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American West
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American West
Contents

American Indian 1

Art 2

Biography & Memoir 5

Environment 9

History 9

Literature & fiction 13

Military History 15

The Arthur H. Clark Company 16

chickasaw press 18

Best-selling Backlist 20

Forthcoming Titles 24

For more than eighty years, the University of Oklahoma

Press has published award-winning books about the West
and we are proud to bring to you our new American West
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the University of Oklahoma Press and The Arthur H. Clark
Company, an imprint of OU Press.

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PHOTO CREDITS
On the cover: Alexander Phimister Proctor at Glacier Point, courtesy Buffalo Bill Historical
Center, Cody, Wyoming. Inside front cover: Close up portrait of President Lyndon B.
Johnson, photographed by Yoichi Okamoto, courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson
Presidential Library and Museum, Austin, Texas. Pages 14–15: Union soldiers in trenches
before Petersburg , courtesy Library of Congress. Pages 16–17: Dodge City in 1872.
Courtesy Kansas State Historical Society. Page 18: Blackfoot Indian, (Bear Bull?) holding
horse outside tipi, courtesy Libary of Congress.
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American Indian
Full Court Quest
The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School Basketball
Champions of the World
By Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith
$29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3973-9 · 496 pages
At the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, the girls from the Fort Shaw Indian School
in Montana introduced an international audience to the fledgling game and
returned home with a trophy declaring them champions. Full-Court Quest offers a
rare glimpse into American Indian life and into the world of women’s basketball
before “girls’ rules” temporarily shackled the sport.

Indian Tribes of Oklahoma

A Guide
By Blue Clark
$29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4060-5 · 416 pages
Oklahoma is home to nearly forty American Indian tribes, and it includes
the largest Native population of any state. As a result, many Americans
think of the state as “Indian Country.” Blue Clark, an enrolled member
of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, has rendered a completely new guide
for information on the state’s Native peoples that reflects the drastic
transformation of Indian Country in recent years.  As a synthesis of current
knowledge, this book places the state’s Indians in their contemporary context
as no other book has done.

Indian Blues
American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1890–1934
By John W. Troutman
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4019-3 · 320 pages
From the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, the U.S. government
sought to control practices of music on reservations and in Indian boarding
schools. In this innovative study, John W. Troutman explores the politics of
music at the turn of the twentieth century in three spheres: reservations, off-
reservation boarding schools, and public venues such as concert halls and
Chautaqua circuits.

Choctaw Crime and Punishment, 1884–1907

By Devon Abbott Mihesuah
$32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4052-0 · 352 pages
During the decades between the Civil War and the establishment of
Oklahoma statehood, Choctaws suffered almost daily from murders, thefts,
and assaults—usually at the hands of white intruders, but increasingly by
Choctaws themselves. This book focuses on two previously unexplored murder
cases to illustrate the intense factionalism that emerged among tribal
members during those lawless years as conservative Nationalists and pro-
assimilation Progressives fought for control of the Choctaw Nation.

The Indian Southwest, 1580–1830

By Gary Clayton Anderson
$24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4067-4 · 384 pages
In The Indian Southwest, 1580-1830 demonstrates that, in the face of European
conquest, severe drought, and disease, Indians in the Southwest proved
remarkably adaptable and dynamic, remaining independent actors and
even prospering. Some tribes temporarily joined Spanish missions or
assimilated into other tribes. Others survived by remaining on the fringe of
Spanish settlement, migrating, and expanding exchange relationships with
other tribes. Still others incorporated remnant bands and individuals and
strengthened their economic systems. The vibrancy of southwestern Indian
societies today is due in part to the exchange-based political economies their
ancestors created almost three centuries ago.
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Indian Alliances and the Spanish in

the Southwest, 750–1750
By William B. Carter
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4009-4 · 312 pages
When considering the history of the Southwest, scholars have typically
viewed Apaches, Navajos, and other Athabaskans as marauders who
preyed on Pueblo towns and Spanish settlements. William Carter
now offers a multilayered reassessment of historical events and
environmental and social change to show how mutually supportive
networks among Native peoples created alliances in the centuries
before and after Spanish settlement.

Sacagawea’s Child
The Life and Times of Jean-Baptiste (Pomp) Charbonneau
By Susan M. Colby
$24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4098-8 · 206 pages
Sacagawea’s Child follows the life of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, a boy born
at the forefront of westward expansion in the early nineteenth century.
Author Susan M. Colby details Charbonneau family history, analyzing the
characters and cultures of Jean-Baptiste’s father, Toussaint, a French fur
trader, and Sacagawea, his Shoshoni and Hidatsa mother.

Peyote vs. the State

Religious Freedom on Trial
By Garrett Epps
$19.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4026-1 · 296 pages
With the grace of a novel, this book chronicles the six-year duel between
two remarkable men with different visions of religious freedom in America.
Weaving fascinating legal narrative with personal drama, Peyote vs. the State
offers a riveting look at how justice works—and sometimes doesn’t—in
America today.

Art
The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell
A Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture
Edited by Joan Carpenter Troccoli
$65.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4081-0 · 304 pages
$39.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4097-1 · 304 pages
In the decades bracketing the turn of the twentieth century, Charles M.
Russell depicted the American West in a fresh, personal, and deeply
moving way. This handsome book—a companion volume to the acclaimed
Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonné, edited by B. Byron Price—showcases
many of the artist’s best-known works and chronicles the sources and
evolution of his style.

Charles M. Russell
A Catalogue Raisonné
Edited by B. Byron Price
$125.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3836-7 · 352 pages
Charles M. Russell is the most beloved artist of the American West. This
work, the result of a decade of research and scholarship, features 170
color reproductions of his greatest works and six essays by Russell experts
and scholars. Each book contains a unique key code granting access to
the more than 4,000 works created and signed by Russell.
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The West of the Imagination

Second Edition
By William H. Goetzmann and William N. Goetzmann
$65.00 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3533-5 · 640 pages
For many people, “western art” immediately conjures images by Frederic
Remington or Georgia O’Keeffe—but there’s so much more. This new
edition by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and his son is significantly
expanded and updated and shows that the West is a vibrant mirror of
American cultural diversity. Through 450 illustrations—more than half of
them in color—the authors trace the visual evolution of the myth of the
American West, from unknown frontier to repository of American values,
covering popular and high arts alike.

