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After
Collapse The
Regeneration of Complex Societies
edited by Glenn M. Schwartz and John J. Nichols. The first book-length
work to examine the question of how and why early complex urban
societies have reappeared after periods of decentralization and
collapse, shifting the focus away from the "rise and fall" of ancient
civilizations to their "fall and rise." Indexed. 289 pages. More
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After
Lewis
& Clark The
Forces of Change, 1806-1871 by Gary Allen Hood.
Large format. Presents more than 60 paintings, drawings and prints of
striking scenes and grand landscapes inspired during the 65 years after
the Corps of Discovery completed its epic journey. Published in
conjunction with an exhibit at the Gilcrease Museum with the same
title. More
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Ancestral
Landscapes of the
Pueblo World
by James E. Snead. A revolutionary study of Pueblo communities using
landscape archaeology to understand how the people shaped the land
around them. Indexed. 208 pages. More
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Antiquity From
the Birth of Sumerian Civilization to the Fall of the Roman Empire by
Norman F. Cantor. More
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A
People's
History of Sports in the
United States 250
Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play by Dave Zirin. An
alternative history of the United States as seen through sports.
Indexed. 302 pages. More
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Aztalan Northern Outpost of
the Mississippian Indians by
Robert A. Birmingham
and Lynne Goldstein. Provides insights and information about the group
of people who first settled along the Crawfish River west of Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, in 1100 AD. Illustrated with maps, drawings, and photographs
of artifacts. Indexed. 138 pages. More
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The
Backcountry and the City
Colonization and Conflict in Early
America
by Ed WhiteIn a new interpretation of 18th century America, this book
explores
the backcountry-city divide. Indexed. 236 pages. More
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Behind
the Dream
The Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation by Clarence B. Jones
and Stuart Connelly. Story of how the famous "I Have a Dream" speech by
Martin Luther King, Jr. was developed, including the historical contect
in which it emerged. Indexed. 204 pages. More
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The
Billy
the Kid Reader by
Frederick Nolan. A collection of articles on Billy the Kid -- including
many that are no longer in print. 384 pages. More
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The
Black
Hawk War of 1832 by
Patrick J. Jung. Volume 10 in the Campaigns and Commanders Series. An
up-to-date narrative of the Black Hawk War. Indexed. 275 pages. More
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Buffalo
Calf Road Woman The Story of a
Warrior of the Little Bighorn
by Rosemary
Agonito and Joseph Agonito. First Edition. First Printing.Depicts the
life
and times of Buffalo Calf Road Woman, who fought at the Battle of
Little
Bighorn. Bibliography 242 pages. More
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Buffalo
Gals Women of Buffalo Bill's
Wild West Show by Chris Enss.
First Edition.
Tells the stories and celebrates the achievements of the thrill-seeking
women who performed in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Illustrated with
historic photos and prints. Bibliography.. More
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Buried
Indians Digging Up the Past in
a Midwestern Town by Laurie
Hovell McMillin.
Details the disputes in Trempealeau, Wisconsin, over whether platform
mounds
atop Trempealeau Mountain constitute authentic Indian mounds. 283
pages. More
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By
His Own
Hand? The
Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis
edited by John D. W. Guice. Analyzes the evidence surrounding
Meriwether Lewis' death and considers the murder-versus-suicide debate
in the format of a postmortem court trial. Contributors include Clay S.
Jenkinson, James J. Holmberg and Jay H. Buckley. Indexed. 178 pages.. More
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Calamity
Jane The Woman
and the Legend by James D. Mclaird. A definitive biography of Martha
Canary,
the woman popularly known as Calamity Jane Indexed. 378 pages.More
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The
Cayuse Indians Imperial
Tribesmen of Old Oregon by Robert H.
Ruby and
John A. Brown. Volume 120 in The Cvilization of the American Indian
Series.
Foreword by William L. Lang. Introduction by Roberta Conner. Tells the
story of the Cayuse people, from their early years through the 19th
century,
when the tribe was forced to move to a reservation. Indexed. 414 pages.
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Crazy
Horse
A Lakota Life by Kingsley M. Bray. Civilization of the American Indian
series title. Scholarly and authoritative biography of the Lakota war
chief. Indexed. 510 pages. More
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The
Culture of Calamity
Disaster and the Making of Modern America by Kevin Rozario. Historical
study and analysis of the peculiarly American addiction to the
spectacle of destruction. Illustrated with B&W photos. Indexed.
313
pages. More
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Devil's
Gate
Owning the Land, Owning the Story by Tom Rea. History of the Sweetwater
River valley in central Wyoming, including Devil’s Gate,
Independence Rock, and other sites along a stretch of the Oregon Trail.
