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Plains Histories

A book series that, although examining the interrelationship of culture and environment, seeks to illuminate and define the Great Plains, its peoples, and its landscape through original monographs, edited collections, biographies, memoir, and comparative studies.

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The Falls of Wichita Falls

The Falls of Wichita Falls

An Environmental History of the Red Rolling Plains

by Jahue Anderson

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9781682831564

Pub Date: January 2023

An environmental history of the red rolling plains of Wichita Falls, Texas, detailing the region's past Progressive Era land ethics, water management, boom and bust oil towns, and natural resource allocation.
“Help Indians Help Themselves”

“Help Indians Help Themselves”

The Later Writings of Gertrude Simmons-Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša)

by P. Jane Hafen

Foreword by Margaret Noodin

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9781682830451

Pub Date: May 2022

An essential collection of writings and speeches by Zitkala-Ša, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, one of the twentieth century's most preeminent American Indian activists.
A Sovereign People

A Sovereign People

Indigenous Nationhood, Traditional Law, and the Covenants of the Cheyenne Nation

by Leo K. Killsback

Price: $45.00

ISBN: 9781682830376

Pub Date: October 2019

(Volume 2 of 2) Killsback, a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, reconstructs and rekindles an ancient Cheyenne world--ways of living and thinking that became casualties of colonization and forced assimilation. Spanning more than a millennium of antiquity and recovering stories and ideas interpreted from a Cheyenne worldview, the works’ joint purpose is rooted as much in a decolonization roadmap as it is in preservation of culture and identity for the next generations of Cheyenne people. Dividing the story of the Cheyenne Nation into pre- and post-contact, A Sacred People and A Sovereign People lay out indigenously conceived possibilities for employing traditional worldviews to replace unhealthy and dysfunctional ones bred of territorial, cultural, and psychological colonization.
A Sacred People

A Sacred People

Indigenous Governance, Traditional Leadership, and the Warriors of the Cheyenne Nation

by Leo K. Killsback

Price: $45.00

ISBN: 9781682830352

Pub Date: October 2019

(Volume 1 of 2) Killsback, a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, reconstructs and rekindles an ancient Cheyenne world--ways of living and thinking that became casualties of colonization and forced...
Trail Sisters

Trail Sisters

Freedwomen in Indian Territory, 1850–1890

by Linda Williams Reese

Price: $24.95

ISBN: 9781682830154

Pub Date: July 2017

African American women enslaved by the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Creek Nations led lives ranging from utter subjection to recognized kinship. Regardless of status, during Removal,...
Flood on the Tracks

Flood on the Tracks

Living, Dying, and the Nature of Disaster in the Elkhorn River Basin

by Todd M. Kerstetter

Foreword by James Sherow

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9781682830208

Pub Date: April 2018

The Elkhorn River originates in north-central Nebraska and empties into the Platte River just west of Omaha. One of the first written records of the Elkhorn describes a flood. A flood hindered travel up the river by the valley's first non-Indian settlers. Decade after decade, floods have swept away mill dams, destroyed crops, drowned stock, soaked inventories, filled basements, undercut roads, washed out railroads and bridges, turned unfortunate riverside homes--even a dance hall--into unwieldy watercraft, and killed people. Everyone in the Elkhorn Valley agreed the Flood of 1944 was the worst in history. Until the deadly Flood of 2010 took the title. From a perspective unusual on the Great Plains--the problem of too much water--Flood on the Tracks offers an intimate portrait of life in the Elkhorn River Basin of northeast Nebraska. In a region often defined by aridity, rivers and their basins have provided sustenance, shelter, fertile soil, and...
Urban Villages and Local Identities

Urban Villages and Local Identities

Germans from Russia, Omaha Indians, and Vietnamese in Lincoln, Nebraska

by Kurt E. Kinbacher

Foreword by Timothy R. Mahoney

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780896728943

Pub Date: July 2015

Urban Villages and Local Identities examines immigration to the Great Plains by surveying the experiences of three divergent ethnic groups—Volga Germans, Omaha Indians, and Vietnamese—that settled...
Route 66

Route 66

A Road to America’s Landscape, History, and Culture

by Markku Henriksson

Foreword by Susan A. Miller

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780896728257

Pub Date: January 2014

When Markku Henriksson was growing up in Finland, the song “(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66” was one of only two he could recognize—in English or Finnish. It was not until 1989 that Henriksson would...
A Witness to History

A Witness to History

George H. Mahon, West Texas Congressman

by Janet M. Neugebauer

Foreword by Kent Hance

Price: $45.00

ISBN: 9780896729889

Pub Date: June 2017

This is the story of George H. Mahon, a man who went to Congress in 1935, when the House Committee on Appropriations still allocated a small amount of money to buy military horses. Forty-four years later, when Mahon retired as Chairman of that same committee, the committee was debating funds to purchase a bomber capable of traveling at 2,000 miles an hour. With a career spanning nearly a half century—spanning almost the entire Cold War—Mahon grew from a West Texas country lawyer to one of the most powerful men in the US House of Representatives, serving twenty-two consecutive terms from 1935–1978. During his time in Congress, Mahon worked easily with the giants of government, enjoying the friendship and confidence of seven of the eight presidents with whom he served. He worked just as comfortably with his constituents in the Nineteenth Congressional District of Texas. Mahon served on several Congressional committees,...
Where the West Begins

Where the West Begins

Debating Texas Identity

by Glen Sample Ely

Foreword by Alwyn Barr

Price: $24.95

ISBN: 9781682830123

Pub Date: June 2011

Some historians insist that Texas, with its heritage of slavery, segregation, and historic dependence upon cotton, is southern in character. Another group argues that the state is western, as evidenced by its cowboys, cattle drives, mountains, and desert. Still others brand it unique, having won its independence from Mexico during the Texas Revolution and existing as an independent republic for ten years prior to joining the Union. With its immense land area, its diverse environment, cultures, and colorful history, and its larger-than-life legends, Texas does indeed seem like “a whole other country.” Throughout its existence, the Lone Star State has juggled a complicated assortment of identities. Its multiple characteristics often confuse observers and scholars—to the point that some ignore it altogether. Award-winning historian Glen Sample Ely seeks to set the record straight. Taking a fresh look at what exactly Texas is and what it is not, his groundbreaking work tackles...
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