Advanced poetics are at play in this work that is both a tribute to the land and a moving exploration of family ties. The Texas plateau known as the Staked Plain occupies... Read More

A billionaire capitalist shadowed by his Red Guard activism during China’s Cultural Revolution, Luo Ying is committed to facing down his own, and his country’s, Maoist... Read More

This history of the Church of Latter-day Saints in Germany during Hitler’s murderous reign should be taken as yet another warning of how basic goodness—in this case... Read More

A bobcat needs a wristwatch like a cactus needs a calendar. Yes, we have time, that peculiar human tendency to grid our existence into segments of seconds, minutes, hours, et... Read More

This significant work of social history assesses the experiences of tourists who journeyed through the American West in the 19th century. Travel to the American West became much... Read More

Collectively, these essays work to reignite love for the nation’s wilds while also reminding readers of their awesome and terrible power. Outdoors in the Southwest, a... Read More

Fortunate Eagle’s battle for Indian rights is always tempered with humor and humanity—his strength is that he makes the reader laugh while he also proves a point. Adam... Read More

Thousands of spectators around the world enjoyed the exciting performances of Native Americans dressed in authentic-looking garb at popular Wild West shows during their... Read More

Americans are familiar with the challenges of illegal Mexican immigration into the US, but are much less accustomed to learning about the experiences of such immigrants after... Read More

America may be forgiven for not knowing that Benjamin Albert Botkin (1901–1975) was its folklorist, since Botkin’s greatest popular impact occurred in the 1930s and 1940s,... Read More

Like the “Okies” immortalized in John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, the impoverished Oklahoma farmers in William Cunningham’s 1935 novel understand that unchecked... Read More

“Ripped from the headlines,” this book connects current and recent events as seemingly disparate as the murderous conflicts between narco-traffikers on the streets of... Read More