Wildlife in American Art

Masterworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art
By Adam Duncan Harris
$55.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4015-5 · 320 pages
$35.00 Paper · 978-0-8061-4099-5 ·320 pages
The National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming, has
assembled the most comprehensive collection of paintings and sculptures
portraying North American wildlife in the world. Wildlife in American
Art presents a generous sampling of the museum’s holdings, charts
the history of this enduring theme in American art, and explores the
evolving relationship between Americans and the natural resources of this
continent.

In Contemporary Rhythm
The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein
By Peter H. Hassrick and Elizabeth J. Cunningham
$65.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3937-1 · 416 pages
$34.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3948-7 · 416 pages
One of the founders of the Taos Society of Artists, Ernest L. Blumenschein
was perhaps the most complex and accomplished of all the painters
associated with that pioneering organization. This volume is the definitive
work on Blumenschein’s life and art, reproducing masterworks from a
new exhibit along with additional works and historical photographs to
form the most comprehensive assemblage of his paintings ever published.

Spanish Mustangs in the Great American West

Return of the Horse to America
By John S. Hockensmith
$49.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-9975-7 · 204 pages
Horses are an integral part of the American experience. Yet prior to
the arrival of Spanish explorers in the 1500s, horses had been absent
from North America for millennia. In this beautifully illustrated volume,
celebrated equine photographer John S. Hockensmith reveals how the
return of horses with the conquistadors both altered American Indian
cultures and later supported the development of the United States.
Distributed for John S. Hockensmith

Faces of the Frontier

Photographic Portraits from the American West, 1845–1924
By Frank H. Goodyear III
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4082-7 · 320 pages
Faces of the Frontier showcases more than 140 photographic portraits of
leaders, statesmen, soldiers, laborers, activists, criminals, and others,
all posed before the cameras that made their way to nearly every mining
shanty-town and frontier outpost on the prairie. The names of some are
familiar—Teddy Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Sitting Bull, Annie Oakley. The
names of others may be less well known, but they played a significant role
in re-creating the American West. These are all people of the West, and
their portraits give us a unique glimpse into a lost time and place.
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Charles Deas and 1840s America

By Carol Clark
$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4030-8 · 248 pages
Charles Deas (1818–67), an enigmatic figure on the edge of mainstream
artistic circles in mid-nineteenth-century New York, went west to explore
new opportunities and subjects in 1840. From his adopted hometown
of St. Louis, Deas sent his iconic paintings of fur trappers and Indians
back east for exhibition and sale, briefly winning the recognition that
had earlier eluded him. This handsome volume—featuring more than 150
illustrations, 70 in color—is the first book exclusively devoted to Deas.

Julius Seyler and the Blackfeet

An Impressionist at Glacier National Park
By William E. Farr
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4014-8 · 256 pages
Julius Seyler and the Blackfeet showcases the life and work of a German
Impressionist artist, who portrayed a “vanished” West. This book marks
both an appreciation of Seyler’s unique art and a fascinating glimpse
into the promotion of a national park in its early years. Farr presents
more than one hundred images—many in color—including Seyler’s major
works from Glacier, other paintings from his European years, and historic
photographs from the park.

Sculptor in Buckskin
The Autobiography of Alexander Phimister Proctor
Second Edition
Edited by Katharine C. Ebner
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4007-0 · 244 pages
This new edition of Proctor’s autobiography provides a thorough
introduction to a distinctively American artist whose monumental
sculptures and statues adorn parks, public buildings, and museums, as
well as private homes and businesses across the country. The text takes
the reader on a far-flung journey from his birth in Ontario and childhood
in Denver to his travels as a young man throughout the United States and
eventually to Paris.

Lanterns on the Prairie

The Blackfeet Photographs of Walter McClintock
Edited by Steven L. Grafe
$60.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4022-3 · 336 pages
$34.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4029-2 · 336 pages
Lanterns on the Prairie explores the motivations of the players in photographer
Walter McClintock’s story and the historic context of his engagement with
the Blackfeet. The photographs themselves provide an irreplaceable visual
record of the Blackfeet during a pivotal period in their history.

Colorado
The Artists’ Muse
By Natasha K. Brandstatter, Meredith M. Evans, Peter H. Hassrick,
and Nicole A. Parks
$22.50 Paper · 978-0-914738-60-2 · 80 pages
With its vast prairies and impressive mountains, Colorado has been a
mecca for painters since the beginning of the nineteenth century. This
latest volume in the Denver Art Museum’s Western Passages series
celebrates a diverse group of painters who found special allegiance to the
Rockies and to the human history of Colorado.
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Placing Memory
A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment
Photographs by Todd Stewart
Essays by Natasha Egan and Karen J. Leong
$34.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3951-7 · 132 pages
Placing Memory is a powerful visual record of the incarceration of 120,000
Japanese Americans during World War II by the U.S. government.
Featuring Todd Stewart’s stunning color photographs of the sites as they
appear today, the book provides a rigorous visual survey of the physical
features of the camps—roads, architectural remains, and monuments—
along with maps and statistical information.

Sentimental Journey
The Art of Alfred Jacob Miller
By Lisa Strong
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-88360-105-1 · 208 pages
“An outstanding achievement. Strong’s book is a major contribution to studies not
just of western art but American art in general. ”—Alex Nemerov, Professor of
the History of Art, Yale University
“Sentimental Journey will set a new scholarly standard for monographs on western art.”
—William H. Truettner, Senior Curator at the Smithsonian American
Art Museum

Art from Fort Marion

The Silberman Collection
By Joyce M. Szabo
$49.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3883-1 · 208 pages
$29.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3889-3 · 208 pages
During the 1870s, Cheyenne and Kiowa prisoners of war at Fort Marion,
Florida, graphically recorded their responses to incarceration in drawings
that conveyed both the present reality of imprisonment and nostalgic
memories of home. The Silberman Collection is an unusually complete
group of images that illustrate the artists’ fascination with the world
outside the southern plains, their living conditions and survival strategies
as prisoners, and their reminiscences of pre-reservation life.

