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Explores the deployment and transformation of the frontier myth by four US presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush. Behind the shape-shifting of this myth, David Smith finds major events that have made aspects of the 'Old West' frontier useful for promoting different political ideologies and agendas.

One of the earliest texts written in a Native American language, the Codex Sierra is a sixteenth-century book of accounts from Santa Catalina Texupan. Kevin Terraciano's transcription and translation combine with his analysis to make this the most accurate and comprehensive English-language edition of this rare manuscript.

Ideas defer to no border - least of all the idea of belonging. So where does one belong, and what does belonging even mean, when a border inscribes one's identity? This dilemma, so critical to the ethnic Mexican community, is at the heart of Homeland, an intellectual, cultural, and literary history of belonging in ethnic Mexican thought.

Both a primer for aspiring journalists and an insider's reflection on horse and ranching cultures, this tour de force memoir honours the practice of writing and its manifold benefits: embracing solitude, avoiding boredom, and accepting aging and death as part of human and animal life.

The first full account of the forgotten soldiers in America's military history, The First Code Talkers covers all known Native American code talkers of World War I - members of the Choctaw, Oklahoma Cherokee, Comanche, Osage, and Sioux nations, as well as the Eastern Band of Cherokee and Ho-Chunk.

In 1921, over the course of twelve hours, white Tulsans reduced one of the America's most prosperous black communities to rubble and killed an estimated 300 people. This volume, featuring more than 175 photographs, along with oral testimonies, shines a new spotlight on the race massacre from the vantage point of its victims and survivors.

Originally published: Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1973.

James Butler Hickok, generally called ''Wild Bill,'' epitomized the archetypal gunfighter, that half-man, half-myth that became the heir to the mystique of the duelist when that method of resolving differences waned. . . . Easy access to a gun and whiskey coupled with gambling was the cause of most gunfights--few of which bore any resemblance to the gentlemanly duel of earlier times. . . . Hickok''s gunfights were unusual in that most of them were ''fair'' fights, not just killings resulting from rage, jealousy over a woman, or drunkenness. And, the majority of his encounters were in his role as lawman or as an individual upholding the law."--from Wild Bill Hickok, Gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok (1837-1876) was a Civil War spy and scout, Indian fighter, gambler, and peace officer. He was also one of the greatest gunfighters in the West. His peers referred to his reflexes as "phenomenal" and to his skill with a pistol as "miraculous." In Wild Bill Hickok, Gunfighter, Joseph G. Rosa, the world''s foremost authority on Hickok, provides an informative examination of Hickok''s many gunfights. Rosa describes the types of guns used by Hickok and illustrates his use of the plains'' style of "quick draw," as well as examining other elements of the Hickok legend. He even reconsiders the infamous "dead man''s hand" allegedly held by Hickok when he was shot to death at age thirty-nine while playing poker. Numerous photographs and drawings accompany Rosa''s down-to-earth text.Joseph G. Rosa, who makes his home in Ruislip, Middlesex, England, is the author of the definitive biography of Wild Bill Hickok, They Called Him Wild Bill: The Life and Adventures of James Butler Hickok, as well as The Gunfighter: Man or Myth? And (with Waldo E. Koop) Rowdy Joe Lowe: Gambler with a Gun, all published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

In the 1860s and 1870s, the United States government forced most western Native Americans to settle on reservations. These ever-shrinking pieces of land were meant to relocate, contain, and separate these Native peoples. This book tells the story of how Native Americans resisted this effort by building vast intertribal networks of communication.

For a half century, John Ellis Wool (1784-1869) was one of America's most illustrious figures - most notably as an officer in the US Army during the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and the Civil War. Courage Above All Things marks the first full biography of Wool.

George Armstrong Custer, one of the most familiar figures of nineteenth-century American history, had the soul of an artist, not of a soldier James Mueller argues in this volume. He suggests that an artistic passion for creativity and recognition drove Custer to success and, ultimately, to the failure that has overshadowed his notable achievements.

Born in the northern region of the Sierra Nevada mountains, Marie Mason Potts (1895-1978), a Mountain Maidu woman, became one of the most influential California Indian activists of her generation. In this illuminating book, Terri A. Castaneda explores Potts's rich life story.

Walter Prescott Webb (1888-1963), a towering figure in Texas and western history and letters, published an abundance of books but for decades the autobiography he'd written late in life sat largely undisturbed among his papers. Webb's remarkable story appears here in print for the first time, edited by Michael Collins, an authority on Texas history.

Representations of first contact - the first meetings of European explorers and Native Americans - have always had a central place in America's historical and visual record. Kate Elliott looks at paintings by artists from George Catlin to Charles M. Russell and explores what first contact images tell us about constructing national myths.

No other book so effectively captures the day-to-day and exhausting work of a single individual on the front lines of reform. Like most of his fellow advocates, Charles Cornelius Coffin Painter was an unapologetic assimilationist, a man of his times whose story is a key chapter in the history of the Indian reform movement.

The history of relations between the Spanish and the Indians of colonial Central America forms a complicated tapestry of economics and politics. Robert Patch's even-handed study of the repartimiento de mercancIas reveals the inner workings of colonialism in Central America.

The Donner Party is almost inextricably linked with cannibalism. In truth, we know remarkably little about what actually happened. Combining history, ethnohistory, archaeology, bioarchaeology, and social anthropology, this innovative look at the Donner Party's experience at the Alder Creek Camp offers insights into many long-unsolved mysteries.

In October 1948 George McLaurin became the first African American to enroll at the University of Oklahoma. McLaurin's case drew national attention and culminated in a US Supreme Court decision. David Levy chronicles the historically significant - and at times poignant - story of McLaurin's two-year struggle to secure his rights.

Historian Lonn Taylor built a career as a curator in history museums, including the Smithsonian Institution. This book stands out from his numerous other books on historical and literary topics: it's the only one he wrote about himself and the last book he wrote before he died in June 2019.

Charmian Kittredge London was the epitome of a modern woman. Free-spirited and adventurous, she defied modern expectations of femininity. Today she is best known as the wife of the famous American author Jack London, yet she was a literary trailblazer in her own right. This biography is the first book to tell the complete story of Charmian's life.

Study of the Cold War all too often shows us the war that wasn't fought. The reality, of course, is that many 'hot' conflicts did occur, some with the great powers' weapons and approval, others without. It is this reality, and this period of quasi-war and semiconflict, that Jonathan House plumbs in this volume.

Spanning the full breadth of Mexico's long and storied past, Epic Mexico provides an unparalleled view of Mexican history. The book's story reaches from the days of the saber-tooth tiger to those of the narco-trafficker; and from the time of the Olmec and the Aztec to the complex pluralistic society of contemporary Mexico.