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Nowhere can travellers cross the Rockies so easily as through the high, treeless valley in Wyoming immediately south of the Wind River Mountains. South Pass has received much attention in lore and memory but attracted no serious book-length study. In this narrative, award-winning author Will Bagley explains the significance of South Pass.

The inclusion of the Ninth Cavalry and three other African American regiments in the post-Civil War army was one of the nation's most problematic social experiments. Charles Kenner's detailed biographies of officers and enlisted men describe the passions, aspirations, and conflicts that both bound blacks and white together and pulled them apart.

Few places provided a more storied backdrop for key events related to the high plains Indian wars than had Fort Robinson, Nebraska. Established in 1874 just south of the Black Hills, Fort Robinson witnessed many of the most dramatic, most tragic encounters between whites and American Indians, including the Cheyenne Outbreak, the death of Crazy Horse, the Ghost Dance, the desperation and diplomacy of such famed Plains Indian leaders as Dull Knife and Red Cloud, and the tragic sequence of events surrounding Wounded Knee. In Fort Robinson and the American West, 1874-1899, Thomas R. Buecker explores both the larger story of the Nebraska fort and the particulars of daily life and work at the fort. Buecker draws on historic reminiscences, government records, reports, correspondence, and other official accounts to render a thorough yet lively depiction.Thomas R. Buecker is curator of the Nebraska State Historical Society''s Fort Robinson Museum, Crawford, Nebraska, and the author of Fort Robinson and the American Century 1900-1948, based on more than twenty years of archival research as well as the personal recollections of the men and women who served at the fort. "The academic integrity and fine writing style make this book more than a mere history of a lone military post. Buecker ties Fort Robinson''s historical development to events well beyond the narrow geographical confines of the Nebraska Panhandle, connecting the bigger stories with the larger military and political decisions that shaped the development of the northern and central plains. This book offers a sophisticated, reliable, and eminently readable interpretation of crucial military and Indian relations during the height of the fabled Indian wars."---Michael Tate, author of The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West

First published more than a century ago, The Biography of a Grizzly recounts the life of a fictitious bear named Wahb who lived and died in the Greater Yellowstone region. This new edition combines Ernest Thompson Seton's classic tale and original illustrations with historical and scientific context for Wahb's story.

Explores narratives of American boyhood and frontier mythology to show how they worked against and through one another-and how this interaction shaped ideas about national character, identity, and progress.

The first book to chronicle the attempt to recast the Native American burial mounds as the work of a lost white race of "true" native Americans. Jason Colavito traces this monumental deception from the farthest reaches of the frontier to the halls of Congress, mapping a century-long conspiracy to fabricate and promote a false ancient history.

A lyrical tale of survival in a strange, hostile world

Drawing on a wide range of sources, Theodore Binnema examines the impact of technology on the peoples of the northern plains, beginning with the bow-and-arrow and continuing through the arrival of the horse, European weapons, Old World diseases, and Euroamerican traders.

This is the tale of Hannali Innominee, a "Mingo" or natural lord of the 19th-century Choctaw Indian, and a fictionalized epic history of his people in the 19th-century.

In this work, Steele Commmager examines the odes of Horace, paying particular attention both to their language and structure and also to the effect a poem is intended to, or does, produce.

Looks anew at the scope of the reconstruction narrative and offers a unique perspective on the history of the Latter-day Saints. Contributors explore why the federal government wanted to reconstruct Latter-day Saints, when such efforts began, and how the initiatives compare with what happened with white Southerners and American Indians.

Although Vernon Duke has entered the canon of American standards, little is known about the composer with two personas. Taking a Chance on Love brings the intriguing double life of Dukelsky/Duke back into the spotlight, restoring a chapter to the history of the Great American Songbook and to the story of twentieth-century music.

Centuries of colonization and other factors have disrupted indigenous communities' ability to control their own food systems. This volume explores the meaning and importance of food sovereignty for Native peoples in the United States, and asks whether and how it might be achieved and sustained.

Since its publication in 1932, Black Elk Speaks has moved countless readers to appreciate the American Indian world that it described. Michael Steltenkamp provides the first full interpretive biography of Black Elk, distilling in one volume what is known of this American Indian wisdom keeper whose life has helped guide others.

Presents the first full-length scholarly study in English of the invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592. Drawing on Korean, Japanese, and especially Chinese sources, he corrects the Japan-centred perspective of previous accounts.

"James DeWolf's diary and letters were originally published in North Dakota History 25, nos. 1 and 2 (1958): 33-82."

By confronting head-on the romanticized version of Texas history that made heroes out of Houston, Lamar, and Baylor, Gary Clayton Anderson helps us understand that the history of the Lone Star state is darker and more complex than the mythmakers allowed.

This first comprehensive biography of Charles M. Russell examines the colorful life and times of Montana’s famed Cowboy Artist. Born to an affluent St. Louis family in 1864, young Russell read thrilling tales of the West and filled sketchbooks with imagined frontier scenes.