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	ABBEY, EDWARD. The Journey Home: Some Words In Defense Of The American West. Plume Book, New York 1991. Softcover. Good condition. ¶ 242 pages. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 52311X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	ABBOTT, E. C. TEDDY BLUE & SMITH, HELENA HUNTINGTON; TYLER, RON (EDITOR). We Pointed Them North: Recollections Of A Cowpuncher. Lakeside Press, Chicago: 1991. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Very good condition. This is a book of reminiscences by an old-time cowboy, someone who knew a lot Montana history because he had lived it. Includes an Index. ¶ 385 pages. USD 29.45 [Appr.: EURO 19.75 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2533] Book number: 44950X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	ADAMS, ANDY. The Log Of A Cowboy: A Narrative Of The Old Trail Days. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln / London: 1964. Softcover. Brand new book. J. Frank Dobie, in his Guide to Life and Literature of the Old Southwest, has declared that if all other books on trail-driving were destroyed, a reader could still get a just and authentic conception of trail men, trail work, range cattle, cow horses, and the cow country in general from The Log of a Cowboy. First published in 1903, Andy Adams' classic narrative, based on his own experiences during the days of the long drive, continues to be used and cited by historians of the Old West as the best and most reliable account of its kind. The Bison Book edition is reproduced from the first edition, with illustrations by E. Boyd Smith. ¶ 387 pages. USD 12.95 [Appr.: EURO 8.75 \| £UK 8 \| JP¥ 1114] Book number: 58036X2 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	ALDERSON, NANNIE T. & SMITH, HELENA HUNTINGTON; COSGROVE, J. O'H. (DRAWINGS). A Bride Goes West. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London: 1969. Softcover. Brand new book. A Bride Goes West is new and fresh because it is impregnated with a just sense of values about life. When Nannie Tiffany of West Virginia married Walt Alderson, who'd already been on the cattle trail for years, in 1882, they went to Montana to start a little ranch. There's plenty about ranching in this book but what is most valuable is about life, about people in this ranch country. Helena Huntington Smith is the author of The War on Powder River, also a Bison Book. A charming vignette of ranching life in Montana during the mid-1880s.ÑChoice Among hundreds of books written by and about range men, there are hardly a dozen valid ones concerning women. I pick A Bride Goes West and Agnes Morley Cleaveland's No Life for a Lady [also a Bison Book] as the two best books pertaining to ranch life by women with a woman's point of view dominating.ÑJ. Frank Dobie ¶ 273 pages. USD 17.95 [Appr.: EURO 12 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1544] Book number: 61012X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	ALLEN, JOHN LOGAN. Lewis And Clark And The Image Of The American Northwest. Dover Publications, Inc., New York: 1991. Softcover. Very good condition. Long before Meriwether Lewis and William Clark chartered the vast terriory between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean, the American Northwest filled American and European imaginations with dreams of an agricultural paradise and a short water passage to the Pacific. How these geographical images took formover the years and how Lewis and Clark's discoveries dramatically modified and reshapped them are the subject of this highly praised study. Includes an Index and 47 maps. ¶ 412 pages. USD 38.95 [Appr.: EURO 26 \| £UK 23.5 \| JP¥ 3349] Book number: 28461X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	ALLMENDINGER, BLAKE. Imagining The African American West. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2005. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. The literature of the African American West is the last racial discourse of the region that remains unexplored. Blake Allmendinger addresses this void in literary and cultural studies with Imagining the African American West Ñ the first comprehensive study of African American literature on the early frontier and in the modern urban American West. Allmendinger charts the terrain of African American literature in the West through his exploration of novels, histories, autobiographies, science fiction, mysteries, formula westerns, melodramas, experimental theater, and political essays, as well as rap music and film. He examines the histories of James P. Beckwourth and Oscar Micheaux; slavery, the Civil War, and the significance of the American frontier to blacks; and the Harlem Renaissance, the literature of urban unrest, rap music, black noir, and African American writers, including Toni Morrison and Walter Mosley. His study utilizes not only the works of well-known African American writers but also some obscure and neglected works, out-of-print books, and unpublished manuscripts in library archives. Much of the scholarly neglect of the Black West can be blamed on how the American West has been imagined, constructed, and framed in scholarship to date. In his study, Allmendinger provides the appropriate theoretical, cultural, and historical contexts for understanding the literature and suggests new directions for the future of black western literature. Blake Allmendinger is a professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is the coeditor of Over the Edge: Remapping the American West and the author of Ten Most Wanted: The New Western Literature. The most fascinating feature of this volume is the author's emphasis on twentieth-century cultural production about the West. Rather than solely focusing on a first-person western narratives or the western as a literary genre, Allmendinger illustrates the multiple ways that the concept of the West had symbolic significance among African American artists. . . . The author greatly expands and contemporizes our static notion of the West, illustrating the emblematic value of this mythic region for African Americans.ÑGerald R. Butters Jr., Journal of American History Exploring black noir detective novels of the twentieth century as well as the Watts Writers' Workshop and lyrics of rap music, Allmendinger has written a spellbinding account of African American imagery in American western literature and history. Extremely well-documented, this book provokes the imagination and provides fresh perspectives.ÑDelores Nason McBroome, Western Historical Quarterly Although [Allmendinger] emphasizes that this is a study of African American literature, the strength of the book comes from placing that literary study in the context of the multifarious expressive forms through which African Americans have imagined and represented black experience in the American West. Ñ Michael K. Johnson, Western American Literature Illuminating and creative in structure, content and argument. . . . Allmendinger endeavors to ameliorate the scholarly 'neglect' that the 'Black West' has endured, as a result of the problematic ways in which it has been imagined, constructed, and framed, by offering illuminating theoretical, cultural, and historical contexts for comprehending this literature. He is successful in his efforts, and the body of literature of African American history and life in the American West is much better for it.ÑMatthew C. Whitaker, Journal of Arizona History Allmendinger's use of research material can frequently let us look through the miasma produced by the smoke of popularity history to find new realities and new perspectives. Allmendinger offers historians of the West a highly rewarding read in Imagining the African American West.