"The story of George H. Mahon, member of the US House of Representatives from 1935-1978 for the Nineteenth Congressional District of Texas. He worked on the House Committee on Appropriations during hi
From 1894 to 1934, a span of forty years that saw its parent company go from coal mining to oil drilling, the Texas Pacific Mercantile and Manufacturing Company operated and managed the various commer
Incorporating previously overlooked materials, including tribal council records, oral histories, and reservation newspapers, Ruling Pine Ridge explores the political history of South Dakota’s Oglala L
African American women enslaved by the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Creek Nations led lives ranging from utter subjection to recognized kinship. Regardless of status, during Removal, th
"There's no denying [Hartman's] abilities as a photographer. Shape, color, and light, he has an impeccable eye for composition, for juxtaposing line against line, drawing the viewer's eye into his sub
The long-intertwined communities of the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation and the bordering towns in Sheridan County, Nebraska, mark their histories in sensational incidents and quiet human connect
?Reinhardt furnishes revealing portraits of Gerald One Feather, Dick Wilson, Russell Means; he offers a telling indictment of Pine Ridge’s economy. He is one of the few historians who understands the
Peering from under his work hat into the dawn mist, the young man watched the light emerge. He walked slowly and quietly through the cornfield and felt his shoulders brush the young sturdy stalks of
A voice as resonant as her love of the Plains, a commitment even deeperAuthor Mari Sandoz was as passionate about Plains peoples as she was about language and literary acclaim. That the mastery of Cr
During the nineteenth century, the rights of American Indians were frequently violated by the president and ignored or denied enforcement by federal courts. However, at times Congress treated the Indi
Urban Villages and Local Identities examines immigration to the Great Plains by surveying the experiences of three divergent ethnic groups?Volga Germans, Omaha Indians, and Vietnamese?that settled in
Urban Villages and Local Identities examines immigration to the Great Plains by surveying the experiences of three divergent ethnic groups?Volga Germans, Omaha Indians, and Vietnamese?that settled in
In twenty-five years of syndicated columns in small-town Texas newspapers between 1930 and 1960, Nellie Witt Spikes described her life on the High Plains, harking back to earlier times and reminiscin
The first comprehensive view of women on the North American Plains, these essays explore the richness, variety, and complexity of their experiences. From prehistory to the present, the Great Plains ha
The first comprehensive view of women on the North American Plains, these essays explore the richness, variety, and complexity of their experiences. From prehistory to the present, the Great Plains ha
In 1910 a central Nebraska newspaper, the Aurora Sun, printed an editorial condemning a physician it dubbed “the notorious Dr. Flippin.” Dr. Charles Flippin’s reputation came under siege throughout th
Some 30,000 American Indians call Albuquerque, New Mexico, home, and twelve Indigenous nations, mostly Pueblo, live within a fifty-mile radius of it. Yet no study until now has focused on the complexi
