University Of Oklahoma Press: 604 books
by Virgil J. Vogel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The purpose of this book, says the author, is to show the effect of Indian medicinal practices on white civilization. Actually it achieves far more. Itdiscusses Indian theories of disease and methods of combating disease and even goes into the question of which diseases were indigenous and which were...
by Richard W. Etulain
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American West, fiction...
In Love and War
The World War II Courtship Letters of a Nisei Couple
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
The events of December 7, 1941, rocked the lives of people around the world. The bombing of Pearl Harbor had intimate repercussions, too, especially in the territory of Hawaii. In Love and War recounts the wartime experiences of author Melody M. Miyamoto Walters’s grandparents, two second-generation...
Hoover Dam
An American Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
In the spring of 1931, in a rugged desert canyon on the Arizona-Nevada border, an army of workmen began one of the most difficult and daring building projects ever undertaken—the construction of Hoover Dam. Through the worst years of the Great Depression as many as five thousand laborers toiled...
Hitler's Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars
Comparing Genocide and Conquest
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
As he prepared to wage his war of annihilation on the Eastern Front, Adolf Hitler repeatedly drew parallels between the Nazi quest for Lebensraum, or living space, in Eastern Europe and the United States’s westward expansion under the banner of Manifest Destiny. The peoples of Eastern Europe were,...
by James R. Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
In the early nineteenth century, Russia established a colony in California that lasted until the Russian-American Company sold Fort Ross and Bodega Bay to John Sutter in 1841. This annotated collection of Russian accounts of Alta California, many of them translated here into English from Russian for...
Life in a Corner
Cultural Episodes in Southeastern Utah, 1880–1950
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Community building in the Four Corners area of southeastern Utah required specialized knowledge and a good bit of determination on the part of settlers who wrested a livelihood from the Colorado Plateau. Robert S. McPherson, the region’s leading historian, draws on oral history and personal archives...
by Larry Pointer
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Who was Butch Cassidy? He was born Robert LeRoy Parker in 1866 in Utah. And, as everyone knows, after years of operating with a sometime gang of outlaws known as the Wild Bunch, he and the Sundance Kid escaped to South America, only to die in a 1908 shootout with a Bolivian cavalry troop.
But...
by Jim Garry
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
When Meriwether Lewis began shopping for supplies and firearms to take on the Corps of Discovery’s journey west, his first stop was a federal arsenal. For the following twenty-nine months, from the time the Lewis and Clark expedition left Camp Dubois with a cannon salute in 1804 until it announced...
The Great Medicine Road, Part 1
Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, 1840–1848
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Between 1841 and 1866, more than 500,000 people followed trails to Oregon, California, and the Salt Lake Valley in one of the greatest mass migrations in American history. This collection of travelers’ accounts of their journeys in the 1840s, the first volume in a new series of trail narratives,...
USS Pampanito
Killer Angel
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Most World War II submarine stories are glorifications of war written by submarine captains about their own boats. But the USS Pampanito was not a typical submarine. The sub and its crew caused plenty of destruction, but they found the pinnacle of their honor and fame in a dramatic sea rescue. Gregory...
An Aide to Custer
The Civil War Letters of Lt. Edward G. Granger
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
In August 1862, nineteen-year-old Edward G. Granger joined the 5th Michigan Cavalry Regiment as a second lieutenant. On August 20, 1863, the newly promoted Brig. Gen. George Armstrong Custer appointed Granger as one of his aides, a position Granger would hold until his death in August 1864. Many of...
Creating the American West
Boundaries and Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Boundaries—lines imposed on the landscape—shape our lives, dictating everything from which candidates we vote for to what schools our children attend to the communities with which we identify. In Creating the American West, historian Derek R. Everett examines the function of these internal lines...
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
American Trailblazer
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
In November 1528, almost a century before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the remnants of a Spanish expedition reached the Gulf Coast of Texas. By July 1536, eight years later, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490–1559) and three other survivors had walked 2,500 miles from Texas, across...