
Foreword by Shirley Hill Witt
During the 1960s, American Indian youth were swept up in a movement called Red
Power—a civil rights struggle fueled by intertribal activism. While some define the
movement as militant and others see it as peaceful, there is one common assump-
tion about its history: Red Power began with the Indian takeover of Alcatraz in
1969. Or did it?
In this groundbreaking book, Bradley G. Shreve sets the record straight by tracing
the origins of Red Power further back in time: to the student activism of the National
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Indian Youth Council (NIYC), founded in Gallup, New Mexico, in 1961. Unlike
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other 1960s and ’70s activist groups that challenged the fundamental beliefs of their
predecessors, the students who established the NIYC were determined to uphold the april
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sovereignty, self determination, treaty rights, and cultural preservation helped ensure American Indian
their survival, for in contrast to other activist groups that came and went, the NIYC
is still in operation today. But Shreve also shows that the NIYC was very much a
product of 1960s idealistic ferment and its leaders learned tactics from other contem-
porary leftist movements.
By uncovering the origins of Red Power, Shreve writes an important new chapter
in the history of American Indian activism. And by revealing the ideology and ac-
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complishments of the NIYC, he ties the Red Power Movement to the larger struggle
Ojibwa Warrior
for human rights that continues to this day both in the United States and across
Dennis Banks and the Rise of the
the globe. American Indian Movement
By Dennis Banks, with Richard Erdoes
Bradley G. Shreve is Chair of the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Diné $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3691-2
College in Tsaile, Arizona. Shirley Hill Witt was a founder and vice president of the Loud Hawk
National Indian Youth Council. A distinguished anthropologist and former foreign The United States versus the
American Indian Movement
service officer, she is a member of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation, Wolf Clan.
By Kenneth S. Stern
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Heart of The Rock

The Indian Invasion of Alcatraz
By Adam Fortunate Eagle, with Tim Findley
Foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr.
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Explores colonial Spanish-Apache relations in the Southwest

santiago the jar of severed hands
borderlands
The Jar of Severed Hands

The Spanish Deportation of Apache Prisoners of War, 1770–1810
By Mark Santiago
More than two centuries after the Coronado Expedition first set foot in the region,
the northern frontier of New Spain in the late 1770s was still under attack by Apache
raiders. Mark Santiago’s gripping account of Spanish efforts to subdue the Apaches
illuminates larger cultural and political issues in the colonial period of the Southwest
and northern Mexico.
To persuade the Apaches to abandon their homelands and accept Christian “civili-
zation,” Spanish officials employed both the mailed fist of continuous war and the
velvet glove of the reservation system. “Hostiles” captured by the Spanish would
be deported, while Apaches who agreed to live in peace near the Spanish presidios
would receive support. Santiago’s history of the deportation policy includes vivid
descriptions of colleras, the chain gangs of Apache prisoners of war bound together
for the two-month journey by mule and on foot from the northern frontier to Mexico
may
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City. The book’s arresting title, The Jar of Severed Hands, comes from a 1792 report
264 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 documenting a desperate break for freedom made by a group of Apache prisoners.
After subduing the prisoners and killing twelve Apache men, the Spanish soldiers
American Indian
verified the attempted breakout by amputating the left hands of the dead and preserv-
ing them in a jar for display to their superiors.
Santiago’s nuanced analysis of deportation policy credits both the Apaches’ ability
to exploit the Spanish government’s dual approach and the growing awareness on
the Spaniards’ part that the peoples they referred to as Apaches were a disparate and
complex assortment of tribes that could not easily be subjugated. The Jar of Severed
Hands deepens our understanding of the dynamics of the relationship between Indian
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tribes and colonial powers in the Southwest borderlands.
Indian Alliances and the Spanish in the
Southwest, 750–1750 Mark Santiago is Director of the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum in
By William B. Carter
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Las Cruces and the author of Massacre at the Yuma Crossing: Spanish Relations with
the Quechans, 1779–1782.
Views from the Apache Frontier
Report on the Northern Provinces of New Spain
By Jose Cortes
Edited by Elizabeth A.H. John
Translated by John Wheat
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From Cochise to Geronimo

The Chiricahua Apaches, 1874–1886
By Edwin R. Sweeney
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Three decades of contemporary Northern Arapaho life in
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images and essays
Arapaho Journeys
Photographs and Stories from the
Wind River Reservation
Text and Photographs by Sara Wiles
Foreword by Frances Merle Haas
In what is now Colorado and Wyoming, the Northern Arapahos thrived
for centuries, connected by strong spirituality and kinship and community
structures that allowed them to survive in the rugged environment. By the
mid-nineteenth century, however, as Anglo-Americans pushed west, North-
ern Arapaho life changed dramatically. Although forced to relocate to a res-
ervation, the people endured and held on to their traditions. Today, tribal
members preserve the integrity of a society that still fosters living ni’iihi’,
as they call it, “in a good way.” Award-winning photographer Sara Wiles
captures that life on film and in words in Arapaho Journeys, an inside look
at thirty years of Northern Arapaho life on the Wind River Indian Reservation in
central Wyoming. May
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mosaic of contemporary Northern Arapaho culture. Depicted in the photographs
Art & Photography/american indian
are people Wiles met at Wind River while she was a social worker, anthropology
student, and adopted member of an Arapaho family. Among others pictured are
Josephine Redman, an older woman wrapped in a blanket, soft light illuminating
its folds, and rancher-artist Eugene Ridgely, Sr., half smiling as he intently paints a
drum. Interspersed among the portraits are images of races, basketball teams, and
traditional games. Wiles’s essays weave together tribal history, personal narratives,
and traditional knowledge to describe modern-day reservation life and little-known
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aspects of Arapaho history and culture, including naming ceremonies and cultural
A Northern Cheyenne Album
revitalization efforts. This work broaches controversial topics, as well, including the Photographs by Thomas B. Marquis
1864 Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians. By John Woodenlegs
Edited by Margot Liberty
Arapaho Journeys documents not only reservation life but also Wiles’s growth as a $29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3893-0
photographer and member of the Wind River community from 1975 through 2005. A Danish Photographer of Idaho Indians
Benedicte Wrensted
This book offers readers a journey, one that will enrich their understanding of Wiles’s By Joanna Cohan Scherer
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Life at the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita

