University Of Oklahoma Press: 604 books
by Shirl Kasper
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
“Nothing more simple, I assure you. . . . But I’ll tell you what. You must have your mind, your nerve, and everything in harmony. Don’t look at your gun, simply follow the object with the end of it, as if the tip of the barrel was the point of your finger.”—Annie Oakley
Annie Oakley...
by Robert Roche
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Long before moving pictures were invented, youngsters from eight to eighty were being charmed by a special kind of animated cartoon—the word sketches of Mark Twain. His descriptions and episodes involving animals have all the life of a Walt Disney production with the added advantage of the great...
Cold War in a Cold Land
Fighting Communism on the Northern Plains
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Most communists, as any plains state patriot would have told you in the 1950s, lived in Los Angeles or New York City, not Minot, North Dakota. The Cold War as it played out across the Great Plains was not the Cold War of the American cities and coasts. Nor was it tempered much by midwestern isolationism,...
A Righteous Cause
The Life of William Jennings Bryan
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Three times the Democratic Party’s nominee for president (1896, 1900, and 1908) and secretary of state under Woodrow Wilson, William Jennings Bryan voiced the concerns of many Americans left out of the post–Civil War economic growth.
In A Righteous Cause: The Life of Williams Jennings Bryan,...
Jedediah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man
No Ordinary Mountain Man
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
Mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow. He was the first Anglo-American to travel overland to California via the Southwest, and he roamed through more of the West than anyone else of his era. His adventures quickly became the stuff of legend. Using new information and sifting...
Freedom's Racial Frontier
African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Between 1940 and 2010, the black population of the American West grew from 710,400 to 7 million. With that explosive growth has come a burgeoning interest in the history of the African American West—an interest reflected in the remarkable range and depth of the works collected in Freedom’s Racial...
Gold-Mining Boomtown
People of White Oaks, Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The town of White Oaks, New Mexico Territory, was born in 1879 when prospectors discovered gold at nearby Baxter Mountain. In Gold-Mining Boomtown, Roberta Key Haldane offers an intimate portrait of the southeastern New Mexico community by profiling more than forty families and individuals who made...
"That Fiend in Hell"
Soapy Smith in Legend
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
As the Klondike gold rush peaked in spring 1898, adventurers and gamblers rubbed shoulders with town-builders and gold-panners in Skagway, Alaska. The flow of riches lured confidence men, too—among them Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith (1860–98), who with an entourage of “bunco-men” conned...
by Robert H. Ruby, John A. Brown, Cary C Collins
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
The Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest inhabit a vast region extending from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and from California to British Columbia. For more than two decades, A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest has served as a standard reference on these diverse peoples....
Fort Clark and Its Indian Neighbors
A Trading Post on the Upper Missouri
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
A thriving fur trade post between 1830 and 1860, Fort Clark, in what is today western North Dakota, also served as a way station for artists, scientists, missionaries, soldiers, and other western chroniclers traveling along the Upper Missouri River. The written and visual legacies of these visitors—among...
Deadly Dozen: Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West
Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Vol. 3
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
For every Wild Bill Hickok or Billy the Kid, there was another western gunfighter just as deadly but not as well known. Robert K. DeArment has earned a reputation as the premier researcher of unknown gunfighters, and here he offers twelve more portraits of men who weren’t glorified in legend but...
by Ronald R. Switzer
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
On April 1, 1865, the steamboat Bertrand, a sternwheeler bound from St. Louis to Fort Benton in Montana Territory, hit a snag in the Missouri River and sank twenty miles north of Omaha. The crew removed only a few items before the boat was silted over. For more than a century thereafter, the Bertrand...
by John A. Strong
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Few people may realize that Long Island is still home to American Indians, the region’s original inhabitants. One of the oldest reservations in the United States—the Poospatuck Reservation—is located in Suffolk County, the densely populated eastern extreme of the greater New York area. The Unkechaug...
Deadly Dozen: Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West
Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Vol. 2
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Think gunfighter, and Wyatt Earp or Billy the Kid may come to mind, but what of Jim Moon? Joel Fowler? Zack Light? A host of other figures helped forge the gunfighter persona, but their stories have been lost to time. In a sequel to his Deadly Dozen, celebrated western historian Robert K. DeArment...