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Dragoons in Apacheland: Conquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 1846-1861

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Report copyright infringementby William S. Kiser (Author)In the fifteen years prior to the American Civil War, the U.S. Army established a presence in southern New Mexico, the homeland of Mescalero, Mimbres, and Mogollon bands of the Apache Indians. From the army's perspective, the Apaches presented an obstacle to be overcome in making the region--newly acquired in the Mexican-American War--safe for Anglo settlers. In Dragoons in Apacheland, William S. Kiser recounts the conflicts that ensued...

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Report copyright infringementby Judy Nolte Temple (Author)The story of Baby Doe Tabor has seduced America for more than a century. Long before her body was found frozen in a Leadville shack near the Matchless Mine, Elizabeth McCourt "Baby Doe" Tabor was the stuff of legend. The stunning divorcée married Colorado's wealthiest mining magnate and became the "Silver Queen of the West." Blessed with two daughters, Horace and Baby Doe mesmerized the world with their wealth and extravagance. But Bab...

Droppers: America's First Hippie Commune, Drop City

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Matthews (Author)Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. In popular imagination, these words seem to capture the atmosphere of 1960s hippie communes. Yet when the first hippie commune was founded in 1965 outside Trinidad, Colorado, the goal wasn't one long party but rather a new society that integrated life and art. In Droppers, Mark Matthews chronicles the rise and fall of this utopian community, exploring the goals behind its creation and the factors that eventua...

American Indians and World War II: Toward a New Era in Indian Affairs

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Report copyright infringementby Alison R. Bernstein (Author)The impact of World War II on Indian affairs was more profound and lasting than that of any other event or policy--including Roosevelt's Indian New Deal and efforts to terminate federal responsibility for tribes under Eisenhower. Focusing on the period from 1941 to 1947, Alison R. Bernstein explains why termination and tribal self-determination were logical results of the Indians' World War II experiences in battle and on the home fr...

Father of Route 66: The Story of Cy Avery

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Croce Kelly (Author)If it weren't for Cy Avery's dreams of better roads through his beloved Tulsa, the United States would never have gotten Route 66. This book is the story of Avery, his times, and the legendary highway he helped build. In this engaging biography of a remarkable man, Susan Croce Kelly begins by describing the urgency for "good roads" that gripped the nation in the early twentieth century as cars multiplied and mud deepened. Avery was one...

Once Upon a Time in War: The 99th Division in World War II Volume 18

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Report copyright infringementby Robert E. Humphrey (Author)For the soldier on the front lines of World War II, a lifetime of terror and suffering could be crammed into a few horrific hours of combat. This was especially true for members of the 99th Infantry Division who repelled the Germans in the Battle of the Bulge and engaged in some of the most dramatic, hard-fought actions of the war.Once Upon a Time in War presents a stirring view of combat from the perspective of the common soldier. Au...

My First Reader Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Jr. Martin (Author), Eric Carle (Illustrator)Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? is available in beginning reader format for the littlest bookworms! With the important pre-reading concepts of rhyme, rhythm, and repetition, this picture book has long been used as a beginning reader. Now, with a 6" x 9" trim and a classic beginning reader layout, children will have a more "grown up" version to read by themselves. Complete with an introduction by master ...

Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place Volume 142

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Report copyright infringementby Angie Debo (Author)On September 5, 1886, the entire nation rejoiced as the news flashed from the Southwest that the Apache war leader Geronimo had surrendered to Brigadier General Nelson A. Miles. With Geronimo, at the time of his surrender, were Chief Naiche (the son of the great Cochise), sixteen other warriors, fourteen women, and six children. It had taken a force of 5,000 regular army troops and a series of false promises to "capture" the band.Yet the surr...

Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians

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Report copyright infringementby Morris E. Opler (Author), Scott Rushforth (Introduction by)"We are dealing here with a living literature," wrote Morris Edward Opler in his preface to Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians. First published in 1942 by the American Folk-Lore Society, this is another classic study by the author of Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians. Opler conducted field work among the Chiricahuas in the American Southwest, as he had earlier among the Jicar...

An Apache Life-Way: The Economic, Social, and Religious Institutions of the Chiricahua Indians

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Report copyright infringementby Morris E. Opler (Author), Charles R. Kraut (Introduction by)Originally published in 1941, An Apache Life-Way remains one of the most important and innovative studies of southwestern Native Americans, drawing upon a rich and invaluable body of data gathered by the ethnographer Morris Edward Opler during the 1930s. Blending the analysis of individual Apache lives with the analysis of their culture, this landmark study tells of the ceremonies, religious beliefs, s...

Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940

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Report copyright infringementby Brenda J. Child (Author), Brenda J. Child (Introduction by)The paperback edition features a new introduction by the author. Boarding School Seasons offers a revealing look at the strong emotional history of Indian boarding school experiences in the first half of the twentieth century. At the heart of this book are the hundreds of letters written by parents, children, and school officials at Haskell Institute in Kansas and the Flandreau School in South Dakota. T...