Sara Wiles is an independent photographer, writer, and scholar who holds a master’s Agency
degree in anthropology from Indiana University. Her photographs, including the The Photographs of Annette Ross Hume
By Kristina L. Southwell and John R. Lovett
images published here for the first time, have been exhibited nationally. Frances
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Merle Haas is director of the Sky People Higher Education Program of the Northern
Arapaho Tribe, a writer, and traditional Arapaho storyteller.
A definitive portrait of a Spanish cleric and royalist who

poole pedro moya de contreras
fundamentally shaped New Spain, updated in light of newly

available sources
Pedro Moya de Contreras

Catholic Reform and Royal Power in New Spain, 1571–1591
Second Edition
By Stafford Poole
For a brief few years in the sixteenth century, Pedro Moya de Contreras was the most
powerful man in the New World. A church official and loyal royalist, he came to
Mexico in 1571 to establish the Inquisition and later became archbishop and viceroy
for the region. This new edition of Stafford Poole’s definitive portrait of Moya de
Contreras, first published in 1971, now offers an expanded understanding of this
enigmatic figure’s influence on the development of New Spain.
In tracing the career of a sixteenth-century church official and administrator who

was more notable for what he did than for who he was, Poole offers a rich source
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Poole shows that Moya de Contreras was as diligent at carrying out the tortures of
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Council of 1585, which enacted a legal code for the Mexican Church that lasted
more than three hundred years.
Stafford Poole, C.M., is an independent researcher and ordained priest who devotes
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himself to the study of Nahuatl. Widely known for his writings on Our Lady of
Juan de Ovando
Governing the Spanish Empire
Guadalupe, he is the author of numerous publications, including Juan de Ovando:
in the Reign of Philip II Governing the Spanish Empire in the Reign of Philip II.
By Stafford Poole
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Bonfires of Culture
Franciscans, Indigenous Leaders, and the Inquisition
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The Conquest of America

The Question of the Other
By Tzvetan Todorov
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The first study of indigenous political dynamics in Tenochtitlan
connell after moctezuma

after the Spanish invasion
After Moctezuma
Indigenous Politics and Self-Government in
Mexico City, 1524–1730
By William F. Connell
The Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519 left the capital city, Tenochtitlan, in ruins.
Conquistador Hernán Cortés, following the city’s surrender in 1521, established a
governing body to organize its reconstruction. Cortés was careful to appoint native
people to govern who had held positions of authority before his arrival, establishing
a pattern that endured for centuries. William F. Connell’s After Moctezuma: Indig-
enous Politics and Self-Government in Mexico City, 1524–1730 reveals how native
self-government in former Tenochtitlan evolved over time as the city and its popula-
tion changed.
Drawing on extensive research in Mexico’s Archivo General de la Nación, Con-

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trative entities—the native ethnic state, or altepetl of Mexico Tenochtitlan, became
4 B&W Illus., 1 map, 3 tables
the parcialidad of San Juan Tenochtitlan, for instance—preserving indigenous ideas Latin American Studies
of government within an imposed Spanish structure. Over time, the electoral system
undermined the preconquest elite and introduced new native political players, facili-
tating social change. By the early eighteenth century, a process that had begun in the
1500s with the demise of Moctezuma and the royal line of Tenochtitlan had resulted
in a politically independent indigenous cabildo.
After Moctezuma is the first systematic study of the indigenous political structures at
the heart of New Spain. With careful attention to relations among colonial officials Of Related Interest
and indigenous power brokers, Connell shows that the ongoing contest for control of The Tenochca Empire of Ancient Mexico
indigenous government in Mexico City made possible a new kind of political system The Triple Alliance of Tenochtitlan,
Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan
neither wholly indigenous nor entirely Spanish. Ultimately, he offers insight into the
By Pedro Carrasco
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period and beyond. Law and the Transformation

of Aztec Culture, 1500–1700
William F. Connell, an Associate Professor of History at Christopher Newport Uni- By Susan Kellogg
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versity, specializes in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mexico and Latin America.
Santiago de Guatemala, 1541–1773
His articles have appeared in the Colonial Latin American Historical Review and the City, Caste, and the Colonial Experience
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. By Christopher H. Lutz
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Using red teams in today’s counterterrorism training

sloan, bunker Red teams and counterterrorism training
Red Teams and

Counterterrorism Training
By Stephen Sloan and Robert J. Bunker
With a chapter by Roberta Sloan
Foreword by David Boren
Keeping ahead of terrorists requires innovative, up-to-date training. This follow-
up to Stephen Sloan’s pioneering 1981 book, Simulating Terrorism, takes stock of
twenty-first-century terrorism—then equips readers to effectively counter it. Quickly
canvassing the evolution of terrorism—and of counterterrorism efforts—over the
past thirty years, co-authors Sloan and Robert J. Bunker draw on examples from the
early 2000s, following the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, to emphasize
the need to prevent or respond quickly to “active aggressors”—terrorists who an-
nounce their presence and seek credibility through killing. Training for such situa-
tions requires realistic simulations—whose effectiveness, the authors show, depends
May on incorporating red teams; that is, the groups that play the part of active aggressors.
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160 Pages, 5.5 X 8.5 In Red Teams and Counterterrorism Training, Sloan and Bunker, developers of sim-
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ulation-driven counterterrorist training, take readers through the prerequisites for
Law enforcement
and basic principles of conducting a successful simulation and preparing respond-
ers to face threats—whether from teenage shooters or from sophisticated terrorist
organizations. The authors clearly explain how to create an effective red team whose
members can operate from within the terrorists’ mindset. An innovative chapter by
theater professional Roberta Sloan demonstrates how to use dramatic techniques to
teach red teams believable role-playing.
Of Related Interest Rounding out this book, a case study of the 2009 shooting at Fort Hood illustrates
Insurgency, Terrorism, and Crime the cost of failures in intelligence and underscores the still-current need for serious at-
Shadows from the Past and Portents for the Future tention to potential threats. First responders—whether civilian or military—will find
By Max G. Manwaring
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Red Teams and Counterterrorism Training indispensible as they address and deter
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Uncomfortable Wars Revisited
By John T. Fishel and Max G. Manwaring
A pioneer in terrorism research and education, Stephen Sloan is the author of four-
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$29.95s Paper 978-0-8061-3988-3 teen books, including Simulating Terrorism and Terrorism: The Present Threat
Gangs, Pseudo-Militaries, and Other in Context. Robert J. Bunker, an expert on unconventional security threats, is the
Modern Mercenaries editor of numerous books, including Networks, Terrorism, and Global Insurgency.
New Dynamics in Uncomfortable Wars
By Max G. Manwaring Roberta Sloan is an actor and director and Professor of Theater at Temple University,
$45.00s Cloth 978-0-8061-4146-6 where she is also Head of Theater Education. Rhodes Scholar David Boren, currently
President of the University of Oklahoma, was the longest-serving chairman of the
U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee.
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Designed for today’s students, the most comprehensive edition of
roisman,luschnig euripides’ electra