ÑJere W. Roberson, Great Plains Quarterly The first comprehensive study of the literature created by African Americans reflecting experiences in the modern, urban, multicultural West. . . . In addition to turning over new ground, Allmendinger helps readers view old ground through a new lens. ÑAfroAmericanHeritage.com Blake Allmendinger looks at how literature, film and music have examined the black experience in the American West. Such appreciations of history connect the present to important aspects of our past.ÑOmaha World-Herald Well-written and accessible to the general reader Imagining the African American West is both an important reference work and an interesting read.ÑRoundup Magazine ¶ 166 pages. USD 19.95 [Appr.: EURO 13.25 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1716] Book number: 59480X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	ARMOR, JOHN & WRIGHT, PETER; HERSEY, JOHN (COMMENTARY); ADAMS, ANSEL (PHOTOGRAPHS). Manzanar. Times Books, New York: 1988. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. On March 21,1942, the United States government quietly posted the first in an ominous series of Civilian Exclusion Orders in communities throughout the West. These orders would ultimately deny more than 110,000 men,women and children of Japanese descent their liberty and property, and would consign them for a period of up to four years to one of ten barren, isolated American concentration camps built specifically to contain them. Eloquent and important, by turns tragic and uplifting, Manzanar is the sobering chronicle of that unhappy episode in American history. This camp lay in a harsh yet strangely beautiful setting,on the edge of the desert along the eastern slope of California's Sierra Nevada. ¶ 169 pages. USD 27.20 [Appr.: EURO 18.25 \| £UK 16.5 \| JP¥ 2339] Book number: 60885X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BAGLEY, WILL. Blood Of The Prophets: Brigham Young And The Massacre At Mountain Meadows. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman: 2004. Softcover. Brand new book. The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley's Blood of the Prophets is the most extensive investigation of the events surrounding the murder of some 120 men, women, and children since Juanita Brooks published her groundbreaking study, The Mountain Meadows Massacre, in 1950. Drawing from a wealth of primary sources, Bagley explains how the murders occurred, reveals the involvement of territorial governor Brigham Young, and explores the subsequent suppression and distortion of events related to the massacre. An exhaustive, meticulously documented, highly readable history.ÑThe New York Review of Books ¶ 544 pages. USD 24.95 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2146] Book number: 64062X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BAILEY, JACK; DARY, DAVID (EDITOR); RAND, CHARLES E. (TRANSCRIBED BY); SCHROEDER, CHARLES P. (FOREWORD). A Texas Cowboy's Journal: Up The Trail To Kansas In 1868. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman: 2006. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. In this earliest known day-by-day journal of a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas, Jack Bailey, a North Texas farmer, describes what it was like to live and work as a cowboy in the southern plains just after the Civil War. We follow Bailey as the drive moves northward into Kansas and then as his party returns to Texas through eastern Kansas, southwestern Missouri, northwestern Arkansas, and Indian Territory. For readers steeped in romantic cowboy legend, the journal contains surprises. Bailey's time on the trail was hardly lonely. We travel with him as he encounters Indians, U.S. soldiers, Mexicans, freed slaves, and cowboys working other drives. He and other crew membersÑincluding womenÑbattle hunger, thirst, illness, discomfort, and pain. Cowboys quarrel and play practical jokes on each other and, at night, sing songs around the campfire. David Dary's thorough introduction and footnotes place the journal in historical context. Here's a book every westerner, real or wannabe, should read and add to his or her library.ÑTony Hillerman, author of Skeleton Man Jack Bailey was most likely John W. Bailey (1831-?), a farmer from Jack County, Texas. David Dary is the author of Cowboy Culture: A Saga of Five Centuries. Charles E. Rand directs the Donald C. and Elizabeth M. Dickinson Research Center at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Charles P. Schroeder is Executive Director of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. ¶ 160 pages. USD 24.95 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2146] Book number: 62687X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BAKER, WILL. Mountain Blood. The University of Georgia Press, Athens & London: 1986. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. The recollections and yarns, historical meditations and reportage brought together in Mountain Blood are written out of a sensibility formed in the American West. They spring from a life spent in the West's harsh, grotesque, outlandishly beautiful terrain; from an imagination shaped by wild, circuitous mealtime stories of prospectors and of fistfights in isolated western towns; from the bitter history of a land where mining conglomerates dislodged the sourdoughs, where the ranch-style houses of suburbia occupy the great sweep of grass once hunted by the Lakota. Winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction. ¶ 175 pages. USD 10.50 [Appr.: EURO 7 \| £UK 6.5 \| JP¥ 903] Book number: 66431X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BARBOUR, BARTON H. Fort Union And The Upper Missouri Fur Trade. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman: 2000. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Presents the first comprehensive history of Fort Union, the nineteenth century's most important and longest-lived Upper Missouri River fur trading post. Barbour explores the economic, social, legal, cultural, and political significance of the fort which was the brainchild of Kenneth McKenzie and Pierre Chouteau, Jr., and a part of John Jacob Astor's fur trade empire. From 1830 to 1867, Fort Union symbolized the power of New York and St. Louis, and later, St. Paul merchants' capital in the West. The most lucrative post on the northern plains, Fort Union affected national relations with a number of native tribes, such as the Assiniboine, Cree, Crow, Sioux, and Blackfeet. It also influenced American interactions with Great Britain, whose powerful Hudson's Bay Company competed for Upper Missouri furs. Barbour shows how Indians, mixed-bloods, Hispanic-, African-, Anglo-, and other Euro-Americans living at Fort Union created a system of community law that helped maintain their unique frontier society. Many visiting artists and scientists produced a magnificent graphic and verbal record of events and people at the post, but the old-time world of fur traders and Indians collapsed during the Civil War when political winds shifted in favor of Lincoln's Republican Party. In 1865 Chouteau lost his trade license and sold Fort Union to new operators, who had little interest in maintaining the post's former culture. ¶ 320 pages. USD 24.95 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2146] Book number: 65449X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BARBOUR, BARTON H. Fort Union And The Upper Missouri Fur Trade. