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Congratulations to our Recent Award Winners

O U P R E S S . C O M O U P R E S S B L O G . C O M

On the cover: Abandoned cars, Route 66,Arizona. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith,Library of Congress Prints andPhotographs Division Washington, D.C.

HNEW MEXICOARIZONA BOOK AWARDS

BiographyNew Mexico Subject

ERNEST L. BLUMENSCHEIN

The Life of an American Artist

By Robert W. Larson and Carole B. Larson

$29.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4334-7


FictionRomance

THE OLD MANS LOVE STORY

By Rudolfo Anaya

$19.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4357-6

$14.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-4648-5


HistoryNew Mexico SubjectHSOUTHWEST BOOK AWARDS

Border Regional Library Association

DRAGOONS IN APACHELAND

Conquest and Resistance in Southern

New Mexico, 18461861

By William S. Kiser

$29.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4314-9

HSOUTHWEST BOOK AWARDS

Border Regional Library Association

FORTY-SEVENTH STAR

New Mexicos Struggle for Statehood

By David V. Holtby

$29.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4282-1

HINTERNATIONAL SKIING HISTORY

ASSOCIATION BOOK AWARD

AMERICAN SKI RESORT

Architecture, Style, Experience

By Margaret Supplee Smith

$45.00 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4295-1

HWESTERN HERITAGE AWARD

Outstanding Art Book

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

KARL BODMERS AMERICA REVISITED

Landscape Views Across Time

By Robert Lindholm and W. Raymond Wood

$45.00 CLOTH 978-0-8061-3831-2

HWESTERN HERITAGE AWARD

Outstanding Photography Book

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

A FAMILY OF THE LAND

The Texas Photography of Guy Gillette

By Andy Wilkinson

$29.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4404-7

HINTERNATIONAL NAPOLEONIC

SOCIETY LITERARY AWARD

WELLINGTONS TWO-FRONT WAR

The Peninsular Campaigns, at Home

and Abroad, 18081814

By Joshua Moon

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The Life and Legends of Calamity JaneBy Richard W. Etulain

Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV

Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-

toting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more thanany other woman of the nineteenth-century American West, fiction and legend have

largely obscured the facts of her life. This lively, concise, and exhaustively researched

biography traces the real person from the Missouri farm where she was born in

through the development of her notorious persona as a Wild West heroine.

Before Calamity Jane became a legend, she was Martha Canary, orphaned when she

was only eleven years old. From a young age she traveled fearlessly, worked with

men, smoked, chewed tobacco, and drank. By the time she arrived in the boomtown

of Deadwood, South Dakota, in , she had become Calamity Jane, and the real

Martha Canary had disappeared under a landslide of purple prose.

Calamity became a hostess and dancer in Deadwoods saloons and theaters. She

imbibed heavily, and she might have been a prostitute, but she had other qualities,

as well, including those of an angel of mercy who ministered to the sick and the

down-and-out. Journalists and dime novelists couldnt get enough of either version,

nor, in the following century, could filmmakers.

Sorting through the stories, veteran western historian Richard W. Etulains account

begins with a biography that offers new information on Calamitys several

husbands (including one she legally married), her two children, and a woman

who claimed to be the daughter of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity, a story Etulain

discredits. In the second half of the book, Etulain traces the stories that have shaped

Calamity Janes reputation. Some Calamity portraits, he says, suggest that she

aspired to a quiet life with a husband and family. As the HBO series

Deadwoodmakes clear, well more than a century after her first appearance asa heroine in the Deadwood Dick dime novels, Calamity Jane lives onraunchy,

unabashed, contradictory, and ambiguous as ever.

Richard W. Etulain is Professor Emeritus of History and former director of the

Center for the American West at the University of New Mexico. Former editor

of the New Mexico Historical Review, he is the author or editor of more than

books, including Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American Westand Telling

Western Stories: From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry.