Journal for Christa: Christa McAuliffe, Teacher in Space

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Report copyright infringementby Grace George Corrigan (Author)Most people remember where they were when John F. Kennedy was assassinated, just as they remember how they felt when humans first set foot on the moon. Elements of both reactions are present in the story of Christa McAuliffe, the energetic young schoolteacher chosen to be the first civilian to go into space--and who died with her astronaut companions in the Challenger explosion of January 28, 1986. In this straightforward memoir, M...

The Christmas of the Phonograph Records: A Recollection

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Report copyright infringementby Mari Sandoz (Author), Linda M. Hasselstrom (Introduction by)Charmingly, Mari Sandoz tells of a long-ago Christmas in western Nebraska when her father's house was filled with good music. Old Jules had ordered an Edison phonograph and boxes of cylinder records from the East, paying for them with an inheritance and ignoring debts, to the chagrin of his long-suffering wife. But the entire family soon entered into the holiday spirit as neighbors arrived to feast and...

Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism

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Report copyright infringementby Devon a. Mihesuah (Author)Oklahoma Choctaw scholar Devon Abbott Mihesuah offers a frank and absorbing look at the complex, evolving identities of American Indigenous women today, their ongoing struggles against a centuries-old legacy of colonial disempowerment, and how they are seen and portrayed by themselves and others. Mihesuah first examines how American Indigenous women have been perceived and depicted by non-Natives, including scholars, and by themselves....

Ethnic Chicago: A Multicultural Portrait

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Report copyright infringementby Peter D'a Jones Jones (Author), Melvin Holli (Author)This award-winning study of ethnic life in Chicago richly details the various peoples and ethnic institutions in America's heartland city. This newly revised and expanded edition also includes chapters on African-American migration, Chatham, Latino Chicago, the Chinese in Chicago, Asian Indians, Korean-Americans, the new entrepreneurial immigrants, and the Swedes. There is also a new six-chapter section that ...

Southern Ute Women: Autonomy and Assimilation on the Reservation, 1887-1934

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Report copyright infringementby Katherine M. B. Osburn (Author), Katherine M. B. Osburn (Introduction by)After the passage of the Dawes Severalty Act in 1887, the Southern Ute Agency was the scene of an intense federal effort to assimilate the Ute Indians. The Southern Utes were to break up their common land holdings and transform themselves into middle-class patriarchal farm and pastoral families. In this assimilationist scheme, women were to surrender the considerable autonomy they enjoyed ...

No One Ever Asked Me: The World War II Memoirs of an Omaha Indian Soldier

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Report copyright infringementby Hollis D. Stabler (Author), Victoria Smith (Editor)As a young adolescent, Hollis Dorion Stabler underwent a Native ceremony in which he was given the new name Na-zhin-thia, Slow to Rise. It was a name that no white person asked to know during Hollis's tour of duty in Anzio, his unacknowledged difference as an Omaha Indian adding to the poignancy of his uneasy fellowship with foreign and American soldiers alike. Stabler's story--coming of age on the American pla...

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Report copyright infringementby Betsey Dexter Dyer (Author)"Although most people are aware that bacteria are all around us, few would guess that they produce such distinctive and accessible signs. Whether you're walking on the beach, visiting a zoo or aquarium, buying groceries, looking for fossils, drinking beer, traipsing through a swamp, or cleaning scum from beneath a dripping outdoor faucet, you're surrounded by bacterial field marks. You don't need a laboratory or fancy equipment to fin...

The Burned-Over District: The Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York, 1800-1850

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Report copyright infringementby Whitney R. Cross (Author)"Burned-over District was a name applied to a small region, during a limited period of history, to indicate a particular phase of development. It described the religious character of western New York during the first half of the nineteenth century. Time, subject, and area have thus all combined to confine the scope of this book. The study has nevertheless seemed rewarding, mainly because its implications transcend all three limitations....

Voyage of the Basilisk: A Memoir by Lady Trent

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Report copyright infringementby Marie Brennan (Author)The thrilling adventure of Lady Trent continues in Marie Brennan's Voyage of the Basilisk . . . Devoted readers of Lady Trent's earlier memoirs, A Natural History of Dragons and The Tropic of Serpents, may believe themselves already acquainted with the particulars of her historic voyage aboard the Royal Survey Ship Basilisk, but the true story of that illuminating, harrowing, and scandalous journey has never been revealed--until now. Si...

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Report copyright infringementby Rick Burroughs (Author)Dive into the world of Alan Wake-inspired by the bestselling action-adventure game of the same name. Welcome to Bright Falls-a seemingly idyllic small town in the Pacific Northwest. The perfect place for Alan Wake, a bestselling crime novelist, and his wife, Alice, to relax for a few weeks. Maybe a second honeymoon and the fresh air will cure Wake of his writer's block. But when Alice goes missing under mysterious circumstances, Wake's de...

