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The Cheyenne Indians, Volume 1: History and SocietyThe Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Their Ways of Life is a classic ethnography, originally published in 1928, that grew out of George Bird Grinnell's long acquaintance with the Cheyennes. Volume I looks at the tribe's early history and migrations, customs, domestic life, social...
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Saddles and Spurs: The Pony Express SagaThe story of the Pony Express, which carried transcontinental mail from April 3, 1860 to October 24, 1861, is one of the most invigorating and satisfying episodes in American history. Saddles and Spurs: The Pony Express Saga brings together a storehouse of information about...
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Encyclopedia of the Great PlainsThe Encyclopedia of the Great Plains is a cooperative project of the Center for Great Plains Studies and the University of Nebraska Press, with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the University of Nebraska Foundation, and the Nebraska Humanities Council....
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The Kingdom of Golf in AmericaFor golf's true enthusiasts, the game is far more--and far more complex--than a simple hobby, commodity, or slice of the sports industry. It is a physical and mental place to be, a community. It has a history, a hierarchy, laws, a language, and a...
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Reservation Capitalism: Economic Development in Indian CountryNative American peoples suffer from health, educational, infrastructure, and social deficiencies of the sort that most Americans who live outside tribal lands are wholly unaware of and would not tolerate. Indians are the poorest people in the United States, and their reservations are appallingly...
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The Great EightThe 1975 Cincinnati Reds, also known as the "Big Red Machine," are not just one of the most memorable teams in baseball history--they are unforgettable. While the Reds dominated the National League from 1972 to 1976, it was the '75 team that surpassed them...
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The Great Sioux Nation: Sitting in Judgment on America"If the moral issues raised by the Sioux people in the federal courtroom that cold month of December 1974 spark a recognition among the readers of a common destiny of humanity over and above the rules and regulations, the codes and statutes, and the...
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Body GeographicA memoir from the award-winning author of My Lesbian Husband, Barrie Jean Borich's Body Geographic turns personal history into an inspired reflection on the points where place and person intersect, where running away meets running toward, and where dislocation means finding oneself. One coordinate...
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Men in Eden: William Drummond Stewart and Same-Sex Desire in the Rocky Mountain Fur TradeThe American West of the nineteenth century was a world of freedom and adventure for men of every stripe--not least also those who admired and desired other men. Among these sojourners was William Drummond Stewart, a flamboyant Scottish nobleman who found in American culture...
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White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, indigenous communities in the United States and Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of state authorities: the removal of their children to institutions in the name of assimilating American Indians and protecting Aboriginal people....
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Ogallala: A Century on the TrailFounded in the late 1800s as the hub of the burgeoning plains cattle trade, Ogallala serves as a microcosm of western history. The town typified western outposts of the age with cowboys--the knights-errant of the plains--ranchers, lawmen, Indians, dance hall girls, cardsharps, drifters, and...
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Looking for a Hero: Staff Sergeant Joe Ronnie Hooper and the Vietnam WarWidely acclaimed as the Vietnam War's most highly decorated soldier, Joe Ronnie Hooper in many ways serves as a symbol for that conflict. His troubled, tempestuous life paralleled the upheavals in American society during the 1960s and 1970s, and his desperate quest to prove...
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Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little difference: the United States was just another imperial overlord to be assessed and manipulated. This was not, as Empires, Nations, and Families makes clear, virgin wilderness discovered by virtuous Anglo entrepreneurs. Rather,...
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Rescue & Flight: American Relief Workers Who Defied the NazisWhen Susan Elisabeth Subak discovered that members of the Unitarian Church had helped her Jewish father immigrate to the United States, she was unaware of the impact the organization had made during World War II. After years of research, Subak uncovers the little-known story...
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Plateau Indians and the Quest for Spiritual Power, 1700-1850Fusing myriad primary and secondary sources, historian Larry Cebula offers a compelling master narrative of the impact of Christianity on the Columbian Plateau peoples in the Pacific Northwest from 1700 to 1850. For the Native peoples of the Columbian Plateau, the arrival of whites...
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American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island: Red Power and Self-DeterminationThe occupation of Alcatraz Island by American Indians from November 20, 1969, through June 11, 1971, focused the attention of the world on Native Americans and helped develop pan-Indian activism. In this detailed examination of the takeover, Troy R. Johnson tells the story of...
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Viet Cong at Wounded Knee: The Trail of a Blackfeet ActivistIt was at Wounded Knee, huddled under a night sky lit by military flares and the searchlights of armored personnel carriers, that Vietnam vet Woody Kipp realized that he, as an American Indian, had become the enemy, the Viet Cong, to a country that...
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Vintage Journal Travel Poster, Totem PoleThe Vintage Found Image Press Pocket Journal, Travel Poster, Totem Pole, features an illustration of a colorful totem pole promoting travel in Alaska. This journal has full color decorative vintage art on the cover, and is the perfect companion for your next trip, writing...
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Vintage Journal Indigenous Alaskan Girl Carving IvoryThe Vintage Found Image Press Pocket Journal, Indigenous Alaskan Girl Carving Ivory, features a black and white photograph of an Indigenous Alaskan Girl sitting cross-legged on the ground while she carves ivory. She is wearing traditional native clothing. This journal has decorative vintage art...
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Gil Hodges: A Hall of Fame LifeIn descriptions of athletes, the word "hero" is bandied about and liberally attached to players with outstanding statistics and championship rings. Gil Hodges: A Hall of Fame Life is the story of a man who epitomized heroism in its truest meaning, holding values and...
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