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The Battle of Beecher Island and the Indian War of 1867-1869

Second Edition

University Press of Colorado

During the morning hours of September 17, 1868, on a sandbar in the middle of the Republican River in eastern Colorado, a large group of Cheyenne Dog Men, Arapaho, and Sioux attacked about fifty civilian scouts under the command of Major George A. Forsyth.

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Adapting to the Land

A History of Agriculture in Colorado

University Press of Colorado
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Study of the Raft

University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
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Night and Darkness in Ancient Mesoamerica

University Press of Colorado

Night and Darkness in Ancient Mesoamerica is the first volume to explicitly incorporate how nocturnal aspects of the natural world were imbued with deep cultural meanings and expressed by different peoples from various time periods in Mexico and Central America.

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The Dawn of Industrial Agriculture in Iowa

Anthropology, Literature, and History

University Press of Colorado
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The Myths of the Popol Vuh in Cosmology, Art, and Ritual

University Press of Colorado

This volume offers an integrated and comparative approach to the Popol Vuh, analyzing its myths to elucidate the ancient Maya past while using multiple lines of evidence to shed light on the text.

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Becoming Colorado

The Centennial State in 100 Objects

University Press of Colorado

In Becoming Colorado, historian William Wei paints a vivid portrait of Colorado history using 100 of the most striking artifacts from Colorado’s history.

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The Archaeology of Greater Nicoya

Two Decades of Research in Nicaragua and Costa Rica

University Press of Colorado
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Eben Smith

The Dean of Western Mining

University Press of Colorado

David Forsyth recounts the life of Eben Smith, an integral but little-known figure in Colorado mining history.

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Remembering Lucile

A Virginia Family's Rise from Slavery and a Legacy Forged a Mile High

University Press of Colorado

Author Polly McLean depicts the rise of the African American middle class through the story of Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Jones—CU's true first black graduate—and her family, from slavery in northern Virginia to middle-class life in the American West.

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Identity Politics of Difference

The Mixed-Race American Indian Experience

University Press of Colorado
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Navajo Women of Monument Valley

Preservers of the Past

University Press of Colorado
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Engaged Archaeology in the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico

University Press of Colorado

This volume of proceedings from the fifteenth biennial Southwest Symposium makes the case for engaged archaeology, an approach that considers scientific data and traditional Indigenous knowledge alongside archaeological theories and methodologies.

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A Forest of History

The Maya after the Emergence of Divine Kingship

University Press of Colorado

Travis Stanton and Kathryn Brown’s A Forest of History: The Maya after the Emergence of Divine Kingship presents acollection of essays that critically engage with and build upon the lasting contributions A Forest of Kings made to Maya epigraphy, iconography, material culture, and history.

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