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American and European art, novels, radio programs, Western films and television Westerns from the 1820s to the present are highlighted. The presence of Indians, fictional Western heroes, gunmen, and a perceived general level of violence resulted in the fictional aspect of the American frontier and Western historical experiences.

Scholarship about Native Americans continues to move in several directions at the same time, and these three books illustrate that fact. They include essays on women in tribal affairs across [...]

Scholarship about Native Americans continues to move in several directions at the same time, and these three books illustrate that fact. They include essays on women in tribal affairs across [...]

Scholarship about Native Americans continues to move in several directions at the same time, and these three books illustrate that fact. They include essays on women in tribal affairs across [...]

Scholarship about Native Americans continues to move in several directions at the same time, and these three books illustrate that fact. They include essays on women in tribal affairs across [...]

Frequently, discussions of issues related to American ethnicity, racial matters, and immigration underutilize Native American experiences when analyzing the national story. Many reasons exist for this. The hundreds of Indian [...]

Frequently, discussions of issues related to American ethnicity, racial matters, and immigration underutilize Native American experiences when analyzing the national story. Many reasons exist for this. The hundreds of Indian [...]

Frequently, discussions of issues related to American ethnicity, racial matters, and immigration underutilize Native American experiences when analyzing the national story. Many reasons exist for this. The hundreds of Indian [...]

Frequently, discussions of issues related to American ethnicity, racial matters, and immigration underutilize Native American experiences when analyzing the national story. Many reasons exist for this. The hundreds of Indian [...]

The Power of Promises: Rethinking Indian Treaties in the Pacific Northwest, edited by Alexandra Harmon. The Emil and Kathleen Sick Lecture-Book Series in Western History and Biography. Seattle, University of [...]

AMERICAN HISTORY UNBOUND: ASIANS AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS by Gary Y. Okihiro University of California Press, Oakland, 2015. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. 512 pages. $39.95 paper. Most American readers know about [...]

THE JEWISH OREGON STORY, 1950-2010 by Ellen Eisenberg Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, 2016. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. 336 pages. $24-95, paper. This detailed study of Jewish life and activities [...]

Despite its title, this book does not offer its readers a narrative of gold rush actions. Rather the goal is to examine how people in both Australia and the United [...]

This book offers a thorough ethnohistorical examination of the Osage Indians from the seventeenth century until 1839. Early in that period, the Osage people occupied the prairie lands along the [...]

THE PEOPLE ARE DANCING AGAIN: THE HISTORY OF THE SILETZ TRIBE OF WESTERN OREGON by Charles Wilkinson University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2010. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. 576 pages. [...]

Gunfighter in Gotham: Bat Masterson's New York City Years. By Robert K. DeArment. (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. Pp. ix, 293. $29.95.) This book comes with a great [...]

Women and Nature: Saving the 'Wild' West, by Glenda Riley. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xviii, 279 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth), $24.95 U.S. (paper). In this ambitious study [...]

Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man. By David Remley. (Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. Pp. xxx, 289. $24.95.) Along with other nineteenth-century frontiersmen David Crockett [...]

Rich Indians: Native People and the Problem of Wealth in American History. By Alexandra Harmon. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2010. Pp. [xii], 388. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3423-7.) [...]

The Sundance Kid: The Life of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh. By Donna B. Ernst. (Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. Pp. xxiii, 233. $29.95.) This brief outline of the life [...]

William Clark: Indian Diplomat. By Jay H. Buckley. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c. 2008. Pp. xx, 306. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3911-1.) Jay H. Buckley contends (correctly) that much of what [...]

The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Great Plains. By Loretta Fowler. (New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 2003. Pp. vii, 283. $22.95.) As its title suggests, this is [...]

Voices of Wounded Knee. By William S. E. Coleman. Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. xxiii + 434 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $35.00. This book results [...]

Edited by Mary B. Davis. New York: Garland Publishing Company, 1996. xxxvii + 787 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, graphs, tables, bibliographic listings and index. $24.95. This thorough, well-planned encyclopedia includes [...]

For the past several decades, political economy has returned to vogue as a theoretical approach. Anthropologists, in particular, have welcomed it as a useful tool that offers another holistic view [...]