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• The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America

  Scott Weidensaul

  

  Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier—the boundary between complex Native cultures and the first colonizing Europeans.
  
  Here is the older, wilder, darker history of a time when the land between the Atlantic and the Appalachians was contested ground—when radically different societies adopted and adapted the ways of the other, while struggling for control of what all considered to be their land.
  
  The First Frontier traces two and a half centuries of history through poignant, mostly unheralded personal stories—like that of a Harvard-educated Indian caught up in seventeenth-century civil warfare, a mixed-blood interpreter trying to straddle his white and Native heritage, and a Puritan woman wielding a scalping knife whose bloody deeds still resonate uneasily today. It is the first book in years to paint a sweeping picture of the Eastern frontier, combining vivid storytelling with the latest research to bring to life modern America’s tumultuous, uncertain beginnings.
  

  
   

• Prairie Ghost: Pronghorn and Human Interaction in Early America (Wildlife Management Institute Books)

  Richard E. McCabe', u"Bart W. O'Gara", u'Henry M. Reeves

  
  Now available in paperback, this lavishly illustrated companion volume to Pronghorn: Ecology and Management explores the fascinating relationship of pronghorn with people in early America, from prehistoric evidence through the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. The only one of fourteen pronghorn-like genera to survive the great extinction brought on by human migration into North America, the pronghorn has a long and unique history of interaction with humans on the continent, a history that until now has largely remained unwritten.

  With nearly 150 black-and-white photographs, 16 pages of color illustrations, plus original artwork by Daniel P. Metz, Prairie Ghost: Pronghorn and Human Interaction in Early America tells the intriguing story of humans and these elusive big game mammals in an informative and entertaining fashion that will appeal to historians, biologists, sportsmen and the general reader alike.

  
   

• Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience

  
  
   

• Missouri Pacific #2 (11-S-46) Site: A LATE ARCHAIC OCCUPATION. VOL. 3 (American Bottom Archaeology) (FAI-270 Series)

  Andrew C. Fortier, Dale L. McElrath

  
  This analysis details the results of investigations at the Missouri Pacific No. 2 site, one of the type sites for the American Bottom Late Archaic Prairie Lake phase (1200-600 B.C.). Excavators discovered nearly nine hundred features associated with a long-term Terminal Archaic occupation. In the American Bottom such base locales appear to cluster around large meander lakes and suggest increased populations and longer settlement use during this period.