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Albert Bierstadt:Painter of the American West: Painter of the American Westby Gordon Hendricks, Amon Carter Museum of Western ArtISBN 081090151X (0-8109-0151-X)
Hardcover, H. N. Abrams
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American Frontier: Pioneers, Settlers, and Cowboys 1800-1899by William C. DavisISBN 0806131292 (0-8061-3129-2)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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American Frontiers: Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquestby Gregory H. NoblesISBN 0809016028 (0-8090-1602-8)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Frontiers: Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquest'Book summary:Gregory H. Nobles pulls together the work of many recent historians of the American West in this sensitive and synthesizing study of frontier history in North America. Using the frontier as both a spatial and phenomenological metaphor for the experience of Western expansion, Nobles considers the historical facts of frontier encounters and the frontier as cultural interchange between diverse people. Nobles's narrative begins and ends with the tragic story of the Pequots, from Captain John Mason's cowardly raid on a Pequot camp in 1637 that left more than 300 sleeping Pequots dead to Donald Trump's 1990s lawsuit attempting to deprive the tribe of their gambling license. In the pages of American Frontiers readers will also find details of the French and Indian War, Iroquois involvement in the American Revolution, the California gold rush, Texas independence, the tragedy of Wounded Knee, the resistance of Sitting Bull, and the Ghost Dance movement.
Nobles's book is a good starting point for readers interested in the American West. His bibliographic essay alone, which provides a generous and thorough account of literature on the subject, makes this a useful reference even for accomplished students of the frontier. [via]
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An American Vision: Far Western Landscape and National Culture, 1820-1920by Anne Farrar HydeISBN 0814734812 (0-8147-3481-2)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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The American West: Living the Frontier Dreamby James R. Arnold, Roberta WienerISBN 0811709779 (0-8117-0977-9)
Hardcover, Stackpole Books
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And Still the Waters Run: The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribesby Angie DeboISBN 0806119039 (0-8061-1903-9)
Softcover, University of Oklahoma Press
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Apache, Navaho, and Spaniardby Jack D. ForbesISBN 0806126868 (0-8061-2686-8)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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The Bean Treesby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0816146721 (0-8161-4672-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bean Trees'Book summary:Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a completely unexpected child, a three-year-old American Indian girl named Turtle, and must somehow come to terms with both motherhood and the necessity for putting down roots. Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in apparently empty places.
Available for the first time in mass-market, this edition of Barbara Kingsolver's bestselling novel, The Bean Trees, will be in stores everywhere in September. With two different but equally handsome covers, this book is a fine addition to your Kingsolver library.
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Bendigo Shafterby Louis L'AmourISBN 0808517104 (0-8085-1710-4)
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Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Ogalala Siouxby Black Elk, John Gneisenau NeihardtISBN 0809489007 (0-8094-8900-7)
Hardcover, Time-Life Books
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Bone Gameby Louis OwensISBN 0806128410 (0-8061-2841-0)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bone Game'Book summary:[via]Bone Game is a murder mystery on a grand scale. Cole McCurtain, a mixed-blood Indian professor of Indian Studies at Santa Cruz, California, is haunted by dreams dating back to events of Spanish California. Images of a Spanish priest murdered in 1812, a rearing grizzly bear, and a black-and-white painted Indian who offers bones in his extended hands come at a time when dismembered pieces of a young woman are washing ashore in 1993. The dreams become increasingly urgent as the murders become more frequent, and Coles family and friends gather to help-including Choctaw relatives who travel west from Mississippi because "this storys so big, Cole sees only a little bit of it."
