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David Wallace Adams, Education for Extinction (1995). A powerful history of American Indian boarding schools.
American Experience (PBS), “Last Stand at Little Big Horn.” A nuanced one-hour documentary about the famous battle.
Sarah Barringer Gordon, The Mormon Question (2002). An exploration of plural marriage debates in national politics.
Joy S. Kasson, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West (2001). A wonderful study of Buffalo Bill’s performances and their role in shaping mythologies of the West.
Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest (1987) and Something in the Soil (2000). Limerick’s lively, accessible books are an excellent introduction to historians’ recent rethinking of western history.
María Montoya, Translating Property (2002). Tells the story of the displacement of Mexican Americans (and their neighbors) in struggles over the Maxwell Land Grant in New Mexico and Colorado.