UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS NEW BOOKS SPRING/SUMMER 2020 Congratulations to our Recent Award Winners H THOMAS J. LYON AWARD IN WESTERN H WILLA LITERARY AWARD WINNER - H MARY LEE SPENCE DOCUMENTARY BOOK AWARD AMERICAN LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES CREATIVE NONFICTION WINNER Mining History Association Western Literature Association Women Writing the West PORTRAIT OF A PROSPECTOR STOKING THE FIRE MY RANCH, TOO Edward Schieffelin’s Own Story Nationhood in Cherokee Writing, 1907–1970 A Wyoming Memoir By Edward Schieffelin By Kirby Brown By Mary Budd Flitner Edited by R. 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In the wake of the Great Sioux War of 1876–77, the U.S. government expelled most Northern Cheyennes from their northern plains homeland to Indian Territory, in present-day Oklahoma. Following mounting hardships, many of those people, under Chiefs Dull Knife and Little Wolf, broke away, seeking to return north. While Little Wolf’s band managed initially to elude pursuing U.S. troops, Dull Knife’s people were captured in 1878 and ushered into a makeshift barrack prison at Camp APRIL (later Fort) Robinson, where they spent months waiting for government officials to $32.95 HARDCOVER 978-0-8061-6478-6 320 PAGES, 6 X 9 decide their fate. It is here that Greene’s riveting narrative edges toward its climax. 24 B&W AND 3 COLOR ILLUS., 6 MAPS WORLD HISTORY/AMERICAN INDIAN On the night of January 9, 1879, in a bloody struggle with troops, Dull Knife’s people staged a massive breakout from their barrack prison in a last-ditch bid Of Related Interest for freedom. Greene paints a vivid picture of their frantic escape, which took place under an unusually brilliant moon that doomed many of those fleeing by silhouetting them against the snow. A climactic engagement at Antelope Creek proved especially devastating, and the helpless people were nearly annihilated. In gripping detail, Greene follows the survivors’ dreadful experiences into their aftermath, including creation of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Carrying FORT ROBINSON AND THE the story to the present day, he describes Cheyenne tribal events commemorating AMERICAN WEST, 1874–1899 the breakout—all designed to ensure that the injustices of nineteenth-century U.S. By Thomas R. Buecker $19.95 Paperback 978-0-8061-3534-2 government policy will never be forgotten. FORT ROBINSON AND THE AMERICAN CENTURY, 1900–1948 Jerome A. Greene is retired as a Research Historian for the National Park Service. By Thomas R. Buecker He is the author of numerous books, including American Carnage: Wounded Knee, $19.95 Paperback 978-0-8061-3646-2 1890 and Morning Star Dawn: The Powder River Expedition and the Northern MORNING STAR DAWN The Powder River Expedition and the Cheyennes. Northern Cheyennes, 1876 By Jerome A. Greene $24.95x Hardcover 978-0-8061-3548-9 2 “The story of Felice and Boudleaux Bryant “This book is a treasure. Nashville’s Songwriting is the story of towering artistic achievement Sweethearts uses the creative and familial wrapped in a love story so deep and so complete partnership of Boudleaux and Felice Bryant that the two are their own country song. to uncover larger transformations in country Bobbie and Bill Malone are precisely the right music and pop culture in the twentieth century. match to tell this tale of love and genius.” Authors Bobbie and Bill Malone fill every page with the same laughter, heartache, and joy Ken Burns that defines the Bryants’ legendary catalog.” Director, Country Music Charles L. Hughes author of Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South NASHVILLE’S SONGWRITING SWEETHEARTS SWEETHEARTS NASHVILLE’S SONGWRITING NASHVILLE’S SONGWRITING MALONE, MALONE MALONE MALONE, SWEETHEARTS The Boudleaux and Felice Bryant Story By Bobbie Malone and Bill C. Malone You might not know the names of Boudleaux and Felice acumen—and a dose of good luck—they overcame these Bryant, but you know their music. Arriving in Nashville obstacles and rose to national prominence. in 1950, the songwriting duo became the first full-time By the late 1990s, the Bryants had written as many as 6,000 independent songwriters in that musical city. In the course songs and had sold more than 350 million copies worldwide. of their long careers, they created classic hits that pushed the They were inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall boundaries of country music into the realms of pop and rock. of Fame in 1972, and in 1991 they became members of Songs like “Bye Bye Love,” “All I Have to Do Is Dream,” “Love the Country Music Hall of Fame—a rare occurrence for Hurts,” and “Rocky Top” inspired young musicians everywhere. songwriters who were not also performers. In 1982 their Here, for the first time, is a complete biography of Nashville’s composition “Rocky Top” was adopted as one of the official power songwriting couple. state songs of Tennessee. In Nashville’s Songwriting Sweethearts, authors Bobbie Malone The Bryants were lucky enough to arrive in the right place at and Bill C. Malone recount how Boudleaux and Felice, married the right time. Their emergence in the early fifties coincided in 1945, began their partnership as itinerant musicians living with the rise of Nashville as Music City, USA. And their prolific in a trailer home and writing their first songs together. In collaboration with the Everly Brothers, beginning in 1957, Nashville the couple had to deal with racism, classism, and sparked a fusion between country and pop music that endures in Felice’s case, sexism. Yet through hard work and business to this day. 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His death was as dramatic as the rare book dealer’s life, which read, as the Austin American- Statesman declared, “like a bestseller.” In 1975 Jenkins had staged the largest rare book coup of the twentieth century—the purchase, for more than two million dollars, of the legendary Eberstadt inventory of rare Americana, a feat noted in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.