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Comanche Empire
Häftad, 2009
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226 kr
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From the author of Lakota America, an award-winning history of the rise and decline of the vast and imposing Comanche empire “Cutting-edge revisionist western history.”—Larry McMurtry, New York Review of Books “A landmark study that will make readers see the history of southwestern America in an …
Business of Killing Indians
Scalp Warfare and the Violent Conquest of North America
Inbunden, 2025
360 kr
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How colonial conquest was driven by state-sponsored, profit-driven campaigns to murder and mutilate Indian peoples in North America From the mid-1600s through the late 1800s, states sponsored scalp bounties and volunteer campaigns to murder and mutilate thousands of Indians throughout North …
California, a Slave State
Häftad, 2025
249 kr
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The untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese prostitutes, and convict laborers to victims of modern trafficking “A searing survey of ‘250 years of human …
Last Days of the Sioux Nation
Second Edition
Häftad, 2004
582 kr
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“One of the finest books on the Indian wars of the West.”--Montana (on the original edition)This fascinating account tells what the Sioux were like when they first came to their reservation and how their reaction to the new system eventually led to the last confrontation between the Army and the …
Frontiers
A Short History of the American West
Av John Mack Faragher, Robert V. Hine
Häftad, 2008
247 kr
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A concise edition of the authors' definitive history of the American West, updated and rewritten for a popular audience"From the Caribbean to Canada and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, this marvelous survey spotlights the unexpected twists and turns that occurred when peoples met and mingled and …
California, a Slave State
Inbunden, 2023
340 kr
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The untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese prostitutes, and convict laborers to victims of modern trafficking "A searing survey of '250 years of human …
Wanted
The Outlaw Lives of Billy the Kid and Ned Kelly
Häftad, 2017
194 kr
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A renowned biographer compares the lives and times of American outlaw Billy the Kid and his Australian counterpart Ned KellyThe oft-told exploits of Billy the Kid and Ned Kelly survive vividly in the public imaginations of their respective countries, the United States and Australia. But the …
War on Illahee
Genocide, Complicity, and Cover-Ups in the Pioneer Northwest
Inbunden, 2025
390 kr
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How a generation of pioneers and their historians knowingly hid the violent history of Indigenous dispossession in the Pacific Northwest The small, mostly forgotten wars of the 1850s in the American Pacific Northwest were part of a broader genocidal war—the War on Illahee—to seize Native land for …
Desert Immigrants
The Mexicans of El Paso, 1880-1920
Häftad, 1982
339 kr
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García explores the relationship of class, race, and labor in El Paso, documenting the evolution of work, housing, education, politics, and culture in the Mexican community. Desert Immigrants makes a significant contribution not only to Chicano and Mexican history, but to the history of immigration …
Indian Survival on the California Frontier
Häftad, 1990
862 kr
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During the middle decades of the nineteenth century, when vast numbers of whites poured into California, the native Indian population was decimated through disease, starvation, homicide, and a declining birth rate. In this prize-winning book, Albert L. Hurtado focuses on the Indians who survived …
Mexican Americans
Leadership, Ideology, and Identity, 1930-1960
Häftad, 1991
619 kr
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A pioneering political and intellectual history of the Chicano leaders who emerged from the barrios of the Southwest between 1930 and 1960—Ignacio L. López, George I. Sanchez, Josefina Fierro de Bright, and others—and of their effort to capture first-class citizenship for Mexican Americans. Drawing …
Blacks in Gold Rush California
Häftad, 1995
582 kr
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By 1860, twelve years after the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, more than five thousand American blacks had made the difficult trek to California in search of quick wealth. The part that they played in this epic adventure has been too long ignored. Here for the first time Rudolph Lapp pieces …
Cheyenne Memories
Second Edition
Av John Stands In Timber, Margot Liberty
Häftad, 1998
619 kr
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This classic work is an oral history of the Cheyenne Indians from legendary times to the early reservation years, a collaborative effort by the Cheyenne tribal historian, John Stands in Timber, and anthropologist Margot Liberty. Published in 1967, the book now has an updated bibliography and a new …
Introduction to the Study of Southwestern Archaeology
Häftad, 2000
638 kr
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Alfred Vincent Kidder’s Introduction to the Study of Southwestern Archaeology, a classic of New World archaeology, was the first regional synthesis and remains unsurpassed as a summary of Pueblo archaeology. It provides an excellent guide to historic and prehistoric sites of the Southwest, as they …
Western Paradox
A Conservation Reader
Av Bernard DeVoto, Douglas Brinkley m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
876 kr
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“This book is the fascinating record of DeVoto’s crusade to save the West from itself. . . . His arguments, insights, and passion are as relevant and urgent today as they were when he first put them on paper.”—Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., from the Foreword Bernard DeVoto (1897–1955) was, according …
Dear Brother
Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark
Av William Clark, James J. Holmberg
Häftad, 2003
600 kr
