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Western Americana



link to catalog page LAGRAND, Indian Metropolis

Indian Metropolis

Native Americans in Chicago, 1945-75

Author: James B. LaGrand
Pub Date: October 2005

The inside story of American Indian life in Chicago   learn more...

link to catalog page SMITH, Japanese American Midwives

Japanese American Midwives

Culture, Community, and Health Politics, 1880-1950

Author: Susan L. Smith
Pub Date: October 2005

The separate but unequal politics of health affecting American minority women   learn more...

link to catalog page LAUSE, Young America

Young America

Land, Labor, and the Republican Community

Author: Mark A. Lause
Pub Date: 2005

How working people's republican "free labor" ethos changed the national agenda at a crucial period in U.S. history   learn more...

link to catalog page MARTINEZ, My Life in San Juan Pueblo

My Life in San Juan Pueblo

Stories of Esther Martinez

Author: Edited by Sue-Ellen Jacobs and Josephine Binford with M. Ellien Carroll, Henrietta M. Smith, and Tilar Mazzeo
Pub Date: 2004

American Indian stories from famed Traditional Storyteller for the National Park Service, Esther Martinez   learn more...

link to catalog page AUSTIN, The Land of Journeys' Ending Author: Mary Austin
Pub Date: 2003

With its indigenous peoples, whose life patterns and art forms reflected a long intimacy with the land, its permeable borderlands, its multiple languages and traditions, its long and complicated history of encounters between diverse peoples, its unique landscape and ecology, the Southwest offered, in Austin's view, a model for the future.   learn more...

link to catalog page BATES, Lost Legacy

Lost Legacy

The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch

Author: Irene Bates and E. Gary Smith
Pub Date: 2003

New in paper. The history of the inherited office of Presiding Patriarch in the Mormon Church from its creation by Joseph Smith in 1833 to its demise in 1979.   learn more...

link to catalog page HICKS, Mormonism and Music Author: Michael Hicks
Pub Date: September 2003

A history of the Mormon faith and people as they use the art of music to define and re-define their religious identity   learn more...

link to catalog page MATHES, The Standing Bear Controversy

The Standing Bear Controversy

Prelude to Indian Reform

Author: Valerie Sherer Mathes and Richard Lowitt
Pub Date: September 2003

The first full length study of the Standing Bear trial and its concequences on the larger American and Native American societies: the rise of the organized humanitarian reform movement, changes in the administration of Indian affairs, and the passage of the General Allotment Act of 1887.   learn more...

link to catalog page LOTCHIN, Fortress California, 1910-1961

Fortress California, 1910-1961

From Warfare to Welfare

Author: Roger W. Lotchin
Pub Date: 2002

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link to catalog page BERWANGER, The Frontier against Slavery

The Frontier against Slavery

Western Anti-Negro Prejudice and the Slavery Extension Controversy

Author: Eugene H. Berwanger
Pub Date: 2002

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