A fresh look at the real Martha Canary

and the legends of Calamity Jane

ETULAINTHELIFEANDLEGENDSOFCALAMI

TYJANE

VOLUME 29 IN THE OKLAHOMA

WESTERN BIOGRAPHIES SERIES

SEPTEMBER

$24.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4632-4

416 PAGES, 5.5 8.5

61 B&W ILLUS.

BIOGRAPHY

Of Related Interest

CALAMITY JANEThe Woman and the LegendBy James D. McLaird$29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4251-7

THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF ANNIE OAKLEYBy Glenda Riley$19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3506-9

ANNIE OAKLEYBy Shirl Kasper

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2 N E W B O O K S F A L L 2 0 1 4

The history of American firearms is

inseparable from the history of the United

States, for firearms have played crucial

roles in the nations founding, westward

expansion, and industrial, economic,

and cultural development. This history

unfolds in compelling words and images

in A Legacy in Arms, a volume that draws

upon the collections of the National

Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in

Oklahoma City to trace the business andart of gun making from the early national

period to the turn of the twentieth century.

With more than imagesalmost all

in full colorA Legacy in Armsnot only

documents the inspiration and innovation

of arms makers from individual artisans

to mass producers, but also describes the

development of decorative expression inthe gun makers art.

In an account both entertaining and

enlightening, Richard C. Rattenbury

details the development of commercial

arms making, from the genesis of the

Kentucky rifle to the arms of such iconic

manufacturers as Colt, Remington,

Smith & Wesson, Sharps, Marlin, and

Winchester. Into this narrative he weaves

the particulars of design evolution and

the impact of mass production via the

American System. The accompanyingphotographs and illustrations stand as

eloquent testimony to the range and

richness of the gun makers craftand

its rightful place in the story of American

industry and culture.

Richard C. Rattenburyis Curator of History at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum and the

author ofHunting the American West; The Art of American Arms Makers; Packing Iron: Gunleather of the

Frontier West; andArena Legacy: The Heritage of American Rodeo. R. L. Wilsonis a freelance consultant in the

fields of Americana, firearms, and engraving and the author of more than books, including benchmark works

on Colt and Winchester. Ed Munois former Curator of Art at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

and a widely published photographer of fine western art and historic artifacts.

A L E G A C Y I N A R M S

American Firearm Manufacture,

Design, and Artistry,

RICHARD C. RATTENBURY

Foreword by R. L. Wilson Collection Photography by Ed Muno

VOLUME 10 IN THE THE WESTERN LEGACIES SERIES

OCTOBER

$59.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4477-1

248 PAGES, 9.875 12

68 B&W AND 241 COLOR ILLUS.

U.S. HISTORY

A good deal more than a nicely illustratedbook about guns in American history,

A Legacy in Armsperceptively integrates thetechnical and aesthetic dimensions of the

subject and offers a compelling synthesis that

will be of great interest to general readers,

devoted collectors, and serious scholars.

M E RRI T T RO E S M I T Hauthor of Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology:

The Challenge of Change
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RATTENBURYALEGACYINARMS

A WESTERN LEGACYThe National Cowboy andWestern Heritage MuseumContributions by Steven L.

Grafe, Susan HallstenMcGarry, Charles E. Rand,Richard C. Rattenburyand Don Reeves$29.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3731-5

LANTERNS ON THE PRAIRIEThe Blackfeet Photographsof Walter McClintockEdited by Steven L. Grafe

$60.00sCloth 978-0-8061-4022-3$34.95s Paper978-0-8061-4029-2

ARENA LEGACYThe Heritage of American RodeoBy Richard C. Rattenbury$65.00 Cloth 978-0-8061-4084-1

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N E W B O O K S F A L L 2 0 1 44

WATTLEYASTEPTOWARDBROWN

A Step toward Brown v. Board of EducationAda Lois Sipuel Fisher and Her Fight to End Segregation

By Cheryl Elizabeth Brown Wattley

In a young woman named Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher () was denied

admission to the University of Oklahoma College of Law because she was AfricanAmerican. The OU law school was an all-white institution in a town where

African Americans could work and shop as long as they got out before sundown.