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Over the course of his career, American explorer William Clark (1770–1838) wrote at least forty-five letters to his older brother Jonathan, including six that were written during the epic Lewis and Clark Expedition. This book publishes many of these letters for the first time, revealing important …
Print the Legend
Photography and the American West
Häftad, 2004
951 kr
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A compelling story of how the new medium of photography and the new American frontier came of age together—illustrated with scores of stunning imagesThis prize-winning book tells the intertwined stories of photography and the American West—a new medium and a new place that came of age together in …
Vicious
Wolves and Men in America
Häftad, 2006
492 kr
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A provocative history of wolves in America and of the humans who first destroyed them and now offer them protection“A shocking cultural study of our long, sadistic crusade against wolves. Moving brilliantly through history, economics, and biology, Coleman...explains America’s fevered obsession with …
Nature's Noblemen
Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-Century American West
Av Monica Rico
Inbunden, 2013
940 kr
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In this fascinating book Monica Rico explores the myth of the American West in the nineteenth century as a place for men to assert their masculinity by “roughing it” in the wilderness and reveals how this myth played out in a transatlantic context. Rico uncovers the networks of elite men—British …
"Liberty to the Downtrodden"
Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer
Inbunden, 2009
950 kr
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Thomas L. Kane (1822–1883), a crusader for antislavery, women’s rights, and the downtrodden, rose to prominence in his day as the most ardent and persuasive defender of Mormons’ religious liberty. Though not a Mormon, Kane sought to defend the much-reviled group from the “Holy War” waged against …
William Clark's World
Describing America in an Age of Unknowns
Inbunden, 2011
1242 kr
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William Clark, co-captain of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition, devoted his adult life to describing the American West. But this task raised a daunting challenge: how best to bring an unknown continent to life for the young republic? Through Clark's life and career, this book explores how the …
Spanish Frontier in North America
The Brief Edition
Häftad, 2009
307 kr
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A compact synthesis of David J. Weber’s prize-winning history of colonial Spanish North America, from the first Spanish-Indian contact through Spain’s gradual retreatPraise for the previous edition:"I cannot imagine a single book giving a more comprehensive and balanced study of Spain's presence in …
Before L.A.
Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894
Inbunden, 2013
1242 kr
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David Torres-Rouff significantly expands borderlands history by examining the past and original urban infrastructure of one of America’s most prominent cities; its social, spatial, and racial divides and boundaries; and how it came to be the Los Angeles we know today. It is a fascinating study of …
Home Rule
Households, Manhood, and National Expansion on the Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Frontier
Av Honor Sachs
Inbunden, 2015
827 kr
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On America’s western frontier, myths of prosperity concealed the brutal conditions endured by women, slaves, orphans, and the poor. As poverty and unrest took root in eighteenth-century Kentucky, western lawmakers championed ideas about whiteness, manhood, and patriarchal authority to help …
War of a Thousand Deserts
Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War
Av Brian DeLay
Häftad, 2009
340 kr
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An award-winning look at how Apaches, Navajos, Kiowas, and especially Comanches played a decisive role in America’s watershed victory over Mexico"An engaging book that enlivens the debate over the clash between Indians, Mexicans, and Americans in the Southwest."—Gary Clayton Anderson, Western …
Bourgeois Frontier
French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion
Av Jay Gitlin
Häftad, 2010
506 kr
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Histories tend to emphasize conquest by Anglo-Americans as the driving force behind the development of the American West. In this fresh interpretation, Jay Gitlin argues that the activities of the French are crucial to understanding the phenomenon of westward expansion. The Seven Years War brought …
Gathering Together
The Shawnee People through Diaspora and Nationhood, 1600–1870
Inbunden, 2014
1251 kr
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Weaving Indian and Euro-American histories together in this groundbreaking book, Sami Lakomäki places the Shawnee people, and Native peoples in general, firmly at the center of American history. The book covers nearly three centuries, from the years leading up to the Shawnees’ first European …
Rush to Gold
The French and the California Gold Rush, 1848–1854
Inbunden, 2013
1224 kr
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The California Gold Rush began in 1848 and incited many “wagons west.” However, only half of the 300,000 gold seekers traveled by land. The other half traveled by sea. And it’s the story of this second group that interests Malcolm Rohrbough in his authoritative new book, The Rush to Gold. He …
American West
A New Interpretive History
Av Robert V. Hine, John Mack Faragher m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
309 kr
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A fully revised and updated new edition of the classic history of western America “A classic for the twenty-first century, The American West stands as the best one volume treatment of the American West in a generation—a masterful overview, replete with triumph and tragedy, pain and …
Jeffersons at Shadwell
Av Susan Kern
Häftad, 2012
619 kr
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An original study of Shadwell, Thomas Jefferson's boyhood home, providing new insights into the founding father’s formative yearsMerging archaeology, material culture, and social history, historian Susan Kern reveals the fascinating story of Shadwell, the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson and home to …
