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This account, the second in Elizabeth Custer's trilogy of her life with the General, focuses on the period following the Civil War, when the Custers were stationed in Louisiana, Texas, and Kansas. She portrays the aftermath of the Civil War in Texas and an army officer's home life of the time.

This is the autobiography of an Ojibway boy who was taken from his family in 1939 aged ten and placed in a Jesuit boarding school in northern Ontario. The school intended to assimilate Indian boys, but the pupils learned instead a subculture of survival that helped them cope with the alien setting.

This study explores the traditional dances and ceremonies of the Eastern Cherokees. Many of the dances are no longer practised, so that the book provides a valuable record for researchers into the Cherokee tribal history and folklore.

Before European incursions began, the Western Abenaki Indians inhabited present-day Vermont and New Hampshire. This history of their relationship with whites in this region documents their survival as a people and their wars and migrations during the first two centuries of white contact.

This diary is an informative primary account of the American Revolution from the common soldier's point of view. It was written by one of the 30,000 Hessian troops whose services were sold to George III to suppress the American Revolution.

This reference atlas of Kansas has been updated with new and revised maps depicting the land, its character and use, transportation routes, and shifting of demographic centres, including changes in political divisions.

Thomas Jefferson envisioned a nation of citizens deeply involved in public life. Today Americans are lamenting the erosion of his ideal. What happened in the intervening centuries? Daniel Kemmis argues that loss of capacity for public life (which impedes our ability to resolve crucial issues) parallels loss of a sense of place.

What was daily life like for a working man or woman in the Roman Empire? This text examines Roman commemorative inscriptions from the 1st and 2nd centuries AD to determine ways in which slaves, freed slaves and unprivileged freeborn citizens used work to frame their identities.

Pumpkins, totora, chenopods, lupines and peppers are some of the plants discussed and presented for study in this book. Most of the plants are from the Andes, and all are found in North and South America. Topics such as the importance of taxonomy and the dispersal of plants are discussed.

A study of the growth of the Peyote religion among the Navaho Indians, and the conflict attending it. Covering all aspects of Peyotism - political, religious and philosophical - the author makes a case for those who believe in Peyotism to practice their religion unhampered by law or social stigma.

This pictorial biography of George Armstrong Custer explores the General's boyhood, the Civil War, his early battles and his last stand. It shows Custer's family, friends and associates, both military and civilian, white and Indian, at work and play. Rare photographs and engravings are included.

Scholarly work of preservation and source-book on the life, literature, history and traditions of the Hispanic Southwest.

Joyce has revised, with Kraus's full co-operation, the latter's review and evaluation of American historical writing, first published in 1953. He has added chapters on writing done in the last three decades and has drawn on Kraus's work on progressive historians into a single chapter.

An examination of the craft of silversmithing among the Navaho and Pueblo Indians, based on museum inspections, field work, interviews and a brief apprenticeship to a Navaho silversmith. Adair aims to relate the art to its social framework as well as provide an analysis of the economic aspects.