But if segregation was entrenched in Norman, so was the determination of black

Oklahomans who had survived slavery to stake a claim in the territory. This was

the tradition that Ada Lois Sipuel sprang from, a tradition and determination that

would sustain her through the slow, tortuous path of litigation to gaining admission

to law school. A Step towardBrown v. Board of Educationthe first book to tell

Fishers full storyis at once an inspiring biography and a remarkable chapter in

the history of race and civil rights in America.

Cheryl Elizabeth Brown Wattley gives us a richly textured picture of the black-

and-white world from which Ada Lois Sipuel and her family emerged. Against this

Oklahoma background Wattley shows Sipuel (who married Warren Fisher a year

before she filed her suit) struggling against a segregated educational system. Her

legal battle is situated within the history of civil rights litigation and race-related

jurisprudence in the state of Oklahoma and in the nation. Hers was a test caseorganized by the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored

People) to go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and, as precedent, strike

another blow against separate but equal public education.

Fisher served as both a litigant, with Thurgood Marshall for counsel, and, later, a

litigator; both a plaintiff and an advocate for the NAACP; and both a student and,

ultimately, a teacher of the very history shed help to write. In telling Fishers story,

Wattley also reveals a time and a place undergoing a profound transformationspurred by one courageous woman taking a bold step forward.

Cheryl Elizabeth Brown Wattley is Professor of Law and Director of Experiential

Learning at the University of North Texas, Dallas, College of Law. She began her

research of Fishers life and legal case while Professor of Law at the University of

Oklahoma.

The courageous woman who fought to integrate

the University of Oklahoma Law School

OCTOBER

$24.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4545-7

256 PAGES, 6 9

20 B&W ILLUS.

U.S. HISTORY/LAW

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RACE AND THE UNIVERSITYA MemoirBy George Henderson$24.95sCloth 978-0-8061-4129-9$19.95s Paper 978-0-8061-4655-3

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N E W B O O K S F A L L 2 0 1 46

ESTLEMANTHE

WISTERTRACE

The Wister TraceAssaying Classic Western Fiction

Second Edition

By Loren D. Estleman

A master practitioners view of his craft, this classic survey of the fiction of the

American West is part literary history, part criticism, and entertaining throughout.

The first edition of The Wister Tracewas published in , when Larry McMurtry

had just reinvented himself as a writer of Westerns and Cormac McCarthys career

had not yet taken off. Loren D. Estlemans long-overdue update connects these new

masters with older writers, assesses the genres past, present, and future, and takes

account of the renaissance of western movies, as well.

Estlemans title indicates the importance he assigns Owen Wisters classic,The Virginian. Wister was not the first writer of Westerns, but he defined the genre,

contrasting chivalry with the lawlessness of the border and introducing such lines

as When you call me that, smile! Estleman tips his hat to Wisters predecessors,

among them Ned Buntline, the inventor of the dime novel, and Buffalo Bill. His

assessments of Wisters successorsZane Grey, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, and Louis

LAmour, to name but threesoon make clear the impossibility of differentiating

great western writing from great American writing.

Especially important in this new edition is the attention to women writers. The

author devotes a chapter each to Dorothy Johnsonauthor of The Man Who Shot

Liberty Valanceand Annie Proulx, whose Wyoming stories include Brokeback

Mountain. In his discussion of movies, Estleman includes a list of film adaptations

that will guide readers to movies, and moviegoers to books. An appendix draws

readers attention to authors not covered elsewhere in the volumesome of them

old masters like Bret Harte and Jack London, but many of them fascinating outliers

ranging from Clifford Irving to Joe R. Lansdale.

Loren D. Estlemanis the award-winning author of nearly novels and hundreds

of short stories in the crime and Western genres, including his popular Amos Walker

and Page Murdock series.

