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The Civil War Years in Utah
The Kingdom of God and the Territory That Did Not Fight
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
In 1832 Joseph Smith, Jr., the Mormons’ first prophet, foretold of a great war beginning in South Carolina. In the combatants’ mutual destruction, God’s purposes would be served, and Mormon men would rise to form a geographical, political, and theocratic “Kingdom of God” to encompass the...
At Sword's Point, Part 1
A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The Utah War of 1857–58, the unprecedented armed confrontation between Mormon Utah Territory and the U.S. government, was the most extensive American military action between the Mexican and Civil wars. At Sword’s Point presents in two volumes the first in-depth narrative and documentary history...
At Sword's Point, Part 2
A Documentary History of the Utah War, 1858–1859
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The Utah War—an unprecedented armed confrontation between Mormon-controlled Utah Territory and the U.S. government—was the most extensive American military action between the U.S.-Mexican and Civil Wars. Drawing on author-editor William P. MacKinnon’s half-century of research and a wealth of...
by Kenneth L. Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
The diaries and letters of women who braved the overland trails during the great nineteenth-century westward migration are treasured documents in the study of the American West. These eight firsthand accounts are among the best ever written. They were selected for the power with which they portray...
As Far as the Eye Could Reach
Accounts of Animals along the Santa Fe Trail, 1821–1880
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Travelers and traders taking the Santa Fe Trail’s routes from Missouri to New Mexico wrote vivid eyewitness accounts of the diverse and abundant wildlife encountered as they crossed arid plains, high desert, and rugged mountains. Most astonishing to these observers were the incredible numbers of...
Red Power Rising
The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
During the 1960s, American Indian youth were swept up in a movement called Red Power—a civil rights struggle fueled by intertribal activism. While some define the movement as militant and others see it as peaceful, there is one common assumption about its history: Red Power began with the Indian...
Both Sides of the Bullpen
Navajo Trade and Posts
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Between 1880 and 1940, Navajo and Ute families and westward-trending Anglos met in the “bullpens” of southwestern trading posts to barter for material goods. As the products of the livestock economy of Navajo culture were exchanged for the merchandise of an industrialized nation, a wealth of cultural...
Custer, Cody, and Grand Duke Alexis
Historical Archaeology of the Royal Buffalo Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
On a chilly January morning in 1872, a special visitor arrived by train in North Platte, Nebraska. Grand Duke Alexis of Russia had already seen the cities and sights of the East—New York, Washington, and Niagara Falls—and now the young nobleman was about to enjoy a western adventure: a grand buffalo...
A Toast to Eclipse
Arpad Haraszthy and the Sparkling Wine of Old San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
The sparkling wines of California rival the best French Champagnes today, but their place at our tables came about through careful craftsmanship that began more than a century ago. The predecessor of today’s California bubbly was Eclipse Champagne, the first commercially successful California sparkling...
Windfall
Wind Energy in America Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Not long ago, energy experts dismissed wind power as unreliable and capricious. Not anymore. The industry has arrived, and the spinning blades of this new kid on the electric power block offer hope for a partial solution to our energy problems by converting nature’s energy into electricity without...
Disconnect: The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics
The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Red states, blue states . . . are we no longer the United States? Morris P. Fiorina here examines today’s party system to reassess arguments about party polarization while offering a cogent overview of the American electorate.
Building on the arguments of Fiorina’s acclaimed Culture War?...
Jersey Gold
The Newark Overland Company's Trek to California, 1849
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
When gold fever struck in 1849, John S. Darcy—prominent physician, general, and president of the New Jersey Railroad—assembled a company to travel overland to California. In Jersey Gold, Margaret Casterline Bowen and Gwendolyn Joslin Hiles tell the story of that colorful company of some thirty...
Portrait of Route 66
Images from the Curt Teich Postcard Archives
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
By the time Route 66 received its official numerical designation in 1926, picture postcards had become popular travel souvenirs. At the time, these postcards with colorful images served as advertisements for roadside businesses.
While cherished by collectors, these postcard depictions do not...
Bitter Waters
The Struggles of the Pecos River
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Rising at 11,750 feet in the Sangre de Cristo range and snaking 926 miles through New Mexico and Texas to the Rio Grande, the Pecos River is one of the most storied waterways in the American West. It is also one of the most troubled. In 1942, the National Resources Planning Board observed that the...