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Driving across America in the early twentieth century was high adventure. In 1925 Willie Chester Clark and his family piled into a Chevrolet touring car, affectionately named Leaping Lena, and took off for the West. His account of the journey will acquaint readers with cross-country travel at a time when Americans were just inventing the road trip.

Examines nine key figures in American Indian scholarship to reveal how women came to be identified with Indian history and why they eventually claimed it as their own field. Reclaiming this lost history, John Rhea looks at the cultural processes through which women were connected to Indian history.

Permeated by Rudolfo Anaya's trademark religious and mythological imagery, The Sorrows of Young Alfonso is a luminous meditation on memory, reality, and the human experience.

Well before the creation of the United States, the Cherokee people administered their own social policy. The ethic of gadugi was at the heart of this system. Serving the Nation explores the role of such traditions in shaping the alternative social welfare system of the Cherokee Nation.

Revealing the crucial role of print and visual culture in shaping the nineteenth-century United States, Narrating the Landscape offers fresh insight into the landscapes Americans beheld and imagined in this formative era.

Presenting tales of noble intentions, novel inventions, and epic miscalculations, The Greatest Show in the Arctic brings fresh life to a unique and underappreciated story of American exploration.

The trial and conviction of Tom Horn marked a major milestone in the hard-fought battle against vigilantism in Wyoming. Davis, himself a trial lawyer, has mined court documents and newspaper articles to dissect the trial strategies of the participating attorneys. His detailed account illuminates a larger narrative of conflict between the power of wealth and the forces of law and order in the West.

Sculpted into graceful contours by countless centuries of wind and water, the Great Sand Dunes sprawl along the eastern fringes of the vast San Luis Valley of south-central Colorado. In Sea of Sand, Michael Geary guides readers on a historical journey through this unique ecosystem, which includes an array of natural and cultural wonders.

One of America's most influential artists, Frederic Remington is renowned for his depictions of the Old West. Through paintings, drawings, and sculptures, he immortalized a dynamic world of cowboys and American Indians, hunters and horses, landscapes and wildlife. This book offers a comprehensive presentation of the artist's body of work.

Motorists traveling along State Highway 104 north of Tucumcari, New Mexico, may notice a sign indicating the location of Fort Bascom. The post itself is long gone. This volume presents the definitive history of this critical outpost in the American Southwest, along with a detailed view of army life on the western frontier.

Examines the performance of the Allies' Mediterranean Expeditionary Force from the beginning of the Gallipoli Campaign to the bitter end. This book is a view of the Gallipoli Campaign unique in its detail and scope, as well as in its conclusions - a book that looks past myth and distortion to the facts of what happened.

For more than twenty years after the executions of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in 1793, France and England waged a protracted war that ended in British victory. In Titan, William R. Nester offers a deeply informed and thoroughly fascinating narrative of how England accomplished this remarkable feat.

Rising from the waters of the Pacific off the southern California Coast, Santa Cruz Island captures the imagination. As with all islands of beauty and size, it attracted people from the coastline. The attractions of the island, however, routinely led people into conflict. This book offers a thorough history of Santa Cruz Island's tumultuous past.

Salta Province, which lies astride the Tropic of Capricorn in extreme northwest Argentina, encompasses many of South America's major habitats: montane moist forest, thorn forest, lowland desert, highland desert, and deciduous forests. This bilingual guide is the first to survey the mammal fauna of this region.

This first book-length study of the entire Pecos traces the river's environmental history from the arrival of the first Europeans in the sixteenth century to today. Patrick Dearen, who has written about the Pecos since the 1980s, draws on more than 150 interviews and a wealth of primary sources to trace the river's evolution.

Route 66 is a beloved and much studied symbol of twentieth-century America. But until now, no book has focused on the bridges that spanned the rivers, creeks, arroyos, and railroads between Chicago and Santa Monica. In this handsome volume, Jim Ross examines the origins and history of the bridges of America's most famous highway.

To explore the region's complex past from prehistory to the U.S. takeover, this book uses an unusual multidisciplinary approach. In interviews with ten experts, Deborah and Jon Lawrence discuss subjects ranging from warfare among the earliest ancestral Puebloans to intermarriage and peonage among Spanish settlers and the Indians they encountered.

A Chiricahua Apache of the Chokonen band, Cochise was one of the most celebrated Indian leaders of his time. Much of what we know of Cochise has come down to us in military reports, eyewitness accounts, letters, and interviews. This book brings together the most revealing of these documents to provide a nuanced portrait of the Apache leader.

On April 1, 1865, the steamboat Bertrand sank twenty miles north of Omaha. The crew removed only a few items before the boat was silted over. For more than a century, the boat remained buried until it was discovered by treasure hunters. This book categorizes some 300,000 artifacts recovered from the boat.

Western Apaches have long regarded the corner of Arizona encompassing Aravaipa Canyon as their sacred homeland. This book examines the evolving relationship between this people and this place, illustrating the enduring power of Aravaipa to shape and sustain contemporary Apache society.

The French and Indian War was the world's first truly global conflict. When the French lost to the British in 1763, they lost their North American empire along with most of their colonies. In this book, the only comprehensive account from the French perspective, William Nester explains how and why the French were defeated.

When Edward W. Wynkoop arrived in Colorado Territory during the 1858 gold rush, he was one of many ambitious newcomers seeking wealth. His life changed after he joined the First Colorado Volunteers to fight for the Union. This sympathetic but critical biography centres on his subsequent efforts to prevent war with Indians during the volatile 1860s.

Remembered today as an early cartographer and prolific religious artist, don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713-1785) engaged during his lifetime in a surprising array of other pursuits. This long-overdue, richly illustrated biography recounts Miera's complex life in cinematic detail.

Lt. Col. Richard Irving Dodge's journals, written with utter candor for his eyes only, are the fullest firsthand account we possess of Gen. George Crook's Powder River Expedition against the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, which culminated in Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie's resounding destruction of Dull Knife's forces on November 25, 1876.

Drawing on under utilized military records in Austrian, French, and Italian archives, Phillip Cuccia integrates political and social issues with a campaign study. Unlike other military histories of the era, Napoleon in Italy brings to light the words of soldiers, leaders, and citizens who experienced sieges firsthand.

Most histories of Civil War Texas depict the Lone Star State as having joined the Confederacy as a matter of course and as having later emerged from the war relatively unscathed. Yet as the contributors to this volume amply demonstrate, the often neglected stories of Texas Unionists and dissenters paint a far more complicated picture.

The British troops who fought so successfully under the Duke of Wellington during his Peninsular Campaign against Napoleon have long assumed to have been society's ne'er-do-wells or criminals. Edward Coss shows to the contrary that most of these redcoats were respectable labourers and tradesmen.

This lively history of an American civil and military engineering milestone draws on interviews with veterans and local residents and research in Canadian and US archives. The participants' stories provide humour and insights on the building of this transformational highway.

Some of the legendary gunmen of the Old West were lawmen, but more, like Billy the Kid and Jesse James, were outlaws. Tom Horn (1860-1903) was both. In this masterful historical biography, Larry Ball, a distinguished historian of western lawmen and outlaws, presents the definitive account of Horn's career.