Brave the Wild Windby Johanna LindseyISBN 0816139091 (0-8161-3909-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular Historyby Joy S. KassonISBN 0809032449 (0-8090-3244-9)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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Butterflies of the Rocky Mountain Statesby Clifford D. FerrisISBN 0806117338 (0-8061-1733-8)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Calamity Jane: The Woman And The Legendby James D. McLairdISBN 0806135913 (0-8061-3591-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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The Conquest of America: The Question of the Otherby Tzvetan Todorov, Richard HowardISBN 0806131373 (0-8061-3137-3)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Converting the West: A Biography of Narcissa Whitmanby Julie Roy JeffreyISBN 080612623X (0-8061-2623-X)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture As Colonization in the American Westby Frieda KnoblochISBN 080784585X (0-8078-4585-X)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Deadly Dozen: Twelve Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old Westby Robert K. DearmentISBN 080613559X (0-8061-3559-X)
Hardcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deadly Dozen: Twelve Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West'Book summary:Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday-such are the legendary names that spring to mind when we think of the western gunfighter. But in the American West of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thousands of grassroots gunfighters straddled both sides of the law without hesitation. Deadly Dozen tells the story of twelve infamous gunfighters, feared in their own times but almost forgotten today. Now, noted historian Robert K. DeArment has compiled the stories of these obscure men. DeArment, a life-long student of law and lawlessness in the West, has combed court records, frontier newspapers, and other references to craft twelve complete biographical portraits. The combined stories of Deadly Dozen offer an intensive look into the lives of imposing figures who in their own ways shaped the legendary Old West. More than a collective biography of dangerous gunfighters, Deadly Dozen also functions as a social history of the gunfighter culture of the post-Civil War frontier West. As Walter Noble Burns did for Billy the Kid in 1926 and Stuart N. Lake for Wyatt Earp in 1931, DeArment-himself a talented writer- brings these figures from the Old West to life. John Bull, Pat Desmond, Mart Duggan, Milt Yarberry, Dan Tucker, George Goodell, Bill Standifer, Charley Perry, Barney Riggs, Dan Bogan, Dave Kemp, and Jeff Kidder are the twelve dangerous men that Robert K. DeArment studies in Deadly Dozen: Twelve Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West. [via]
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Dear Old Kit: The Historical Christopher Carsonby Harvey Lewis Carter, Kit CarsonISBN 0806122536 (0-8061-2253-6)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dear Old Kit: The Historical Christopher Carson'Book summary:[via]The Figure of Kit Carson strides through the literature of the American West in heroic size. Trader, trapper, scout, brigadier general of New Mexico Volunteers, and many other things besides, he has appealed to the public imagination as no other frontiersman has. Many biographies and who versions of his autobiography have been published. Yet much of the legend still remains to be separated from the facts, declares the author of this new biography.
I am an admirer of Carson, says Mr. Carter, and have no wish deliberately to debunk him, but I am interested in correcting the statements of uncritical hero worship many by many writers.
Kit is allowed to speak for himself, as far as possible, through an exact transcription of his dictated reminiscences made from the manuscript in the Newberry Library, Chicago. Persons and places are clearly identified, and Kits slips of memory are corrected in the definitive annotation of his account. One hundred years of speculation about the identity of the man who transcribed Carsons story is ended. Mr. Carter has established positive identification, based on carefully assembled facts. A new assessment of Kits character and reputation is included, as well as an annotated account of the last years of his life.
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Deforming American Political Thought: Ethnicity, Facticity, And Genreby Michael J. ShapiroISBN 0813124123 (0-8131-2412-3)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Kentucky
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Diamondfield Jack: A Study in Frontier Justiceby David Hubert GroverISBN 0806119799 (0-8061-1979-9)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Dictionary of the American Westby Winfred Blevins, Ernest Lisle ReedstromISBN 0816028583 (0-8160-2858-3)
Softcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dictionary of the American West'Book summary:This dictionary is a treasury of the American frontier west of the 100th Meridian, & contains 5,000 terms & expressions essential to an understanding of the real West which is more amazing, outlandish, romantic, extravagant & fascinating than the myth. Among the thousands of carefully researched definitions, the reader will find the meaning of 'buck nun' & to 'ride circle;' as well as American Indian words such as 'sun dance', 'kachina' & 'medicine pipe'. This book is essential for anyone with an interest in the American West, in its history, facts & fables, idioms & mores. [via]
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The Donner Partyby George KeithleyISBN 0807606383 (0-8076-0638-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Early American Naturalists: Exploring the American West, 1804-1900by John MoringISBN 0815412363 (0-8154-1236-3)
Hardcover, Cooper Square Pub
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The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization 1800-1890by Richard SlotkinISBN 080613030X (0-8061-3030-X)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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The Flight of Michael McBrideby Midori SnyderISBN 0812522710 (0-8125-2271-0)
Softcover, Tom Doherty Assoc Llc
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Gamblersby Robert WallaceISBN 0809423103 (0-8094-2310-3)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Good Old Boysby Elmer KeltonISBN 0812575997 (0-8125-7599-7)
Softcover, Tor Books
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A Great and Shining Road: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroadby John H. WilliamsISBN 0812916689 (0-8129-1668-9)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Great Plainsby Ian FrazierISBN 0816149739 (0-8161-4973-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century Americaby Richard SlotkinISBN 0806130318 (0-8061-3031-8)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America'Book summary:Gunfighter Nation concludes Richard Slotkin's three-volume study, which began in 1973 with the publication of Regeneration Through Violence, of the significance of the frontier in the American imagination. Looking primarily at pulp novels and films, Slotkin takes a painstakingly thorough look at the relationship between imagery of the West in industrial mass culture and U.S. foreign policy during the 20th century. Specifically, he looks at how the previous century's "frontier aristocrat" served as the model diplomat for America's agenda of economic imperialism from the Spanish American War to the "police action" in Vietnam.