A western writers guide to the best fiction on the American West

OCTOBER

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O U P R E S S . C O M 8 0 0 - 6 2 7 - 7 3 7 77

The Early Morning of WarBull Run, 1861

By Edward G. Longacre

When Union and Confederate forces squared off along Bull Run on July , ,

the Federals expected this first major military campaign would bring an early endto the Civil War. But when Confederate troops launched a strong counterattack,

both sides realized the war would be longer and costlier than anticipated. First Bull

Run, or First Manassas, set the stage for four years of bloody conflict that forever

changed the political, social, and economic fabric of the nation. It also introduced

the commanders, tactics, and weaponry that would define the American way of war

through the turn of the twentieth century.

This crucial campaign receives its most complete and comprehensive treatment inEdward G. Longacres The Early Morning of War.A magisterial work by a veteran

historian, The Early Morning of Warblends narrative and analysis to convey the

full scope of the campaign of First Bull Runits drama and suspense as well as its

practical and tactical underpinnings and ramifications. Also woven throughout are

biographical sketches detailing the backgrounds and personalities of the leading

commanders and other actors in the unfolding conflict.

Longacre has combed previously unpublished primary sources, including

correspondence, diaries, and memoirs of more than four hundred participants

and observers, from ranking commanders to common soldiers and civilians

affected by the fighting. In weighing all the evidence, Longacre finds correctives

to long-held theories about campaign strategy and battle tactics and questions

sacrosanct beliefssuch as whether the Manassas Gap Railroad was essential to the

Confederate victory. Longacre shears away the myths and persuasively examines the

long-term repercussions of the Unions defeat at Bull Run, while analyzing whether

the Confederates really had a chance of ending the war in July by seizingWashington, D.C.

Brilliant moves, avoidable blunders, accidents, historical forces, personal foibles: all

are within Longacres compass in this deftly written work that is sure to become the

standard history of the first, critical campaign of the Civil War.

Edward G. Longacreis a retired U.S. Department of Defense Historian and the

author of numerous articles and books on the Civil War and U.S. military history,

including The Cavalry at Gettysburg, winner of the Fletcher Pratt Award, andGentleman and Soldier: A Biography of Wade Hampton III, recipient of the

Douglas Southall Freeman History Award.

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N E W B O O K S F A L L 2 0 1 48

NICHOLSAMERICANINDIANSINU.S.

HISTORY

American Indians in U.S. HistorySecond Edition

By Roger L. Nichols

This concise survey, tracing the experiences of American Indians from their origins

to the present, has proven its value to both students and general readers in thedecade since its first publication. Now the second edition, drawing on the most

recent research, adds information about Indian social, economic, and cultural

issues in the twenty-first century. Useful features include new, brief biographies of

important Native figures, an overall chronology, and updated suggested readings for

each period of the past four hundred years.

The author traces tribal experiences through four eras: Indian America prior to the

European invasions; the colonial period; the emergence of the United States as thedominant power in North America and its subsequent invasion of Indian lands; and

the years from to the present. Nichols uses both Euro-American sources and

tribal stories to illuminate the problems Indian people and their leaders have dealt

with in every generation.

Roger L. Nicholsis Professor Emeritus of History and Affiliate Professor of Indian

Studies at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Warrior Nations: The

United States and Indian Peoplesand editor of The American Indian: Past andPresent, Sixth Edition.

A concise survey of American Indians

over the past five hundred years

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O U P R E S S . C O M 8 0 0 - 6 2 7 - 7 3 7 79

lvar Nez Cabeza de VacaAmerican Trailblazer

By Robin Varnum

In November , almost a century before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock,

the remnants of a Spanish expedition reached the Gulf Coast of Texas. By July, eight years later, lvar Nez Cabeza de Vaca (c. ) and three other

survivors had walked , miles from Texas, across northern Mexico, to Sonora

and ultimately to Mexico City. Cabeza de Vacas account of this astonishing journey

is now recognized as one of the great travel stories of all time and a touchstone

of New World literature. But his career did not begin and end with his North

American ordeal.Robin Varnums biography, the first single-volume cradle-to-grave

account of the explorers life in eighty years, tells the rest of the story.

