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Earl Rogers was sworn into the practice of law in California in 1897. His legal career in Los Angeles spanned twenty-one years, and he defended the famous and infamous. This book reveals Rogers through his most famous trials, including extensive quotes from the trial transcripts, biographical sketches, and analyses of the often amazing verdicts.

Among the diverse peoples who converged on America's mid-nineteenth western frontier were African American pioneers. Whether enslaved or free, they too were involved in this transformative movement. Sweet Freedom's Plains is a powerful retelling of the migration story from their perspective.

Today more than one hundred small, asymmetric, and revolutionary wars are being waged around the world. This book provides invaluable tools for fighting such wars by taking enemy perspectives into consideration.

Relates how the Nez Perce and the Dakota Indians became Presbyterians yet incorporated Native culture and tradition into their new Christian identities. Bonnie Sue Lewis focuses on the rise of Native clergy and their forging of Christian communities based on American Indian values and notions of kinship and leadership.

As American Indian communities face the new century, they look to the future armed with confidence in the indigenous perspectives that have kept them together. Five scholars in American Indian history, along with a tribal leader, show how understanding the past is the key to solving problems facing Indians today.

Hugh Lenox Scott had a career unique in the history of the US military and the western frontier. This is the first book to tell the full story of this unlikely, self-avowed 'soldier of peace', whose career, stretching from Little Bighorn until after World War I, reflected profound historical changes.

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.

Through lively personal narrative, Robert Utley offers an insider's view of Park Service workings and problems, both at regional and national levels, during the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations.

In this collection of six fast-paced, thought-provoking plays, E. Donald Two-Rivers presents an intricate and multifaceted view of contemporary American Indian urban life. Alternately sad, humorous, or discomfiting, these plays range from one-act vignettes to extended portrayals of the seedier side of urban existence.

A dedicated career soldier and excellent division and corps commander, Dominique Vandamme was a thorn in the side of practically every officer he served. In this first book-length study of Vandamme in English, John Gallaher traces the career of one of Napoleon's most successful midrank officers.

Tells a powerful tale about the love and forgiveness that keep a modern Native American family together in Santa Rosa, California. First published in 1998, Watermelon Nights remains one of the few works of fiction to illuminate the experiences of urban Native Americans.

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.

In this first comprehensive study of the Parr family's political activities, Anthony R. Carrozza reveals the innermost workings of the Parr dynasty, a political machine that drove South Texas politics for more than seventy years and critically influenced the course of the nation.

During the Great Depression, the Los Angeles area was rife with radical movements. Although many observers thought their ideas unworkable, even dangerous, Southern Californians voted for them by the tens of thousands. This book asks why.

Delphus E. Carpenter (1877-1951) was Colorado's commissioner of interstate streams during a time when water rights were a legal battleground for western states. In Silver Fox of the Rockies, Daniel Tyler tells Carpenter's story and that of the great interstate water compacts he helped create.

The Cold War as it played out across the Great Plains was not the Cold War of the American cities and coasts. Nor was it tempered much by midwestern isolationism, as common wisdom has it. In this book, David Mills offers an enlightening look at what most of the heartland was up to while America was united in its war on Reds.

In life and in death, fame and glory eluded Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779-1813). The ambitious young military officer and explorer was destined to live in the shadows of more famous contemporaries. This collection of thought-provoking essays rescues Pike from his undeserved obscurity.

Focuses on the connection between Britain's auxiliary forces - volunteers, militia, and yeomanry - and its imperial mission during the late Victorian era, looking especially at why the British war effort came to depend on their performance.

In these short stories, Jack Forbes captures the remarkable breadth and variety of American Indian life. Drawing on his skills as scholar and native activist, and, above all, as artist, Forbes enlarges our sense of how American Indians experience themselves and the world around them.

Drivers exiting the New Jersey Turnpike for Perth Amboy, and map readers marvelling at all the places in Pennsylvania named Lackawanna, need no longer wonder how these names originated. Manhattan to Minisink provides the histories of more than five hundred place names in the Greater New York area.

Drawing on Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's own reports and on other sixteenth-century documents, both in English translation and the original Spanish, Varnum's lively narrative braids eyewitness testimony of events with historical interpretation benefiting from recent scholarship and archaeological investigation.

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.

Traces the gradual movement of the Alabamas and Coushattas from their origins in the Southeast to their nineteenth-century settlement in East Texas, exploring their motivations for migrating west and revealing how their shared experience affected their identity.

On virtually every issue, from climate change to immigration, tens of millions of Americans have opinions and beliefs wildly at odds with fact. In How America Lost Its Mind, Thomas E. Patterson explains the rise of a world of "alternative facts" and the slow-motion cultural and political calamity unfolding around us.