As the U.S. gained international stature, the archetype of the frontier aristocrat articulated the goals and ideals of the American populace. But Slotkin shows how, as time progressed, the increasing irrelevance of the frontier myth on foreign soil foiled the prowess of the U.S. war machine. At the book's conclusion, in which images of the My Lai Massacre are juxtaposed against the final shootout of Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, the contradiction between faith and experience becomes painfully evident. Gunfighter Nation delivers the satisfaction of a historian with the acquired wisdom to address directly the issues that inspired his lifelong work. --John M. Anderson [via]
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The Heritage of the Desertby Zane GreyISBN 0812590716 (0-8125-9071-6)
Softcover, Forge
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Jim Beckwourth: Black Mountain Man and War Chief of the Crowsby Elinor WilsonISBN 0806115556 (0-8061-1555-6)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jim Beckwourth: Black Mountain Man and War Chief of the Crows'Book summary:[via]Dismissed as a gaudy liar by most historians and often discredited by writers who deprecated his mixed blood, James Pierson Beckwourth was one of the giants of the early West, certainly deserving to rank alongside Kit Carson, Bill Williams, Louis Vasquez, and Jim Bridger.
Sometime around 1800 James Beckwourth was born a slave in Frederick County, Virginia, the natural son of Sir Jennings Beckwith and a slave girl. In 1810 Sir Jennings moved with his family to the wilderness of St. Louis, Missouri, where Jim was educated and eventually apprenticed to a blacksmith. His father recorded a Deed of Emancipation in his name on three different occasions, sending young Jim out into the world with his blessings.
Jim Beckwourths apprenticeship as a fur trapper was served with General William Ashleys grueling 1824 winter expedition to the Rocky Mountains. Except for a short stint as an army scout during the Seminole campaign, Jim spent the remainder of his long, eventful life in the West, dying among the Crow Indians whom he loved. He was fur trapper, trader, scout war chief of the Crow Nation, explorer, hotelkeeper, dispatch carrier, storekeeper, prospector, Indian agent for the Cheyennesin short, a mountain man extraordinaire.
In his old age Beckwourth dictated an autobiography to T.D. Bonner, a man more interested in making money with Jims adventures than in accurately recording his life. Beckwourth was later disparaged because of the inaccuracies that crept into Bonners account.
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Land of Savagery, Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier in the Nineteenth Centuryby Ray Allen BillingtonISBN 0806119292 (0-8061-1929-2)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Laughing Boyby Oliver LA FargeISBN 0808554182 (0-8085-5418-2)
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Let Me Be Free: The Nez Perce Tragedyby David LavenderISBN 080613190X (0-8061-3190-X)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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The Lincoln County War: A Documentary Historyby Frederick W. NolanISBN 0806126078 (0-8061-2607-8)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Listening Womanby Tony HillermanISBN 081615435X (0-8161-5435-X)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indiansby Eric Foner, Anthony F. C. WallaceISBN 0809015528 (0-8090-1552-8)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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This account of Congress's Indian Removal Act of 1830 focuses on the plight of the Indians of the Southeast--Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles--who were forced to leave their ancestral lands and relocate to what is now the state of Oklahoma. Revealing Andrew Jackson's central role in the government's policies, Wallace examines the racist attitudes toward Native Americans that led to their removal and, ultimately, their tragic fate.More editions of The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians:
Memoirs of My Life: Including Three Journeys of Western Exploration During the Years 1842, 1843-1844, 1845-1847by John Charles FremontISBN 0815411642 (0-8154-1164-2)
Softcover, Cooper Square Pub
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The Missing: A Novelby Tom EidsonISBN 0812972384 (0-8129-7238-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Moon Danceby S. P. SomtowISBN 0812511271 (0-8125-1127-1)
Softcover, Tor Books
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The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Americaby Sarah Barringer GordonISBN 0807849871 (0-8078-4987-1)
Softcover, University of North Carolina Press
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My First Summer in the Sierraby John Muir, Herbert W. Gleason, Mike DavisISBN 0812968654 (0-8129-6865-4)
Softcover, Modern Library
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My Life on the Plainsby George Armstrong, George Armstrong CusterISBN 0806514396 (0-8065-1439-6)
Softcover, Citadel Pr
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The Navajosby Ruth Murray UnderhillISBN 0806118164 (0-8061-1816-4)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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The Navajos, blood relations of the Apaches, once virtually ruled the area now known as Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico, which they robbed with impunity. Unable to tolerate their depredations any longer, Anglo-Americans, Mexicans, and other Indians rose up in protest, demanding the subjugation of the Navajos, who were accused of every crime and held responsible for almost every Indian attack in the area. The job was given to Colonel Kit Carson, who defeated the Navajos in 1864 and moved them to a small reservation at Fort Sumner, where they remained for nearly four years before being returned to their original home.
