This mother-and-son project documents the legal clash between Washoe Indians and Tahoe Basin climbers, many of whom the two know as friends. In...
War Party in Blue: Pawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army
On the Great Plains, warfare was virtually constant from 1850 to 1890. Yet the story of the Pawnee scouts who fought as cavalry for the U.S. Army...
The Killing of Crazy Horse
Inspired by interpreter William Garnett’s account that made the killing of Crazy Horse “seem so unnecessary,” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist...
Sitting Bull: Prisoner of War
No one can top Robert Utley’s biography of Sitting Bull, Lance and the Shield. Yet although the master devoted a chapter to the Hunkpapa chief’s...
Myth, Memory and Massacre
After 150 years of a fictional understanding of the 1860 Battle of Pease River (the battle did not even occur there), the falsifications of...
All of My People Were Killed
This Sharlot Hall Museum treasure shares the first-person narrative of a Yavapai orphan taken in by his Army captors after troops killed his family...
Plains Indians Regalia & Customs
This jam-packed volume gathers together the 18th- and 19th-century observations of the styles and mannerisms of Plains Indian people that are in...
Building One Fire: Art and World View in Cherokee Life
“I never met a man I didn’t like,” Cherokee humorist Will Rogers famously said, espousing the philosophy that all are sacred in the worldview of the...
Ghost Town Travelogues
In 1938, teenager Phil Varney moved with his folks from the flatlands of Illinois to the deserts of Arizona. He’d never seen mountains shouldering...
The Cowgirl Way
When women moved to the American West with the great migration of the 1800s, they left behind some of the constricting rules of femininity, becoming...
In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark
In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark, by Wallace G. Lewis, is not just another title in the flood of books about the Lewis and Clark expedition....
Four Years in Europe With Buffalo Bill
Charles Eldridge Griffin’s memoir, Four Years in Europe With Buffalo Bill, makes an interesting sidebar to the biography of William F. Cody and the...