Illustrated with maps and historic photographs. Indexed. 307 pages. More
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Down
and
Dirty Archaeology of
the South Carolina Lowcountry
by M. Patrick Hendrix. Includes contributions by Christopher Nichols.
Illustrated with B&W prints, photos. Bibliography. 168 pages. More
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Dry
Place
Landscapes
of Belonging and Exclusion. University of Minnesota Press, 2004. Trade
paperback, new. Indexed. 222 pages.
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Empires
of
the Word A
Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler. The story of the
world
in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its
languages. More
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Environmental
Politics and the Creation of a Dream Establishing
the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore by Harold C. Jordahl Jr. and
Annie L. Booth. The story behind the political and bureaucratic
struggles to preserve the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in Lake
Superior, just off the tip of northern Wisconsin. Indexed. 399 pages. More
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Ether The Nothing
That
Connects Everything by Joe Milutis. Explores more than three hundred
years
of the ether’s cultural and artistic history. Indexed. 208
pages. More
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Film
Nation
Hollywood Looks at U.S. History by Robert Burgoyne. Revised and
expanded edition.Analyzes films that give shape to the counternarrative
of history that has emerged in the U.S. since 9/11 — one that
challenges the traditional myths of the American nation-state. Indexed.
235 pages. More
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Fools
Are Everywhere
The Court Jester Around the World by Beatrice K. Otto. A comprehensive
history and analysis of court jesters. Indexed. 420 pages. More
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Forbidden
History Prehistoric
Technologies, Extraterrestrial Intervention, and the Suppressed Origins
of Civilization by J. Douglas Kenyon. Contains 42 essays by 17 key
thinkers
in the fields of alternative science and history, including Christopher
Dunn, Frank Joseph, Will Hart, Rand Flem-Ath, and Moira Timmes.
Bibliography.
322 pages. More
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The
Fossil Hunter
Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
by Shelley Emling. Biography of 19th century paleontologist Mary
Anning. Indexed. 234 pages. More
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The
Future of the Southern Plains by
Sherry L. Smith. Essays
presented
at a symposium sponsored by the Clements Center for Southwest Studies
at
Southern Methodist University covering aspects of life on the Southern
Plains today, from climate, politics, and religion to business and
environmental
renewal. Indexed. 275 pages.More
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Ghosts
of
the Pioneers A Family
Search for the Independent Oregon Colony of 1844 by Twain Braden.
Account of the author's journey down the course of an 1840s Oregon
Trail wagon train, recounting it's unusual participants. 288 pages. More
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Ghost
Ships Tales of Abandoned,
Doomed, and Haunted Vessels by
Angus Konstam.
An anthology of true-life accounts of vessels which never made port.
Illustrated
with historic prints and photos. Large format. Indexed. 143 pages. More
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Gold
Rush
Saints California
Mormons and the Great Rush for Riches by Kenneth N. Owens. This volume
combines narrative history and first-person accounts of pioneer Mormons
to offer new perspectives on the myths and realities of gold rush
California.
Illustrated with 23 historic b&w photographs. Indexed. 396
pages. More
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Historical
Atlas of Central America by
Carolyn Hall and Hector Perez
Brignoli.
Trade paperback. Large format. Cartography by John V. Cotter. Atlas
covering
five centuries of territorial organization, demography, and culture.
400
color maps. 140 color images. Indexed. 336 pages.. More
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Idaho's
Bunker Hill The
Rise and Fall of a Great Mining Company, 1885-1991 by Katherine G.
Aiken.
Traces Bunker Hill’s evolution from the discovery of the mine
in 1885 to
the company’s closure in 1981. The in-depth history
illustrates major trends
in American corporate culture. Illustrated with black & white
photos.
Indexed. 284 pages. More
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Justice
for
All
Legendary Trials of the 20th Century by Daniel J. Lanahan J. D. A
review of the last 100 years in the U.S. Courts wherein major issues
were brought to trial. 207 pages. More
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The
Lady
Was a Gambler True
Stories of Notorious Women
of the Old West by Chris Enss. Profiles of some of the most colorful
ladies in the Wild West who also happened to be some of the shrewdest
gamblers. 143 pages. More
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Living
Sideways
Tricksters in American Indian Oral Traditions by Franchot Ballinger.
The first full-length study of the diverse roles and dimensions of
North American Indian tricksters. Indexed. 212 pages. More
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Long
George Francis Gentleman Outlaw
of Montana by Gary
Wilson. First
Edition. Biography of a little-known outlaw and latter-day Robin Hood
of
Montana. Bibiliography. 252 pages. More
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Looting
Spiro Mounds An
American King Tut's Tomb by David La Vere.