It was upon their agriculture, sheepherding, and artistry in blanket weaving and silversmithing that the Navajos, now unable to continue their profitable raiding, became dependent during the early, trying days of reservation life. Miss Underhill's careful examination of the complex mythical aura that surrounds the early Navajos offers an interesting insight into their colorful history and rich cultural background, but it is her sensitive portrayal of their adjustment to a new way of life that distinguishes her account of this great tribe. For this printing, the final chapter, "Fourth Beginning," has been rewritten to bring the story of the Navajos up to 1967.
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A New Home, Who'll Follow? or Glimpses of Western Lifeby Sandra A. Zagarell, Caroline Matilda KirklandISBN 0813515424 (0-8135-1542-4)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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Nothing but Prairie and Sky: Life on the Dakota Range in the Early Daysby Walker Wyman, Bruce SibertsISBN 080612122X (0-8061-2122-X)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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O Pioneers!by Willa CatherISBN 0808597957 (0-8085-9795-7)
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The Oatman Massacre: A Tale Of Desert Captivity And Survivalby Brian McGintyISBN 0806136677 (0-8061-3667-7)
Hardcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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On the Banks of Plum Creekby Laura Ingalls WilderISBN 0808537989 (0-8085-3798-9)
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When the Ingalls family decides to move west to Minnesota, Laura is certain she won't like her new home. Her feelings quickly change as she and Mary make friends and Pa's wheat crop flourishes. Things take a turn for the worse when a cloud of grasshoppers destroys the crops and Pa is forced to leave to find work. Now it's Laura's chance to prove that she can help the family to survive.
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On the Border With Crookby John BourkeISBN 0809435853 (0-8094-3585-3)
Softcover, Time-Life Books
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On the Edge of Magic: Petroglyphs and Rock Paintings of the Ancient Southwestby Salvatore ManciniISBN 0811811670 (0-8118-1167-0)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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Once Upon A Time In Italy: the Westerns of Sergio Leoneby Christopher FraylingISBN 0810958848 (0-8109-5884-8)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Written by the preeminent Leone scholar, this is the first illustrated book to focus on his Westerns, illuminating his visual style, offbeat sense of humor, and sophisticated, elliptical way of telling stories. Augmenting the text are a wealth of visual materials, as well as interviews with Leone, Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Bernardo Bertolucci, composer Ennio Morricone, designer Carlo Simi, and others. The book accompanies an exhibition with the same title opening in July 2005 at the Autry National Center's Museum of the American West in Los Angeles. [via]
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Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunterby Theodore RooseveltISBN 0811730336 (0-8117-3033-6)
Softcover, Stackpole Books
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Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empireby Tom ChaffinISBN 0809075563 (0-8090-7556-3)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire'Book summary:The amazing life of the explorer who first mapped the West and forever changed nineteenth-century America[via]
The career of John Charles Frémont (1813-90) celebrates and ties together the full breadth of American expansionism from its eighteenth-century origins through its culmination in the Gilded Age. Tom Chaffin's important new biography demonstrates Frémont's vital importance to the history of American empire, and his role in shattering long-held myths about the ecology and habitability of the American West.
