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  | | Gold Seeker(Updated) Adventures of a Belgian Argonaut during the Gold Rush Years (Yale Western Americana Series) by Jean-Nicolas Perlot, Howard R. Lamar, Helen Harding Bretnor, Jeanand#8211 Paperback, 452 Pages, Published 1998 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-07645-5, ISBN: 0-300-07645-2 ""A splendid piece of Americana, for Perlot was a witty, gingery, intelligent man with a sharp eye for significant detail. . . . His book . . . has been translated and thoroughly annotated by the late Helen Harding Bretnor, who deserves the gratitude of all readers with a taste for the history of the Old West."-Atlantic Monthly "A lively memoir."-Evan S. Connell, New York Times Book Review "Provides a narrative as amusing as it is info ..." |
 | | The American Far West in the 20th Century(Illustrated) (The Lamar Series in Western History) by Earl Pomeroy, Richard W. Etulain, Professor Howard R. Lamar, Howard R. Lamar Paperback, 600 Pages, Published 2009 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-15852-6, ISBN: 0-300-15852-1 "An eminent scholar’s monumental and highly original history of the twentieth-century American West In this richly insightful survey that represents the culmination of decades of research, a leading western specialist argues that the unique history of the American West did not end in the year 1900, as is commonly assumed, but was shaped as much—if not more—by events and innovations in the twentieth century. Earl Pomeroy gathers copious i ..." |
 | | Charlie Siringo's West An Interpretive Biography by Howard R. Lamar, Richard W. Etulain Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2020 by University Of New Mexico Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-3670-5, ISBN: 0-8263-3670-1 "Charlie Siringo (1855-1928) lived the quintessential life of adventure on the American frontier as a cowboy, Pinkerton detective, writer, and later as a consultant for early western films. Siringo was one of the most attractive, bold, and original characters to live and flourish in the final decades of the Wild West. His love of the cattle business and of cowboy life were so great that in 1885 he published A Texas Cowboy, or Fifteen Yea ..." |
 | | Down the Santa Fe Trail and Into Mexico Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin 1846-1847 by Stella M. Drumm, Howard R. Lamar, Susan Shelby Magoffin, Stella Madeleine Drumm, Howard Roberts Lamar Paperback, 348 Pages, Published 1926 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-09467-1, ISBN: 0-300-09467-1 "Her journal describes the excitement, routine, and dangers of a successful merchant's wife. On the trail for fifteen months, moving from house to house and town to town, she became adept in Spanish and the lingo of traders, and wrote down in detail the customs and appearances of places she went." |
 | | The Trader on the American Frontier(1st Edition) Myth's Victim (Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest) by Howard Roberts Lamar, Professor Howard R. Lamar, Kristin Emig Parsons Hardcover, 56 Pages, Published 1977 by Texas A&M University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-89096-033-2, ISBN: 0-89096-033-X " Like the cowboy, the frontier trader has been so wrapped in myth that our understanding of who he was and what he did is largely shaped by stereotype: the Indian trader, for example - gunrunner, trader in slaves, and corrupter of the noble red man - or the mountain man, variously seen as romantic wilderness hero or degenerate white savage. Examining these and other myths, Lamar shows that early trade was, on the contrary, one of th ..." |
 | | The New Encyclopedia of the American West(1st Edition) (The Lamar Series in Western History) by Professor Howard R. Lamar, Howard R. Lamar, Howard Roberts Lamar Hardcover, 1,344 Pages, Published 1998 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-07088-0, ISBN: 0-300-07088-8 "The American West is an evocative term that conjures up images of cowboys and Indians, covered wagons, sheriffs and outlaws, and endless prairies as well as contemporary images ranging from national parks to the oil, aerospace, and film industries. In addition, the West encompasses not only the past and present of the area west of the Mississippi but also the frontier as it moved across each of the fifty American states, offering the pr ..." |
 | | Shapes of Their Thoughts(1st Edition) Reflections of Culture Contact in Northwest Coast Indian Art by Victoria Wyatt Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 1984 by Univ Of Oklahoma Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-1908-3, ISBN: 0-8061-1908-X |
 | | Texas Crossings The Lone Star State and the American Far West, 1836-1986 by Howard R. Lamar, Lewis L. Gould Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4773-0442-6, ISBN: 1-4773-0442-8 "“Texas is not a place, it is a commotion!” exclaimed one early visitor to the state, underscoring the mobility and “get-ahead” spirit that have always characterized Texas and its people. In these thought-provoking essays, Howard R. Lamar looks specifically at the “crossings” that have characterized Texas history to see what effect these migrations to and through Texas have had on Texas, the Southwest, and links between Texas and Califor ..." |
 | | Completing the Union Alaska, Hawai'i, and the Battle for Statehood (Histories of the American Frontier Series) by John S. Whitehead, William Cronon, Howard R. Lamar, Martin Ridge, David J. Weber Paperback, 456 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of New Mexico Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-3637-8, ISBN: 0-8263-3637-X "As late as mid-1941 the two territories of Alaska and Hawaii were little known by most Americans. Alaska was seen as a frozen wasteland and Hawaii, an exotic outpost in the mid-Pacific with a multi-racial, particularly Asian, population. The bombing of Pearl Harbor in late 1941 and the capture of two Aleutian Islands in 1942 made the two territories central theaters of World War II. Thousands of Americans came to know Alaska and Hawai ..." |
 | | Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915(1st Edition) (Histories of the American Frontier Series) by Sandra L. Myres, William Cronon, Martin Ridge, David J. Weber, Howard Roberts Lamar, J. Myres, Howard R. Lamar Paperback, 387 Pages, Published 1993 by Univ Of New Mexico Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-0626-5, ISBN: 0-8263-0626-8 "Professor Myres gives frontier women a voice they never had. She uses extensive source material by and about women--letters, journals, and reminiscences from over 400 collections--to study the impact of the frontier on women's lives and the role of women in the West. She offers a major reinterpretation of the experience of pioneer women, including that of Indian, Mexican, French, black, and Anglo-American women. The account recreates in ..." |