During Cabeza de Vacas peregrinations through the American Southwest, he

lived among and interacted with various Indian groups. When he and his non-

Indian companions finally reconnected with Spaniards in northern Mexico, he was

horrified to learn that his compatriots were enslaving Indians there. His Relacin

() advocated using kindness and fairness rather than force in dealing with the

native people of the New World. Cabeza de Vaca went on to serve as governor of

Spains province of Ro de La Plata in South America (roughly modern Paraguay).

As a loyal subject of the king of Spain, he supported the colonialist enterpriseand believed in Christianizing the Indians, but he always championed the rights

of native peoples. In Ro de La Plata he tried to keep his men from robbing

the Indians, enslaving them, or exploiting them sexuallypolicies that caused

grumbling among the troops. When Cabeza de Vacas men mutinied, he was sent

back to Spain in chains to stand trial before the Royal Council of the Indies.

Drawing on the conquistadors own reports and on other sixteenth-century

documents, both in English translation and the original Spanish, Varnums livelynarrative braids eyewitness testimony of events with historical interpretation

benefiting from recent scholarship and archaeological investigation. As one of the

few Spaniards of his era to explore the coasts and interiors of two continents, Cabeza

de Vaca is recognized today above all for his more humane attitude toward and

interactions with the Indian peoples of North America, Mexico, and South America.

Robin Varnum is Associate Professor of English at American International College,

Springfield, Massachusetts.

A complete biography that follows the explorer

through North and South America

VARNUMLVA

RNEZCABEZADEVACA

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CHVEZTHEKINGANDQUEEN

OFCOMEZN

The King and Queen of ComeznBy Denise Chvez

Comezn:Its more than an itch. Its a long-standing desire that will never be

fulfilled. And, in this novel by award-winning author Denise Chvez, it is also a

border town in New Mexico whose denizens longings are as powerful as they are,all too often, impossible.

But in the feverish dance of life that seizes Comezn during its two annual fiestas,

all things seem possible. As the townspeople revel in the freedom of the fiestas, their

stories unfold in all manner of mystery, drama, and comic charm. In the middle

of it all is Arnulfo P. Olivrez, master of ceremonies and befuddled patriarch of a

less-than-tractable family. At the moment, he is calculating his chances of becoming

mayor, as well as pondering the fate of his beautiful disabled daughter, Juliana.

Arnulfos daughters (the half and the whole, he deems them) are the Fiesta

Queen, Lucinda, a lovely, lost and wild girl, and Juliana, her half sister, wheelchair-

bound but with soaring dreams of love for the local priest, El Padre Manolito.

Their mother, the saintly Doa Emilia, attends to all her children, including Arnulfo,

with grace. Lucindas unsuitable suitor, Ruley Terrazas, a tall, bumpy-skinned boy,

is not to be trusted, nor is his father, Cuco Matamosca Terrazas, the local chief

of police. And Rey Surez, owner of the Mil Recuerdos Lounge, is haunted by his

former incarnation as an immigration officer, an expert in spotting fake IDs.

Between New Mexico and Mxico, between Cinco de Mayo and the th of

September, between the dreams and the realities of Comezns characters, something

has to give. Each character is attempting to find love in this feverish fiesta called

Life. And in the deft hands of Denise Chvez this tragicomic novel gives unerringly:

pleasure, surprise, and the satisfaction of a tale well told.

Denise Chvez is author of The Last of the Menu Girls, Face of an Angel, Loving

Pedro Infante, and A Taco Testimony: Meditations on Family, Food, and Culture.

She serves as Executive Director of the Border Book Festival in Las Cruces, New

Mexico.