A true-life archaeological adventure story about one of the most
impressive pre-Columbian Indian art collections ever found. Illustrated
with B&W photos. Indexed. 255 pages. More
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Lost
Star
of Myth And Time
by Walter Cruttenden. xplores theories of a once advanced civilization
and what happens to the Earth and human consciousness as our solar
system
moves through space in the mysterious "precession of the equinox."
Indexed.
340 pages. More
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Louisiana
Haunted Forts by Elaine Coleman.
Historical adventures and
intriguing
tales of supernatural happenings at Louisiana forts. Indexed. 180
pages.. More
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Massacre at
Camp Grant Forgetting
and Remembering Apache History by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh.
he author presents a multivocal narrative, interweaving the documentary
record, Apache narratives, historical texts, and ethnographic research
to provide new insights into the atrocity. Indexed. 159 pages. More
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Myths
and Mysteries of Washington by
L. E. Bragg. Myths and
Mysteries Series
title. Includes 15 unusual unsolved crimes, legends of lost treasure,
ghost
stories, and sea creature sightings. Bibliography. 161 pages. More
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Ghost
Towns of Texas
by T. Lindsay Baker. A companion volume to "Ghost Towns of Texas." The
94 ghost towns described in this book range from American Indian sites
abandoned prior to the arrival of Europeans into North America to towns
abandoned within the past decade. Illustrated with B&W photos.
Indexed.
210 pages. More
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Native
American Weapons
by Colin F. Taylor. Surveys weapons made and used by American Indians
north
of present-day Mexico from prehistoric times to the late nineteenth
century.
Indexed. 128 pages. More
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Negotiating
the Past in the Past
Identity, Memory, and Landscape in Archaeological Research edited by
Norman Yoffee. Scholars examine how early societies viewed earlier
societies. Commentaries by Lynn Meskell and Jack Davis. Indexed. 267
pages. More
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Oh,
Give Me a Home by
Ann Ronald. Meditations on what it means to be a westerner today and
speculating on how our present actions are shaping the West for future
generations. 269 pages.. More
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Ohio
Volunteer The Childhood
and Civil War Memoirs of Captain John Calvin Hartzell, OVI by John
Calvin
Hartzell. Edited by Charles I Switzer. This autobiography of a Civil
War
infantry commander documents military strategy, the life of the common
soldier, the intense excitement and terror of battle, and the
wretchedness
of the wounded. Indexed. 250 pages. More
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Oklahoma
A History by W.
David Baird and Danney Goble.
A comprehensive narrative of the Sooner State on the threshold of its
centennial. Illustrated with B&W photos. Indexed. 342 pages. More
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OSS
The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency by
Richard
Harris Smith. History of the Office of Strategic Services - the United
States' first intelligence agency and the direct precursor to the CIA.
Illustrated with B&W photos. Indexed. 413 pages. More
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Pioneer
Doctor The Story of a Woman's
Work by Mari Grana. The true
story of
Dr. Mary (Mollie) Babcock Atwater, a medicine woman who found freedom
and
opportunity in the wide-open spaces of America's frontier west.
Illustrated
with historic B&W photos. 342 pages.More
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Prehistoric
Mesoamerica
by Richard E. W. Adams. Third Edition. A major revision of classic text
on the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica, including new information
available from archaeological fieldwork in the region from the 1990s
through
2004. Indexed. 521 pages. More
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Race,
Religion, Region
Landscapes of Encounter in the American West edited by Fay Botham and
Sara M. Patterson.
Eleven contributors to this survey of race relations explore the
intersections of race, religion, and region to show how they
transformed the American West. Indexed. 190 pages. More
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Restoring
a Presence American
Indians and Yellowstone
National Park by
Peter Nabokov and Lawrence Loendorf. The first comprehensive account of
Indians in and around Yellowstone Illustrated with historical and
contemporary
photographs and maps 381 pages. More
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Sacred
Plant Medicine The Wisdom in
Native American Herbalism by
Stephen Harrod
Buhner. Foreword by Brooke Medicine Eagle. An in-depth examination of
the
sacred underpinnings of the world of Native American medicinal
herbalism.
Includes the prayers and medicine songs associated with each of the
plants
examined. Indexed. 206 pages.. More
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Savage
Barbecue Race,
Culture, and the Invention of America's First Food by Andrew Warnes.
Tracing the history of barbecue early transatlantic American literature
and culture, the author argues that barbecue is an invented tradition
associated with frontier mythologies of ruggedness and relaxation.