Biography & Memior

Lyndon B. Johnson and Modern America
By Kevin J. Fernlund
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4077-3 · 192 pages
Born in a farmhouse in the Texas Hill Country, Lyndon Baines Johnson
brought a western sensibility to the White House. Kevin J. Fernlund has
written a brief, lively biography of the thirty-sixth president that better
shows how his home state molded his early years—and how the one-time
Houston schoolteacher eventually became a Texas tornado twisting across
the state’s and soon the nation’s political landscape.

J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War,

and the Atomic West
By Jon Hunner
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4046-9 · 272 pages
In 1922, the teenage son of a Jewish immigrant ventured from Manhattan
to New Mexico for his health. After several trips to the western retreat at
Sangre de Cristo Mountains, J. Robert Oppenheimer came to feel at home
in the American West. This is the first book to explicitly link him with the
region. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War, and the Atomic West explores how
the West influenced Oppenheimer as a scientist and as a person—and the
role he played in influencing it.
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Call Me Lucky
A Texan in Hollywood
By Robert Hinkle with Mike Farris
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4093-3 · 272 pages
From his birth in Brownfield, Texas, to a family so poor “they could
only afford a tumbleweed as a pet,” Hinkle went on to gain acclaim in
Hollywood as a speech coach, actor, producer, director, and friend to
the stars. Along the way, Hinkle helped James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor,
Paul Newman, Rock Hudson, and Dennis Hopper, talk like Texans for the
epic film Giant and Academy Award–winning Hud. The author appeared
in numerous television series, including Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Dragnet,
and Walker, Texas Ranger. More than forty photographs, including rare
behind-the-scenes glimpses of the stars Hinkle met and befriended along
the way, complement this rousing, never-dull memoir.

Jedediah Smith
No Ordinary Mountain Man
By Barton H. Barbour
$26.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-4011-7 · 228 pages
Mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow.
He was the first Anglo-American to travel overland to California via the
Southwest and roamed through more of the West than anyone of his era.
His adventures quickly became the stuff of legend. Using new information
and sifting fact from legend, Barton H. Barbour now offers a fresh look at
this important figure. Dozens of monuments commemorate Smith today.
This readable book is another, giving modern readers new insight into
the character and remarkable achievements of one of the West’s most
complex characters.

The Sundance Kid

The Life of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh
By Donna B. Ernst
$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3982-1 · 264 pages
He gained renown as the sidekick of Butch Cassidy, but the Sundance
Kid—whose real name was Harry Alonzo Longabaugh—led a fuller life than
history or Hollywood has allowed. Combining genealogical research, access
to family records, and explorations in historical archives, Ernst details the
Sundance Kid’s movements to paint a complete picture of the man.

Nicholas Black Elk

Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic
By Michael F. Steltenkamp
$24.95 Cloth 978-0-8061-4063-6 · 296 pages
In Nicholas Black Elk, Michael F. Steltenkamp provides the first full
interpretive biography of Black Elk, distilling in one volume what is known
of this American Indian wisdom keeper whose life has helped guide others.
Combining in-depth biography with its cultural context, the author depicts
a more complex Black Elk than has previously been known.

Coach Tommy Thompson and the Boys of Sequoyah

By Patti Dickinson
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4070-4 · 256 pages
Writing for readers old and young, Patti Dickinson tells the inspiring
story of how Coach Tommy Thompson made a difference in the lives of a
generation of Cherokee youth.
Through football, Thompson taught his boys the skills and values they
would need to succeed in life, and twice led his team to the state finals.
She paints compelling portraits of Thompson’s boys—the men whose
firsthand stories and reminiscences form the basis of the narrative—and
re-creates daily life at the boarding school.
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Victorio
Apache Warrior and Chief
By Kathleen P. Chamberlain
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3843-5 · 272 pages
Graced with historic photos of Victorio, other Apaches, and U.S. military
leaders, this biography portrays Victorio as a leader who sought a
peaceful homeland for his people in the face of wrongheaded decisions
from Washington. It is the most nearly complete and balanced picture yet
to emerge of a Native leader caught in the conflicts and compromises of
the nineteenth-century Southwest.

The Good Times Are All Gone Now

Life, Death, and Rebirth in an Idaho Mining Town
By Julie Whitesel Weston
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4075-9 · 248 Pages
Julie Whitesel Weston left her hometown of Kellogg, Idaho, but eventually
it pulled her back. Only when she returned to this mining community
in the Idaho Panhandle did she begin to see the paradoxes of the
place where she grew up. Her book combines oral history, journalistic
investigation, and personal reminiscence to take a fond but hard look at
life in Kellogg during “the good times.”
“An important portrait of the interior West—the true stuff, raw and gritty, honest to
the bone.”—Craig Lesley, author of Burning Fence and Sky Fisherman

Horses That Buck

The Story of Champion Bronc Rider Bill Smith
By Margot Kahn
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3912-8 · 208 pages
When asked in an interview what he most liked about rodeo, three-
time world champion saddle-bronc rider “Cody” Bill Smith said simply,
“Horses that buck.” Inducted into the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1979
and the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum’s Rodeo Hall of
Fame in 2000, Smith was a legend in his own time. His story is a genuine
slice of rodeo life—a life of magic for those good enough to win.

Legacies of Camelot
Stewart and Lee Udall, American Culture, and the Arts
By L. Boyd Finch
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3879-4 · 208 pages
In Legacies of Camelot, L. Boyd Finch describes the growing partnership
between government and the arts during the Kennedy-Johnson years, a
remarkable story that until now has received only cursory attention.
“An intimate portrait of Stewart and Lee Udall, an American canvas painted with
considerable perception, sympathy, and candor.” —N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer
Prize–winning author of House Made of Dawn

Agnes Lake Hickok

Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend
By Linda A. Fisher and Carrie Bowers
$29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3983-8 · 416 pages
The first woman in America to own and operate a circus, Agnes Lake
spent thirty years under the Big Top before becoming the wife of Wild Bill
Hickok. While taking her show to Abilene, she met town marshal Hickok
and married him five years later. This account of a remarkable life cuts
through fictions about Agnes’s life, including her own embellishments, to
uncover her true story.
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Best of Covered Wagon Women

Original Introduction and Editorial Notes by Kenneth L. Holmes
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3914-2 · 304 pages
The diaries and letters of women who braved the overland trails during the
great nineteenth-century westward migration are treasured documents in
the study of the American West. These eight firsthand accounts are among
the best ever written. They were selected for the power with which they
portray the hardship, adventure, and boundless love for friends and family
that characterized the overland experience. Their publication gives us a
fresh perspective on the pioneer experience.

