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Tells for the first time the story of how during World War II, the British, with the aid of forty-four oilfield roughnecks from the US, developed vital shallow pools of oil in Britain's famed Sherwood Forest. The Secret of Sherwood Forest is based on extensive research using thousands of reports, letters, and documents.

Using innovative and standard archaeological analyses of bullets and cartridges, eyewitness accounts and other primary sources, the battle at Little Big Horn is reappraised. The author argues the end came amid terror and disarray with no determined fighting and little firearm resistance.

A digest of information about the stallions whose descendants appear in the early volumes of the American Quarter Horse Association studbook. The author reports his research of the bloodlines of the foundation sires, their pedigrees, and the highlights of their careers.

At the age of 79 Collinson began writing and this work is a collection of letters, articles and transcriptions of his conversations about the Old West. Collinson tells of the last days of Buffalo hunting on the Plains, the clashes of hunters, cowboys and Indians, and the nature of violence.

This work focuses on the African-American infantry service from 1869 to 1891 in Texas, Indian Territory, the Dakotas, Montana and Arizona. Faced with prejudice, discrimination and lynching at the post and in combat, African-American regiments emerged as tough, committed and disciplined units.

This study argues that the first two generations of Puritan settlers in New England were not hostile toward their Indian neighbours but sought peaceful and equitable relations as a first step to moulding the Indians into neo-Englishman.

When faced with a deadly threat, Americans have the right to stand their ground and fight - that is, they have no duty to retreat. This study of violence and American values examines violence not only on the American frontier and in American society at large, but in American jurisprudence as well.

A history of the fur trade, set in the upper Missouri country and focusing primarily on the St Louis firm of Pierre Chouteau, Jr (usually known as the American Fur Company). The author carries the story from 1840 up to its logical conclusion in 1865.

Studies the origins of American Indian policy, exploring the feuding between the national government and the states over who would formulate and execute Indian policy, and the contrast between the humanitarian instincts motivating policy-makers and the injustice Indians experienced on the frontier.

Recounts the reservation period of the Cheyennes and the Arapahoes in western Oklahoma. This is an investigation - and an indictment - of the assimilation and reservation policies thrust upon them in the latter half of the nineteenth century, policies that succeeded only in doing enormous damage to sturdy, vital people.

A study of the growth of the Peyote religion among the Navaho Indians, and the conflict attending it. Covering all aspects of Peyotism - political, religious and philosophical - the author makes a case for those who believe in Peyotism to practice their religion unhampered by law or social stigma.

Volume 4 in the Oklahoma Series in Classical CultureThis thought-provoking book argues the contributions of women to the earliest advances in human knowledge, especially the discovery and development of agriculture, were much greater than has generally been acknowledged. By examining skeletons and grave goods, archeological evidence from settlement sites, and rock carvings and sculpted figurines, and by drawing anthropological parallels to later societies, Ehrenberg throws new light on the lives and social status of women in Europe from the Palaeolithic era to the Iron Age. The high status almost certainly enjoyed by women as the main providers of food in early prehistoric societies probably diminished in the later Neolithic Age, as men assumed an increasingly dominant role in farming. Even so, in the Bronze Age and Iron Age societies, individual women held positions of power: Ehrenberg considers the possibility that Minoan Crete was a matriarchy and that Boudica was only one of a number of female Celtic leaders.

An examination of the craft of silversmithing among the Navaho and Pueblo Indians, based on museum inspections, field work, interviews and a brief apprenticeship to a Navaho silversmith. Adair aims to relate the art to its social framework as well as provide an analysis of the economic aspects.

C. L. Sonnichsen tells the story of the Mescalero Apaches from the earliest records to the modern day, from the Indian's point of view. In early days the Mescaleros moved about freely. Their principal range was between the Río Grande and the Pecos in New Mexico, but they hunted into the Staked Plains and southward into Mexico. They owned nothing and everything.