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Reveals the amazing accomplishments of John J. Montgomery, a prolific inventor who piloted the glider he designed in 1883 in the first controlled flights of a heavier-than-air craft in the Western Hemisphere. Re-examining the history of American aviation, Craig Harwood and Gary Fogel present the story of human efforts to take to the skies.

How is it that nearly 90 percent of the Texan population currently lives in metropolitan regions, but many Texans still embrace and promote a vision of their state's nineteenth-century rural identity? This is one of the questions the editors and contributors to Lone Star Suburbs confront.

The Nim (North Fork Mono) Indians have lived for centuries in a remote region of California's Sierra Nevada. In this memoir, Gaylen D. Lee recounts the story of his Nim family across six generations. Drawing from the recollections of his grandparents, mother, and other relatives, Lee provides a deeply personal account of his people's history and culture.In keeping with the Nim's traditional life-style, Lee's memoir takes us through their annual seasonal cycle. He describes communal activities, such as food gathering, hunting and fishing, the processing of acorn (the Nim's staple food), basketmaking, and ceremonies and games. Family photographs, some dating to the beginning of this century, enliven Lee's descriptions.Woven into the seasonal account is the disturbing story of Hispanic and white encroachment into the Nim world. Lee shows how the Mexican presence in the early nineteenth century, the Gold Rush, the Protestant conversion movement, and, more recently, the establishment of a national forest on traditional land have contributed to the erosion of Nim culture.Walking Where We Lived is a bittersweet chronicle, revealing the persecution and hardships suffered by the Nim, but emphasizing their survival. Although many young Nim have little knowledge of the old ways and although the Nim are a minority in the land of their ancestors, the words of Lee's grandmother remain a source of strength: "Ashupá. Don't worry. It's okay."

In The Civil War Years in Utah, the first full account of the events that occurred in Utah Territory during that war, John Gary Maxwell contradicts the patriotic mythology of Mormon leaders' version of this dark chapter in Utah history.

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 assumption about its history: Red Power began with the Indian takeover of Alcatraz in 1969. Or did it?

"A complete English translation from the original manuscript of Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl's History of the Chichimeca Nation, with introduction and notes outlining the author's historiographical legacy"--

Although Vernon Duke has entered the canon of American standards, little is known about the composer with two personas. Taking a Chance on Love brings the intriguing double life of Dukelsky/Duke back into the spotlight, restoring a chapter to the history of the Great American Songbook and to the story of twentieth-century music.

Seeking justice for the Holocaust had not been an automatic - or an obvious - mission for the Allies to pursue in the atermath of World War II. In this book, Graham Cox recounts the remarkable negotiations and calculations that brought the United States and its allies to this point.

In 1911 Dr Philip King Brown opened the Arequipa Sanatorium in Marin County. Together, Brown and his all-female staff gave new life to hundreds of working-class women suffering from tuberculosis in early-twentieth-century California. This book tells a vivid story of the sanatorium, Brown and his talented team of Progressive women.

By considering social justice efforts in western cities and states, this book integrates the West into the historical narrative of black Americans' struggle for civil rights. From Iowa to the Pacific Northwest, and from Texas to the Dakotas, black westerners initiated a wide array of civil rights activities in the early to late twentieth century.

As governor of New Mexico from 1778 to 1788, Juan Bautista de Anza enacted a series of changes in the colony's governance that helped preserve it as a Spanish territory. This book, the first comprehensive biography of Anza, shows his historical importance as a soldier and administrator in the history of North America.

In 1950 Las Vegas saw a million tourists. In 1960 it attracted ten million. The city entered the fifties as a regional destination, and emerged in the sixties as a national hotspot. Becoming America's Playground chronicles the vice and the toil that gave Las Vegas its worldwide reputation in these transformative years.

"Uses the testimony of enlisted soldiers--drawn from more than 350 diaries, letters, and memoirs--to create a vivid picture of life in an evolving post-Civil War Army on the western frontier."--Provided by publisher.

Weaving together a family-based local history with national themes of wartime social discord, rural poverty, and dissent, Arizona's Deadliest Gunfight will be the authoritative account of the 1918 incident and the memorable events that unfolded in its wake.

Red Bird, Red Power tells the story of one of the most influential--and controversial--American Indian activists of the twentieth century. Zitkala-Sa (1876-1938), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a highly gifted writer, editor, and musician who dedicated her life to achieving justice for Native peoples.

Decades before Americans became familiar with the term "embedded journalist," Francis Webster embodied that role during World War I. The first published collection of Webster's wartime chronicles, this book presents a unique view of World War I through a rare compilation of letters, diary entries, cartoons, sketches, and watercolours.

From early struggles to remove foreign influence to present-day battles over land tenure and indigenous-run ecotourism parks, this book documents a continuity in Maya culture over several thousand years - and illuminates the world view, with its sense of personhood and religion so different from the West's, that informs this enduring culture.

"James DeWolf's diary and letters were originally published in North Dakota History 25, nos. 1 and 2 (1958): 33-82."

Central America was the only part of the far-reaching Spanish Empire in continental America not to experience destructive independence wars in the period between 1810 and 1824. The essays in this volume draw on new historical research to explain why, and to delve into what did happen during the independence period in Central America and Chiapas.

The roadrunner, an icon of the Southwest and one of the most beloved birds of the United States, is also one of the least understood. In The Real Roadrunner, Martha Anne Maxon offers the most thorough natural history of the greater roadrunner species to date.

The oral tradition of the Winnebago, or Ho-Chunk, people ranges from creation myths to Trickster stories and histories of the tribe. It is particularly strong in animal tales, as tribal historian David Lee Smith vividly demonstrates in Folklore of the Winnebago Tribe, a collection drawn from the Smithsonian Institution and other sources.

In 2007, the highly acclaimed anthology Voices from the Heartland provided a much-needed platform for Oklahoma women - prominent and unknown - to tell their stories. This timely sequel reflects an even broader cross-section of women's experiences.