Gall
Lakota War Chief
By Robert W. Larson
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3830-5 · 320 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4036-0 · 320 pages
Called the “Fighting Cock of the Sioux” by U.S. soldiers, Hunkpapa
warrior Gall was a great Lakota chief who, along with Sitting Bull and
Crazy Horse, resisted efforts by the U.S. government to annex the Black
Hills. Filling many gaps in our understanding of this warrior and his
relationship with Sitting Bull, this engaging biography also offers new
interpretations of the Little Bighorn that lay to rest the contention that
Gall was “Custer’s Conqueror.” Gall: Lakota War Chief broadens our
understanding of both the man and his people.

Following Isabella
Travels in Colorado Then and Now
By Robert Root
$19.95 Original Paperback · 978-0-8061-4018-6 · 288 pages
Isabella Bird recorded her 1873 visit to Colorado Territory in her classic
travel narrative, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains. This work inspired
Robert Root’s own discovery of Colorado’s Front Range following his
move from the flatlands of Michigan. In this elegantly written book, Root
retraces Bird’s three-month journey, seeking to understand what Colorado
meant to her—and what it would come to mean for him.

Baby Doe Tabor

The Madwoman in the Cabin
By Judy Nolte Temple
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4035-3 · 280 pages
The story of Baby Doe Tabor has seduced America for more than a
century.  Elizabeth McCourt “Baby Doe” Tabor was the stuff of legend.
The stunning divorcée married Colorado’s wealthiest mining magnate and
became “the Silver Queen of the West.” Horace and Baby Doe mesmerized
the world with their wealth and extravagance. But Baby Doe’s life was also
a morality play. Almost overnight, the Tabors’ wealth disappeared when
depression struck in 1893.

Oklahoma Rough Rider

Billy McGinty’s Own Story
Edited with Commentary and Notes by Jim Fulbright and Albert Stehno
$75.00s Limited Edition Cloth · 978-0-87062-356-1 · 232 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3935-7 · 232 pages
When Americans answered the call-to-arms after the sinking of the
USS Maine in 1898, a wiry little Oklahoman was in the front ranks.
Veteran cowboy Billy McGinty put his horseman’s skills to work as one
of Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders and participated in the battle of Las
Guasimas, the attack on San Juan Heights, and the siege of Santiago.
Oklahoma Rough Rider recounts McGinty’s exploits on the battlefield and
later on the stage.
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Environment
Going Green
True Tales from Gleaners, Scavengers, and Dumpster Divers
Edited by Laura Pritchett
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4013-1 · 240 pages
For Going Green, Pritchett has gathered the work of more than twenty writers
to tell their personal stories of Dumpster diving, eating road kill, salvaging
plastic from the beach, and forgoing another trip to the mall for the thrill of
bargain hunting at yard sales and flea markets. These stories look not just
at the many ways people glean but also at the larger, thornier issues dealing
with what re-using—or not—says about our culture and priorities.
Brimming with practical and creative new ways to think about recycling,
this collection invites you to dive in and find your own way of going green.

Our Better Nature

Environment and the Making of San Francisco
By Phillip J. Dreyfus
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3958-6 · 240 pages
Few cities are so dramatically identified with their environment as San
Francisco—the landscape of hills, the expansive bay, the engulfing fog, and
even the deadly fault line shifting below. Yet most residents think of the
city itself as separate from the natural environment on which it depends. 
In Our Better Nature,  Philip J. Dreyfus recounts the history of San Francisco
from Indian village to world-class metropolis, focusing on the interactions
between the city and the land and on the generations of people who have
transformed them both.

Disappearing Desert
The Growth of Phoenix and the Culture of Sprawl
By Janine Schipper
$19.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3955-5 · 144 pages
In this provocative book, Janine Schipper examines the cultural forces
that contribute to suburban sprawl in the United States. Focusing on
the Phoenix area, she examines sustainable development in Cave Creek,
various master-planned suburbs, and the Salt River Pima-Maricopa
Indian Reservation to explore suburbanization and ecological destruction.
For anyone seeking to understand the cultural basis for rampant
development, this book uncovers the forces that drive sprawl and searches
for solutions to its seeming inevitability.

History
The North American Journals of
Prince Maximilian of Wied
Volume I: May 1832–April 1833
Edited by Stephen S. Witte and Marsha V. Gallagher
$85.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3888-6 · 544 pages
Made famous through the paintings of Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, the
North American expedition of German naturalist Prince Maximilian of
Wied in 1832–34 was the first scientific exploration of the Missouri River’s
upper reaches since the epic journey of Lewis and Clark almost thirty years
earlier. This collector’s-quality, oversized volume, the first of a three-
volume set, draws on the Maximilian-Bodmer Collection at Joslyn Art
Museum in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Flying Across America

The Airline Passenger Experience
By Daniel L. Rust
$45.00 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3870-1 · 272 pages
In this colorful history, the author traces the evolution of commercial air
travel. Rust’s narrative brims with firsthand accounts from such celebrities as
Will Rogers as well as from ordinary Americans. Enlivened by more than one
hundred illustrations, including vintage brochures, posters, and photographs,
Flying Across America reminds today’s airline passengers of what they have
gained—and what they have lost—in the transcontinental flying experience.

Oklahoma
A History
By W. David Baird and Danney Goble
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3910-4 · 352 pages
The first comprehensive narrative to bring the story of the Sooner State
to the threshold of its centennial, this book includes both the well-known
and the not-so-familiar of the state’s people, events, and places. Enhanced
by more than 40 illustrations, including 11 maps, this definitive history of
the state ensures that experiences shared by Oklahomans of the past will
be passed on to future generations.

A Decent, Orderly Lynching

The Montana Vigilantes
By Frederick Allen
$120.00 Leather Bound · 978-0-8061-3651-6 · 496 pages
$34.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3637-0 · 496 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4038-4 · 496 pages
Combing through original sources, including eyewitness accounts
never before published, Frederick Allen concludes that the vigilantes
were justified in their early actions, as they fought violent crime in a
remote corner beyond the reach of government. Allen’s sharply drawn
characterizations are woven into a masterfully written narrative that will
change textbook accounts of Montana’s early days—and challenge our
thinking on the essence of justice.