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman: 2000. Softcover. Brand new book. Presents the first comprehensive history of Fort Union, the nineteenth century's most important and longest-lived Upper Missouri River fur trading post. Barbour explores the economic, social, legal, cultural, and political significance of the fort which was the brainchild of Kenneth McKenzie and Pierre Chouteau, Jr., and a part of John Jacob Astor's fur trade empire. From 1830 to 1867, Fort Union symbolized the power of New York and St. Louis, and later, St. Paul merchants' capital in the West. The most lucrative post on the northern plains, Fort Union affected national relations with a number of native tribes, such as the Assiniboine, Cree, Crow, Sioux, and Blackfeet. It also influenced American interactions with Great Britain, whose powerful Hudson's Bay Company competed for Upper Missouri furs. Barbour shows how Indians, mixed-bloods, Hispanic-, African-, Anglo-, and other Euro-Americans living at Fort Union created a system of community law that helped maintain their unique frontier society. Many visiting artists and scientists produced a magnificent graphic and verbal record of events and people at the post, but the old-time world of fur traders and Indians collapsed during the Civil War when political winds shifted in favor of Lincoln's Republican Party. In 1865 Chouteau lost his trade license and sold Fort Union to new operators, who had little interest in maintaining the post's former culture. ¶ 320 pages. USD 19.95 [Appr.: EURO 13.25 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1716] Book number: 65450X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BLOOMFIELD, SUSANNE GEORGE & REED, ERIC MELVIN. Adventures In The West: Stories For Young Readers. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2007. Softcover. Brand new book. Before MP3 players, DVDs, and video games, before even TV and radio, American children entertained themselves by reading. Often what they read were popular magazines aimed at the whole family; a weekly newspaper such as The Youth's Companion or a monthly magazine like St. Nicholas were about all a turn-of-the-century family could afford. But what these publications afforded was invaluable, and it is this education in imagination and American life that Adventures in the West revisits. Adventures in the West brings together twenty-six stories from The Youth's Companion and St. Nicholas to offer a unique perspective on the values of the time. The stories also reveal the common myths, attitudes, and prejudices of life on the western frontier, reflected in the lessons these publications imparted to a young audience. To enhance the reader's understanding, the editors have added historical and cultural background for each story. Some of the best writers of the time, including L. Frank Baum, Hamlin Garland, and Mary Austin, write of a West that mirrors American history and the values the authors sought to promote. Filled with the exploits of cowpunchers, pioneers, courageous Indians, and plucky animals, these riveting stories also embody the beliefs and experiences of an era and tell more than one story of their day. Susanne George Bloomfield is Distinguished Martin Professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Eric Melvin Reed is a graduate assistant in English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. These are stories about cowboys, Indians, animals, pioneer families, and boys and girls. They reflect the time in which they were written, but their underlying lessons of decency and morality are just as valued today. . . . This is a fine addition to Western Americana fiction collections and will be useful to literature and history teachers.ÑSchool Library Journal The stories do more than relate interesting tales. They are windows to the world west of the Mississippi as it transformed from wilderness to a land of farms and cities, from the preserve of Indians to a land claimed mostly by white settlers. . . . [Readers] will appreciate these stories for their adventures, pioneer spirit and colorful characters.ÑOmaha World-Herald [T]he stories are uplifting and teach the value of honesty, pluck, hard work, and true grit.ÑKLIATT The various writing styles and authenticity of subject matter make these stories an excellent way to introduce students to American West culture.ÑTrue West ¶ 280 pages. USD 19.95 [Appr.: EURO 13.25 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1716] Book number: 58594X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BLUMBERG, RHODA. The Incredible Journey Of Lewis And Clark. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, New York: 1987 Hardcover with dustjacket in protective mylar cover. Library discard. Good condition but part of front endpaper has been removed.. Nothing could stop this team of daring explorers who set out to chart this vast wilderness in 1804. Tells the gritty story of this incredible journey and the enterprising pair who headed it. Includes an Index. ¶ 144 pages. USD 15.20 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1307] Book number: 22836X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	EDITORS OF TIME-LIFE BOOKS. The Gamblers. Time-Life Books, Alexandria: 1978 Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. Gambling was as prevalent in the West as dust storms, cowboys and sudden death. Here is a most graphic portrayal of it as it existed in the Old West. ¶ 240 pages. USD 24.99 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2149] Book number: 33366X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	EDITORS OF TIME-LIFE BOOKS. The Spanish West. Time-Life Books, New York: 1976. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Very Good condition. For 300 years the territory north of Mexico was part of a vast Spanish empire that at one point covered half the known world. Here is a highly graphic look at that society. Includes an index. ¶ 240 pages. USD 15.24 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1311] Book number: 33271X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BRADY, CYRUS TOWNSEND; KING, JAMES T. (INTRODUCTION). Indian Fights And Fighters. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 1971. Softcover. Brand new book. Originally published in 1904, Indian Fights and Fighters regularly appears in bibliographies of significant works on the history of the American West. Embracing almost three decades of Plains history, it contains not only Brady's clear, fast-paced accounts of the Plains wars, but also a number of eyewitness accounts, most of which were written especially for him and which are almost impossible to find elsewhere. The Powder River Expedition, the tragedy at Fort Phil Kearny, the Wagon Box Fight, the defense of Beecher's Island, the Fetterman Massacre, the battles of Washita and Summit Springs, and the campaigns of Crook, Custer, and Miles against the Sioux all are fully treated. The introduction by James T. King sketches Brady's career and evaluates his sources. Includes an Index. ¶ 423 pages. USD 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.75 \| £UK 13.5 \| JP¥ 1892] Book number: 60922X2 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BREEDON, ROBERT (EDITOR). Trails West. National Geographic, Washington, DC: 1979. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. Sense the excitement rippling through a caravan setting out from Independence, Missouri, for distant, foreign Santa Fe. You will stand in ruts worn deep in sandstone by iron-clad wheels endlessly turning toward Oregon or California. You will trudge with tireless Mormons, sternly disciplined in their religious zeal, to their promised land. Contains more than 130 color photographs, many evoking the then wilderness that greeted early settlers. 