the classic Greek play
Euripides’ Electra
A Commentary
By H. M. Roisman and C. A. E. Luschnig
“Once this book hits the shelves, there will be no need for another commentary on
Euripides’ Electra for decades—if ever again.”—KARELISA HARTIGAN, author of
Ambiguity and Self-Deception: The Apollo and Artemis Plays of Euripides
Among the best-known Greek tragedies, Electra is also one of the plays students of
Greek often read in the original language. It tells the story of how Electra and her
brother, Orestes, avenge the murder of their father, Agamemnon, by their mother and
her lover. H. M. Roisman and C. A. E. Luschnig have developed a new edition of
this seminal tragedy designed for twenty-first-century classrooms. Included with the
Greek text are a useful introduction, line-by-line commentary, and other materials in
English, all intended to support intermediate and advanced undergraduate students.
Volume 38 in the Oklahoma Series
Electra’s gripping story and almost contemporary feel help make the play accessible in Classical Culture
and interesting to modern audiences. The liberties Euripides took with the traditional
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Luschnig invite readers to compare Euripides’ treatment of the myth with those of
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Aeschylus and Sophocles and with variant presentations in epic and lyric poetry, later
drama, and modern film. The introduction also places the play in historical context
and describes conventions of the Greek theater specific to the work.
Extensive appendices provide a complete metrical analysis of the play, helpful notes
on grammar and syntax, an index of verbs, and a Greek-English glossary. In short,
the authors have included everything students need to support and enhance their
reading of Electra in its original language. Of Related Interest
H. M. Roisman is the Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Classics at Euripides’ Alcestis
With Notes and Commentary by C. A. E. Luschnig
Colby College, Waterville, Maine. She is the author of numerous articles and several and H. M. Roisman
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Hippolytus. C. A. E. Luschnig is Professor Emerita of Classics at the University of
Idaho, the author of several books, and a cotranslator of The Electra Plays. Together,
Roisman and Luschnig have published Euripides’ Alcestis: A Commentary.
Plato’s classic text combined with a helpful grammar review

pratt eros at the banquet
Eros at the Banquet

Reviewing Greek with Plato’s Symposium
By Louise Pratt
“This coherent and thoughtful book addresses the dearth of intermediate materials
for Greek students and teachers. In a very teacherly way, evidencing many years in
the classroom and great concern for students, the author has offered an important
solution to this deficiency.”—Drew Keller, author of Learn to Read Latin
After studying ancient Greek for a year, students often become discouraged when pre-
sented with unabridged classical texts that offer only minimal supportive apparatus.
In welcome contrast, this intermediate-level textbook reinforces the first-year lessons
and enables students to read Plato’s Symposium, one of the most engaging works in
Attic Greek, the dialect taught in most first-year courses.
Volume 40 in the Oklahoma Series in
To meet the needs of students who are reading extended passages of challenging
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Greek for the first time, Louise Pratt, a classical scholar with more than twenty years’
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teaching experience, has lightly condensed the early readings, supplementing them
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dialogue in its entirety to give students the experience of reading Plato’s imaginative
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Classical studies dialogue in all its richness. All readings are glossed, with explanatory notes appearing
on the same page as the relevant texts.
Enlivened by twenty-five illustrations, Eros at the Banquet also features an introduc-

tion explaining the Symposium’s historical and philosophical significance, a compre-
hensive glossary, and an up-to-date bibliography. Instructors may also supplement
this volume with Pratt’s The Essentials of Greek Grammar: A Reference for Interme-
diate Readers of Attic Greek, which includes many examples from the Symposium.
Of Related Interest Louise Pratt is Professor of Classics at Emory University. She is the author of Lying and
Plato’s Apology of Socrates Poetry from Homer to Pindar: Falsehood and Deception in Archaic Greek Poetics.
A Commentary
By Paul Allen Miller and Charles Platter
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Selections from Plato

By Lewis Leaming Forman
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Selections from Homer’s Iliad

By Allen Rogers Benner
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The first textbook to offer a systematic grammar review
pratt the essentials of greek grammar

of Attic Greek
The Essentials of Greek Grammar

A Reference for Intermediate Readers of Attic Greek
By Louise Pratt
Designed for intermediate-level students, this textbook presents an outline of the
essential forms and syntax of ancient Attic Greek. A perfect supplement to Louise
Pratt’s Eros at the Banquet, it also stands alone as a useful resource for any student
seeking to move beyond the basics of Greek into the exciting experience of reading
classical literature in its original language.
The Essentials of Greek Grammar is based on the author’s many years of classroom
experience and on the handouts she developed and fine-tuned to supplement a variety
of textbooks and approaches. In part 1 of the volume, Pratt covers the following:
• morphology and parts of speech in increasing order of complexity

from articles and pronouns through adjectives
• active and passive participles
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• verbs, with summaries and examples of regular and irregular forms
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Part 2 presents syntax, moving from the relatively straightforward case uses of nouns
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pendix listing two hundred common Attic verbs and their principal parts.
Louise Pratt is Professor of Classics at Emory University. She is the author of Lying
and Poetry from Homer to Pindar: Falsehood and Deception in Archaic Greek
Poetics.
Of Related Interest
A Homeric Dictionary for
Schools and Colleges
By George Autenrieth
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A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect

