University of Nebraska Press Forlag
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The North American West in the Twenty-First Century (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This edited volume takes stories from the “modern West” of the late twentieth century and carefully pulls them toward the present—explicitly tracing continuity with and unexpected divergence from trajectories established in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Nez Perce Summer, 1877: The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Nez Perce Summer, 1877 tells the story of a people’s epic struggle to survive spiritually, culturally, and physically in the face of unrelenting military force.
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Lessons from Fort Apache: Beyond Language Endangerment and Maintenance (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Lessons from Fort Apache is an ethnography of Indigenous language dynamics on the Fort Apache reservation in Arizona that reveals important implications for both North American and global concerns about language endangerment.
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The Shinnery: A Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Inspired by an actual nineteenth-century honor killing in Stonewall County, Texas, The Shinnery, an engagingly written novel, traces a young woman’s betrayal by family and employers, and her path toward revenge and redemption.
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Back from the Collapse: American Prairie and the Restoration of Great Plains Wildlife (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Back from the Collapse is about the evolution, Euro-American-driven collapse, and large-scale restoration of Great Plains wildlife through efforts by the nonprofit organization American Prairie to assemble a protected area of 3.2 million acres on the plains of northeast Montana.
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A Scientific Way of War: Antebellum Military Science, West Point, and the Origins of American Military Thought (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An analysis of West Point’s development of military science curriculum in the first half of the nineteenth century and its effect on preparations for, and conduct of, the Civil War.
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The Great Oklahoma Swindle: Race, Religion, and Lies in America's Weirdest State (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Russell Cobb’s The Great Oklahoma Swindle is a rousing and incisive examination of the regional culture and history of “Flyover Country” that demystifies the political conditions of the American Heartland.
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The Yamasee Indians: From Florida to South Carolina (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Archaeologists of South Carolina and Florida and historians of the Native South, Spanish Florida, and British Carolina address elusive questions about Yamasee identity, political and social networks, and the fate of the Yamasees after the Yamasee War.
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Nourishing Waters, Comforting Sky: Thirty-Five Years at a Sandhills Oasis (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Stephen R. Jones’s essays explore the natural and cultural history of the Sandhills, giving special attention to the engaging and fragile beauty of the public-private ecosystems that surround and comprise the Crescent Lake National Wildlife area in western Nebraska.
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Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Named a Best Baseball Book of 2020 by Sports Collectors Digest Bouton examines the remarkable life of a player and an author who forever changed the way we view not only sports books but professional sports as a whole.
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Oklahoma Odyssey: A Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A murder impels the victim’s son, a naive Mennonite farm boy, his sister, and an Osage farmhand to stake their fortunes on the last land run into Oklahoma Territory. While their aims are nonviolent, the murderer has other ideas.
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Bring in the Right-Hander!: My Twenty-Two Years in the Major Leagues (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The tale of Jerry Reuss’s twenty-two year career as a pitcher in the Major Leagues.
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