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Great Plains Homesteaders tells the epic story of how millions of people, white and Black, women and men, young and old, and of many different religions, languages, and ethnic groups, moved to the Great Plains to claim land. Most were poor, so the government's offer of "free" farms through the Homestead Act of 1862 seemed a godsend. The settlers found harsh growing conditions and many perils--including exploitation by railroads and banks, droughts, prairie fires, and bitter winters--yet they persisted. The settlers successfully "proved up" nearly a million claims between the 1860s and the 1920s. They filled up the immense grassland, transforming it into productive farms, the beginning of the region's agriculture. They also created a distinct culture that continues to shape their estimated fifty million descendants living today. Every homesteader's experience was different, as particular and distinct as the people were themselves. Yet their collective story, with all its hardships and toil, its ambitions and setbacks, its fresh starts and failures and successes, is central to the American experience.

"The story of the white boy who runs away from Civilization with his Indian brother appears often in American literary history from Natty Bumpo to the Lone Ranger; but McNichols tells a more mature story than ether of these... "Crazy Weather" is an important document in our cultural history." - "Western American Literature." A naval aviator in World War I who later worked in the movies and wrote for magazines, Charles L McNichols will always be remembered for "Crazy Weather", originally published in 1944 and his only book-length work of fiction. For this Bison Book edition Natachee Scott Momaday of Jemez Springs, New Mexico, has provided an introduction. She is the author of "Owl in the Cedar Tree", also a Bison Book (1992).

Maricas traces the erotic lives and legal battles of Argentine and Spanish queer people, who despite state repression and sexual violence, carved out their own spaces in metropolitan and rural cultures between the 1940s and the 1980s.

Brandon Morgan tells the story of how dreams of capitalist development and varied forms of violence went hand-in-hand to create rural communities along the U.S.-Mexico border around the turn of the twentieth century.

Rewilding the Urban Frontier argues that the urban rivers of the United States might be one of the best opportunities for rewilding in the Anthropocene—that is, creating self-sustaining ecosystems capable of adapting to the rapid and cascading changes caused by human impacts.

Derek Taira argues that during the territorial period many Hawaiians neither subscribed nor succumbed to public schools’ aggressive efforts to assimilate and Americanize but instead engaged with American education to envision and support an alternate future.

Postcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performance texts by women from different parts of Africa. Ayo A. Coly employs the concepts of “hauntology” and “ghostly matters” to examine postcolonial silences surrounding the African female body as well as female sexuality in the art of African women.

The stories of thirteen Black Minor League baseball players during the post–Jackie Robinson era, from the 1960s to the mid-1970s, who were figuratively and literally left behind even as both baseball and the country claimed a newfound racial progressiveness.

Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Tares Oburumu’s collection is a brief history of Syma, the neglected oil-producing region of Nigeria he came from, mixing music, religion, and political critique to evoke pasts and futures.

Reconstructing B. M. Bower’s daily life as it is documented in her diaries, letters, and family papers, this biography claims Bertha Muzzy Bower as a progenitor: a writer and western maverick whose daily life proved as dramatic as her fiction.

Mark Derby focuses on Douglas Jolly’s wartime surgical work in Spain, tracing his career after the Spanish Civil War through his distinguished service in World War II and into his civilian life as medical director of Britain’s largest hospital for amputees.

This new edition of the first comprehensive history of the financing, construction, growth, and management of the iconic Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway includes nearly twenty-five more years of history.

My Grandfather’s Altar is an oral-literary narrative account of Richard Moves Camp’s family history and traditions.

Brent M. Rogers connects the histories of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody and the Mormons, highlighting two pillars of the American West to better understand cultural and political perceptions, image-making, and performance from the 1840s through the early 1900s.

Between Soil and Society traces the history and development of conservation policy, especially as it compares to, and interacts with, the development of farm policy and such factors as climate change.

Journey to Freedom provides the first detailed history of Black enslavement in Nebraska Territory and the escape of two enslaved Black women—Celia and Eliza Grayson—from Nebraska City in 1858, which prompted nationwide debates about whether slavery could exist in the West and whether popular sovereignty truly worked.

This seventeenth installment in the complete collection of Henry James’s known and extant letters records James’s ongoing efforts to care for his sister, develop his work, strengthen his professional status, build friendships, engage timely political and economic issues, and maximize his income.

For young readers, this biography of poet Ted Kooser is a celebration of the power of stories and of finding oneself through words.

The Incorrigibles explores the relationship between Progressive social welfare institutions and eugenics, which, in the mid-1930s, justified the sterilization of fifty-one juvenile girls from the Girls’ Industrial School in Beloit, Kansas.

¡Vino! explores the history and identity of Spanish wine production from the nineteenth century to today.

Centered around a massive ecological disaster in which eight hundred thousand Algerians died between 1865 and 1872, Ecologies of Imperialism in Algeria explores how repeated performance of divisions across an expansive ecosystem produced modern imperialism in nineteenth-century Algeria.

Janet Farrell Brodie explores the Trinity test and those whose contributions have rarely, if ever, been discussed—the men and women who constructed, served, and witnessed the first test—as well as the downwinders who suffered the consequences of the radiation.

Joy Schulz explores Polynesia’s nineteenth-century women rulers, who held enormous domestic and foreign power and expertly governed their people amid shifting loyalties, outright betrayals, and the ascendancy of imperial racism.

Back from the Collapse is about the evolution, Euro-American-driven collapse, and large-scale restoration of Great Plains wildlife through efforts by the nonprofit organization American Prairie to assemble a protected area of 3.2 million acres on the plains of northeast Montana.

Michael J. Devine explores the public memory of the Korean conflict of 1950–1953 to show how these memories have evolved over time in a complex and changing international environment and how they continue to impact U.S. efforts to resolve tensions with East Asia.

Harvesting History focuses on the example of Cyrus McCormick’s invention of the mechanized reaper in 1831 to reveal connections between the historical profession and economic power in the competitive harvesting machine industry of the late nineteenth century.

Tom Lynch examines the ecological consequences of a settler-colonial imaginary by comparing the expressions of settler colonialism in the literary output of the American West and Australian Outback.

Using geopoetics to map geopolitics, this epic poem is a personal narration of Uhuru Portia Phalafala’s family’s experience of the migrant labor system brought on by the gold mining industry in Johannesburg, South Africa.

John M. Findlay presents a historical overview of the American West between 1940 and 2000, arguing that during the years of U.S. mobilization for World War II and the Cold War, the West remained a significant and distinctive region.