University Of Oklahoma Press: 604 books
Deep Trails in the Old West: A Frontier Memoir
A Frontier Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Cowboy and drifter Frank Clifford lived a lot of lives—and raised a lot of hell—in the first quarter of his life. The number of times he changed his name—Clifford being just one of them—suggests that he often traveled just steps ahead of the law. During the 1870s and 1880s his restless spirit...
The Sundance Kid: The Life of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh
The Life of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
He gained renown as the sidekick of Butch Cassidy, but the Sundance Kid—whose real name was Harry Alonzo Longabaugh—led a fuller life than history or Hollywood has allowed.
A relative of Longabaugh through marriage, Donna B. Ernst has spent more than a quarter century researching his life....
by Larry D. Ball
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Some of the legendary gunmen of the Old West were lawmen, but more, like Billy the Kid and Jesse James, were outlaws. Tom Horn (1860–1903) was both. Lawman, soldier, hired gunman, detective, outlaw, and assassin, this darkly enigmatic figure has fascinated Americans ever since his death by hanging...
Assault on the Deadwood Stage
Road Agents and Shotgun Messengers
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
In the 1870s, Deadwood was a thriving—and largely lawless—boomtown. And as any fan of western history and films knows, stagecoach robberies were a regular feature of life in this fabled region of Dakota Territory. Now, for the first time, Robert K. DeArment tells the story of the "good guys...
by Robert K. DeArment
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Settlers in the frontier West were often easy prey for criminals. Policing efforts were scattered at best and often amounted to vigilante retaliation. To create a semblance of order, freelance enforcers of the law known as man-hunters undertook the search for fugitives. These pursuers have often been...
Ned Christie
The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Who was Nede Wade Christie? Was he a violent criminal guilty of murdering a federal officer? Or a Cherokee statesman who suffered a martyr’s death for a crime he did not commit? For more than a century, journalists, pulp fiction authors, and even serious historians have produced largely fictitious...
A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps
My Mother's Memories of Imprisonment, Immigration, and a Life Remade
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Jadwiga Lenartowicz Rylko, known as Jadzia (Yah′-jah), was a young Polish Catholic physician in Łódź at the start of World War II. Suspected of resistance activities, she was arrested in January 1944. For the next fifteen months, she endured three Nazi concentration camps and a forty-two-day...
Kids of the Black Hole
Punk Rock Postsuburban California
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Los Angeles rock generally conjures memories of surf music, The Doors, or Laurel Canyon folkies. But punk? L.A.'s punk scene, while not as notorious as that of New York City, emerged full-throated in 1977 and boasted bands like The Germs, X, and Black Flag. This book explores how, in the land of the...
Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electric Powwow
American Indian Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Despite centuries of suppression and oppression, American Indian music survives today as a profound cultural force. Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electric Powwow celebrates in depth the vibrant soundscape of Native North America, from the “heartbeat” of intertribal drums and “warble” of Native...
Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne
The Life and Image of John Wayne
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Almost two decades after his death, John Wayne is still America’s favorite movie star. More than an actor, Wayne is a cultural icon whose stature seems to grow with the passage of time. In this illuminating biography, Ronald L. Davis focuses on Wayne’s human side, portraying a complex personality...
Droppers: America's First Hippie Commune, Drop City
America's First Hippie Commune, Drop City
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
Sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll. In popular imagination, these words seem to capture the atmosphere of 1960s hippie communes. Yet when the first hippie commune was founded in 1965 outside Trinidad, Colorado, the goal wasn’t one long party but rather a new society that integrated life and art....
Listening to Rosita
The Business of Tejana Music and Culture, 1930–1955
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Everybody in the bar had to drop a quarter in the jukebox or be shamed by “Momo” Villarreal. It wasn’t about the money, Mary Ann Villarreal’s grandmother insisted. It was about the music—more songs for all the patrons of the Pecan Lounge in Tivoli, Texas. But for Mary Ann, whose schoolbooks...
Show Town
Theater and Culture in the Pacific Northwest, 1890–1920
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Like many western boomtowns at the turn of the twentieth century, Spokane, Washington, enjoyed a lively theatrical scene, ranging from plays, concerts, and operas to salacious variety and vaudeville shows. Yet even as Spokanites took pride in their city’s reputation as a “good show town,” the...
by J. Cecil Alter
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
On March 20, 1822, the Missouri Republican published a notice addressed to enterprising young men in the St. Louise area. The subscriber, it said wishes to engage one hundred young men to ascend the Missouri River to its source, there to be employed for one, two, or three years. For particulars enquire...