Madness in the Heart by Donahoe, Edward Originally published in 1937, this was Donahoe's first novel, big with unrestrained vitality. He recreated the crudeness and power and evil that oil brought into the land; and in the mighty figure of Thomas McGraw he imaged all that was great, both good and bad, in the American builders of Empire. This loosely ficticious book so infuriated some of the leading families of Ponca City, Oklahoma, that they destroyed every copy of the book they possibly could; thus making it now very rare and quite valuable. John J. McGraw, great-grandson of the central character, has republished the book, replacing the vaguely disguised characters and other aspects with their actual models.

Standing Bear Is a Person: The True Story of a Native American's Quest for Justice by Dando-Collins, Stephen In a federal courtroom in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1879, Standing Bear, clan chief of the small and peaceful Ponca tribe, was in court demanding the same basic right that white Americans enjoyed-the right to be recognized legally as a human being. The compelling, behind-the-scenes story of that landmark court case, and the subsequent reverberations of the judge's ruling across nineteenth-century America is told in Stephen Dando-Collin's "brisk and evocative account" ("Kirkus"). It is a story of memorable Old West characters who joined to fight for Standing Bear and paved his way to the courthouse-the former Indian-fighting Army general who changed sides to stand with Standing Bear, the crusading Midwestern newspaper editor who had once been a gun-toting frontier preacher, and the "most beautiful Indian maiden of her time," Bright Eyes. Full of colorful characters, battles of legal wits, and the twists and turns of a cause in search of an audience, "Standing Bear Is a Person" is a captivating read.

Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation: Writings from America's Heartland by Wallis, Michael A deeply sympathetic, colorful evocation of life on the American prairies