59 historical illustrations provide a vivid picture of frontier life. Includes an Index. ¶ 207 pages. USD 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 4 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 516] Book number: 5699X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BREEDON, ROBERT L. (EDITOR). Trails West. National Geographic, Washington, DC: 1979. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Good condition. Sense the excitement rippling through a caravan setting out from Independence, Missouri, for distant, foreign Santa Fe. You will stand in ruts worn deep in sandstone by iron-clad wheels endlessly turning toward Oregon or California. You will trudge with tireless Mormons, sternly disciplined in their religious zeal, to their promised land. Contains more than 130 color photographs, many evoking the then wilderness that greeted early settlers. 59 historical illustrations provide a vivid picture of frontier life. Includes an Index. ¶ 207 pages. USD 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 4 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 516] Book number: 5699X2 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BREEDON, ROBERT L. (EDITOR). Trails West. National Geographic, Washington, DC: 1979. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. Sense the excitement rippling through a caravan setting out from Independence, Missouri, for distant, foreign Santa Fe. You will stand in ruts worn deep in sandstone by iron-clad wheels endlessly turning toward Oregon or California. You will trudge with tireless Mormons, sternly disciplined in their religious zeal, to their promised land. Contains more than 130 color photographs, many evoking the then wilderness that greeted early settlers. 59 historical illustrations provide a vivid picture of frontier life. Includes an Index. ¶ 207 pages. USD 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 4 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 516] Book number: 5699X3 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BROOKS, JUANITA; SHIPPS, JAN (FOREWORD). The Mountain Meadows Massacre. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman: 1991. Softcover. Brand new book. In the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children were spared. The men on the ground after the bloody deed took an oath that they would never mention the event again, either in public or in private. The leaders of the Mormon church also counseled silence. The first report, soon after the massacre, described it as an Indian onslaught at which a few white men were present, only one of whom, John D. Lee, was actually named. With admirable scholarship, Mrs. Brooks has traced the background of conflict, analyzed the emotional climate at the time, pointed up the social and military organization in Utah, and revealed the forces which culminated in the great tragedy at Mountain Meadows. The result is a near-classic treatment which neither smears nor clears the participants as individuals. It portrays an atmosphere of war hysteria, whipped up by recitals of past persecutions and the vision of an approaching army coming to drive the Mormons from their homes. ¶ 352 pages. USD 19.95 [Appr.: EURO 13.25 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1716] Book number: 64170X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BROWN, DEE. The Gentle Tamers: Women Of The Old Wild West. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 1981. Softcover. Brand new book. All aspects of western feminine life, which include a good deal about the western male, are covered in this lively, informal but soundly factual account of the women who built the West. Among those whose stories are included are Elizabeth Custer; Lola Montez, Ann Eliza Young, Josephine Meeker, Carry Nation, Esther Morris, and Virginia Reed. Dee Brown is author of numerous books including Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, The Fetterman Massacre and The Galvanized Yankees. The promise implicit in the title of this book is not broken. Mr. Brown has assembled a notable collection of women who took part in the migrations westward, mostly in the period of 1850-1880, and presents them, often with enthusiasm and always with sympathy. . . . I thoroughly enjoyed Mr. Brown's book.ÑStewart Holbrook, New York Herald Tribune Books Underlying the book's fascinating comedy and pathos and terror, there is a sociological overtone. Mr. Brown shows that the reactions of these women to their frontier experience were as important as male reactions in the development of American mores and American democracy.ÑMarshall Sprague, New York Times Book Review ¶ 317 pages. USD 16.95 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 \| £UK 10.25 \| JP¥ 1458] Book number: 58121X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BROWN, DEE. Wondrous Times On The Frontier. August House Publishers, Inc., Little Rock: 1991. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. Draws on more than fifty years of research in the good-humored social history of the American frontier. In a work rich in anecdotes about pioneers, women, lawmen, outlaws, newspapermen, schoolteachers, cowboys, tenerfeet, preachers, and native Americans, Brown portrays the diversity of the frontier experience. Includes an Index. ¶ 324 pages. USD 10.95 [Appr.: EURO 7.5 \| £UK 6.75 \| JP¥ 942] Book number: 48569X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BRUST, JAMES S.; POHANKA, BRIAN C. & BARNARD, SANDY. Where Custer Fell: Photographs Of The Little Bighorn Battlefield Then And Now. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman: 2007. Softcover. Brand new book. A stunning photographic record of the Little Bighorn. The Battle of the Little Bighorn has long held an eminent position among the chronicles of the mythic West. None of the men who rode with Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer to his Last Stand survived to tell the tale, but this stunning photography book provides a view of the battlefield as it must have existed in 1876. To create Where Custer Fell, authors James S. Brust, Brian C. Pohanka, and Sandy Barnard searched for elusive documents and photographs, made countless trips to the battlefield, and scrutinized all available sources. Each chapter begins with a concise, lively description of an episode in the battle. The narratives are graphically illustrated by historical photos, which are presented alongside modern photos of the same location on the battlefield. The book also features detailed maps and photographs of battle participants and the early photographers who attempted to tell their story. James S. Brust, M.D., a specialist in historical photographs and prints, has published frequently on these topics in journals and magazines. He resides in San Pedro, California. Brian C. Pohanka, who passed away as this book went to press, was a military historian and author of several books. He also was senior researcher, writer, and adviser for Time-Life Books, television documentaries, and feature films. Sandy Barnard is an independent scholar and writer specializing in the Indian wars. He is editor of Greasy Grass and resides in Wake Forest, North Carolina. ¶ 240 pages. USD 24.95 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2146] Book number: 64120X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BRYAN, HOWARD. Wildest Of The West: True Tales Of A Frontier Town On The Santa Fe Trail. Clear Light Publisher, Santa Fe: 1991. Softcover. Good condition. According to Charles Bennett writing in New Mexico Magazine, this book is destined to become compulsory reading for New Mexico history buffs. ¶ 269 pages. USD 55.85 [Appr.: EURO 37.25 \| £UK 33.75 \| JP¥ 4803] Book number: 5224X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.

