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The unifying theme is the notion that the Native American is doomed, by radical constitution, by historical necessity, by the realities of Indian-white relations, to disappear from the face of the earth. Dipple is surely right in seeing the importance of this idea from the late eighteenth century on. He makes a convincing case that it was crucial in every intellectual and policy development in the succeeding decades. -New Mexico Historical review

Fifteen letters George Armstrong Custer contributed under the apt pseudonym Nomad to the New York-based sportsman's journal Turf, Field and Farm.

Defeat and death at the Little Bighorn gave General George Custer and his Seventh Cavalry a kind of immortality. In "Custer's Last Stand, " Brian W. Dippie investigates the body of legend surrounding that battle on a bloody Sunday in 1876. His survey of the event in poems, novels, paintings, movies, jokes, and other ephemera amounts to a unique reflection on the national character.

Editor Brian W. Dippie presents a variety of looks at Charles Marion Russell (1864-1926), whose perspectives on the changing West and talents with oil, watercolor, bronze and more made him a lasting name. With illustrations.

Totally absorbing. Fascinating insights". -- American Indian Quarterly. "The best study of American cultural attitudes regarding the Indian". -- Canadian Review of American Studies". A remarkably fine book. Enlightening and delightful". -- American Historical Review. "Should be on the reading list of every course on the history of the American Indian". -- Pacific Historical Review.

Few American artists are as enduringly popular as Frederic Remington (1861-1909). His bronzes and paintings of the American West have become iconic images, shaping the way Americans view the history of the West. This generously illustrated volume is the first to examine the exceptional collection of his works housed at the Frederic Remington Art Museum in Ogdensburg, New York.In his richly detailed portrait of the artist, Western art scholar B...