University Of Oklahoma Press imprint: 604 books
Sea of Sand
A History of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Sculpted into graceful contours by countless centuries of wind and water, the Great Sand Dunes sprawl along the eastern fringes of the vast San Luis Valley of south-central Colorado. Covering an area of nearly thirty square miles, they are the tallest aeolian, or wind-produced, dunes in North America,...
Narrating the Landscape
Print Culture and American Expansion in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The American nineteenth century saw a largely rural nation confined to the Eastern Seaboard conquer a continent and spawn increasingly dense commercial metropolises. This time of unprecedented territorial and economic growth has long been thought to find its most sweeping visual equivalent in the...
Outdoors in the Southwest
An Adventure Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
More college students than ever are majoring in Outdoor Recreation, Outdoor Education, or Adventure Education, but fewer and fewer Americans spend any time in thoughtful, respectful engagement with wilderness. While many young people may think of adrenaline-laced extreme sports as prime outdoor activities,...
Ruined City
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
When originally published in 1993, Ruined City (Fei Du) was promptly banned by China’s State Publishing Administration, ostensibly for its explicit sexual content. Since then, award-winning author Jia Pingwa’s vivid portrayal of contemporary China’s social and economic transformation has become...
Kit Carson
The Life of an American Border Man
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
History has portrayed Christopher "Kit" Carson in black and white. Best known as a nineteenth-century frontier hero, he has been represented more recently as an Indian killer responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Navajos. Biographer David Remley counters these polarized views, finding...
Depredation and Deceit
The Making of the Jicarilla and Ute Wars in New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
The Trade and Intercourse Acts passed by Congress between 1796 and 1834 set up a system for individuals to receive monetary compensation from the federal government for property stolen or destroyed by American Indians. By the end of the Mexican-American War, both Anglo-Americans and Nuevomexicanos...
Animal Stories
A Lifetime Collection
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Legendary western author Max Evans has spent his entire life working with cows and horses. These rangeland animals, and other creatures both domestic and wild, play pivotal roles in his stories. This magnificent collection, beautifully illustrated by cowboy artist Keith Walters, showcases twenty-six...
by A. Gabriel Meléndez
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
In the shadow of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico’s Mora Valley harbors the ghosts of history: troubadours and soldiers, Plains Indians and settlers, families fleeing and finding home. There, more than a century ago, villagers collect scraps of paper documenting the valley’s history...
The Indian Tipi: Its History, Construction, and Use
Its History, Construction, and Use
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
When the first edition of this book was published in 1957, the art of making a tipi was almost lost, even among American Indians. Since that time a tremendous resurgence of interest in the Indian way of life has occurred, resurgence due in part, at least, to the Laubins' life-long efforts at preservation...
The Mixtecs of Oaxaca
Ancient Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The Mixtec peoples were among the major original developers of Mesoamerican civilization. Centuries before the Spanish Conquest, they formed literate urban states and maintained a uniquely innovative technology and a flourishing economy. Today, thousands of Mixtecs still live in Oaxaca, in present-day...
Creative Alliances
The Transnational Designs of Indigenous Women's Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Tribal histories suggest that Indigenous peoples from many different nations continually allied themselves for purposes of fortitude, mental and physical health, and creative affiliations. Such alliance building, Molly McGlennen tells us, continues in the poetry of Indigenous women, who use the genre...
Voices of Resistance and Renewal
Indigenous Leadership in Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Western education has often employed the bluntest of instruments in colonizing indigenous peoples, creating generations caught between Western culture and their own. Dedicated to the principle that leadership must come from within the communities to be led, Voices of Resistance and Renewal applies...
All Canada in the Hands of the British
General Jeffery Amherst and the 1760 Campaign to Conquer New France
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
In 1760, General Jeffery Amherst led the British campaign that captured Montreal and began the end of French colonial rule in North America. All Canada in the Hands of the British is a detailed account of Amherst’s successful military strategy and soldiers’ experiences on both sides.
Newly...
Transforming Ethnohistories
Narrative, Meaning, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Anthropologists need history to understand how the past has shaped the present. Historians need anthropology to help them interpret the past. Where anthropologists’ and historians’ needs intersect is ethnohistory. The contributors to this volume have been inspired in large part by the teaching...