By Richard John Cunliffe
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Homeric Greek
Revised Edition
By Clyde Pharr and John Wright
$32.95s Paper 978-0-8061-1937-3
Enhances understanding—and appreciation—

ryan, perkins ovid’s amores
of Ovid’s love poetry
Ovid’s Amores, Book One

A Commentary
By Maureen B. Ryan and Caroline A. Perkins
Students of Latin have long enjoyed the poetry of Ovid, but his love poems, aptly
titled Amores, have proved more difficult to introduce into the classroom. Curricular
changes and increased appreciation of sophisticated love poetry are finally making
room for the Amores. This edition of the first book of the Amores—the only one
available for both intermediate- and advanced-level classes—addresses the needs of
students of varying abilities and experience, helping them comprehend, and more
fully enjoy, the rich complexities of Ovid’s poetry.
In their introduction to the volume, Maureen B. Ryan and Caroline A. Perkins re-
count Ovid’s career as a poet, describe the elegiac genre, and explain elegiac meter
and style. For the Latin text, they briefly introduce each poem, acquainting students
with relevant subject matter and themes. Their commentary provides helpful notes
clarifying grammatical constructions, word order, ellipsis, and other complexities of
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the Latin language that can challenge even the most experienced student.
january On the assumption that students will gain skills as they work through each poem,
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classical studies tapering off as the student’s facility increases. Throughout their commentary, they
highlight thematic points of interest; explain mythological, cultural, and literary allu-
sions; and stress the importance of Ovid’s literary innovations.
In addition to the critical apparatus accompanying each poem, this volume features
a glossary of literary terms, a comprehensive Latin-to-English vocabulary, and an
up-do-date bibliography.
Maureen B. Ryan is Lecturer in the Department of Classical Languages and Literature

Of Related Interest at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Caroline A. Perkins is Professor of
Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Books 1–5 Classics at Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia.
By William S. Anderson
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Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Books 6–10

By William S. Anderson
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The student’s ovid

Selections from the Metamorphoses
By Margaret Worsham Musgrove
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A new edition of a classic text on Herodotus
barbour, drinkwater selections from herodotus

Selections from herodotus
Second Edition
By Amy Barbour and Megan O. Drinkwater
“A handsome edition. . . . The difficult task of selection is well done and the intro-
duction has a very full account of the dialect and syntax of Herodotus, as well as
valuable sections on his life, writings, and style.”—Classical Review
The writings of Herodotus, historian, observer, and delightful storyteller, have long
been favorites among teachers and students of the Greek language. The selections in
this book will provide reading in the second year for the student who has begun his
or her Greek with Homer and who presumably has had no acquaintance with Attic
Greek. The book is equally well fitted for the use of the student who has begun in the
orthodox fashion with Attic Greek and followed it by Homer.
This second Oklahoma edition is enhanced by Megan O. Drinkwater’s addition of

chapter and section references to the complete works of Herodotus. january
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Amy L. Barbour was Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Smith College. 408 Pages, 5.5 X 8
Megan O. Drinkwater is Assistant Professor of Classics at Agnes Scott College, De- 1 B&W Illus., 4 Maps
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catur, Georgia.
Of Related Interest
Euripides’ Alcestis
With Notes and Commentary by C. A. E. Luschnig
and H. M. Roisman
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Selections from Plato

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Foreword by Alexander Tulin
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Lysias
Selected Speeches
by Charles Darwin Adams
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Sparkling—and stage-ready—translations of three classic plays

aristophanes, ewans lysistrata, the women's festival, and frogs
Lysistrata, The Women’s Festival,

and Frogs
By Aristophanes
Translated and with theatrical commentaries by Michael Ewans
Most readers nowadays encounter the plays of Aristophanes in the classroom, not
the theater. Yet the “father of comedy” wrote his plays for the stage, not as literary
texts. Many English translations of the plays were written decades ago, and in their
outdated language they fail to capture the dramatic liveliness of the original come-
dies. Now Michael Ewans offers new and lively translations of three of Aristophanes’
finest plays: Lysistrata, The Women’s Festival, and Frogs. While remaining faithful
to the original Greek, these translations are accessible to a modern audience—and
actable on stage.
Here readers will discover—in all its uncensored glory—the often raw sexual and
scatological language Aristophanes used in his fantastically inventive works. This
Classical Culture edition also contains all that a reader needs to understand the plays within a broader
context. In his comprehensive introduction, Ewans discusses political and social as-
january pects of Aristophanic comedy, the conventions of Greek theater, and the challenges
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with two glossaries—one of proper names and the other of Greek terms—as well as
a bibliography that includes the most recent scholarship on Aristophanic comedy.
Michael Ewans is Professor of Drama at the University of Newcastle, New South
Wales, Australia. An experienced translator of ancient Greek drama, he has also
directed numerous full productions of Greek plays. His published works include
Of Related Interest
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By Homer
Translated by Herbert Jordan
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young–sÁnchez nature and spirit · baker, henshaw women who pioneered oklahoma
Women Who
Nature and Spirit Pioneered Oklahoma
Ancient Costa Rican Stories from the WPA
Treasures in the Mayer Narratives
Collection at the Edited by Terri M. Baker and
Denver Art Museum Connie Oliver Henshaw
By Margaret Young-Sánchez Foreword by M. Susan Savage
Interviews of Oklahoma
history’s diverse women
Treasures of Costa Rican art
Assembled almost entirely by Frederick and Jan Mayer, They came in land runs and on the Trail of Tears, sometimes
The Denver Art Museum’s collection of ancient Costa Rican with families, sometimes alone. But the women who first came
art is one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world, to Oklahoma all had trials to face—and stories to tell.
and it is a major component of the museum’s acclaimed hold-
In this stirring collection, the women who settled what would
ings in New World art. Nature and Spirit reveals to the modern
become Oklahoma tell their own stories in their own words.
world the richness and sophistication of indigenous thought
From thousands of interviews conducted by the Works Progress
and the incredible beauty of native art in the Americas.
Administration in 1936–37 and preserved in the Indian Pioneer
Costa Rica boasts an astounding variety of wildlife. So it is Papers of Oklahoma, editors Terri M. Baker and Connie Oliver
not surprising that animals and supernatural human-animal Henshaw have selected the words of women from a wide range
hybrids are often depicted in the ornate gold, jade, stone, and of socioeconomic groups, ethnic backgrounds, and geographical
ceramic objects fashioned by the region’s ancient peoples. These locations to relate the pioneer experience as it was really lived.
treasures offer insights into the nature and spirit of their makers.
Elegantly written, skillfully edited, Women Who Pioneered
Generously illustrated and engagingly organized, Nature and Oklahoma reflects the everyday will and courage to survive
Spirit is both an excellent introduction to Costa Rican art and of Oklahoma’s founding mothers. It conveys the violence of a
an essential addition to any collection on native peoples of the frontier culture set in a landscape of stark beauty where death
Americas. Essays by art historians Margaret Young-Sánchez was always just a heartbeat away. Theirs is the story of real
(Denver Art Museum) and Heather Orr (Western State College, Oklahoma, writ large—and in a distinctly female hand.
Colorado), archaeologists Michael Snarskis (Costa Rica) and
John Hoopes (University of Kansas), and anthropologist and
linguist David Mora Marín (University of North Carolina, Terri M. Baker, a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma,
Chapel Hill) illuminate ancient Costa Rican artistic styles, as is Professor of English at Northeastern State University,
well as cultural and religious beliefs, and place the works in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, where she focuses on American Indian
archaeological context. literature. Connie Oliver Henshaw is an Instructor in English s
at Northeastern State University. M. Susan Savage, currently
Margaret Young-Sánchez is Chief Curator and the Frederick and Oklahoma Secretary of State, is the first woman to have served
Jan Mayer Curator of Pre-Columbian Art at the Denver Art as Tulsa Mayor.
Museum.
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The Newcomers to a New Land Series
In 1980, the University of Oklahoma In response to numerous requests, the worked in many economic and social
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Association and made possible by a and to other people in the state and na-
migrants from various European nations
grant from the National Endowment for tion. Their stories come from the past,
left a marked impact on Oklahoma’s his-
the Humanities. but continue on to the future.”
tory. As in the larger United States, they
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The Italians in Oklahoma The Indians in Oklahoma
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corntassel, witmer forced federalism · holiday, mcpherson a navajo legacy

