Previous scholarship has offered only glimpses of Kiowa military societies. William Meadows now provides a detailed account of the ritual structures, ceremonial composition, and historical development of each society, as well as past and present women’s groups.
In 1872 Thomas Russell unearthed the bones of an 83,000,000-year-old dinosaur in western Kansas. More than a century later, his... Læs mere
The US Supreme Court's 1937 decision in West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, upholding the constitutionality of Washington State's minimum... Læs mere
In 1921, over the course of twelve hours, white Tulsans reduced one of the America's most prosperous black communities to rubble and killed an... Læs mere
Representations of first contact - the first meetings of European explorers and Native Americans - have always had a central place in America’s historical... Læs mere
Few people are aware of how American Indian women joined forces with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union to press for positive change in their communities, a critical chapter of American cultural history explored in depth for the first time in In League Against King Alcohol.
In 1950 Las Vegas saw a million tourists. In 1960 it attracted ten million. The city entered the fifties as a regional destination, and emerged in... Læs mere
Over the course of his career, artist Paul Dyck (1917-2006) assembled more than 2,000 nineteenth-century artworks created by the... Læs mere
Edward Eberstadt became the leading dealer in rare Western Americana for most of the twentieth century. In this book Michael Vinson tells the... Læs mere
Examining in detail the development of American operational art as land, sea, and air power matured in the twentieth century, Michael... Læs mere
A look at some imposing figures who helped shape the legendary Old West