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	ABBEY, EDWARD. The Journey Home: Some Words In Defense Of The American West. Plume Book, New York 1991. Softcover. Good condition. ¶ 242 pages. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 52311X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	ABBOTT, E. C. TEDDY BLUE & SMITH, HELENA HUNTINGTON; TYLER, RON (EDITOR). We Pointed Them North: Recollections Of A Cowpuncher. Lakeside Press, Chicago: 1991. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Very good condition. This is a book of reminiscences by an old-time cowboy, someone who knew a lot Montana history because he had lived it. Includes an Index. ¶ 385 pages. USD 29.45 [Appr.: EURO 19.75 \| £UK 18 \| JP¥ 2533] Book number: 44950X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	ADAMS, ANDY. The Log Of A Cowboy: A Narrative Of The Old Trail Days. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln / London: 1964. Softcover. Brand new book. J. Frank Dobie, in his Guide to Life and Literature of the Old Southwest, has declared that if all other books on trail-driving were destroyed, a reader could still get a just and authentic conception of trail men, trail work, range cattle, cow horses, and the cow country in general from The Log of a Cowboy. First published in 1903, Andy Adams' classic narrative, based on his own experiences during the days of the long drive, continues to be used and cited by historians of the Old West as the best and most reliable account of its kind. The Bison Book edition is reproduced from the first edition, with illustrations by E. Boyd Smith. ¶ 387 pages. USD 12.95 [Appr.: EURO 8.75 \| £UK 8 \| JP¥ 1114] Book number: 58036X2 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	ALDERSON, NANNIE T. & SMITH, HELENA HUNTINGTON; COSGROVE, J. O'H. (DRAWINGS). A Bride Goes West. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London: 1969. Softcover. Brand new book. A Bride Goes West is new and fresh because it is impregnated with a just sense of values about life. When Nannie Tiffany of West Virginia married Walt Alderson, who'd already been on the cattle trail for years, in 1882, they went to Montana to start a little ranch. There's plenty about ranching in this book but what is most valuable is about life, about people in this ranch country. Helena Huntington Smith is the author of The War on Powder River, also a Bison Book. A charming vignette of ranching life in Montana during the mid-1880s.ÑChoice Among hundreds of books written by and about range men, there are hardly a dozen valid ones concerning women. I pick A Bride Goes West and Agnes Morley Cleaveland's No Life for a Lady [also a Bison Book] as the two best books pertaining to ranch life by women with a woman's point of view dominating.ÑJ. Frank Dobie ¶ 273 pages. USD 17.95 [Appr.: EURO 12 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1544] Book number: 61012X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	ALLEN, JOHN LOGAN. Lewis And Clark And The Image Of The American Northwest. Dover Publications, Inc., New York: 1991. Softcover. Very good condition. Long before Meriwether Lewis and William Clark chartered the vast terriory between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean, the American Northwest filled American and European imaginations with dreams of an agricultural paradise and a short water passage to the Pacific. How these geographical images took formover the years and how Lewis and Clark's discoveries dramatically modified and reshapped them are the subject of this highly praised study. Includes an Index and 47 maps. ¶ 412 pages. USD 38.95 [Appr.: EURO 26 \| £UK 23.5 \| JP¥ 3349] Book number: 28461X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	ALLMENDINGER, BLAKE. Imagining The African American West. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2005. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. The literature of the African American West is the last racial discourse of the region that remains unexplored. Blake Allmendinger addresses this void in literary and cultural studies with Imagining the African American West Ñ the first comprehensive study of African American literature on the early frontier and in the modern urban American West. Allmendinger charts the terrain of African American literature in the West through his exploration of novels, histories, autobiographies, science fiction, mysteries, formula westerns, melodramas, experimental theater, and political essays, as well as rap music and film. He examines the histories of James P. Beckwourth and Oscar Micheaux; slavery, the Civil War, and the significance of the American frontier to blacks; and the Harlem Renaissance, the literature of urban unrest, rap music, black noir, and African American writers, including Toni Morrison and Walter Mosley. His study utilizes not only the works of well-known African American writers but also some obscure and neglected works, out-of-print books, and unpublished manuscripts in library archives. Much of the scholarly neglect of the Black West can be blamed on how the American West has been imagined, constructed, and framed in scholarship to date. In his study, Allmendinger provides the appropriate theoretical, cultural, and historical contexts for understanding the literature and suggests new directions for the future of black western literature. Blake Allmendinger is a professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is the coeditor of Over the Edge: Remapping the American West and the author of Ten Most Wanted: The New Western Literature. The most fascinating feature of this volume is the author's emphasis on twentieth-century cultural production about the West. Rather than solely focusing on a first-person western narratives or the western as a literary genre, Allmendinger illustrates the multiple ways that the concept of the West had symbolic significance among African American artists. . . . The author greatly expands and contemporizes our static notion of the West, illustrating the emblematic value of this mythic region for African Americans.ÑGerald R. Butters Jr., Journal of American History Exploring black noir detective novels of the twentieth century as well as the Watts Writers' Workshop and lyrics of rap music, Allmendinger has written a spellbinding account of African American imagery in American western literature and history. Extremely well-documented, this book provokes the imagination and provides fresh perspectives.ÑDelores Nason McBroome, Western Historical Quarterly Although [Allmendinger] emphasizes that this is a study of African American literature, the strength of the book comes from placing that literary study in the context of the multifarious expressive forms through which African Americans have imagined and represented black experience in the American West. Ñ Michael K. Johnson, Western American Literature Illuminating and creative in structure, content and argument. . . . Allmendinger endeavors to ameliorate the scholarly 'neglect' that the 'Black West' has endured, as a result of the problematic ways in which it has been imagined, constructed, and framed, by offering illuminating theoretical, cultural, and historical contexts for comprehending this literature. He is successful in his efforts, and the body of literature of African American history and life in the American West is much better for it.ÑMatthew C. Whitaker, Journal of Arizona History Allmendinger's use of research material can frequently let us look through the miasma produced by the smoke of popularity history to find new realities and new perspectives. Allmendinger offers historians of the West a highly rewarding read in Imagining the African American West.