Forced Federalism A Navajo Legacy
Contemporary Challenges to The Life and Teachings of
Indigenous Nationhood John Holiday
By Jeff Corntassel and By John Holiday and
Richard C. Witmer II Robert S. McPherson
Foreword by
Lindsay G. Robertson A vivid portrait of the life of a
traditional twentieth-century
A critical evaluation of a new Navajo medicine man
era in American Indian policy
Over the past twenty years, American Indian policy has shifted For more than ninety years, Navajo medicine man John Holiday
from self-determination to “forced federalism,” as indigenous has watched the sun rise over the rock formations of his home
nations in the United States have encountered new threats from in Monument Valley. At an early age, Holiday began an appren-
state and local governments over such issues as taxation, gaming, ticeship with his grandfather to learn the Blessingway ceremony,
and homeland security. During the forced federalism era (1988– and as a youth, he performed rainmaking ceremonies and prac-
present), public perceptions of indigenous peoples as “rich Indians” ticed healing.
have been just as damaging to Native nations as anti-sovereignty
Holiday experienced the invasion of Monument Valley by whites
legislation. This book examines how state governments have
and later participated in the early filmmaking industry, working
manipulated “rich Indian” images when setting policies targeting
with director John Ford and actor John Wayne. Life in the desert
indigenous peoples, and how indigenous nations have responded.
was rooted in the livestock industry and sometimes provided
Drawing on original survey data collected from Native governments only a hand-to-mouth existence. Holiday was employed in the
and on interviews with indigenous leaders, Jeff Corntassel and Richard 1930s with the Civilian Conservation Corps, served a brief stint
C. Witmer II examine the power dynamics of the indigenous nation– in the military, mined uranium on the Navajo Reservation in the
state compacting system to show how electoral activism among 1950s, and worked on the railroad.
indigenous peoples has increased their political power. The authors
Robert S. McPherson interviewed Holiday extensively to record
warn that current widespread Native participation in non-Native
his full and fascinating life. Holiday tells his grandparents’ sto-
politics is undermining both the political and cultural foundations of
ries of the Long Walk era, discusses attitudes about the land,
indigenous nationhood, and they offer specific strategies for preparing
relates Navajo religious stories, and recounts his training as a
indigenous communities to meet future challenges.
medicine man. A Navajo Legacy reflects the thoughts of a tradi-
Jeff Corntassel is Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor for tional practitioner who has found in life both beauty and lessons
the Indigenous Governance Programs at the University of Victoria, for future generations.
British Columbia. Richard C. Witmer II is Associate Professor of
John Holiday is a practicing traditional Navajo medicine man
Political Science, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska. Lindsay
living in Monument Valley, Utah. Robert S. McPherson, the
G. Robertson is Judge Haskell A. Holloman Professor of Law and
author of Navajo Land, Navajo Culture: The Utah Experience
Faculty Director of the American Indian Law and Policy Center at
in the Twentieth Century and eight other books about the Four
the University of Oklahoma.
Corners, teaches at the University of Utah and the College of
Eastern Utah’s San Juan Campus.
Volume 3 in the American Indian Law and Policy Series
February
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hoig tribal wars of the southern plains · whitlock cowboy life on the llano estacado
Tribal Wars of the Cowboy Life on the

Southern Plains Llano Estacado
By Stan Hoig By V. H. Whitlock (Ol’ Waddy)
A concise history of Plains Authentic tales of cowboy life