Amber Waves and Undertow

Peril, Hope, Sweat, and Downright Nonchalance in Dry Wheat Country
By Steve Turner
$19.95 Original Paperback · 978-0-8061-4005-6 · 224 pages
Amber Waves and Undertow is a thoughtful depiction of an exceptional
place that puts the difficulties of individual farmers in national and global
contexts, showing us that only by understanding the past of rural America
can we confront its future challenges. This book interweaves family
narratives, historical episodes, and Turner’s own experiences to illuminate
the transformation of rural America from the nineteenth to the twenty-
first century. Pueblos,

Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico

By John L. Kessell
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3969-2 · 224 pages
For more than four hundred years in New Mexico, Pueblo Indians and
Spaniards have lived “together yet apart.” Now the preeminent historian
of that region’s colonial past offers a fresh, balanced look at the origins
of a precarious relationship. Brimming with new insights embedded in
an engaging narrative, Kessell’s work presents a clearer picture than ever
before of events leading to the Pueblo Revolt. Pueblos, Spaniards, and the
Kingdom of New Mexico is the definitive account of a volatile era.
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The Billy the Kid Reader

By Frederick Nolan
$29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3849-7 · 400 pages
The Billy the Kid Reader contains some of the best articles on the Kid—
including gems no longer in print. Nolan highlights two distinct schools
of Billy the Kid studies: works of popularizers who tended to exaggerate
his historical role, and the findings of grassroots researchers who have
reassessed our perceptions of the Kid. Dozens of illustrations enhance the
text, illuminating the Kid’s career and notoriety.
“Once again Fred Nolan has validated his distinction as the world’s
leading authority on Billy the Kid. No one knows more.”
—Robert M. Utley, author of Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life

We’ll Find the Place

The Mormon Exodus, 1846–1848
By Richard E Bennett
$21.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3838-1 · 448 pages
We’ll Find the Place tells the fascinating story of the Mormons’ exodus from
Nauvoo, Illinois, to their New Zion in the West—a story of a people’s
deliverance that has never before been completely told. A work many years
in the making, this book looks behind the scenes to reveal Mormonism on
the move, its believers sacrificing home, comfort, and sometimes life itself
as they sought a safe refuge beyond the Rocky Mountains. It is faithful
both to the convictions of the early pioneers and to the records they kept.

Texas Devils
Rangers and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1846–1861
By Michael L. Collins
$26.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3939-5 · 328 pages
The Texas Rangers have been the source of tall tales and the stuff of
legend as well as a growing darker reputation. But the story of the Rangers
along the Mexican border between Texas statehood and the onset of the
Civil War has been largely overlooked—until now.
This engaging history pulls readers back to a chaotic time along the
lower Rio Grande in the mid-nineteenth century that challenges the
time-honored image of “good guys in white hats” to reveal the more
complicated and sobering reality behind the Ranger Myth.

“They Are All Red Out Here”

Socialist Politics in the Pacific Northwest, 1895–1925
By Jeffrey A. Johnson
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3967-8 · 240 pages
In this first book to fully examine the development of the American
Socialist Party in the Northwest, Jeffrey A. Johnson draws a sharp picture
of one of the most vigorous left-wing organizations of this era. A work of
political and labor history that uncovers alternative social and political
visions in the American West, this book is a major contribution to the
ongoing debate over why socialism never grew deep roots in American soil
and no longer thrives here.

Conflict on the Rio Grande

Water and the Law, 1879–1939
By Douglas R. Littlefield
$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3998-2 · 344 pages
In this first scholarly treatment of the politics of water law along the
Rio Grande, Douglas R. Littlefield describes those early interstate and
international water-apportionment conflicts and explains how they relate
to the development of western water law and policy and to international
relations with Mexico.
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A Great Day to Fight Fire

Mann Gulch, 1949
By Mark Matthews
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3857-2 · 280 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4034-6 · 280 pages
Mann Gulch, Montana, 1949. Sixteen men ventured into hell to fight a
raging wildfire; only three came out alive. Searing the fire into the nation’s
consciousness, Norman Maclean chronicled the Mann Gulch tragedy
in his award-winning book Young Men and Fire. Still, the silence of the
victims’ families robbed Maclean’s account of an essential personal
dimension. Shifting the focus from the fire to the men who fought it, Mark
Matthews now provides that perspective.

Riding for the Brand

150 Years of Cowden Ranching
By Michael Pettit
$29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3718-6 · 320 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4044-5 · 320 pages
Folks all over West Texas and eastern New Mexico will tell you: Cowdens
have been ranching here for as long as anyone can remember. Award-
winning writer Michael Pettit, a Cowden descendant and former rancher,
offers a compelling portrait of this genuine American ranching family.
Riding for the Brand spans six generations and two states to serve up a real
slice of the Old West, complete with cowboys and Indians, cattle and
buffalo, open range and barbed wire.

Race and the War on Poverty

From Watts to East L.A.
By Robert Bauman
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3965-4 · 192 pages
President Johnson’s War on Poverty did more than offer aid to needy
Americans; in some cities, it also sparked both racial conflict and
cooperation. Race and the War on Poverty shows how the struggle to end
poverty evolved in ways that would have surprised its planners, supporters,
and detractors—and that what began as a grand vision at the national
level continues to thrive on the streets of the community.

Radical L.A.
From Coxey’s Army to the Watts Riots, 1894–1965
By Errol Wayne Stevens
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4002-5 · 352 pages
When the depression of the 1890s prompted unemployed workers from
Los Angeles to join a nationwide march on Washington, “Coxey’s Army”
marked the birth of radicalism in that city. In this first book to trace the
subsequent struggle between the radical left and L.A.’s power structure,
Errol Wayne Stevens tells how both sides shaped the city’s character from
the turn of the twentieth century through the civil rights era.