A mystery love story set on the U.S.-Mexico border

VOLUME 13 IN THE CHICANA AND CHICANO

VISIONS OF THE AMRICAS SERIES

SEPTEMBER

$19.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-4483-2

328 PAGES, 5.5 8.5

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THE BLOCK CAPTAINS DAUGHTERBy Demetria Martinez$14.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4291-3

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O U P R E S S . C O M 8 0 0 - 6 2 7 - 7 3 7 711

Running with the AntelopeLife, Fitness, and Grit on the Northern Plains

By Melanie Carvell

Foreword by Clay S. Jenkinson

Melanie Carvell is a gifted athlete who grew up in a small town in southwestern

North Dakota in the s. This beautiful memoir tells the story of Melanies

remarkable journey, from the agricultural village of Mott (population ) to

world duathlon and triathlon competitions, then a notable career as a physical

therapist, director of the Sanford Womens Health Center in Bismarck, North

Dakota, and a widely sought-after motivational speaker.

Melanie learned to run on the northern Great Plains, where the winters are long

and harsh and the wind tests the human spirit. She attributes her national andinternational success to her agrarian roots and the challenge of biking, running,

and swimming in one of the most formidable landscapes of America. Her

motivational philosophy is, If I can do these things, given the modesty of my

upbringing and the harshness of the Dakota climate, so can you. Running with

the Antelopewill inspire readers to begin a program of athletic training, weight

loss, or general self-improvement.

Written in a humble and accessible style, with loving anecdotes about her life asa top athlete and her work as a physical therapist, Running with the Antelopeis

part self-help book, part prairie memoir, and part song of love to North Dakota,

which is undergoing a rapid transformation from its agrarian past to a carbon

extraction industrial future.

Melanie Carvellis a physical therapist and Director of the Sanford Womens

Health Center in Bismarck, North Dakota. She is also an accomplished triathlete

who is a five-time All American, representing USA Triathlons on eight WorldChampionship teams and having won a bronze medal in Germany in .

Clay S. Jenkinson is the editor of The Dakota Institute Press and author ofFor

the Love of North Dakota And Other Essays, The Character of Meriwether

Lewis,andA Free and Hardy Life.

CARVELLRUNN

INGWITHTHEANTELOPE

JULY

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FOR THE LOVE OF NORTH DAKOTAAND OTHER ESSAYSSundays with Clay in the Bismarck TribuneBy Clay S. Jenkinson

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N E W B O O K S F A L L 2 0 1 412

This is a book for everyone who has ever loved, for everyone

who has grieved, and for everyone who has ever hoped, in

the darkest night, that what is essential goes on. . . . I love

this book, and you will, too.Luis Alberto Urrea,author of

Queen of America

Part memoir, part poetry, all heart, The Old Mans Love Story

questions life, love, death, eternity and all parts in between. . . .A must read.Roundup Magazine

There was an old man who dwelt in the land of New Mexico,

and he lost his wife. From this opening line, Rudolfo Anaya

crafts a tender novella at once universal and deeply personal.

The narrator, a writer, shares intimate thoughts about his wife,

their life together, and her death.

The old mans story captures the heartaches and ironies of oldage as he proceeds through days of grief and memory. He talks

with his wife along the way. A year passes. He longs to care for

someone, butto love again?

Anayas reflections point to the power and importance of love

at every stage of life. Lyrical and earthy, sad yet suffused with

humor,The Old Mans Love Storywill speak to all readers,

especially those who have loved and lost.

Rudolfo Anayais Professor Emeritus of English at the

University of New Mexico. He has received numerous literary

awards, including the Premio Quinto Sol and a National Medal

of Arts. Anaya resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

JULY

$19.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4357-6

$14.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-4648-5

184 PAGES, 6 9

FICTIONVOLUME 12 IN THE CHICANA AND CHICANO VISIONS OF THE AMRICAS SERIES

ANAYATHEOLDMANSLOVESTORY

A timeless guide for all of us.Bill Cosby, comedian and

author of Fatherhood

The genius of Bud Wilkinson as a football coach becomes

apparent in these remarkable letters to his son Jay. . . . He

treated his players like family members, and it showed.Barry

Switzer, former head coach, University of Oklahoma and Dallas

Cowboys

College football fans need no introduction to Bud Wilkinson,

but few know the great University of Oklahoma football coach

as a devoted father. In Dear Jay, Love Dad, Buds son Jay shares

forty-seven letters his father wrote to him while he was in

college and graduate school. Spanning the early to mid-s,

these letters reveal Buds deep love for his son, as well as the

philosophy and values that led to his remarkable success in

sports and in life.

