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3 reviews
John J., Jr. Pitney

Red River Books, 2001

A tool for politicians and counterterrorism warriors
This unique book breaks a lot of new ground as a practical guide to modern political campaigning, but it has a greater hidden value: "The Art of Political Warfare" is a manual, of sorts, for those leading the global war against terrorists. Pitney takes the elements of military conflict - strategy, leadership, coordination, morale, deception, intelligence and the rest - and applies them to ...

Letters from the Dust Bowl

5 reviews
Caroline Henderson

Red River Books, 2003

Dreams can save a person from an otherwise mean life
Alvin Turner likes to quip that "Letters from the Dustbowl" is the "best written book" that the University of Oklahoma Press will publish this year. Indeed, Caroline Henderson, the author of the columns and letters it contains, may be the most quoted authority on the social aspects of the dustbowl. Her views on Oklahoma farm life were disseminated across the country both in her columns for ...

The Sioux: Life and Customs of a Warrior Society (Civilization of the American Indian Series)

2 reviews
Royal B. Hassrick

Red River Books, 1988

The Best Book on the Sioux
I have an old copy of Royal B. Hassrick's book, THE SIOUX: LIFE AND CUSTOMS OF A WARRIOR SOCIETY. I got it in a bookstore in Denver in 1972. It's the best book book on the Sioux I've ever read. It's carefully researched, scholarly and it concentrates on the period from the 1830s to the 1870s, the period when the Sioux were the dominant force on the Plains. These are the Sioux who are ...

Selections from Homer's Iliad

6 reviews

Red River Books, 2001

Sine Qua Non
So, you've made it through a year of college-level classical Greek -- Attic, or perhaps one of those texts that starts out with Homeric Greek. Now you're ready to read the Iliad, the single greatest work of western literature. What you now need is a good solid school text, with vocabulary, grammatical appendices, and copious notes. This is the book for you. I used this as an undergraduate ...

Running With Bonnie and Clyde: The Ten Fast Years of Ralph Fults

20 reviews
John Neal Phillips

Red River Books, 2002

Most factual book as far as research.
I know this for a fact by the author. My dad, Ralph Fults is who the book is about. John Neal Phillips did not just take my dad's word on the events in the book, he interviewed many people to back up the details of each story. If you want to encourage a young person, who thinks they cannot turn their life around, please give this book to them. It will be a great encouragement to them. If my ...

Ancient Egyptian Medicine

5 reviews
J. F. Nunn

Red River Books, 2002

Scholarly,yet easy to read and enjoy.
As a physician and Egyptian ,I have long history of interest in ancient Egyptian medicine.Most books on the subject are either incomplete or confusing. DR Nunn`s book fills a void long felt by students of the subject.

Nightland

6 reviews
Louis Owens

Red River Books, 2001

A Storm Out Of The West
Billy Keene and Will Striker, the main characters of Louis Owens' novel Nightland, are half-breed Cherokees living on failing ranches in New Mexico that their grandparents bought from the Mexican-Americans whose family had a grant from Spain [who took the land from Native Americans in the first place]. They're out hunting deer when a man [who we find out is of Pueblo Indian blood] falls from the ...

Circle of Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Western Women Writers

2 reviews

Red River Books, 2001

Out of stock? Out of mind Publisher!
Barnes and Blew have assembled a landmark collection of powerful writing by a wide spectrum of western women. The poems, stories, and essays in this collection remain as timely and instructive and powerful as ever. If Penguin has let the book go out of stock--or worse, allows it to go out of print--then a pox on its house. Once upon a time, before bottom feeders made the bottom line ...

Charles M. Russell: The Life and Legend of America's Cowboy Artist

4 reviews
John Taliaferro, Charles M. Russell

Red River Books, 2003

"THE" COWBOY ARTIST
Art critics spend much time arguing about the value of western art and as to whether it can really be classified as art at all. Some of the more snobby critics attempt to discredit western painters by referring to them as "illustrators" as if that changes anything. They argue that if an artist is commissioned by other than the loftiest of patrons or if their work is used primarily to illuminate ...

The United States Cavalry: An Illustrated History, 1776-1944
Gregory J. W. Urwin

Red River Books, 2003

With color and verve, Gregory J. W. Urwin presents the history of the mounted forces of the United States. He combines combat reports, personality profiles, and political and social overviews to present a complete picture of a bygone era extending from the Revolutionary War well into the twentieth century. For more than a century, the U.S. Cavalry played a prominent role in American military conflicts, serving as both a frontier police force ...

Chancers: A Novel (Volume 36 in The American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series)
Gerald Robert Vizenor

Red River Books, 2001

Centered on the volatile issue of the repatriation of Native American skeletal remains, Chancers follows a group of student Solar Dancers who set out to resurrect Native remains housed in the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Wolf and the Winds
Frank Bird Linderman

Red River Books, 2001

Frank Bird Linderman was a popular, prolific, early twentieth-century recorder of Indian life and culture on the Northern Plains. Linderman lived among the Indians - studying, loving, and grieving for a people whose way of life was under siege. During his study and immersion, Linderman developed a deep admiration for Frozen Water, a spiritual leader who devoted his life to saving the Gros Ventres from an unenviable fate. Wolf and the Winds is ...

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