 | | The Old Southwest, 1795–1830 Frontiers in Conflict by Thomas Dionysius Clark, Howard R. Lamar, Professor Thomas D. Clark, John D. Guice Paperback, 354 Pages, Published 1996 by University Of Oklahoma Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-2836-8, ISBN: 0-8061-2836-4 "During the early years of the U.S. Republic, its vital southwestern quadrant-encompassing the modern-day states between South Carolina and Louisiana-experienced nearly unceasing conflict. In The Old Southwest, 1795-1830: Frontiers in Conflict, historians Thomas D. Clark and John D. W. Guice analyze the many disputes that resulted when the United States pushed aside a hundred thousand Indians and overtook the final vestiges of Spanish, F ..." |
 | | America's Frontier Heritage(Updated) (Histories of the American Frontier Series) by Ray Allen Billington, Foreword-Martin Ridge, Howard R. Lamar, Ray Allen Billingham Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1975 by University Of New Mexico Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-0310-3, ISBN: 0-8263-0310-2 "The hypothesis advanced in Frederick Jackson Turner's famous 1893 essay, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, has been debated by three generations of scholars. The pioneering experience, Turner suggested, accounted for some of the distinctive characteristics of the American people: during three centuries of expansion their attitudes toward democracy, nationalism and individualism were altered, and they developed distin ..." |
 | | Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico(Reprint) The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847 (American Tribal Religions) (Yale Western Americana Paperbound, Yw-3.) by Susan Shelby Magoffin, Stella M. Drumm, Howard R. Lamar, Stella Madeleine Drumm, Sgtella M. Drumm Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1982 by Bison Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-8116-5, ISBN: 0-8032-8116-1 "In June 1846 Susan Shelby Magoffin, eighteen years old and a bride of less than eight months, set out with her husband, a veteran Santa Fe trader, on a trek from Independence, Missouri, through New Mexico and south to Chihuahua. Her travel journal was written at a crucial time, when the Mexican War was beginning and New Mexico was occupied by Stephen Watts Kearny and the Army of the West. Her journal describes the excitement, routine, ..." |
 | | The Frontier in History North America and Southern Africa Compared by Professor Howard R. Lamar, Leonard Monteath Thompson, Howard Roberts Lamar, Et Al Lamar Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 1981 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-02742-6, ISBN: 0-300-02742-7 |
 | | Cow-Boys and Colonels(Updated) Narrative of a Journey Across the Prairie and Over the Black Hills of Dakota by Wililam Conn, Howard R. Lamar, Edmond Mandat-Grancey Paperback, 362 Pages, Published 1984 by University Of Nebraska Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-6562-2, ISBN: 0-8032-6562-X "This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Griffith, ..." |
 | | The Canadian Frontier, 1534-1760(Updated) (Histories of the American Frontier (Paperback)) by William John Eccles:, Howard R. Lamar, William Cronon, Martin Ridge, David J. Weber Paperback, 238 Pages, Published 1983 by University Of New Mexico Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-0706-4, ISBN: 0-8263-0706-X "This account of the French era in Canada is the most original treatment of the subject in over a century. The analysis and ideas in the first edition helped create a whole new school of thought about Canadian history. Over 50,000 copies have been used in classrooms in Canada and the United States in the decade since its publication. In this revised edition, the author updates the bibliography and adds new ideas advanced in the 1970s tha ..." |
 | | California Odyssey(1st Edition) An Overland Journey on the Southern Trails, 1849 (The American Trails Series) by William R. Goulding, Patricia A. Etter, Howard R. Lamar, Professor Howard R. Lamar, William Robinson Goulding Hardcover, 364 Pages, Published 2009 by The Arthur H. Clark Company ISBN-13: 978-0-87062-373-8, ISBN: 0-87062-373-7 |
 | | The Indian Frontier, 1763-1846(1st Edition) (Histories of the American Frontier Series) by R. Douglas Hurt, William Cronon, Howard R. Lamar, Martin Ridge, David J. Weber Paperback, 318 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of New Mexico Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-1966-1, ISBN: 0-8263-1966-1 "This synthesis of Indian-white relations west of the Appalachians from the end of the French and Indian War to the beginning of the Mexican War is not simply a story of whites versus Indians. The term "whites" encompassed British, Spanish, and American settlers and governments, and the hundreds of Indian tribes who opposed them were no more unified than their European colonizers. The author focuses on relations among the British, the Sp ..." |
 | | Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts(1st Edition) Transforming Visions of the American West by Professor Jules David Prown, Nancy K. Anderson, William Cronon, Professor Brian W. Dippie, Martha A. Sandweiss, Professor Howard R. Lamar, Susan P. Schoelwer Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 1992 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-05722-5, ISBN: 0-300-05722-9 "A common theme of western American art--from the depictions of Indians by early explorers to the monumental landscapes of Albert Bierstadt to the vibrant images of Georgia O'Keeffe--is the transformation of the land through European-American exploration and resettlement. In this handsome book, leading authorities look at western American art of the past three centuries, reevaluating it from the perspectives of history, art history, and ..." |
 | | Texas Crossings(1st Edition) The Lone Star State and the American Far West, 1836-1986 by Howard Roberts Lamar, Howard R. Lamar, Howard R. . Hardcover, 82 Pages, Published 1991 by Univ Of Texas Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-292-78115-3, ISBN: 0-292-78115-6 "Explores the influence of Texans and other Southerners on the character and history of the southwestern states." |
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