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  • Back East

    How Westerners Invented a Region

    Western imaginations of "Back East" rewrote America's cultural identity, shaping myths and realities alikeJust as easterners imagined the American West, westerners imagined the American East, reshaping American culture. Back East flips the script of American regional narratives.In novels, travel narratives, popular histories, and dude ranch brochures, twentieth-century western US writers saw the ... Leer más

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  • From Greenwich Village to Taos

    Primitivism and Place at Mabel Dodge Luhan's

    Series series CultureAmerica
    Winner: Ralph Emerson Twitchell AwardThey all came to Taos: Georgia O’Keefe, D. H. Lawrence, Carl Van Vechten, and other expatriates of New York City. Fleeing urban ugliness, they moved west between 1917 and 1929 to join the community that art patron Mabel Dodge created in her Taos salon and to draw inspiration from New Mexico's mountain desert and “primitive” peoples. As they settled, their quest ... Leer más

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  • A Land Apart

    The Southwest and the Nation in the Twentieth Century

    Series series The Modern American West
    Winner, Spur Award for Best Contemporary Nonfiction (Western Writers of America)A Land Apart is not just a cultural history of the modern Southwest—it is a complete rethinking and recentering of the key players and primary events marking the Southwest in the twentieth century. Historian Flannery Burke emphasizes how indigenous, Hispanic, and other non-white people negotiated their rightful place ... Leer más

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    Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

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  • Blood and Money

    The Classic True Story of Murder, Passion, and Power

    New York Times Bestseller: The "gripping" true story of a beautiful Texas socialite, her ambitious husband, and a string of mysterious deaths ( Los Angeles Times).Joan Robinson Hill was a world-class equestrian, a glamorous member of Houston high society, and the wife of Dr. John Hill, a handsome and successful plastic surgeon. Her father, Ash Robinson, was a charismatic oil tycoon obsessed with ... Leer más

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  • Lone Star

    A History of Texas and the Texans

    The definitive account of the incomparable Lone Star state by the author of Fire & Blood: A History of Mexico.T. R. Fehrenbach is a native Texan, military historian and the author of several important books about the region, but none as significant as this work, arguably the best single volume about Texas ever published. His account of America's most turbulent state offers a view that only an ... Leer más

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  • The Dust Bowl

    An Illustrated History

    This "riveting" companion to the PBS documentary "clarifies our understanding of the 'worst manmade ecological disaster in American history'" ( Booklist).In this riveting chronicle, Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns capture the profound drama of the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Terrifying photographs of mile-high dust storms, along with firsthand accounts by more than two dozen eyewitnesses, bring ... Leer más

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  • North American Indians

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green begin by describing how nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers ... Leer más

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  • Shadows at Dawn

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  • The McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona: An O.K. Corral Obituary

    On a chilly October afternoon in 1881, two brothers named Tom and Frank McLaury were gunned down on the streets of Tombstone, Arizona, by the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday. The deadly event became known as the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and in a quirk of fate, the brothers names became well-known, but only as bad men and outlaws. Did they deserve that reputation? The McLaurys in Tombstone, ... Leer más

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  • The Apache Wars

    The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History

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