Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada
Mythic Discourse and the Postcolonial State

Jennifer Reid

Reid offers a look at the religious background of Louis Riel who was hung for his role in fomenting revolutions in the Canadian North-West Territory but has now become a national hero.

Religions of the Americas series

 

Dark Spaces: Montana's Historic Penitentiary at Deer Lodge

Ellen Baumler
Photographs by J. M. Cooper

Baumler and Cooper collaborate to tell the human story of Montana's first federal penal facility.

 

 

Where a Hundred Soldiers Were Killed: The Struggle for the Powder River Country in 1866 and the Making of the Fetterman Myth

John H. Monnett

". . . magnificent in scope and a valuable contribution to the history of the American West."--Tucson Citizen
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