Between Two Rivers

The Atrisco Land Grant in Albuquerque
By Joseph P. Sanchez
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3902-9 · 256 pages
Located in Albuquerque’s south valley, Atrisco is a vibrant community that
predates the city, harking back to a land grant awarded in 1692. Joseph
P. Sánchez explores the evolution of this parcel over the four centuries
since the first Spanish settlers arrived. He tracks its transformation from
an individual to a community grant, peeling away the layers of historical
events that have made Atrisco the last piece of undeveloped real estate in a
growing metropolitan area.
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Literature & Fiction

Pushing the Bear
After the Trail of Tears
By Diane Glancy
$14.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4069-8 · 176 pages
Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears tells the story of the Cherokees’
resettlement in the hard years following Removal, a story never before
explored in fiction. In this sequel to her popular 1996 novel Pushing the
Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears, author Diane Glancy continues the tale of
Cherokee brothers O-ga-na-ya and Knobowtee and their families, as well
the Reverend Jesse Bushyhead, a Cherokee Christian minister. The book
follows their travails in Indian Territory as they attempt to build cabins,
raise crops, and adjust to new realities.

The Essays
By Rudolfo Anaya
$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4023-0 · 312 pages
While best known for Bless Me, Ultima and other novels, Rudolfo Anaya’s
writing also takes the form of nonfiction, and in these 54 essays he draws
on both his heritage as a Mexican American and his gift for storytelling.
Besides tackling issues such as censorship, racism, education, and sexual
politics, Anaya explores the tragedies and triumphs of his own life.

Cherokee Thoughts
Honest and Uncensored
By Robert J. Conley
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3943-2 · 196 pages
Gaming and chiefing. Imposters and freedmen. Distinguished novelist
Robert J. Conley examines some of the most interesting facets of the
Cherokee world. In 26 essays laced with humor, understatement, and
even open sarcasm, this popular writer takes on politics, culture, his
people’s history, and what it means to be Cherokee. As provocative as it
is entertaining, Cherokee Thoughts will intrigue tribal members and anyone
with an interest in the Cherokee people.

High Country
A Novel
By Willard Wyman
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3697-4 · 368 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3899-2 · 368 pages
During the Great Depression, young Ty Hardin is sent from his family’s
failing Montana ranch to learn from the last of the great mule packers,
Fenton Pardee, legendary in the Montana Rockies for his packing
adventures across the Swan Range all the way to the Big Divide. High
Country follows Ty through this apprenticeship and into World War II,
where he watches trucks and jeeps replace the army’s mules. Wounded
and shipped home, Ty recovers by packing into the Montana mountains
he loves. After his mentor dies, Ty leaves Montana for the Sierra Nevada—
the highest country of all—where he becomes a legend in his own right.

Harpsong
By Rilla Askew
$24.95 Cloth· 978-0-8061-3823-7 · 256 pages
$14.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3928-9 · 256 pages
In this moving, redemptive tale inspired by Oklahoma folk heroes, Rilla
Askew continues her exploration of the American story. Harpsong is a novel
of love and loss, of adventure and renewal, and of a wayfaring orphan’s
search for home—all set to the sounds of Harlan’s harmonica.
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Strange Business
By Rilla Askew
$14.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4028-5 · 208 pages
Lyla Mae Muncy meets her first love at Falls Creek Baptist Assembly
Summer Bible Church Camp—and regrets it on their awkward first date.
After years of being nagged about lumpy gravy, abused wife Lois pulls out
a shotgun to wrap up breakfast her way. In a tender moment, an old man
speaks from beyond the grave about his wife’s final goodbye at his funeral.
Experience, memory, and town-consciousness bind this collection of ten
stories spanning twenty-five years in fictitious Cedar, Oklahoma. From the
fears and discoveries of childhood, through the revelations of adolescence,
into the troubled years of adulthood and decline into old age and death,
Rilla Askew uncannily makes each of her characters’ experiences our own.

On Native Ground
Memoirs and Impressions
By Jim Barnes
$16.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4092-6 · 296 pages
On Native Ground takes us from Jim Barnes’s boyhood in rural southeastern
Oklahoma during the Great Depression and World War II through his
mature years as an internationally recognized poet. Of Choctaw and
Welsh ancestry, Barnes is often identified as a Native American poet.
He emphasizes his desire to be recognized for his art, not his blood. Yet
he speaks eloquently here of his attachment to his “native ground,” the
Choctaw region in Oklahoma—for him “the land where memory dwells.”

Means of Transit
A Slightly Embellished Memoir
By Teresa Miller
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3971-5 · 200 pages
In Means of Transit—A Slightly Embellished Memoir, Miller writes of journeys
that turned into life-altering experiences as she learned to “story” her way
beyond the impasses. Told with humor, candor, and the same haunting
lyricism that distinguished her early work, Miller’s story is about learning
the ultimate life lesson—that when we do lose our way, our hearts can
guide us.

Mack to the Rescue

By Jim Lehrer
$24.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3915-9 · 216 pages
When he’s not anchoring the NewsHour on PBS, Jim Lehrer may be found
casting a satirical eye at America’s heartland in such books as Crown
Oklahoma and The Sooner Spy. Mack to the Rescue is the latest of his successful
One-Eyed Mack novels. Set in Oklahoma and tracing the exploits of
a fictional lieutenant governor, the series allows Lehrer to address
contemporary national issues with a unique blend of humor and insight.

Dreams to Dust
A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush
By Sheldon Russell
$26.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3721-6 · 296 pages
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4043-8 · 296 pages
In recounting the precipitous rise and catastrophic fall of the jerrybuilt
city of Guthrie, Oklahoma, author Sheldon Russell immerses us in the lives
of memorable characters whose aspirations ultimately helped tame the
frontier—and whose fates hold lessons as important today as they were
more than a hundred years ago.
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Military History
Soldiers West
Biographies from the Military Frontier
Second Edition
Edited by Paul Andrew Hutton and Durwood Ball
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3997-5 · 416 pages
From the War of 1812 to the end of the nineteenth century, U.S. Army
officers were instrumental in shaping the American West. Soldiers West
views the turbulent history of the West from the perspective of fifteen
senior army officers—including new biographical portraits of Stephen W.
Kearny, Philip St. George Cooke, James H. Carleton, John M. Chivington,
and Oliver O. Howard.

Class and Race in the Frontier Army

Military Life in the West, 1870–1890
By Kevin Adams
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3981-4 · 312 pages
Class and Race in the Frontier Army marks the first application of recent
research on class, race, and ethnicity to the social and cultural history of
military life on the western frontier. Adams draws on a wealth of military
records and soldiers’ diaries and letters to reconstruct everyday army life
and shows that the frontier army was characterized by a “Victorian class
divide” that overshadowed ethnic prejudices.

