University Of Oklahoma Press imprint: 604 books
The Dig
In Search of Coronado's Treasure
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Life couldn’t be worse for archaeology grad student Jim Hunt. Having lost his funding at a major midwestern university, and his partner, he desperately needs a breakthrough to revitalize his work and his life. Could a summer dig in map-dot Lyons, Kansas, jumpstart his fledgling career? Out of options,...
Horseback Schoolmarm
Montana, 1953–1954
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
In 1953, Margot Pringle, newly graduated from Cornell University, took a job as a teacher in a one-room school in rural eastern Montana, sixty miles southeast of Miles City. “Miss Margot,” as her students called her, would teach at the school for one year. This book is the memoir she wrote then,...
Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud
Custer, the Press, and the Little Bighorn
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The defeat of George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn was big news in 1876. Newspaper coverage of the battle initiated hot debates about whether the U.S. government should change its policy toward American Indians and who was to blame for the army’s loss—the...
America's Best Female Sharpshooter
The Rise and Fall of Lillian Frances Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Today, most remember “California Girl” Lillian Frances Smith (1871–1930) as Annie Oakley’s chief competitor in the small world of the Wild West shows’ female shooters. But the two women were quite different: Oakley’s conservative “prairie beauty” persona clashed with Smith’s tendency...
by Edward L. Bernays
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Public relations as described in this volume is, among other things, society’s solution to problems of maladjustment that plague an overcomplex world. All of us, individuals or organizations, depend for survival and growth on adjustment to our publics.
Publicist Edward L. Bernays offers here...
Blood on the Marias
The Baker Massacre
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
On the morning of January 23, 1870, troops of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry attacked a Piegan Indian village on the Marias River in Montana Territory, killing many more than the army’s count of 173, most of them women, children, and old men. The village was afflicted with smallpox. Worse, it was the wrong...
C.C. Slaughter
Rancher, Banker, Baptist
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Born during the infant years of the Texas Republic, C. C. Slaughter (1837–1919) participated in the development of the southwestern cattle industry from its pioneer stages to the modern era. Trail driver, Texas Ranger, banker, philanthropist, and cattleman, he was one of America’s most famous...
A Texas Cowboy's Journal
Up the Trail to Kansas in 1868
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
In this earliest known day-by-day journal of a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas, Jack Bailey, a North Texas farmer, describes what it was like to live and work as a cowboy in the southern plains just after the Civil War. We follow Bailey as the drive moves northward into Kansas and then as his party...
Brummett Echohawk
Pawnee Thunderbird and Artist
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
A true American hero who earned a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, and a Congressional Gold Medal, Brummett Echohawk was also a Pawnee on the European battlefields of World War II. He used the Pawnee language and counted coup as his grandfather had done during the Indian wars of the previous century....
A Contested Art
Modernism and Mestizaje in New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
When New Mexico became an alternative cultural frontier for avant-garde Anglo-American writers and artists in the early twentieth century, the region was still largely populated by Spanish-speaking Hispanos. Anglos who came in search of new personal and aesthetic freedoms found inspiration for their...
Serving the Nation
Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 1800–1907
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Well before the creation of the United States, the Cherokee people administered their own social policy—a form of what today might be called social welfare—based on matrilineal descent, egalitarian relations, kinship obligations, and communal landholding. The ethic of gadugi, or work coordinated...
House Built on Ashes
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
The year is 2009, and José Antonio Rodríguez, a doctoral student at Binghamton University in upstate New York, is packing his suitcase, getting ready to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with his parents in South Texas. He soon learns from his father that a drug cartel has overtaken the Mexican border...
A Perfect Gibraltar
The Battle for Monterrey, Mexico, 1846
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2011
For three days in the fall of 1846, U.S. and Mexican soldiers fought fiercely in the picturesque city of Monterrey, turning the northern Mexican town, known for its towering mountains and luxurious gardens, into one of the nineteenth century's most gruesome battlefields. Led by Brigadier General Zachary...
by James C. Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
When James Work took a teaching job at the College of Southern Utah in the mid-1960s, he knew little about teaching and even less about the customs of his Mormon neighbors. For starters, he did not know he was a “Gentile,” the Mormon term for anyone not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of...