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The years between 1875 and 1910 saw a revolution in the economy of the Flathead Reservation, home to the Salish and Kootenai Indians. Providing for the People tells the story of this transformation, and describes how the Salish and Kootenai tribes overcame daunting odds to maintain their independence and integrity.

Indian labor was vital to the early economic development of the Los Angeles region. This first volume in the series Before Gold: California under Spain and Mexico explores for the first time Native contributions to early Southern California.

Between 1956 and 1967, justice was for sale in Oklahoma's highest court and Supreme Court decisions went to the highest bidder. Lee Card, himself a former judge, describes a system infected with favoritism and partisanship in which party loyalty trumped fairness and a shaky payment structure built on commissions invited exploitation.

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.

This catalogue of the international Sacred Encounters exhibition displays the similarities and differences between European Christianity and Native American beliefs, the effects of colonization and forced acculturation, and the processes by which Indian people sustain their traditional values.

A sequel to "The End of Liberalism". This work targets political ideology as the problem of central importance in contemporary politics. It anticipates the eventual demise of the current Republican coalition because all ideological traditions and coalitions they form are self-defeating.

This illustrated catalogue of Thomas Moran's field sketches includes an essay tracing the artist's 70-year career, a chronological, stylistic and geographical survey of his fieldwork, and an illustrated checklist of his 1080 sketches in public collections.

A compendium devoted to the dance forms of North American Indians. It includes a 50-page historic survey beginning with Jacques Cartier in 1534 and treats the principal pan-tribal dance forms in their cultural contexts. A partial survey of dances unique to particular tribes is also included.

The disastrous Buffalo Creek Treaty of 1838 called for the Senecas' removal to Kansas (then part of the Indian Territory). From this low point, the Seneca Nation of Indians sought to rebound. Beginning with events leading to the Seneca Revolution in 1848, Laurence Hauptman traces Seneca history to the New Deal.

Provides the first inside view of the workings of La Castaneda General Insane Asylum - a public mental health institution founded in Mexico City in 1910 only months before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution.

Investigates how the reformed Franciscans' commitment to evangelizing Mexico gave rise to an extensive network of local confraternities and care institutions. Laura Dierksmeier finds that these groups were the chief welfare providers for indigenous people during the early colonial period and were precursors of the modern social security system.

Even before he was shot and killed in 1881, Billy the Kid's charisma and murderous career were generating stories that belied his brief life. Richard Etulain takes the true measure of Billy, the man and the legend, and presents the clearest picture yet of his life and his ever-shifting place and presence in the cultural landscape of the Old West.

In War-Path and Bivouac, John Finerty recalled his summer following George Crook's infamous campaign against the Sioux in 1876. Historians have long surmised that his correspondence covering the campaign for the Chicago Times reappeared in its entirety in his book. But that turns out not to be the case, as readers will discover in this volume.

One of the most admired poets of Roman antiquity, Horace (65-8 BCE) had a major influence on later poets and writers. This new edition of Horace's best-known poetry presents the original Latin texts of his well-known Epodes, Odes, and Carmen Saeculare side by side with English translations.

A central character in legends and histories of the Old West, Billy the Kid rivals such western icons as Jesse James and General George Armstrong Custer for the number of books and movies his brief, violent life inspired. Billy the Kid: A Reader's Guide introduces readers to the most significant of these written and filmed works.

The Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. The book offers an original interpretation of the Spaniards' conquest, colonization, and destruction of pre-Columbian cultures in Mexico and the Caribbean.

Taking the reader in the mountains and forests that the Americans called 'Indian country', Stevens presents the Viet Nam War as an extension of the romantic myth of the American frontier. In seven operations on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the reader enters an exotic, exhilarating, terrifying world.

Places George C. Marshall squarely at the centre of the story of the American century by examining his tenure in key policymaking positions during the early Cold War period, including army chief of staff, special presidential envoy to China, secretary of state, and secretary of defense, among others.

A classroom-tested book, The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, Second Edition, will motivate second-year Latin students to continue their course of study while providing a much-needed alternative for Latin instructors seeking accessible textbooks for their students. A Teacher Key accompanies the text.

Spanning the period from 1540, when Spaniards first arrived, into the twenty-first century, Crossroads of Change focuses on the history of the natural and historic resources Pecos National Historical Park now protects and interprets.

Born a slave in eastern Tennessee, Sarah Blair Bickford made her way to Montana Territory, where she settled in the mining boomtown of Virginia City. This is the first full-length biography of this remarkable woman, whose life story affords new insight into race and belonging in the American West around the turn of the twentieth century.

Oklahoma University's remarkable journey from a treeless prairie to its present standing as a world-class institution of learning unfolds in The Sooner Story. Anne Barajas Harp examines the school's history through the lens of each presidential administration from the beginning of David Ross Boyd's tenure to David Lyle Boren's presidency.

A tribute to contemporary realist western art

Celebrates the contributions of West Point artists to the interpretation of the American West