Jayhawkers
The Civil War Brigade of James Henry Lane
By Bryce Benedict
$32.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3999-9 · 352 pages
No person excited greater emotion in Kansas than James Henry Lane, the
U.S. senator who led a volunteer brigade in 1861–62. In fighting numerous
skirmishes, liberating hundreds of slaves, burning portions of four towns,
and murdering half a dozen men, Lane and his brigade garnered national
attention as the saviors of Kansas and the terror of Missouri. This first
book-length study of the “jayhawkers,” as the men of Lane’s brigade were
known, takes a fresh look at their exploits and notoriety.

The Fall of a Black Army Officer

Racism and the Myth of Henry O. Flipper
By Charles M. Robinson III
$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3521-2 · 216 pages
Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper was a former slave who rose to become the
first African American graduate of West Point. While serving in the Army,
he was charged with embezzlement and conduct unbecoming an officer
and a gentleman. He was acquitted of embezzlement but convicted of
conduct unbecoming, and therefore, dismissed from the service. Because
of Flipper’s efforts to clear his name, many assumed that he had been
railroaded because he was black. In The Fall of a Black Army Officer,
Robinson finds that Flipper was the author of his own problems.
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The Arthur H. Clark Company

Publishers of the American West since 1902

Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector

A Scottish Immigrant in the American West, 1848–1861
By Polly Aird
$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-369-1 · 320 pages
Peter McAuslan heeded Mormon missionaries spreading the faith in his
native Scotland and wholeheartedly converted in 1848. McAuslan and
his family left Scotland for Utah, but soon after arriving, Peter’s doubts
grew about the religious community. Historian Polly Aird tells the story
of how McAuslan first embraced, then came to question, and ultimately
renounced the Mormon faith and left Utah.

At Standing Rock and Wounded Knee

The Journals and Papers of Father Francis M. Craft, 1888–1890
Edited and Annotated by Thomas W. Foley
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-372-1 · 288 pages
During the turbulent final years of the Indian Wars, Father Francis M.
Craft, a young Catholic priest entered service as a missionary to the
Sioux Indians in Dakota Territory. His journals provide valuable insights
into reservation life, including the federal acquisition of Sioux lands and
tensions between the Catholic Church and the Indian Bureau. By drawing
on Craft’s eyewitness report of Wounded Knee, Foley offers a bold
reinterpretation of that event as a genuine battle rather than a massacre.

California Odyssey
An Overland Journey on the Southern Trails, 1849
By William R. Goulding
Edited by Patricia A. Etter
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-373-8 · 360 pages
In 1849, William R. Goulding and the Knickerbocker Exploring Company
struck out for California on the southern route—a road less traveled. This
rare first-person diary of the southern Gold Rush trails, introduced and
annotated by Patricia A. Etter, highlights an important alternative route to
the Pacific Coast.

Fort Laramie
Military Bastion on the High Plains
By Douglas C. McChristian
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-360-8 · 448 pages
$150.00s Leather Collector’s Edition · 978-0-87062-361-5 · 448 pages
Douglas C. McChristian has written the first complete history of Fort
Laramie, chronicling every critical stage in its existence, including its
addition to the National Park System. He draws on an extraordinary
array of archival materials—including those at Fort Laramie
National Historic Site—to present new data about the fort and new
interpretations of historical events.
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On the Western Trails

The Overland Diaries of Washington Peck
Edited by Susan M. Erb
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-379-0 · 296 pages
A cooper and farmer from Ontario, Canada, Washington Peck (1801–89)
spent decades traveling across the western frontier before finally settling
in Washington Territory. Peck’s chronicle of his itinerant life offers
fresh insight into some of the less traveled emigrant routes across the
nineteenth-century West.

Dodge City
The Early Years, 1872-1886
By Wm. B. Shillingberg
$49.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-378-3 · 480 pages
The most famous cattle town of the trail-driving era, Dodge City, Kansas,
holds a special allure for western historians and enthusiasts alike. Wm.
B. Shillingberg now goes beyond the violence for which the town became
notorious, more fully documenting its early history by uncovering the
economic, political, and social forces that shaped Dodge.

Powder River Odyssey

Nelson Cole’s Western Campaign of 1865,
The Journals of Lyman G. Bennett and Other Eyewitness Accounts
By David E. Wagner
$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-87062-359-2 · 288 pages
$125.00s Leather Collector’s Edition · 978-0-87062-370-7 · 288 pages
Powder River Odyssey: Nelson Cole’s Western Campaign of 1865 is a detailed
recounting of the difficult campaign that presaged the post–Civil War
Indian wars of the western plains. The book tells the story of this largely
forgotten campaign at the pivotal moment when the Civil War ended and
the Indian wars captured national attention.

Military Register of Custer’s Last Command

By Roger L. Williams
$95.00s Cloth · 978-0-87062-368-4 · 400 pages
With so much written about the actual battle at the Little Bighorn on
June 25, 1876, Roger L. Williams has now compiled a wealth of data
concerning the men of the 7th Cavalry at the time of the engagement.
Military Register of Custer’s Last Command presents for the first time the
complete military history of every enlisted man on the regimental rolls,
with particular attention devoted to the well-known campaigns from the
Washita to Wounded Knee.
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Chickasaw Press
Chickasaw Renaissance
By Phillip Carroll Morgan
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-8-7 · 240 pages
When Oklahoma achieved statehood in 1907, the U.S. government declared
Chickasaw titles to tribal lands null and void. The Chickasaw Nation was, in
effect, legally abolished. Yet for the next sixty years, the Chickasaws struggled
to regain their sovereign identity, and eventually, in 1970, Congress enacted
legislation allowing the Five Tribes, including the Chickasaws, to elect their own
governing officers. In 1983, the Chickasaws adopted a new constitution for
their nation.
In Chickasaw Renaissance, Phillip Carroll Morgan profiles the experiences of the
Chickasaw people during this tumultuous period in their history, from the
dissolution of their government to the resurgence of their nation.

Chickasaw
Unconquered and Unconquerable
By Jeannie Barbour, Dr. Amanda Cobb-Greetham, Linda Hogan
$34.95s Cloth · 978-1-55868-992-3 · 128 pages
From their homelands in the Southeast, to their removal to Indian Territory, to
their status as a thriving nation today, the Chickasaw people represent one of
the most resilient cultures in American history. Through vivid photographs and
insightful essays, this book tells the incredible story of the Chickasaws.

