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UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS NEW BOOKS SPRING 2018 Congratulations to our Recent Award Winners H INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARDS H FOREWORD INDIES—EDITOR’S CHOICE H EXCELLENCE IN U.S. ARMY HISTORY H JOAN PATERSON KERR BOOK AWARD BEST LATINO FOCUSED NONFICTION BOOK NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR WRITING, OPERATIONAL/BATTLE HISTORY BEST ILLUSTRATED BOOK ON Latino Literacy Now Foreword Reviews Army Historical Foundation THE AMERICAN WEST H SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL AWARD Western History Association MESTIZOS COME HOME! LOIS LENSKI New Jersey Historical Commission Making and Claiming Mexican Storycatcher BRANDING THE AMERICAN WEST American Identity By Bobbie Malone FATAL SUNDAY Paintings and Films, 1900–1950 By Robert Con Davis-Undiano $26.95 CLOTH George Washington, the Monmouth Edited by Marian Wardle and Sarah E. 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In 1887 Deputy U.S. Marshal Dan Maples was shot and killed in Tahlequah, Indian Territory. As Mihesuah recounts in unsurpassed detail, any of the criminals in the vicinity at the time could have committed the crime. Yet the federal court at Fort Smith, Arkansas, focused on Christie, a Cherokee Nation councilman and adviser to the tribal chief. Christie evaded capture for five years. His life ended when a posse dynamited his home—knowing he was inside—and shot him as he emerged from MARCH the burning building. The posse took Christie’s body to Fort Smith, where it lay $29.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-5910-2 272 PAGES, 6 X 9 for three days, on display for photographers and gawkers. Nede’s family suffered 23 B&W ILLUS. as well. His teenage cousin Arch Wolfe was sentenced to prison, and ultimately BIOGRAPHY/AMERICAN INDIAN perished in the Canton Asylum for “insane” Indians—a travesty that, Mihesuah shows, may even surpass the injustice of Nede’s fate. Of Related Interest Placing Christie’s story within the rich context of Cherokee governance and nineteenth-century American political and social conditions, Mihesuah draws on hundreds of newspaper accounts, oral histories, court documents, and family testimonies to assemble the most accurate portrayal of Christie’s life possible. Yet the author admits that for all this information, we may never know the full story, because Christie’s own voice is largely missing from the written record. In addition, CHEROKEE THOUGHTS Honest and Uncensored she spotlights our fascination with villains and martyrs, murder and mayhem, and By Robert J. Conley our dangerous tendency to glorify the “Old West.” More than a biography, Ned $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-3943-2 Christie traces the making of an American myth. BLACKFOOT REDEMPTION A Blood Indian’s Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice Devon Abbott Mihesuah, an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation, is Cora Lee By William E. Farr Beers Price Professor in International Cultural Understanding at the University $24.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4287-6 $21.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4464-1 of Kansas. A past Editor of the American Indian Quarterly, she is the author of CHOCTAW CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, 1884–1907 numerous award-winning books, including Choctaw Crime and Punishment, By Devon Abbott Mihesuah Recovering Our Ancestors’ Gardens, and American Indigenous Women. $32.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-4052-0 2 NEW BOOKS SPRING 2018 A cross-cultural perspective on violence in the Texas-Mexico borderlands during and after the Civil War A CROOKED RIVER RIVER A CROOKED COLLINS A Crooked River Rustlers, Rangers, and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1861–1877 By Michael L. Collins During the turbulent years of the Civil War and Reconstruction, a squall of violence and lawlessness swept through the Nueces Strip and the Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas. Cattle rustlers, regular troops, and Texas Rangers, as well as Civil War deserters and other characters of questionable reputation, clashed with Mexicans, Germans, and Indians over unionism, race, livestock, land, and national sovereignty, among other issues. In A Crooked River, Michael L. Collins presents a rousing narrative of these events that reflects perspectives of people on both sides of the Rio Grande. Retracing a path first opened by historian Walter Prescott Webb, A Crooked APRIL River reveals parts of the tale that Webb never told. Collins brings a cross-cultural $29.95 CLOTH 978-0-8061-6008-5 perspective to the role of the Texas Rangers in the continuing strife along the border 360 PAGES, 6 X 9 16 B&W ILLUS., 2 MAPS during the late nineteenth century. 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Collins Professor of American History at Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas. $19.95 Paper 978-0-8061-4132-9 He is author of That Damned Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and the American CIVIL WAR IN THE SOUTHWEST West, 1883–1898 and Texas Devils: Rangers and Regulars on the Lower Rio BORDERLANDS, 1861–1867 By Andrew E. Masich Grande, 1846–1861. $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5572-2 THE TEXAS FRONTIER AND THE BUTTERFIELD OVERLAND MAIL, 1858–1861 By Glen Sample Ely $34.95s Cloth 978-0-8061-5221-9 3 OUPRESS.COM · 800-627-7377 A mountaineer tells her story of personal adversity and triumph PARNELL OFF TRAIL OFF TRAIL Off Trail Finding My Way Home in the Colorado Rockies By Jane Parnell Only one person believed Jane Parnell when she reported being raped at twenty- one: the mountain man who first led her up one peak after another in the Colorado Rockies and who then became her husband. Parnell took to mountaineering in the Rocky Mountains as a means to overcome her family’s history of mental illness and the trauma of the rape. By age thirty she became the first woman to climb the 100 highest peaks of the state. But regaining her footing could not save her by-now- failing marriage. Unprepared emotionally and financially for singlehood, she kept climbing—the 200 highest peaks, then nearly all of the 300 highest. The mountains were the one anchor in her life that held. Finding few contemporary role models to validate her ambition, Parnell looked to the past for inspiration—to English travel writer Isabella Bird, who also sought refuge and transformation in the Colorado Rockies, notably by climbing Longs JANUARY Peak in 1873 with the notorious mountain man Rocky Mountain Jim. Reading $19.95 PAPER 978-0-8061-5900-3 144 PAGES, 5.5 X 8.5 Bird’s now-classic A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains emboldened Parnell to 1 MAP keep moving forward. She was not alone in her drive for independence. MEMOIR/OUTDOORS AND NATURE Parnell’s memoir spans half a century. Her personal journey dramatizes evolving Of Related Interest gender roles from the 1950s to the present. As a child, she witnessed the first ascent of the Diamond on Longs Peak, the “Holy Grail” of alpine climbing in the Rockies. In 2002, she saw firsthand the catastrophic Colorado wildfires of climate change, and five years later, she nearly lost her leg in a climbing accident.