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James J. Hill, Volume 12: Empire Builder of the NorthwestIn this volume, Michael P. Malone provides a succinct interpretive biography of James J. Hill, the "Empire Builder"-so called for his work in developing the region of the United States between the Great Lakes and the Pacific Northwest. Malone explores Hill's complex life and...
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West of Wild Bill HickokOf all the Old West figures whose images eventually found their way into our popular culture, none was better known than Wild Bill Hickok. This book, a companion volume to Joseph Rosa's exhaustive biography, They Called Him Wild Bill, reproduces in one volume nearly...
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Nations Remembered: An Oral History of the Cherokee, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles in Oklahoma, 1865-1907The five largest southeastern Indian groups-the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles-were forced to emigrate west to the Indian territory (now Oklahoma) in the 1830s. Here, from WPA interviews are those Indians' own stories of the troubled years between the Civil War and Oklahoma...
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Horse Soldier, 1851-1880, Volume 2: The Frontier, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Indian WarsThis is the second volume of a projected four-volume work. In Volume I the author delineated the uniforms, arms, accouterments, and equipment of the period from 1776 to 1850. In this volume he addresses himself to the eventful, bloody tragic mid-nineteenth century. Here he...
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Peyote CultFor half a century, readers on peyotism have devoured La Barre's fascinating original study, which began when the author, at age twenty-four, studied the rites of fifteen American Indian tribes using Lophophora williamsii, the small, spineless, carrot-shaped peyote cactus growing in the Rio Grande...
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Time and Reality in the Thought of the Maya: Volume 190In this second English-language edition of one of his most notable works, Miguel León-Portilla explores the Maya Indians' remarkable concepts of time. At the book's first appearance Evon Z. Vogt, Curator of Middle American Ethnology in Harvard University, predicted that it would become "a...
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Indian Dances of North America: Their Importance to Indian Lifevolume 141Many thousands of persons here and abroad have been introduced to authentic Indian dancing through the Laubin's dance concerts, lectures, and seminars. Their admirers, as well as other dancers, anthropologists, historians, students of Indian culture, and Indians themselves, will welcome this informative and richly...
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The Chinook Indians: Traders of the Lower Columbia River"Ruby and Brown have traced the destruction of a native race and fading fur trade in a book that is well organized and beautifully printed....[They] are to be commended for encompassing in one volume for the general reader the turbulent and tragic history of...
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The Pawnee Indians: Volume 128Volume 128 in the The Civilization of the American Indian Series "After 30 years of assessing firsthand accounts (both Indian and white), Pawnee oral history, anthropological and archeological evidence, Hyde completed probably his best synthesis among the many works he produced. Although other fragmentary...
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The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains Volume 34The fierce bands of Comanche Indians, on the testimony of their contemporaries, both red and white, numbered some of the most splendid horsemen the world has ever produced. Often the terror of other tribes, who, on finding a Comanche footprint in the Western plains...
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Talking to the Moon: Wildlife Adventures on the Plains and Prairies of Osage CountryTalking to the Moon is an unusual and charming story of a Thoreau-like adventure in remote northeastern Oklahoma. Following his university education and his service as a pilot in World War I, John Joseph Mathews returned to his beloved Osage country. He built a...
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Indians of California: The Changing ImageWhen the first Anglo-Americans visited California early in the nineteenth century, the future state was still a remote province of the Spanish empire. Early visitors, filled with a sense of American's Manifest Destiny, described the missionary priests and their Indian converts in terms of...
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Civil War in the Western Territories: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and UtahBetween 1861 and 1865 the violent struggles of the Civil War extended into the Western Territories, where they were complicated by the involvement of the Indians. The Confederate leaders had planned to annex a corridor from the Rio Grande in Texas to the California...
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Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670-1870Beginning with the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670, the fur trade dominated the development of the Canadian west. Although detailed accounts of the fur-trade era have appeared, until recently the rich social history has been ignored. In this book, the fur...
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The Taos Trappers: The Fur Trade in the Far Southwest, 1540-1846In this comprehensive history, David J. Weber draws on Spanish, Mexican, and American sources to describe the development of the Taos trade and the early penetration of the area by French and American trappers. Within this borderlands region, colorful characters such as Ewing Young,...
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Sioux of the Rosebud: A History in PicturesVolume 111 in The Civilization of the American Indian Series "From 1891 until 1948 when he died, John A. Anderson lived on the Rosebud, recording the daily lives and activities of the Indians as they painfully adjusted to an agricultural existence. . . ....
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A History of the Indians of the United States, 106In 1906 when the Creek Indian Chitto Harjo was protesting the United States government's liquidation of his tribe's lands, he began his argument with an account of Indian history from the time of Columbus, "for, of course, a thing has to have a root...
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The Xit Ranch of Texas and the Early Days of the Llano Estacado: Volume 34Among the famous ranch brands of Texas are the T Anchor, JA, Diamond Tail, 777, Bar C, and XIT. And the greatest of these was XIT--The XIT Ranch of Texas. It was not the first ranch in West Texas, but after its formation in...
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Life of Tom Horn: Government Scout and Interpreter Volume 26On November 20, 1903, Tom Horn was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for the murder of a fourteen-year-old nester boy. Horn-army scout and interpreter for Generals Willcox, Crook, and Miles in the Apache wars, Pinkerton operative, cattle detective, and King of Cowboys-was hanged like a...
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Historical Atlas of New Mexico"Combines a good geography of the state with much interesting information along practically any line one might wish to follow." Navajo Times "It is a supreme treat to look at a volume so well organized. . . . [T]his is a must-have book." American...
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