Indexed. 206 pages. More
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Searching
for Fannie Quigley
A Wilderness Life in the Shadow of Mount McKinley by Jane G. Haigh.
Biography of Fannie Quigley, an Alaskan pioneer. Illustrated with
B&W photos. Indexed. 185 pages. More
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The
Silver of the Sierra Madre
John Robinson, Boss Shepherd, and the People of the Canyons by John
Mason Hart. Based on volumes of mining company records, this book
exposes the mentality and methods of Sierra Madre mine owners John
Robinson and Alexander “Boss” Shepherd of the late
1800s, detailing their exploitation of the people and the natural
resources of Chihuahua. Indexed. 237 pages. More
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Standing
up
to the Rock
by T. Louise Freeman-Toole. Memoir of life on the last homestead ranch
on the middle Snake River of Idaho. 213 pages. More
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The
Story
of Tea A Cultural
History and Drinking Guide
by Mary Lou Heiss and Robert J. Heiss. A sweeping tour through the
history, culture, and lore of the 2,000-year-old beverage. Indexed. 417
pages. More
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Strange
Histories The
Trial Of The Pig, The Walking Dead, And Other Matters Of Fact From The
Medieval And Renaissance Worlds by Darren Oldridge. A serious account
of
some of the most extraordinary occurrences of European history.
Indexed.
198 pages. More
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The
Taos Trappers The Fur Trade in
the Far Southwest, 1540-1846
by David
J. Weber. Comprehensive history of the fur trade in the Southwest U.S.
Indexed. 263 pages. More
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Tales Histories by Jo
Carson. Two dramatic histories set in 18th century East Tennessee. 138
pages. More
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Ten
Tough
Trips: Montana
Writers and the West. Essays on the works of 10 of the West's most
prominent
authors, including A.B. Guthrie, Jr., James Welch, Richard Hugo and
Ivan
Doig. Indexed. 249 pages.. More
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The
Greatest Cowboy Stories
Ever Told Incredible Tales of
the Western Frontier by Stephen
Brennan.
Contributors include Mark Twain , Karl May, O. Henry, John Graves, Bret
Harte. Tom Horn, Frederic Remington, Zane Grey, Max Brand and Owen
Webster.
331 pages. More
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Standing
up
to the Rock
by T. Louise Freeman-Toole. Memoir of life on the last homestead ranch
on the middle Snake River of Idaho. 213 pages. More
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Strange
Histories The
Trial Of The Pig, The Walking Dead, And Other Matters Of Fact From The
Medieval And Renaissance Worlds by Darren Oldridge. A serious account
of
some of the most extraordinary occurrences of European history.
Indexed.
198 pages. More
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The
Uncivil
War Irregular
Warfare in the Upper South, 1861-1865 by Robert R. Mackey. Volume 5 in
the Campaigns and Commanders series. Outlines the Southern strategy of
waging war across an entire region, measures the Northern response, and
explains how irregular warfare was an integral part of Confederate
strategy..
Indexed. 288 pages. More
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The
Victory
of the West
The Great Christian-Muslim Clash at the Battle of Lepanto by Niccolo
Capponi. History of the Battle of Lepanto, a decisive 16th-century
military encounter between Christian and Muslim forces. Illustrated.
411 pages. More
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Washita
Memories
Eyewitness Views of Custer's Attack on Black Kettle's Village by
Richard G. Hardorff. Documentary history of the Battle of the Washita
based on eyewitness accounts of the destruction of the Southern
Cheyenne village. Indexed. 474 pages. More
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Where
Custer Fell Photographs
of the Little Bighorn Battlefield Then and Now by James S. Brust, Brian
C. Pohanka, and Sandy Barnard This stunning photography book provides a
view of the Little Bighorn Battlefield as it must have existed in 1876.
Large format. Illustrated with historic and contemporary black
& white
photos. Indexed. 226 pages. More
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Wyoming
Range War The Infamous Invasion
of Johnson
County
by John W. Davis. The story of the West's most notorious range war from
the perspective of Johnson County residents whose home territory was
invaded. Indexed. 357 pages. More
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The
Year that Changed the World The
Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Michael Meyer.
Newsweek's European correspondent provides an eyewitness account to the
events leading up to and including the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Indexed. 272 pages. More
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Yellowstone
Denied
The Life of Gustavus Cheyney Doane by Kim Allen Scott. Biography and
psychological portrait of frontier soldier and explorer Gustavus
Cheyney Doane. Illustrated with historic B&W photos. Indexed.
305
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