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As American Indian communities face the new century, they look forward armed with confidence in the indigenous perspectives that have kept them together. Five scholars in American Indian history, and a tribal leader who has placed an indelible mark on the history of her people, show how understanding the past is the key to solving problems today.

Sherman is known primarily for having cut a swath of destruction through Georgia and the Carolinas during the Civil War. This text documents his contribution to the expansion and settlement of the Western frontier, including his phase of ensuring the tranquility of the West.

A comprehensive dictionary of the major indigenous language of Mexico, the language of the Aztecs and many of their neighbours. Nahuatl speakers became literate within a generation of contact with Europeans and a vast literature has been composed in Nahuatl, beginning in the mid-16th century.

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.

Baby Doe Tabor left a record of her madness in a set of writings she called her "Dreams and Visions". These were discovered after her death but never studied in detail - until now. Judy Nolte Temple retells Lizzie's story with greater accuracy than any previous biographer and reveals a story more heartbreaking than the legend.

Agnes Morley Cleaveland found lasting fame after publishing her memoir, No Life for a Lady, in 1941. In Open Range, Darlis Miller expands our understanding of Cleaveland's significance, showing how a young girl who was a fearless risk-taker grew up to be a prolific author and social activist.

Backed by an unparalleled military force, Sargon II outwitted and outfought powerful competitors to extend Assyrian territory and secure his throne. As Sarah Melville shows in this analysis of his campaigns, the king used his army not just to conquer but also to ensure regional security, manage his resources, and support his political agenda.

Offers a detailed narrative covering the entire scope of General Winfield Scott Hancock's 'Expedition for the Plains'. This first thorough scholarly history of the ill-conceived expedition offers an unequivocal evaluation of military strategies and a culturally sensitive interpretation of Indian motivations and reactions.

Here for experts, beginners, and do-it-yourself horse owners is all the information necessary to the modern farrier's art of horseshoeing. In this second edition, Robert Wiseman describes and illustrates not only basic shoeing techniques but also hoof diseases and defects that cause lameness.

On a quiet Sunday morning in 1941, a ship designed to keep the peace was suddenly attacked. This book tells the remarkable story of a battleship, its brave crew, and how their lives were intertwined.

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.

A confederate soldier, pioneer merchant, rancher, newspaper publisher, and town builder, George Washington Grayson also served for six decades as a leader of the Creek Nation. His life paralleled the most tumultuous events in Creek Indian and Oklahoma history, from the aftermath of the Trail of Tears through World War I.

Examines the ways in which tourists experienced Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco between 1869 and 1893, a period of rapid urbanization and accelerated modernity. J. Philip Gruen pays particular attention to the contrast between the way these cities were promoted and the way visitors actually experienced them.

The hero of the War of 1812, the conqueror of Mexico City, and Abraham Lincoln's top soldier during the first six months of the Civil War, General Winfield Scott was a seminal force in the early American republic. John Eisenhower explores how Scott, who served under fourteen presidents, played a leading role in the development of the US Army.

Centred on the volatile issue of the repatriation of Native American skeletal remains, Chancers follows a group of student Solar Dancers who set out to resurrect native remains housed in the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Pierces the thick fog of falsehood, calumny, ignorance, and legend surrounding the four years Sam Houston spent among the Cherokees in what is now northeastern Oklahoma, the broken years in Tennessee, and his advent in Texas on the eve of the War for Independence.

In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists entered the Four Corners area for what they thought would be a calm summer's work completing a previous survey. By skillfully weaving the surveyors' diary entries, field notes, and correspondence with newspaper accounts, this book brings the survey to life.

As the first decade of the twenty-first century has made brutally clear, the very definitions of war and the enemy have changed almost beyond recognition. In this timely book, national security expert Max G. Manwaring explores a little-understood actor on the stage of irregular warfare - the gang.

Anthropologist and preservationist Robert Grumet has created this up-to-date, well-written overview of historic contact with Native Americans on the colonial frontier from a vast array of documentary, archaeological, and ethnographic data never assembled before.