ÑJere W. Roberson, Great Plains Quarterly The first comprehensive study of the literature created by African Americans reflecting experiences in the modern, urban, multicultural West. . . . In addition to turning over new ground, Allmendinger helps readers view old ground through a new lens. ÑAfroAmericanHeritage.com Blake Allmendinger looks at how literature, film and music have examined the black experience in the American West. Such appreciations of history connect the present to important aspects of our past.ÑOmaha World-Herald Well-written and accessible to the general reader Imagining the African American West is both an important reference work and an interesting read.ÑRoundup Magazine ¶ 166 pages. USD 19.95 [Appr.: EURO 13.25 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1716] Book number: 59480X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	ARMOR, JOHN & WRIGHT, PETER; HERSEY, JOHN (COMMENTARY); ADAMS, ANSEL (PHOTOGRAPHS). Manzanar. Times Books, New York: 1988. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. On March 21,1942, the United States government quietly posted the first in an ominous series of Civilian Exclusion Orders in communities throughout the West. These orders would ultimately deny more than 110,000 men,women and children of Japanese descent their liberty and property, and would consign them for a period of up to four years to one of ten barren, isolated American concentration camps built specifically to contain them. Eloquent and important, by turns tragic and uplifting, Manzanar is the sobering chronicle of that unhappy episode in American history. This camp lay in a harsh yet strangely beautiful setting,on the edge of the desert along the eastern slope of California's Sierra Nevada. ¶ 169 pages. USD 27.20 [Appr.: EURO 18.25 \| £UK 16.5 \| JP¥ 2339] Book number: 60885X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BAGLEY, WILL. Blood Of The Prophets: Brigham Young And The Massacre At Mountain Meadows. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman: 2004. Softcover. Brand new book. The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagley's Blood of the Prophets is the most extensive investigation of the events surrounding the murder of some 120 men, women, and children since Juanita Brooks published her groundbreaking study, The Mountain Meadows Massacre, in 1950. Drawing from a wealth of primary sources, Bagley explains how the murders occurred, reveals the involvement of territorial governor Brigham Young, and explores the subsequent suppression and distortion of events related to the massacre. An exhaustive, meticulously documented, highly readable history.ÑThe New York Review of Books ¶ 544 pages. USD 24.95 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2146] Book number: 64062X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BAILEY, JACK; DARY, DAVID (EDITOR); RAND, CHARLES E. (TRANSCRIBED BY); SCHROEDER, CHARLES P. (FOREWORD). A Texas Cowboy's Journal: Up The Trail To Kansas In 1868. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman: 2006. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. In this earliest known day-by-day journal of a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas, Jack Bailey, a North Texas farmer, describes what it was like to live and work as a cowboy in the southern plains just after the Civil War. We follow Bailey as the drive moves northward into Kansas and then as his party returns to Texas through eastern Kansas, southwestern Missouri, northwestern Arkansas, and Indian Territory. For readers steeped in romantic cowboy legend, the journal contains surprises. Bailey's time on the trail was hardly lonely. We travel with him as he encounters Indians, U.S. soldiers, Mexicans, freed slaves, and cowboys working other drives. He and other crew membersÑincluding womenÑbattle hunger, thirst, illness, discomfort, and pain. Cowboys quarrel and play practical jokes on each other and, at night, sing songs around the campfire. David Dary's thorough introduction and footnotes place the journal in historical context. Here's a book every westerner, real or wannabe, should read and add to his or her library.ÑTony Hillerman, author of Skeleton Man Jack Bailey was most likely John W. Bailey (1831-?), a farmer from Jack County, Texas. David Dary is the author of Cowboy Culture: A Saga of Five Centuries. Charles E. Rand directs the Donald C. and Elizabeth M. Dickinson Research Center at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Charles P. Schroeder is Executive Director of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. ¶ 160 pages. USD 24.95 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2146] Book number: 62687X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BAKER, WILL. Mountain Blood. The University of Georgia Press, Athens & London: 1986. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. The recollections and yarns, historical meditations and reportage brought together in Mountain Blood are written out of a sensibility formed in the American West. They spring from a life spent in the West's harsh, grotesque, outlandishly beautiful terrain; from an imagination shaped by wild, circuitous mealtime stories of prospectors and of fistfights in isolated western towns; from the bitter history of a land where mining conglomerates dislodged the sourdoughs, where the ranch-style houses of suburbia occupy the great sweep of grass once hunted by the Lakota. Winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction. ¶ 175 pages. USD 10.50 [Appr.: EURO 7 \| £UK 6.5 \| JP¥ 903] Book number: 66431X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BARBOUR, BARTON H. Fort Union And The Upper Missouri Fur Trade. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman: 2000. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Presents the first comprehensive history of Fort Union, the nineteenth century's most important and longest-lived Upper Missouri River fur trading post. Barbour explores the economic, social, legal, cultural, and political significance of the fort which was the brainchild of Kenneth McKenzie and Pierre Chouteau, Jr., and a part of John Jacob Astor's fur trade empire. From 1830 to 1867, Fort Union symbolized the power of New York and St. Louis, and later, St. Paul merchants' capital in the West. The most lucrative post on the northern plains, Fort Union affected national relations with a number of native tribes, such as the Assiniboine, Cree, Crow, Sioux, and Blackfeet. It also influenced American interactions with Great Britain, whose powerful Hudson's Bay Company competed for Upper Missouri furs. Barbour shows how Indians, mixed-bloods, Hispanic-, African-, Anglo-, and other Euro-Americans living at Fort Union created a system of community law that helped maintain their unique frontier society. Many visiting artists and scientists produced a magnificent graphic and verbal record of events and people at the post, but the old-time world of fur traders and Indians collapsed during the Civil War when political winds shifted in favor of Lincoln's Republican Party. In 1865 Chouteau lost his trade license and sold Fort Union to new operators, who had little interest in maintaining the post's former culture. ¶ 320 pages. USD 24.95 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2146] Book number: 65449X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BARBOUR, BARTON H. Fort Union And The Upper Missouri Fur Trade. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman: 2000. Softcover. Brand new book. Presents the first comprehensive history of Fort Union, the nineteenth century's most important and longest-lived Upper Missouri River fur trading post. Barbour explores the economic, social, legal, cultural, and political significance of the fort which was the brainchild of Kenneth McKenzie and Pierre Chouteau, Jr., and a part of John Jacob Astor's fur trade empire. From 1830 to 1867, Fort Union symbolized the power of New York and St. Louis, and later, St. Paul merchants' capital in the West. The most lucrative post on the northern plains, Fort Union affected national relations with a number of native tribes, such as the Assiniboine, Cree, Crow, Sioux, and Blackfeet. It also influenced American interactions with Great Britain, whose powerful Hudson's Bay Company competed for Upper Missouri furs. Barbour shows how Indians, mixed-bloods, Hispanic-, African-, Anglo-, and other Euro-Americans living at Fort Union created a system of community law that helped maintain their unique frontier society. Many visiting artists and scientists produced a magnificent graphic and verbal record of events and people at the post, but the old-time world of fur traders and Indians collapsed during the Civil War when political winds shifted in favor of Lincoln's Republican Party. In 1865 Chouteau lost his trade license and sold Fort Union to new operators, who had little interest in maintaining the post's former culture. ¶ 320 pages. USD 19.95 [Appr.: EURO 13.25 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1716] Book number: 65450X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BLOOMFIELD, SUSANNE GEORGE & REED, ERIC MELVIN. Adventures In The West: Stories For Young Readers. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2007. Softcover. Brand new book. Before MP3 players, DVDs, and video games, before even TV and radio, American children entertained themselves by reading. Often what they read were popular magazines aimed at the whole family; a weekly newspaper such as The Youth's Companion or a monthly magazine like St. Nicholas were about all a turn-of-the-century family could afford. But what these publications afforded was invaluable, and it is this education in imagination and American life that Adventures in the West revisits. Adventures in the West brings together twenty-six stories from The Youth's Companion and St. Nicholas to offer a unique perspective on the values of the time. The stories also reveal the common myths, attitudes, and prejudices of life on the western frontier, reflected in the lessons these publications imparted to a young audience. To enhance the reader's understanding, the editors have added historical and cultural background for each story. Some of the best writers of the time, including L. Frank Baum, Hamlin Garland, and Mary Austin, write of a West that mirrors American history and the values the authors sought to promote. Filled with the exploits of cowpunchers, pioneers, courageous Indians, and plucky animals, these riveting stories also embody the beliefs and experiences of an era and tell more than one story of their day. Susanne George Bloomfield is Distinguished Martin Professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Eric Melvin Reed is a graduate assistant in English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. These are stories about cowboys, Indians, animals, pioneer families, and boys and girls. They reflect the time in which they were written, but their underlying lessons of decency and morality are just as valued today. . . . This is a fine addition to Western Americana fiction collections and will be useful to literature and history teachers.ÑSchool Library Journal The stories do more than relate interesting tales. They are windows to the world west of the Mississippi as it transformed from wilderness to a land of farms and cities, from the preserve of Indians to a land claimed mostly by white settlers. . . . [Readers] will appreciate these stories for their adventures, pioneer spirit and colorful characters.ÑOmaha World-Herald [T]he stories are uplifting and teach the value of honesty, pluck, hard work, and true grit.ÑKLIATT The various writing styles and authenticity of subject matter make these stories an excellent way to introduce students to American West culture.ÑTrue West ¶ 280 pages. USD 19.95 [Appr.: EURO 13.25 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1716] Book number: 58594X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BLUMBERG, RHODA. The Incredible Journey Of Lewis And Clark. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, New York: 1987 Hardcover with dustjacket in protective mylar cover. Library discard. Good condition but part of front endpaper has been removed.. Nothing could stop this team of daring explorers who set out to chart this vast wilderness in 1804. Tells the gritty story of this incredible journey and the enterprising pair who headed it. Includes an Index. ¶ 144 pages. USD 15.20 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1307] Book number: 22836X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	EDITORS OF TIME-LIFE BOOKS. The Gamblers. Time-Life Books, Alexandria: 1978 Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. Gambling was as prevalent in the West as dust storms, cowboys and sudden death. Here is a most graphic portrayal of it as it existed in the Old West. ¶ 240 pages. USD 24.99 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2149] Book number: 33366X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	EDITORS OF TIME-LIFE BOOKS. The Spanish West. Time-Life Books, New York: 1976. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Very Good condition. For 300 years the territory north of Mexico was part of a vast Spanish empire that at one point covered half the known world. Here is a highly graphic look at that society. Includes an index. ¶ 240 pages. USD 15.24 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1311] Book number: 33271X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BRADY, CYRUS TOWNSEND; KING, JAMES T. (INTRODUCTION). Indian Fights And Fighters. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 1971. Softcover. Brand new book. Originally published in 1904, Indian Fights and Fighters regularly appears in bibliographies of significant works on the history of the American West. Embracing almost three decades of Plains history, it contains not only Brady's clear, fast-paced accounts of the Plains wars, but also a number of eyewitness accounts, most of which were written especially for him and which are almost impossible to find elsewhere. The Powder River Expedition, the tragedy at Fort Phil Kearny, the Wagon Box Fight, the defense of Beecher's Island, the Fetterman Massacre, the battles of Washita and Summit Springs, and the campaigns of Crook, Custer, and Miles against the Sioux all are fully treated. The introduction by James T. King sketches Brady's career and evaluates his sources. Includes an Index. ¶ 423 pages. USD 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.75 \| £UK 13.5 \| JP¥ 1892] Book number: 60922X2 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BREEDON, ROBERT (EDITOR). Trails West. National Geographic, Washington, DC: 1979. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. Sense the excitement rippling through a caravan setting out from Independence, Missouri, for distant, foreign Santa Fe. You will stand in ruts worn deep in sandstone by iron-clad wheels endlessly turning toward Oregon or California. You will trudge with tireless Mormons, sternly disciplined in their religious zeal, to their promised land. Contains more than 130 color photographs, many evoking the then wilderness that greeted early settlers. 