Indian tribal warfare on the southwestern frontier
Few people who cross the Great Plains today remember that In 1887, Vivian H. Whitlock went with his brother and widowed
for centuries the land was a battleground where Indian nations mother to live with his uncle, George Causey, a buffalo hunter
fought one another for their own survival. Even among those turned rancher, at his ranch on the Llano Estacado (Staked
aware of the history, Plains Indian conflicts have been seen Plains) in New Mexico. Here Whitlock describes—vividly,
largely in terms of American conquest. realistically, and with humor—what life was like on those vast,
desolate plains at the turn of the century.
Tribal Wars of the Southern Plains is a comprehensive account
of Indian conflicts in the area between the Platte River and the Among the visitors to the Causey ranch were old cowboys who
Rio Grande, from the first written reports of the Spaniards in the grumbled about the “nesters,” young cowboys “on the dodge”
sixteenth century through the U.S.-Cheyenne Battle of the Sand from the law, homesteaders in covered wagons, and Texas
Hills in 1875. This readable volume traces the victories and de- Rangers with prisoners who used the ranch as a “watering
feats of such chiefs as Lone Wolf, Satanta, Black Kettle, and place.” At sixteen, Whitlock got a job as a cowpuncher with
Dull Knife as they signed treaties, led attacks, battled for land, the Littlefield (LFD) ranch. Riding the open range, he branded
and defended their villages in the plains—home to the Wichitas, calves, braved blizzards, and rode herd on a hot-headed cowboy
Commanches, Cheyennes, Arapahos, Kiowas, Osages, Pawnees, friend who frequented the gambling dens and brothels of the
and other Indian tribes. Unlike many previous studies of the frontier towns. Whitlock attended some of the first rodeos
Plains Indian wars, this one-volume synthesis chronicles both and went to parties where nesters and cattleman forgot their
the Indian-white wars and the intertribal conflicts. differences while the barbeque and dancing lasted. At one party
the young cowboy met his future wife, whom he stole from her
Stan Hoig details the numerous battles and the major treaties.
disgruntled rancher father in a daring, and hilarious, elopement.
He also explains the Plains Indian warrior ethic and the role of
medicine men, the Sun Dance, tactics, and spirituality in Plains The stories in Cowboy Life on the Llano Estacado are so vivid
warfare. that readers will feel themselves jar around in the saddle and
find themselves picking catclaw thorns from their clothes.
Stan Hoig was Professor of Journalism at the University of
Central Oklahoma and the author of many books on American For thirty years, Vivian H. Whitlock wrote about the West for
Indians and the American West, including The Sand Creek newspapers and magazines under the pen name Ol’ Waddy (old
Massacre and the award-winning Peace Chiefs of the Cheyenne. cowhand).
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hooker child of the fighting tenth · owens mr. jefferson’s hammer

Child of the Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer
Fighting Tenth William Henry Harrison
On the Frontier with and the Origins of American
the Buffalo Soldiers Indian Policy
By Forrestine C. Hooker By Robert M. Owens
Edited by Steve Wilson
Explores Harrison’s role in
The drama of western U.S-Indian treaty making
settlement and the Indian wars
as seen through the eyes of a
young girl
“No one knew when the bugle sounded reveille what would “A thorough and engaging account of how the man who
happen before taps that night.” Forrestine “Birdie” Cooper became Tecumseh’s nemesis . . . built his career on dispossessing
learned at an early age that growing up on the western frontier American Indians of their lands and advancing the expansionist
meant that each new day brought a fresh adventure. policies of the new nation.”—Colin G. Calloway, author
of One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before
Birdie’s father, Charles Cooper, was an officer in the Tenth U.S.
Lewis and Clark
Cavalry, known as the Buffalo Soldiers, one of four regiments
of black troops with white officers. The Buffalo Soldiers made “A cogent and compelling addition to the scholarship of Indian-
headlines with their battles against Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Lone white relations, the frontier, and the culture and politics of the early
Wolf, Billy the Kid, and Pancho Villa. These momentous events nineteenth century.” —Journal of America’s Military Past
were just everyday life, and these men of valor, playmates in the
childhood escapades of Birdie Cooper. Often remembered as the president who died shortly after tak-
ing office, William Henry Harrison was instrumental in shaping
Later in life, after she had married and published several novels,
American Indian policy during the early years of westward ex-
Forrestine Cooper Hooker began writing her memoir, which re-
pansion. More than a study of Harrison the man, Mr. Jefferson’s
mained unfinished when she died in 1932. Steve Wilson edited
Hammer offers a cultural biography that surveys the military,
the manuscript into publishable form. The compelling yet hu-
political, and social world of the Ohio Valley and the frontier.
morous stories told in Child of the Fighting Tenth capture the
drama of the settlement of the American West, the Indian wars Robert M. Owens traces Harrison’s political career as secretary
on the plains, and the Geronimo campaign in the Southwest and of the Northwest Territory, territorial delegate to Congress, and
Mexico as seen through the eyes of a young girl. In this memoir, governor of Indiana Territory, as well as his military leadership
Birdie Cooper draws us into her world, offering a vibrant por- and involvement with Indian relations. Thomas Jefferson found
trait of behind-the-scenes life on the western frontier. Harrison the ideal agent to carry out his administration’s ruthless
campaign to extinguish Indian land titles. To this day, we live
Forrestine Cooper Hooker wrote nine novels for young adults
with the echoes of Harrison’s proclamations, the boundaries set
based on her childhood and life as a ranch woman in southern
by his treaties, and the ramifications of his actions.
Arizona. Steve Wilson, Director Emeritus of the Museum of the
Great Plains in Lawton, Oklahoma, served in Vietnam with the Robert M. Owens is Associate Professor of History at Wichita
Fourth Infantry Division as an army combat correspondent. He State University, Kansas.
is the author of Oklahoma Treasures and Treasure Tales, The
Spider Rock Treasure: A Texas Mystery of Lost Spanish Gold, january
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carrasco the tenocha empire of ancient mexico · coburn pioneer cattleman in montana
The Tenochca Empire of Pioneer Cattleman in

