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A study of Indian archery, past and present. Exploring the history and culture of all the tribes, the author shows that Indian bows had real power and accuracy and were perfectly suited to their need. There are sections on making bows and arrows and comparisons are made with English archery.

Recounts Thomas Jefferson's role in advocating and shaping the exploration, settlement and development of the trans-Mississippi West. Jackson argues that although he did not travel farther inland than the slopes of the Appalachians, Jefferson must take his place alongside the pioneers.

The wealth of photographs Anderson took is represented here by more than 200 reproductions--the largest number ever published in a single collection. They are presented not as works of art (though many of them are indeed triumphs of the photographic art) but as important historical documents in the ongoing story of the American Indian.

General George Crook planned and organized the principal Apache campaign in Arizona, and General Nelson Miles took credit for its successful conclusion, but the men who really won it were frontiersmen such as Al Sieber. In this carefully researched biography, Dan L. Thrapp gives extensive evidence for Sieber's expertise.

DeArment attempts to separate (Hollywood) myth from reality as he records the history and lifestyle of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Poker Alice and many more professional gamblers who helped shape the newly-won western territories from the Klondike to New Mexico.

This text examining the life of John Selman, a typical frontiersman of the American Old West, covers his Civil War service and his escapades in Texas and New Mexico.

Covers the final 25 years in the history of the cavalryman: the World War I years, when the US Cavalry fought for the first time as part of an allied force; the peacetime years, when the cavalry was largely a "show" force; and World War II, when mechanization finally outmoded the horse soldier.

The Making of the Roman Army explores how a small citizen militia guarding a village on the banks of the Tiber evolved into the professional Roman army.

This study traces Indian ethnic continuity and cultural diversity in the Great Plains during the millennium preceding European arrival. The contributors use archaeological, ethnographic and linguistic research to link North American archaeological complexes with present-day Plains peoples.

Designed for intermediate-level students and based on the author's many years of classroom experience, this textbook presents an outline of the essential forms and syntax of ancient Attic Greek. Louise Pratt also includes a handy appendix listing two hundred common Attic verbs and their principal parts

"Succinct and readable . . . a helpful guidebook for general readers as well as tourists who plan to visit Indian communities and reservations."Journal of the WestThis book provides in a useful format the basic information about American Indians that every tourist and armchair traveler might need or want. Part One is a brief account of the many different tribes in the lower forty-eight states, detailing their cultures and lifeways, their relations with the federal government, the pan-Indian movement, and contemporary writings and journalism. Part Two offers helpful advice about visiting reservations and guidance in interpreting ceremonials and dances, buying art and craftwork, and camping on Indian lands. Part Three is a detailed, region-by-region guide to the tribes and reservations, campgrounds, and regularly scheduled events.Special sections list museums with important collections of Indian art, crafts, and artifacts; organizations interested in Indian affairs; and publications devoted to tribal interests. There is also a carefully selected list of readings for those who would like to know more about America's first citizens.The book is lavishly illustrated with photographs and maps designed to aid the traveler who visits Indian Country.Arnold Marquis, a playwright, producer, and director, pursued his interest in the American Indian over more than thirty years, traveling the land, attending ceremonials, visiting reservations, camping with the Indians, and gaining a firsthand acquaintance with the tribes. His film series The Only Good Indian won the UCLA Award and is now in the National Archives.

While eroticism, exoticism, and esoteric minutiae pervade Ruined City, this tale of a famous contemporary writer's sexual and legal imbroglios is an incisive portrait of politics and culture in a rapidly changing China.

In expanding the context of removal to include the Old Northwest, and adding a portrait of Native communities there before, during, and after removal, Bowes paints a more accurate--and complicated--picture of American Indian history in the nineteenth century. Land Too Good for Indians reveals the deeper complexities of this crucial time in American history.

From Yale University and the American Antiquarian Society to the Newberry Library and the Huntington Library, the firm of Edward Eberstadt & Sons has left its mark in western Americana repositories across the nation. Told here for the first time, the Eberstadt story reveals how one family's business and legacy have shaped the study of the American West.

In her first nonfiction collection, award-winning novelist Rilla Askew casts an unflinching eye on American history, both past and present. As she traverses a line between memoir and social commentary, Askew places herself-and indeed all Americans-in the role of witness to uncomfortable truths about who we are.Through nine linked essays, Most American: Notes from a Wounded Place evokes a vivid impression of the United States: police violence and gun culture, ethnic cleansing and denied history, spellbinding landscapes and brutal weather. To render these conditions in the particulars of place, Askew spotlights the complex history of her home state. From the Trail of Tears to the Tulsa Race Riot to the Murrah Federal Building bombing, Oklahoma appears as a microcosm of our national saga. Yet no matter our location, Askew argues, we must own our contradictory selves-our violence and prejudices, as well as our hard work and generosity-so the wounds of division in our society can heal.In these writings, Askew traces a personal journey that begins with her early years as an idealistic teenager mired in what she calls "the presumption of whiteness." Later she emerges as a writer humble enough to see her own story as part of a larger historical and cultural narrative. With grace and authority she speaks honestly about the failures of the dominant culture in which she grew up, even as she expresses a sense of love for its people.In the wake of increasing gun violence and heightened national debate about race relations and social inequality, Askew's reflections could not be more relevant. With a novelist's gift for storytelling, she paints a compelling portrait of a place and its people: resilient and ruthless, decent but self-deceiving, generous yet filled with prejudice-both the best and the worst of what it means to be American.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's odyssey from Oklahoma poverty to the urban New Left gives a working-class, feminist perspective on a time and a movement that forever changed American society. In a new afterword, the author reflects on her fast-paced life fifty years ago, in particular as a movement activist and in relationships with men.