As the most celebrated American explorer and mapper of his time, Frémont stood at the center of the vast federal project of Western exploration and conquest. His expeditions between 1838 and 1854 captured the public's imagination, inspired Americans to accept their nation's destiny as a vast continental empire, and earned him his enduring sobriquet, the Pathfinder.
But Frémont was more than an explorer. Chaffin's dramatic narrative includes Frémont's varied experiences as an entrepreneur, abolitionist, Civil War general, husband to the remarkable Jessie Benton Frémont, two-time Republican presidential candidate, and Gilded Age aristocrat.
Chaffin brings to life the personal and political experiences of a remarkable American whose saga offers compelling insight into the conflicts, tensions, and contradictions at the core of America's lust for empire and its conquest of the trans-Missouri West.More editions of Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire:
Phil Sheridan and His Armyby Paul Andrew HuttonISBN 0806131888 (0-8061-3188-8)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Ranch Life and the Hunting Trailby Theodore RooseveltISBN 0809437104 (0-8094-3710-4)
Hardcover, Time-Life Books
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RanchersISBN 0809415097 (0-8094-1509-7)
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Ranchersby Ogden TannerISBN 0809415100 (0-8094-1510-0)
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The Rapid City Indian School, 1898-1933by Scott RineyISBN 0806131624 (0-8061-3162-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Stone Songby Win BlevinsISBN 0812533690 (0-8125-3369-0)
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Storms Brewed in Other Men's Worlds: The Confrontation of Indians, Spanish, and French in the Southwest, 1540-1795by Elizabeth Ann JohnISBN 0806128690 (0-8061-2869-0)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Streams to the River, River to the Seaby Scott O'DellISBN 0816148112 (0-8161-4811-2)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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A Study in Scarletby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0809594285 (0-8095-9428-5)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Study in Scarlet'Book summary:Arthur Conan Doyle's Study in Scarlet is the first published story involving the legendary Sherlock Holmes, arguably the world's best-known detective, and the first narrative by Holmes's Boswell, the unassuming Dr. Watson, a military surgeon lately returned from the Afghan War. Watson needs a flat-mate and a diversion. Holmes needs a foil. And thus a great literary collaboration begins.
Watson and Holmes move to a now-famous address, 221B Baker Street, where Watson is introduced to Holmes's eccentricities as well as his uncanny ability to deduce information about his fellow beings. Somewhat shaken by Holmes's egotism, Watson is nonetheless dazzled by his seemingly magical ability to provide detailed information about a man glimpsed once under the streetlamp across the road.
Then murder. Facing a deserted house, a twisted corpse with no wounds, a mysterious phrase drawn in blood on the wall, and the buffoons of Scotland Yard--Lestrade and Gregson--Holmes measures, observes, picks up a pinch of this and a pinch of that, and generally baffles his faithful Watson. Later, Holmes explains: "In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward.... There are few people who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result." Holmes is in that elite group.
Conan Doyle quickly learned that it was Holmes's deductions that were of most interest to his readers. The lengthy flashback, while a convention of popular fiction, simply distracted from readers' real focus. It is when Holmes and Watson gather before the coal fire and Holmes sums up the deductions that led him to the successful apprehension of the criminal that we are most captivated. Subsequent Holmes stories--The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes--rightly plunge the twosome directly into the middle of a baffling crime, piling mystery upon mystery until Holmes's denouement once more leaves the dazzled Watson murmuring, "You are wonderful, Holmes!" Generations of readers agree. --Barbara Schlieper [via]
A Sudden Country: A Novelby Karen FisherISBN 0812973437 (0-8129-7343-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A Texas Cowboyby Charles A. SiringoISBN 0809435683 (0-8094-3568-3)
Hardcover, Time-Life Books
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A Texas Frontier: The Clear Fork Country and Fort Griffin, 1849-1887by Ty CashionISBN 0806127910 (0-8061-2791-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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A Texas Rangerby N. A. Jennings, Stephen HardinISBN 0806129034 (0-8061-2903-4)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Texas Ranger'Book summary:[via]Eighteen-year-old Napoleon Augustus Jennings came to Rexas in 1874 and joined a special force of Texas ranger charged with border patrol under the command of L.H. McNelly. At this time the South Texas region was home to hundreds of outlaws and riffraff, and some three thousand Mexican guerrillas under Juan Cortina and others were raiding settlers on both sides of the Rio Grande. McNellys Rangers stormed into this lawless area for two reasons, according to Jennings: "Two have fun, and to carry out a set policy of terrorizing the Mexicans at every opportunity," which would gain them the reputation as "fire-eating, quarrelsome daredevils" and make their job of subduing the guerrillas an easier prospect.
