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  • The Amazing Life of Jeffrey Deroine

    Enslaved Trader, Prairie Diplomat, and Missouri Settler

    by Greg Olson ...
    Born into slavery in St. Louis in 1806, Jeffrey Deroine (de-rō-NAY) worked and lived in the heart of a rapidly changing nation. Forced to work in the fur trade on the Missouri River, he experienced Missouri’s rapid transformation from territory to statehood. As a trader, he helped his hometown grow from a small trading center into a large river town. Later, he participated in the founding of the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Indigenous Missourians

    Ancient Societies to the Present

    by Greg Olson ...
    Winner of the 2024 Missouri Conference on History Book Award; the 2024 Missouri History Book Award; and Honoree for the 2024 Society of Midland Authors Award for HistoryThe history of Indigenous people in present-day Missouri is far more nuanced, complex, and vibrant than the often-told tragic stories of conflict with white settlers and forced Indian removal would lead us to believe. In this path ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Black Coffee Lightning

    David Lynch Returns to Twin Peaks

    by Greg Olson ...
    David Lynch is an international icon of visionary artistic innovation, humanistic thought and philanthropy, and spiritual exploration, and Twin Peaks: The Return is his magnum opus, a mythopoetic summation of his deepest beliefs and concerns. In Black Coffee Lightning: David Lynch Returns to Twin Peaks, Greg Olson (David Lynch: Beautiful Dark), in his characteristically intimate and personal way, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Ioway in Missouri

    by Greg Olson ...
    Series Book 1 - Missouri Heritage Readers
    Although their ancestors came from the Great Lakes region and they now live in several midwestern states, the Ioway (Baxoje) people claim a rich history in Missouri dating back to the eighteenth century. Living alongside white settlers while retaining their traditional way of life, the tribe eventually had to make difficult choices in order to survive—choices that included unlikely alliances, ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Voodoo Priests, Noble Savages, and Ozark Gypsies

    The Life of Folklorist Mary Alicia Owen

    by Greg Olson ...
    Series Book 1 - Missouri Biography Series
    Folklorist Wayland Hand once called Mary Alicia Owen “the most famous American Woman Folklorist of her time.” Drawing on primary sources, such as maps, census records, court documents, personal letters and periodicals, and the scholarship of others who have analyzed various components of Owen’s multifaceted career, historian Greg Olson offers the most complete account of her life and work to date. ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • David Lynch

    Beautiful Dark

    by Greg Olson ...
    Series series The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series
    For nearly 40 years, David Lynch's works have enthralled, mystified, and provoked viewers. Lynch's films delve into the subjective consciousness of his characters to reveal both the depraved darkness and luminous spirituality of human nature. From his experimental shorts of the 1960s to feature films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and INLAND EMPIRE, Lynch has ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Ioway Life

    Reservation and Reform, 1837–1860

    by Greg Olson ...
    Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    In 1837 the Ioways, an Indigenous people who had called most of present-day Iowa and Missouri home, were suddenly bound by the Treaty of 1836 with the U.S. federal government to restrict themselves to a two-hundred-square-mile parcel of land west of the Missouri River. Forcibly removed to the newly created Great Nemaha Agency, the Ioway men, women, and children, numbering nearly a thousand, were ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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  • The Crossing

    by Michael Connelly ...
    Series Book 18 - A Harry Bosch Novel
    In this "tense" thriller and #1 New York Times bestseller, Detective Harry Bosch teams up with Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller to track down a killer who just might find them first (Wall Street Journal).Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help. A woman has been brutally murdered in her bed and all evidence points to Haller's ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Born of Lakes and Plains

    Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West

    by Anne F. Hyde ...
    **Finalist for the 2023 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize"Immersive and humane." —Jennifer Szalai, New York TimesA fresh history of the West grounded in the lives of mixed-descent Native families who first bridged and then collided with racial boundaries.**Often overlooked, there is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest

    Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792

    by Susan Sleeper-Smith ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest recovers the agrarian village world Indian women created in the lush lands of the Ohio Valley. Algonquian-speaking Indians living in a crescent of towns along the Wabash tributary of the Ohio were able to evade and survive the Iroquois onslaught of the seventeenth century, to absorb French traders and Indigenous refugees, to export peltry, and to harvest ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Little Crow

    Spokesman for the Sioux

    by Gary Clayton Anderson ...
    Government officials and missionaries wanted all Sioux men to become self-sufficient farmers, wear pants, and cut their hair. The Indians, confronted by a land-hungry white population and a loss of hunting grounds, sought to exchange title to their homeland for annuities of cash and food, schools and teachers, and farms and agricultural knowledge. By 1862 the Sioux realized that their extensive ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian

    The Crime That Should Haunt America

    by Gary Clayton Anderson ...
    Mention “ethnic cleansing” and most Americans are likely to think of “sectarian” or “tribal” conflict in some far-off locale plagued by unstable or corrupt government. According to historian Gary Clayton Anderson, however, the United States has its own legacy of ethnic cleansing, and it involves American Indians.In Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian, Anderson uses ethnic cleansing as an analytical ... Read more

    $15.89 USD