The American Beaver and His Works


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Howes M802 "Probably the first study of the behavior of a single animal in the mordern sense and certainly the first American work in comparative psychology."--Gach. "..long regarded as a classic on the subject." DAB, Vol. XIII, 185.










America's Western Frontiers


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Includes information on the discovery of gold in California, the Pony Express, missions and missionaries in California, stagecoaches, transcontinental railroad, etc.




Local Knowledge, Global Stage


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6. The Saga of the L. H. Morgan Archive, or How an American Marxist Helped Make a Bourgeois Anthropologist the Cornerstone ofSoviet Ethnography -- 7. "I Wrote All My Notes in Shorthand": A First Glance into the Treasure Chest of Franz Boas's Shorthand Field Notes -- 8. Genealogies of Knowledge in the Alberni Valley: Reflecting on Ethnographic Practice in the Archive of Dr. Susan Golla -- 9. The File Hills Farm Colony Legacy -- Contributors




Western Americana


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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications


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February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index