History

This book is a significant contribution to Navajo studies providing the earliest eighteenth-century eyewitness account of the Navajo in New Mexico.

In this book, Fred M. Blackburn and Ray A. Williamson tell the two intertwined stories of the early archaeological expeditions into Grand Gulch and the Wetherill-Grand Gulch Research Project. In the process, they describe what we now know about Basketmaker culture and present a stirring plea for the preservation of our nation's priceless archaeological heritage. Lavishly illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs.

A rich portrait of a woman's life in the American West of the early 1900s--a love story that reads like a novel.

This award-winning history explores eighteenth-century San Antonio de Béxar, a struggling settlement on the periphery of Spain's North American frontier that eventually developed into modern San Antonio, Texas.

A captivity narrative that provides eyewitness accounts of the twilight years of Kiowa freedom on the Plains, and early reservation life.

This ethnohistory examines Indian life in the twenty-one missions Franciscans established in Alta California. In describing how the missions functioned between 1769 and 1848, the authors draw on previously unused sources to analyze change and continuity in Indian material culture and religious practices.

A thrilling account of the bloody rebellion forged by the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish invaders.

Benjamin delineates the basic continuity in the history of Chiapas from the 1890s to 1995.

The breadth and detail of Ball's study, which includes informative lists of sheriffs, legal hangings, and lynchings, makes this volume the definitive work on frontier law enforcement.

Elegantly assembles the environmental, social, cultural, political, and economic history of the Great Plains in the 19th century.