University Of Oklahoma Press imprint: 604 books
Terrible Justice
Sioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 1854–1868
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
They called themselves Dakota, but the explorers and fur traders who first encountered these people in the sixteenth century referred to them as Sioux, a corruption of the name their enemies called them. That linguistic dissonance foreshadowed a series of bloodier conflicts between Sioux warriors...
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
Conquest and Resistance in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
In August 1680 the Pueblo Indians of northern New Mexico arose in fury to slay their Spanish colonial overlords and drive any survivors from the land. Andrew Knaut explores eight decades of New Mexican history leading up to the revolt, explaining how the newcomers had disrupted Pueblo life in far-reaching...
By His Own Hand?
The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
For two centuries the question has persisted: Was Meriwether Lewis’s death a suicide, an accident, or a homicide? By His Own Hand? is the first book to carefully analyze the evidence and consider the murder-versus-suicide debate within its full historical context. The historian contributors to this...
Return to Bull Run
The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
"This comprehensively researched, well-written book represents the definitive account of Robert E. Lee’s triumph over Union leader John Pope in the summer of 1862. . . . Lee’s strategic skills, and the capabilities of his principal subordinates James Longstreet and Stonewall Jackson, brought...
Arizona's Deadliest Gunfight
Draft Resistance and Tragedy at the Power Cabin, 1918
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
On a cold winter morning, Jeff Power was lighting a fire in his remote Arizona cabin when he heard a noise, grabbed his rifle, and walked out the front door. Someone in the dark shouted, “Throw up your hands!” Shots rang out from inside and outside the cabin, and when it was all over, Jeff’s...
So Long for Now
A Sailor's Letters from the USS Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Elden Duane Rogers died on March 19, 1945, one of the eight hundred who perished on the aircraft carrier USS Franklin that day. It was his nineteenth birthday.
Write home often, the navy told sailors like Elden, thinking it would keep up morale among sailors and those waiting for them stateside....
by Stanley Vestal
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Here is a story, in thinly disguised fictional form, of Plains Indians, especially a Cheyenne chief, Whirlwind—his manner of life, his beliefs, and particularly, his love of his son. The villain is a Mandan who is given refuge in the Cheyenne camp and then wreaks havoc with the lives of his hosts....
The Good Times Are All Gone Now
Life, Death, and Rebirth in an Idaho Mining Town
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Julie Whitesel Weston left her hometown of Kellogg, Idaho, but eventually it pulled her back. Only when she returned to this mining community in the Idaho Panhandle did she begin to see the paradoxes of the place where she grew up. Her book combines oral history, journalistic investigation, and personal...
Bill Sublette
Mountain Man
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Bill Sublette (1799-1845) led two lives. Renowned as a hardy mountain man, he ranged the Missouri, Big Horn, Yellowstone, and Sweetwater River country between 1823 and 1833 hunting beaver, fighting Indians, and unwittingly opening the West for settlers (he proved that wagons could be used effectively...
Shot at and Missed
Recollections of a World War II Bombardier
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
In this riveting narrative, Jack R. Myers recounts his experiences as a B-17 bombardier during World War II. Commissioned a second lieutenant in 1944 at age twenty, Myers began flying missions with the 2nd Bomb Group, U.S. Fifteenth Air Force. He learned firsthand the exhilaration—and terror—of...
The Great Call-Up
The Guard, the Border, and the Mexican Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
On June 18, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson called up virtually the entire army National Guard, some 150,000 men, to meet an armed threat to the United States: border raids covertly sponsored by a Mexican government in the throes of revolution. The Great Call-Up tells for the first time the complete...
Battles and Massacres on the Southwestern Frontier
Historical and Archaeological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Battles and massacres are intimate affairs for combatants and others involved, their physical and emotional violence often stemming from fervor and fear. Although mass killing characterizes both battles and massacres, the two are profoundly different. Battles take place between armed forces; massacres...
John Ford
Hollywood's Old Master
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
John Ford remains the most honored director in Hollywood history, having won six Academy Awards and four New York Film Critics Awards. Drawing upon extensive written and oral history, Ronald L. David explores Ford’s career from his silent classic, The Iron Horse, through the transition to sound,...
Baby Doe Tabor
The Madwoman in the Cabin
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
The story of Baby Doe Tabor has seduced America for more than a century. Long before her body was found frozen in a Leadville shack near the Matchless Mine, Elizabeth McCourt “Baby Doe” Tabor was the stuff of legend. The stunning divorcée married Colorado’s wealthiest mining magnate and became...