University Of Oklahoma Press: 604 books
by John Joseph Mathews
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
The nine short stories in this collection by distinguished Osage author John Joseph Mathews are sure to be recognized as classics of twentieth-century nature writing and the wildlife conservation movement. The characters in Old Three Toes and Other Tales of Survival and Extinction are coyotes, mountain...
Wil Usdi
Thoughts from the Asylum, a Cherokee Novella
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Adopted into the Cherokee tribe as a teenager, William Holland Thomas (1805–1893), known to the Cherokees as Wil Usdi (Little Will), went on to have a distinguished career as lawyer, politician, and soldier. He spent the last decades of his life in a mental hospital, where the pioneering ethnographer...
Plastic Indian
A Collection of Stories and Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
“So what does it mean to be a Cherokee?” asks Cherokee author Robert J. Conley at the start of this delightful collection of his writings. Throughout his prolific career, Conley used his art to explore Cherokee identity and experience. With his passing in 2014, Native American literature—and...
by John L. Kessell
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
For more than four hundred years in New Mexico, Pueblo Indians and Spaniards have lived “together yet apart.” Now the preeminent historian of that region’s colonial past offers a fresh, balanced look at the origins of a precarious relationship.
John L. Kessell has written the first narrative...
The Essential West
Collected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Scholars and enthusiasts of western American history have praised Elliott West as a distinguished historian and an accomplished writer, and this book proves them right on both counts. Capitalizing on West’s wide array of interests, this collection of his essays touches on topics ranging from viruses...
by Grant Foreman
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Side by side with the westward drift of white Americans in the 1830's was the forced migration of the Five Civilized Tribes from Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Both groups were deployed against the tribes of the prairies, both breaking the soil of the undeveloped hinterland. Both were...
With Golden Visions Bright Before Them: Trails to the Mining West, 1849-1852
Trails to the Mining West, 1849–1852
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
During the mid-nineteenth century, a quarter of a million travelers—men, women, and children—followed the “road across the plains” to gold rush California. This magnificent chronicle—the second installment of Will Bagley’s sweeping Overland West series—captures the danger, excitement,...
South Pass
Gateway to a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Wallace Stegner called South Pass “one of the most deceptive and impressive places in the West.” Nowhere can travelers cross the Rockies so easily as through this high, treeless valley in Wyoming immediately south of the Wind River Mountains. South Pass has received much attention in lore and...
The Sioux
Life and Customs of a Warrior Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
For many people the Sioux, as warriors and as buffalo hunters, have become the symbol of all that is Indian colorful figures endowed with great fortitude and powerful vision. They were the heroes of the Great Plains, and they were the villains, too.
Royal B. Hassrick here attempts to describe...
No Turning Point
The Saratoga Campaign in Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
The Battle of Saratoga in 1777 ended with British general John Burgoyne’s troops surrendering to the American rebel army commanded by General Horatio Gates. Historians have long seen Burgoyne’s defeat as a turning point in the American Revolution because it convinced France to join the war on...
Indian Blues
American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879–1934
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
From the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, the U.S. government sought to control practices of music on reservations and in Indian boarding schools. At the same time, Native singers, dancers, and musicians created new opportunities through musical performance to resist and manipulate those...
Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley
Making the Modern Old West
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
The Colorado River Plateau is home to two of the best-known landscapes in the world: Rainbow Bridge in southern Utah and Monument Valley on the Utah-Arizona border. Twentieth-century popular culture made these places icons of the American West, and advertising continues to exploit their significance...
Empire on Display
San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
The world’s fair of 1915 celebrated both the completion of the Panama Canal and the rebuilding of San Francisco following the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire. The exposition spotlighted the canal and the city as gateways to the Pacific, where the American empire could now expand after its victory...
Gall: Lakota War Chief
Lakota War Chief
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Called the “Fighting Cock of the Sioux” by U.S. soldiers, Hunkpapa warrior Gall was a great Lakota chief who, along with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, resisted efforts by the U.S. government to annex the Black Hills. It was Gall, enraged by the slaughter of his family, who led the charge across...