In the Labyrinth of Drakes: A Memoir by Lady Trent

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Report copyright infringementby Marie Brennan (Author)In the Labyrinth of Drakes, the thrilling new book in the acclaimed fantasy series from Marie Brennan, the glamorous Lady Trent takes her adventurous explorations to the deserts of Akhia. Even those who take no interest in the field of dragon naturalism have heard of Lady Trent's expedition to the inhospitable deserts of Akhia. Her discoveries there are the stuff of romantic legend, catapulting her from scholarly obscurity to worldwide fa...

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Report copyright infringementby Kenji Jasper (Author)Thai Williams is walking a thin line between two worlds. On one side he has his job as a filing clerk for the Washington, D.C., Department of Public Works, his girlfriend Sierra, and his plans for going to college. But on the other, darker side there are his friends Snowflake and Ray Ray, men who run the neighborhood streets dodging the dangers of the criminal life and its after-effects. But that thin line disappears when Thai walks in on S...

Black and Decker the Complete Guide to Plumbing Updated 8th Edition: Completely Updated to Current Codes

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Report copyright infringementby Editors of Cool Springs Press (Author), Chris Peterson (Author)BLACK+DECKER The Complete Guide to Plumbing Updated 8th Edition is the most comprehensive, up-to-date book on achievable home plumbing projects for DIYers of all skill levels. From fixing a toilet to installing and plumbing a vanity sink or curbless shower, this book has the answer to any home plumbing problem you're likely to have. Whether your home is newer or older, you'll appreciate the clear c...

Chicana Tributes: Activist Women of the Civil Rights Movement - Stories for the New Generation

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Report copyright infringementby Rita Sanchez (Editor), Sonia Lopez (Editor)This book documents the experiences of sixty-one women who flourished in the ferment of the civil/ethnic/women's rights movements of the late twentieth century and beyond. While each life is unique, collectively they demonstrate the benefits gained when a community and a society unleashes and fosters the potential of women who create, organize, and lead. Conversely, an undetermined degree of loss may accrue to societie...

African American Slave Medicine: Herbal and non-Herbal Treatments

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Report copyright infringementby Herbert C. Covey (Author)African-American Slave Medicine offers a critical examination of how African-American slaves medical needs were addressed during the years before and surrounding the Civil War. Drawing upon ex-slave interviews conducted during the 1930s and 1940s by the Works Project Administration (WPA), Dr. Herbert C. Covey inventories many of the herbal, plant, and non-plant remedies used by African-American folk practitioners during slavery. He demo...

Llewellyn's Complete Book of Correspondences: A Comprehensive & Cross-Referenced Resource for Pagans & Wiccans

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Report copyright infringementby Sandra Kynes (Author)Llewellyn's Complete Book of Correspondences is a clear, straightforward companion for Pagan and Wiccan ritual and spellwork. Entries are cross-referenced, indexed, and organized by categories and subcategories, making it easy to find what you need. This comprehensive reference provides a fascinating look at why correspondences are more than just lists of objects to focus intent on--they are fundamental to how we think. When we use correspo...

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

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Report copyright infringementby James Clear (Author)The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 25 million copies sold!Translated into 60+ languages! Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If...

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Report copyright infringementby Matt Valentine (Author)A Simple, Clear, and Straightforward Introduction to Mindfulness The Little Book of Mindfulness takes the beautiful, nourishing, and healing practice of mindfulness and breaks it down into easily digestible pieces. From learning what mindfulness is with clear examples and explanations, why mindfulness is so powerful, how to practice mindfulness in a variety of ways many of which can be done right along side your everyday life, to developi...

A Jane Austen Christmas: Regency Christmas Traditions

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Report copyright infringementby Maria Grace (Author)Many Christmas traditions and images of 'old fashioned' holidays are based on Victorian celebrations. Going back just a little further, to the beginning of the 19th century, the holiday Jane Austen knew would have looked distinctly odd to modern sensibilities. How odd? Families rarely decorated Christmas trees. Festivities centered on socializing instead of gift-giving. Festivities focused on adults, with children largely consigned to the nu...

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Report copyright infringementby Pat Hughes (Author)The American Revolution is underway, and fiery Jake Mallery wants freedom from tyranny - the tyranny of his strict father, that is. Jake doesn't care about fighting for liberty. To him, the pursuit of happiness is sailing the high seas, seeking adventure on a privateer. But his father insists that Jake remain at home on the Connecticut coast, tending the family's ferry and joining the local militia in case the town is attacked. Which, Jake kn...

Vintage Notions Coloring Book: Quilt Therapy

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Report copyright infringementby Amy Barickman (Author)In Quilt Therapy, the love of quilting meets the joy of coloring. Just like quilting, coloring provides much needed stress relief from our busy lives. As you stroll through the pages of Quilt Therapy, Amy Barickman shares with you some of her favorite quilt block designs from her vintage collection. As you color your way through the book, learn the names of your favorite quilt blocks and create your own color and pattern combinations. Amy ...