Within a short time the Rangers had arrested more than eleven hundred men and reputedly killed many more. Jennings records many a fight with the Mexican guerrillas, including the time when McNelly defied the United States government, crossed the Rio Grande, and fought Cortina and his raiders at Las Cuevas. Jennings also gives accounts of scrapes with King Fishers outlaw band, John Wesley Hardin, and the families involved in the Taylor-Sutton feud.
Originally published in 1899, A Texas Ranger was reprinted in 1930 with a foreword by J. Frank Dobie, who defends the veracity of the account despite the fact that Jennings was not, as his story claims, a member of the company in its earliest years. In a new introduction of this edition, Stephen L. Hardin explores the authenticity of Jennings account and imparts the story of the feud that erupted between Dobie and Walter Prescott Webb over the publication of A Texas ranger.
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To Hell With Honor: Custer and the Little Bighornby Larry SklenarISBN 0806134720 (0-8061-3472-0)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Triggernometry: A Gallery of Gunfighters With Technical Notes on Leather Slapping As a Fine Art, Gathered from Many a Loose Holstered Expert over the Yearsby Eugene CunninghamISBN 0806128372 (0-8061-2837-2)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Ungentlemanly Acts: The Army's Notorious Incest Trialby Louise BarnettISBN 0809073986 (0-8090-7398-6)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western Historyby Gary ToppingISBN 0806135611 (0-8061-3561-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History'Book summary:[via]Among historians of Utah and the American West, few names have greater resonance than Bernard DeVoto, Dale Morgan, Juanita Brooks, Wallace Stegner, and Fawn Brodie. Each of these writers made enduring contributions not only to our knowledge of the American West but also to our view of the region and its history. In many ways their writing set the standard for scholarship and interpretation, and their influence is still felt today.
Yet they were not flawless. As Gary Topping explains in this, the first comprehensive appraisal of their work, each had serious shortcomings. DeVoto and Stegner, master storytellers, distorted their histories with excessive use of literary and artistic techniques; Morgan, the thorough researcher, failed to see larger contexts and interpretive possibilities; Brooks, courageous in finding damning new information on the Mountain Meadows massacre, stopped short of drawing conclusions that might alienate her from her fellow Mormons; and Brodie, psychobiographer extraordinaire, nonetheless succumbed to reading too much into the lives of her subjects based on her own emotions and conflicts.
All five writers experienced Mormon Utah in the formative stages of their lives and, whether they wanted to or not, fashioned their work on the American West under that indelible influence. Topping shows ultimately how, despite weaknesses, each created exemplary models of diligent research and narrative elegance while establishing new traditions in western historical scholarship.
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A Vast and Ancient Wilderness: Images of the Great Basinby Claude Fiddler, Steve RoperISBN 0811815021 (0-8118-1502-1)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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Westering Man: The Life of Joseph Walkerby Bill GilbertISBN 0806119349 (0-8061-1934-9)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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When Calls The Heartby Janette OkeISBN 0816153663 (0-8161-5366-3)
Softcover, G K Hall & Co
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Whose Names Are Unknown: A Novelby Sanora Babb, Lawrence R. RodgersISBN 0806137126 (0-8061-3712-6)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Whose Names Are Unknown: A Novel'Book summary:[via]Sanora Babbs long-hidden novel Whose Names Are Unknown tells of the High Plains farmers who fled drought and dust storms during the Great Depression. Written with empathy for the farmers plight, this powerful narrative is based upon the authors firsthand experience.
Babb submitted the manuscript for this book to Random House for consideration in 1939. Editor Bennett Cerf planned to publish this exceptionally fine novel but when John Steinbecks The Grapes of Wrath swept the nation, Cerf explained that the market could not support two books on the subject.
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A World of Its Own: Race, Labor and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970by Matt GarciaISBN 0807849839 (0-8078-4983-9)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's Westby Susan Armitage, Elizabeth JamesonISBN 0806129522 (0-8061-2952-2)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Young Men & Fire/a True Story of the Mann Gulch Fireby Norman MacLeanISBN 0816157340 (0-8161-5734-0)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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