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Billy The Kid - A Reader'S Guide

by Richard W. Etulain

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 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. This volume introduces readers to the most significant of these written and filmed works.
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An Osage Journey To Europe, 1827-1830 - Three French Accounts

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 In 1827 six Osage people - four men and two women - travelled to Europe escorted by three Americans. Their visit was big news in France, where three short publications about the travelers appeared almost immediately. Virtually lost since the 1830s, all three accounts are gathered, translated, and annotated here for the first time in English.
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The Manuscript Hunter - Brasseur De Bourbourg'S Travels Through Central America And Mexico, 1854â€“1859

by Charles Etienne Brasseur De Bourbourg

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 In two decades of traveling throughout Mexico, Central America, and Europe, French priest Charles Ã‰tienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (1814-1874) amassed hundreds of indigenous manuscripts and printed books. In The Manuscript Hunter, translator Katia Sainson reasserts Brasseur de Bourbourgâ€™s standing as the founder of modern Maya studies.
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Yours Truly - An Obituary Writer'S Guide To Telling Your Story

by James R. Hagerty

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The Manuscript Hunter Volume 84 - Brasseur De Bourbourg'S Travels Through Central America And Mexico, 1854-1859

by Charles Etienne Brasseur De Bourbourg

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 In two decades of travelling through Mexico, Central America, and Europe, French priest Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg amassed hundreds of indigenous manuscripts and printed books. In this volume Katia Sainson reasserts his standing as the founder of modern Maya studies, presenting three of his travel writings in English for the first time.
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Women Of The Earth Lodges - Tribal Life On The Plains

by Virginia Bergman Peters

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 Uses women's accounts, myths and creation stories, and anthropological and archaeological data to examine the influence and vitality of Plains Indian women. Virginia Peters demonstrates that village life was organised around women's labour and the women acted as partners with men in economic, social, and religious affairs.
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Forster Vs. Pico - The Struggle For The Rancho Santa Margarita

by Paul Bryan Gray

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 During 1873 a jury trial took place in San Diego to decide whether Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of California, had been the victim of a fraud by his brother-in-law, John Forster. Picoâ€™s legal battle with Forster and others provides an absorbing view of California during its transitional era and Americanization.
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Kearny'S Dragoons Out West - The Birth Of The U.S. Cavalry

by John Gorenfeld

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 Having banished eastern Native peoples to lands west of the Mississippi, President Andrew Jackson's government by 1833 needed a new type of soldier to keep displaced Indians from returning home. And so the 1st Dragoons came into being. Will and John Gorenfeld tell their story in this book-length treatment of the force that became the US Cavalry.
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To Save The Wild Bison - Life On The Edge In Yellowstone

by Mary Ann Franke

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 The first book to examine the ecological and political aspects of the bison controversy and how it reflects changing attitudes toward wildlife. The debate has evoked strong emotions from all sides, including park officials, environmentalists, livestock growers, and American Indians.
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The Mexican War Correspondence Of Richard Smith Elliott

by Richard Smith Elliott

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 Noted southwestern scholars Mark Gardner and Marc Simmons present here, for the first time, all of Richard Smith Elliottâ€™s letters published in the Reveille under his nom-de-plume, John Brown, using passages from his autobiography for the same period to fill in a break resulting from a few missing letters.
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Mapping The Four Corners - Narrating The Hayden Survey Of 1875

by Robert S. Mcpherson e Susan Rhoades Neel

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 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 skilfully weaving the surveyors' diary entries, field notes, and correspondence with newspaper accounts, this book brings the survey to life.
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Poke A Stick At It - Unexpected True Stories

by Connie Cronley

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 Often compared to authors Annie Dillard, Phyllis McGinley, Robert Benchley, and Mark Twain, Connie Cronley is a Southwest original, a writer who infuses her stories with joy, humor, beauty - and plenty of spice.
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A Journal Of Travels Into The Arkansas Territory During The Year 1819

by Thomas Nuttall

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 Presents naturalist Thomas Nuttall's only surviving complete journal of his American scientific explorations. The account follows Nuttall's route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, down the Ohio River to its mouth, then down the Mississippi River to the Arkansas Post, and up the Arkansas River with a side trip to the Red River.
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The Gunfighter - Man Or Myth?

by Joseph G. Rosa

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The Chisholm Trail

by Wayne Gard

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Life In The Far West

by George Frederick Ruxton

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Ojibwa Warrior - Dennis Banks And The Rise Of The American Indian Movement

by Dennis Banks

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Prologue To Lewis And Clark - The Mackay And Evans Expedition

by W. Raymond Wood

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 When Mackay and Evans returned to Spanish St. Louis in 1797, they were hailed as "the two most illustrious travelers in the northern parts of this continent", and their findings were responsible for much of the early success of Lewis and Clark. W. Raymond Wood tells the story of this long-forgotten but important expedition up the Missouri River.
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The Sutter Family And The Origins Of Gold-Rush Sacramento

by John A. Sutter

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 John A. Sutter (1803-1880) could have become one of the richest men in California when gold was found on his property. Instead he lost his vast land holdings on the Sacramento and Feather Rivers and eventually left California penniless. Sutter always claimed to be the victim of charlatans, but he bore considerable responsibility for his downfall.
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The Yellowstone Wolf - A Guide And Sourcebook

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 The former Secretary of the Interior introduces the Yellowstone wolf recovery program of the 1990s. A National Park Service writer-editor provides maps and historical, policy, and scientific context on the controversial reintroduction of this animal to its native habitat. It is noted that book royal
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Hernando De Soto - A Savage Quest In The Americas

by David E. Duncan

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 This biography of the explorer Hernando de Soto, explains how he was obsessed with finding a second Inca empire, but instead he encountered the Mississippians. It tells of how Soto's obsession pushed him deeper into the wilderness, until he died and was secretly buried in the Mississippi river.
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Bad Medicine And Good - Tales Of The Kiowas

by Wilbur Sturtevant Nye

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 This texts collects together 44 stories covering Kiowa history from the 1700s through the 1940s, all gleaned from interviews with Kiowas (who actually took part in the events or recalled them from the accounts of their elders), and the notes of Captain Hugh L. Scott at Fort Sill.
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A Traveler In Indian Territory - The Journal Of Ethan Allen Hitchcock

by Ethan Allen Hitchcock

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 In 1841, US government authorities sent Major Ethan Allen Hitchcock to Indian Territory to investigate numerous charges of fraud and profiteering by various contractors. This study explains the politics behind Hitchcock's mission and his accomplishments in advancing ethnographic knowledge.
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Sam Houston With The Cherokees, 1829-1833

by Jack Gregory e Rennard Strickland

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 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.
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