Beginning with the first letter Bud wrote when Jay left home,

this collection shows a father guiding his son toward his own

path while stressing the importance of service to others. He

mixes encouragement with intellectual discussions, and he writes

about his own challenges. Bud Wilkinsons thoughts on ethics

in business and politics are as inspiring today as when he wrote

them a half-century ago.

Jay Wilkinson, a recipient of the NCAAs prestigious Silver

Anniversary Award, is a noted motivational speaker and the

author of Bud Wilkinson: An Intimate Portrait of an American

Legend.Mike Krzyzewskiis Head Mens Basketball Coach at

Duke University.

AUGUST

$24.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-4247-0

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208 PAGES, 5.5 8.5

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Dear Jay, Love DadBud Wilkinsons

Letters to His SonBy Jay Wilkinson

Foreword by Mike Krzyzewski

Fatherly love and advice from

the legendary football coach

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The Old MansLove Story

By Rudolfo Anaya

A deeply personal tale

of love and loss

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O U P R E S S . C O M 8 0 0 - 6 2 7 - 7 3 7 7 13

A new standard sourcebook and chronology of New Mexico

events of the past years.True West

Since the earliest days of Spanish exploration and settlement,

New Mexico has been known for lying off the beaten track.

But this new history reminds readers that the world has been

beating paths to New Mexico for hundreds of years, via the

Camino Real, Santa Fe Trail, railroads, Route , interstatehighway system, and now the Internet.

The first complete history of New Mexico in more than a

generation, this volume begins with prehistoric cultures, then

traces the states growth from the arrival of Spanish explorers

in the sixteenth century to the statehood centennial. This

book shows that the transformation from frontier territory

to modern state really began not with statehood, but during

World War II, when Atomic Era technological advancementspropelled New Mexico to the forefront of scientific research.

Covering the states historical and cultural geography; the

economics of mining and ranching, irrigation and agriculture;

and the impact of Native activism and tribe-owned casinos,

New Mexico: A Historyis a vital source for anyone seeking to

understand the land and its people.

Joseph P. Snchezis the author of Between Two Rivers: TheAtrisco Land Grant in Albuquerque History, .

Retired park historian Robert L. Spudehas published several

books on Southwest history. Art Gmezis coauthor of New

Mexico: Images of a Land and Its People.

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state in more than years

An unmitigated triumph. . . . A book that will effectively tell

Alaskas story for some time to come.Alaska History

In Alaska: A History,Claus-M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick

show that the history of Alaskas peoples and the development

of its economy match the diversity of its land. They describe

the regions geography and the Native peoples who inhabited

it before Europeans arrived. Russians claimed northern NorthAmerica in , but Russian America was little more than a

fur trading outpost. When the czar sold the territory to the United

States in , nobody knew what to do with Sewards Folly.

Gold strikes brought a rush of gold seekers to Yukon Territory,

and in Congress gave Alaska Territory a delegate. During

World War II, Alaska established its military importance, which

was underscored during the Cold War. Not until was

Alaskas goal of statehood realized. The discovery of huge oil and

natural-gas deposits gave the state a measure of economic security.

Alaska: A History addresses the Alaska Native Claims

Settlement Act of , the economic effect of the oil industry

and trans-Alaska pipeline, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and

Alaska politics through the early s.

Claus-M. Naske() was Professor of History at the

University of Alaska. Long a resident of the state, he is theauthor of many works on Alaska history. Herman E. Slotnick

() was for many years head of the Department

of History at the University of Alaska. Naske and Slotnick

coauthored Alaska: A History of the th State.