Ancient Mexico Montana
The Triple Alliance of The Story of the Circle C Ranch
Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, By Walt Coburn
and Tlacopan
By Pedro Carrasco A vivid portrait of ranchers
cowboys, Indans, and outlaws
Examines the political and in the West
social structure of the ancient
Tenochca Empire
The most important political entity in pre-Spanish Mesoamerica In 1886, Robert Coburn bought 30,000 acres of land from
was the Tenochca Empire, founded in 1428 when the three Granville Stuart. The tract lay in the long shadows of the Lit-
kingdoms of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan formed an tle Rockies of Montana, and Coburn called it a “cattleman’s
alliance that controlled the Basin of Mexico and other extensive paradise.” Then the still-remembered blizzard of the following
areas of Mesoamerica. In The Tenochca Empire of Ancient winter erased half of his stock. This is the story of how Coburn
Mexico, Pedro Carrasco incorporates years of research in the overcame long odds, proved that the Circle C was, indeed, the
archives of Mexico and Spain and compares primary sources “paradise” he envisioned, and emerged as one of the progressive
from all three of the great kingdoms. men of Montana.
Within a unique political structure, each of the three allied Coburn had a brief but memorable encounter with Chief Joseph
capitals headed a group of kingdoms in the core of the empire, of the Nez Perces in 1877. As always in the frontier country,
and each possessed settlements of peasants both in its own men were sometimes on the side of the law, sometimes on the
domain and in the other two capitals. The Tenochca Empire outside of the law. Among these were Pike Landusky, the notori-
also conquered extensive regions from the Gulf Coast to the ous Kid Curry and his brothers, Jim Winters, and Charles Sir-
Pacific, imposing a complex system of political control and ingo. Artist Charles M. Russell was also a visitor to the Circle C.
tribute collection. Although local rulers usually remained in the
Pioneer Cattleman in Montana will appeal to everyone inter-
conquered areas, empirical envoys frequently intervened in local
ested in the “most colorful, romantic, lawless era in the history
affairs, and the empire sent settlers to establish military colonies
of western America.”
in the newly conquered areas.
Carrasco goes beyond cataloging and locating conquests and Walt Coburn, in writing about his father’s life and times, called
tributary towns to define components of the tripartite empire upon both his own memories of the past and a well of unwritten
and determine how it functioned. history heard around Circle C campfires. He was the author
of many popular western novels and stories, including “Old
Pedro Carrasco, the author or editor of numerous books on native Yeller.”
Mesoamerican peoples, is retired as Professor of Anthropology
and History, State University of New York, Stony Brook. January
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roblin, lett, singleton, ramer forging a nation · wilson search for the native american purebloods
Forging a Nation Search for the Native
The American History American Purebloods
Collection at Gilcrease Museum Third Edition
Contributions by: Kimberly By Charles Banks Wilson
Roblin, Amanda Lett, Foreword by Herman J. Viola
Eric Singleton, Randy Ramer
Foreword by Duane H. King A remarkable gallery of
American Indian portraits
Explores the foundations of the
American republic
Forging a Nation: The American History Collection at “Wilson’s perceptive sense of subject and sympathetic aesthetic
Gilcrease Museum explores that struggle—the history of the rendering infuse into the ‘tired composite of sags and wrinkles’
United States—as told through art, artifacts, and archival of each pureblood countenance features which in a mystic way
materials that illuminate some three hundred years of a communicate uniqueness of ethnicity, the pain of inter-cultural
shared cultural experience. conflict and strife, and the quiet determination to sustain ‘the old
way’ in a fast-changing world.”—Peter Early, Washington Post
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 Over several decades, renowned Oklahoma artist Charles Banks
National period. With essays focused on some of the finest art- Wilson sought out “purebloods” (that is, Indians of a single
works, artifacts, and documents in the Gilcrease Museum col- tribal heritage) of each of Oklahoma’s tribes to create a gallery
lection, Forging a Nation offers a unique examination of early of American Indian portraits. Search for the Native American
American life. The catalog of artists includes such essential Purebloods captures the state’s visual heritage in a series of
American painters as Charles Willson Peale, John Singleton Co- seventy-seven remarkable pencil drawings, each accompanied
pley, Robert Feke, Benjamin West, George Catlin, Alfred Jacob by a narrative describing Wilson’s visits with the subject. The
Miller, Emanuel Leutze, John Vanderlyn, William Tylee Ran- first edition, Search for the Purebloods, served as a catalogue for
ney, and John Wesley Jarvis. Also included are rare sculptures an exhibition of the artist’s work at the United States Capitol.
by Jean Antoine Houdon, Hiram Powers, and Augustus Saint- This third edition contains thirteen additional drawings and an
Gaudens and an extensive array of American archival treasures, afterword by Wilson.
including a handwritten transcription of the Declaration of In- Out of print since 2005, the book is once again available with
dependence itself. the generous assistance of the College of Arts and Sciences at the
University of Oklahoma.
DISTRIBUTED FOR GILCREASE MUSEUM
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ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
National Museum of Natural History and the author of The
North American Indians.
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By Paul L. Hedren
Lasting nearly two years, the Great Sioux War pitted almost one-third of the U.S.
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unconventional war and was more effectively led and better equipped than is custom-
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A doctor and Indian agent’s fascinating life on the northern plains
Moulton valentine T. McGillycuddy

Valentine T. McGillycuddy
Army Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux
By Candy Moulton
On a September day in 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 such legendary western
figures as Calamity Jane and Red Cloud, Valentine Trant O’Connell McGillycuddy’s
life (1849–1939) encapsulated key events in American history that changed the lives
of Native people forever. In Valentine T. McGillycuddy: Army Surgeon, Agent to the
Sioux, the first biography of the man in seventy years, award-winning author Candy
Moulton explores McGillycuddy’s fascinating experiences on the northern plains as
topographer, cartographer, physician, and Indian agent.
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western history/biography
he clashed with Chief Red Cloud over the government’s assimilation policies. Along
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McGillycuddy’s doctoring of Crazy Horse marked only one point of his interaction
with American Indians. But those relationships were also just one aspect of his life
in the West, which extended well into the twentieth century. Enhanced by more than
20 photographs, this long-overdue biography offers general readers and historians
an engaging adventure story as well as insight into a period of tumultuous change. Of Related Interest
Crazy Horse
Candy Moulton is the award-winning author of eleven books on western history, A Lakota Life
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At Standing Rock and Wounded Knee

