New Releases-Historical Non-Fiction

Greenwood Publishing Group: The Civil War and the West by Carol L. Higham (September).

Hill and Wang: Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life by Andrew Isenberg (June).

Riverbend Publishing: High Country Women: The Ladies of Yosemite by Chris Enss (May).

Texas Christian University Press: The Norton Trilogy by Jack August Jr. (June).

Texas Tech University Press: Trail Sisters: Freedwomen in Indian Territory, 1850-1890 by Linda Williams Reese (May); Seat of Empire: The Embattled Birth of Austin, Texas by Jeffrey Stuart Kerr (June); Route 66: A Road to America’s Landscape, History, and Culture by Markku Henriksson (September).

TwoDot: Custer’s Road to Disaster: The Path to Little Bighorn by Kevin M. Sullivan (June); Almost Pioneers: One Couple’s Homesteading Adventure in the West by Laura Gibson Smith, edited by Dr. John J. Fry (August); May: The Hard-Rock Life of Pioneer May Arkwright Hutton by Mary Barmeyer O’Brien (August); Hope Amid Hardship: Pioneer Voices from Kansas Territory by Linda S. Johnston (August).

University of California Press: Down by the Bay: San Francisco’s History Between the Tides by Matthew Morse Booker (June).

University of Nebraska Press: Yellowstone, Land of Wonders: Promenade in North America’s National Park by Jules Leclercq; translated by Janet Chapple and Suzanne Cane (May); In Sun’s Likeness and Power, 2-Volume Set: Cheyenne Accounts of Shield and Tipi Heraldry by James Mooney; transcribed by Father Peter J. Powell (May); Dirty Words in Deadwood: Literature and the Postwestern edited by Melody Graulich and Nicolas S. Witschi (July); The Plan de San Diego: Tejano Rebellion, Mexican Intrigue by Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler (July).

University of New Mexico Press: Art of the National Parks by Sherry Hallsten McGarry, Jean Stern and Terry Lawson Dunn (June).

University of North Carolina Press: Freedom’s Frontier: California and the Struggle Over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction by Stacey L. Smith (August).

University of North Texas Press: Riding Lucifer’s Line: Ranger Deaths Along the Texas-Mexico Border by Bob Alexander (May); A Lawless Breed: John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and Violence in the Wild West by Chuck Parsons and Norman Brown (June).

University of Oklahoma Press: Cotton and Conquest: How the Plantation System Acquired Texas by Roger G. Kennedy (May); Los Angeles in Civil War Days, 1860-1865 by John W. Robinson (May); Columns of Vengeance: Soldiers, Sioux and the Punitive Expeditions, 1863-1864 by Paul N. Beck (May); Ernest L. Blumenschein: The Life of an American Artist by Robert W. Larson and Carole B. Larson (May); A President in Yellowstone: The F.  Jay Haynes Photographic Album of Chester Arthur’s 1883 Expedition by Frank H. Goodyear III (June); Karl Bodmer’s America Revisited: Landscape Views Across Time Photography by Robert M. Lindholm (July); Buffalo Bill on the Silver Screen by Sandra K. Sagala (August).

University Press of Colorado: Season of Terror: The Espinosas in Central Colorado, March-October 1863 by Charles F. Price (June); Gambling on Ore: The Nature of Metal Mining in the United States, 1860- 1910 by Kent Curtis (July); Helen Ring Robinson: Colorado Senator and Suffragist by Pat Pascoe (September); Mercury and the Making of California: Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840-1890 by Andrew Scott Johnson (September).

University of Texas Press: Postcards from the Rio Bravo Border: Picturing the Place, Placing the Picture, 1900s-1950s by Daniel D. Arreola (August).

Utah State University Press: Revelation, Resistance, and Mormon Polygamy: The Introduction and Implementation of the Principle, 1830-1853 by Merina Smith (August); The Montana Vigilantes 1863-1870:  Gold, Guns, and Gallows by Mark C. Dillon (September).

Westholme Publishing: The Lost Cause: The Trials of Frank and Jesse James by James P. Muehlberger (May).

William Morrow: American Gun by Chris Kyle (June); Shot All to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West’s Greatest Escape by Mark Lee Gardner (July).

Yale University Press: Nature’s Noblemen: Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-Century American West by Monica Rico (June); Rush to Gold: The French and the California Gold Rush, 1848-1854 by Malcolm J. Rohrbough (July).