59 historical illustrations provide a vivid picture of frontier life. Includes an Index. ¶ 207 pages. USD 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 4 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 516] Book number: 5699X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BREEDON, ROBERT L. (EDITOR). Trails West. National Geographic, Washington, DC: 1979. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Good condition. Sense the excitement rippling through a caravan setting out from Independence, Missouri, for distant, foreign Santa Fe. You will stand in ruts worn deep in sandstone by iron-clad wheels endlessly turning toward Oregon or California. You will trudge with tireless Mormons, sternly disciplined in their religious zeal, to their promised land. Contains more than 130 color photographs, many evoking the then wilderness that greeted early settlers. 59 historical illustrations provide a vivid picture of frontier life. Includes an Index. ¶ 207 pages. USD 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 4 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 516] Book number: 5699X2 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BREEDON, ROBERT L. (EDITOR). Trails West. National Geographic, Washington, DC: 1979. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. Sense the excitement rippling through a caravan setting out from Independence, Missouri, for distant, foreign Santa Fe. You will stand in ruts worn deep in sandstone by iron-clad wheels endlessly turning toward Oregon or California. You will trudge with tireless Mormons, sternly disciplined in their religious zeal, to their promised land. Contains more than 130 color photographs, many evoking the then wilderness that greeted early settlers. 59 historical illustrations provide a vivid picture of frontier life. Includes an Index. ¶ 207 pages. USD 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 4 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 516] Book number: 5699X3 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BROOKS, JUANITA; SHIPPS, JAN (FOREWORD). The Mountain Meadows Massacre. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman: 1991. Softcover. Brand new book. In the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children were spared. The men on the ground after the bloody deed took an oath that they would never mention the event again, either in public or in private. The leaders of the Mormon church also counseled silence. The first report, soon after the massacre, described it as an Indian onslaught at which a few white men were present, only one of whom, John D. Lee, was actually named. With admirable scholarship, Mrs. Brooks has traced the background of conflict, analyzed the emotional climate at the time, pointed up the social and military organization in Utah, and revealed the forces which culminated in the great tragedy at Mountain Meadows. The result is a near-classic treatment which neither smears nor clears the participants as individuals. It portrays an atmosphere of war hysteria, whipped up by recitals of past persecutions and the vision of an approaching army coming to drive the Mormons from their homes. ¶ 352 pages. USD 19.95 [Appr.: EURO 13.25 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1716] Book number: 64170X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BROWN, DEE. The Gentle Tamers: Women Of The Old Wild West. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 1981. Softcover. Brand new book. All aspects of western feminine life, which include a good deal about the western male, are covered in this lively, informal but soundly factual account of the women who built the West. Among those whose stories are included are Elizabeth Custer; Lola Montez, Ann Eliza Young, Josephine Meeker, Carry Nation, Esther Morris, and Virginia Reed. Dee Brown is author of numerous books including Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, The Fetterman Massacre and The Galvanized Yankees. The promise implicit in the title of this book is not broken. Mr. Brown has assembled a notable collection of women who took part in the migrations westward, mostly in the period of 1850-1880, and presents them, often with enthusiasm and always with sympathy. . . . I thoroughly enjoyed Mr. Brown's book.ÑStewart Holbrook, New York Herald Tribune Books Underlying the book's fascinating comedy and pathos and terror, there is a sociological overtone. Mr. Brown shows that the reactions of these women to their frontier experience were as important as male reactions in the development of American mores and American democracy.ÑMarshall Sprague, New York Times Book Review ¶ 317 pages. USD 16.95 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 \| £UK 10.25 \| JP¥ 1458] Book number: 58121X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BROWN, DEE. Wondrous Times On The Frontier. August House Publishers, Inc., Little Rock: 1991. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. Draws on more than fifty years of research in the good-humored social history of the American frontier. In a work rich in anecdotes about pioneers, women, lawmen, outlaws, newspapermen, schoolteachers, cowboys, tenerfeet, preachers, and native Americans, Brown portrays the diversity of the frontier experience. Includes an Index. ¶ 324 pages. USD 10.95 [Appr.: EURO 7.5 \| £UK 6.75 \| JP¥ 942] Book number: 48569X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BRUST, JAMES S.; POHANKA, BRIAN C. & BARNARD, SANDY. Where Custer Fell: Photographs Of The Little Bighorn Battlefield Then And Now. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman: 2007. Softcover. Brand new book. A stunning photographic record of the Little Bighorn. The Battle of the Little Bighorn has long held an eminent position among the chronicles of the mythic West. None of the men who rode with Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer to his Last Stand survived to tell the tale, but this stunning photography book provides a view of the battlefield as it must have existed in 1876. To create Where Custer Fell, authors James S. Brust, Brian C. Pohanka, and Sandy Barnard searched for elusive documents and photographs, made countless trips to the battlefield, and scrutinized all available sources. Each chapter begins with a concise, lively description of an episode in the battle. The narratives are graphically illustrated by historical photos, which are presented alongside modern photos of the same location on the battlefield. The book also features detailed maps and photographs of battle participants and the early photographers who attempted to tell their story. James S. Brust, M.D., a specialist in historical photographs and prints, has published frequently on these topics in journals and magazines. He resides in San Pedro, California. Brian C. Pohanka, who passed away as this book went to press, was a military historian and author of several books. He also was senior researcher, writer, and adviser for Time-Life Books, television documentaries, and feature films. Sandy Barnard is an independent scholar and writer specializing in the Indian wars. He is editor of Greasy Grass and resides in Wake Forest, North Carolina. ¶ 240 pages. USD 24.95 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2146] Book number: 64120X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BRYAN, HOWARD. Wildest Of The West: True Tales Of A Frontier Town On The Santa Fe Trail. Clear Light Publisher, Santa Fe: 1991. Softcover. Good condition. According to Charles Bennett writing in New Mexico Magazine, this book is destined to become compulsory reading for New Mexico history buffs. ¶ 269 pages. USD 55.85 [Appr.: EURO 37.25 \| £UK 33.75 \| JP¥ 4803] Book number: 5224X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.