The Journals and Papers of Father Francis
M. Craft, 1888–1890
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Index
A E L S
After Moctezuma, Connell, 25 Eros at the Banquet, Pratt, 28 Lawrence/Lawrence, Violent Encounters, 20 Santiago, The Jar of Severed Hands, 22
Anaya, Randy Lopez Goes Home, 2 Essentials of Greek Grammar, The, Pratt, 29 Letter to America, A, Boren, 9 Search for the Native American Purebloods,
Arapaho Journeys, Wiles, 23 Euripides’ Electra, Roisman/Luschnig, 27 Lysistrata, The Women’s Festival and Frogs, Wilson, 39
Aristophanes/Ewans, Lysistrata, The Women’s Aristophanes/Ewans, 32 Selections from Herodotus, Barbour/Drinkwater,
Festival, and Frogs, 32 F 31
Assault on the Deadwood Stage, DeArment, 18 First Manhattans, Grumet, 5 M Shaping the West, Duncan/Tolles/Hassrick/
Font/Brown, With Anza to California, Matheny, Carrying the War to the Enemy, 13 Walker, 6
B 1775–1776, 42 Mexicans in Oklahoma, The, Smith, 34 Shooting from the Hip, Cook, 4
Baird/Goble, Oklahoma, 9 Forced Federalism, Corntassel/Witmer, 35 Moon, Wellington’s Two-Front War, 14 Shot in Oklahoma, Wooley, 1
Baker/Henshaw, Women Who Pioneered Forging a Nation, Roblin/Lett/Singleton/ Mormon Rebellion, The, Bigler/Bagley, 17 Shreve, Red Power Rising, 21
Oklahoma, 33 Ramer, 39 Moulton, Valentine T. McGillycuddy, 41 Sinner/Jansen, Turning Points, 8
Barbour, Jedediah Smith, 10 Franklin, The Blacks in Oklahoma, 34 Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer, Owens, 37 Sloan/Bunker, Red Teams and Counterterrorism
Barbour/Drinkwater, Selections from Training, 26
Herodotus, 31 G N Smith, The Mexicans in Oklahoma, 34
Bernard, The Poles in Oklahoma, 34 Generations, Nottage, 7 Nature and Spirit, Young-Sánchez, 33 Smith/Stickland/Smith, Building One Fire, 7
Bicha, The Czechs in Oklahoma, 34 Germans from Russia in Oklahoma, The, Hale, Navajo Legacy, A, Holiday/McPherson, 35 Strickland, The Indians in Oklahoma, 34
Bigler/Bagley, The Mormon Rebellion, 17 34 Neilson, In the Whirlpool, 44
Blacks in Oklahoma, The, Franklin, 34 Germans in Oklahoma, The, Rohrs, 34 New England to Gold Rush California, Rix/ T
Blair/DeCioccio, Victory at Peleliu, 11 Grand Procession, Dubin, 6 Bonfield, 43 Tanner/Tanner, The Bronco Bill Gang, 16
Blessing, The British and Irish in Oklahoma, 34 Great Sioux War Orders of Battle, Hedren, 40 Nottage, Generations, 7 Tenochca Empire of Ancient Mexico, The,
Boren, A Letter to America, 9 Grumet, First Manhattans, 5 Carrasco, 38
Boscawen, The Capture of Louisbourg, 1758, 12 O Tobias, The Jews in Oklahoma, 34
British and Irish in Oklahoma, The, Blessing, 34 H Oklahoma, Baird/Goble, 9 Tribal Wars of the Southern Plains, Hoig, 36
Bronco Bill Gang, The, Tanner/Tanner, 16 Hagan, Charles Goodnight, 10 Our Centennial Indian War and the Life of General Turning Points, Sinner/Jansen, 8
Brown, The Italians in Oklahoma, 34 Hale, The Germans from Russia in Oklahoma, Custer, Victor, 15
Building One Fire, Smith/Stickland/Smith, 7 34 Ovid’s Amores, Book One, Ryan/Perkins, 30 V
Hedren, Great Sioux War Orders of Battle, 40 Owens, Mr. Jefferson’s Hammer, 37 Valentine T. McGillycuddy, Moulton, 41
C Hoig, Tribal Wars of the Southern Plains, 36 Victor, Our Centennial Indian War and the Life of
Capture of Louisbourg, 1758, The, Boscawen, 12 Holiday/McPherson, A Navajo Legacy, 35 P General Custer, 15
Carrasco, The Tenochca Empire of Ancient Hooker/Wilson, Child of the Fighting Tenth, 37 Pedro Moya de Contreras, Poole, 24 Victory at Peleliu, Blair/DeCioccio, 11
Mexico, 38 Hutton, Western Heritage, 19 Pioneer Cattleman in Montana, Coburn, 38 Violent Encounters, Lawrence/Lawrence, 20
Carrying the War to the Enemy, Matheny, 13 Poles in Oklahoma, The, Bernard, 34
Charles Goodnight, Hagan, 10 I Poole, Pedro Moya de Contreras, 24 W
Child of the Fighting Tenth, Hooker/Wilson, 37 Indians in Oklahoma, The, Strickland, 34 Pratt, Eros at the Banquet, 28 Wellington’s Two-Front War, Moon, 14
Coburn, Pioneer Cattleman in Montana, 38 In the Whirlpool, Neilson, 44 Pratt, The Essentials of Greek Grammar, 29 Western Heritage, Hutton, 19
Connell, After Moctezuma, 25 Irish General, The, Wylie, 8 Whitlock, Cowboy Life on the Llano Estacado, 36
Cook, Shooting from the Hip, 4 Italians in Oklahoma, The, Brown, 34 R Wiles, Arapaho Journeys, 23
Corntassel/Witmer, Forced Federalism, 35 Randy Lopez Goes Home, Anaya, 2 Wilson, Search for the Native American
Cowboy Life on the Llano Estacado, Whitlock, 36 J Red Power Rising, Shreve, 21 Purebloods, 39
Czechs in Oklahoma, The, Bicha, 34 Jar of Severed Hands, The, Santiago, 22 Red Teams and Counterterrorism Training, Sloan/ With Anza to California, 1775–1776, Font/
Jedediah Smith, Barbour, 10 Bunker, 26 Brown, 42
D Jews in Oklahoma, The, Tobias, 34 Remley, Kit Carson, 3 Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma, Baker/
DeArment, Assault on the Deadwood Stage, 18 Rix/Bonfield, New England to Gold Rush Henshaw, 33
Dubin, Grand Procession, 6 K California, 43 Wooley, Shot in Oklahoma, 1
Duncan/Tolles/Hassrick/Walker, Shaping the Kit Carson, Remley, 3 Roblin/Lett/Singleton/Ramer, Forging a Wylie, The Irish General, 8
West, 6 Nation, 39
Rohrs, The Germans in Oklahoma, 34 Y
Roisman/Luschnig, Euripides’ Electra, 27 Young-Sánchez, Nature and Spirit, 33
Ryan/Perkins, Ovid’s Amores, Book One, 30
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After a hardscrabble boyhood, Cook became a photographer at the age of twenty

A concise history of the Indians said to have

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New England Frontier, 3rd Edition

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A comprehensive account of the pivotal battle of the

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