Chickasaw Lives
Volume One: Explorations in Tribal History
By Richard Green
$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-1-8 · 238 pages
Arriving from the west ages ago, Chickasaws settled in a portion of
southeastern North America.  They soon became embroiled in the
deadly quest of European colonial powers to extend their empires
to the New World. By the 1730s, the Chickasaws were targeted for
extermination.
But, as Richard Green shows in Chickasaw Lives, the Chickasaw people
survived and prospered. Then their one-time ally, the United States, forced the tribe
to move west to Indian Territory. After several years of despondency, the people
were again building a great nation. With some Americans clamoring for Oklahoma
statehood, the U.S. government set a date to extinguish the tribe’s government and
land base.  Here for the first time is a selection of articles and essays that explain
why that did not happen.
 
Chickasaw Lives
Volume Two: Profiles and Oral Histories
By Richard Green
$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-6-3 ·  240 pages
The second volume in a series of Chickasaw Lives to be published, this
book contains 33 articles that focus on 36 tribal members, including
extraordinary performers, artists, athletes, and warriors. These Chickasaw
luminaries include an Olympic gold medalist, a recipient of the Congressional
Medal of Honor, a Chickasaw Nation attorney general who previously rode with
the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid, an internationally renowned performance
artist, a Harvard researcher who investigates and reports on economic
conditions in Indian Country, and three successive Chickasaw governors who
played crucial roles in the twentieth-century revitalization of the tribe.
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 A Nation in Transition
Douglas Henry Johnston and the Chickasaws, 1898–1939
By Michael Lovegrove
$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-7-0 · 256 pages
Douglas Henry Johnston was governor of the Chickasaw Nation from 1898 to
1902 and from 1904 to 1939. His tenure in this position is the longest of any
American Indian chief executive. In this much-anticipated biography, Michael
Lovegrove chronicles Johnston’s remarkable political life, telling the story of
how he led his people—with diplomacy and efficiency—through the devastating
dissolution of tribal lands at the beginning of the twentieth century and through
the contentious struggles in the three decades that followed.
 
Uprising
Woody Crumbo’s Indian Art
By Robert Perry
$29.95s Cloth ·978-0-9797858-5-6 · 256 pages
The life of Woodrow “Woody” Crumbo (1912–1989) parallels the twentieth-
century evolution of American Indian art. An accomplished Native dancer,
flutist, silversmith, and poet, Crumbo is perhaps best known today for his oil
paintings and silk screens—revolutionary artworks that were denigrated by some
critics at first but that helped move Indian art to museums of fine art, as well
as its markets. Now the life story of an Indian artist who often went against the
grain is told by an accomplished Indian storyteller.

Edmund Pickens (Okchantubby)

First Elected Chickasaw Chief, His Life and Times
By Juanita J. Keel Tate
$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-2-5 · 108 pages
Edmund Pickens lived through a crucial period in Chickasaw history. During
Removal in 1836, he traveled with his wife and children on the sad journey from
the Chickasaw homelands to Indian Territory. Like other Chickasaws, he faced
many hardships after settling in the new territory. But as Juanita J. Keel Tate
shows in this first book-length account of Pickens’s life and times, he persevered
and triumphed as a statesman and tribal leader.
 
They Know Who They Are
Elders of the Chickasaw Nation
By Mike Larsen and Martha Larsen
$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-4-9 · 144 pages
In August 2004, Oklahoma Centennial project artist Mike Larsen approached
Chickasaw Nation leaders with an idea to honor living Chickasaw elders—sages
of his own tribe. He wanted to learn about their families and hear their stories,
and he wanted to connect with their Chickasaw strength and spirit. Larsen’s
vision was to paint a series of portraits of these elders.  They Know Who They Are
is a stunning collection of living Chickasaw elders.
 
Never Give Up!
The Life of Pearl Carter Scott
By Paul F. Lambert
$24.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-0-1 · 278 pages
In this book, Paul F. Lambert recounts the remarkable life of Pearl Carter Scott,
child aviator, single mother, and revered Chickasaw elder.
 
Picked Apart the Bones
By Rebecca Hatcher Travis
$14.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-3-2 · 64 pages
For the poems in this exquisite collection, “the seeds were planted in childhood
and earth, and blossomed with family and love.” Hatcher Travis bases her
poems on memories of her Chickasaw family and the Oklahoma landscapes
surrounding her as a child. The poems also are testimonies to the ancestors
who have passed on to the next life.
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Best-selling Backlist
The Chuck Wagon
Cookbook
Recipes from the Ranch and
Range for Today’s Kitchen
By B. Byron Price
978-0-8061-3654-7
$19.95 Paper
Age of the Gunfighter
Men and Weapons on
the Frontier, 1840–1900
By Joseph G. Rosa
978-0-8061-2761-3
$32.95 Paper
Crazy Horse
A Lakota Life
By Kingsley M. Bray
978-0-8061-3785-8
$34.95 Cloth
978-0-8061-3986-9
$24.95 Paper
Pioneer Women Native North America
The Lives of Women on By Larry J. Zimmerman
the Frontier 978-0-8061-3286-0
By Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith $19.95 Paper
978-0-8061-3054-5
$24.95 Paper
The Sacred Pipe Doc Holiday
Black Elk’s Account of the Seven A Family Portrait
Rites of the Oglala Sioux By Karen H. Tanner
By Joseph Epes Brown 978-0-8061-3320-1
978-0-8061-2124-6 $19.95 Paper
$19.95 Paper
Sam Houston John Sutter
By James L. Haley A Life on the North American
978-0-8061-3644-8 Frontier
$24.95 Paper By Albert L. Hurtado
978-0-8061-3772-8
$34.95 Cloth
978-0-8061-3929-6
$24.95 Paper
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Blood of the Prophets
Brigham Young and the
Massacre at Mountain Meadows By Juanita Brooks
By Will Bagley
978-0-8061-3639-4
$24.95 Paper
Charles Goodnight
Cowman and Plainsman
By J. Evetts Haley
978-0-8061-1453-8
$24.95 Paper
Calamity Jane
The Woman and the Legend
By James D. McLaird
978-0-8061-3591-5
$29.95 Cloth
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The Mountain The American Frontier
Meadows Massacre Pioneers, Settlers, and Cowboys
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