Richly illustrated, Big Dams of the New Deal Era offers a compelling account of how major dams in the New Deal era restructured the landscape--both politically and physically--and why American society in the 1930s embraced them wholeheartedly.

Born to Anglo-American parents on the Appalachian frontier but captured and adopted by Miami Indians at the age of thirteen, William Wells moved between two cultures all his life. Vilified by some historians for his divided loyalties, he remains relatively unknown, though he is worthy of comparison with such frontiersmen as Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett. William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest is the first biography of this man-in-the-middle.A servant of empire with deep sympathies for the people his country sought to dispossess, Wells married Chief Little Turtle's daughter and distinguished himself as a Miami warrior, an American spy, and an Indian agent whose multilingual skills made him a valuable interpreter. Author William Heath's examination of pioneer life in the Ohio Valley yields rich insights into Wells's career as well as broader events on the post-revolutionary American frontier, where Anglo-Americans pushing westward competed with the Indian nations of the Old Northwest.

Encyclopedia of Deserts represents a milestone: it is the first comprehensive reference to the first comprehensive reference to deserts and semideserts of the world. Approximately seven hundred entries treat subjects ranging from desert survival to the way deserts are formed. Topics include biology (birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, invertebrates, plants, bacteria, physiology, evolution), geography, climatology, geology, hydrology, anthropology, and history.

"M. John Lubetkin's singular achievement is to link Jay Cooke with George Armstrong Custer-the world of robber baron finance with the world of Indian fighting. In particular, his account of the Stanley-Custer Yellowstone expedition of 1873 shows remarkable fidelity to the action and the personalities on both sides."--Robert M. Utley, author of Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military FrontierIn 1869, Jay Cooke, the brilliant but idiosyncratic American banker, decided to finance the Northern Pacific, a transcontinental railroad planned from Duluth, Minnesota, to Seattle. M. John Lubetkin tells how Cooke's gamble reignited war with the Sioux, rescued George Armstrong Custer from obscurity, created Yellowstone Park, pushed frontier settlement four hundred miles westward, and triggered the Panic of 1873.Staking his reputation and wealth on the Northern Pacific, Cooke was soon whipsawed by the railroad's mismanagement, questionable contracts, and construction problems. Financier J. P. Morgan undermined him, and the Crédit Mobilier scandal ended congressional support. When railroad surveyors and army escorts ignored Sioux chief Sitting Bull's warning not to enter the Yellowstone Valley, Indian attacks-combined with alcoholic commanders-led to embarrassing setbacks on the field, in the nation's press, and among investors.Lubetkin's suspenseful narrative describes events played out from Wall Street to the Yellowstone and vividly portrays the soldiers, engineers, businessmen, politicians, and Native Americans who tried to build or block the Northern Pacific.M. John Lubetkin, a retired cable television executive, was the 2004 recipient of the Little Big Horn Associates' Lawrence A. Frost award.

In a series of convocation addresses delivered at the University of Oklahoma from 1925 to 1934, university president William Bennett Bizzell outlined the philosophy underlying public higher instruction in the United States during those years. Those addresses are assembled here in one volume, together with the president's inaugural address, delivered on February 1, 1926; an address delivered at Iowa State College, Ames, in 1934; and an article that appeared in the March 1934 issue of The University of Chicago Magazine. The Relations of Learning deals with university education in the early twentieth century, a time of great advancement and significant change, and relates the various aspects of learning to the shifting social, political, economic, and educational periods through which the country had passed. It is therefore a stimulating and timely contribution to educational thought and will be welcomed not only by those who have had a share in the development of education, but also by those who have been its beneficiaries.

El Cerrito, New Mexico captures the essence of a village that, despite cultural disintegration, sparks the passion of a small number of inhabitants who want to keep it alive. Richard L. Nostrand opens a window into the past of the upper Pecos Valley, revealing the daily life of this small, isolated Hispanic village whose population waxes and wanes in the face of family feuds, settlement struggles, and the ever-encroaching modern world.

Expedition surgeon John Gale's account of the Missouri Expedition captures the colour and excitement of exploration while revealing the grinding effort and stark hardship of army life in the early nineteenth century. This edition includes expedition letters and military orders to enhance Gale's authentic narrative.

Copan, one of the most important Classic Maya sites, is renowned for the artistry of its high-relief stelae and altars and for the wealth of detail on its freestanding and architectural sculpture. In Maya Sculpture of Copan: The Iconography, Claude-Francois Baudez provides a masterful survey of these elaborate and intriguing carved images.

Tells the life story of Reynaldo Reyes, a Miskito Indian born in Nicaragua and a leader of the Miskito people in their struggle for political autonomy and cultural survival. Reyes tells of his efforts to get an education, his ordination to the ministry, and how, swept up by the revolution, he fights to depose the Somoza regime.