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In , a Canadian Blackfoot known as Spopee, or Turtle,

shot and killed a white man. Captured as a fugitive, Spopee

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Washington, D.C., where he fell silent. Spopee disappeared

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turbulent final days of the buffalo-hunting Indians before their

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William E. Farris a Senior Fellow at the OConnor Center for

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O U P R E S S . C O M 8 0 0 - 6 2 7 - 7 3 7 715

The Second Pearl HarborThe West Loch Disaster, May 21, 1944

By Gene Salecker

In May , with American forces closing in on the Japanese mainland, the Fifth

Fleet Amphibious Force was preparing to invade Saipan. Control of this islandwould put enemy cities squarely within range of the B- bomber. The navy had

assembled a fleet of landing ship tanks (LSTs) in the West Loch section of Pearl

Harbor. On May , an explosion tore through the calm afternoon sky, spreading

fire and chaos through the ordnance-packed vessels. When the fires had been

brought under control, six LSTs had been lost, many others were badly damaged,

and more than military personnel had been killed or injured. To ensure the

success of those still able to depart for the invasionmiraculously, only one day

latethe navy at once issued a censorship order, which has kept this disaster frompublic scrutiny for seventy years.

The Second Pearl Harboris the first book to tell the full story of what happened on

that fateful day. Military historian Gene Salecker recounts the events and conditions

leading up to the explosion, then re-creates the drama directly afterward: men

swimming through flaming oil, small craft desperately trying to rescue the injured,

and subsequent explosions throwing flaming debris everywhere. With meticulous

attention to detail the author explains why he and other historians believe thatthe official explanation for the cause of the explosion, that a mortar shell was

accidentally detonated, is wrong.

This in-depth account of a little-known incident adds to our understanding of

the dangers during World War II, even far from the front, and restores a missing

chapter to history.

Gene Eric Saleckeris a military historian whose published work includes Disaster on

the Mississippi: The SultanaExplosion, April , and Blossoming Silk against

the Rising Sun: U.S. and Japanese Paratroopers in the Pacific in World War II.

Chronicles a series of unexpected explosions at Pearl

Harbor on the eve of the Saipan invasion

SALECKERTHE

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WARRENCONNECTICUTUNSCATHED

Connecticut UnscathedVictory in the Great Narragansett War, 16751676

By Jason W. Warren

The conflict that historians have called King Philips War still ranks as one of the

bloodiest per capita in American history. An Indian coalition ravaged much of NewEngland, killing six hundred colonial fighting men (not including their Indian allies),

obliterating seventeen white towns, and damaging more than fifty settlements.

The version of these events that has come down to us focuses on Plymouth and

Massachusetts Baythe colonies whose commentators dominated the storytelling.

But because Connecticut lacked a chronicler, its experience has gone largely untold.

As Jason W. Warren makes clear in Connecticut Unscathed, this imbalance has

generated an incomplete narrative of the war.

Dubbed King Philips War after the Wampanoag architect of the hostilities, the

conflict, Warren asserts, should more properly be called the Great Narragansett

War, broadening its context in time and place and indicating the critical role of the

Narragansetts, the largest tribe in southern New England. With this perspective,

Warren revises a key chapter in colonial history. In contrast to its sister colonies,

Connecticut emerged from the war relatively unharmed. The colonys comparatively

moderate Indian policies made possible an effective alliance with the Mohegans

and Pequots. These Indian allies proved crucial to the colonys war effort,Warren contends, and at the same time denied the enemy extra manpower and

intelligence regarding the surrounding terrain and colonial troop movements. And

when Connecticut became the primary target of hostile Indian forcesespecially

the powerful Narragansettsthe colonys military prowess and its enlightened

treatment of Indians allowed it to persevere.

Connecticuts experience, properly understood, affords a new perspective on the Great

Narragansett Warand a reevaluation of its place in the ongoing conflict between theNarragansetts and the Mohegans of Connecticut, and in American history.

MajorJason W. Warren, U.S. Army, received his doctorate in history from The Ohio

State University and served as an Assistant Professor of History at West Point. He is

currently a strategist at the Army War College.

A revisionary approach to King Philips War

and how one colony persevered

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